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    Day 13: Animal Print

    22nd October 2011
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    Who doesn’t love a good animal print nail huh? This combination of colour and stamping is the one I used to wear the most before I started blogging, but it’s been a long time since I wore it. I was going to try something more adventurous today, like freehanding a leopard print, but laziness took over and I pulled out my stamping plates!
    If you’re craving more animal print manis, check out Cristina and Rie‘s Day 13 challenges too!
    BYS Astro Gold
    W7 Black for the stamp
    Konad Plate M57
    Top Coat of NYC



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    Day 7: Black and White Nails

    16th October 2011
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    I toyed with a few ideas for today’s nails before deciding to play it safe and go with Zebra print. It’s been so long since I wore this pattern and colour combination (I normally go for the tiger colour combination) and I forgot how amazing it is. It’s definitely not a subtle look, but I think I pull it off okay!
    Don’t forget to check out Cristina and Rie‘s nails today for some more crazy black and white designs.
    I used an unnamed Collection 2000 White then stamped with W7 Black and Konad Plate M57.

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    Day 6: Violet Nails

    15th October 2011
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    Today’s criteria is Violet Nails but that seems a bit narrow compared to previous days so I took it to mean purple in general. I really don’t want to do too much talking today. I want to let you all soak up the pure beauty of this W7 Polish!

    This is a colour that I find myself reaching for time after time when I just want to wear something simple and pretty. I don’t know how to describe the finish, my best guess is shimmer. What category would you slide this polish into?

    Visit Rie and Cristina‘s blogs to see some amazing nail art!

    2 Coats of W7 Purple Paradise
    Top Coat of NYC

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    Vampy Half-Moon manicure… but not as you know it

    8th October 2011
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    A few days ago, an idea struck for a half moon manicure but I couldn’t find the stickers I use for them anywhere. I spent more than an hour searching my room top to bottom for the dastardly things to no avail!

    I found myself in an ‘odds and ends’ kind of shop yesterday and remembered just as I was leaving that I needed some of these and I found a packet of about 500 stickers for 60p. Such a bargain!

    The stickers in question are THESE hole reinforcers. I cut them in half and used them to mark off the half moon shape at the base of my nail but instead of painting a new colour over the top, I used a stamp.

    Konad Plate: M64
    Base Colour: W7 – Black Cherry
    Konad Colour: Collection 2000 – Moonlight Shine
    Top Coat of NYC

    On Monday, Cris @ Let Them Have Polish, Rie @ Nails and Noms and I will be starting the 31 Day Challenge (click here for details). We decided to do it together so that we won’t be tempted to stray from the strict ‘post every day’ rule! I think it will be fun but also challenging to go back to posting daily after relaxing my blogging schedule since the new year. I can’t wait to start and I’m hopefully my enthusiasm won’t dwindle too quickly!


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    ♪♫ Memories of times and the places that were there

    23rd September 2011
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    I can’t believe it’s Friday already! This week has flown by so quickly.
    You might have noticed a few changes around here recently. I put up a new banner a little while ago and my pictures have also taken a turn for the better if I do say so myself!
    I’ve been wanting a great lamp with a white fluorescent bulb for a long time after Cris gave me some advice about lighting. They can be a bit pricey but I was lucky enough to find one in the house. It’s been sat on the same side table for months and I’ve gotten so used to seeing it that I just forgot it was there.
    I was sat in the lounge one day when I caught a glimpse of it and just had one of those moments where something clicked in my brain and I realised it was exactly what I’d been wanting for weeks!
    I also changed my watermark and have started stamping it in to the middle of the pictures because I’ve seen a few of my pictures online with the watermark cropped out and no credit given which is so annoying (and illegal). So, I have to put it in a place where it can’t be cropped without slicing up the picture, but I’m trying to keep it as unobtrusive as possible and I hope you guys don’t mind too much.
    I started out using scotch tape to mark off the black sections at the side but it ruined the mani underneath so I just whipped out a striping brush and freehanded the a line then filled it in after. It’s obviously not as crisp a line as you would get using scotch tape but it saves a lot of time and hassle.

    Plate: Bundle Monster BM223

    Base Colour: Cult Nails – Cruisin’ Nude
    Stamp Colour: W7 – Black
    Top Coat of NYC

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    Internet > Chocolate

    21st August 2011
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    I have such a short attention span! I’ve been sat here since about 9pm with these photos open in Photoshop, getting them blog-ready and I’ve been distracted at least 4356 times. It’s now just after 1am and I have managed to focus long enough to upload them and write this post!
    When I sit down in front of a computer, I go in to a complete trance and until I snap out of it don’t realise that I’ve just spent 4 hours of my day watching The Shaytards and amusing myself with every single #Parks and Recreation post on tumblr. If I have one addiction in life, it’s the internet.

    Plates: Bundle Monster BM201, BM224 and BM211
    Base Colour: W7 Black Cherry
    Stamp Colour: Collection 2000 Moonlight Shine
    GOSH Metallic Purple
    Top Coat of NYC

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