summer nail polish shades

Nailed It Lacquers

As you well know I am a bit of a nail polish junkie but lately I have been wearing the same old colours – boring I know! Well imagine my excitement when a pretty little package from Rubybox arrived at my door and woohoo it contained three of their recently launched, Nailed It Lacquer Summer Shades!

The rubybox Beauty Nailed It Lacquer collection is the perfect addition to the rubybox offering. Each season Rubybox will release up to ten new shades, starting with their Summer Collection, featuring sexy brights and pretty pastels.

I am always a bit skeptical when trying out new nail polish as I have a few go-to brands, which I use religiously! Well I was not disappointed with the Nailed It! Lacquers; they paint very well and I have found the staying power really good. I also found that you could actually get away with one coat, {plus a clear top coat} if you are in a rush, which I usually am!

The brief from Rubybox was to create fun nail art looks for summer using the Sunset Horizon collection which they sent me. The three shades in my Nailed It Lacquer collection are: Sweet as Candy, Just Peachy and Monday Blues, perfect summery shades! The collection is currently on sale on the Rubybox website for R149.95, reduced from R224, which I think is an absolute bargain for three shades!

Let me please just point out that I am not a nail artist, so although these designs may not perfect but I had so much fun creating them!

I used Miss Jen Fab for a bit of inspiration when creating this first look which was definitely the easiest of the three.

The next look was also quite easy to create, using different coloured dots to create a fun summery pattern.

This was probably my favourite to create! A beach inspired look – if you look closely you will see a bikini, beach ball, ice cream and a flip-flop 🙂

As I said I had lots of fun creating these three Summer Inspired nail art looks with the Rubybox Nailed It Lacquer Collection. Which look is your favourite? Please let me know in the comment section below.

To find out more about the Nailed It Lacquers or order online, check out the Rubybox website.

Disclosure Ranking: 2

With summer around the corner I thought I would share some of my go-to summer nail polish shades. Two of the colours featured, are from my existing collection, which I bought earlier in the year and the other a new purchase.

Personally I love bright colours for summer especially on my toes, which you may have noticed from previous beauty posts! I do on occasion wear pastels in summer but much prefer bright shades 🙂

The latest addition to my ever-growing nail polish collection is a gorgeous neon plum colour, called DJ Play That Song. I love, love, love how super bright this polish is, personally I prefer it on my toes but it looks equally as good on my hands.

I have paired DJ Play This Song, with a few different clothing items, to give you an idea what you could wear it with. You could match it up with similar plum colours or offset it with gorgeous green and gold. This colour would also work wonderfully with white during the day or look super sexy against black for an evening look.

The reddish pink shade above, Essie Watermelon, is a flirty and fun shade perfect for summer. It is a deliciously refreshing juicy red polish, much like the beautiful, sweet, ripe flesh of watermelon.

I actually bought Watermelon after a mani and pedi at Sorbet, to take along with me on my recent trip to Thailand. It looks amazing against golden-tanned skin and is definitely a shade I will be wearing often this summer!

Last but not least is an old favourite, Tangerine, also by Essie. This zesty orange-red polish is so pretty and yes as you may know, I am slightly obsessed with coral or orangy colours, so this is a firm favourite.

There are many more beautiful summery colours available but these are a few of my favourites and colours I consider to be summer essentials.

Beauty Tip ~ To stop your nails from yellowing, caused by constantly wearing nail polish, I recommend that you use a Protein Base Coat, like the Essie one featured above. It really does stop your nails from yellowing, as well strengthening your nails!

Rubybox Nailed It Lacquer Summer Shades

Nailed It Lacquers