My nail routine!

Whenever I look at other peoples blogs I always notice that they've wrote a blog post on some sort of skin care routine, but for me I don't really have a proper skin care routine (I know that I should) but I do have a nail care routine that I do almost every single day!  I have always liked having my nails painted, and I think I'm quite good at painting my nails, even at school when a teacher told me that I couldn't wear it I still did because for me that was the only way that I could express myself, school wasn't too harsh on having nails painted, they would just ask for it to be removed so it wasn't like I was breaking the rules too much!  I have so many nail varnishes, in so many different colours and I have my nails painted a different colour around every two days, in the winter I like to paint my nails darker colours like brown or black, and in the summer I like to paint them brighter colours like Orange, Pink, Blue etc.

The first thing I do when I decide to paint my nails is use my Ted Baker hand cream, I go this as a Christmas present from my mum and dad and I use it every day and I really like it, individually it costs £8.00 at Boots, which does seem quite expensive for hand cream but it is fantastic and I love it, it works amazingly and it keeps my hands feeling soft all day!  If £8.00 is too pricey, I also have an Avon hand cream which works just as well, this is priced at £3.60 but is on offer at the minute for £1.00 - £1.80!

I then file and if needed, I cut them, I don't use proper nail scissors because I don't like the curve and they always leave a jagged edge which is really hard to file so I just use small scissors and I file them down, I only cut them when I desperately need to!

I then put on a base coat, I prefer to use a light pink instead of a clear nail polish as I think it gives it more of a base which means that you can build up the colour quicker.  I use the MUA in shade 18, it doesn't have a shade name but it was from the old collection so they don't sell it anymore but they have brought out a new collection and the shade Natural days seems identical and it is only £1!

 

 

 

After I have put a base coat on I need to pick a colour, this is the hardest part for me because I have soooo many nail varnishes, but I picked one of my nail varnishes by Fearne, it is in the shade Air balloon, I got this in a set for Christmas and unfortunately Boots don't have them in stock anymore, but they are definitely worth looking out for as I only need one coat and they last on my nails for ages!

 

 

 

 

Finally I add a top coat, I used my Barry M Basecoat Topcoat & Nail hardener all in one, this is a really good topcoat, I find it really hard to make my nail varnish stay on but this is a miracle, it's so good and I would recommend it to anybody! I think that it is available in most stores, I know that Tesco, Boots and Superdrug all have Barry M stands which it would be available from and the price is £2.99!

Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed it! I will try to link everything that I have mentioned below :)

Love Shannon xoxo

MUA nail polish in natural days

Ted-Baker Hand Cream

Avon hand cream

BarryM All in One Nail Paint