Saturdays Prize

Today’s prize is a bottle of the lively Princess Tears, a soft shimmering lilac with a slightly glowing grey/ green opalescent finish. Perhaps the girliest of the Legend collection, we love this shimmering shade – it’s on our top three list of the collection. While we don’t like the idea of princess tears anymore than the next girl, if the colour is amazing, well…

Tell us what you think! Leave us a comment below telling us what’s your favourite a-england colour and why (it doesn’t have to be from the new collection) for a chance to win. You have until 11:59pm tonight for today’s colour.

The Rules

Leave as many comments as you like on today’s post, but you’ll only be entered once to win the bottle of Princess Tears. The other great news is if you win today you can still come back and try for tomorrow’s colour. All winners will be randomly selected, so everyone has an equal shot at the prizes. For full giveaway rules, visit the official terms & conditions. Good luck everyone and be sure to check out the whole collection in our store.

The Reward

For letting us know which colour you love, you may have won a bottle of Princess Sabra for your very own. We’ll be selecting the winner randomly so everyone has an equal chance at the polish and there are 2 more chances to win one of the amazing new a-england collection shades.

Be sure to come back at 8am tomorrow (4th Feb) for a chance to win a bottle of Princess Tears, the next shade in the new collection.

In Review

We’ve been using what we have learned during the many fashion weeks of the world to give us inspiration for our summer looks. It’s been an educational season and we have plenty of fun tips to share if you are looking for sweetly summer looks. We’ll continue to provide new and unique ways to look at colour for every season and follow them up with tutorial ideas. A big thank you to the lovely ladies who created these talented tutorials.

We’ve got dozens of fun and colourful tutorials to get you in the mood for some summertime fashion.

Summer Tutorials

A great selection of tutorials that span a variety of types and styles from bold summer patterns to tropical florals and even a little sunshine. Many of these looks are fun, flirty and rather timeless. We hand selected our summer nail art tutorials to ensure quality videos with easy-to-follow steps.

Summertime Tutorials

A different take on summer tutorials, the summertime tutorials use current fashion trends as the basis for colour selection and artistic ideas. When you think about it nails are an accessory and designers know their accessories. Applying their knowledge to nails just makes sense and we’ve made it easy.

Fruity Tutorials

Summer makes us think of the bright colours found in fruit salad and fruity cocktails. We love the bold ripe shades of fresh fruit and putting it on our nails just makes us feel good… not fruity. We’ve got a great selection of fruit art tutorials from FIMO 3D fun to bold themes to extreme designs.

Tropical Tutorials

All that fruit makes us think of enjoying it (and some of those fruity drinks) at various tropical locations around the globe. Sometimes a little bit of the hot tropics on your nails can give bring warm beaches to you. We’ve collected a unique list of 9 tropical nail art tutorials to get everyone in the mood for their summertime plans.

World Environment Day Tutorials

World Environment Day falls on June 5th and is a day to celebrate all that Mother Nature has given us. Those in the beauty industry have a lot to be thankful for so we should celebrate. We found a few fun, flirty and environmentally themed tutorials to help you celebrate your love of nature.

Loving Summer

We realise it’s a little futuristic to be talking about summer, but we like to think positive. If you want something a little more springtime, be sure to check out dozens of spring nail art tutorials for more fab ideas.

Fashion Report

The idea is to stay up on the latest trends on the catwalk and apply that knowledge to your nails, cosmetics and wardrobe. We’ve got a chart of fashion weeks to drool over and will provide our readers with a quick guide for putting the latest fashion trends on their nails. We’ve already given you some tips for spring/ summer 2012 colour trends and followed up on Paris haute couture fashion week – we can’t wait to see what walks down the catwalk next!

We believe in preparation, and what better time to prepare for the new year ahead than when it’s too cold to outside?

Stockholm Fashion Week 2012

Here we will share a few of the designers whose fashions made their way down the catwalk this year. For each one we’ll provide you a boiled down version of their overall looks and links to corresponding items in our store.

Get the Look
This line seems appropriate given the weather outside, it makes us want to snuggle up in something warm. The simplicity of the look is easy to achieve on nails using strong colours in keeping with deep winter hues.

Get the Look
This is a fun, girly look for winter and we love its youthful glow. Even better, re-creating it with cosmetics is super easy and can almost be done with your eyes closed. Think brash colour mixes and sexy shapes.

Get the Look
While it’s not our favourite look, it has a strange charm to it. Sort of like a chemical factory and a fashion warehouse collided. Simple industrial ideas are updated with feminine colours and softer lines.

Get the Look
The look of this collection is as understated as it is feminine. We love the clinging lines and sensuous fabrics as well as the deeper, more intense use of colour. This line definitely has some grown up sex appeal.

Get the Look
This look screams a weekend on the slopes to us and we appreciate it’s casual vibe. We like swanky nails no matter what we are wearing and this casual line is an easy one to both re-create and enhance on your nails.

Get the Look
This line has a decidedly urban chic feel to it and the pieces are simple yet somewhat timeless. The colours flow together making the line incredibly wearable and fun to mix and match. We like the idea of carrying that over onto nails. Why not try one coloured nail on a field of deep grey?

More Fashion Weeks = More Advice

If you haven’t already be sure to check out advice from last week’s Paris Fashion Week (we featured new colour’s from the a-england collection – win one today!). Next week we’ll share a quick fashion events calendar to help you plan ahead.

Fridays Prize

Today’s prize is a bottle of the lively Princess Sabra, a soft golden olive with a lovely glowing opalescent finish. We love the unique choice for a princess colour, the green is quite wearable for all skin types and actually looks great with pink! This is another of our fave colours in the new collection.

Tell us what you think! Leave us a comment below telling us what’s your favourite a-england colour and why (it doesn’t have to be from the new collection) for a chance to win. You have until 11:59pm tonight for today’s colour.

The Rules

Leave as many comments as you like on today’s post, but you’ll only be entered once to win the bottle of Princess Sabra. The other great news is if you win today you can still come back and try for tomorrow’s colour. All winners will be randomly selected, so everyone has an equal shot at the prizes. For full giveaway rules, visit the official terms & conditions. Good luck everyone and be sure to check out the whole collection in our store.

The Reward

For letting us know which colour you love, you may have won a bottle of Order of the Garter for your very own. We’ll be selecting the winner randomly so everyone has an equal chance at the polish and there are 3 more chances to win one of the amazing new a-england collection shades.

Be sure to come back at 8am tomorrow (3rd Feb) for a chance to win a bottle of Princess Sabra, the next shade in the new collection.

About Erica-Renée

Inspired by nature, Erica-Renée products are built on generations of West Indian and West African beauty tradition. Their shea products are scented with fruit extracts and essential oils and free of artificial fragrances, parabens and mineral oils.

Erica-Renée is a new addition to our store and we are so excited to give away some of their fab products.

The Loot

This giveaway will give two lucky readers softer skin as we have two prizes to give away – both offer fun tasters of several of Inspirationail’s absolute favourite Erica-Renée products.

Rosie & Geranium Prize
1 Organic Shea Butter
1 Rosie & Geranium Whipped Shea Butter

Lavender Fields Prize
1 Organic Shea Butter
1 Lavender Fields Whipped Shea Butter

What You Need to Do

It’s easy, all you have to do is leave us a comment on the giveaway post next Monday telling us your favourite use for shea butter. Whether it’s to prevent stretch marks during pregnancy or keeping cuticles moist we want to hear your shea secrets!

If you don’t have one, get creative and come up with one, just for us. The giveaway starts Mon 6th Feb and runs until Fri night (10th Feb), you have plenty of time to come up with something.

Thursdays Prize

Today’s prize is a bottle of the lively Order of the Garter, the deepest royal blue with a perfectly sparkling finish. This is the brightest colour in the collection and it’s such a unique shade! Even better, this is one you can enjoy almost any season of the year – from the holiday season to bikini weather.

Tell us what you think! Leave us a comment below telling us what’s your favourite a-england colour and why (it doesn’t have to be from the new collection) for a chance to win. You have until 11:59pm tonight for today’s colour.

The Rules

Leave as many comments as you like on today’s post, but you’ll only be entered once to win the bottle of Order of the Garter. The other great news is if you win today you can still come back and try for tomorrow’s colour. All winners will be randomly selected, so everyone has an equal shot at the prizes. For full giveaway rules, visit the official terms & conditions. Good luck everyone and be sure to check out the whole collection in our store.

The Reward

For letting us know which colour you love, you may have won a bottle of Dragon for your very own. We’ll be selecting the winner randomly so everyone has an equal chance at the polish and there are 4 more chances to win one of the amazing new a-england collection shades.

Be sure to come back at 8am tomorrow (2nd Feb) for a chance to win a bottle of Order of the Garter, the next shade in the new collection.

Trust in Fashion

We are always offering colour advice, for all different types of events and seasons. In doing that we’ve collected quite a body of colour information and options so we thought we’d put them all in one place. It’s not spring yet, but we can’t help but be excited about it. We’ve got a few ideas to share here, but this page will grow as we uncover even more ways to decide.

We happen to think that fashion is a big key to uncovering colour trends for any season, so we are watching the catwalks closely.

Spring Nails

Springtime is when toenails come out to play again and that means twice as many nails to look after. It’s also a good time to reinvent yourself, so a new way of looking at things is always helpful. Here are a few fun ways to colour your spring and get you started.

Pantone Dance into Spring 2012

Every year pro colour experts Pantone come up with a colour palette for the artistically inclined. This chart is compiled after a careful consideration of fashion weeks around the world to determine popular colours that work together. Pantone’s Spring Colour Report features 10 amazingly nail smacking colours. We’ve got polish to match.

Planning for Spring/ Summer 2012 Nail Trends

Speaking of fashion, we love to cover as many fashion events as we can and in doing that we’ve learned a thing or two about colour trends for the coming year. Our summer planning guide combines elements from each designer at the recent fashion weeks around the globe for some serious fashion colour sense.

Varnish Colours for Spring Skin Tones

Spring tones tend to have warmer skin with golden, peachy or creamy undertones, often with rosy cheeks or freckling. Hair ranges from light blonde to black and eyes are generally light and clear. If you are a spring tone, we’ve got a fab list of colours for springs to choose from, whatever the time of year.

Nail Colours for Different Occasions

As the weather grows steadily warmer, many of us start to come to life again. As the holidays fade into distant memory, people need a good reason to party so often events are planned during the lovely, fragrant springtime days. We’ve got some timeless colour advice for different types of occasions and events.

So Spring Nail Tutorials

We’ve collected a huge selection of tutorials with ideas for fun spring nail art. From colours to patterns, we love to give you as many ideas as possible. Here is a fabulous list of spring nail art tutorials that cover everything from soft and sexy pastels to perfectly tiny dried flowers – and everything in between.

Love the Advice

We’ve got plenty more colour advice to offer, but until then check out tips for finding greener nail products and tips for healthy hands and feet. Next week we’ll start talking about summer.