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    12 Days of Christmas Nails: Day 9… Christmas Pudding

    19th December 2011
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    The meal is the part I’m most looking forward to this Christmas. I can’t wait to sit around the table with my family and fill myself with the traditional Christmas spread! We won’t actually be having Christmas pudding, instead favouring Apple Crumble and custard. So to make up for that – I’ll be wearing them on my nails!
    My base colour is Avon’s Deluxe Chocolate and I used Sally Hansen Insta Dry Whirlwind white for the icing. The leaves are BYS Fern and the berries are La Femme Cherry Red (4th day running!).
    I used a top coat of NYC CLassy Glassy to finish.

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    Lana Del Rey Inspired Nail Art

    17th December 2011
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    The video for Lana Del Rey’s new single, Born To Die, was released on Wednesday and I’m not exaggerating when I say I’ve been listening to the song on repeat ever since I first heard it (apart from the hours I spent at work or sleeping). This chick is just gorgeous and she’s my hair idol. Mine WILL look like that one day!
    Lana’s nails in the video are so sexy. These were the best screen shots I could get of the nails but you can watch the stunning video in full here.
    I used Cult Nails Cruisin’ Nude as a base then freehanded the chevrons with La Femme Cherry Red (3rd day in a row I’ve used this shade!) using a striping brush.
    I used Barry M Gold Foil with a smaller striping brush to freehand the gold lines.
    If you don’t have steady, line drawing hands, you can use scotch tape to mark off the area you want to paint red, just make sure your base colour is completely dry before you go sticking tape on your nails.

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    12 Days of Christmas Nails: Day 8… All of the Lights

    16th December 2011
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    Credit for today’s Christmas nails design goes to Joya at Blanket Print Nails who posted a great and simple tutorial to get the holiday lights look on your fingertips. You can find the tutorial here!
    Even though mine look more like bunting than holiday lights, I love the way they turned out. The snowy gradient is gorgeous too – I think I need to do more sponging!

    I used Barry M Blueberry Ice Cream as a base and sponged Wet n Wild White on to the tips to make a little gradient.
    For the lights, I used black acrylic paint, BYS Fern, La Femme Cherry Red, George Buttercup Shine and No7 Poolside Blue.



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    12 Days of Christmas Nails: Day 7… Sweet Talkin, Sugar Coated Candy Cane

    14th December 2011
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    It’s starting to feel very Christmassy around here. I’ve had my first glimpse of snow yesterday and our house is completely decked out with lights and decorations! 
    As I type this, I’m watching 101 Dalmatians which I think qualifies as a Christmas movie because there’s snow everywhere. It takes me back to being about 6 years old although I have a completely new appreciation for it now I’m old enough to know that Hugh Laurie and Mark Williams (Horace and Jasper) are British comedy legends!
    Today’s nails were inspired by Christmas Candy Canes and they look quite tasty if I say so myself!

    I used Barry M Matt White as a base and used a striping brush to freehand the stripes with La Femme Cherry Red.



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    Christmas, Freehand, Stamping, Uncategorised

    12 Days of Christmas Nails: Day 5… This Old Thing

    10th December 2011
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    Today’s Christmas nails are inspired by the always favourite tacky Christmas jumper! Enjoy!

    I used Barry M Raspberry as my base colour then shuffled through all my plates to find some Christmassy designs and settled on Bundle Monster plates BM205 and BM14 stamped with Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Whirlwind White. 
    I used white acrylic paint for the little details and also to colour in a few of the stamped designs to make them ‘pop’!

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    12 Days of Christmas Nails: Day 4… Let it Snow!

    8th December 2011
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    Last year it snowed like crazy around this time of year but so far this winter, I haven’t seen a single snowflake.
    Remember my Halloween manicure with the skeleton? Well I’ve gone back to that idea of a design over two nails and it’s so much fun!
    Today was an exciting mail day in my house! I received my Red Angel stamping plates that everyone’s been talking about so you can look forward to some brand new stamping manis in the near future. I already love them and would recommend you go buy them [link here]!
    The base colour is NYC Glossies 243B and I used white acrylic paint for all the detail. The glitter and stars are from a random glitter polish that I found!

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    12 Days of Christmas Nails: Day 3 PRESENTS!

    5th December 2011
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    Sure, I love getting the family together and eating a delicious meal on Christmas day but the gifts are also pretty awesome. I wrapped my nails up in ribbons for today’s manicure.

    Base colours (top to bottom): NYC Prince Street, Cult Nails Iconic, Barry M Gold Foil, No7 Stand Back.
    Ribbon colours (top to bottom): Cult Nails My Kind of Cool Aid, GOSH Metallic Blue, BYS Fern, W7 Metallic Neptune.
    I used white acrylic paint for the outlines.

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