I used Rimmel Deliciously Dark as my case colour and then stamped on a lace design from Konad Plate M57 using Beauty UK Olympic Bronze. It’s topped off with a coat of Seche Vite.
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Merry Christmas everyone! I don’t know if it’s the done thing to blog on Christmas morning but every year, we have a few hours to ourselves in between the early morning present opening and when the rest of the family gets here so I thought I’d squeeze in a quick post to show you what I’m wearing on my nails today!
I’ve matched my nails to my Christmas Jumper which you can kinda see here. They’re not super christmassy, I’ve gone easy on the glitter and haven’t even featured any gold or green but I like them!
I used W7 Black as my base colour and painted the details with White and Red acrylic paint using a nail art brush. On my thumb and ring finger, I’m wearing Rimmel Heart on Fire with Lac Attack Dementor’s Kiss sponged on to the tips. I finished it all off with a few coats of NYC In A New York Minute.
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Another December day, another Christmas manicure! As you all predicted I couldn’t keep my nails away from the festivities for too long. These are the nails I did for the Christmas ‘Do’ at work. I think the phrase ‘Christmas Do’ is a very British thing. In the US, you’d just call it a Christmas Party right? Or do you have another name for it?
My base colour is Barry M White. For the candy cane nails, I used one coat of Seche Vite before marking off striped sections with thin cuts of scotch tape and painted on Rimmel Heart on Fire. While that was still wet I peeled off the scotch tape and, once dry, used a nail art brush to paint Barry M Red Glitter over the stripes.
The Rudolph nail is one from last year. I used Essie Glamour Purse as the base colour, Rimmel Desire for the lines and Barry M Red Glitter again for the nose.
Finally, the Christmas Tree which was inspired by a Wacky Laki manicure was created using glequins from Born Pretty Store (tutorial here).
I topped it all off with two coats of Seche Vite to smooth it over.
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Here it is. The very last. The final day of my 31 Day Challenge 2012! It’s been a long and bumpy ride, we even lost a woman 5 weeks in but just like last year, I’m so glad we did it! I don’t really have much else to say on the subject so I’ll just leave you with my recreation of Rie’s Day 8 Metallic Nails.
I’ve never ever done a splatter mani before and I probably won’t be doing one again any time soon. The clean up on this took just as long, if not longer, than the mani itself! I think part of the problem was the metallic polishes. Whenever I touched acetone to the mess, it would send a million bits of shimmer swimming in to my cuticles and I just couldn’t get it all off! Saying that, I did grow to love the result and maybe a bit of practice will do me good.
I’ve never ever done a splatter mani before and I probably won’t be doing one again any time soon. The clean up on this took just as long, if not longer, than the mani itself! I think part of the problem was the metallic polishes. Whenever I touched acetone to the mess, it would send a million bits of shimmer swimming in to my cuticles and I just couldn’t get it all off! Saying that, I did grow to love the result and maybe a bit of practice will do me good.
I used A-England Lancelot as my base colour, then used Essie Penny Talk, Barry M Gold Foil and Barry M Silver Foil for the splatters. I topped it with one coat of Seche Vite to make it dry quickly and then one coat of Rimmel Mattifying Top Coat.
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31DC2012: Day 31 Recreate Your Favourite Challenge (Part 1)
It’s here! Technically, today is the last day of the 31 Day Challenge – Recreate Your Favourite Challenge. Although it’s not really because there’s another instalment of Day 31 coming very soon. I just erm… haven’t had a chance to do that mani yet!
Like last year, we decided to recreate our favourite challenges from each other for Day 31 rather than recreate our own manicures.
Like last year, we decided to recreate our favourite challenges from each other for Day 31 rather than recreate our own manicures.
Today I recreated Cristina aka Let Them Have Polish’s Day 18 manicure – half moons which you can see here. What can I say, she used studs, so I had to!
I used Rimmel Heart on Fire as my base colour on every nail and then freehanded on the chevrons at the base using a nail art brush and W7 Black Cherry. For the accent nail, I painted everything but the chevron with the W7 polish. The studs are from Born Pretty Store and I finished with a top coat of NYC.
Head over to Cristina’s blog to see her recreations of her favourite from mine and Rie’s challenge manicures.
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I popped in to town a few days to go thinking I would pick up a new matte top coat as my Essie Matte About You ran out a long time ago and I never got round to replacing it. What a near impossible mission that turned out to be! I tried Boots and Superdrug as I was almost certain 17 and GOSH both had their own matte top coats but Rimmel came out on top as the only one available.
I also picked up Heart on Fire, this bright creme red. It’s my favourite red creme without a doubt. I always find they’re too runny or leave stains all over my cuticles when I remove them. Well, this one is opaque in two coats and left absolutely no staining. WIN.
I used two coats of Rimmel Heart on Fire as my base coat and stamped on the design from Bundle Monster Plate BM323 using Sally Hansen InstaDri Whirlwind White. I added some glequins from Born Pretty Store and finished it with a coat of Rimmel’s Mattifying Top Coat.
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October is Breast Cancer Awareness month which means PINK!
I won’t waffle on the subject because I’m really not an expert so you should head over to the Breast Cancer Care website to educate yourself at your leisure.
BYS Pretty as a Peach, Rimmel Urban Princess and Kriston No16 acted as my base colours for this mani and I used them for stamping as well as Miss Sporty Zodiac. The pattern is from Bundle Monster Plate BM321 and the glequins came from Born Pretty Store. I finished it all off with a few coats of Essence Better Than Gel Nails.
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