NOTD - Orly Fowl Play + French Tip Stamping

Morning bloggy peeps!

At the moment, I'm taking part in a very exciting birthday club! There are 12 of us and every month we all send a package to the member whose birthday/celebration day it is that month. Since it was my birthday this month, I'm the lucky recipient this month :D So far I've received 3 of my 11 parcels and these amazing girls are knocking polishes off my (now rather extensive) wishlist left right and centre! One of the first ones I wore is Orly Fowl Play which the lovely Tracy sent me, along with Androgenie - meaning along with my Buyapowa minis and GlossyBox this month I went from owning no Orly's to owning 7 and a base coat in a few days! Anyway, I  wore Fowl play plain for a day...

Blurry, but you can see the pretties..

And then it was still in ok shape so I tried some french tip stamping for the first time, using BM18 and Barry M Lilac Foil. I don't think it was too bad for a first try... Although if my nails were longer it'd look better I think.

I really really like this polish :) I had an idea in my head to concentrate on my China Glaze collection for a few months, but now I think I might be after more Orlys... Thank you thank you thank you Tracy! I'm sure for a while there will be a LOT of birthday club polishes used!

Hx

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NOTD - Got the Blues...

Morning bloggy peeps!

This week's Adventures in Stamping challenge was to use only blue for your mani. I like blue but I don't wear it often because it stains my fingers up so much I look like I've been doing rude things to a smurf, and this was no exception! You can be as neat as a neat thing when you're applying the base coat, but unless you're magic trying to get a full nail image to stamp without getting any on your fingers aint gonna happen. I managed to get most of the blue off I think... The base colour is Color Club Blue-topia from their Back to Boho collection (I got set 2 and wish I got set one too now) and I stamped with Fab Ur Nails metallic blue stamping polish and image plates II (keyboards) and IV (bluesy music stuff). Sorry the pics are a bit soft-focusy, I had my camera in the snow setting!

Even Mr NN liked this one :) He's usually my biggest critic...I usually ignore him...

You can join in Adventures in Stamping here!

Hx

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NOTD - Hoppy Burpday to meeeeeeeee!

Hi loves

It was my 30th Birthday on Wednesday - something I was not looking forward to! Not just another year older, but another decade...ouch. Anyway, while I wasn't celebrating I couldn't resist having a little party on my nails. I used lots of coats (3 or 4) of China Glaze Love Marilyn on all fingers but my middle, which I used my pink Whimsical franken (which I have named Hoppy Burpday), stamped a cupcake using Fab Ur Nails metallic pink stamping polish and added a rhinestone for a cherry. I had trouble getting the image to stamp :( I've had trouble with another image on this plate though, and since I haven't had a major stamping fail in a while I'm blaming the plate.

I should have layered Love Marilyn over an opaque polish - a silver foil perhaps. I'll remember that for next time! It was a pita to remove, even with foil. I had me a bad case of teh Glitta Herpes...

Hx

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PCFC - Based on a favourite book

Howdy!

I haven't posted much this week, sorry. I'd like to say it was a busy week, but I'd be lying, I'm just being lazy. I have a good excuse though, I turned 30 on Wednesday - eeek - and have been hiding down a hole. I'll show you the mani I wore in celebration (even that was a bit of a fail) tomorrow, but for now here's this week's Purple Crumpet Fairy Challenge mani, which was to be based on a favourite book.

I don't know what possessed me to try this manicure, but I suddenly thought of doing a Cheshire cat deisgn with lilac and purple stripes, then I thought why not just do Alice in Wonderland...yeah, I should have stuck to my original plan! 

For the little finger I used Barry M Berry Icecream and Beauty UK Lilac Girl to create Cheshire cat stripes, Ring finger was Stargazer 508, Barry M Gold Foil and WnW Black Creme to make the white rabbit's pocket watch. Middle finger was a french white, 2True shade 6 and Miss Sporty New black stamped to make the cards. The index finger is MeMeMe Impulsive and Barry M Spring Green, and black and white to make the hatters hat and the thumb is an Accessorize Baby Blue Eat Me cookie.

It was fun to do, even if it isn't very good! I can honestly say if I never do a mani based on a book again, I wont be upset!

Hx

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NOTD - Nails Inc Victoria + Stamping

Hi loves, I hope you all had a nice weekend! I went out on Friday night and have spent the rest of the weekend recovering. Show's I'm getting old... Actually I have flu, it's not a 2 day hangover...at least that's what I keep telling myself.

Anyway, since I'm pretty sure polish fumes would finish me off I didn't take part in stamping Sunday today :( I may do what I had planned later in the week, but as it's my birthday on Wednesday and have the Purple Crumpet Fairy Challenge at the end of the week I already have a couple of manicures planned I may not get time. Instead I'm showing you what I wore when I went out. I was wearing a black dress with a kind of cream and gold flowery pattern on it, so my nails almost matched. I didn't want black nails so I used a deep vampy red, Nails Inc Victoria and stamped with Barry M Gold Foil and BM221.

And this is the outfit I wore it with...and a good excuse to show off my little poser! Honestly as soon as the camera comes out it's like he's on a photo shoot for vogue.

"Don't go out Mummy, look how cute I am! You can't possibly want any time to yourself..."

How do you judge if you had a good night? I woke up on Saturday with no voice, the nail polish rubbed off my toes from dancing so much, my handbag was full of vodka, we ended up in a gay bar and I dropped my phone in the toilet when I got home at 4am...all in all I think it was a good night!

Hx

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NOTD - PCFC Polka Dots

I feel like I've "done" polka dots. When there always seems to be something I want to try with my nails, repeating a design seems like a waste! But polka dots are a classic and I've turned to them in times of need. I created a little twist here, for this weeks Purple Crumpet Fairy Challenge, by using some half pearls as an accent. I used Beauty Uk Frozen Kingdom and Color Club Antiquated for the stamping and accent nail, and Born Pretty Fauxnad M71. On the accent nail I stamped just with a white polish to give me a "guide" for where the place the pearls. It's way too "classy" for me, but I love it :)

That's it for today! Short and sweet, like me (!)

Hx

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NOTD - Triangular half moons plus stamping

Hi loves

I tried a tape mani a few days ago, and for once didn't get into a mess with sticky tape! They triangles aren't the neatest, but you couldn't really notice apart from close up. I used a coat of Barry M Silver Foil, let it dry completely and then taped off the triangles at the cuticle before using a coat of No 7 Poolside Blue.

I wore it like this for a day and then stamped over it with the foil again.

I smudged the stamp on the little finger but other than that I liked it! Still got smurf hands when I took it off though. Damn you blue polish *shakes fist*

Hx

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