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Nailvengers Assemble! New Year, New Technique

31st January 2014

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Happy Friday everyone!! I don’t think I’ve ever been this happy to see the weekend. It’s been such a hectic week that I feel like I could sleep right through to Monday morning.

I’m back today with another new project that I’m lucky enough to be a part of… Nailvengers Assemble! Myself and a few other British Nail Bloggers have gotten together to start a monthly challenge amongst ourselves and for January we’re going for New Year, New Technique which is fairly self-explanatory – pick something you’ve never tried before and do it!

The ladies that will be joining me on this quest are the amazing bloggers behind One Nail to Rule Them All, Lucy’s Stash, xAmeliax and Brit Nails. We all met at the Cosmo Blog Awards back in October and have been in touch ever since. As inspiration and creativity was drying up for us towards the end of last year, we decided we should start setting ourselves a monthly prompt and work as a group to motivate each other and get those creative juices flowing again!

For my New Technique, I’ve gone for Saran Wrap nails. It’s such a simple technique and you can achieve some amazing looks with it, yet I’ve never tried it before. I followed Amelia’s tutorial for this but with a pastel colour scheme and I really like the way they turned out. I couldn’t resist adding a bit of stamping over the top and a glitter accent too!

I used China Glaze Tart-y For the Party as my base colour. Then I got down to the saran wrap-ing with Collection Think Pink and China Glaze Fade Into Hue. Check out the tutorial on xAmeliax’s YouTube Channel.

The glitter on my middle finger is Sally Hansen Be-Jeweled and I stamped on the design from MoYou Fairytale Collection 02 plate using BK Matte White.

It’s all topped off with two coats of Glisten and Glow HK Girl.

Gradient, Stamping, Uncategorised

Purple Gradient Nail Art With Stamping

23rd January 2014

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My nails and cuticles are a bit worse for wear recently so I’ve been drowning them in cuticle oil and Nail Butter whenever I get the chance. They’re drink it up like there’s no tomorrow and I’m hoping they’ll be suitably quenched very soon. Today’s nail art is nothing you haven’t seen before but it’s a simple classic that will quite possibly always be my bread and butter!

Purple Gradient Nail Art with MoYou Stamping

I created the gradient using Revlon Cloudy and a very old Sally Hansen Lavender Colour. There’s a gradient tutorial here.

I topped a few fingers with China Glaze Fairy Dust.

The stamping is from MoYou Plate Tourist 07 and a couple of designs from the Fairytale collection but those plates don’t seem to be in stock at the moment. I used BK Matte White.

It’s all topped off with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top.

Freehand, Gradient, Uncategorised

Miley Cyrus Bangerz Inspired Nail Art

17th January 2014

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Say what you will about Miley Cyrus but the girl knows how to sell a few albums! I’ve always been a kind of fan of her music but I really like the new album, Bangerz. As soon as I saw the album cover with that gradient background, the thought occurred that it would make some great nail art. So when I was looking through my MoYou plates this week and found none other than Miley Cyrus’ face on one from the Rockstar collection, I knew it was meant to be!

For the gradient base I used W7 Baby Pink as the first colour, then created the gradient using China Glaze Fancy Pants. There’s a gradient nail tutorial here.

I stamped on Miley’s face from MoYou London Rockstar 07 Plate using W7 Black.

For the palm trees, I just used some black acrylic paint and freehanded them on with a nail art brush.

It’s all topped with two coats of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

The Nailasaurus: Miley Cyrus Bangerz Inspired Nail Art

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Ribbons In The Sky

4th January 2014

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In the holidays I went to see The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and it’s such a good film! Full of amazing cinematography and just a really pleasant way to waste a few hours. This nail art was inspired by the animations in the opening credits where here are ribbon-like swirls all over the place!

I mentioned in my 2013 round-up post that I wanted to focus a lot more on taking inspiration from my favourite things, just like I used to, and movies are one of those things. Now, every time I watch a movie I’m scrutinizing each shot for nail art inspiration so expect plenty more of these to come.

For this nail art, I used Barry M White as the base colour for the waves and painted on the waves using a flat brush to get the ‘flow’ right and then a liner brush to tidy up the edges.

The colours used for the blue ribbons are Barry M Guava, Barry M Dark Blue and Sally Hansen Gray by Gray

For the purple ones, I used Barry M Plum, A-England Guinevere and Glo Baby Glo Ultra Violet (from Primark circa. 2011!).

The glitter is 2 coats of an unnamed holographic polish from Claire’s over A-England Guinevere and the shell is from She Sells Seashells.

It’s all topped off with two coats of INM Out The Door.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty trailer

This is almost the shot that inspired the nail art. I don’t want to give too much away, but there was a lot more animation and colour to be fascinated by in the movie – go see it!

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Pink and Purple Gradient with a Sprinkling of Fairy Dust

19th December 2013

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Last week I was crazy excited about my incoming bottle of China Glaze Fairy Dust and now that I have it, I know it was completely justified! It’s everything I dreamed of! I’ve worn it a few times over a plain colour mani but I really think it looks best over nail art. I was so excited to try it over a gradient and I really don’t think I could have picked a better colour combo. The two shades I used are really awful polishes on their own – bad brushes and a watery formula – but those are always the ones that are perfect for gradients.

Pink and Purple Gradient Nail Art with a Sprinkling of Fairy Dust

I used Revlon Cloud as my base colour and created the gradient using W7 Baby Pink. Tutorial for that here!

I topped the gradient with one coat of China Glaze Fairy Dust and added some stamping from Bundle Monster Plate BM423 using BK Matt White.

The little unicorn is from She Sells Seashells but seems to be out of stock at the moment.

Finally it’s all topped off with a two coats of Glisten and Glow HK Girl with a few extra coats on the unicorn to seal it in.

Freehand, Holographic, Stamping, Swatch, Uncategorised

A-England Dancing With Nureyev Swatch

15th December 2013

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Press Sample

A-England has just released their Ballerina Collection. As always the shades are inspired by, and named-for a little piece of history. This time, it’s ballet history. There are four shades in this collection, each one a soft silver holographic with a tint of colour. The shade I have here is Dancing With Nureyev which has a blue tint. I used two coats for this swatch and you’ll also notice it works for stamping, even over the very dark plum base!

My base colour is A-England Dancing With Nureyev and added the ruffian style accents with Barry M Plum.

For the accent nail, I switched up the two colours using Barry M Plum as the base with Dancing With Nureyev to stamp on a slice of the pattern from MoYou plate Suki 08.

It’s all topped with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

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MoYou Fairytale Collection Nail Art

14th December 2013

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When I ordered my Fairy Dust, I popped a few extra polishes in the cart too. This purple beauty, China Glaze Cowgirl Up, was one of them. Multi-dimensional polishes like this don’t normally catch my eye unless they’re purple. It reminds me of my old favourite W7 Purple Paradise with an extra hint of fuschia and if you get up really close, you can see tiny blue specks in there too.

The purple base colour is two coats of China Glaze Cowgirl Up.

The stamped designs are from MoYou’s new Fairytale Collection on Plate 02. I used NYC Power of Elements to stamp the design.

The glitter accent is two coats of Cirque Queen Majesty over one of Cowgirl Up.

It’s all topped off with one coat of Glisten and Glow HK Girl (which, by the way, is currently on sale for $4.50!).