Over The Top-ical // Tropical Leaves, Line Art & Glitter Nail Design

Wow I used so many polishes in this one. It's definitely over-the-top...hence the name. I've also developed a love for matte green glitters; they're just perfect. I need Zoya to do more. Speaking of Zoya, have you seen the new autumn collection. It was love at first sight for me; I'm actually thinking of spending over £100 to get the full set. It's available for pre-order on NailPolishDirect but £110 is a lot of money for just 12 shades.

Anyway, I'm trying my best to cling onto summer nails with this look inspired by Lieve91's black & white geometric design that she did last year which you can now recreate thanks to her collab with MoYou London.

I'm not sure what would be easier; practice stamping to get straight black lines or practice painting. This doesn't look completely awful though so I'm happy.

The glitter nails are a green shimmer with two layers of the Zoya matte glitter on top and then some holo glitter because I couldn't resist. I had to take them off almost immediately though because these shades stain within about an hour. I'll have to paint some falsies with this combo so I can wear it for longer. 

Here's my prototypes for this look:

The entire look came together over a few days as I kept practicing designs. The one on the right is completely hand=painted with acrylic paint. I bought some flow-improver and it's radically changed how my acrylics behave and they apply a lot smoother now than the photo above.

Polishes/Tools Used:-
- Ciaté // White Heat (white)
- Nails Inc // Girls Got Coals (dark green)
- Sinful Colours // Amazonian (dark green shimmer)
- Zoya // Shawn (dark green), Ness (pale green), Cece (matte green glitter)
- Daisy DND // 469 Vast Galaxy (holo glitter topper)
- MoYou London // Bora Bora (light teal), Mint Condition (light mint), Olive Tree (pale olive)
- Born Pretty // 12 (primary green)
- Twinkled T // Tickled (pink), Glow Up (white), Vibin' (black)
- MoYou London Stamping Plates // Collab 03, Paradise 05, Tropical 36

Geometric Heat // Tropical Geometric Print and Palm Leaves

What's this?? Nail art on THE OTHER HAND???!? Yes my other hand has come out from the shadows for one week only, or well I might start doing my other hand more often because it was nice to have a matching manicure for once...they're not completely the same but they match and that's all that matters.

This manicure has actually been one of the longest I've worn in a long time as I usually always wear a peel off base coat on my main hand. However, my dissertation was due today (praise be to Jesus it's over) and I made sure to do my nails last week with a regular base coat so it wouldn't come off. That way I wouldn't be tempted to do my nails all week. It's been really hard as well because the new H&M polishes arrived and they've been sat in my swatch pile staring at me...begging me to use them.

This manicure has been nice and bright and summery to keep me motivated all week. It's chipped quite a bit on my other hand but my main hand held up nicely against all the constant typing.

I don't love the geometric print as much as the palm leaves, it looks a little too messy which is surprising given that I'm better at painting with my other hand. But I love how the colours go together. I'd wear that palm leaf print all year round.

How I did it:-

I started off with two coats of White Heat then applied all the green shades onto the stamping plate and mixed them together a little when scraping off the excess. It gives that nice blended look once you stamp and is a quick and easy way to add more detail. I then did the same with the other main hand but used the geometric print from Tropical 35. The palm trees were from SummerVibes 03 and the palm leaves from Tropical 10.

Polishes/Tools Used:-
- Ciaté // White Heat (white)

- Born Pretty Polish // #12 (green), #284 (light blue), #333 (pastel teal)

- Barry M // Plumpy Hi Shine Top Coat
- MoYou London Plates // Tropical 10, Tropical 35, #SummerVibes 03

Codie Meet Suki // Silver Geometric Illusions

So you may recognise this from my Mani & Lola November box post. Now that I have a nail sub box I'm going to try and do at least 5 looks each month using the polishes and hopefully that will stop me from buying anymore until I finish my degree (I've already ignored myself as you'll see on Sunday's haul post...).

This look came about after I stamped Heart of Chrome onto my Codie swatch stick just to see how well the Artistic polish stamped; as you can see it stamps really well. This is my new silver stamping polish, mainly because it doesn't leave glitter or shimmery bits all over your hands when cleaning up (unlike my born pretty one).

I got this plate in an eBay auction where I won 6 MoYou plates for £7. They were ones that normally I wouldn't of bought because the designs didn't interest me so I was surprised at just how much I enjoyed this mani. I even did it on my other hand a couple of days later using a new brown shade and an amazing Orly orange shimmer. I would've taken photos but it was my other hand and everything just looks terrible on that hand.

Polishes/Tools Used:
- Zoya // Codie (dark cool brown with green undertones)

- Artistic // Heart of Chrome (silver chrome effect)
- Revlon // ColorStay Diamond Top Coat
- MoYou London // Suki Plate 16