It's My Birthday!

No birthday would be complete without a special set of birthday nails! I decided to treat myself by creating a design inspired by one of my favourite nail artists, Emily (aka The Pretty Nails). As I've got short little nails a lot of Emily's designs don't really work, but I tried my best. I took inspiration from various manis on Instagram - check her out, absolutely amazing! Unsurprisingly I used, Models Own, one of my favourite polish brands to complete the look.

The polishes are all from my new set - a birthday present from my lovely sister! I couldn't wait to test them out but I wasn't allowed to use them until my birthday!! I got six new colours (clockwise from top) - Hedonist, True Blue, Top Turquoise, Emerald City, Apple Pie and Cloud 9. I've been looking for a good coral for ages and Hedonist is awesome, you'll see a lot of it this summer! I got Apple Pie as Emma has it and I was jealous. The others were just too pretty to resist. I've got lots of mani ideas for them so get ready to see plenty of turquoise based manis!!

Overall I can't decide if I'm sure on these nails. Individually I love all the designs, but as a mix and match it's a bit nuts - although I reckon I can get away with that on my birthday! I especially like how the middle finger glitter stripes came out, I hadn't tried this before so wasn't sure what would happen. It was a bit fiddly as it's harder to use striping tape with glitter, but once finished and topped with Seche I was very pleased. Emerald City is such a gorgeous glitter, I can't wait to use it more. I'm also pretty happy with my fade, although it could be a little more contrasting. Definitely feel like I'm getting better at blending fades the more I practice.

Happy Birthday to me and Happy Tuesday to all of you lovely peeps!

Love,

P.S. Sorry for the self-indulgent post, it will only happen once a year, promise...