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Emoji Nail Art and Some New Kit from MoYou

6th March 2016

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Every week, an email drops into my inbox with the sole intention to tempt me to buy the latest MoYou releases. Normally this is an exercise in restraint for me because face it, we all want ALL of the MoYou plates, but last week I just couldn’t help myself. As if the announcement of their new worktop mat wasn’t exciting enough, they also released a whole bunch of Emoji stamping plates. Needless to say, I was all over that shiz! Read more

31 Day Challenge, Nail Art, Uncategorised

31 Day Challenge: Blue

5th September 2014

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Turquoise Nail Art with piCture pOlish Fool's Gold

I had a total fangirl freak out when Oh My Gosh, Polish! posted a beautiful turquoise mani with my piCture pOlish shade, Fool’s Gold, a few days ago. You can see that masterpiece right here. She mentioned that it was the perfect shade for a turquoise mani as there’s already gold in the polish, so you can skip a step when doing the nail art.

With today’s Blue prompt coming up, I thought I’d do my best to recreate the turquoise manicure. I have tried before and always failed miserably but this time went a little better. I had to do a bit of trial and error to find a nail polish and spray combination that worked but then I was away. It’s a little heavier on the black than I would have liked but I’ll keep trying with different combinations until I get it just right!

You can watch Oh My Gosh, Polish!’s tutorial for this nail art on her YouTube channel. I just love the way ‘Nailasaurus’ sounds in the Australian accent. It’s quite a novelty to hear it spoken by anyone as whenever I talk about it with people IRL, they normally refer to it as ‘your blog’ and I always say ‘my blog’. I know it’s a bit of a mouthful so maybe people avoid saying it in front of me in case they mess it up. I pronounce it nail-uh-sore-us but there’s really no wrong way to say it!

Polishes Used

piCture pOlish Fool’s Gold

Cirque Memento Mori

Glisten & Glow HK Girl Top Coat

piCture pOlish Fool's Gold Nail Art // The Nailasaurus

Turquoise Nail Art inspired by @ohmygoshpolish // The Nailasaurus

Freehand, Glitter, Uncategorised, Waterfall

New Year’s Eve Nail Art

31st December 2013

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These are the nails I’m wearing tonight for NYE! Black and Gold has been the party colour scheme this year and it’s always been a favourite of mine so I thought I’d polish off the year with a simple black and gold mani. Cirque Helios has become a staple for me this last month. It’s the perfect gold glitter for Christmas and turns out it’s a good sparkly addition to a party mani!

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you have a great one!

I started with my base colours of No7 Just Black and Nails Inc. Hampstead Gardens.

The glitter accent is two coats of Cirque Helios. I freehanded the ‘2014’ using a nail art brush and NYC Full Metal Jacket.

The waterfall nail art was created using NYC Full Metal Jacket, BeautyUK Olympic Bronze and A-England Dorian Gray.

Finally, i topped it all off with two coats of Rica Glossy Glam.

Glitter, Uncategorised

DIY Nails Christmas Water Decals Nail Art

22nd December 2013

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It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas around here. I finished most of my wrapping today but there are still a few gifts I’m waiting for in the post (can you say last minute?!) so I have my fingers crossed that they’re going to get here before Wednesday! These cute Christmas water decals are from DIY Nails and they’re a new contender for my Christmas Day mani. The Fair Isle pattern on this sheet is just too cute to ignore.

I applied the DIY Nails Christmas water decals over the base of Barry M White.

For the glitter nails, I applied two coats of Cirque Helios over one coat of Nails Inc Hampstead Gardens.

It’s all topped off with two coats of Glisten and Glow HK Girl.

Glitter, Uncategorised

MoYou Fairytale Collection Nail Art

14th December 2013

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When I ordered my Fairy Dust, I popped a few extra polishes in the cart too. This purple beauty, China Glaze Cowgirl Up, was one of them. Multi-dimensional polishes like this don’t normally catch my eye unless they’re purple. It reminds me of my old favourite W7 Purple Paradise with an extra hint of fuschia and if you get up really close, you can see tiny blue specks in there too.

The purple base colour is two coats of China Glaze Cowgirl Up.

The stamped designs are from MoYou’s new Fairytale Collection on Plate 02. I used NYC Power of Elements to stamp the design.

The glitter accent is two coats of Cirque Queen Majesty over one of Cowgirl Up.

It’s all topped off with one coat of Glisten and Glow HK Girl (which, by the way, is currently on sale for $4.50!).

Glitter, Studs, Uncategorised

Cirque Helios with Pastels

21st August 2013

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I have another Cirque polish to show you today! Here we have Helios… a very fine gold glitter with holographic glitter sprinkled in. I decided to dress it up with some pastel colours. When pairing up gold with another colour, I normally go straight to black but I’m wayyy happier with the pastels this time.

For the glitter fingers, I used one coat of Barry M Gold Foil with 3 thin coats of Cirque Helios. You could wear Helios on its own with 3 coats but you’d have nail poking through the glitter so I chose to put a similar shade base colour underneath.

The pastels I used are Sally Hansen Green Tea and Barry M Prickly Pear.

It’s all topped off with a coat of Sally Hansen Dries Instantly and one of Essence Top Sealer. I added some 1.5mm gold studs on top while the Essence polish was still wet.

Visit cirquecolors.com for stockists or to buy directly.

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Cirque Bejeweled and Vesuvius Swatches

17th August 2013

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Cirque’s Arcus collection has been sitting on my desk for way too long waiting to be swatched but I’ve been a bad blogger and not given it the attention it deserves. I got a bit overwhelmed at the prospect of swatching a full collection of 12 polishes and kind of shied away from the whole thing which was silly. I’ve decided that it’s best to work my way through it at a reasonable pace so I want to show you guys my favourites over the next few weeks at my own sloth pace!

Today I’ll be showcasing the to holographic polishes in the collection – Bejeweled and Vesuvius. I’m a huge fan of holographic polishes and these two are both welcome additions to my collection. I don’t have anything else similar to these and the blue just makes me go weak at the knees. There’s not too much to say about these polishes except that they’re perfect. They apply like a dream and the colours are stunning but you guys can see that for yourselves!

This is two coats of Bejeweled with a top coat. I also couldn’t resist adding an accent of Queen Majesty!

I would describe Vesuvius as a dark salmon colour. It’s very romantic and dreamy. I don’t have many polishes of this shade in my collection but after wearing this one I think I need more.

These particular polishes retail for $15.00 but most of the other colours in the collection are $13.00.

Cirque nail polish is available on the Cirque Colors website if you’re in the US or Sally Magpies for UK buyers. There’s a full list of stockists on the Cirque website so be sure to check that out if you’re in the rest of the world!

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