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    Models Own Artistix Duos Review

    21st May 2013
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    Models Own recently released a range of funky polish duos. Each duo is a pretty combination of one colour polish and one glitter from their extensive line of polishes. I love wearing glitter toppers on my nails and I don’t know about you guys, but to this day I’ve never made it to the bottom of a bottle of glitter! Has anyone?! These sounded like an ideal solution – a little colour and a little glitter for almost the same price as one regular bottle of polish. (These RRP at £6 each and the regular bottles are £5). Win win!
    The duos come in double ended bottles with the brushes sticking outwards from the middle. Now I know what you’re thinking… at first I had doubts about how easy these brushes would be to manoeuvre too but they’re surprisingly easy to use and I didn’t have any problem with application. Now on to the fun part… swatches!

    Blibble – Bubblegum x Blizzard
    Blibble is a very ‘loud’ combo, perfect for summer holidays. The base colour is Bubblegum, a bright fluorescent pink and it applied well in two coats. My camera didn’t do a very good job of capturing how bright it really is. I used one coat of Blizzard on top and coat of Sally Hansen Dries Instantly to finish it off.

    Jade Flakes – Jade Stone x Snowflakes
    I love the base colour in this one but I was disappointed with the topper. Snowflakes is very thick and gooey so I found it hard to manage and there wasn’t much glitter payoff for all my troubles. I used two coats of Snowflake and you can see it’s still very sparse. It is a lovely looking combination but with all those coats it took way too long to dry thanks the gooey base in Snowflakes.
    Jade Stone is a Models Own shade that I’ve had my eye on for a while and it’s as brilliant as I’d hoped. Perfect application in two coats!

    Pink Stuff – Pastel Pink x Hot Stuff
    This is my pick of the three and I don’t have much to say about it other than it’s great! I love the hand cut glitter in Hot Stuff which is from the mirrorball collection. I used 3 thin coats of Pastel Pink with one coat of Hot Stuff plus a top coat of Sally Hansen Dries Instantly.

    Models Own Artistix Duos are £6 each and available in Boots stores nationwide and from modelsownit.com.

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    I Like My Candy Mattified

    16th May 2013
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    I like it when my nails look tasty! Thanks to that super bright pink, my nails are looking sugary sweet today and the matte top coat is just a perfect addition. I got this effect using striping tape and although it would figure that it took a long time because it took a hell of a lot of tape, it was actually a lot quicker than some of my more intricate tape manis. I think because once I’d done one nail, all I had to do was repeat it on all the others and I had a good rhythm going by the end!

    I used two coats of Barry M Lychee as my base colour and topped it with a coat of Sally Hansen Dries Instantly. Once it was all dry, I placed on some striping tape where I wanted Lychee to show through (tutorial here). Next, I painted over it with Models Own Bubblegum and Barry M Mango one nail at a time and immediately removed the tape.
    I topped it with another coat of Dries Instantly and finally once it was all dry, I added one coat of Rimmel’s Matte top coat.

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    Flowers and Pinstripe

    21st April 2013
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    Every now and then, one of those special manis comes along. The ones you absolutely love and never want to take off. This is one of those! I wore it for very close to 48 hours which is probably the longest I’ve kept anything on my nails all year.

    The green polish is NYC Mint Macaroon although I’d say it’s closer to Jade green than mint, stuck somewhere in between.
    For the pinstripe nails, I started with a coat of Born Pretty Matt White then used the striping tape method to create the thin stripes (tutorial here).
    I freehanded the roses with a nail art brush using Models Own Utopia, NYC Moma and a hint of the Born Pretty White. The leaves are NYC High Line Green.
    The glitter on my ring finger is Sonnetarium Snowfall.

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    31DC2012: Violet Nails

    20th October 2012
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    If you couldn’t tell I’m totally obsessed with skittle manis at the moment. We’re on the last day of ‘plain colour’ challenges today so the frequency of skittles will probably decrease severely over the next couple of challenge days as it’s just a nice way to spice up a plain colour.
    For today’s nails I used two coats of Models Own Purple Grey as a base. This is where it gets complicated! On my forefinger, I added two coats of Sinful Colors Daddy’s Girl. On my ring finger I stamped the fishnet design from Bundle Monster Plate BM209 with Barry M Lilac Foil and on every other finger, I used two coats of JENsations Fantasy. Phew!
    I’m very excited to see Cris and Rie’s manicures today. I do love me some purple nails!

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    NY Fashionail Week Day 2: The Blonds

    18th September 2012
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    Today’s fashion week inspired nail art comes from The Blonds show and was created by CND’s Kristina Estabrooks which you can see here. The theme on the catwalk was ‘Psycho Beach Party’ and there were a few nail looks but this one, Shark Bites, is my favourite of the bunch!

    I used W7 Black as my base colour and Models Own Utopia for the ‘bites’ which I applied with a striping brush. I finished it off with two coats of Essence Better Than Gel.

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    The Poor Woman’s Velvet Manicure

    26th August 2012
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    We probably all remember Ciate’s last great invention, the Caviar Manicure and Imma try really hard not to bang on about those emails and that drama. Well they’re back again with the Velvet Manicure and I’m sure we’re all familiar with Ciate’s MO of taking something that has been done before, packaging it in a pretty bottle with a bow on top and selling it at 9250% the price of the exact same thing bought elsewhere. I actually did the maths on that one! So you won’t be shocked to hear that you can get the Velvet look for a teeny fraction of the price at home.

    In all fairness, I watched Ciate’s Velvet Nails tutorial video and it does look like their product is finer and more like a powder than the Flock I bought from Goldleaf Craft Supplies on eBay, but I doubt that anyone will be looking close enough to tell.

    I used Models Own Purple Grey as a base colour. For the accent nail, I painted on my second coat of colour and let it dry a little before pressing the Flock on with my fingers. I didn’t get great coverage around the edges and I think that’s because I let it dry for too long so there wasn’t enough wet polish there for the Flock to stick to. I used a Fan Brush to swipe away all the excess, although as you can see, I missed a few bits!

    This is Burgundy Flock from Goldleaf Craft Supplies on eBay and it cost me £2.89 including shipping for 75ml/10g.

    And here are the maths behind my 9250% claim. It is based on my best guess at how much Velvet comes in the kit as I couldn’t find that information anywhere on the internet! I hope it’s clear enough but to sum up, if you were to purchase 75ml of flock (that I paid £2.89 for) at Ciate price, you’d pay £49.95 for it. Ouch.
    *£9.00 is half the full price of the Velvet Manicure kit. 13.5ml is the capacity of a Ciate Bottle, I do not know exactly how much Velvet comes in the kit.

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    Nineteen With Nail Tatz

    19th February 2012
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    Since I created this nail set, I’ve been desperate to try something similar on my own nails but I was very doubtful about whether I’d be able to paint such intricate details using my left hand. And omg I actually did it. By no means am I ambidextrous but wow, I completely surprised myself. 
    I’ll definitely be doing this kind of thing again with different words and colours. It’s such a cool twist on knuckle tatz without the whole lifelong commitment thing!

    The base colour is Models Own Utopia
    I used black acrylic paint for all the detail with a nail art brush.
    On the thumbs I used W7 Cosmic Mauve (glitter) on the tips.
    All coated with a few top coats of NYC.

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