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    12 Days of Christmas Nails: Day 5… This Old Thing

    10th December 2011
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    Today’s Christmas nails are inspired by the always favourite tacky Christmas jumper! Enjoy!

    I used Barry M Raspberry as my base colour then shuffled through all my plates to find some Christmassy designs and settled on Bundle Monster plates BM205 and BM14 stamped with Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Whirlwind White. 
    I used white acrylic paint for the little details and also to colour in a few of the stamped designs to make them ‘pop’!

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    Day 20: Water Marbled

    29th October 2011
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    If I could take one sick day from the 31 Day Challenge, it would be today! The mani you see here is my third attempt at a decent water marble. By the time I finished I was suffocating under the sheer amount of marbling fail. Never again, guys, never again!

    In hindsight, my experience with water marbling was not that bad, but at the time all I wanted to do was scrub this off my nails as soon as the pictures were taken. It looks kind of nice, but for the hours, sweat and tears it stole from me I probably won’t be doing it again any time soon!

    Head over to Rie and Cristina‘s blogs to see if they had better luck than me with their water marbling!

    Base colour: BYS Lilac Bliss
    Marble colours: La Femme Grey Cream, Nails Inc Victoria, George Scarlet Kiss

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    Day 16: Tribal Print

    25th October 2011
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    I’ve been dreading this day for a while. I love tribal nail art but had no idea how to come up with a decent design myself, however, once I forced myself to sit down and actually do it, the ideas just kept coming and I am completely in love with this design!

    The black detail is all created with acrylic paint which has allowed me to get the crisp lines that I know I couldn’t have achieved by using black nail polish. At the moment I only have black and white acrylic paint but I think I’m going to have to look out for some more cheap pots in a better range of colours.

    You should go and see what Rie and Cristina came up with today too!

    Base colour: MUA Shade 23
    Black acrylic paint
    Barry M Cyan Blue
    Barry M Limited Edition Red for Buzz
    Top Coat of NYC

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    Day 9: Rainbow Nails

    18th October 2011
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    Today was a tricky one! Say the words ‘rainbow nails’ to me and my mind starts running wild! I was thinking stamping, dotting and striping all in one mani I decided reign in all that jazz and take the simple chic approach with rainbow stripes which I am absolutely over the moon with. Think ‘Sammy and the Amazing Technicolor Manicure’!

    Don’t forget to peek at Cristina and Rie‘s rainbow creations today!

    Polishes used
    All on a white base coat
    La Femme – Red Cherry
    Miss Sporty – 323
    George – Buttercup Shine
    Collection 2000 – Spangles
    Barry M – Cyan Blue
    Barbara Daly – Purplicious

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    Day 1: Red Nails

    10th October 2011
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    Welcome to my attempt at the 31 Day Challenge – a set list of 31 nail designs that I must complete and post here daily for the next month! Cristina from Let Them Have Polish, Rie from Nails and Noms and I are all starting the challenge today in the hope that we will be able to egg each other on and offer one another the encouragement I’m sure we’ll need at some point to post every single day for the whole month!
    To see full details of the challenge, just click here to see the list of 31 Days worth of nail designs. I’ll also be keeping a check-list in the sidebar so you can see which challenges I’ve completed and which are still to come.
    Day 1 is Red Nails so I had to wear my go-to red… Barry M Raspberry. It has a slight berry hint to it as you could guess from the name but still holds its own as a sophisticated, classic red.

    Don’t forget to check out Cristina and Rie‘s take on today’s challenge too!
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    Internet > Chocolate

    21st August 2011
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    I have such a short attention span! I’ve been sat here since about 9pm with these photos open in Photoshop, getting them blog-ready and I’ve been distracted at least 4356 times. It’s now just after 1am and I have managed to focus long enough to upload them and write this post!
    When I sit down in front of a computer, I go in to a complete trance and until I snap out of it don’t realise that I’ve just spent 4 hours of my day watching The Shaytards and amusing myself with every single #Parks and Recreation post on tumblr. If I have one addiction in life, it’s the internet.

    Plates: Bundle Monster BM201, BM224 and BM211
    Base Colour: W7 Black Cherry
    Stamp Colour: Collection 2000 Moonlight Shine
    GOSH Metallic Purple
    Top Coat of NYC

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    Week of Geek Day 2: Gotta Catch Em’ All (Pokeball Nails)

    4th July 2011
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    Today’s geeky nails are Pokeballs! I have to stress that this is not my original idea, I saw these somewhere on the internet but it wasn’t on a blog. If anyone knows the origin of this design, please drop a link so I can credit the person that thought up this amazing piece of nail art. I like giving credit where credit’s due and I think there is definitely some deserved here!

    I used:
    George – Natural White, NYC Nail Glossies – 223, W7 – Black, Stargazer – White. Also scotch tape and a dotting tool.
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