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    31 Day Challenge: Inspired by a Song

    22nd September 2014
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    Send you my love on a wire…

    There’s a song that features in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World by fictional band, The Clash at Demonhead (aka TCAT), called ‘Black Sheep’. There’s a line in there that goes ‘Send you my love on a wire…’ which served as inspiration for today’s nail art. Plus a literal Black Sheep, obvz!

    Both the movie and the song are some of my all time favourites. Black Sheep is one of those songs that never fails to lift my mood. I can’t help but sing and dance when I hear it and I could honestly listen to it on repeat all day (yeah, so what if I actually have done that!). It’s written by Metric who originally recorded it, but I prefer the movie version which is sung by Brie Larson in the aforementioned band, The Clash at Demonhead!

    1. For the nail art, my base colour is Nicole by OPI The Coral of the Story.
    2. I freehanded on the ‘love’ wire with A-England Excalibur Renaissance and a nail art brush.
    3. To paint on the black sheep, I used Pure Color Black Liner with Rimmel Grey Matter and the same nail art brush.
    4. It’s topped with one coat of Glisten & Glow HK Girl, then one of NYC Matte Me Crazy.

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    Blink 182 Nail Art! What’s My Age Again?

    11th July 2012
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    I went to see one of my favourite bands EVER in Cardiff last night! BLINK 182! Needless to say, they were amazing and definitely worth the two year wait! Travis Barker’s drum solos were just epic and he didn’t miss a beat or even break a sweat.
    On stage, Tom said something about it being 30 years this year since they started ‘playing songs about growing up’ and it just reminded me that I’m an adult now and I’m not really growing up any more. Well I’m 21 so maybe I still have a few years of reckless abandon left! But every time I listen to their music, I’m reminded of being a teenager and going through those things they sing about and I just love them for being the soundtrack to my youth. 
    The nail art is based on some of their album covers – Neighborhoods, Enema of the State, Greatest Hits, Self-Titled/Untitled and Take Off Your Pants and Jacket.
    It would be really amazing if they saw these nails so if you have the time and inclination, I would love if you could tweet a link to @markhoppus or @travisbarker or @tomdelonge or heck, even all three of them!
    To make it easy for you, here’s a short link I prepared earlier! http://bit.ly/M3ndLZ
    Blink 182 Freehand Nail Art

    Blink 182 Freehand Nail Art
     More pictures after the jump!

    Blink 182 Freehand Nail Art

    I used a small striping brush to freehand all the details. My base colours are Barry M White and W7 Black. The small black and white details were done with acrylic paint but I used polish everything else.

    Blink 182 Freehand Nail Art
    Blink 182 Freehand Nail Art
    Blink 182 Freehand Nail Art

    Blink 182 Freehand Nail Art

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    ♪♫ How can somethin’ so Vicious look so pretty in pictures?

    11th February 2012
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    I’ve been staring at the screen for a little while trying to think of something to say here today. I considered talking about this gorgeous colour from Cult Nails but you can see how gorgeous it is without me gabbling on about it, so I’ll think I’ll just leave it at that today!
    Cult Nails Vicious
    Mash Rhinestones 
    Top Coat of NYC In A New York Minute

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    ♪♫ Memories of times and the places that were there

    23rd September 2011
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    I can’t believe it’s Friday already! This week has flown by so quickly.
    You might have noticed a few changes around here recently. I put up a new banner a little while ago and my pictures have also taken a turn for the better if I do say so myself!
    I’ve been wanting a great lamp with a white fluorescent bulb for a long time after Cris gave me some advice about lighting. They can be a bit pricey but I was lucky enough to find one in the house. It’s been sat on the same side table for months and I’ve gotten so used to seeing it that I just forgot it was there.
    I was sat in the lounge one day when I caught a glimpse of it and just had one of those moments where something clicked in my brain and I realised it was exactly what I’d been wanting for weeks!
    I also changed my watermark and have started stamping it in to the middle of the pictures because I’ve seen a few of my pictures online with the watermark cropped out and no credit given which is so annoying (and illegal). So, I have to put it in a place where it can’t be cropped without slicing up the picture, but I’m trying to keep it as unobtrusive as possible and I hope you guys don’t mind too much.
    I started out using scotch tape to mark off the black sections at the side but it ruined the mani underneath so I just whipped out a striping brush and freehanded the a line then filled it in after. It’s obviously not as crisp a line as you would get using scotch tape but it saves a lot of time and hassle.

    Plate: Bundle Monster BM223

    Base Colour: Cult Nails – Cruisin’ Nude
    Stamp Colour: W7 – Black
    Top Coat of NYC

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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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    Blink 182 Nail Art

    26th May 2011
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    Blink 182 may just be my favourite band ever. Not in a crazy, superfan way – it’s just that I’ve been listening to their music for years and years and I never get fed up of hearing it. I was supposed to be seeing them play in July but the tour was postponed since they haven’t finished recording the new album. The gig’s been postponed a year, yeah you heard me right, 12 months! WTF guys?! But whatever, I’m not gonna stop loving them because of that. So I thought I’d pay tribute the best way I know how… on my nails.

    Here’s a better one of my thumb, it’s at a

    funny angle in all the other shots.

    If you want to know any of the products or techniques used, just leave a comment and I’ll reply below.

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