HoloWeek - Adventures in Stamping goes Holo

Hi loves

It's turned all chilly here today, brr! Not a good day for a holo I must say! Anyway, this week's adventures in Stamping theme was to let someone else chose an image for you. Mr NN took about 3 seconds flat to choose BM213 and the shoes - which is an image I hadn't used before. It could have been worse, right? I went for a double accent using Orly Au Champagne (white and not holo, but sparkly!) and Color Club Wild at Heart (purple, holo, yummy!) I stamped the shoes with Wild at Heart and Konad White. It's such a miserable day, I couldn't capture the full holo effect, but it's peeking through - just!

I flipped it on my right hand...

Tomorrow, holo week continues with a GOSH Holographic Hero wear test...is it really for one night only?

Hx

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The Nail Newbie on Instagram

I've entered the world of Instagram...something I've wanted to do for a while but when I had an Android phone it wasn't available on Android, then by the time it was available on Android I'd moved over to a Windows phone. Now I've crossed over to the dark side and got my mitts on an iPhone (albeit possibly temporarily if Mr NN wants it back...) one of the first things I did was download Instagram and take a photo of my lunch...

So, if you have Instagram and want to follow me over there, my handle is HellyBooBear. Leave me your links so I can follow you too!

My posts wont all be polish related...so be warned. But if you like cats, kids and food there's a good chance you'll see some of that!

Any other iPhone apps you'd recommend? It keeps beeping at me and I don't know what it wants...

Hx

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Welcome to HoloWeek!

Yes, that's right, it's holo week here at The Nail Newbie! I'm going to post every day with various holo polishes and designs, and hopefully it will get me out of my funk...that's the plan anyway!

We're starting the week with a fairly simple design using two of my favourite holo polishes. I started with 2 coats of charcoal holo Color Club Revvvolution, and then freehanded a tribal accent nail on ring finger and thumb using the new GOSH Holo Hero and my new nail art brushes. The dots were added with a dotting tool, but if I'd had big enough loose glitter I might have used those instead.

I need more practice with the brushes, but I liked using them. Compared to my old nail art brushes they're 100 times better! And thank goodness for a sunny day :)

Coming up this week - stamping with and on holos, a GOSH Holographic Hero wear test and tomorrow, Adventures in Stamping goes holo! Wish me luck!

Hx

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NOTD - Lava Love

Morning

I thought I'd better get a blog post up since it's been a few days! As you know if you're a regular reader my eldest started school a few weeks ago, and since then I have been doing some temporary work. That finishes tomorrow so hopefully then I'll be able to get into a better routine and not be so knackered all the time, and I can get back into daily posts!

Anyway, today's nails are the last of W7's sprinkles-esque polishes I have to show you, Lava Flow (I have also swatched Mosaic and Salt and Pepper so check those out too!). I cannot stress how fantastic these polishes are. Bang on trend, super pretty and at a fraction of the price of certain other brands - cannot go wrong! Like Salt and Pepper, Lava Flow has a white creme base and contains black matte glitter, this time with the addition of shiny red glitter too. This was two easy coats and a top coat of Poshe. They need a top coat to make them shiny, but they aren't gritty at all, which is another huge bonus.

I have been trying to avoid using too much glitter, because the removal stresses me and my nails out, but this wasn't too bad. Ok, it was still a bitch, but less of a bitch than I was expecting. I am loving loving loving these polishes - they're just so interesting! I like my nails to be a talking point (most of the time) and these polishes are perfect for adding interest when I don't have the inclination (read: can't be bothered) to do stamping or nail art. W7 get's it 100% right with these. Respect!

Will you be picking up any of these? Let me know if you do, you wont be disappointed!

Hx

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Best of British Weekly Round Up

It's that time again!

Helly at the Nail Newbie shows her nubs some love with Dollish Polish Expecto Patronum
Wendy over at Wendy's Delights has won a Giveaway from The Hungry Asian and her prize Twenty Ten has been swatched here, also go check out The Hungry Asian's blog and polishes available at Etsy. Going from one extreme to the other see Wendy's Summery Manicure using tape to create a simple & easy square design!

Claire at nuthin' but a nail thing has been continuing on with the 30 Day Challenge with Rainbow Gradient Striped Manicure
Emma at Emma's Little Corner has a little success after a frustrating week of failures PVA experiment Blue and Black gradient mani
Ruth has some more fun with gradients this week, refusing to accept summer is over!
Lou once again is on a bit of a Chanel kick with one of the Fashion's Night Out Limited Editions
Charlotte at Charlottes-nails has been busy with apples and glitter this week for the Fall into Autumn Challenge.
Its the end of the favourite things challenge for Steph, here's Steph's Day 10 Favourite Mani. Steph can't wait for the next challenge, will you be joining in the fun?
Lyndsay from Pie's Eyes drops in from her holiday in Spain to show off some NEW Holographic Polish from Kiko!
Putting her nubbins to good use this week, imPRESS - Press on Manicure false nails were put through there paces over on Enigmatic Rambles' blog.
PrettyKittyClaws put her Nails Inc Sprinkles to good use with a pretty Cupcake Mani.
Sam at Polished Art unleashed her inner geek with this physics-based rainbow manicure as part of the 31 Day Challenge.
Jo at Northern Nails has reached the half way point in the 30 day challenge this week was all about the nail art!
Nada has got her hands on her first set of Models Own nail polish and has swatched them! check it out!
Laura at She Who Does Nails has been continuing the 30 Day Challenge and did a cool rainbow nails design using a dotting tool!



Polished Criminails sticks to the British theme this week by showing us 4 of the new BarryM Gelly Nail Paints in the shades Prickly Pear, Grapefruit, Satsuma & Pomegranate
Kerry at JustTalkNails shows off the new Barry M Burgundy Croc effect teamed up with A Englands Iseult
Vic has been on a major polishing spree this week (13 manis and counting) but she just can't decide whether she wants to show you delicate print or holo bling.

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Adventures in Stamping - Leafy...

Bonjour

So this week's Adventures in Stamping theme was simply "leafy", something which can be broadly interpreted I guess. I didn't want to use green, or autumnal colours so I went for black and silver. But not just any black and silver. The base is 3 coats of Pretty & Polished Black Swan, a pretty pretty black holo. It's not quite linear, but so gorgeous. Hard to photograph though, the little scamp. I stamped with Barry M Silver Foil and Bundle Monster 310. Please excuse the shrinkage, my nails are too short to wrap the tips at the moment and Poshe is not kind when you have 2 layers of it on top of and underneath the stamping...

Black Swan alone

Bottle shot! Trying so hard to be linear...

My challenge manis have been a bit sucky recently. I feel like they're not coming out as well as I imagine them, or they just plain suck. This is better, slightly. More practice needed I think...

Have you got any Pretty & Polished bottles in your collection? I heart this! It is quite sheer so although it's a big bottle I think I'll layer it over a black creme next time I wear it. So pretty :)

Hx

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NOTD - You Aint Nothin' but a Houndstooth Dog...

Ok, first off apologies for the tedious title. It's early, k?

Since my nails are behaving really badly at the moment, this is an old manicure from about a month ago. I used Color Club Poptastic (pink) and Chelsea Girl (blue) and stamped over them with Konad Special black and the houndstooth design from the new Bundle Monster set. Loved it. I'm always surprised by how much I love neons on me. I think I need moar...but seeing as my stash reached over 500 this week I will refrain...for now...

If I remember rightly the stamp misbehaved a little bit and I had to fill in some parts with a brush, but once the top coat was on you could barely tell. T'was a cute mani for nubs, even if the execution wasn't perfect.

Have a nice weekend everyone, I have my in laws visiting...so a stressful one for me!

Hx

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