Cinderhellie Nails

Hello Lovelies, I hope you have all had an amazing Easter Weekend with your friends and families and got treated to lots of Easter Eggs! Today I have swatches of one of the new Creative Shop plates I recently brought from Rainbow Connection and has I loved one of the images so much I have a quick tutorial on how I created the accent nail for my recent manicure. **I will leave all links at the end** So this is the plate I got and it has some really cute images on it I love the Creative Plates because they are full of such unique and quirky images, they have so much detail and are really well etched. The image sizes are a really good size too which means if you have long nails these plates would be fine for you. For the Swatches I used - 2 in 1 Embellished Clear Stamper Painted Polish - Midnight Mischief I was so happy with how well the images from this plate picked up - I used my usual gentle scrape with a firm scraper and rolled the stamper over the image, ...

Happy Monday Lovelies, I hope you have all had a great bank holiday weekend? Mine hasn't quite gone to plan so I thought I would bring you this post on how I created my latest Gel Mani. I often like to use gel on my nails as I can then forget about them for a week or so and they still look perfect, I am fully qualified in gel polish application and as it's a treatment I offer my clients I have a huge range of colours  - If you would like to see more gel polish posts please let me know. Anyway I was very excited because last week I managed to get my hands on the amazing new Holo Pigment from Magpie Beauty . For those of you unfamiliar with magpie they have a fabulous line of glitters, dusts and pigments which my clients go crazy for. Now the new release of Aurora sold out so quickly but I managed to get one so knew I needed to use it. This is the pigment and a peek of my mani - how amazing is that pigment. I decided that I needed to have a bit of fun and create a ful...

It's a new week and I hope you all have some gorgeous manicures planned. I was meant to post this on Friday but things got in the way but at least I am posting!! I will get on top of my blogging schedule soon...I promise!! So as a nail technician I like to use lots of different products and currently one of my most popular is Magpie Beauty glitters and dusts. These are the most amazing sparkly products that can really bling up a manicure, they are fab so today I'm going to show you how I use them with gel polish. I am going to show the application technique for glitter, dust and pigments. Here are the products I am using -  Gel Polish in Black, White and Pale Green  Magpie Products - Dust - Olive, Glitter - Eartha, Pigment - Izzy I only used my applicator and duster brush but I also have the detailer brush. The 1st step is the same for all of the products I prepare the nail for gel application - tidy cuticles, cleanse nail then apply base coat and 2 coat...