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    Flower Power

    11th September 2010
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    You may notice that my post is a little later than normal today. I spent most of my day at the house I am renting this year and shopping for decor to go inside it!
    I was a bit disappointed when I first moved my stuff in as it hadn’t been cleaned properly and had a miserable feel to it, I think because it was empty and really seemed hollow. But now that me and the other girls are filling it with stuff and making it a bit more homely, I think it looks and feels much nicer. 
    I also received some great news last night. I passed the exam I had to resit last month so I get to progress to the next year of my course! Phew! I’m sooo happy now!

    Konad Plate: M64
    Base Colour: La Femme – Mint Cream
    Konad Colour: NYC Nail Glossies – 243B
    For the flowers: BYS – Astro Gold
    Top Coat of Essie Matte About You

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    3rd Marbling Attempt = WIN

    7th September 2010
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    After my disastrous first attempt and all of your amazing advice, I tried marbling again!
    My second attempt went a bit better but was still not up to scratch and I managed to ruin it soon after by bumping and scratching it before it was dry. I think I put too many layers of polish on underneath. This was before clean-up – I didn’t even keep it on long enough to get a proper picture.
    The marbling isn’t too bad but I don’t like the colours very much.

    My 3rd attempt went much better – I used thinner polishes as you all suggested and I’m pretty pleased with the result.
    I used 2 coats of BYS Lilac Bliss as a base and wrapped my fingers in sellotape…
    For the marbling I used purple, pink and glittery bronze. Then cleaned them up nicely…
     I think I just need to work on getting more of a pattern on my nails rather than a few random swirls.
    If you regularly visit my blog and can remember what it looked like a few days ago when I just had two columns, please let me know what you think about the new layout by answering the poll over there on the right! Honest answers are much appreciated – I won’t take it personally if you answer in the negative 🙂
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    Back To My Roots

    26th August 2010
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    It’s been a few days since I did any stamping since I’ve had all the Viva La Nails goodies to play around with. I’ve also been in a but of a plain nails mood recently which has contributed to my lack of Konadding. So here are some stamped nails that I really like. I love the combination of blue and gold anyway, so I used some of the ‘Pearls‘ from my sample package.

    Plate: Bundle Monster – BM10 
    Base Colour: BYS – Fools Paradise
    Stamp Colour: NYC Glossies – 243B
    Gold Pearls from Viva La Nails
    Top Coat of NYC
    To stick the pearls on, I just used a clear nail polish applied in dots with the flat end of a nail stick and I used the sharp end to pick up and position the pearls.
    These pearls are really fiddly things which roll and bounce around all over the place. So I poured some out into a creased post-it note. This also makes it much easier to get the unused ones back into the packet because you can just pour them along the crease.
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    La Di Da

    23rd August 2010
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    Here is one of the new BYS’s I bought on Friday, La Di Da.
    And it’s also the first time I’m using this plate, BM06, so I got to pull of the plastic cover 😀 I haven’t done that in so long!



    Plate: Bundle Monster – BM06
    Base Colour: BYS – La Di Da
    Stamp Colour: Stargazer – White
    Purple flower shaped sequins in the centre of the stamp
    Top Coat of NYC

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    A Matte I Don’t Like (and new BYS’s ♥)

    20th August 2010
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    What do you think of this colour mattified? I’m not a fan myself, even though this is my absolute favourite colour!



    Plate: Bundle Monster – BM11
    Base Colour: Glo Baby Glo from Primark – Yes Cyan!
    Stamp Colour: Sally Hansen Chrome – Amber
    Top Coat of Essie Matte About You

    My New BYS’s
    In case you didn’t know, BYS is my favourite brand for Nail Polish. It’s Australian, but a store called QS (I think the name’s changing to Store Twenty One) stocks the range here in the UK.
    I got these two today along with a bottle of Astro Gold for my Mum. Unfortunately, they didn’t have any Tinkerbell, which I really wanted to add to my next giveaway, but I did get a polish to join the giveaway goodies I’m stashing.
    La Di Da is more purple than it looks in the photo, kind of a dusty purple on the nail.
    Fools Paradise is exactly the Turquoise I’ve been looking for. Slightly more green than blue.
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