NOTD- Seaside Inspired Shimmers

After a lovely weekend at the seaside enjoying the sunshine in Weymouth I came home and fancied some pretty blue nails to remind me of the beach.
I am loving blue at the moment so there was little excuse required to whip out some of my favourite blue nail polishes and create some shimmering sea nails.

I started off by applying two coats of the lovely lilac toned blue Bluebell polish by Nails Inc which gave a soft and even base colour before topping with one coat of the oh so popular Indian Ocean from Models Own which is formulated to give a shimmer reminiscent of when the sun catches calm, clear sea water as it washes onto the beach. Finally, I created a focal nail using Barry M shade 340 Aqua Glitter which contains various sized glitter chunks and gives a very pretty and glitter packed finish with just one coat.

I had forgotten just what a beautiful finish Indian Ocean gives. In the light you can see that it contains a pink toned glitter which gives any blue polish a lovely depth that looks really special in the sunlight.
I go through stages with painting my nails and recently I've had them painted continually so expect to see more nail art posts in the near future :)
What colours have you been loving recently? Have you tried any of these polishes?
Annie xx

NOTD- Fluorescent!

Hello,
I am still persisting with my, perhaps overly optimistic, summer preparation.
Last night I decided to do a spot of nail art and came up with these bright pink nails with a white stripe and pearlescent blue spots. I really like the look and think they would be perfect for partying and relaxing on a hot beach on holiday this summer :)

For the fluorescent pink base colour I used W7 "fluorescent pink 1" which I picked up in Next a few weeks ago for £2.50. It has a great formula and you could probably get away with only using one coat but I used two. It dries quickly and streak free and it really is VERY bright (seriously, the pictures don't even begin to show how bright)

Over the top I used my trusty nail art pens to draw a white stripe with the uber thin brush tip and then dotted the blue using the needle tip. I was pretty happy with how the look, even on the pesky other hand and managed to keep both hands looking neat which is a first :P

What do you think of my crazy bright nails? They make me think of Mallorca and drinking way too much.
Annie x