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

Essie Winter Warmers Collection

An exciting little email pinged into my inbox this afternoon giving me a first glimpse of the Essie Winter Warmers collection which is launching January 2014. The set is made up from 6 pretty, yet very contrasting shades of deep reds and soft pastel blues. A real refreshing change from your classic winter ranges.

Aren't they so pretty? I'll give a more detailed look when I managed to pick up some of the collection but what I do know already is that they will be on sale in both Boots and Superdrug from January and retail at £7.99 :)

Annie xx