Studs - Day 25 of the January Nail Art Challenge

Hiiiiii! Happy Sunday!

Hope everybody's good.

It's January 25th and today's theme was 'Studs'. The year just started and we're almost done with January. Nonetheless I'm enjoying it so far and I hope you are too.

For today's mani I used one of my most favouritest colours from one of my most favouritest brands. OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE COSMETICS!!! I purchased my first OCC babies last September on my trip to NYC and getting these babies was an adventure. I got lost sooo many times trying to find the store but it was well worth it because these polishes are amazingggg. They're 100% vegan and cruelty free which is a plus in my books. I bought 3 and I'd like to get my hands on some more ASAP.

Products Used

Orly Bonder Basecoat

OCC Black Dahlia

Avon Nail Experts UV Gloss Guard Top Coat

HK Girl Topcoat

2mm gold studs

OCC Black Dahlia

For this look I used two coats of OCC Black Dahlia. OCC describes it as an opaque blackest blackened red. Isn't she the perfect oxblood colour!  Just look at her! Perfection in a bottle! Smooth like butta! I'm in love I tell you. The formula on this is Ooooo soooooo good, it just went on so smoothly with all its cream burgundy goodness. I swear I'm not crazy but these polishes got me good. Not sure if you noticed but I didn't include my clean up brush on the list of products used because this applied so well I had nothing to clean up.

I applied the gold studs using the Avon topcoat and then sealed everything with a final coat of HK Girl.

Have you ever tried anything from OCC? Let me know in the comments below!

Until next time...

Favourite Design - Day 22 of the January Nail Art Challenge

Hi Again,

Back for Day 22 and today's theme was favourite design.

I love chevron patterns so this one was pretty easy and of course involved my nail vinyls again.

Products Used:
Orly Bonder Basecoat
Nails Inc Royal Botanical Gardens
Essie Beyond Cozy
Hk Girl Topcoat
Rhinestones
Clean up Brush

I started with 2 coats of  Royal Botanical Gardens on my pinkie, index and thumb and used Beyond Cozy for the other fingers. On my ring fingers I only did one coat of Beyond Cozy though and then 'topcoated' (this word needs to be added to the dictionary) to speed up the drying time before I applied my vinyls. 

I then went over my nail vinyls with a fairly heavy coat of  Royal Botanical Gardens and then a final coat of HK Girl. 

On my middle finger I placed two rhinestones while my topcoat was still wet and then went over with another coat of HK Girl. And that's it!! Sounds exhaustive but it really isnt.

I''m really pleased with how this mani came out. Isn't Royal Botanical Gardens a pretty colour!! This baby's new to my collection. I got it last week from Lucinda when we swapped for a bottle of the beloved HK Girl. I've always wanted to try Nails Inc but never got the chance so THANK YOU LUCINDA!!!

Hope you liked it.

Until next time...