tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13828892646468350782024-03-14T03:17:00.024+00:00AbbienailA British nail art obsessive's blog Abbienailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11575176152884404232noreply@blogger.comBlogger206125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1382889264646835078.post-29154872088539740142013-12-12T12:06:00.001+00:002013-12-12T12:06:19.645+00:00Christmas countdown: Nail look 2 - dark gems <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Welcome to my second Christmas nail look! Again it is more universally winterish than full on Christmas cracker! ;) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">You know that everyone loves a good old vampy polish (I haven't said that in months!) for the colder, darker months and I'm no exception. I even went to the little chemist under the accommodation and bought a little Revlon Lasting Finish in Black Cherries (for like £2!!) as I was feeling that my collection was lacking a good dark shiny shade. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Two coats and I had sexy blackened purple/red nails but they didn't remain that way for more than a day ha! I added a little bit of glittttah from the Hungry Asian - Vote for Purple and then topped that off with my favourite things in this whole world, gems! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">what can I say, I looooove Starbucks :P </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">That's how old these pictures are, no red cups! I might have to get another Caramel Mac in a red cup purely for blogging purposes of course ;) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Seasonally appropriate I think! Next week the nails are going to get a little bit more cray and fun ;) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Now it's back to the dissertation :( I've procrastinated enough, all I want to do is make some embroidery, it's my new favourite past time, it's so fun, easy and enjoyable! Oh and paint my nails of course ;) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Merry Thursday everyone!</span>Abbienailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11575176152884404232noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1382889264646835078.post-5615213025754665732013-12-03T10:28:00.000+00:002013-12-03T10:28:00.802+00:00Christmas countdown: Nail look 1 tartan nail art <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I was going to post my next Japanese style nail art but as I was photographing them I realised that they actually looked more Christmassy than Japanese which made me think that I have a few nail looks which are inadvertently Christmassy! So I am going to do, as the title suggests, a kind of nail art countdown till actual crimbo ;). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">If I'm being honest I'm not too fussed about Christmas this year but I am excited for the opportunity to go uber cray with my nails and no one can question it, not that it has ever stopped me before but.....ya know what I mean! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I'm easing you in gently with these first nails - they aren't necessarily reserved for Christmas as they are on trend and all that, so don't worry if you aren't ready for roast turkey nails just yet...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">These nails have had 2 lives. In their first they were just Barry M nude with a white grid for a few days, which I enjoyed but then I got bored. I picked up my little paint brush and a red polish and filled in some of the squares until I the correct pattern for tartan. Then I went over the gaps with a black striper, finished with a fox and deer charm off of HEX et voila! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">You can see the shade difference with the green nail :P you can see that I was wearing these for a while, look at the growth from the cuticle! Ha! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">It was like having wrapping paper on my nails...so that was enjoyable ;) although with the charms I was channelling an English heritage look just without the dead foxes thankfully! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I've got another two looks lined up so I shall schedule them as not to miss my own deadlines. I have got to write 5,000 words of my dissertation by next Friday :| lawd help me! So not a lot of time for fresh nail art but maybe a colour change :). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Can I just ask: where did November go?! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Seeyou soooooon! </span>Abbienailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11575176152884404232noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1382889264646835078.post-24361885357434174092013-11-10T20:58:00.001+00:002013-11-10T20:58:30.775+00:00Inspired by...Japanese nail art (part 1)<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">After a week and two days of naked nails (yeah I know right!) I have finally had the time to actually do my nails, without feeling like I should be doing uni work. Also I found great inspiration from all the talented Japanese nail artists on insta and tumblr, especially <a href="http://nailsalonavarice.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Avarice</a> - they do awesome detail work. There's something about Japanese nail art that is so distinctive but also the clients are really creative too, which is something I admire! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">So, I am splitting this post into 2 parts as these are my two favourite different styles of JNA (of course there are many more); super detail and embellished. Today I am showing you my embellished style! Y'all know I love me some embellishment...more is more, right? However I have toned it down to suit the more feminine, delicate style of JNA that I have been seeing around lately :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I recently bought two bags of mixed coloured gems from ebay, both have 1000 gems, I got 3mm and 1mm and they were delivered the next day...amaaaaazing! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I used 3 coats of Barry M Nude for the base colour, it's real sheer which is nice as if you only wear one coat it just looks like you have lovely healthy nails ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">If you've been reading my blog for a while you will know of my love for Macaroons...I found some in Ipswich, they were in Patisserie Valerie all this time! So, yeah, they are featuring in the next photos just cos (I just finished eating them all...feel so sick, I'm such a glutton at times -.-') </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Honestly such good value, and such fun to sort them out into colours...I'm not even being sarcastic :| there are so many colours! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Fun! I used MUA's version of caviar beads for the gold, red, purple and green beads, they took an age to sort out though lol! That's why this took a while to do, I was just sorting through multi coloured gems and beads :P. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I love the polka dot nails (inspired by nails_by_jen) they're so cute! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I imagine I'll be keeping these for a few days at least :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Hope you likeeeee! </span><br />
Abbienailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11575176152884404232noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1382889264646835078.post-61934966662615178222013-10-30T21:21:00.000+00:002013-10-30T21:21:18.222+00:00Halloween nail art - severed fingers, organs and a nonchalant cat...
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Long story
short: my life at the moment is trying to juggle my dissertation, degree
project and seeing my boyfriend so as usual blogging is on the back burner but
you don’t expect anything else from me right?! ;). I have done my nails three
times since I last posted! I’m slacking but doing my nails is definitely becoming
a way to unwind and forget about uni! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">I thought I
should make the effort as it’s Halloween tomorrow…I went to Alton Towers scarefest
for my boyfriend’s birthday so I did my Halloween nails last week! I am still
wearing the nail art now (I only took the photos this morning :O) so I
apologise if it looks a bit rough round the ol’ edges but it is ha! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">I drew
inspiration from several places, I found a Japanese nail artist who did these
awesome organ nails and I just loved them so much, she’s on insta, she’s a real
artist combining super detail nailart with more sculptural works! Her website
is <a href="http://www.hatsukifurutani.com/"><span style="color: #0563c1;">www.hatsukifurutani.com</span></a> and her
insta is @hatsukifurutani I would definitely recommend looking through her
work! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">You know I
normally stay away from doing mixed nail art as I can never get it to flow and
I still don’t think I achieved it but they look ok together, hey it’s Halloween,
they’re meant to look weird ;) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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used my little brush and a black nail art pen, these were actually pretty quick
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Abbienailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11575176152884404232noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1382889264646835078.post-2475117841907788752013-09-30T15:38:00.001+01:002013-09-30T15:38:48.438+01:00I'm all about that Nail Life...<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hey, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">It's good to be back...online! As you may, or may not, know I moved back to uni two weeks ago, which normally isn't a problem, however my new laptop thang doesn't have an Ethernet port and the accommodation only uses broadband...so long story short I finally have a usb to Ethernet adapter that works! Two weeks without a laptop was hard...thank god for the iphone :P. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Anywho, these nails are something I've been thinking about doing for a while now, and I figured that whilst I was on a nude nail hype (and was lacking alternative ideas/inspo) I would utilise my spare time ha! I love using my nails as a way of expressing how I'm feeling or showing what I love, so I was thinking of a phrase to use to show my love of the nail art world, it was harder than it sounds to think of two four letter words :P I was thinking "nail junkie" but that wouldn't have worked as one letter would have been on my thumb so it wouldn't have flowed. I'm sure I've heard the phrase "nail life" floating around on insta and I think it's pretty perfect, it's kinda funny and it confuses people who aren't part of the community...aka muggles, they're like "what does that mean?!?!" and my reply is always, if you don't know, you don't know ;). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">There's something about finger tattoos that I really love however I would never get them done on myself so I compromised and used my nails...I love typography and just letters in general however I am not gifted in that area so I just copied an old favourite of mine; old English. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I practised the type a couple of times trying to get it as small as possible to fit onto my redonkulously slim nail beds and then I just went for it using a nail art pen (haven't used one in a while!). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Basically I loved these nails but like I said, no one else did ha! My sister couldn't read the letters....but that's my sister so she doesn't count ;) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Ok so I'm living in student halls, yep again, and there's this guy who lives next to me but in a different flat, he thinks he can sing...I've got no problem with people singing along to songs in the day time but he is singing at the top of his voice, at midnight to cringy old songs like "Stand by me"....REALLY DOE, why why why is all I think oh and shut the ffffff up...I don't think anyone can understand how embarrassing and irritating this is! He does vocal licks like he thinks he is on x factor...he's really trying but he sounds like he should be singing in a working mans club on a sunday afternoon. GAWD I hate students hahahahaha. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Sorry about that ;) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I'm going to go catch up on the blog posts that I've missed over the past two weeks! Wish me luck ;) </span><br />
<br />Abbienailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11575176152884404232noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1382889264646835078.post-30625669899859868432013-09-18T18:35:00.000+01:002013-09-18T18:35:00.145+01:00China Glaze - Blue Sparrow swatches<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hey, just a swatch for you today :) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I got this bottle from my favourite place to get discounted old china glaze, sally's salon services...you know I love blue and at £2.15 how could I resist?! Blue sparrow claims to be neon, however it doesn't look even remotely bright which is slightly confusing? It has lovely lighter blue glitter running through it which makes it look like velvet when it is left as a matte! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I found that I had to do three coats as it was very streaky and uneven, it didn't self-level at all :( however it is a gorgeous colour so I can forgive its misdemeanours :p </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">So it's a very lovely colour but it's definitely not neon, I would try it over white but my bottle of Barry M white has turned into a gloopy mess despite being half full....I think it's time to invest in a more expensive white :( </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Talking of expensive polish...have you seen YSL's plummy offering for a/w?! It's so beautiful, I think it may become my first YSL polish 😍 hehehe </span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I had the idea for this nail art one day when I was removing some neon polish, as I had a white layer under the neon and as I removed it you could see both layers and I thought it looked really cool....and then I forgot about it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I remembered it though a few weeks later and quickly drew it into my new nail art folder/sketchbook thing (I'll show it you when I've got a few more ideas down!) which I got the idea for from @attitudenails on instagram :). I finally did the nail art after my birthday using one of the polishes my bestie got me :) - Rimmel Sun Downer which is a gorgeous red orange, two coats and it was glossy and smooth :O. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I did two coats of sun downer and then a coat of topcoat, then when that dried I did a quick layer of white and then a layer of SpaRituals Dreamsicle...as you can imagine all those layers took a while to dry but this is the easiest nail art I've done recently so it was quite nice to just sit around and wait for my nails to dry as once they were dry it literally took 5 minutes to achieve the look on both hands haha! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">All I did was did a cotton bud (q-tip) into nail polish remover and then I just made like I was removing my polish but in a more precise way and voilà jagged, edgy nail art was born :p.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I chose not to topcoat as I thought it would make it look too, well, glossy :p when this look is about looking undone and grungy :). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I was influenced by my phone case too I think, I mean look at it!! £20 and it's just wearing away....but to be fair I do like how it looks haha</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">The weird thing is that my favourite blogger Lizzy recently posted a very similar look but she used a different method, great minds think alike eh ;) you can see her wonderful creation <a href="http://lizzysblogplace.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/sinful-colors-strapped-orly-nail-artist.html" target="_blank">here</a> :D <br />
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I'm moving back to uni this weekend woohooooo but don't fear I have a couple of posts written and scheduled :O I know I'm actually organised for once in my life :P! <br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">When I first started getting into polish (all those years ago ;)) I couldn't understand the fascination with nude polishes, I was like why would I want to paint my nails in a flesh colour when there's the entire rainbow and more to use!! But now I see the attraction (this must be growing up ;P) they are good as palette cleansers in between more cray manis, they make your fingers look longer and make you look more put together and polished (sorry!). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I only used 4 polishes in this comparison as these are the 4 most similar - in terms of opacity and finish, I have <a href="http://www.abbienail.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/birthday-mani-illamasqua-monogamous-and.html" target="_blank">Illamasqua Monogamous </a> and <a href="http://www.abbienail.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/heart-tip-nail-art.html" target="_blank">Barry M Nude</a> too but they are too different to the others. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In the bottles they don't look that similar however when they are on the nail they look completely different to how they do in the bottle...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">OPI - My Vampire is Buff: Two coats, my favourite as it feels cleaner than the others. £11.50 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Essie - Sand Tropez: Two coats, looks more like a cement grey than a flesh tone however when worn alone it looks a lot more neutral. £7.99</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Gosh - Highschool Flirt: Two coats, very similar to MVIB but slightly warmer. £3.99 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Maybelline Forever Strong - Rose Poudre: Two coats, pink toned beige. £4.09 </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Like I said my favourite by far is MVIB with Highschool Flirt as a close second, it definitely is the closest to my skintone and looks flattering on everyone that I've seen wearing it! The only downside is the price that we pay for OPI in the UK in shops, I got mine from Sally's Salon Services, obviously you can get them cheaper online but you know I like instant gratification ;). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">There are still some Essie nudes that I'm interested in and L'Oreal are bringing out their new nude collection with lipsticks and polishes so I'll probably get those too ;) If I was in the US I'd definitely check out RGB x HIPP nail foundations and tints because they look awesome!! </span><br />
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<br />Abbienailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11575176152884404232noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1382889264646835078.post-49029621601289977962013-09-04T18:25:00.001+01:002013-09-04T18:25:22.663+01:00My 21st birthday mani<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hi, so it was my birthday this time last week, I'm 21 now :O </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">It was hard to decide what to do on my nails, glitter? Cake? etc so I narrowed it down to my two favourite colours at the moment (Nails Inc Baker Street and Illamasqua Stance) and then I thought I'd bring out the stars, unicorn charm, gems and of course 21! I went for an old English font for the numbers as I think it looks cooool and tones down the girlyness of the other nails :P. I've just realised that last year I used illamasqua (see last years nails <a href="http://abbienail.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/birthday-mani-illamasqua-monogamous-and.html" target="_blank">here</a> - soooo short :O)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I've got to apologise for the photos though as a few are blurred and yes...I resorted to doing the claw! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I did my right hand in low light so I thought it looked ok until I took this photo hahaha</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I got this bag as a present and noticed that my nails totally matched it! Ha (again sorry that the nails are out of focus...I swear I am a photography student :P) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I think the stars look ok, I had been trying to think of a good use for them up to now! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I know I have posted in a while, in fact my birthday was two weeks ago today! I've been all over the place as it's nearly time to go back to uni so I've been doing all those important things like sorting accommodation, student finance buying new stuff etc. And I went to Ipswich for the weekend after my birthday and had a really good time which just makes me want to go back to uni even more, I'm going a bit stir crazy being at home...and I think my nails are suffering, I feel like I've got nothing to inspire me at the moment which sucks but in good news I have just written two more posts up :O so I do have something to show you soon :p. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Hope everyone's been well! See ya soon :)</span>Abbienailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11575176152884404232noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1382889264646835078.post-90376368317476357162013-08-18T12:28:00.000+01:002013-08-18T12:28:45.661+01:00Recent nail looks <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hey remember me? :P </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Life is just getting in the way of my nails at the moment but it's my 21st birthday next week :O so I need to think of some fitting nails! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Anyway I have amassed a small collection of photos of random nails that I've done but aren't worthy of a whole post dedicated to them so I thought I'd show you them now :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">A while ago when I had Chanel Bel - Argus on my nails I did a dry marble look with Azure and took photos but never got round to posting it! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">See it's easier to see the difference when compared to Bel Argus on its own :P I thought it looked really pretty! It was super easy to do just blob both colours on and mix with a pointy stick/brush/toothpick whatever! I added some pearls and HEX charms to complete the look...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">still not perfect but a really nice nude anyway! It gives that polished look that I sometimes enjoy to rock inbetween my more in your face manis :P (nude comparison post coming up!) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">And I've had this very simple nail art on on for over a week now!! I cut my nails down seriously this week too, they were well over an inch long :O I'm not sure that you'll be able to tell that they have been shortened though as they are still very long :P</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So I am loving the whole negative space thing that's happening at the moment! I put the polish a little beneath my natural tip as I didn't want to go for a French mani look :P </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Hope everyone is well! And thank you to those loyal readers/commenters you make this worthwhile and I love you! Especially you Lizzy!!! :) </span>Abbienailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11575176152884404232noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1382889264646835078.post-78588992280253798262013-08-05T19:23:00.002+01:002013-08-05T19:23:48.669+01:00Under the Sea nail art with Barry M Blue Glitter<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hi! The title of this post is by request of my mother lol! So I wanted some glitter in my life as it has been a while...Barry M is my go to glitter producing brand, just because they are cheap and produce glitter that is full coverage! The unimaginatively named Blue Glitter is exactly that a nice sparkly medium blue glittah. Which sparkles like the sea...hence the nail art ;) good eh? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">These nails came about as I was in my room and saw Stance from Illamasqua sitting there and I thought hmmm that might look nice against this blue as scales?? So I went with it and just carried on from there :P I was influenced by this gorgeous Australian opal bracelet that my dad got me for my birthday last year, I love the colours that it changes between, so pretty :). I couldn't just leave it with only polish so I grabbed my pearls and nail charms and chain! And went for it ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Yeah, I like these nails a lot ;) back on my crazy nail game, it's the only way I mean who wants boring nails! Nails should be fun (although I get it if your work makes you dull them down :( booo for boring work!). I haven't done my thumbs as they're kind of weird at the moment, I haven't filed them in a few days and so they are growing wonky lol so I need to sort them out before I do them :P. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Everyone's first question with these nails has been...don't they get caught on things?? So I thought I'd show you the only thing they have yet been caught on....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Baha! This has happened a few times but other than that the chains are fine, they aren't rusting which is what I was worried about :P </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">It was funny today, we had to go check on my mum's friends tortoise as she is on holiday and it lives in the garden...it likes to chase feet and then bite your toes! It was so cute! But I thought that I've actually got an appropriate prop for a change :P so I took a quick picture heheh </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Hellooo, hope everyone's well! It's been so hot and to be honest doing my nails has not been on my mind, I've just been out and about enjoying the weather, I went to Alton Towers yesterday and went on the new ride: The Smiler, it was really fun but seriously shakey like the same kind of pain that you experienced when riding the Corkscrew! But other than the headache it was so good! The queue wasn't even that long (well it didn't feel long :P) so I definitely recommend it! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I recently painted my mums nails with Dior Riviera and it looked so summery and juicy that I had to use it on mine the other day, the best thing about it is that I only used ONE coat to get this coverage annnnnd look at my barely there ridges after one coat! Gah that's why I love Dior ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It's really easy to be inspired by a colour like this, I wanted to do a gradient, so I used Illamasqua Stance and a pink Barry M as the middle mixer colour. I haven't done a gradient in so long, I don't know why they're so gorgeous and easy! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So once I'd got that I had the idea to do something seasonally appropriate; ice lollies! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I'm not sure that they look like ice lollies but I know that they're meant to be and they still kinda look cute? Hehe well I didn't like them enough to do them on my other hand though....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span>Abbienailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11575176152884404232noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1382889264646835078.post-86212046134795961542013-07-15T15:19:00.000+01:002013-07-15T15:19:01.182+01:00Neon camo print + my weekend!<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hey! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I've got a mix of "real" photos from my camera and some from my phone for you today as me and my nails have been out and about ;).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">You know that I love neons so much, I had to use them again...I know, I need to give love to some other polishes but this weather is just so amazing! Hahaha. I also love camo print so it was a no brainer really ;). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Camo is good to do as it requires little effort for good payoff, saying that I did get a bit obsessive with it, I had to redo a couple as they weren't quite right pah. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I used China Glaze - Knockout Orange, Flying Dragon and I'm with the Lifeguard and Models Own - Luis lemon and my nail art brush and then added the chains. I ventured outside to take the pictures cos well why not! I love Knockout Orange so much, it's the brightest neon I own, it's amazing! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I wore these nails for about a week and I had no chips or signs of wear!! I only took them off last night cos I started to piggle the chains off and then one thing lead to another and I'd pealed half the polish off....naughty I know but it's addictive :P. So Seche Vite is in my good books again, I was hating on it the other day because I had reached the point where it gets gloopy, ie half way through...it's so much waste! :(. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Due to the weather we went to a BBQ at a family friends which was fun and then we went to the beach and missed the hottest day so far which I'm happy about :P I've also started reading for my dissertation, which I will be doing as I found out my grades for second year today, I got a 2.1- so I passed yay! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I hope you all have had good weekends too! With plenty of suncream involved, I'm on the factor 50 ;) heheh I've got a very colourful mani lined up for you next :)</span><br />
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Abbienailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11575176152884404232noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1382889264646835078.post-91431066657150596032013-07-07T15:37:00.001+01:002013-07-07T15:37:40.600+01:00Junk Food nail art <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hi, so I've been mia for a while as, quite frankly, life has been in the way of blogging...you know how time just runs away with you and before you know it it's been two weeks already! My blogging has slowed down again because I just haven't been doing my nails! I've been thinking about my blog compared to others and I realise that I don't have to keep apologising for not blogging all the time, that's not what my blog is about, it's about sharing the nail art that I do with like minded people who don't care how often I post :) my blog is a platform for people to read about what the thoughts were behind the nails and to see more pictures than I give on instagram. So I am finally happy in my blogging skin, as it were ;). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Now I've got over the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">deep ish let's get on with the happy nail art :D </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">What do you do when you don't know what to put on your nails? You look around for inspiration, wallpaper, clothing, the internet or in this case your fridge ;) ok so my fridge doesn't actually contain any of the following :( but my head is full of it :p. Of course I'm on about good ol junk food. I figured it was a while since I had done any cartoon style work (if ever) so no time like the present ;). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">These nails turned out the way I had in my head which is always a good thing and also a rarity ha! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">My base colour is the beautiful Illamasqua Nomad, then I painted the food stuffs on with my little paint brush using various nail polishes, once they had dried I went around the edges with a black nail art pen and then to finish I went and put the all important white highlights on with the white nail pen, that white highlight turns the images from flat to living cartoony foods hahaha. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I didn't do my left hand as I smudged the polish on basically every finger and I really couldn't be bothered to fix it and then do nail art lol</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">My pinky is chips/fries with ketchup, then nachos with cheese, chocolate cake with caramel sauce and pepperoni pizza mmmmmm my thumb says I love junk food (I'm not sure why it's out of focus, sorry!) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Freakily my mum came home from work and said that it was world food week at the school she works at so obviously I had to do her nails according to the menu ;) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">She has from pinky inwards, pizza, fish and chips, curry (really hard to think of how to portray that ha) burger and on the thumbs a taco and a fajita. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">She said that everyone at work loved them, especially the chips, they're my fav too, and that they thought they were transfers :p I am quite proud of them hehe. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I'm going to play catch up and comment now on all the blogs I've been neglecting! Hope you're enjoying the beautiful weather (if it's sunny where you are!) see you all soon :)</span> Abbienailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11575176152884404232noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1382889264646835078.post-37033494522960902082013-06-27T19:52:00.002+01:002013-06-27T19:52:15.994+01:00Chanel Bel-Argus swatches <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hey, at first I thought I'd be coming here and typing a bad review of this gorgeous polish, when I applied it, it was lumpy and streaky however I had only done one coat and I was in a bad mood so I was blaming the polish lol!! I did the second layer today and everything was perfect :). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">As I was applying it I thought that it looked similar to Opi Swimsuit but Chanel is darker and with a purple duochrome but they are in the same blue sparkly pretty family, cousins I'd say ;). The duochrome didn't come across in the photos at all, in real life it is evident but only slightly and in certain lights but it's so pretty just as a blue! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So shiny and reflective, I haven't edited these photos, it's that multidimensional all on it's own babbbbby ;). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">As lovely as it is you know I can't leave it alone, I'm currently doing some nail art with it whilst watching Sherlock (the tv series with Cumberbatch...mmmmmm) I don't know what I'll watch when I've finished that, I've just gone though all 6 series of doctor who, then both series of Luther...which returns like next week wooohoooo. Heheheh. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Tropical prints are obviously in fashion at the moment, even Beth on Corro was rocking a tropical ensemble ;) but yeah I can see the attraction; if you can't go to the rainforest/beach bring it to you and it sure makes you feel a lot happier (espesh when the weather is soooo shocking). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I used Illamasqua Radium (swatches <a href="http://abbienail.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/illamasqua-radium-swatches.html" target="_blank">here</a>) as the base for this as it's nice and vibrant! I'm going to go ahead and say it; I am in the love with these nails!! Heheheh </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">If you have an aversion to knees then you might not like a couple of my pictures...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">That is a little banana on my middle finger :P I liked doing these as it's about layering to make a scene which is something I've never really done before. I just used my little paintbrush to do everything. A trick I have picked up when doing little details such as the pointed ends of the skinny leaves is to try and get it as small as you can and then use the background colour to go over the line and make it thinner from the outside, it is so much easier to do it like that! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I'm not sure how long I'll keep these on, despite my love for them, as my nails grow super quick so manis look scruffy on me pretty quickly due to growth! :( but I got my second HEX order yesterday, so much cutenesssss! I can't wait to use them and show you :) </span><br />
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<br />Abbienailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11575176152884404232noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1382889264646835078.post-56824955956276981092013-06-19T17:31:00.002+01:002013-06-19T17:31:56.518+01:00Flossgloss Neon nacho negative space nail art<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hello, I hope everyone is well on this lovely day! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I have the final flossgloss polish today :( boo but hopefully I might get some more for my birthday ;). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">So Neon nacho is the most appropriate name I ever saw, this seriously looks like that weird nacho cheese that comes out of nozzle in America! I had the displeasure of trying some when I was in New York....I wasn't impressed, it just tasted of warm runny stuff lol but anyway this polish is shamazing! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I chose to do a negative space mani for two reasons, 1. They look awesome and 2. The dry time is a lot quicker when you are only painting two bits :p. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Tom said upon seeing these: "you going to a rave??!" lol but he did actually like them hahaha I think it's because they're very bright :p. I'm not sure who was the first to do the negative space mani but i thank them for the good idea :D. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">They were easy to do, I just used a white nail art pen to outline my natural curves ;) and then filled them in with the brush from a the white polish that I used. Then I just used the brush from nacho to go over the top! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Butttt I've given my blog a makeover again...I like it more however there is one thing; instead of saying "continue reading" it says "continue lendo" lol I don't know how to change it but I imagine everyone knows what it means :P. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Also I'm now on tumblr, I like the way you view all images together so feel free to follow me on there using the button on the right. :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Azure is as beautiful as it looks in the bottle but it sticks to my ridges like no other! I didn't have the patience to do more than two coats so I kinda just got over it, but it kind of detracts from the beauty of the polish. No complaints about the formula or brushstrokes. It gives a lovely metallic finish in soft lighting or the shade, whilst in direct sunlight it sparkles. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In this photograph you can see the colour change, more blue on the left and greeny on the right </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">At other times it looks an even deeper blue, it's just gorgeous! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I was planning on doing some nail art over the top of this but my nail pen was dead so I couldn't but I now have a new one and I've just made another order with HEX nail jewelry so when that arrives I might have to put this on again and so my intended nail art :). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I did have other photos but the duochrome makes my nails look seriously wonky and deformed hhahahahah so these will have to do for now. Pam over at <a href="http://www.polishpolice.com/" target="_blank">Polish police </a>has gorgeous swatches of Azure and Bel-Argus that I would recommend viewing for some real eyegasms ;). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Today, as promised is some nail art, which you may remember reading, I said I was enamoured with and that is still true...I was totally inspired by the roses that I received in my <a href="http://www.diynails.co.uk/products/lucky-dip" target="_blank">diy nails lucky dip bag</a> and so I decided to paint some roses and then contrast those with the 3D roses. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">This is one of those rare occasions where the finished product looks how you imagined it or maybe even better than you thought! I was so happy with these once I had finished them :p. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I went with Gosh Highschool Flirt (swatches <a href="http://abbienail.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/gosh-highschool-flirt-with-all-gold.html" target="_blank">here)</a> as a nice neutral base which could handle the colours of the various flowers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I painted the flowers on and then I stuck the roses down with nail glue and then I did the leaves to make sure they looked right alongside the roses. I must admit that after my other rose nail art I felt pretty confident that I'd be able to just whack these out but I had to redo the first few that I did until I got back into the swing of it :p infact my left hand took about 2 hours whilst my right only took 55 minutes! And that's with mixing the colours and dropping the glued flowers onto my legs and fingers...bahahaha. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I used a lot of polish for this mani, Flossgloss perf, kiko featured heavily for the green and darker purple, models own Lilac Dream, China Glaze ...Lifeguard for the leaves and then black and white by Barry m for mixing and highlights. I went over everything with seche Vite and nothing wanted to come off until I wanted them to, a few flowers refused to be removed so I was forced to piggle them off! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I loved wearing these, so pretty and cute too, received a few compliments on these, I do enjoy peoples faces when I tell them that I paint them myself hehehehe but who doesn't enjoy that :p. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">That's what I like about doing roses; if you get them right then they look impressive, more impressive than they actually are (but shussssh don't tell the muggles that!) ;) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">So those babies I was telling you about arrived...they are amazzzzzing! Obviously the title gives it away, I bought Azure and Bel-Argus! Was you ever in any doubt that I would be able to resist them though :p </span><br />
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Abbienailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11575176152884404232noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1382889264646835078.post-52414452420417138792013-06-07T18:00:00.000+01:002013-06-07T18:00:00.743+01:00Illamasqua Raindrops swatches<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hey, so finally I have managed to wear and love the legend that is Raindrops! You know how it is, you buy something due to the hype and then you are scared to actually wear it in case it disappoints you (case in point for me was Chanel Frenzy...but that's a long time ago now) however I am thankful to say that Raindrops did not let me down :). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">So lovely right? Delicate and pretty and sparkly in the sun, but not like a crazy glitter, I'm going to say work appropriate ;). It was a joy to wear and a joy to remove hahhahahaha. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Just a short and sweet post today, I've got something more exciting lined up for the next couple of posts! Nail art that I luuuuurve and some beautiful new polishes :D so ciao for now, you'll be hearing from me sooooon :) have a great weekend! I'll be at the seaside before I start my work placement on Monday, exciting and scary lol! </span>Abbienailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11575176152884404232noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1382889264646835078.post-81752295922657383642013-06-04T20:21:00.000+01:002013-06-04T20:21:03.594+01:00Ice cream nail art! Summer's here (on my nails at least)!<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hi! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I have been actual planning my posts! So I am sorted for the next three weeks! So expect a post every 2/3 days from now on :), it's taken me a while to get to this point in my blogging life where I am organised enough to post on a regular basis, so hopefully no more sporadic posting :p! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Today's nails are something I'd been thinking about recently due to the fact that it is now summer and I have pointed nails...which made me think of ice cream cones! They were so cute in my head but it took me a few goes to get them right on my nails, you wouldn't think that they took so long and so much thought but they did...hahaha they just didn't look quite right, at first I the cone lines were too similar colour to the cone base and the ice cream wasn't drippy enough! But I worked on them and now I am happy with them :) although it's times like these that I wish I could use acrylic to do 3D nail art! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">It sucks that I didn't have an actual ice cream to hold...so I went with the next best sweet thing, a homemade cupcake (made by my sis). I hope you know what I was going for :p. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">This morning I caved and ordered a couple of summer polishes...can anyone guess which ones ;) they should be here this week, when they arrive I'll put you out of your misery and show you them :D. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I am coming to you from my new (well overdue) laptop/tablet hybrid weeeheeee, I love it so much, it's so fast, although anything would be faster than my old notebook hahaha. I love how you can switch between stuff and just touch the screen</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">instead of the mouse lol I've got the HP Envy x2 which has a keyboard and the screen detaches as a tablet, it's bigger than the ipad but it's not heavy ;). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I got this polish in a set for Christmas, so they don't have names...annoying Techinc annoying. After my disappointment with Chanel Frenzy :( boohoo I was left with a taste for the greyed out lilac or a lilac tinged grey so I turned to the unnameable polish. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">It's nice but a bit blah on its own needed jazzing (ew) up so I went with the old trusted Wahnails pen and knocked out some leopard tips. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">These two are my favourite nails, they turned out the best. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Here's the bottle in question. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Like I said these were just something that I did really quickly one day last week, just a bit of fun, simple but effective ;). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">This week I ordered from Diy Nails, which for those of you who don't know of the company, they are a british online company that sells studs, bows and hand painted false nails so they are an independent shop, with affordable prices. They posted a picture of what they called <a href="http://www.diynails.co.uk/products/lucky-dip" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Lucky Dip</span></a>s which are made up of bits of nail art goodies that they have left over and now are sellingfor£2.50 a bag! I had to get one of course; too much of a good offer to turn down! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">My bag arrived yesterday and here's what I got:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">My favourites are definitely the roses, Louis Vuitton stickers and the 4 glittery bows, oh and the adorable kitty fimo :D. Worth £2.50 I think so! I can't wait to use those roses, gah I love them!! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">(The background is a cute notebook I got from Paperchase recently....my other weakness is notebooks! Paha) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hope you all have a good weekend, I'm up at the crack of dawn tomorrow for our carboot sale!</span><br />
Abbienailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11575176152884404232noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1382889264646835078.post-54121366864832257332013-05-29T19:16:00.000+01:002013-06-01T21:09:19.862+01:00Models Own - Luis Lemon swatches<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hi! Here are my swatches of Luis Lemon, anyone understand that name? I was being lazy so only did a quick patchy white coat and I paid the price once I started painting the neon over it, I had to do 5 coats to cover the bold patches!! However over the opaque white bits two coats was perfect so this is no reflection on the polish, simply my idleness. Ha. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Look at it shining in the background! It's so bright, perfect highlighter pen yellow, I recommend it :) it was even sweeter as I didn't have to pay real money, I cashed out my boots points...worth it! I nearly picked up Greenberry from Barry M but I resisted as I thought it was too similar to Essie's Turquoise and Caicos but I no longer think that so I might go pick it up ;). Nothing worse than buyers regret. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I'm planning on doing some summery nail art tonight, might do a tutorial as well if anyone likes them of course :). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Short post again but there's not much to say about a polish that speaks for itself ;). Seeyou soooooon! </span>Abbienailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11575176152884404232noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1382889264646835078.post-7994240347999371502013-05-25T11:08:00.000+01:002013-05-25T11:08:06.437+01:00Illamasqua Poke swatches <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hey, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I'm having a short break from neon, very short as whilst I'm typing this I have a neon on :P so whenever I want a quick mani, I always turn to Illamasqua as I know that they will deliver in terms of quality and fast drying-ness (I sound like a sales rep :p) so I picked Poke, I thought it would have been just a normal purple but the glitter/shimmer brings it to life! The sparkle is blue and so it gives it an electric feel? It might be the purple sister of the lovely radium ;). I used two coats to perfection and a further one to banish the ridges... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">My swatches are a bit off actual colour, it is purple after all, but it is a Cadbury purple, a tad deeper than what I've shown. It's just a gorgeous colour, makes me want chocolate...I want chocolate all the time though...hehe. It's that nice that my friend who hates purple :O said she liked it ;). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I'm leaving my flat at uni today and going home for summer, that means I'll be clearing out a lot of my stuff including polish, unfortunately I won't be able to ship it to America but Europe is okay so I might do a small blog sale if anyone would be interested? If not they'll go on my carboot sale stall :). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I'll be back soon with a Models Own neon, ooh exciting ;)</span>Abbienailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11575176152884404232noreply@blogger.com1