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    ♪♫ Move with me or get out of my face

    17th August 2011
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    Wowsa, I’m tired tonight! You may be able to tell from the mass of incoherent sentences that I’m surely about to write. I’ve had a headache all day which is probably a sign that I should have gone to bed at a reasonable hour but I was determined to blog tonight.
    I’ve been banging on about these lipsticks that I bought all day! I found some Rimmel lipsticks for £1 and ended up taking home 3 colours, I am in LOVE with the Coral shade and can’t believe I never tried coral sooner. It could look shockingly bad on me (orange hair and orange lips, whaaaaat?!) but I absolutely love it. I did a quick blog post about them here if you want to see the colour I mean.

    Plate: Bundle Monster BM208
    Base Colour: Rimmel – Sunset Bronze
    Stamp Colour: Sally Hansen Chrome – Amber
    I used a little brush to fill in parts of the design
    Top Coat of NYC

     


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    No Animals Were Harmed in the Making of This Post

    15th August 2011
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    This amazing snakeskin look is Kari‘s brainchild. When she posted it a few months back it quickly spread all over the blogsphere and I fully intended to do it myself but never got round to it.

    I was looking through my stamping plates, trying to decide on a design for today’s manicure and I decided that I wanted to use a plate I hadn’t used before. I still have a few of the 25pc Bundle Monster plates that still have the blue plastic covering on so it had to be one of those. I spotted this plate in the pile with it’s shiny blue protective layer still attached and Kari’s snakeskin idea came flooding back to me!

    Plate: Bundle Monster BM215
    Base Colour: Barry M – Berry Ice Cream
    Stamp Colour: BYS – Glittering Purple and La Femme – Grey Cream
    Top Coat of NYC

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    My Nails Are My Canvas

    12th August 2011
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    I’ve started using acrylic paint in my freehand nail art recently. It has it’s advantages and disadvantages over nail polish so I just thought I’d share my thoughts for any of you that are curious about acrylic paint and using it on your nails.
    Why it’s better than nail polish
    ♥ It’s more pigmented. There’s no need to go over and over the same spot if 
    ♥ It doesn’t dry out as quickly as polish. I blob out my colours on to a sheet of clear plastic, my ‘palette’ if you will, and when I use polish I’m constantly having to put out out new blobs of polish as it dries up. One blob of acrylic paint will last the whole manicure without drying up. 
    Why it’s worse than nail polish
    ♥ It’s hard to work with at first because it’s a different consistency to nail polish, so it just feels a bit alien. The best way to describe the difference is that it’s less forgiving than polish. You have to be much more careful with the brush. After a few goes, you get used to this though.
    ♥ It takes a bit more work to remove, but will come off with your regular polish remover.
    I really like using acrylic paint and I’ll continue to use it since I think the pros far outweigh the cons. If you’re on the fence about trying it yourself, I say go for it, but find it cheap somewhere. I paid 99p per bottle in Ryman stationers.
    Models Own Purple Grey
    White Acrylic PaintFreehan
    The line design is by Wah Nails and it’s called ‘Basket Case’
    The accent finger is my attempt at the pop art work, Crying Girl, by Roy Lichtenstein. It’s not my best work but from a distance it looks alright, so I left it on!

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    Payday. Payday. Gotta get down on Payday.

    11th August 2011
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    Tomorrow will be my first payday for almost two years so I’m super excited! While I was in Uni I was lucky enough that I didn’t need a job (just to be clear, I wasn’t sucking on a silver spoon the whole time, I was just very scrupulous when it came to spending the money that I did have!).
    My eBay watch list has tripled in size this evening and I have a post-it stuck to the wall in front of me with a list of stuff I want to buy! The first thing on that list is the Babyliss Big Hair styler which I have been drooling over for months. If anyone’s tried it I’d be very interested to hear what you think of it.

    Konad Plate: Bundle Monster BM212
    Base Colour: NYC – Prince Street
    Konad Colour: Collection 2000 – Moonlight Shine
    GOSH – Metallic Purple for the dots
    Top Coat of NYC

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    POW, PINK WEDNESDAY!

    10th August 2011
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    You may have heard of a little salon called Wah Nails?! Well I found out that they are open to recruiting anyone with a knack for nail art, nail technician qualifications aren’t required. So if there are any UK nail art enthusiasts who think they’d like to apply, check out their careers page. I would apply myself but I live too far away from their salons and I’m in no position to move at the moment so it’s going on my ‘what I want to be when I grow up’ list!
    Today’s Pink is Nails Inc Shoreditch and is definitely not something I would pick out on any normal day but I like to step out of my comfort zone on Pink Wednesdays and try out the colours in my stash that normally get overlooked. I thought I would be removing this colour as soon as the pictures were taken but I’m oddly enamoured with it! It’s a creme formula so I used 4 coats for maximum opacity then spiced it up with some of Wah Nails’ designs, Pow! and Basketcase.

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    Would You Buyasaurus?

    9th August 2011
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    I’ve been thinking for a while about painting my own nail sets and selling them. Last week, I finally got round to ordering some sets after the lovely Paige gave me a link to a good seller on eBay. I need to do a bit more research about pricing etc. but I’m trying to gage whether anyone would be interested in buying my sets. They will mostly be freehand designs but I’ll take personalised orders for any nail design you’ve ever seen on this blog! So… would anyone consider buying a set of nails from me?


    Plate:     Bundle Monster BM05
    Base Colour: Models Own – Utopia
    Stamp Colour: GOSH – Metallic Purple
    BYS Fern for the stalks
    Top Coat of NYC

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    Freehand, Uncategorised

    Some Assembly Required (Avengers Nail Art)

    7th August 2011
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    Superhero nail art has become such a fixture on here that I’m considering dedicating a label to it!

     Earlier today, I came across a gallery of minimalist (my favourite kind of ‘ist’) Marvel hero posters by artist Marko Manev which you can see here and naturally my first thought was ‘they would look good on my nails’.

    I decided that to make it a nice neat set, I would just do the designs corresponding to the Avengers minus Captain America because I’ve already done a design exactly the same.

    Thumb to pinky: Thor, Hulk, Iron Man, Hawkeye, Black Widow

    I used:
    Thor: Barry M Raspberry, white acrylic paint, La Femme Grey Cream, Barry M Mushroom, L’Oreal LaquiResist Black Bean, Barry M Grey
    Hulk: Collection 2000 Hot Looks Spangles, BYS Fern, La Femme Grey Cream
    Iron Man: La Femme Cherry Red, white acrylic paint, Collection 2000 Moonlight Shine
    Hawkeye: Models Own Purple Grey, La Femme Grey Cream
    Black Widow: Rimmel Black Satin, white acrylic paint, Barry M Raspberry

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