Tuesday, 4 September 2012

31 Day Challenge - Day 6: Violet

Here's post number 2 of 3! It's day 6 in the 31 day challenge and the theme is violet! For this mani I attempted to use tape again. It was more successful than previous attempts, although still not perfect.


I used some craft scissors to cut tape with a squiggly edge, and then I added the dots using a dotting tool.  The polishes are Jessica Ruffled Bottoms and Stargazer 232.

And here's what coming up  (if you don't know it by heart by now).


Have a ganders at all the other violet nails today:

Diana at Nails By Diana
Meredith at Perfectly Polished
Nicole at The Color Republic

Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed
Shelby at Shelby's Swatches
Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful 
Liz and Lisa at Lozlosa 
Mari at Nailista 
Miss L at Beauty by Miss L 
Gini at Sassy Paints 
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Teal Tuesdays: Ovarian Cancer Awareness

Today's a bit of a special Teal Tuesdays.  September is Ovarian cancer awareness month in the US, so the group was asked if we'd like to make the theme of one of our Tuesday manicures Ovarian cancer awareness.  We've got loads of extra people from outside of the group joining in today, and we've even got Inlinkz for the occasion!

So here's my manicure, I decided to keep it simple.


The three polishes I used are Barry M Matt White and Teal, and OPI Mermaid's Tears.

If you want to find out more about ovarian cancer, have a look at Target Ovarian Cancer or Ovarian Cancer Action.

Hopefully the Inlinkz code below works so you can see all the other manicures!



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Monday, 3 September 2012

My Favourite Things: Glitter

Happy Monday!  I'm posting this one a day early, as I have three more posts for you tomorrow.  Three!  So anyway, here you have the next manicure in the My Favourite Things challenge hosted by Kelly at Ooh La La Polish!  Today's theme is glitter.

Instead of going for the usual full on glitter bomb, I decided to try out my Barry M Black Multi Glitter.  This is a black polish with teeny holographic glitter in it.  Then I stuck on some stars and ta-da!


My camera didn't want to focus on the glitteryness, sorry!

We're coming up to the end of the challenge now!  Only three more manicures left.  Next up is hearts/love on Thursday :)


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Sunday, 2 September 2012

Best Of British

Happy Sunday my lovelies! This is a scheduled post, so as you're reading this I'm in the car on my way to Kent for my new job, aaargh!

Here's what all the lovely British bloggers have been up to this week :)

British Nail Bloggers

Lucy from Lucy's Stash shows how to do a perfect Fishtail Braid manicure.

The Nail Newbie tries a braided manicure too, but it is a peachy plait or a fishtail fail?

Emma's been feeling arty this week at Imagination In Colour, starting with a Purple Dotted Manicure and later a first attempt at 'brush marbling'!

Nada has been busy swatching the Orly Mineral FX Collection Fall 2011.  Sadly she's missing one of the polishes from the collection to make it complete!

Claire at nuthin' but a nail thing has been rainbow gradienting it up!

Things have been looking a bit patchy over at Never Mind Suzi as Steph tries out some MUA polishes.

Wendy from Wendy's Delights has found W7 Magnetic Nail Polish at New Look in store & on line!

A simple nail tutorial for seaside nails perfect for the last weeks of summer 2012 over at Enigmatic Rambles.

Abi falls in love with A-England's Perceval and doesn't seem to realise its not autumn yet.

While reviewing some of her recent nail buys, Ruth also created a simple blue matte finish with some striking gold tips this week!

Lyndsay from Pie's Eyes discovers some great stamping polishes from the UK High Street and shows off her latest ColorClub purchases.

Jo at Northern nails has been Saran Wrap Mani featuring the new OPI Germany collection.

Rachel-Karina over at Polished Criminails gets ready to undergo the grueling giveaway featuring some holographic and great British Polishes!

Laura at She Who Does Nails has been trying out her new stamping plates and rhinestones with a Tiffany-esque floral manicure.

Charlotte at Charlottes-nails broke her laptop charger this week so has only posted one challenge post for the lazy days of summer challenge.

Sarah Louise plays with Laquistry's Placid on Acid over Nails Inc's Great Dover Street to create Sparkly Leaves!.  She also thought it would be a good thing to reorganise her polish stash...bad idea.

The Crumpet has been celebrating her birthday this week. You can see this purple ruffle mani as well as some of her favourite purples.

Alexis at Glitter Tips takes a step towards becoming the craziest cat lady by painting her cats portraits on her nails!

Vic at Glowstars.net has probably pushed her nail art obsession to the limit with her Carnival mani.
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Saturday, 1 September 2012

31 Day Challenge - Day 5: Blue

Morning ladies (and it's actually morning this time).  Today is the 5th day in the 31 day challenge and the theme is blue.  As promised, I have a manicure using China Glaze Manhunt.  Without further ado...


I attempted to add a glitter gradient in Saffron 07 and then added some flowers using Star Gazer 232 and some more Manhunt.

This is a really simple manicure.  I even recreated it on my mum in black and gold, despite how she likes to wriggle.  She managed to ruin the cushion thing of top of this box thing that we have the other day, when she decided to stick her hand out over the post-it just as I was about to put a blob of polish on it.  Tut tut.

Next up is violet and this'll be posted on Tuesday.


I'm  moving down to Kent tomorrow for this new job, and there's a small possibility I still haven't finished packing, so I suppose I should go get on with that!  After I finish my coffee...  Have a lovely weekend everyone :)

Have a look at all the other blue manicures:
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