Friday 31 October 2014

Easy Halloween Nails Number 5 - I'm Dotty For Halloween

Hello Lovelies,

Today I have number 5 in my Halloween nail series, Going Dotty For Halloween. Today's look is super easy but looks great and is good for those of you who want to get into the spirit of Halloween but don't want pictures of Ghosts or Frankenstein on your nails.

Going Dotty For Halloween

What you'll need


1. Dotting Tools, if you haven't got dotting tools don't worry, a cocktail stick or hair grip/bobby pin is fine. 
2. Any Black nail polish.
3. Any Green nail polish.
4. Any Orange nail polish.
5. Any Purple nail polish (not shown on photograph - sorry) 
6. Any White nail polish
7. Base Coat.
8. Top Coat.

How to create Dotty for Halloween nails

1. Apply a base coat of your choice and allow to dry fully.
2. Paint your nails with 2 coats of the Black polish and allow to dry fully in between coats. 
3. Using your dotting tools, cocktail stick or bobby pin, make different size dots on top of the Black polish using all of your other colours of nail polish, this can be done randomly, I think it looks better like that too. 
4. When the nails are fully dry, apply a top coat of your choice. 

My dotty Halloween nails

Where to buy products used

1. Dotting Tools - Mine are from Poundland 
2. Black Polish - I used Barry M Nail Paint in Black 
3. Green Polish - I used Barry M Nail Paint in Spring Green 
4. Orange Polish - I used Collection Work The Colour in Orange Zest 
5. Purple Polish - I used Barry M Gelly High Shine in Lilac/Prickly Pear 
6. White Polish - I used Wah London Your Love Is One 
7. Top Coat - I used Orly Glosser 
8. Base Coat - I used Orly Bonder 

I hope you enjoyed number 5 of my Easy Halloween Nails series, unfortunately as its Halloween today this is the last in my series, I hope you enjoyed today's look and the whole series, I have had some fantastic feed back and seen some amazing photographs of your nails when re creating the looks I've posted, thank you so much it means a lot to me. 

Please send me a photograph if you do recreate any of the looks in my series, it makes my day to see them, all my social media links are in the click able cubes to the right of my blog under the heading 'where to find me'. 

Thank you for reading, much love as always, 

Zoe x

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Thursday 30 October 2014

Easy Halloween Nail Art Number 4 - Ghostly Nails

Hello Lovelies,

Today I have number 4 in my easy Halloween nail art series, Ghostly nails. This is a super easy ghostly look that is easy to do but looks great and is perfect either all the nails or as an accent nail.

What you'll need


L-R Dotting Tools, Wah London polish, Barry M Nail Paint, Wah London nail art pen.

1. Dotting Tools, if you don't have dotting tools a cocktail stick or hair grip/bobby pin is fine.
2. Any White nail polish.
3. Any Black nail polish.
4. A Black nail art pen (optional) 

How to create Ghostly nails

1. Apply a base coat of your choice and leave to dry fully.
2. Apply 2 coats of White nail polish, leaving each coat to dry in between. 

2 coats of white polish

3. Using either a dotting tool or a nail art pen, make 2 oval shapes at the base of the nail for eyes, 2 short lines on a slant for the nose and then a smile with lines through the smile to create a stitched mouth. 

My Ghostly Nails

4. Once the nails are fully dry, apply a top coat of your choice.
5. All Done. 

Where to buy the products used

1. Dotting Tools - I bought mine from Poundland
2. White Nail Polish - I used Wah London, your love is one 
3. Black Nail Polish - I used Barry M Nail Paint in Black 
4. Black Nail Art Pen - I used Wah London nail art pen
5. Base Coat - I use Orly Bonder base coat 
6. Top Coat - I use Orly Glosser top coat

I hope you liked my Ghostly nails, if you missed the other 3 nail art looks in the series I will link them below. 

If you do recreate the Ghostly nails or any of the nail looks in this series please send me a photograph, all my social media links are to the right hand side of my blog under the header where to find me and all have click able links. 

Thank you for reading, much love as always, 

Zoe x







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Wednesday 29 October 2014

Easy Halloween Nail Art - Number 3 - A Spooky French Manicure

Hello Lovelies,

Today I have number 3 in my easy Halloween nail art series, this is a Halloween take on a French Manicure, it's not too difficult to do but looks really effective.

A Spooky French Manicure

What you'll need

L-R Barry M Nail Paint in Spring Green, Barry M Nail Paint in Black, Rimmel Brit Manicure in English Rose, Wah London Nail Art Pen in Black
Dotting Tools

1. Any Green nail polish.
2. Any Black nail polish.
3. Any pale pink/nude polish.
4. A Black nail art pen (optional)
5. Dotting tools, if you don't have dotting tools a cocktail stick or a hair grip/bobby pin is fine. 

How to create a spooky french manicure

1. Apply a base coat of your choice and let it dry fully.
2. Apply 2 coats of the pale Pink colour, letting it dry fully in between coats. 


3. Apply 2 coats of the Green nail polish to the tip of the nail, over the pale Pink, letting each coat dry fully in between. 


4. Using either a thin ended dotting tool, cocktail stick or bobby pin and some Black polish or a Black nail art pen, draw a line along the Green and in between the Pink colour and then dot some black dots on the Green polish.

5. Once fully dry apply a top coat of your choice.

My spooky French manicure
6. All done. 

Products used.

1. Dotting Tools - I got mine from Poundland but you can also find them on ebay.
2. Black Nail Polish - I used the Barry M Nail Paint in Black.
3. Green Nail Polish - I used the Barry M Nail Paint in Spring Green.
4. Pale Pink Nail Polish - I used the Rimmel Brit polish in English Rose. 
5. Black Nail Art Pen - I used the Wah London nail art pen in Black.
6. Base Coat - I use the Orly Bonder base coat.
7. Top Coat - I use the Orly Glosser top coat.

I hope you like number 3 in my easy Halloween nail series. If you don't want to miss out on the other looks in this series be sure to follow my blog either via google friend connect or bloglovin, both links are to the right hand side of my blog. 

If you do recreate this look or any of the looks in the series, please send me a photograph, all my social media links are in the cubes to the right hand side of my blog under the 'where to find me' banner. 


Thank you for reading, much love as always, 

Zoe x










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Monday 27 October 2014

Easy Halloween Nail Art Number 1 - Frankenstein Nails

Hello Lovelies,

Last Christmas I had an Easy Christmas Nail Art series on my blog, where I showed you all how to create 10 easy Christmas nail looks, everything from Robins to sparkly french manicures with penguins and more sparkle in between, and you all seemed to enjoy it and I got some really fantastic feedback on the series.

A few weeks ago I thought that since the easy Christmas nails series was so popular, you might like a Halloween series so I asked on Instagram if you'd like me to do it and the response was a unanimous yes!

I'm not brilliant at nail art by any stretch of the imagination but I firmly believe that if I can create the designs I show, anyone can. So here goes with our first Easy Halloween Nail Art in the series.

Frankenstein Nails

What you'll need


L-R Dotting Tools, Barry M Nail Paint in Spring Green, Barry M Nail Paint in Black, Wah London Nail Art Pen in Black

1. Dotting Tools or if you haven't got them, a cocktail stick or a hair grip or bobby pin is fine. 
2. Any Green nail polish.
3. Any Black nail polish.
4. Any White nail polish (sorry I forgot to show mine, I used a Wah London white polish)
5. A nail art pen if you have one if not the dotting tools or cocktail stick/bobby pin is fine.
6. Any base and top coat. 

How to create Frankenstein nails

1. First of all apply your base coat of choice, I always use the Orly Bonder base coat but any is fine. 
2. Once your base coat is dry, apply 2 coats of the Green polish letting the coats dry fully in between. 

2 coats of Barry M Spring Green

3. Next take a nail art pen or use Black nail polish and a thin ended dotting tool, cocktail stick or bobby pin and draw a zig zag effect at the base of the nail to create Frankensteins 'hair' and fill in using the Black nail polish. 


4. Next using a dotting tool, bobby pin or cocktail stick make 2 white dots under the hair for Frankensteins eyes.


5. Next using a dotting tool, bobby pin or cocktail stick, make 2 Black dots in the centre of the White ones we have just made to create the pupils of Frankensteins eyes.

6. Take your nail art pen if you have one or a thin ended dotting tool, cocktail stick or bobby pin and draw a horizontal line for Frankensteins mouth then draw vertical lines down the horizontal line to make it look like a stitched mouth. 


7. Once fully dry, apply your chosen top coat, I always use Orly Glosser but any is fine, please make sure the design is fully dry before applying your top coat as it will smudge easily if not fully dry. 

8. All finished. 

Products used

Dotting Tools - I bought mine from Poundland 
Black Nail Polish - I used Barry M Nail Paint in Black 
Green Nail Polish - I used Barry M Nail Paint in Spring Green 
White Nail Polish - I used Wah London Your Love Is One 
Nail Art Pen - I used Wah London nail art pen in Black 
Base Coat - I used Orly Bonder base coat 
Top Coat - I used Orly Glosser top coat 

I hope you have enjoyed number 1 in my Easy Halloween Nails series, these Frankenstein nails look great if done on every nail or as an accent nail with the other nails in plain Green or Black. If you do re create this nail look please be sure to send me a picture of them via Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or via email, all my social media links are in the cubes at the top right hand side of my page, I'd love to see them. 

I will be posting the other looks in this series throughout the week so you'll have a few to choose from before Halloween arrives. If you don't want to miss out please follow my blog either via bloglovin or google friend connect, there are links to the right hand side of my page, it's very easy to do and it also makes me very happy :-) 

Thank you for reading, much love as always,

Zoe x




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Monday 20 October 2014

Pantene Dry Shampoo - A Review


Hello Lovelies, 

If you've been reading my blog for a while or you watch my You Tube videos you'll already be fully aware that I suffer from oily or greasy hair, I never had a problem with greasy hair until I had my youngest daughter, and I think a change in my hormones must have had some sort of effect on my hair and I started to suffer quite badly with greasy roots and needing to wash my hair on a daily basis. 

Anyway I digress (as usual) over the past few years I have tried so many different dry shampoos I have become a bit of a connoisseur and up until a couple of years ago when it was discontinued, my all time favourite dry shampoo was the Charles Worthington Balancing Act, which can still be purchased from e-bay (link here) but is expensive. So since the demise of the Charles Worthington I have been on the hunt for another holy grail dry shampoo. 

As I said I have tried so many different dry shampoos it's ridiculous and a few months ago I discovered the Dove dry shampoo and I fell in love with it, it didn't leave any powdery residue and my hair didn't feel too gross either, is it me or does anyone else hate the way dry shampoo leaves your hair feeling? 

A few weeks ago I was in Boots with Simon and I needed to pick up some hairspray and also a shampoo one of my subscribers had recommended to me (more of that to come on the blog soon) hair care was on a 3 for 2 promotion, so I picked up the shampoo and hairspray and thought I'd pick up some of the Dove dry shampoo I like but then I saw the Pantene Dry Shampoo and was curious, I'd never seen it before and thought I'd give it a go since it was a free item. There were 3 different types of the Pantene dry shampoo, the Colour Saviour, Instant Refresh and Volume Booster, I chose Colour Saviour as the name intrigued me. 

My Thoughts

My initial thought when I first used the dry shampoo was that it smelt really nice, it smells like an expensive hair product or a hair product you'd find at a salon if that makes sense? I used the dry shampoo as directed and found it didn't leave my hair looking white or grey it brushed out well but my hair didn't look greasy, on first impressions I was impressed. 

I was curious to know why it was called Colour Saviour and my daughter Lissy thought that the product was actually for blonde's and wasn't going to use it, we share hair products as we have the same hair type but she thought the dry shampoo was for blonde's only and as she's a brunette wasn't going to use it, but when I looked into it further there aren't really any colour saving properties and it is meant in the way of it being colour saving because if you washed your hair and didn't use dry shampoo your coloured hair would fade faster, but if you use the dry shampoo you're not washing your hair so it's saving your colour, right ok, moving on....

Overall I do really like this product and it does exactly what it says on the tin, well maybe not the colour saving thing but hey ho, but it does make my greasy hair look refreshed and not greasy, and it doesn't leave any kind of white or grey powder in my hair giving me that old lady look some dry shampoos can give. It smells lovely too which is a bonus and you don't need to use a lot. It does leave my hair feeling like it has product in it because it does but it doesn't leave it feeling really gross and if you wanted to use the product to give your hair some texture this would be great, it gives me a lot of volume and texture when I've used it but I do use it mainly for my greasy roots problem. Overall I am really impressed with it and would definitely re purchase it. I just wish it was cheaper as I thought £3.99 for 180ml was a little expensive but like I said I didn't need to use a lot so swings and roundabouts as they say. 

The only bad thing, apart from the price that I found about the product and this isn't really the product but the packaging was when I had just under half of the dry shampoo left, my spray nozzle broke and I couldn't press it down anymore meaning I couldn't use the dry shampoo any more either, so I was left with almost half a can of dry shampoo that I couldn't use. I did ring the customer care number on the back of the can and the lady I spoke to offered to send me a voucher to reimburse me for my purchase which she did and a £5 voucher arrived a few days later but I was very disappointed in the packaging for that reason, but it hasn't put me off buying it again, just something I feel you should know, as you know my reviews are always 100% honest so I wanted to let you know about that too. 

But broken nozzle aside, I really do like the Pantene dry shampoo and would recommend it if you are a regular user of dry shampoo for the texturising properties or because like me you have greasy hair, it combats both issues really well and smells great, I would just rather it be cheaper but I guess a girl can't have everything can she? 

Have you tried the Pantene dry shampoo? What are your thoughts? 

Thank you for reading, much love as always, 

Zoe x




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