Manicure Monday: OPI - Baby Please Come Home

I know it's been a hot damn minute since I updated and I have no excuse other than that I've had nothing worthy of blogging about. I'm going to try and make this a regular feature however - manicure monday! Sometimes it will be art and others just keeping it plain and simple.

Today's look is OPI's Baby Please Come Home which was part of their Mariah Carey holiday collection for Christmas. It's a liquid sand texture and is as good as all other OPI textured polishes! Whilst it's supposedly a Christmas polish, I think this light, cool lavender is perfect for spring and is a really lovely, simple colour with a hint of something else to spice it up. This is two coats.

OPI - Liquid Sand nail art

Ever since I saw the promo pictures for the film The Great Gatsby, I loved the art in the background. I then proceeded to fall in love with the idea when Sammy from The Nailasaurus did her take on it too. Combining the idea of that and the fact that I've also wanted to try out some proper textured nail art, I put them together and came up with this!

I have to say, this is probably one of my favourite nail art looks that I've done! It turns out that liquid sand is a very forgiving texture to work with as many of the usually wiggly lines that I usually create are just hidden by the texture!

For this look, I combined my new love Alcatraz... Rocks! (of which you can check out my review of here!) with another of OPI's liquid sand shades in Honey Ryder. After adding some random lines and triangles, this is the final look!

OPI - Alcatraz... Rocks swatches and review!

I'm finally back from holiday to America (which was so good that I didn't want to come home!) and decided to do some posts of the polishes that I got whilst I was there. OPI is ridiculously cheap in America compared to the UK so I made sure to stock up! I'd been wanting Alcatraz...Rocks! since I saw the first images come out and leapt on the chance to buy it at basically half the price!!

Alcatraz...Rocks is another liquid sand formula from OPI and true to form, it totally rocks (see what I did there? Oh, the wit! *ducks rotten vegetables*). It's a gorgeous deep purple glitter (though I've seen it described by many as a cobalt blue which personally I can't really see!) with flecks of multicoloured glitter throughout - gold, pink, green - you name it! It's seriously, seriously awesome!

The finish is the usual "sandy" feel and I only needed two coats for full opacity. In the shade this colour is beautiful but when the sunlight hits this baby, wow does it shine! I have to say, it's probably one of my favourite ever nail varnishes! I can also say with some confidence that even if you don't like the liquid sand finish, you should get this polish as with a top-coat this would be a stunner!

With flash - just look at that glitter!!

In the shade

Macro-shot of the glitter-bomb beauty!

31 day challenge - Day 30 - Inspired by a Tutorial

Wow, I can't believe I've nearly reached the end of this challenge! Despite it taking me much longer than 31 days (whoops!) I've had so much fun doing it! Today's challenge is to be inspired by a tutorial and as soon as I saw Jenfabulous's tutorial on YouTube I knew I had to attempt this look! The link to the original will be posted at the end.

 (The look is the last of the three!)

31 day challenge - Day 6 - Violet

Violet. Better known as purple... or at least that's my excuse! I had a difficult time coming up with something for this one and tried a few different looks before settling on this. Adding the studs occurred to me afterwards and I'm glad because I think it really sets off the look!