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    Stud Up! Day 7: Spots or Stripes?

    Today is the last day of Stud Up! week and I’ve had an absolute blast. A theme week was definitely what I needed to bring some inspiration back to my manis.
    Today’s nails were inspired by racing stripes so I picked a base colour to match my car. Although unfortunately my little Percy Peugeot doesn’t have any studded stripes!
    I used two coats of Cult Nails Time Traveler for my base colour. One nail at a time, I added a coat of clear polish and placed the bullion using a toothpick with the end dipped in clear polish to make it sticky. I finished off with a coat of NYC In A New York Minute.

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    Stud Up! Day 2: Cut Me Up

    I did this mani three times before I was happy with it today! It started with the vertical line idea but that was boring and too similar to yesterday. Second time round I added some stripes but that wasn’t working for me so I decided on a split colour which works quite nicely.
    I used No7 Stand Back as the base colour. Using a striper brush, I painted on Cult Nails Time Traveler on one side of each nail. Then while those were still tacky, I added on the studs using a toothpick dipped in clear polish to make it tacky.

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    Spider-Man Nail Art Tutorial

    Today I have a tutorial for the Amazing Spider-man nail art I created a few weeks ago. You can see the original post here.
    This is the first tutorial I’ve made for a very long time! I normally procrastinate on them and then give up hope altogether because I’ve failed quite badly at making them in the past but I actually had a really good time making this one. I hope you enjoy it!
    Step by step instructions after the jump!

    You will need Red Blue and Silver polishes but you could also use black in place of the silver.

    I’m using Cult Nails Quench, Cult Nails Time Traveler and Barry M Silver Foil (which is currently on sale at asos.com!).

    I’m also using a small liner brush from eBay. Details here.

     
    1. Paint on your red base coat. 
    2. Use a nail art brush to paint on a blue tip with a scalloped edge. Aim for 4 or 5 ‘waves’.
    3. Using a nail art brush and silver polish, define the wavy line between the red and blue sections.
    4. Draw lines from your cuticle to the tip ensuring that they cross through the points of the wavy line. In the blue section, link these lines to make it look like a web.

    5. In the red section, draw a few more lines from your cuticle to the wavy silver line from step 3.

    6. Join up all the lines with more wavy web like lines, add your top coat and you’re all done!

    The accent finger is easy to create than it looks. I drew on the eyes first, then the webs using the same principle shown above and finished by outlining the eyes using black acrylic paint.

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    Valentine’s Nails Take Two

    I’m such a Valentine’s Day cynic. There’s no real reason this day has to exist but we all go along with it anyway. I won’t go in to it too much because you’ll all think I’m a crazy spinster! 
    I already posted a Valentine’s manicure but this one’s for you guys… I love every single one of you for reading this blog! Happy Valentine’s Day!

    The base colour is Cult Nails Quench. I used Sally Hansen Chrome Anemone for the lettering and the stamp from Bundle Monster plate BM02. The pink heart is Kriston 16 and I used Barry M Silver Foil for the accents.

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    ♪♫ How can somethin’ so Vicious look so pretty in pictures?

    I’ve been staring at the screen for a little while trying to think of something to say here today. I considered talking about this gorgeous colour from Cult Nails but you can see how gorgeous it is without me gabbling on about it, so I’ll think I’ll just leave it at that today!
    Cult Nails Vicious
    Mash Rhinestones 
    Top Coat of NYC In A New York Minute

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    Allons-y

    Here’s Time Traveller, one of my new colours from Cult Nails. I couldn’t believe that this perfect TARDIS blue polish would have that name by coincidence so I had to ask Maria, Cult Nails’ founder and owner, if it was in fact named for Doctor Who and it is which just makes me love it even more!

    Stamping Plate: Red Angel RA119
    Base Colour: Cult Nails Time Traveller
    Stamping Colour: Barry M Gold Foil
    Top Coat of NYC

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