My Hobby: Nail Art

Hey everyone, I know this is a bit off topic but I felt the need to share. 😅 Alongside my passion for nail polish I also have a special interest in stationary and most particularly in planners. I remember having had a planner ever since I was around 10 years old and was in school. Initially stuck with student planners as it suited my needs back then but slowly moved on to a ring bound planner (like a Filofax). Anyway... Long story short, I am a creative person, never happy with the inserts sold by Filofax or other brands like WHSmith and have been duelling on the idea of creating my own inserts. Never had the time to dedicate to it, until now... I have created dated inserts for the whole year of 2019 to use in my planner. Each month starts with a monthly view followed by a week on two pages inserts. This is what works for me. Here are some pictures of the month of January as an example. These are all Personal size inserts. Whilst printing and cutting the ins

Hey everyone, In my search for new nail polishes and a way of providing my mum with a good and durable manicure (yes she's rubbish at it and a day later the polish is already chipped badly) I came across a little kit for a gel nail polish manicure at home. The price on Amazon wasn't too bad considering the products included and since I wanted it as an experience and a present for my mum I decided to try it. This particular kit included a portable LED lamp, samples (6ml) of a base coat and a non-wipe top coat, 6 different shades of gel nail polish (also 6mls each), a cuticle oil, double sided cuticle pusher, cuticle fork, polishing file, nail clippers, nail separators x2, a nail brush and a brush for your nail files, a nail buffer, 20 prep clean wraps and finally 50 mail remover wraps. A bargain!! I have tried almost all of these tools and can say they are really good quality. I was pleasantly surprised by how good the nail clippers and the cuticle oil are. I cannot give

My summer holidays are now over and I'm back into the work routine. This means slightly less time to play with nail polish and designs but I'll find some.  :) I've been debating what to do with my nails now that I am off for a few days. With such hot weather we've been blessed here in the UK I didn't really feel like spending a lot of time on a design and decided I'd do something detailed but quick and simple. This means... nail stamping. Please bear with me as it's not perfect. I am new when it comes to stamping and am still finding my way around it.  Here it goes: Base: Kiko Jelly Jungle Strengthener Nail Base Background: OPI Be There in a Prosecco Leaf pattern: MoYou - Snake Bite Top Coat: Essie Good To Go If you're interested in this particular nail stamp plate it is the MoYou Tropical n.10 and you can find it here . Hurry up!! There's a 50% discount at the moment.

As a nail art lover and a nurse at the same time I have been finding it hard to keep up with both my passions. I'm determined to make it happen and created this space to share my little plays with nail polish with whoever wants to see it :) I promise I'll try to make it short but thought it would be good to introduce myself, so here it goes! My name is Ines but known in the blog world as Piikky. I used to have another blog back in the day dedicated to share my thoughts and passions which turned out to be most about nail polishes and me having fun with them. Unfortunately life as a nurse does not really go well with having long beautiful nails and nail polish on so I fell off track and stopped posting regularly (eventually at all!). Feel free to have a look if you want to but fair warning: it's all in portuguese! haha So... new life, new blog! I probably will not be able to post super regularly but my aim is to do so whenever I have time off and end up playing with