Yeah, I did another set lol. Only I did these before Halloween but posted them after like the uncool person I am. And my photo taking sucked as well because these were on my right hand and it's incredibly awkward for me to take photos of that hand without having the aforementioned hand turn into a creepy claw like appendage.
What do you think? BeautyUK's Slate, Miss Sporty Nail Polish in Black and this white one I got from a manicure set in Poundland.

Note - students, be wary of people offering you sweets. One of my friends offered me one today and I ate it and then threw it at him because he'd painted it with that Stop N Grow stuff some people put to stop themselves biting their nails. VILE. And my aim sucks so it only bounced of his jumper. Someone else that he did it to managed to get him in the head with it, and he said it hurt, though, which I found incredibly funny. So yeah. Beware, I telleth thee.

French manicure, pure and simple. My form tutor has explicately OK'D this particular brand of nail polish. It's officially legal. Woot, I guess. What a shame it's so dull.

 I hope you can see the rhinestones I stuck on the thumb to jazz it up a bit. I covered it with a thick layer of Sally Hansen's Insta-Dri (it's coming nearer and nearer to the end of the bottle so it's now quite gloopy and picks up colour from my other manicures) so that they would be less likely to fall off. Worked, for the most part.
 The ring finger looks the neatest. Apologies for the streak of green on the index finger - the topcoat picked up some colour from a previous manicure which I didn't realise until I topcoated this manicure. Fail.
I wore this for like two days before I craved colour, lol. It's half term now anyway.

What are your opinions on the classic french manicure? Like? Dislike? Don't care?

Here are some random entries I've put together for the Beautopia Nail Art competition, amongst others. (There's also one going on at Glamorous Geek Chic and one that has been cancelled at Lali Amora)

This I created with: My white franken as a base, followed with Maybelline Colorama in Tropical Peach, then the Boots 17 Purple, then the Avon Blue. I then freehanded with a black nail art pen.



For this, I used Miss Sporty Nail Polish in Black, with the Boots generic pink nail polish, Miss Sporty Clubbing Colours in yellow, Maybelline Colorama in Jelly Bean and Nails Inc Brompton Place on the tips. I then freehanded an abstract design over them. My cuticles look overly greasy in some of these - I was trying out this new cream...don't ask :P
 Which, if any, are your favourites? Plus don't forget to check out the other entries here!

Love,

September Lena

Over the years last six months (aha, that's when I really got into makeup and nail polish) I've accumalated a few eyeshadows and lipsticks that I simply don't use any more, be it because they are too light, an odd colour or simply weird. So this is what I do with them. Step One:

Find a palette that you don't really use most of the colours. Here's one I got in some set . I use the last four colours because they suit me (gorgeous shimmers and they're dark enough for me) but the rest are too light or not to my taste.
Step Two - identify the unlucky eyeshadow that you want to destroy. Haha, I'm pointing to the one I'm going to use - a brilliant white with silver shimmer. (The nail polish there is a Maybelline Colorama one which I'm going to swatch shortly.)

Step Three - get a bottle of clear nail polish.

These are all the tools you need, plus a small plastic bag. You can do this one of two ways. Either:

a) Scrape out your eyeshadow with the cocktail stick and empty it into a pestle and motar. Grind it finely, then empty it into the plastic bag. Make sure all the pigment is in one corner of the bag, then snip off the end and put it into the clear nail polish.

OR

b) scrape out your eyeshadow into the bag. Use your fingers to crush it then see the last sentance of a).

Perhaps I should have chosen a less suspicious looking eyeshadow, haha.

By crushing eyeshadow in this way you are essentially making a loose pigment of the kind sold by makeup companies like Lime Crime and Aromaleigh. You can then use this to make:

Lip gloss
Blush
Hair colours
Nail polish

It's quite a good way to use up colours you wouldn't use normally :P. How my nail polish turned out:

And a quick swatch:

And there you have it! How to use eyeshadow to make nail polish!
This dries very quickly, but has a matte/satin finish. If you're not a fan of matte/satin finishes then add a topcoat on top.

Managed to obtain another Nails Inc polish today! It's named Sloane Mews and looks very white in the bottle but once on the nail it was very sheer. Like, really sheer. It took another coat for a passer by to notice, though it was very school appropriate - noticeable, but not. Perfect for Mondays.

It's very hard to capture...on the nail, it looks like quite a translucent white with some very pretty shimmer but this doesn't seem to translate on the camera...