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    More Matte

    27th August 2010
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    I’ve finally got these tip stamps down! For ages, whenever I tried, they would end up trailing down my nail and I would get really frustrated.
    I used some little flakies from Viva La Nails. They look pink in the packet but are kind of transparent pink so they just look a bit iridescent on the nail.

    Konad Plate: M56
    Base Colour: L’Oreal Jet-Set – 225 (No Name)
    Konad Colour: Collection 2000 – Moonlight Shine
    Sparklies stuck on with Miss Sporty top coat
    Top Coat of Essie Matte About You

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    Back To My Roots

    26th August 2010
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    It’s been a few days since I did any stamping since I’ve had all the Viva La Nails goodies to play around with. I’ve also been in a but of a plain nails mood recently which has contributed to my lack of Konadding. So here are some stamped nails that I really like. I love the combination of blue and gold anyway, so I used some of the ‘Pearls‘ from my sample package.

    Plate: Bundle Monster – BM10 
    Base Colour: BYS – Fools Paradise
    Stamp Colour: NYC Glossies – 243B
    Gold Pearls from Viva La Nails
    Top Coat of NYC
    To stick the pearls on, I just used a clear nail polish applied in dots with the flat end of a nail stick and I used the sharp end to pick up and position the pearls.
    These pearls are really fiddly things which roll and bounce around all over the place. So I poured some out into a creased post-it note. This also makes it much easier to get the unused ones back into the packet because you can just pour them along the crease.
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    Mood Swings – Some Strange Goings On

    25th August 2010
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    When I first got these mood Polishes in my swap with Emily, I posted a quick swatch of them. Click here to see it. At that time, they weren’t changing with temperature, but when I tried them on after a few days, the difference between hot and cold was obvious. It’s very strange, but it’s like they were broken and now they’re fixed!
    This is Flirty/Shy. The lighter blue on the nail is warm and the dark colour towards the tips is cold. I used a butterfly from my Fimo cane and some sequins on my ring finger, both from Viva La Nails.
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    Viva La Nails Rhinestone Sticker Review

    24th August 2010
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    These are some of the nail stickers I received from Viva La Nails to review. 
    These stickers are really cute and dainty. I’ve used nails stickers before and have not always been very pleased with them. They often peel off or look too chunky and a bit tacky but these ones are great.
    These are really sleek and stick to the nail really well without obvious edges. 
    There a tiny bit of peeling on the thumb where you can see part of the flower is missing, it was there went I went to bed but disappeared over night. The peeling only happened when I put a topcoat over the stickers and I suppose you could just leave the top coat.
    Viva La Nails Rhinestone Stickers over Rimmel I ♥ Lasting Finish in Funky Diva
    It was strange trying these as I’m so used to my Konad/Fauxnads but I think they’re great. They’re so much quicker and easier than stamping so great if you’re in a rush, but I’m still a dedicated Konad fangirl!


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    My Viva La Nails Package… Have you got yours?

    24th August 2010
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    In case any of you nail bloggers haven’t heard about the amazing offer at Viva La Nails, you can get a free sample pack of their products worth £20 provided that you review the products on your site. Just click here.
    I ordered mine on Friday 13th and it arrived the next Saturday, since it was posted from Latvia. I had to pay £2.95 shipping so I added a Fimo cane to my order too.
    Here is the stuff that was in my sample pack
    From what I can tell, since there are no clues on the packaging, 3 of the sticker packs (back) are stickers and the other 3 are water decals.
    At the front is a selection of 10 packs of sequins, gems and other cool stuff to stick on your nails. There are some close ups just below.

    The Fimo stick is fun! I’ve seen these before but was always a bit unsure about them because they look really tricky.
    I didn’t buy the special cutting blade because I figured a craft or stanley knife would work fine, which it did. I actually picked up a two pack of stanley knives with spare blades for £1 in a ‘What! Shop’ just for this purpose and they’re more than sharp enough. 
    I was a bit shocked when I saw how small the stick was! I don’t know what I was expecting but it looked so teeny! 
    I’ve cut almost a half of the stick into slices of varying thickness. I was trying to get them as thin as possible but it’s a fiddly job. You can see below the bits of waste I got from some bad cuts, but the it’s minimal compared to the amount of resulting good slices I got.
    I actually found it pretty fun and kind of calming to just sit there and slice this little stick as small as I could, haha. Is that weird?!
    The only thing I found disappointing about the company was that they printed my phone number on to the front of the package under my address. Surely that’s against the Data Protection Act? So if you don’t want everyone from Latvia to your house seeing your personal phone number, don’t give it. I normally wouldn’t but this time I did for some reason :s
    If you are interested in any of these products, keep reading for reviews and if you have your own sample package, please link me to some of your own reviews so I can see the other products the site has to offer. I’m really looking forward to trying the water decals. Hopefully they won’t be too tricky!
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