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It’s Been a While

10th May 2012

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I just had a look through the pages of The Nailasaurus and it’s been nearly a whole month since I posted any stamping nail art. Crazy when you consider that’s the only thing I ever posted for at least the first year of its existence.

I love having my nubbins back. Whenever I have long(er) nails, or rather when I haven’t trimmed them for a while, there will come a day when I look at them and just think ‘You have got to go!’ and I just cut them down. When I was a kid, I always thought it would be really awesome to have long nails one day but now that I’ve been there and done that, I can safely say I prefer them short and square. After a trim, I always paint them black or some other very dark colour and find myself staring at them like they’re a new pair of shoes!

Stamping Plate: Red Angel RA102
Base Colour: Glo Baby Glo (from Primark) in Yes Cyan!
Stamping Colour: Barry M Gold Foil
Studs from Born Pretty Store
Top Coat of NYC

P.S. Voting is still open for the Bundle Monster Nail Art Contest. My entry can be found here and your votes are very very much appreciated. Thanks!

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Black and White Challenge Day 6: Color base with White

16th April 2012

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The ‘Skittle mani’ is not a style I sport very often. I think it’s due to my obsession with evenness and symmetry! Nevertheless, I decided to give it a go today when I couldn’t decide which pretty pastel I wanted to use on my nails and I really love the result. I’m really taken with pastels and I think the love is fueled by my desperation for summer’s return after I was given a taste of it the a few weeks back when we had a few days of sunshine!

I’ve been doing too much online shopping this week and I have my eye on some jewellery from Fresh Trends. I’m a bit of a piercing junkie and I had my anti-helix pierced a few weeks ago as a little birthday present to myself! For whatever reason I didn’t get a chance to mention it at the time but you can see it here! I had no idea about all the amazing jewellery you can get for the more uncommon piercings like my new addition. I think this is gonna have to go in my rook piercing on the other ear!

Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster BM205
Base Colour: Barry Ms Mint Green, Berry Ice Cream, Blueberry Ice Cream and NYC Lexington Yellow
Stamping Colour: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Whirlwind White
Top Coat of NYC

As always, my challenge homies will have some beautiful manicures for you today!

Rie at Nails and Noms

Cris at Let Them Have Polish!

Esther at Fab Fingertips

Stephanie at Sincerely Stephanie

Emily at The Laquerologist

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Black and White Challenge Day 3: Black base with Color

7th April 2012

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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!

Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster BM209
Base Colour: A-England Lancelot
Stamping Colour: A-England Dragon
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Don’t forget to pop over to the other ladies’ blogs to see their Day 3 creations!

Rie at Nails and Noms
Cris at Let Them Have Polish!
Esther at Fab Fingertips
Stephanie at Sincerely Stephanie
Emily at The Laquerologist

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Brace Yourselves… Spring Is Coming

30th March 2012

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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
Top Coat of NYC

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

27th March 2012

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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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Jump In The Pool

23rd March 2012

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I’ve got time to squeeze in a quick post before I head out to see The Hunger Games!! Someone has just burst in the door to tell me we have to leave right this second so I’ll say farewell and may the odds be ever in your favour 😉

Stamping Plate: Red Angel RA114
Base Colour: GOSH Pool Party
Stamp Colour: Collection 2000 Moonlight Shine
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Green With Envy

18th March 2012

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Just a quick one today to show you some stamping nail art because it’s been weeks since I featured any and it’s kind of the basis for this blog! And let you know about the coupon codes I’m running in my Etsy shop.

At the moment, you can get 15% off or free worldwide shipping on everything in the store.

15% off code: 15WILLGO

Free shipping code: SHIPIT2ME

The codes are valid until April 1st, so for two weeks.

Click here to go to my Etsy shop if you fancy a browse!