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    Day 15: Delicate Print

    24th October 2011
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    Here we are at the halfway point and I’m still loving the challenge!

    A friend of mine visited Canada this month and I asked her to pick me up a bottle of Sally Hansen Whirlwind White. Since I saw it on Marta’s blog here, I’ve had a lemming for it and Marta reminded me to ask my friend to grab me a bottle. So now I finally have a really, really good white stamping polish and it really is a weight off my shoulders!

    Don’t forget to check out Cristina and Rie‘s challenges too!

    No7 Lucky Lilac
    Konad Plate M71
    Sally Hansen Whirlwind White

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    Day 13: Animal Print

    22nd October 2011
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    Who doesn’t love a good animal print nail huh? This combination of colour and stamping is the one I used to wear the most before I started blogging, but it’s been a long time since I wore it. I was going to try something more adventurous today, like freehanding a leopard print, but laziness took over and I pulled out my stamping plates!
    If you’re craving more animal print manis, check out Cristina and Rie‘s Day 13 challenges too!
    BYS Astro Gold
    W7 Black for the stamp
    Konad Plate M57
    Top Coat of NYC



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    Day 7: Black and White Nails

    16th October 2011
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    I toyed with a few ideas for today’s nails before deciding to play it safe and go with Zebra print. It’s been so long since I wore this pattern and colour combination (I normally go for the tiger colour combination) and I forgot how amazing it is. It’s definitely not a subtle look, but I think I pull it off okay!
    Don’t forget to check out Cristina and Rie‘s nails today for some more crazy black and white designs.
    I used an unnamed Collection 2000 White then stamped with W7 Black and Konad Plate M57.

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    Vampy Half-Moon manicure… but not as you know it

    8th October 2011
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    A few days ago, an idea struck for a half moon manicure but I couldn’t find the stickers I use for them anywhere. I spent more than an hour searching my room top to bottom for the dastardly things to no avail!

    I found myself in an ‘odds and ends’ kind of shop yesterday and remembered just as I was leaving that I needed some of these and I found a packet of about 500 stickers for 60p. Such a bargain!

    The stickers in question are THESE hole reinforcers. I cut them in half and used them to mark off the half moon shape at the base of my nail but instead of painting a new colour over the top, I used a stamp.

    Konad Plate: M64
    Base Colour: W7 – Black Cherry
    Konad Colour: Collection 2000 – Moonlight Shine
    Top Coat of NYC

    On Monday, Cris @ Let Them Have Polish, Rie @ Nails and Noms and I will be starting the 31 Day Challenge (click here for details). We decided to do it together so that we won’t be tempted to stray from the strict ‘post every day’ rule! I think it will be fun but also challenging to go back to posting daily after relaxing my blogging schedule since the new year. I can’t wait to start and I’m hopefully my enthusiasm won’t dwindle too quickly!


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    GOSH Metallic Purple with Konad M60

    29th September 2011
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    This idea looked much nicer in my head. It’s not that I don’t like this mani, I just thought it would come out a bit more striking. I think I had a more ‘open’ pattern in mind but I couldn’t find one in my pile of stamping plates or come up with a freehand one in my brain.

    Konad Plate: M60
    Base Colour: Rimmel – Black Satin
    Konad Colour: GOSH Metallic Purple
    Black rinestones from eBay
    Top Coat of NYC

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    Flowers in the Window

    3rd August 2011
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    I was ready for work an hour early today. Not on purpose, I just got my times muddled up but luckily I caught a glimpse of the clock just as I was walking out the front door! So I thought I would slip in a quick post before I leave.
    This pink has been in my collection since before I even started blogging and is nearly all used up. I have to really work to scrape the polish out of the bottom of the bottle but it’s totally worth it to get this classy pink on my nails. If more pinks were like this, I would probably wear the colour more often but the only ones I ever see seem to be too bright or glittery or metallic for my taste.

    Konad Plates: M35, M54, Born Pretty M76
    Base Colour: No7 – Foxglove
    Konad Colour: Miss Sporty – Zodiac
    Top Coat of NYC

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