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Thicken Up

27th August 2011

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I know it’s well documented that polishes will thicken as they get old and used but I definitely notice it most with Barry M polishes. When you first buy them, they are fairly runny and nearly all of them need at least two coats for full coverage but after just a few months, they are thick enough to use for stamping.

Great for those of us who are always on the lookout for stamping polishes, but perhaps not ideal for people that want their polishes to last until they need to scrape the stuff from the walls of the bottle!

The weather here was kind of crappy today and I could really tell that winter is setting in. Unfortunately that means more pictures with this crummy lighting will be coming very soon as the days get shorter and generally more morose. I got some advice from Cristina about her lighting and I think I need to get some white fluorescent lighting from somewhere so I too can have pretty, colour correct pictures!

Plate: Bundle Monster BM208 and BM209
Base Colour: Cult Nails – My Kind of Cool Aid
Stamp Colour: Barry M – Bright Purple
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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
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Try My Two Tone

22nd July 2011

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This mani, like yesterday’s, came about when I just got too carried away trying to add a dash of whatever came to mind!

I knew I wanted to use scotch tape and a stamp design so I did the base colour and stamp and left it overnight to dry and to give me time to decide what to do. ‘Blue’ I thought, but when the blue was on it just looked too clunky so I thought I’d set myself the challenge of trying to line up the stamps to get a two-tone effect on my nails. Turns out I needn’t have bothered because the pattern is irregular so you wouldn’t even notice if it wasn’t matched. I think I’ll set myself the mission of trying it with a more uniform pattern to see if I can get it to match up.

Konad Plate: M57
Base Colour: Barbara Daly – Purplicious
Konad Colour: GOSH – Metallic Purple
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To create the two tone look, I sectioned off the top part of my nail with scotch tape and painted on Barry M Cyan Blue. I removed this tape straight away and let the blue dry. Then I lined up more strips of tape with the blue polish and stamped over it with GOSH Metallic blue, attempting to line up the patterns and added another top coat.

How do you guys feel about me using larger pictures in my blog posts? All the pictures I post are click through’s anyway so you can see a bigger version if the mood takes you, but I thought I would go bigger on the main page. Do you like it or do they just take up too much space?

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Bit of This. Bit of That.

21st July 2011

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This is one of those mani’s that I was constantly looking at and thinking ‘I could add this’. There’s a very real danger there of it turning into a tacky abomination of a manicure but I think I managed to reel myself in enough to leave it at a slightly over the top mumble jumble of things!

It was originally just a nude nail and I wasn’t going to apply any kind of nail art but I wanted to try out my Barry M Cyan Blue for stamping because I’ve had it for quite a while and it’s gone too thick to really paint my nails with anymore. It actually worked really well! It would not have been this opaque when I first bought it but over time as it’s thickened, it has turned in to a stamping polish!

The glitter is one that I found in a £1 bucket. It’s not really packed with glitter so it’s really just for layering. It reminds me of China Glaze Medallion. It’s got gold glitter and holographic hexagonal pieces.

Plate: Bundle Monster – BM223
Base Colour: E.L.F. – Innocent
Stamp Colour and Tips: Barry M – Cyan Blue
W7 – Black
BYS – Gold Finger
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Comparison: Barry M Cyan Blue vs. No7 Stand Back

1st July 2011

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I don’t know if anyone remembers my post from Saturday (find it here if you missed it) where I mentioned a new colour that I purchased from No7 called Stand Back. I noted that it was very similar to Barry M Cyan Blue which I also have, but I had convinced myself that they were different and I needed both of them. Well I decided to try the two on side by side and I discovered that there is literally no difference in the colour! Oh well, what’s one more polish in the pile?!

Barry M Cyan Blue and No7 Stand Back

The Barry M colour is in my Top 10 favourite polishes anyway so I’m sure they’ll both get plenty of use. They look so pretty in the sun so I’ll definitely be wearing them a lot with the summer coming on.

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Nautical Nails

28th June 2011

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I’ve been looking for a nice navy blue polish for months since I caught on to the nautical trend for summer and after finally finding one yesterday, I was inspired to create a nautical nail look. I found this bargain in Asda as part of their George Make Up range for £1 (normally £1.75), the colour is Bloom.

I used some really old Collection 2000 polishes for the white and light gold, they don’t even have names. The red is Barry M Raspberry and for the Anchor, I used Sally Hansen Chrome in Amber. I’m running perilously low on this so if anyone knows any gold/bronze chromes that I can get my hands on in the UK, please please please let me know because I’m getting desperate!

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Mixing It Up

8th June 2011

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I had my last exam on Monday and it’s such a relief to resume normal human activities like sleeping and eating! And of course it means I can get back to blogging more than once a week. Thank you to everyone that has liked my new Facebook page. I’m still working on getting lots of pictures up and just deciding how best to organise it!

Plate: Bundle Monster BM201
Base Colour: Barry M Bright Purple
Stamp Colour: Miss Sporty – Zodiac

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