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    Lots o’ Layers

    30th April 2011
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    Todays nails took a lot of time and planning! Last night I applied the base colour, stamp and a top coat. Then I waited until this morning to make sure the base was good and dry, before using some scotch tape to section off part of my nail and paint on a darker blue colour. I think it looks kind of like a persian rug but I did watch ‘Prince of Persia’ this week so perhaps I just have Persia on the brain!

    Plate: Bundle Monster BM222
    Base Colour: Barry M Cyan Blue
    Stamp Colour: GOSH Metallic Purple
    Rimmel Blue My Mind
    A stripe of GOSH Metallic Purple applied with a nail brush
    Top Coat of NYC
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    Sitting, Waiting, Swishing

    19th April 2011
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    I want to thank everyone for the amazing response I had to my recent EOTD post. You all seemed to like it so I’m looking forward to doing more in the future. You also reminded me that it’s my blog so I should basically post what I want which is something I sometimes forget and I then start worrying about the fact that I’m not a nail art machine when there’s no reason to get all stressed out about it!
    I don’t really have much of an opinion on these nails and I wasn’t even going to post this because I really can’t make up my mind about them. I don’t dislike the mani but I’m not in love with it either! I think it’s kind of ‘pretty’ but just not something I’m used to seeing on my nails, it’s a strange feeling!
    Base Colour: Glo Baby Glo from Primark – Fondant
    Stripe Colours: BYS in Glittering Purple and Rimmel I ♥ Lasting Finish in Azure
    I used a striping brush to paint on the ‘swishes’

    Have you voted for me in the Bundle Monster competition today? I hate shamelessly nagging and pestering you all but it would be really lovely if you could click over to the competition and give me a thumbs up! Just click here or here. Thanks!!
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    Scotch Tape Take Two

    26th March 2011
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    Try and say that ten times fast?!
    I just want to say thank you for all the lovely birthday messages. I truly loved them, thank you so much. It’s so good to hear that plenty of you are still acting young for your years and getting away with it!
    I’ve gone for a patchwork look this time with the scotch tape. The base is BYS Metallic Fuschia, then I painted on the purple sections with Barbara Daly Velour and the last layer is Rimmel Lycra Wear Black Satin. I used a thick top coat of NYC in an attempt to flatten out the lines.

    Then I added some little sequins which I think is a nice touch but I preferred it without.

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    20 Candles

    25th March 2011
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    I turned twenty today. It’s kind of momentus but disappointing at the same time. I’m no longer a teenager, I am a fully qualified ‘adult’ which I suppose is okay, but I sure am gonna miss being a teenager and getting away with all the things you can before you reach this age. Only five years ago, I was looking up at twenty-somethings and thinking, ‘Woooooooow, look how old and responsible they are’ but now it’s me and I still feel like a 13 year old inside, but I suppose it’ll always be that way.
    So the nails are a cake and candles!
    Thumb:
    George @ Asda – Natural White
    Collection 2000 Hot Looks – Dynasty
    BYS – Astro Gold
    Nails Inc – Victoria
    Fingers:
    Rimell Lycra Wear – Black Satin
    Stargazer – White
    Sally Hansen Chrome – Amber

    I used nail art brushes to freehand the candles and a dotting tool for the flames.
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    Born Pretty Store and my First Freehand Nail Art

    27th February 2011
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    I received a few items from Born Pretty Store a few weeks ago to review. You’ve already seen some of the Bullion put to use and I’ll cracking out the rest of the amazing nail art supplies in good time. Here are the goodies that I got….
    I’ve wanted some of these tiny brushes for ages. I did buy a pack of nail art brushes on eBay but there are very few that are suitably teeny for painting designs like this on your nails and I’m actually using one of them to apply my eyeliner!!
    This pack of 4 brushes is perfect for drawing anything you can imagine on your nails. They’re small but easy to grip and each one is a different size so you can use the smallest ones for lining and the larger ones for filling in colours.
    I decided to try my hand at roses, which are heavily inspired by (read: copied from) Marina at Forever The Ugly Duckling who does some really cute and imaginative, yet simple, freehand nail art which is what actually inspired me to have a go myself.
    I started out drawing the outlines of the flowers then filling them in with the blue. Then I went over the outlines again to emphasise them since the blue kind of covered them over. Then I decided to add the leaves by doing the  same thing – outline, colour, outline again!
    I’m really pleased with how it turned out and I’ll definitely be doing more freehand nail art in the future if I can come up with any ideas! If that’s something you guys would like to see?
    I used:
    Brushes from Born Pretty Store
    Barry M Berry Ice Cream as a the base colour
    Rimmel Black Satin to outline the flowers
    Beauty UK Neon Blue to fill the flowers
    BYS Fern for the leaves
    Top coat of NYC

    Disclaimer: The nail art brushes were sent to me by Born Pretty Store for review. Everything you read here is my honest opinion.

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    Flashy Franken

    21st February 2011
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    I was having a dilemma on Friday night. I couldn’t pick out a single colour from my 150+ collection which I felt like wearing on my nails. At Marina’s amazing suggestion on twitter, I decided to franken myself a new one.
    I had seen this mani by Erika a while ago and knew as soon as I saw it that I wanted something similar, so I decided to aim for a light pink with gold shimmer much like China Glaze Pink-Rox-E and I think what I ended up with is a pretty good match, if I do say so myself. 
    I mixed this shade from BYS Tickle Me Pink, an ancient, very sheer gold from Collection 2000 and a tiny smidge of BYS Metallic Fuschia.

     

    Then to spice it up a little, I freehanded some gold tips with a little black line to emphasise them. I’ve done this a few times recently with different colour combinations, but they normally turn out really messy though so I haven’t been photographing them. I freehanded the tips with Sally Hansen Amber Chrome and used Rimmel Black Satin for the lines applied with one of these little brushes from Born Pretty Store which made all the difference when it came to keeping the lines neat.
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