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    Freehand, Uncategorised

    Happy Malteaster!

    Happy Easter everyone! Today I have some easter chocolate themed nail art to show you. I’ve seen a lot of Creme Egg nail art and, sure those things are yummy and all but have you tried Malteaster Bunnies?! These things are frikkin delicious and since they started selling them at Easter a few years ago, they’ve overtaken Creme Eggs as my favourite Easter chocolate. I always get upset when they start disappearing from shelves after Easter and normally start stockpiling them in the hopes that my stash will last until next February when they start selling them again. In reality, it lasts two weeks because they’re too yummy to save!

    The red base colour is from L’Oreal and I picked it up recently for 39p. I can’t find the shade name on the bottle though! I’ve been looking for a true red for ages but I always end up buying more raspberry toned reds so this finally fits the bill.
    I used white acrylic paint with a nail art brush for the writing. The chocolate bunny is Barry M Mushroom outlined in black acrylic paint. The little details are NYC Lexington Yellow and Miss Sporty Orange.

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    Stamping, Uncategorised

    Black and White Challenge Day 3: Black base with Color

    I hope everyone is having a great bank holiday weekend! I’ve had a jam packed week which is why it’s been kind of quiet around here but I’m back on task today with Day 3 of the Black and White Challenge – Black base with Color. I love the way this Holographic polish, A-England’s Dragon, has stamped on top of the red black base. It’s not completely opaque so where you can see the base colour through, it flashes bronze. I think my nails actually do look a bit like Dragon skin!
    A-England Dragon Stamping with BM209

    A-England Dragon Stamping with BM209

    Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster BM209
    Base Colour: A-England Lancelot
    Stamping Colour: A-England Dragon
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    A-England Dragon Stamping with BM209

    A-England Dragon Stamping with BM209
    Don’t forget to pop over to the other ladies’ blogs to see their Day 3 creations!
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    Studs, Uncategorised

    Just In Case…

    Just in case you aren’t sick to the back teeth of my studded manis here’s another one for you to sink your… um… teeth in to! I know it’s very similar to this nail art that I created for Stud Up! week but I just love this style. Simple, sleek but still edgy. 
    The base colour Primark Yes Cyan! and the studs are the 1.5mm metal rhinestones from Born Pretty Store. Don’t forget to use my discount code, SA5X31 for 7% off your order.



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    You Win or You Die (Game Of Thrones Nail Art)

    So it’s finally here! Game of Thrones is back on our TV screens tomorrow and I’m so excited, although I have to wait until Monday to see it here in the UK. Boo!
    I originally planned to do something with the great houses’ sigils but that proved to be very tricky so I went with their mottos instead! 
    Left to right:
    House Baratheon ‘Ours is the Fury’
    House Targaryen ‘Fire and Blood’
    House Stark ‘Winter is Coming’
    House Lannister ‘Hear Me Roar’

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    Stamping, Uncategorised

    Brace Yourselves… Spring Is Coming

    So even though today was kind of a nail fail, I have to post them anyway due to blogging withdrawal. I swear if I don’t post these today I’ll be up all night stressing about not posting for 3 days!
    Today’s mani is continuing with the theme of sunny weather and bright summer colours. I’m not sure if there’s a problem with my stamping plates, scraper, stamper or I’ve just lost my stamping skills because I couldn’t get anything to go right for me today! In the end I settled for this patchy excuse of a stamping manicure.

     Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster BM224
    Base Colour: NYC Lexington Yellow
    Konad Colour: Barry M Gold Foil
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    P.S. If you know where the reference in the title comes from, I’ve got some cool nail art coming up (provided I can get it right) relating to a very exciting event taking place this weekend!

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    Summer Sorbet

    I normally avoid pastel polishes like the plague but the recent flux of summer weather has me buying them left right and centre! It’s not that I have a particular dislike for pastels but my disposition lends me to darker, moody colours. 
    I picked up these two BYS polishes today in the £1 bucket and I wasn’t expecting to love the peach as much as I do. I only picked it up to push myself out of my comfort zone a little and now I might not return there until the weather turns bad. The brighter colour, Purple Rain is one I’ve had before (many years ago) and I wore the hell out of it until it was a globby, unusable mess and I had to bin it so I was chuffed to find a bottle in the sale.

    Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster BM210
    Base Colour: BYS Pretty As A Peach
    Colour: BYS Purple Rain
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    Hit the jump for more pictures. There are a lot today!

    Here are some swatch pictures of BYS Pretty As A Peach. This is 3 coats with a top coat of NYC In A New York Minute.
    I’m not used to wearing such pale colours and I just fell in love with this on my nails so I had to snap a few pictures.

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    Freehand, Uncategorised

    Birthday Nails!

    Tomorrow is my 21st birthday! I’m going out tonight with some friends to celebrate with drinks (read: lots of drinks) and revelry and these are the nails I’m sporting.
    I got the idea from Trincess at Emerald Sparkled who took inspiration from The Illustrated Nail. The title of Trincess’ post, ‘Look Rich Be Cheap’ has stuck in my head since the first time I read it because it pretty much sums up my life!

    I used two coats of Cult Nails Time Traveler as a base, then used a slow drying top coat and placed on these sequins from Viva La Nails using a cocktail stick dipped in the clear polish to make the end sticky.
    I used GOSH Metallic Blue to paint on the XXI and finished it off with a couple of coats of NYC In A New York Minute just to smooth things over.

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