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    Freehand, Holographic, Stamping, Swatch, Uncategorised

    A-England Dancing With Nureyev Swatch


    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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    Freehand, Glitter, Uncategorised

    Baby Blue Ruffian

    As most of the UK ladies will already know, Boots has recently started stocking Sinful Colors polishes in the UK. I’m a bit late to the party on this one really! I’ve walked past the (always well stocked) stands a couple of times now and always refrained from purchasing but a few of the colours caught my eye and have been on my mind. So I went back on the understanding with myself that I would just buy 3 bottles!
    I went for Island Coral which is exactly the shade of Coral I’ve been hunting for weeks; Nail Junkie, a blue/green multi glitter; and Cinderella, the shimmery blue featured below. Originally I wanted a duck egg blue creme that I can’t recall the name of but they were all out of that so I opted for the next best thing which was this light blue polish with a pinky gold shimmer. Although it’s not something I’d normally choose for myself, I really like this polish. The shimmer is very subtle and complimentary of the shade. It’s a shimmer done very right!

     I started with 3 coats of Sinful Colors Cinderella, then freehanded on the ruffian design using Collection Think Pink and a nail art brush.
    The glitter accent is Sally Hansen Lady Luck and I applied that over a base coat of PVA Glue for easy removal.
    It’s all topped off with one coat of Sally Hansen Dries Instantly then one coat of Essence Better Than Gel Nail Top Sealer to smooth things over.

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    Snippet, Studs, Uncategorised

    Red Red Ruffian

    This weekend has completely passed me by, I really can’t believe it’s already over! I’ve had a good balance of excitement and mundaneness. Think a Saturday night drinking with old friends and watching Iron Man 3 today vs. lots of cleaning and a nail polish cull! 
    I reorganised my Helmer and picked out 37 bottles for recycling, or as I like to call it…. frankening fun! It was good to go through my stash and rediscover a lot of polishes that I’d kind of forgotten about. Every two minutes I’d be like, ‘Aaaah yes, I remember you!’. It made me realise I probably need to figure out a way to catalogue my ever growing collection. Call me crazy, but that job sounds like hella fun!

    The two colours here are Barry M Lychee and Barry M Blood Orange. I painted on the red ruffians using a nail art brush and added some orange studs from Born Pretty Store. Finally I topped it all off with a coat of Sally Hansen Dries Instantly.

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    Simple Ruffian

    This one’s a bit messy. I’m terrible at doing tips or ruffian in any capacity let alone attempting to get the tiny little stripes matte so it went all lumpy and bumpy but I quite like it, I’m going to attempt at again in the future. After all, practice makes perfect.

     
    The base colour is Barry M Cyan Blue with one coat of BYS Tinkerbell to get the shimmer, then a top coat of NYC.
    The dark blue is No7 Betty Blues and I used E.L.F Matte finisher to matte out the ruffian strips.
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    Holographic, Uncategorised

    Hologruffian

    Don’t worry, I haven’t invented a new gruffalo-esque monster. It’s just a Ruffian Manicure with a Holo as a base 😀



    I used nail guides for this one to get a crisp line.
    Base Colour: GOSH Holographic
    Top Colour: W7 Black
    Top Coat of NYC

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    Stamping, Uncategorised

    Ruffian

    I decided to do another Ruffian manicure, this time with some Konads too.
    At first, I made a bit of a mess by painting on the accent after the main colour so clean up was pretty tricky!
    Konad Plate: M35
    Base Colour: Glo Baby Glo – Yes Cyan!, from Primark
    Accent and Konad Colour: W7 – Black
    Top Coat of NYC
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    Some kind of moon manicure?

    I’ve seen these manicures around but I can’t remember the name. I think it’s something to do with a moon, does anybody know?
    I was going to add a Konad but I thought it might end up looking a bit o.t.t and I didn’t want to risk my feelings towards this manicure turning from love to dislike cuz it took aaaages.

    Pink Colour: Glo Baby Glo – Pinky ‘n’ Flirty, From Primark
    Purple Colour: Nails Inc – Victoria
    TWO top coats of NYC  – as you can see this one’s extra shiny.
    I used two coats to speed up the drying – by the time I was finished I had about 5 coats of polish on 🙂

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