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Black and White Challenge Day 5: Color base with Black

13th April 2012

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I’m so excited to post today’s nail art! For Day 5 of the Black and White Challenge – Color base with Black, I’ve created some nail art inspired by the One Ring from The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. I was going to wait to do this for the release of The Hobbit which I thought must be some time soon but it’s not until December!

This nail art was first posted on Billy the Brime’s Tumblr and couldn’t wait to give it a go myself. Allison’s mani is more accurate to the original source material than mine and fair play to the girl, dang that inscription is fiddly!

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them

One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

I used Barry M Gold Foil as my base colour and black acrylic paint with a nail art brush for the details.

Don’t forget to visit the other ladies’ blogs to see their Day 5 manis!

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 1: White base with Black

1st April 2012

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Welcome to the Black and White Challenge! I’m very excited to get another challenge underway as I had sooooo much fun with the 31 Day Challenge!
It’s much harder to come up with pretty Black and White combinations than I’d imagined! Today’s combination has created a very psychedelic result.

Stamping Plate: Red Angel RA106
Base Colour: Barry M Matt White
Stamping Colour: W7 Black
Top Coat of NYC

Don’t forget to pop over to the other ladies’ blogs to see what they’ve come up with for Day 1!
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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Stud Up! Day 6: Studs and Crossbones

9th March 2012

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I knew I wanted to wear a skull and crossbones today but thought it would be overkill to paint one on to every finger although I was completely without ideas for what to wear on the rest of them!

I was playing with the studs on my nails trying to decide how to arrange them and ended up with this diamond shape. I started with the three middle studs down the center then added two on either side of that and one on the end.

For anyone wondering where to get these studs, I got them from Born Pretty Store. They have a great selection of different colours and sizes – I’m using the 1.5mm gold studs. I really want to try some purple ones and they also have square ones which look amazing!

The base colour is Barry M Blueberry Ice Cream. I painted on one coat, let that dry and as I painted on the second coat one nail at a time, adding the studs as I went. I used black acrylic paint with a small nail art brush to outline the skull and crossbones. Finished with a top coat of NYC In A New York minute.

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If You Like It You Should Probably Put A Frame On It

2nd March 2012

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I’ve had this idea in my head for a little while now. It’s not my idea – I’ve seen it floating around on Tumblr before but I’m not sure of the original source so if anyone knows the creator of this masterpiece, please let me know! So anyway, I was kind of hesitant to do this design because I thought I’d make a mess of it but it wasn’t as hard as I was expecting. I had to build up the outline a bit thicker than I originally planned because it kept going wobbly but I like the boldness of it!

I used Barry M Bright Purple as the base colour and Nails Inc Victoria to paint on the frame with a nail art brush.

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Allons-y

10th February 2012

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Here’s Time Traveller, one of my new colours from Cult Nails. I couldn’t believe that this perfect TARDIS blue polish would have that name by coincidence so I had to ask Maria, Cult Nails’ founder and owner, if it was in fact named for Doctor Who and it is which just makes me love it even more!

Stamping Plate: Red Angel RA119
Base Colour: Cult Nails Time Traveller
Stamping Colour: Barry M Gold Foil
Top Coat of NYC

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You Da Nails… Rihanna Inspired Nail Art

9th February 2012

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Welcome to day seven of my secret challenge for myself to post at least once daily for one week! I didn’t want to mention it in case I couldn’t stick to the schedule but today makes it one week exactly and I’m feeling quite proud of myself! The good news is I still have posts lined up for the next few days so I’ll carry it on for as long as I can 🙂

This nail art was inspired by Rihanna’s nails in the video for You Da One. Although I probably wouldn’t sport pointy nails like hers, I love the chevron trend that’s launching at the moment. We’ve already seen Lana Del Rey sporting a chevron style in her video and I think it’s going to be a big trend this year. As nail art is becoming more popular and people are getting fed up of the classic french tip, this is a great alternative that you could probably still pull off in work.

I used Barry M Matt White as a base colour. I freehanded on the triangles with W7 Black and then outlined them with No7 Poolside Blue – all with a striping brush.

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