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    Happy Mother’s Day

    10th March 2013
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    Here in the UK it’s Mothering Sunday today. My brothers and I have been laying treats on my mum all day! She’s had smellies, chocolates and flowers galore and I’m just about to go and cook a roast dinner for tea. Marks and Spencer meal deals F-T-Dubz!
    I’m still in love with the pastels from China Glaze’s Avant Garden collection recently and knew they’d be perfect for creating a girly mani for the day. I’ve also started playing with my new Winstonia* stamping plates which are incredible and also girly!

    I used China Glaze Tart-y for the Party, Life is Rosy, Dandy Lyin’ Around and Pink-ie Promise as my base colours.
    I used stamps from the first generation Winstonia plates (Winstonia Store/Amazon) W102, W111 and W119 on my thumb, pointer and pinky. If you order the plates from their online store, you can get 10% off (the plates only) with code THENAILASAURUS.
    The polish I used to stamp is the BK Matt White from Born Pretty. If you’re looking for a decent white stamping polish, look no further. I bought it after I saw it on Katrina’s Nail Blog to use as a good white base but I find it slightly too thick for normal application. This is never a bad thing for me. Runny polishes are a dime a dozen, but it’s hard to find thick ones for stamping – especially white ones! WIN!
    I used some striping tape on my middle and ring fingers to mark off the criss cross patterns before painting over them with BK White and China Glaze Life is Rosy, then peeling off the striping tape.

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    Freehand, Glitter, Stamping, Uncategorised

    Meet The Necklasaurus

    24th February 2013
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    I have never ever been this excited about a piece of jewellery before! I first found this amazing specimen in Slashpile Designs’ Etsy shop way back in September last year and couldn’t get it out of my mind since. I shopped around for other possible mascots but always came back round to this one. It’s just so ‘me’… minimalist but detailed. I finally decided to cough up some cash and just go for it and boy oh boy was it worth it!
    Slashpile Designs is the creation of sisters Tara and Courtney and if you like interesting jewellery, you should most definitely go and have a browse. I especially love their 1 ‘Carrot’ diamond ring!


    I’m not sure if I’ve ever told the story of my blog name before and I think now would be a perfect time seeing as it’s also my 750th post! I started going by ‘Sammersaurus’ online when I joined MySpace close to a decade ago, maybe 2004-05, and I honestly can’t remember how I came up with it.
    A few years later, I was watching ‘Meet The Robinsons’ with my family and one particular scene involving a Tyrannosaurus Rex with a ‘big head and little arms’ (video here) tickled me and my Dad. I’m slightly below average height and often can’t reach things that are high up so the Saurus name kind of stuck and ‘I’ve only got little arms’ has become a running joke in the family!
    When I decided to create a nail blog, I didn’t have to think about the name at all. I knew from the start it would be The Nailasaurus and to this day I still love the name, even if I do have to spell it out every time I tell someone.
    Now that I’m talking about it, I realise it’s kind of a strange name! What did you think when you first came across this blog and saw that title?!

    I used A-England Lancelot as the black base colour and then freehanded on the T-Rex using a nail art brush with Barry M Silver Foil.
    The chain design is a stamp from Bundle Monster Plate BM12 but the links on the stamp all have gaps in so I filled them in with the Barry M Silver Foil.
    The glitter is Cirque French Roast and I used 3 coats of it over a base of PVA Glue for easy peel removal!
    It’s all topped off with two coats of NYC In a New York Minute top coat.

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    Festive Fingertips

    14th December 2012
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    I popped in to town a few days to go thinking I would pick up a new matte top coat as my Essie Matte About You ran out a long time ago and I never got round to replacing it. What a near impossible mission that turned out to be! I tried Boots and Superdrug as I was almost certain 17 and GOSH both had their own matte top coats but Rimmel came out on top as the only one available. 
    I also picked up Heart on Fire, this bright creme red. It’s my favourite red creme without a doubt. I always find they’re too runny or leave stains all over my cuticles when I remove them. Well, this one is opaque in two coats and left absolutely no staining. WIN.
    I used two coats of Rimmel Heart on Fire as my base coat and stamped on the design from Bundle Monster Plate BM323 using Sally Hansen InstaDri Whirlwind White. I added some glequins from Born Pretty Store and finished it with a coat of Rimmel’s Mattifying Top Coat.

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    31DC2012 Day 29: Inspired by the Supernatural

    12th December 2012
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    This challenge has really gone belly up recently! We started out so well but unlike last year, when we were so regimented and determined, we’ve gone way off track and are all behind schedule. However, I’m determined to complete it before the end of the year if it kills me (which I’m sure it won’t, I’m just being melodramatic). I’m thinking of it as my end of year resolution! There are actually only 3 days left so I’d have to be reallllly lazy not to get it finished wouldn’t I?!
    I spent so much time stressing about this challenge but in the end I just went for the obvious again to get it over and done with. It’s actually exactly the same as last year, I even used the same polish to stamp with!
    Don’t worry, tomorrow’s challenge post is awesome!

    I used 3 coats of Deborah Lippmann Fashion* as my base colour and stamped on the ghosts from Bundle Monster plate BM223 using Sally Hansen InstaDri Whirlwind White. I used two coats of NYC Top Coat for the glassy finish.

    You can follow Rie’s challenge here and Cristina’s here.

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    Christmas is Coming

    2nd December 2012
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    It feels like someone flipped a switch yesterday which just made everyone go mental! Suddenly everyone has gone crazy for Christmas so I thought I may as well leap in to the mania head first and get started on some Christmas manis. I’m sure there will be more to come, I just thought I should ease myself in today with something mildly festive!

    I started with one coat of PVA Glue (I know it sounds insane, but it makes removing the glitter so much easier). Once that was dry, I used 3 coats of Sally Hansen Gilded Lily* and stamped on a swirly design from Bundle Monster Plate BM314 using Sally Hanses InstaDri in Rapid Red.

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