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Gradient Nails Part Trois

4th May 2012

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It’s just a quick one tonight as it’s already past 1am and I’m hella sleepy!

I hope you’re not sick of the gradients yet, I’m certainly not and I’m having a great time trying it out with different colour combinations. So far I’ve tried Pink and Girly, Bright and Fruity and today is Soft and Neutral. I think it’s my favourite combo so far!

I used E.L.F Desert Haze as a base and then NYC Lexington Yellow following this tutorial. The top coat I used to glaze it is so thick, it’s practically a solid so it’s bubbled like crazy but the bubbles are not at all noticeable in real life unless you look very, very closely!

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Glitter, Stamping, Uncategorised

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
Top Coat of NYC

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Cat Got Creamed

4th June 2011

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Does anyone remember the bottle of Manhattan 610k polish that’s on a tour of the world? It visited me here in the UK last October (post here) and is currently at its 9th stop in Illinois, US with Melanie.
If you are interested in playing host to this polish and being part of the adventure, visit Melanie’s post here to put your name down. You do need a blog where you can post your mani but that’s the the only requirement.

Todays nails were heavily, okay wholly, inspired by Marta’s recent post over at Chit Chat Nails which you can see here.

Plate: Bundle Monster BM221

Base Colour: E.L.F. Desert Haze

Stamp Colour: L’Oreal LaquiResist Black Bean

BYS Astro Gold for the spots

Top Coat of NYC

Galaxy, Uncategorised

Nebula Nails

18th February 2011

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Here is my attempt at creating some of those ‘Galaxy Nails’ that have been floating around a lot recently. I first saw one of these designs months and months ago but I thought it would be too hard so I didn’t even attempt to create it myself. Boy, was I wrong! Considering how pretty this look is, it’s some of the easiest nail art I’ve ever done and I think it’s absolutely fool proof. I was worried it wouldn’t turn out very well, but I don’t think this look could turn out badly even if you tried to mess it up! That’s the beauty of it.

All you need is a selection of cosmic colours and some textured paper tissue (i.e. kitchen roll) and I’d recommend using at least one holographic polish in the mix. Paint on your base colour and just start dabbing the colours on in patchy, thin layers.

Asami has a great video tutorial of the method.

This was the colour inspiration for my version.

The polishes I used (in this order) are:

NYC Glossies – 243B

E.L.F – Party Purple

BYS – Glittering Purple

GOSH – Holographic

E.L.F – Twinkle

Collection 2000 Maxiflex – Moonlight Shine (dotted on for the stars)

And of course, a Top Coat of NYC (not pictured)

Has anyone done their own galaxy nails? Please leave a link to your mani in the comments, I love looking at them!

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Simple Ruffian

26th January 2011

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This one’s a bit messy. I’m terrible at doing tips or ruffian in any capacity let alone attempting to get the tiny little stripes matte so it went all lumpy and bumpy but I quite like it, I’m going to attempt at again in the future. After all, practice makes perfect.

The base colour is Barry M Cyan Blue with one coat of BYS Tinkerbell to get the shimmer, then a top coat of NYC.

The dark blue is No7 Betty Blues and I used E.L.F Matte finisher to matte out the ruffian strips.

Stamping, Uncategorised

Out of Spice

5th January 2011

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Sorry about the lack of variety over the last few weeks. I migrated home over the Christmas holidays and could only bring a limited amount of kit with me. I’ve only got 35 polishes with me – that’s actually a lot now I’ve counted but when I look at them in the drawer it looks like nothing! – and only 2 of them are any good for stamping so my manis have been a bit samey.

It also occurred to me that many of you may not be aware of the Bundle Monster plates so I’ve put a link there underneath the picture for you to check out the Amazon listing. If you want to get into stamping but don’t want to splash out big bucks on the Konad plates, the BM’s are great. You just need to make sure you get a stamp and scraper (or you can use a credit card to scrape like I do) from somewhere.

Plate: Bundle Monster – BM21

Base Colour: E.L.F – Purple Pleaser

Stamp Colour: Collection 2000 – Moonlight Shine

Top Coat of NYC

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E.L.F Party Purple

30th December 2010

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This is another of my Christmas prezzy polishes. It’s a great colour but it needed 3 coats to be completely opaque. You can’t really see the silver glitter as well when it’s on the nail.

Konad Plate: M35

Base Colour: E.L.F – Party Purple

Konad Colour: Collection 2000 – Moonlight Shine

Top Coat of NYC