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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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Internet > Chocolate

21st August 2011

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I have such a short attention span! I’ve been sat here since about 9pm with these photos open in Photoshop, getting them blog-ready and I’ve been distracted at least 4356 times. It’s now just after 1am and I have managed to focus long enough to upload them and write this post!

When I sit down in front of a computer, I go in to a complete trance and until I snap out of it don’t realise that I’ve just spent 4 hours of my day watching The Shaytards and amusing myself with every single #Parks and Recreation post on tumblr. If I have one addiction in life, it’s the internet.

Plates: Bundle Monster BM201, BM224 and BM211
Base Colour: W7 Black Cherry
Stamp Colour: Collection 2000 Moonlight Shine
GOSH Metallic Purple
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Like A Broken Record

17th August 2011

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Todays Pink Wednesday post is insanely similar to last week’s but I love the comic book/onomatopoeia design so much so I had to try it again! This week, it’s a bit more exaggerated and ‘in your face’!

Plate: Bundle Monster BM209
Base Colour: Nails Inc. – Paris (for Diet Coke)
Stamp Colour: Collection 2000 Hot Looks – Dynasty
Black acrylic paint for the outlines
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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
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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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Payday. Payday. Gotta get down on Payday.

11th August 2011

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Tomorrow will be my first payday for almost two years so I’m super excited! While I was in Uni I was lucky enough that I didn’t need a job (just to be clear, I wasn’t sucking on a silver spoon the whole time, I was just very scrupulous when it came to spending the money that I did have!).

My eBay watch list has tripled in size this evening and I have a post-it stuck to the wall in front of me with a list of stuff I want to buy! The first thing on that list is the Babyliss Big Hair styler which I have been drooling over for months. If anyone’s tried it I’d be very interested to hear what you think of it.

Konad Plate: Bundle Monster BM212
Base Colour: NYC – Prince Street
Konad Colour: Collection 2000 – Moonlight Shine
GOSH – Metallic Purple for the dots
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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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