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    No Animals Were Harmed in the Making of This Post

    15th August 2011
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    This amazing snakeskin look is Kari‘s brainchild. When she posted it a few months back it quickly spread all over the blogsphere and I fully intended to do it myself but never got round to it.

    I was looking through my stamping plates, trying to decide on a design for today’s manicure and I decided that I wanted to use a plate I hadn’t used before. I still have a few of the 25pc Bundle Monster plates that still have the blue plastic covering on so it had to be one of those. I spotted this plate in the pile with it’s shiny blue protective layer still attached and Kari’s snakeskin idea came flooding back to me!

    Plate: Bundle Monster BM215
    Base Colour: Barry M – Berry Ice Cream
    Stamp Colour: BYS – Glittering Purple and La Femme – Grey Cream
    Top Coat of NYC

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    My Nails Are My Canvas

    12th August 2011
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    I’ve started using acrylic paint in my freehand nail art recently. It has it’s advantages and disadvantages over nail polish so I just thought I’d share my thoughts for any of you that are curious about acrylic paint and using it on your nails.
    Why it’s better than nail polish
    ♥ It’s more pigmented. There’s no need to go over and over the same spot if 
    ♥ It doesn’t dry out as quickly as polish. I blob out my colours on to a sheet of clear plastic, my ‘palette’ if you will, and when I use polish I’m constantly having to put out out new blobs of polish as it dries up. One blob of acrylic paint will last the whole manicure without drying up. 
    Why it’s worse than nail polish
    ♥ It’s hard to work with at first because it’s a different consistency to nail polish, so it just feels a bit alien. The best way to describe the difference is that it’s less forgiving than polish. You have to be much more careful with the brush. After a few goes, you get used to this though.
    ♥ It takes a bit more work to remove, but will come off with your regular polish remover.
    I really like using acrylic paint and I’ll continue to use it since I think the pros far outweigh the cons. If you’re on the fence about trying it yourself, I say go for it, but find it cheap somewhere. I paid 99p per bottle in Ryman stationers.
    Models Own Purple Grey
    White Acrylic PaintFreehan
    The line design is by Wah Nails and it’s called ‘Basket Case’
    The accent finger is my attempt at the pop art work, Crying Girl, by Roy Lichtenstein. It’s not my best work but from a distance it looks alright, so I left it on!

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    Payday. Payday. Gotta get down on Payday.

    11th August 2011
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    Tomorrow will be my first payday for almost two years so I’m super excited! While I was in Uni I was lucky enough that I didn’t need a job (just to be clear, I wasn’t sucking on a silver spoon the whole time, I was just very scrupulous when it came to spending the money that I did have!).
    My eBay watch list has tripled in size this evening and I have a post-it stuck to the wall in front of me with a list of stuff I want to buy! The first thing on that list is the Babyliss Big Hair styler which I have been drooling over for months. If anyone’s tried it I’d be very interested to hear what you think of it.

    Konad Plate: Bundle Monster BM212
    Base Colour: NYC – Prince Street
    Konad Colour: Collection 2000 – Moonlight Shine
    GOSH – Metallic Purple for the dots
    Top Coat of NYC

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    Try My Two Tone

    22nd July 2011
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    This mani, like yesterday’s, came about when I just got too carried away trying to add a dash of whatever came to mind!
    I knew I wanted to use scotch tape and a stamp design so I did the base colour and stamp and left it overnight to dry and to give me time to decide what to do. ‘Blue’ I thought, but when the blue was on it just looked too clunky so I thought I’d set myself the challenge of trying to line up the stamps to get a two-tone effect on my nails. Turns out I needn’t have bothered because the pattern is irregular so you wouldn’t even notice if it wasn’t matched. I think I’ll set myself the mission of trying it with a more uniform pattern to see if I can get it to match up.

    Konad Plate: M57
    Base Colour: Barbara Daly – Purplicious
    Konad Colour: GOSH – Metallic Purple
    Top Coat of NYC
    To create the two tone look, I sectioned off the top part of my nail with scotch tape and painted on Barry M Cyan Blue. I removed this tape straight away and let the blue dry. Then I lined up more strips of tape with the blue polish and stamped over it with GOSH Metallic blue, attempting to line up the patterns and added another top coat.

    How do you guys feel about me using larger pictures in my blog posts? All the pictures I post are click through’s anyway so you can see a bigger version if the mood takes you, but I thought I would go bigger on the main page. Do you like it or do they just take up too much space?

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    My Kind of Cool Aid

    23rd June 2011
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    My Cult Nails order arrived last week and I had to go and pick it up from the sorting office because there was a £13 customs charge to be paid. If you’re in the UK and are thinking of purchasing polish from a country outside the EU, consider yourself warned about these charges. I was hesitant to buy these polishes in the first place because it’s quite unusual (actually, unheard of) for me to spend so much on polish and in the end they worked out at £9.50 each which makes me cringe every time I think about it!
    Wow, way to start on a bum-note but don’t get me wrong, I am really, really happy that I decided to bite the bullet and buy these. I went for My Kind of Cool Aid and Iconic from the ‘Inaugural’ Collection and Let Me Fly and Cruisin’ Nude from the ‘A Day At The Races’ Collection. Every single polish applies like a dream and is perfect in two coats.

    Konad Plate: Born Pretty M76
    Base Colour: Cult Nails – My Kind of Cool Aid
    Konad Colour: BYS – Glittering Purple
    Top Coat of NYC
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    Purple or Purple?

    21st June 2011
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    I’m going to see Jimmy Eat World tonight! It’s very exciting, I just wish I knew more of their songs, haha! I was going to sell my ticket but since Blink 182 have postponed their tour I decided to go to this show because otherwise, I won’t have been to a single one this year 🙁
    Plate: Bundle Monster BM201
    Base Colour: BYS La Di Da
    Stamp Colour: BYS Glittering Purple
    Top Coat of NYC
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    Models Own Utopia and Purple Smash Up

    15th June 2011
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    It’s Pink Wednesday and after a few weeks since my last PW post I’m back with a brand new polish to show you!
    I don’t have very many light colours in my stash at all, and even fewer are pastel shades. I decided to pick up this colour from Models Own since the summer is coming and I want to wear some brighter, more jolly colours on my nails! I wasn’t sure if I would like it but I really do and I’ve worn it quite a few times since I bought it.
    The formula isn’t great on this polish which I can only describe as pasty. There was a lot of dragging and splotchiness but it’s such a pretty colour that I can put up with its pitfalls.
    3 coats of Models Own Utopia
    Top Coat of NYC
    While I was in Boots I noticed a lone bottle of Purple Smash Up on the shelf so of course I grabbed it straight away. I was really surprised to see it as I didn’t know the colour ones were released yet, let alone that you could buy them in store – I thought you’d only be able to get them online – so I think I was just in the right time at the right place but I’m still puzzled as to why it was there because this was at least a week ago and as far as I’m aware, they only launched online five days ago.
    I think the Models Own Smash Up polishes are the first decent crackles that are readily available here in the UK, especially now that there are quite a few colours to choose from with more on the way. The Barry M Nail Effects just don’t do it for me because the colours are so boring and basic.
    3 coats of Models Own Utopia and NYC top coat
    Coat of Models Own Purple Smash Up
    2 top coats of NYC
    If you enlarge the picture, you’ll see that this polish is metallic. There are tiny pieces of blue, purple and even pink glitter.

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