Mastering Your Makeup: Nails Addict

#30DaysToFitSkin with Dermalogica

Hello Lovelies,

Last week on the #MasteringYourMakeup social media accounts you'll have seen this picture...

Look at me, in all my denin glory! Would you believe I went to two events looking like that?! I thought on the day I looked lovely but then as J said 'all you're missing is your paint brushes' he's charming that fella! Anyway... I was actually waiting to rinse my tan off that day so I wanted to wear comfy clothes. It was my first time to try the Iconic Bronze Tan in Dark so I wanted to give it it's best chance at developing.

The picture anyway is the important thing, I was in Elaine's Beauty in Cabinteely which you all know is my mecca for my Disney nails (currently wearing some fantastic minions take a look below)

Elaine and I have been talking a lot recently about wedding skin, pretty much since i got engaged I have wanted to start the process of really looking after myself. Anyone who follows me on snapchat @emmajcs will know that this has been difficult for me. I haven't been looking after myself in the right way so I'm on the back foot now to reach the goals I want for myself health, beauty and fitness wise.

This was the offer I went for in August!

During the month of August Elaine has a great offer on with Dermalogica the 30 30 30. It was a 30 minute facial with a 30 days skin kit all for €30. I booked myself in to re-evaluate where my skin concerns were and what I wanted for the wedding. I will be attending Elaine's Beauty for all my skin needs, a decision I came to months ago. I have also picked up a few of the travel range from Dermalogica and now have been presented with an amazing opportunity.

I have been enlisted into the Dermalogica Skin Health School, a programme coming to Ireland from Dermalogica to educate people on their brand and to give bloggers followers an insight into their products as well as a chance to win some yourself. Before I go any further let me be clear and honest, I started using Dermalogica about 3-4 years ago. I went for a skin analysuis and purcahsed every product my skin needed costing well over €200 at the time. I have gone for a number of paid for Dermalogica facials, I have never been paid by the brand or any of the stockists to promote the brand. I am participating in this programme as a loyal supporter of the brand and working with Elaine on my skin care programme will be paid for by me as a customer. I just want that to be very clear as I am a true lover of the brand and I don't want that forgotten when I gush over the products helping my skin.

So what's next on my journey? Well the skin kit I have been sent I am digging into. I am also booked into Elaine's Beauty on the 20th of October for my next set of nails and a facial. I will be posting while at Elaine's and then it's your chance to win... I will be running a competition on my social media accounts (Most likely facebook) and one of you lucky ladies (or gents) will win yourself a #30DaysToFitSkin kit suited to your skin type.

Keep your eyes peeled on the blog for new updates on Dermalogica and I will be taking you all on this journey with me which will see product reviews, facial details, peels posts and hopefully some great before & after pics!

If you would like to learn more about Dermalogica I am leaving all of Elaine's Details below. She has some many qualifications now with the brand she is known as a brand 'expert' there is no Dermalogica question this lady cannot answer!!

Elaine's Beauty Website
Elaine's Beauty Facebook
Instagram: @elaines_beauty
Twitter: @elainesbeauty_
Snapchat: @elainesbeauty

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My nails with The Manicure Company!

Adorn

Hello Lovelies,

Anyone who has been following Mastering Your Makeup for any time at all will know that I am mad into my nails. I always get them done, and when I say always I'm talking every two to three weeks without fail for at least the last four years.

Two years ago I found Elaine Cahill of Elaine's Beauty in Cabinteely. Elaine uses CND Shellac and always creates little pieces of art for our Disney Series which soon turned into a total habit.

During 2017, I heard of this new nail company The Manicure Company. It was by pure chance that at the Waverley Academy awards night, I bumped into two old friends from home in Waterford, David & Lorraine who turned out to be the owners and creators of The Manicure Company. There is only one lady in my blogging life who I know loves nails more than me and that is Anita from Adorn.ie. Anita has invested so much time into her training and nails are a huge passion of hers. She was telling me all about the wonderful colours TMC have so she asked if I would like to try them out. I was delighted and it led to four different application just so I could get to try lots of the range.

Look at that for a graphic...Anita recently launched her new website for Adorn.ie

If you are interested in nail art be sure to check out Anita's Instagram page @Adorn.ie She can create amazing effects I even asked her the other day about one nail on her demo wheel and she was able to tell me she has a spray gun for nails.... a spray gun, I had never heard anything like this.

So back to TMC, the first colour I had to try was this bright pink with a pink glitter nail. The shades were Sash-Ay & Princess Glitz Addition. I absolutely loved them! I couldn't stop looking at them, I was dying to get some tan on just so they would stand out more. Myself and Anita decided to leave them for 3 weeks to see just how tough the polish was against my daily life. Sometimes when my nails are longer they don't hold polish as good as they should. Unfortunately that is what happened by week 3 of these shades. I wasn't too surprised or too disappointed but I decided with Anita we would only leave the nails two weeks in between colours. This made a massive difference to my nails. Anitas prep of the nails is completely by the book so I felt it was my lifestyle and growth that affected the nails ability to stay perfect. Once we shortened my nails and then changed the colour every two weeks, it almost felt cruel taking off the previous shades as they were 100% perfect.

The second set having just had one colour before we went mad and put five different colours on my nails. We went for an autumnal look with glitter of course. These shades were Smoked,Winter Rose,Girl Boss,Bronze Bronze Baby &Arm Kandy. I loved this look and so many people commented on the colour combo they were really beautiful.

Our third set was in suporrt of my home county. Waterford had made the All Ireland final and it came at the perfect time as I also discovered the shade Periwinkle Portrait. This blue is just stunning, it is so bright and with tan just bounces off your fingers. We did add a glitter which is not from TMC but it made for an amazing addition to the look. It was from Akzentz Gels UK and I think every nail lover needs to have this on their nails at some point, its hard to go back to any glitter after you've had this on your fingers!

For our final look, I was really confused over what I wanted. I had an idea to have a really deep wine colour and wanted a wine glitter to match it. I find all my inspiration for nails from Pinterest, my nail board is currently huge and I just wish I had the skill and ability to do my own nails the way Anita can do them. I am also totally jealous of her polish collection, I'd have to change my nails all the time if I had that many colours. We went for another autumn look with a stunning rose gold glitter called Goddess (Anita tells me I am a magpie and she's totally right, I cannot have plain nails, I need glitter in there somewhere!) So this time we matched the shade Smoked with it.

Overall I have loved having my nails done using the shades from TMC. I am not sure of the base coat, I know we mixed and matched different base coats to ensure the safety of my nails. As I am not a nail tech myself, I can only judge my fingers as I see them with the wear and tear and for me, the nails didn't last the three weeks but two was plenty of times. I think the shades the company have brought out are stunning. I know that Anita follows the new releases and recently purchased the Decadence collection, the new autumn shades but when we went to look for those darker shades I mentioned earlier, they just haven't brought them out yet. I imagine with Christmas coming these will be the shades next on TMC's list but I was surprised that the real winter look I wanted to create wasn't possible at the moment. I look forward to seeing what new shades TMC bring out for Christmas. If you are interested in this brand, they are very active on Instagram sharing all the pics Nail Artists tag them in so you can see the range of colours.

I just want to say a massive thanks to Anita for inviting me to try out the colours. She is a truly gifted lady who's passion is so clear from her work. It was an itch I just had to scratch and given the range of bright colours and amazing glitters, I will deffo be back to this brand and will deffo support the homegrown hero company from Waterford.