glitter tipped nails

In my opinion, doing your french tips with white glitter rather than white nail polish looks much more up to date. I used to wear a french manicure all the time, but I got really bored of it and haven't worn it for years, as it is so, um, predictable? I just bought a big pack of white glitter from Paperchase for £1.50 and the pink base coat was Secret Affair nail polish by Essie which I love. All you have to do is wait for the pink colour to dry, then apply your top coat just over the tip of your nail, as you would normally apply the white colour for a french manicure. Then dip the tip of your nail that you just painted in the glitter, brush off the excess glitter and wait for it to dry then apply your top coat. Simple!

In the light -

In the shade -

opi give me the moon

I recently got an OPI nail polish called 'Give me the Moon' and it is one of those nail polishes that looks really pretty in the bottle, but when it comes to putting it on the nails it is really annoying and really hard to build up the colour properly without it going gloopy. So I had Models Own 'Beth's Blue' already on my nails and decided to layer it over the top, I think it turned out pretty well, and it has gone from nail polish with a really weird formulation to working very nicely over any light blue colour.

Before:

♥ Base - Models Own 'Beth's Blue' ♥

After: 

♥ Over the top - OPI 'Give me the Moon' ♥

It's such a beautiful colour when the sunshine hits it, so I am glad that I have found a way to make it work. It's a gorgeous mucky grey colour with blue glitter running through it.