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    Breast Cancer Awareness Nail Art

    7th October 2012
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    October is Breast Cancer Awareness month which means PINK!
    I won’t waffle on the subject because I’m really not an expert so you should head over to the Breast Cancer Care website to educate yourself at your leisure.

    BYS Pretty as a Peach, Rimmel Urban Princess and Kriston No16 acted as my base colours for this mani and I used them for stamping as well as Miss Sporty Zodiac. The pattern is from Bundle Monster Plate BM321 and the glequins came from Born Pretty Store. I finished it all off with a few coats of Essence Better Than Gel Nails.

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    Winter is Coming

    3rd October 2012
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    I had an exciting evening last night which is which meant I didn’t sit down in front of a computer all evening, which NEVER happens! I finally got myself a new phone, the Samsung Galaxy SIII, which made me realise how ancient my previous model, the Nokia 5800, really is. I also picked up a Helmer so I can claim back a lot of surface space in my room that’s been lost to bottles of nail polish! I haven’t had a chance to assemble it yet but I’m sure that will be another highlight to the week. I’m not even being sarcastic right there, I genuinely love me a bit of flat pack furniture!
    Winter is most definitely coming. This week I really started noticing it when I have to force myself out of bed in the mornings. Stepping out of a hot shower in to a cold room is one of my least favourite feelings ever! I used to look forward to the winter but this year was the first time I ever really enjoyed the summer weather and I’m going to miss it.

    My base colour is GOSH Pool Party and I used GOSH Metallic Blue to stamp on a snowflake design from Bundle Monster Plate BM323. I added some holographic glequins from Born Pretty Store to add an extra icy feel and finished it off with a top coat of No7 Stay Perfect. 

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    Glequin Video Tutorial!

    18th August 2012
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    Sorry that you’ve had to pester and pester me for this. I always say it, but I’m such a slacker when it comes to making tutorials. This is by far my favourite tutorial that I’ve made. Editing was minimal and I managed to get most of the shots I needed first time round without any camera or other equipment disasters. I think tutorial making is, like almost everything, one of those instances where practice makes perfect. I’m learning from my mistakes and my videos are getting better for it.

    Hopefully this will answer any questions you might have had about how I apply glequins. Here is a link to the Glitters on Born Pretty Store and don’t forget you’ll get 10% off your order with my code, SA5X31.

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    Gradient, Stamping, Studs, Uncategorised

    Show Off

    16th August 2012
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    These are the nails I will be wearing to The Nails Show on Saturday, provided they haven’t chipped/fallen off/been picked off by then because I might not get a chance to redo them before the event. Although it’s not like I’m gonna be short of nail supplies where I’m going!
    I know that lots of you are going to the event and I can’t wait to meet you if you are gonna be there! I’m not exhibitioning in case some of you thought that’s why I was going. I’m just gonna be a regular Joe strolling around so if you see me, come say hi! I’ll try to wear something distinctive and I’ll tweet what I look like so I’m kinda easy to spot!

    I wanted to do some of my designs that people have responded to best and that really marked milestones in this blog I’m kind of best known for; my studded nail, the gradient and now glequin honeycomb.

    The base colour is A-England Galahad and I used Barry M Gold Foil for the gradient and stamping (Bundle Monster BM322).
    My thumb is a ‘Nebula Nail’ and the extra polishes are Barry M White, Nail Pop Glamrock, A-England Saint George and NYC Starry Silver Glitter.

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    Holiday Nails: Frankencherry

    6th August 2012
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    These are the nails that I’m wearing as I depart for my holiday. No doubt, they’ll be off in a few days as the pick factor sets in but I’m taking a few nail supplies with me so I won’t be naked nailed! I have a few posts scheduled for the week, including one I’m very excited about tomorrow, so you probably won’t even notice I’m gone!
    I reorganised my polish collection on the weekend as it had started to spread throughout the room and I wanted to get it all in one place! 28 bottles ended up in the recycling pile. They were either ones that I’d never used, would never use again or nearly empties. The lovely Wendy on Twitter suggested that I mix a few together to create new colours a.k.a Frankens – new polishes made up of the leftovers of others!
    This ‘Frankencherry’ is one of the outcomes. I couldn’t tell you what colours are in here, I just know that the resulting ‘cherry with a subtle shimmer’ is absolutely ace!

    I used Frankencherry as a base and added some glequins whilst it was still tacky using a toothpick dipped in clear polish to make it tacky.
    Finally, I added two coats of Cult Nails Wicked Fast to seal it all in and hopefully make those glequins stay on for a few days at least!

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    Why Are You Copying Yourself?

    4th August 2012
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    It’s true. I’ve completely plagiarised myself. This mani is very nearly an exact copy of one that I did just 3 weeks ago. What can I say? I love black and I love glequins and I just got dayum love this style of manicure!!

    I didn’t use a base colour, just a base coat of OPI Nail Envy. I used a W7 Black and a striping brush to create the chevrons at the base of my nail, then filled in the rest of the space using the brush straight from the bottle.
    To make the glequins stick, I painted on a coat of clear polish and attached them while it was still tacky using a toothpick dipped in said clear polish to make it tacky.
    Finally, I added a few top coats and it was all good to go!

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    Mernails

    24th July 2012
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    My obsession with glequins is still going strong! But as you know by now, I have to return to stamping every now and then because that’s where this whole nail art/blog thing started. So I just picked a stamp – one of my all time favourites from the 2011 BM set – and figured out after where I could put the glequins on!

    Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster BM209
    Base Colour: Barbara Daly Purplicious
    Stamping Colour: Barry M Lilac Foil
    Holographic Glequins from Born Pretty Store
    Top Coat of Cult Nails Wicked Fast

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