3 Stripes on my Sneakers (Adidas Nail Art)

When I was a kid it was all about the Adidas poppers... you know the ones I'm talking about! The tracksuit bottoms with three stripes and poppers running all up the side? Please tell me I wasn't the only one!

I had a grey pair which I wore to death. Man I loved those things when I was 11 but I don't think I've worn a pair of tracksuit bottoms in public since. Oh 90s fashion, thank you for staying in the 90s!

For the stripe nails, I used 2 coats of Barry M White and then topped it with a coat of Sally Hansen Dries Instantly. Next I used striping tape to mark off three stripes and painted over it using Essie Mezmerised  before peeling off the tape (tutorial here). On my ring finger I used Mezmerised first and marked off the logo using striping tape to keep my lines nice and straight, then I filled in the gaps using BK Matt White and a nail art brush. Finally, I topped it all of with one coat of Rimmel Matte Finish.

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Models Own Artistix Duos Review

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Models Own recently released a range of funky polish duos. Each duo is a pretty combination of one colour polish and one glitter from their extensive line of polishes. I love wearing glitter toppers on my nails and I don't know about you guys, but to this day I've never made it to the bottom of a bottle of glitter! Has anyone?! These sounded like an ideal solution - a little colour and a little glitter for almost the same price as one regular bottle of polish. (These RRP at £6 each and the regular bottles are £5). Win win!

The duos come in double ended bottles with the brushes sticking outwards from the middle. Now I know what you're thinking... at first I had doubts about how easy these brushes would be to manoeuvre too but they're surprisingly easy to use and I didn't have any problem with application. Now on to the fun part... swatches!

Stop and Smell the Roses

Happy Monday! I know some of you will be thinking that Monday is not a day to be happy, but it's recently become my favourite day of the week because it means a new episode of Game of Thrones! I can't believe there are only 2 episodes left in the season after today's. I must confess I haven't read the books, so far I've only made it half way through the first, so I have plenty of material to tide me over until the fourth series.

I used NYC Lavender Cupcake as my base colour with Sonnetarium Lenten Rose glitter on my ring finger. I did the pinstripes on my index finger using striping tape and BK Matt White. For the roses I used NYC Bubblegum Pink, Barry M Blood Orange and BK Matt White with NYC Mint Macaroon for the leaves. There's a full tutorial for the roses here. Finally I topped it all off with two coats of Sally Hansen Dries Instantly.

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Sally Hansen Street Style Tutorial: Studs n' Chains

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This month, Sally Hansen's I ♥ Nail Art theme is Street Style and the call for inspiration is 'heavy metal, pop art and graffiti glam'. I stopped reading at heavy metal... it's got to be the studs for me!

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I'm not really sure where the idea of matte x glossy came from but it's been at the back of my mind, niggling away, all week. I've been playing with different combinations and I really wanted to try it with stamping although nothing seemed to work. I'm going to keep at it as I'm determined to perfect glossy undercoat with matte stamping but for now, I've settled for something simple (again)!

I used two coats of No7 Just Black as my base colour with one coat of W7 Cosmic Black on my ring finger, then used one coat of Rimmel's Mattifying top coat. Then I took a nail art brush and applied NYC In a New York Minute just to the tips of my nails.

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