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Festive Floral Nail Art

17th December 2013

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Does anyone else feel like December has completely flown by?! For once, I’ve actually been fairly organised and I finished up my Christmas shopping yesterday. Gotta love online shopping at times like these, it’s almost unbearable to be real-world shopping on a weekend in the run up to Christmas. Sit me at my desk with a hot chocolate and a mince pie and I’m happy!

I had the strongest urge to paint some roses on my nails this week so I picked a festive colour scheme to go with it! The main colours here are Barry M White and Rimmel Heart on Fire.

The red glitter is two coats of Sally Hansen Cha-Ching over one coat of Heart on Fire.

I’ve written a tutorial for the freehanded roses so click here for that! I then dotted around them using Barry M Silver Foil and a dotting tool.

It’s all topped off with a coat of Glisten and Glow HK Girl.

iVillage invited me to write a tutorial for their 30 Days of Christmas DIY series and I chose to do Christmas Puddings! Click here to see the full tutorial!

Freehand, Holographic, Stamping, Swatch, Uncategorised

A-England Dancing With Nureyev Swatch

15th December 2013

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Press Sample

A-England has just released their Ballerina Collection. As always the shades are inspired by, and named-for a little piece of history. This time, it’s ballet history. There are four shades in this collection, each one a soft silver holographic with a tint of colour. The shade I have here is Dancing With Nureyev which has a blue tint. I used two coats for this swatch and you’ll also notice it works for stamping, even over the very dark plum base!

My base colour is A-England Dancing With Nureyev and added the ruffian style accents with Barry M Plum.

For the accent nail, I switched up the two colours using Barry M Plum as the base with Dancing With Nureyev to stamp on a slice of the pattern from MoYou plate Suki 08.

It’s all topped with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Glitter, Holographic, Stamping, Uncategorised

When Whimsy Collides

10th December 2013

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Today’s nail art is very simple. I mean VERY simple! I tried a few nail art possibilities with the purple holographic polish but in the end I decided to keep it as it was in all its mauve beauty.

This holographic glitter was first spotted on the blog last week and I’ve worn it almost every day since. I’m completely obsessed. I’ve never been someone that was distracted by sparkly shiny things but there’s something about a glitter that glistens like this that has me hooked. It really is like magic! In the same post, I mentioned my long standing desire to own China Glaze Fairy Dust and over the weekend I finally ordered a bottle. As if by fate, I had an email from Nail Polish Direct declaring a China Glaze sale and took it as a sign from the Fairy gods!

The blue base colour is piCture pOlish Whimsy and the purple holographic polish is China Glaze When Stars Collide.

I stamped on the wavy design from MoYou Sailor 05 using BK Matt White.

The glitter on my index finger is Claire’s Holographic Glitter.
It’s all topped off with a coat of Essence Better Than Gel Nails Top Sealer.

Freehand, Glitter, Uncategorised

Criss Cross

6th December 2013

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I’ve been so short on time over the last few weeks so I haven’t had a chance to do much nail art and I’ve been very short on ideas anyway. For this nail art I decided to rely on what I hope you’ll agree is a pretty colour combination and just do something simple!

The criss cross nails are a base of piCture pOlish Mad Magenta with two diamonds of Nails Inc All Saints Row freehanded on with a nail art brush. I added a thick top coat and added some gold sliver while it was still tacky to accentuate the lines.

The glitter polish on my accent nails is KBShimmer Totally Tubular.

It’s all topped off with two coats of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Recently I had a lot of fun putting together some gift guides for Divine Caroline. If you know a creative type, cocktail lover or nail fanatic and are looking for some gift ideas, hop over to Divine Caroline for some inspiration. You’ll also see my own personal wishlist up there if anyone wants to know what I asked Santa for this year!

Freehand, Glitter, Holographic, Uncategorised

…On The Seashore

2nd December 2013

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Last weekend I came across She Sells Seashells which is an amazing online store that sells lots of little bits and pieces for nail art within the UK. They stock a great range of unique items at crazy low prices and judging by the sneaky Instagram previews there’s only more where that came from! What I really love is that everything they sell is miniature! My nails are teeny tiny so I always go for the smallest option when it comes to nail art decorations and there are so many tiny items on She Sells Seashells that I was spoilt for choice.

You already saw me using the little deer decal in my Christmas Nail Art and today is the debut of the seashells!

I started off with Sally Hansen Coral Reef and a shimmery purple from Primark as my base colours.

The seashell is hollow inside so I made a very small dot of clear nail polish where I wanted to place it and let that dry to a little lump so there was something 3D for the decal to ‘hold on to’! To stick it down, I applied a little more clear polish on the lump and pressed the seashell down on to my nail. I used a top coat to seal it in and it’s lasted 24 hours so far!

The fine, holographic glitter on my ring finger is from Claire’s. I was hoping it would be a good dupe for China Glaze Fairy Dust and just from looking at it, I’d be convinced. However, this isn’t a smooth holographic like Fairy Dust but a very very fine glitter and as gorgeous as it is, there’s no getting away from that fact. While Glitter and I are better friends than we used to be, we’re hardly BFFs and I still have Fairy dust on my to-buy list. I still absolutely love this Clarie’s polish though – it’s opaque in 3 coats and insanely sparkly!

For the purple ruffian/half frame details, I applied China Glaze When Stars Collide freehanded with a nail art brush.

It’s all topped off with two coats of Cult Nails Wicked Fast.

Glitter, Studs, Uncategorised

So Long and Thanks For All The Likes

30th November 2013

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This week was very exciting! The page that I run to accompany this blog reached 1,000,000 likes on Facebook. I thought I’d mention it here as I feel like this is one to write home about and feel very proud of! I haven’t mentioned it on the blog but the number has been increasing steadily over the last few months although I never, ever thought it would reach 1 million. So I just want to say a huge thank you to anyone reading this that likes the page!

As a little celebration, I’m running a discount code in The Nailasaurus Emporium through until midnight on Monday (Dec 2nd). It’ll give you 30% off all orders over £10 and you just have to enter ‘millionaire‘ at the checkout. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

For this nail art I created the Nimbus Nail Art over a base of white using Barry M White using Sally Hansen Coral Reef, China Glaze Tart-y For The Party, Models Own Bubblegum and China Glaze Pink-ie Promise.

I added some gold triangle studs from The Nailasaurus Emporium right at the base of the nimbus nails.

The textured glitter on my accent fingers is Barry M Countess from the new(ish) Royal Glitters collection.

It’s all topped off with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top

Christmas, Glitter, Stamping, Uncategorised

My First Christmas Nail Art of 2013

28th November 2013

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I know that today is Thanksgiving but I don’t have any thanksgiving themed nail art for you. Being that I don’t celebrate it here in the UK and I’m painfully jealous of everyone feasting on turkey dinners today, I thought I’d kick of some Christmas festivities to remind me that I have a delicious roast dinner coming to my dining table soon enough!

This year I really feel like everything’s been done when it comes to Christmas nail art but I’m determined to come up with something at least semi-original before the 25th. If you want to see the Christmas designs I’ve done in the past, you can flick through the archives here!

For starters I used Essie Jag-U-Are (which is the metallic red) and stamped on a fair isle design from Nailz Craze Plate NC03 using BK Matt White. The snowflakes on my thumb are from MoYou London Kitty Plate 09 and the crazy cute decal on my middle finger is from She Sells Seashells. It’s a deer but I think it can pass as a reindeer!

The milky white polish with the green and red glitter is Sonnetarium Peppermint Kiss over one coat of Barry M White. The green and gold mix on my pinkie is W7 Cosmic Green over one coat of Ulta3 Mermaid Green.

Finally, I topped it all off with two coats of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.