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Happy New Year Nails!

31st December 2012

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I know it’s not really the New Year yet but I wanted to get this post up a bit early because I know most of you will be busy tonight (winky wink) and you might even be looking for some New Year nail ideas!

These are the nails I plan to be wearing come the stroke of midnight but if I’m honest with myself, there’s no way they’re going to last that long! I’m sure I’ll end up peeling them off and slathering my nails in glitter polish before the evening.

I guess now would be a good moment to look back and reflect on this year. In all honesty, it wasn’t really a big one for me. Aside from getting my first proper job, not a lot has happened in my life! My year was good, just not great compared to some of my other years! I really want to hear how you guys feel about 2012 so please let me know some of your highlights in the comments. Hopefully you can inspire me to make the most of the next 365 days.

Here’s to 2013. May it be awesome for everyone!

I used 2 coats of A-England Dorian Gray as my base colour. One nail at a time, I painted on a coat of clear polish and placed on the glequins one by one in number formation (video tutorial here). Finally, I topped it all with two coats of NYC In A New York Minute.

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Christmas Nail Mashup!

22nd December 2012

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Another December day, another Christmas manicure! As you all predicted I couldn’t keep my nails away from the festivities for too long. These are the nails I did for the Christmas ‘Do’ at work. I think the phrase ‘Christmas Do’ is a very British thing. In the US, you’d just call it a Christmas Party right? Or do you have another name for it?

My base colour is Barry M White. For the candy cane nails, I used one coat of Seche Vite before marking off striped sections with thin cuts of scotch tape and painted on Rimmel Heart on Fire. While that was still wet I peeled off the scotch tape and, once dry, used a nail art brush to paint Barry M Red Glitter over the stripes.

The Rudolph nail is one from last year. I used Essie Glamour Purse as the base colour, Rimmel Desire for the lines and Barry M Red Glitter again for the nose.
Finally, the Christmas Tree which was inspired by a Wacky Laki manicure was created using glequins from Born Pretty Store (tutorial here).
I topped it all off with two coats of Seche Vite to smooth it over.

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Snippet: Deborah Lippmann Fashion

7th November 2012

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Just a quick one tonight because I really wanted to share this but I don’t have a lot of time to write much. This is the third day in a row you’ve seen this Deborah Lippmann here and the 5th day in a row I’ve worn it on my nails. I guess I kinda like it. LOL, JK I ACTUALLY LOVE IT!

I used 2 coats of Deborah Lippmann Fashion* as a base and attached the Gold Holographic glequins while the third coat was still tacky.

I used two coats of Seche Vite to make it super smooth and shiny.

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31DC2012: Day 11 Polka Dots

28th October 2012

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Today’s gonna be a quick one, I’ll just run through the polishes I used and let you get on with your day!

For most of my nails, I used NYC Water Street Blue and used a dotting tool to create the polka dots with Barry M Blueberry. My accent nail uses Blueberry as a base colour and glequins from Born Pretty Store. I used two top coats of Seche Vite to finish up.

Want to see more doticures? Go see what Cris and Rie came up with today!

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31DC2012: Day 9 Rainbow Nails

25th October 2012

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When you think rainbow, you think bright, happy, colorful right? WRONG! Today’s ‘rainbow’ mani is kind of dreary but I think that’s just the way I was feeling when it came to painting this mani. Also, my rainbow is upside down… not the sign of quality craftsmanship and attention to detail but hey ho, here we are anyway!

Don’t forget to see what rainbow manicures Rie and Cris created today!

I used Sally Hansen Ion* as my base colour, which is my new very favourite greige, and attached the glequins while the second coat was still wet on the middle finger.

I finished it all off with two coats of Seche Vite.

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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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31DC2012: Day 3 Yellow Nails

14th October 2012

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Yellow isn’t one of those colours I just have lying around. I have a grand total of two yellow nail polishes in the drawer, up one whole bottle on last year.

I’m being kinda harsh, I actually really like this shade from NYC which is called Lexington Yellow. So much so that I’ve nearly used up the bottle and will definitely be repurchasing it. It’s not an In Your Face neon yellow, it’s just subtle enough to pass for a pastel and when you add some nail art it becomes positively pretty.

I wonder if Cris and Rie have a better collection of yellows than I do!

I used two coats of NYC Lexington Yellow as my base. I added some glequins on my ring finger and two coats of Ozotic 530 on the index. I topped it off with two coats of Sally Hansen Advanced Hard as Nails.

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