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Honeycomb Hands

10th November 2013

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I’ve been so bad at blogging this week and for that I apologise. I’ve had a strange couple of weeks where nothing much has happened but I’ve just been busy all the time! I’m actually starting a new job tomorrow which is very exciting but means that blog posts may still be scarce for a while. Although it’s not always obvious, my regular posting schedule is Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday and often with extra posts scattered in when I have the time so that’s what I’m trying to get back to!

I created the nimbus nails with a selection of pinks including piCture pOlish Mad Magenta and W7 Baby Pink. Click here for a nimbus tutorial.

I’m also wearing Sally Hansen Green Tea and Barry M Prickly Pear.

The honeycomb pattern is a stamp from Bundle Monster Plate BM422 and I used BK Matt White.

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

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Green Nimbus Nail Art

26th October 2013

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Betcha didn’t see this one coming! Today I tried out the Nimbus technique with a green and blue colour scheme. I really like the look of these as they’re more marbled than my previous attempt. I’m not sure whether this is because of the polishes I used or whether I’m just getting better at it!

The colours I used here are:

Sally Hansen Green Tea as the base colour

Barry M Blue Grape

Barry M Guava

Rimmel Aqua Cool

Essie Navigate Her

I used two coats of Revlon Quick Dry Top Coat over the top.

Click here for a Nimbus nail art tutorial

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White Rosa

23rd October 2013

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Press Sample

I have a full review of MoYou‘s stamping plates coming soon (spoiler: they’re awesome) but to get the ball rolling I thought I’d post a quickie manicure using their Princess Collection 09 plate. This plate has 18 full nail designs that are 12x15mm each. They just about cover my little nubs width wise but fear not, if you have wider nails they offer XL plates too!

I used Rimmel Aqua Cool as my base colour and created a gradient using Sally Hansen Brisk Blue. There’s a gradient tutorial here.
I stamped on the design from MoYou Princess 09 Stamping Plate using BK Matt White.
It’s all topped with Color Club Top Coat.

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Nail Art for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

21st October 2013

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As I’m sure many of you know, October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and I wanted to help spread the awareness in a little way by creating some pink nail art! I never know how to write posts like this as Cancer is a topic that hits close to home for so many of us, myself included, and affects a lot of people in different ways so I’ll keep it short and sweet.

The most shocking statistic I’ve read is the fact that someone is diagnosed with Breast Cancer every 10 minutes. I think this really helps put things in to perspective. Just in the time it took me to put this post together, 3 people have been given news that will change their lives. I must admit, I’m not the best at checking myself but this month I must have copped a feel more than once a week thanks to everyone spreading awareness of the disease!

I used Sally Hansen Crinolin and W7 Baby Pink as my base colours.
The glitter is Sally Hansen Razzle Dazzle and I freehanded on the ribbon using Models Own Bubblegum and a nail art brush.
It’s all topped off with two coats of Revlon Quick Dry Top Coat.

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Could Have Foiled Me

15th October 2013

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I have to put my hands up and admit that I was a bit quick to judge the Color Club top coat. It actually is a really good topcoat. I painted these nails last night and today – no sheet marks. Sorry Color Club, my bad!

Thank you all so much for your top coat recommendations. It seems that Glisten and Glow’s HK Girl topcoat was by far the most popular suggestion so I think I need to get my hands on a bottle on that fact alone! Another one that stood out was Revlon and since I can easily dash in to Superdrug and pick up a bottle any time, that’s exactly what I did. I haven’t had the opportunity to try it yet but it’s very… pungent. I hope that means there are some super strong drying chemicals in there!

For this nail art, I used a base of Essie Good as Gold with a coat of Essence Better Than Gel Nails Fast Dry Top Sealer.
When that was dry, I placed on the Striping Tape to mark off where I wanted the foil shade to show through, then painted over it with Barry M Guava. I removed the striping tape immediately, while Guava was still wet.

On my accent fingers, I used two coats of Sally Hansen Big Money over Essie Good as Gold.

It’s all topped off with two coats of Color Club Top Coat.

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Brightblocks

13th October 2013

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I’m currently going through a top coat conundrum! I get these quite a lot when I’ve dried up my supply of whatever my favourite top coat of the moment is – this time it’s No7 Stay Perfect. Normally it happens because said top coat is no longer available or no longer on offer/sale!

Most of the ones I have here are now a bit thick and they either leave loads of bubbles or make my mani shrink (exposing the very tips of the nails). In yesterday’s post I mentioned that I used the Color Club top coat which I got when I bought s collection of theirs from TK Maxx. At first it seemed like a great top coat: drying time was good and it was nice and glossy but when I woke up I had the dreaded sheet marks pressed in to my nails. I went to bed a whole 8 hours after I painted my nails! Now, that just won’t do.

So I have a question for you, one that I ask a lot. What is your favourite top coat? INM Out the Door and Seche Vite always seem to top this list but I want to know if there have been any new discoveries of late. Something (very) affordable and available in the UK would be ideal!

For today’s nail art I used Deborah Lippmann Fashion as my base colour with a coat of Essence Better Than Gel Nails Fast Dry Top Sealer.

To create the colour blocking effect, I used Scotch Tape to mark off a ‘T’ shape on my nails. First with a thin strip straight down the middle, then one across the tip.

I painted on Sally Hansen Water Color over the top and immediately removed the tape. Once that was dry, I freehanded on the outlines using a nail art brush with Models Own Bubblegum.

I finished it off with Color Club Top Coat (because that’s all that was available!).