Mavala Angel Violet Diamond - Let the Christmas nails begin!

Hi!

Now I've completed the 33 day challenge, and caught up with samples and swatches I needed to do, I can finally just do the nails I want to do for a while. And that means some Christmassy nails will be coming your way! Not all of them, mind you, but I thought I'd better show you this one quick before they sell out! I was browsing Beauty Expert and feeling very scroogelike when I spotted these cute Mavala polishes, encased in a little box with angel wings, ready to hang on the Christmas tree and had to have one. I needed the Christmas spirit! I chose Violet Diamond, as I didn't have any other glitter similar in my collection (and because it goes with my Christmas tree, which is silver, white, gold and black!) I actually thought it was a full cover glitter, but it isn't so I layered it over Barry M Lilac Foil, and combined with Orly Au Champagne and some snowy stamping for my first Christmas nails of the season.

Mavala Angels are available from Beauty Expert for just £3.83 with free delivery here, but they only have the silver one left now so be quick!

Have your nails gotten festive yet?

Hx

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Adventures in Stamping - Something you've learned from Adventures in Stamping

Hi guys,

So I haven't posted much this week. I'm feeling a little bit sad and truth be told I just haven't felt like it much :( I'll try and cheer up for you!

Anyway, this week's Adventures in Stamping challenge was to use some tips, skill, ideas or whatever that you've learned from the group. I decided to do a mani using lots of different images and colours to create a pattern based on a pretty shirt I got this week. Every week the pictures posted in the group inspire me to try and create an awesome mani using more than one image. Ok, so this wasn't awesome, but I guess I'll settle for cute! I started with a base of Stargazer 508, awful formula, pretty colour. Then I stamped some birds and dragonflies from HB34 using China Glaze Riveting, Barry M Lilac Foil, and Color Club Perfect Mol-ten, Foil Me Once and Lumin-icent. The birds turned out more like blobs, but you get the picture...

And the top I based it on, didn't realise you could see my bra through it quite so much...

So there it is! I love Adventures in Stamping, I know that if I'm  struggling for inspiration I can just trot on over and be inspired in a second, so thank you to all the awesome ladies (and guys!) for sharing your amazing talent!

Hx

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NOTD - Gotta Love a Gradient

Hi peeps!

Today I have to show you a gradient manicure that the pics do not do justice to. I was in LURVE with this manicure, and I just looked at my pictures (it was from the laptop-coma period and therefore old) they were sucky. Boo. Anyway, the base was Revlon Luna, an inky black that is almost a blackened blue. I can't make my mind up. I sponged using Barry M Lilac Foil and this was the effect I got.

Pictures; crappy, cuticles; crappy, clean up; crappy. Manicure in real life; good! You believe me, don't you?!?

Hx

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Purple Crumpet Spring Challenge - Representing Light and Ticker Tape Parade

I missed yesterday, and decided to combine two posts into one - I did do yesterday's mani - which was to represent light - but I wasn't happy with it and couldn't get good photos. It seems one of my adorable children have played with my camera and I can't get the settings right again, so prepare yourselves fr some blurry assed photos! That plus the baby having tonsillitis and spending most of Easter Sunday at the emergency doctors meant I had no energy for blogging! The photos for my ticker tape parade are slightly better, so keep reading for those.

Firstly, I couldn't think of anything better than a crapton of glitter to represent light! I used two coats of Barry M Lilac Foil and then topped it with Color Club It's a Hit, which I won in a giveaway from Pointless Cafe - thank you Sheila! It's a hit has large lilac hex glitters in a clear base and you really have to work at getting them spread evenly. It really is packed with glitter, but this means they clump together and you have to dab them onto the nail. It also means though that you can get pretty good coverage, and I used 3 dabbed coats to make an accent nail on the ringfinger. I thought it would be bumpy and annoying but it only took one coat of Poshe to make it smooth and I wore it for two days before the temptation to pick it off took over! Once again, I'm so sorry for the bad photos, I'm almost ashamed to post them but I don't want to miss a day of the challenge so close to the end!

And for my ticker tape parade, I went ofr my first ever jelly sandwich! I have wanted Revlon Royal for a little while now, so when I saw it in a blog sale I snatched it up. Can you say perfect blue? It's a beautiful, perfect squishy royal blue, and I can't wait to use it under Fantasy Fire. But first I tried layering some bar glitter in between two layers of it. I'm not a huge bar glitter fan, I think it looks a bit hairy and weird, but I can cope with it like this! I used Kleancolor Grand Finale, holo silver bar glitter, and Meteorites Vulcan Probe, lilac, purple and fuchsia bar glitter. It wasn't super visible until you caught it in the right light and then it popped!

I actually ended up accidentally wearing something really chocolatey yesterday! I'm off to throw my camera at a hard thing until I can get a decent picture of it for you...

Happy Easter!

Hx

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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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