Adventures in Stamping - Pulsating Pink and Purple...

...er what ever that means! After last weeks disappointing fail this week I wanted to do much better, and I think I did! The summer theme still didn't win, but I cheekily combined the two...wink wink ;)

I started off with a base of one coat of Barry M Strawberry Ice Cream, then sponged the gradient with Accessorise Lilac Sorbet (I've said it before and I'll say it again, this is PINK not lilac), a lilac creme by Miss Sporty (which I suspect my be an Illamasqua Jo'Mina dupe but this is to be investigated...) and Sinful Colors Amethyst. I added a coat of Pink Dazzle by George at ASDA for a bit of sparkle (the pulsating bit if you will) and once that was all dry with the aid of a coat of Poshe I stamped with Konad Special White and fauxnad image plate Q1. *Helly wins the award for longest sentence EVAH* The image I chose is a really long one, so I just about fitted the ice cream and one or two sweeties on my ickle nubbies.

Gradient alone..........................Gradient avec sparkles

A thousand million times better than last week, right? It's girly and fun and totally not suited to the mod I'm in right now, but every time I've lookd at it today I've admired it and it's taken my mind of some of the shitty stuff that's going on around here at the moment. And I think my use of the ice cream image means I ticked two boxes - summery, and pink and purple in one mani. Up here for thinking, down there for dancing my friends...

Hx

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31 Day Challenge Day 19 - Galaxies

I wasn't looking forward to today's challenge. I've seen galaxy nails on lots of blogs and it's never really tickled my pickle, and that's the way I feel about it on my nails. I loosely followed this tutorial. For the base I used 1 coat of Beauty Uk Black, and one coat of Accessorize Aztec (Orly Space Cadet dupe, so I thought it was fitting!) THen for the colours I used a pale green and blue from the Beauty Uk Urban Girl set, Rimmel I <3 Lasting Finish Purple Pulse and Lemon Drop, and a Beauty Uk white for the sponging. Then added some dots in white for stars and sponged Collection 2000 Sparkle Top Coat randomly on top. Seche to smooth it out. Including base and top coat that's 10 polishes! I don't think they look much like galaxies, but take a look:

The lesser spotted right hand...

What do you think? Galactical enough? It's watermarble day tomorrow, and you know what that means? FAIL TIME!

Hx

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31 day Challenge day 9 - Rainbow

Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain!

I used:

Violet - Singul Colors Amethyst
Indigo - Barry M Indigo
Blue - Barry M Cyan
Green - Barry M Spring Green
Yellow - Barry M Yellow
Orange - Nails Inc Candy Orange
Red - Barry M Bright Red
Collection 2000 Sparkle Top Coat, Seche Vite and a sponge!

Sorry the clean up is appalling! As you can imagine it was a leetle messy!

Hope you like my rainbow nails, I really do!

Hx

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Pink...Friday?

Ah I miss blogging so much! We have 3 laptops between the two of us, but none of them work properly. Mine has a broken screen, and the monitor I was using with it died, the spare one I'm using has no working USB ports or hubs, and no bluetooth so I can't upload  pics to it and the OH's is a teeny netbook and is very slow and freezes up all the time, although I can use it for uploading pics he needs it for work so the time I get with it is limited. So this weekend I have a couple of posts I'll schedule hopefully! I have a great polish for you tomorrow :) So excited!

So, anyway, this is the mani I wore on Wednesday this week. The base was Barry M Peach Melba, which I wore on it's own for a day before sponging on the Rimmel fruity I showed you a while ago 2/3 of the way down and then a bright pink MUA shade on the tips to create a gradient effect. I then topped it with Collection 2000 Sparkle Top Coat and I was done :)

I'm loving these peachy-coral shades at the moment. I would never have thought they suited me so well.

Summer seems to have deserted us though so tomorrow I'll post a polish thats less season appropriate and perfect for a rainy day. I love it soooo much!

Hx

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NOTD - Beauty UK Soft Grey gorgeousness and other yummy things...

Helloooo! Today I have an absolutely edible polish to show you that I have fallen in love with. Whenever I go to Superdrug the Beauty UK stand is always the first one I go to, and last time I did I picked up this beauty and I'm so glad I did. Soft Grey is exactly that, a beautiful soft dove grey that pulls a little blue in some lights. Pictures below are direct sunlight, 3 (totally worth it) coats.

I'd say the first pic is more colour accurate, but I used the second so you can see the hint of blue. This is definitely going to be one I reach for over and over.

I had planned to do some stamping over this polish, but then I put it on and I didn't want to disrupt the yum so I wore it plain. I also bought the Collection 2000 sparkle top coat as an alternative to China Glaze White Cap which I have the hugest lemming for. I'm in no way saying this is a dupe, but I think it will give a similar effect and will do for me! But again, I left the soft grey alone, sparkle top coat will have to wait!

Now, onto a favourite subject of mine, freebies! Yesterday I bought June's issue of Marie Claire which has a free Body Shop Body Butter, and I got the mango one (there was also shea butter and a lavender one). And today the new InStyle mag is out, and I picked up two copies because they have their free Nails Inc polishes again.

I picked up Electric Teal and Candy Orange. There is also a nude shade available, but I'll leave that for now as I already have Nails Inc Jermyn Street (another freebie) which is a pinky nude. I might change my mind and get it later in the month, but I would have looked like a prat buying three copies of the same magazine in one go.

I'll be using one of these tonight, probably the teal... I have found in the past that the Nails Inc polishes apply like tippex - maybe it's just the freebies I don't know, so I will let you know how I get on!

Will be visiting Superdrug at the weekend and will be sure to stalk the Beauty UK stand! They recently bought out a new collection and I NEED the pearly white polish, Frozen Kingdom, but every time I look the stand has been ravaged by a caveman and there's none left, so wish me luck!

Hx

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