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    The Lady is a Vamp

    16th June 2013
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    I don’t really know what came over me but today I attempted, once again, to water marble… voluntarily! Once again I was reminded how much I hate it so this will probably be it for a while.
    I picked up this pretty black glitter for £1 is Store Twenty One today, it’s Thunderstorm from BYS. I was expecting it to be a pretty glitter that I could layer over black polish but it turns out you don’t even need a base colour so I was pretty happy about that. It’s even prettier than it looks in the bottle too, I think it’s going to see a lot of love from me.

    I used Sally Hansen Blackout, Rimmel Heart on Fire and BYS Thunderstorm as my base colours. The water marble was created using Heart on Fire and Blackout. Finally I finished it all off with a coat of Essence Better Than Gel Nails.

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    Thnks Fr Th Mmrs: Gradient Nails

    30th April 2013
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    I really enjoyed putting together a Thnks Fr Th Mmrs post earlier this month so I think I’m going to make it a regular feature around here if that’s okay with you!
    Today is the one year anniversary of my Gradient Nails Tutorial and just I knew I had to mark the occasion with a little homage. That tutorial is the most visited page on my blog… by miles and miles and lightyears even to this day. 
    I think it really took off because everyone was having the same problem as me. They were seeing pictures of pretty gradient nails on the internet and wanted to do it themselves, but there wasn’t an easy DIY tutorial out there yet until the one that I wrote came along to fill that gap.
    As you can see, my gradient skills have improved immensely since then which is a good testament to my motto, ‘Practice makes perfect’ or as Macklemore more eloquently put it, ‘The greats weren’t great because at birth they could paint, the greats were great because they’d paint a lot’. 
    No one gets it perfect first time and you pick up tricks as you go; the little things which can’t be taught that you just have to learn from your own experience. For example, the sponge that I was using at first wasn’t ideal and now I’ve learned to use much ‘finer’ sponges… make up wedges are the best! Gradient nails… thanks for the memories!

    I used the same base colour, BYS Pretty as a Peach, as I did last year but unfortunately the darker of the two colours has long since dried up so I replaced it with NYC Bubblegum Pink which I think is a pretty good match.
    I couldn’t resist adding some roses for an accent finger. For those I used the NYC Bubblegum Pink again, Rimmel Heart on Fire, Models Own Utopia and NYC High Line Green with a nail art brush.
    It’s all topped off with a coat of of Sally Hansen Dries Instantly.

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    31DC2012 Day 5: I Just Blue Myself

    18th October 2012
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    Sorry, I just couldn’t resist with the title. Cool points for you if you know the reference.
    Okay so today’s nails are debatably blue. I’ve always considered this polish, A-England’s Galahad, to be a  blue one but now that I’m staring at it on the screen I can see that it leans a lot towards green! It’s one of those that sits on the line right between the two so I guess it really comes down to personal opinion today!
    I used two coats of A-England Galahad with two coats of BYS Gold Finger on my index finger and some gold glequins applied in a honeycomb pattern on my ring finger (video tutorial for that here). I topped it all off with a top coat of Seche Vite.
    As always, check out Rie and Cristina ‘s blogs to see what beautiful blues they’ve found today!

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    Breast Cancer Awareness Nail Art

    7th October 2012
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    October is Breast Cancer Awareness month which means PINK!
    I won’t waffle on the subject because I’m really not an expert so you should head over to the Breast Cancer Care website to educate yourself at your leisure.

    BYS Pretty as a Peach, Rimmel Urban Princess and Kriston No16 acted as my base colours for this mani and I used them for stamping as well as Miss Sporty Zodiac. The pattern is from Bundle Monster Plate BM321 and the glequins came from Born Pretty Store. I finished it all off with a few coats of Essence Better Than Gel Nails.

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    Sandy Skittle

    15th June 2012
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    It seems I’ve dug myself in to a comfy little nail art nook this past week. There have been two manis that I fell head over heels for and have been longing to wear again – the purple skittle mani and the sandy glitter sandwich. 
    But I don’t want to bore you all, so I imagined what their lovechild would look like and painted that on my nails instead! The result is a Sandy Skittle! I don’t know where I keep plucking these absurd names from but they do seem to roll off the tongue and I think they are perfectly descriptive.
    I had so many pictures to choose from today, I had to put some after the jump. You’ll also find all the info about polishes there too.

    The base colour is Cult Nails Cruisin Nude. 
    For the tribal patterns I used Black Acrylic Paint and Barry M Gold Foil. 
    The glitter on my ring finger is BYS Gold Finger and I topped that with two coats of Samoan Sand to make a glitter sandwich.
    To create the leopard print on my first finger, I used Red Angel Plate RA-107 with W7 Black and topped it with Barry M Gold Foil. 
    The brush I used for all the freehanded details was a small striper brush from a nail art brush set.
    Finally I finished it all off with two coats of Cult Nails Wicked Fast Top Coat.

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    My Bundle Monster Competition Entry!

    10th May 2012
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    Bundle Monster are releasing a new set of plates very soon and they’re running a competition through their Facebook for the chance to win a set! As a long time lover of the BM sets, I couldn’t pass up this opportunity so I submitted a manicure! For my entry I used Bundle Monster plate BM210 with A-England St George over a base of BYS Kung Fu Blue. I used Barry M Gold Foil to accent the design on my ring finger.
    If you like my entry, I’d love it if you could head over and vote for me in the competition by clicking here or on the picture below.
    Thank You!

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