Red Carpet Manicure!

Hello my lovelies! I hope you all had a very merry christmas! I was definitely spoiled! One of my presents I was especially excited to tell you guys about. It's the Red Carpet manicure system. It's a gel nail set, which lets you do gel manicures in your home. These gels manicures such a gellish and shellac, which have been branded the new acrylic extensions at the minute.They are a nail polish which is set by a LED lamp which lasts for weeks with out chipping peeling etc. They help strengthen the nail and look great! They give a super shine and well finished look, a lot of places now use a gel top coat and lamp on top of acrylics for the shine. Me and my mam bought the starter set from qvcuk.com back in June when it was introduced but sadly there was an error in the order and we never recieved the lamp that comes with the kit, just some polishes. We kind of forgot about it and then ta-da! Santa brought me a starter kit with a new lamp!

There is a few steps which don't take long to do, you prep the nail, apply a base coat then put under the lamp for 30 seconds. then your red carpet manicure nail colour, putting under the lamp for 45 seconds after each coat, and then the final top coat and once again putting under the lamp for 45 seconds. It took me about twenty minutes to apply which isn't very different to normal lacquers. My nails feel super smooth and strengthened which is great as they are a lot longer than normal actual and it gives me confidence that they wont split like usual. There is a limited number of colours since it's a fairly new brand but they are bringing out new colours all of the time.

I decided on the shade "and the winner is" they have so many lovely pinks also. It's hard to explain the way they feel they are like super light nails extensions, as in the way they are smooth and strong and have a lovely shine.

It has a lot more sparkle than I anticipated and I am very impressed, looking at my nails is kind of like looking at plastic, it's so hard to explain! Overall, I am really hoping that they do what they say and last for a few weeks! I will update you all, apparently you can use your own colours and then just use the topcoat and lamp and you get the same effect, which would be great! Also, now that christmas is over as soon as it has started it means SALES and lots of them. I had a very satisfying haul from new look today, I managed to purchase 2 shirts, pair of jeans, a jumper and necklace and a vest top for under £50! So excited for that delivery man now, make sure you have a look at what bargains you can pick up and tell me all about them! Maddy xoxo