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    12 Days of Christmas Nails: Day 8… All of the Lights

    16th December 2011
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    Credit for today’s Christmas nails design goes to Joya at Blanket Print Nails who posted a great and simple tutorial to get the holiday lights look on your fingertips. You can find the tutorial here!
    Even though mine look more like bunting than holiday lights, I love the way they turned out. The snowy gradient is gorgeous too – I think I need to do more sponging!

    I used Barry M Blueberry Ice Cream as a base and sponged Wet n Wild White on to the tips to make a little gradient.
    For the lights, I used black acrylic paint, BYS Fern, La Femme Cherry Red, George Buttercup Shine and No7 Poolside Blue.



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    Christmas, Glitter, Stamping, Uncategorised

    12 Days of Christmas Nails: Day 1

    1st December 2011
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    It’s December! My countdown to Christmas has officially started and I’ll be documenting it on my nails (of course!). It’s my plan to post 12 Holiday themed manicures before Santa pays a visit . Apologies in advance if I don’t manage to post 12 but I’ll try my best!

    I used A-England Galahad* as a base and sponged on Barry M Blue Glitter from the tips. I stamped the snowflake from Bundle Monster plate BM14 and finished it with a rhinestone and a top coat of NYC.

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    Day 19: Galaxy Nails

    28th October 2011
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    For the 19th day of our challenge, we all had to create some Galaxy Nails. I’ve done some of these in the past (see here and here) and I love the look. You really can’t get them wrong! Rie and Cris both agree with me today – they’re so much easier than they look. 
    So if you’re looking at these pictures and thinking you want your nails to look like this but doubting your ability, DON’T! Just grab a sponge, some nail polishes and have a party on your nails. I promise it’ll look great.
    Rie and Cristina have created some gorgeous galaxy nails today.

    Here are the polishes I used in order, left to right.

    When you look at these mismatched colours lined up, you wouldn’t think they could combine to make such a pretty manicure.

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    Day 17: Glitter

    26th October 2011
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    So today we come to Glitter manicures. Glitter and I have a strained relationship. I go through phases of loving it and at other times I just detest the stuff and get the urge to throw away every polish I own that contains glitter! The main reason for the hatred is the hassle it takes to remove it. I always use the foil method for removal these days to minimise any stress!

    Don’t forget to check out Cristina and Rie‘s glittery nails too!

    Barry M Blue Glitter
    BYS Gold Finger sponged from the tips down

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    Day 10: Gradient Nails

    19th October 2011
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    Today’s challenge is gradient nails and it’s also Wednesday which means PINK. Sorry for the brief post but I have such a busy day ahead, I even had to get up a little early to schedule this because I won’t have another spare minute today between work and evening plans. I’m going to see Charlie Simpson tonight which is super exciting!
    Don’t forget to check out Cristina and Rie‘s gradient nails too!

    Models Own Utopia
    BYS Metallic Fuchsia sponged on

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    Nebula Nails… Take Two

    2nd September 2011
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    I posted my first set of Nebula Nails all the way back in February [here] and I decided yesterday that I wanted to give them another shot. This look is still really popular and so easy to do. You just cannot get them wrong!

    I think I may have gone a bit overboard with these though. There are crazy colours and some irrational sponging involved. But as I said, they just work, and somehow always will as long as you have a sponge and some glitter!

    Here are the polishes I used clockwise from top middle:
    W7 – Purple Paradise
    E.L.F – Twinkle
    GOSH – Holographic
    George @ Asda – Buttercup Shine
    Collection 2000 Hot Looks – Dynasty
    George @ Asda – Cloudless Sky
    Wet N Wild – White

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    Meet EOTD and NOTD. They’re twins!

    24th July 2011
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    I’ve been trying to create a video tutorial for a Smokey Eye look all week after someone requested it on Facebook but it seems like the world is against me on this one.
    The first time I tried, I just didn’t get good enough footage because I’m still a rookie. On my second attempt, I got the footage but it refuses to play on my computer. It just crashes any software that I try to open it with, including the editing program! Très frustrating! 
    So anyway, here are my takes on the ever classic smokey eye and it’s companion, the smokey nail!
    I used:
    E.L.F. Eyelid Primer
    Bourjois Eyeshadow – Blanc
    17 Solo Eyeshadow – Thunderbolt
    MUA Eyeshadow – Shade 20
    E.L.F. Cream Eyeliner – Black
    Jerome Alexander Mascara
    I think I’ll try one more time to make a tutorial for this look but if the universe can find yet another way to tell me that it’s just not meant to be, I’ll have to concede!
    I created a (sort of) gradient using one sponge and three colours. I utilised a combination of dabbing and dragging the sponge
    Collection 2000 – White
    La Femme – Grey Cream
    Rimmel – Black Satin
    Top coat of NYC
    I’m going camping this week so I won’t be blogging. I have one holiday inspired nail art post scheduled for Wednesday and I should be back to blogging by the weekend.

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