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Let Me Upgrade You

8th July 2012

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I added some black block detail to the gradient from my last post. I just took a striper brush and my trusty W7 Black to it and here’s the result. I looove it!

I’m sure a lot of you are wondering what’s going on with the Load N Vote contest. Voting should be live by now but it seems there’s another hiccup with their site and/or server. I am so sorry but I guess that’s the risk I took running a competition with a start up site. I know some of you saw the post that got published earlier today when voting was supposed to open, that will go up again once everything is fixed. Once again guys, I’m sorry, but it really is beyond my control.

Gradient Nails from my previous post

W7 Black added with a striper brush.

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Superheroes Challenge: Disney Villain… Off With Their Heads

26th June 2012

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Give me comic books over Disney any day! I’ve been really stuck for ideas this week but I think I’ve managed to come up with something decent. I really wanted to do Cruella De Vil because 100 Dalmatians is really the only Disney movie I remember watching as a kid – the 1996 live action version I mean! I just wasn’t much of a Disney child.

Well I ultimately decided on the Queen of Hearts because I’ve had a long day and I wanted something simple and easy. What a cop out, right! I loved Helena Bonham Carter’s portrayal of her in Tim Burton’s version but I’m not sure I’ve ever seen the Disney animated original. I’m just full of disappointments today aren’t I?!

I used L’Oreal Resist and Shine Red, W7 Black, Barry M White, Barry M Gold Foil and Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Sun Kissed. As always, the details were applied with a nail art brush.

Previously: Disney Princesses

As always, the other ladies taking part will have some awesome designs today too!

Jo at Northern Nails

Charlotte at Charlotte’s Nails

Debbie at The Crumpet

Kerrie at PishPosh and Polish

Sarah at Spellbinding Nails

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Guitar Hero Nail Art 2.0

20th June 2012

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Back in January, I got my Guitar Hero set with one game – Warriors of Rock. 6 months later, I’m still playing it and I have 4 of the games! I really thought it would just be a bit of fun and a passing fad but I’m still completely addicted! I’m more of a drumming girl but guitar is fun too!

I did do some GH nail art back then but I wanted to update it a bit since I’m now an ‘Expert’ which means I get to use the dreaded orange button! I thought I would take advantage of my square shaped nails and just frame them because they’re pretty much exactly the same shape as the buttons on the guitar.

I used W7 Black for my base colour. Next I took Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Whirlwind White to draw on the frames before adding the colours to make sure they’d be as bright as possible.

The colours are an unnamed red from L’Oreal Resist and Shine, NYC Lexington Yellow, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Pacific Blue and Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Sun Kissed.

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Superheroes Challenge: DC Villain…Harley Quinn

19th June 2012

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Harley Quinn is completely ‘bat’ crazy but you have to admire her in some ways! She’s very loyal (some might say a sycophant) and incredibly resourceful. Her first appearance was in a Batman cartoon back in the 90’s and the character was only created to serve as The Joker’s sidekick in one episode. In 2009, Harley made it on to IGN’s Top 100 Comic Book Villains at #45. Not bad for a psycho psychiatrist from Brooklyn!

(Harley Quinn Wiki)

Aside from Comics, her biggest role in mainstream media was in Batman: Arkham Asylum but I would really love to see her brought to life in a movie. Damn you, Christopher Nolan! I’ll be keeping my fingers crossed for another Batman reboot in the future. Preferably with Zach Snyder directing but he’s on that whole Man of Steel thing (hint hint) so that doesn’t seem very likely. Can you imagine his slow-mo scenes in a Batman movie… heaven! Hey, a fangirl can dream!

Superheroes Nail Art Challenge: DC Villain

I used an unnamed L’Oreal Resist and Shine polish for the red base and W7 Black for the harlequin patterns using a nail art brush.

I painted Harley herself on a base of Barry M White using Black Acrylic Paint for the outlines and details plus the aforementioned L’Oreal red. I used Rimmel Grey Matter to fill in the background and for the shading. Her eyes are Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Brisk Blue.

I added two top coats of Cult Nails Wicked Fast to finish it off.

Previously: Batman and Foes Nail Art

I’m excited to see what the other girls come up with today! I’m hoping to see a Joker for my Harley somewhere!

Jo from Northern Nails

Charlotte from Charlotte’s Nails

Debbie from The Crumpet

Kerrie from PishPosh and Polish

Sarah from Spellbinding Nails

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Superheroes Challenge: Marvel Villain… We Are Venom!

12th June 2012

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Welcome to the Heroes and Villains challenge! I’m so excited about this challenge, I love love love nerdy nail art so I know I’m going to be creating some kick-ass manis over the next four weeks and I’m sure the other ladies will too. I can’t wait to see what we all come up with.

In case you missed it, I posted all the details of the challenge on Sunday. This week, it’s Marvel and today a nasty villain has come to town. I chose Venom who normally appears as Spider-Man‘s arch enemy! I can’t think of much else to say today so I’ll just leave you with the pictures!

I used W7 Black as my base colour. All the white detail was done with White Acrylic Paint and the grey is Rimmel Grey Matter.

Previously: The Amazing Spider-Nails

Head over to the other ladies’ blogs to see which Marvel villain they chose to immortalise on their nails!

Jo from Northern Nails

Charlotte from Charlotte’s Nails

Debbie from The Crumpet

Kerrie from PishPosh and Polish

Sarah from Spellbinding Nails

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Black and Greydient

10th June 2012

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Sorry for my short absence. Two days doesn’t seem like much but I get really fidgety and on edge when I haven’t blogged for a few days! I ended up having one of those weekends that makes you look forward to the week! Nothing seemed to go quite right for me and tonight is the first chance I’ve had to chill out and paint my nails.
I wasn’t sure how it would work, trying to create a gradient with a creme and a holographic polish, but I proved that it could be done with my Purple Skittle mani from a few days ago and I really love the combo. I’ve nearly exhausted every colour scheme for gradients so I abandoned colours altogether today and went monochrome!

The base colour is Rimmel Grey Matter and I added A-England Bridal Veil to create the gradient following this gradient nail art tutorial.

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Steven Tyler Nail Art. Yes, that guy from Aerosmith!

7th June 2012

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I was watching the MTV Movie Awards today and, of course, paying special attention to all the celebrities’ nails! Can you believe the ones that stood out to me the most were Steven Tyler’s, of all people? I noticed he was rocking some simple black and greige nail art and I knew I had to recreate it straight away.

I spent a bit of time searching for a picture, and it would seem that his signature look. You can see some good pictures of his nails here and here. All I can say is, what a dude! How many guys do you know that could rock a nice bit of nail art? But then I suppose not all guys are rock stars that can pretty much do whatever the eff they want!

Steven Tyler Nail Art by The Nailasaurus

My base colour is E.L.F. Desert Haze and I used a striping brush and W7 Black to create the stripes and then added my own little flair by accenting it all with some Barry M Silver Foil.

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