tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77081417055297194282024-02-19T19:19:41.858+00:00MASPOOASEMaking A Silk Purse Out Of A Sows EarUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger143125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708141705529719428.post-77988009801316963692021-04-10T17:05:00.000+01:002021-04-10T17:05:41.919+01:00I Have Moved!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWhPjQYL9tI7d_YqlH8NbgVKdZaG8kJU0n95LD9VSUDyDHWQQ0mcVq6In3ieaDFGVVAcRMrVWX3-GdLaXs_Sv9t3kzd0hjdD38misL0lNfTXO91mKuej2iIdTz4YMaQflUg4VWrKZgLSLF/s867/moved.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="313" data-original-width="867" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWhPjQYL9tI7d_YqlH8NbgVKdZaG8kJU0n95LD9VSUDyDHWQQ0mcVq6In3ieaDFGVVAcRMrVWX3-GdLaXs_Sv9t3kzd0hjdD38misL0lNfTXO91mKuej2iIdTz4YMaQflUg4VWrKZgLSLF/w591-h215/moved.jpg" width="591" /></a></div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Well, hello there one and all! Long time no see! I have missed you!<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This will be a short and sweet posting, just to let you know that unless I find my nailart mojo again, my randomness will be taking itself over to <a href="https://leonessavita.blogspot.com/2021/04/welcome-to-my-blog.html" target="_blank">Leonessa Vita Blog</a> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I originally tried to just completely rebrand this blog to the new name, but I couldn't make it work how I wanted it to. But actually starting anew isn't that bad an idea anyway. I managed to lose my maspooase header image in the process, but hey, c'est la vie. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I will attempt to link myself up to all the usual channels, so have a look for me around and about.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">See you soon!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Wendy x<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> <br /></span></div><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708141705529719428.post-37666050332919201812016-06-29T19:31:00.000+01:002016-06-29T19:31:32.061+01:00Essie Silk Watercolor Palette 1 Review with Nailart<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hi Guys!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How are you doing? I'm back again, this time with a product review and a bit of nailart for you.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This Essie set was a super-kind gift from a work friend who has been to America on her hols. She picked this up for me and I was intrigued! As I've been out of the nailart scene for a while due to many changes in my home life I hadn't heard of this set and couldn't wait to try it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I especially didn't Google it before I tried it, because I didn't want to go in with any preconceptions. I have had Essie polishes before, which I have reviewed elsewhere in my blog, but have never really been blown away by any of the ones I have tried. But this set looked like fun!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here's what I got:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I like the look of the packaging, and as you can see, there is a standard sized bottle of white basecoat, called White Page, and 3 minis of the watercolor polishes, a yellow called "muse, myself", a pink called "love sheen", and a purple called "no shrinking violet".</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the back of the pack is the instructions on how to use them. Apologies for the light shining on the box:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided not to go with the design they suggested, as I wanted mine to look a bit more random.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I started by applying White Page. This is one coat:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you can see, it was a bit streaky. It dried to a sheen rather than a shine. If it was wall paint, think "eggshell". I applied another coat after this. It was reasonably fast drying, and by the time i'd done both hands, I didn't have long to wait before I could start again on the first nail.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then I went on to randomly blob on No Shrinking Violet. I did do them in the order suggested on the box, just in case there was a reason for that:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you can see, very random. I didn't go OTT with the first colour, because I wanted to leave room for the others.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then on with Love Sheen:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Again just random blobs. Was expecting a bit more merging between the two, but was pleased that the pink didn't completely obscure the purple.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next on with the last colour, Muse, Myself. Not sure why it's called that, I'm guessing some kind of pun on amuse myself:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sorry for the blurry pic here, I'm guessing it was getting too dark by that time. However when I went outside to take a better one, I dented my middle finger on the door **CRIES**:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So there we go, that was all of the colours on. I was a little bit underwhelmed at first, but actually as the day went on, I got quite attached to it. The colours really complemented each other, and in different lights there were different effects.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OBVIOUSLY I was not satisfied to stop at this, so I decided to stamp over it. I went with GALS stamping plate GA22:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I went with the sun image on the right hand side of the plate.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here we have how it came out:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Yes, I can hardly see it either! I have no idea why it came out so pale. It was fine on the stamper, and I tried both Konad stamping polish, and OPI Alpine Snow, which I've successfully stamped with before, and had the same result with both. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a picture in different lighting. You can "kind of" see it here:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This isn't to say that I don't like it. As Bob Ross would have said, it's a "happy accident". I like the mixed up look of it, but it definitely isn't what I expected, or aimed for.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I always do (when I remember), here is a pic of the brushes. Weirdly the brush in the mini is larger than the brush in the full size polish:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So what did I think?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Obviously as this was a present I don't know what it cost, but knowing the cost of Essies, I'm guessing it was mid-range. A bit more than Rimmels, but a bit less than OPI's. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It does have a lot of potential, and I will experiment more with it. However, I haven't been blown away I'm sorry to say. I know that the colours are intended to be sheer, but for me, they were a little *too* wishy-washy. Even over white, the yellow is very subtle.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It does however create a lovely girly pastel look, and with some holo glitter and a bit more imagination on my part, this set could really make something incredible (and I'm sure some people have done so).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In summary, it was a kind wonderful gift from a lovely person, and although I haven't got the best out of it on my first try, I am sure that I will have something better to show you in the future.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks for reading, and until next time...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">xx Wendy xx</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708141705529719428.post-81614781603317375502015-02-23T09:32:00.001+00:002015-02-23T22:30:39.078+00:00Garbage In, Garbage Out<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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Well hello there! Long time no blog. I hope you've all been keeping well, and having lots of lovely adventures?</div>
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I have a feeling this could be a long post, so if you're here for nails, there'll be some of those coming soon, as I have more pretties to show you. </div>
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My blog has been quiet for a couple of reasons. Let's start with the easiest. </div>
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When I first started, nail art was not the massive beast it is now. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't in its infancy or anything, but it was still pretty experimental, and perfectly possible to come up with something not seen before. There were a few big faces, but they were quite new to their fame and usually all had time for a quick chat in their comments.</div>
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As time went gone on, things changed, as they have a habit of doing. Big business saw an opportunity to make some money, and filtered its way in. This was inevitable of course, and not entirely a bad thing. More people found the fun of nail art, and of course, the big faces got *really* big. Nail art blogging became a paying business for some, which is great.</div>
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However, with that came a down side. Suddenly there were "rules" introduced about things like sponsored posts, (where companies send you items for review) and you had to put certain wording on your blog to make sure you didn't get sued (?). Who actually devised these rules, and who on earth would police them never really seemed clear to me.</div>
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Alongside that, because so many people were enjoying doing their nails, the outpouring of creativity meant that no matter what you did on your nails, someone had usually done it before. Which is fine if everyone can accept that two people might have the same idea, but all too often I would see people getting comments on their blog accusing them of stealing other peoples designs, and I became nervous about that happening to me. </div>
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So I got to the point where I was sticking to polish reviews, or checking Google every time I wanted to post a design I was pleased with, and usually something similar had already been done so I ended up not blogging about it. </div>
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All these things kind of sucked the fun out of blogging for me. At the time I couldn't work out why I wasn't enjoying it any more, and I even wrote a post about it (probably to try and understand it myself) but it's only now with hindsight that I can see the bigger picture.</div>
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So that's part of the reason. I will try to write this next part without massively oversharing, which will be a challenge for me. About a year ago, i had a health scare with my breathing which resulted in lots of testing at hospital over a period of months. Everything they tested for was negative (thank God) but once they'd run out of tests to do, the doctors just shrugged their shoulders and left me to my own devices. Meanwhile I was still ill, and pretty worried. My hair and nails had turned pretty awful (another reason for not blogging), I was putting on weight relentlessly, everything ached, and I got pretty down. I put it all down to stress and just tried to get on with things the best I could.</div>
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Out of luck with the doctors, I turned to the internet for advice. I posted my problem on a respiratory health forum, and as with most of my experiences with people on the internet, everyone who replied was lovely. A couple of the replies suggested that I get my thyroid function tested, so after having read a bit about it (of course), I went to the doctor, who sent me for a blood test. Lo and behold, my thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) level came back as abnormal. The doctor then ordered some more tests to see if he could see why my level was so high. However the two tests he ran came back as "within limits". My doctors words were "I see you're sick but I don't know why". Once again I was sent away with a shrug of the shoulders. This whole thing so far had taken eight months. </div>
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At least now I had an idea what was wrong with me I could try to work towards putting it right. My blood tests also showed I was deficient in certain vitamins and minerals (I'm convinced this is all related), so I've been taking several supplements since the beginning of the year to try to balance all these levels out. I am feeling better in myself, and the weight has stopped piling on, so something must be happening. I will book myself in for some more blood tests (if they'll do them) in the summer to check that I'm not doing myself more harm than good. </div>
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So this brings us to the current day. I'm not cured by any stretch of the imagination, but I am feeling better than I was. Thyroid problems can make you lethargic and can suck out your motivation, so coupled with the other blogging issues, the whole thing came to a stop. I did manage to mess up all the posting dates on my past posts though, clever me, doh!</div>
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My new found interest in my health has led me to start paying attention in what I'm actually eating. Hence the title of this post. As I work full time, when I get home all I really want to do is feed myself as quickly as possible with the minimum of time and effort taken. Therefore I'm very much a convenience food cooker. If it doesn't come in a jar or a packet, I don't give it much of a second look, apart from potatoes. My Irish roots will not allow me to disrespect the spuds haha.</div>
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But although the convenience foods are quick and easy, they don't taste wonderful. They're not disgusting either, they're just "there", doing a job without being particularly inspiring. I also suspect that most of them are not that healthy, despite some claiming otherwise. </div>
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So I have been experimenting with flavours. The picture in this post is my bacon and egg salad, which is okay, but was much improved with the addition of cherry tomatoes. Plus the leaves were a bit dry and could have used some kind of dressing, but I have no idea what type of dressing. Cheese maybe? More experimenting to do there.</div>
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I think all of this relates to my blog, as Making A Silk Purse Out Of A Sows Ear relates to improving yourself not only through beauty products, but also making yourself a more rounded person by improving skills and feeding your interests. And now I've got a bit more fire in my belly I intend to give it a good old go. I do have some beauty stuff I've been meaning to review for ages, so will get on to that soon too. </div>
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If you're still reading, thanks for ploughing through my ramble! I have to say the Blogger mobile app is a hundred times improved since I last used it, the ease of being able to quickly write a post on my phone may also inspire me to do more. Anyway, I had better go before this post gets completely out of hand!</div>
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Until next time...</div>
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~Wendy~</div>
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</script><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy Saturday!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope you're having a great day. Mine's gone pretty well so far, I haven't been up to much, mostly painting my nails and drinking tea, which suits me fine! I do have some housework to be getting on with, which is why I'm sitting here blogging haha.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today I bring you the third installment of my Pretty Jelly reviews. I bought 4, and have already reviewed Bullet Rouge </span><a href="http://www.maspooase.com/2013/01/pretty-jelly-bullet-rouge-review-and.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HERE</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #4c1130;">and Grape Escape </span></span><a href="http://www.maspooase.com/2013/01/pretty-jelly-grape-escape-review.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HERE</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This one's called Diamond S-teal-er, which you would think makes it teal. To my eyes it's more like an icy mid-blue, not really enough green tone in it (in my opinion) for teal, but that doesn't make it any less pretty. And of course it's holographic anyway so who cares!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The holo is there, but it doesn't jump off the page with this one, although of course because I want to swatch a holo, it's grey and drizzly today, so that doesn't help. Here's how it looks:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I still have a bit of glitter left in my cuticles from wearing Nails Inc's fine sprinkles, but oh well.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is two coats, with just regular basecoat and no topcoat. The formula on this one seemed a tad more gloopy than on the others I've tried. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't too awkward, but it didn't quite seem to glide the same. Dry time seemed a bit slower too, I wonder if I need to thin it a little bit? I think the lump on my middle finger is a bit of leftover glitter, I obviously wasn't very rigorous with my last removal! It had the same lovely high end finish as the others I've tried.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a pic under the kitchen light to show the lovely holo:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I told you it was there! Lovely holo rainbow.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I already knew when I started painting my nails what nail art I was going to do on this, as I woke up with it in my head (sad I know). As Spring is on its way, I thought I would cheer it along with some flowers. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Daisies are a double win, because they're one of my favourite flowers, and also they're mega easy to do with a dotting tool. All you need to do is start from the outside of a petal and drag to the centre, repeat four or five times, then do a dot in the middle. If you can make a dot, you can do these flowers.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here's what I ended up with:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used OPI Alpine Snow for the petals and Collection 2000 Hot Looks in Lemon Soda for the centres. I didn't topcoat it because I didn't want to kill the holo. I took two pics I couldn't decide between, so I'm showing them both to you.:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here's what it looks like with its holo kick:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So pretty! And because I've been a bit lax at remembering to do it lately, here's what the brush looks like:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can buy the Pretty Jelly polishes from the Etsy shop </span><a href="http://liquidjelly.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/pretty-jelly-glamorous-thief-collection.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HERE</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #4c1130;">and I paid $10, which equates to around £6.50. Obviously alot of shipping on the top of that though because it came all the way from America.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The polishes are 3-free and cruelty free so happy days.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately for me there are now some new, different, gorgeous, holo's in her shop, and I want them all! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What do you think?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until next time...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~Wendy~</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708141705529719428.post-63511649542382986362014-12-01T20:20:00.000+00:002014-12-01T20:20:54.246+00:00Orange and White nail art<script type="text/javascript">
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hope you're having a great start to your weekend. Today should have been my first lie in for 12 days, so typically I woke up at 6.20am and couldn't get back to sleep! I lay there with my eyes open for about half an hour, and eventually gave up and decided to get up. And of course I've spent those extra hours productively, by painting my nails.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ever since I did the L'Oreal Masquintense review </span><a href="http://www.maspooase.com/2013/02/kerastase-masquintense-review.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link here)</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #4c1130;">I haven't been able to get the orange and white packaging out of my head. So I've known what colours todays manicure was going to be all week. I wasn't sure whether to do dots, stripes, or stamping though. As my last couple of nail art posts have been stripes, and I wasn't really feeling dots today, I decided to go with stamping. I picked a swirly image from Cheeky plate B, which I bought from Amazon, here's the </span></span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/INTRODUCTION-Collection-Introduction-Designs-Cheeky/dp/B006OMHUL0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1361615555&sr=8-1" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">link</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #4c1130;">if you want to buy it, it's priced at £6.99. The images stamp well, and it's good that there are 42 images on the plate, but I'm not sure I'd use all of them. However I'm using one today!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For my white base, I wasn't sure whether to use OPI's Alpine Snow, or OPI's My Boyfriend Scales Walls. I did a comparison on the two </span><a href="http://www.maspooase.com/2012/11/opi-alpine-snow-vs-opi-my-boyfriend.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #4c1130;">but in the end I decided to go for My Boyfriend Scales Walls due to its better formula. This means that I'll probably end up never using Alpine Snow as a base coat again, but it does come in handy for dotting etc.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then I got out my oranges to see which ones stamped best. In the end it was a toss up between two. Essies Orange It's Obvious, which you can see </span><a href="http://www.maspooase.com/2012/10/new-essie-haul-swatches-and-review.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #4c1130;">and Color Clubs Wham Pow. The Color Club is more neon though, so it won.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here's what I ended up with:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's not perfect, but I like it! It's actually more neon than it shows in this pic, but still wearable. Nice and jolly, which is always a good thing.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's another pic, closer up this time:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you can see, I smudged the middle finger, and took a chunk out of my base coat at the cuticle on the same finger. I also missed a spot on my little finger, but, hey, you get the idea! I'll stop picking holes in my manicure now haha.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here's how it looks to the outside world, seeing as I obviously don't go around holding a bottle of polish in my hand all the time (actually, I'm not sure that's really true...):</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I like it because to me it looks like water marbling, without any of the mess. I love how marbling looks, but I just can't bring myself to dunk my whole finger in a sheet of suspended polish and then spend time cleaning it back off again. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I like this stamping design more than I thought I would. I have a feeling you'll be seeing it a few times this summer, in different colours, and maybe gradients too. Hopefully a bit more tidily done than this one!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until next time...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~Wendy~</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708141705529719428.post-66679738073204403162014-12-01T20:16:00.000+00:002014-12-01T20:16:17.651+00:00OPI The Top 10 mini collection review - first 5<script type="text/javascript">
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hope you're well today. Snow is forecast here AGAIN! Spring is playing hide and seek with us at the moment. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I picked these pretties up at TK Maxx a few weeks ago, and have had them in my 'to swatch' pile since. Here's how they look in the box:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apologies for the slightly rubbish picture. I didn't find out until it was too late that it was impossible to get the polishes out without wrecking the box. I believe these to be the 'light' half of the OPI Top Ten collection </span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/OPI-Nail-Polish-Lacquer-Mini/dp/B009F8WETS" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Amazon LINK here)</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> but I didn't see the other darker half in TX Maxx.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Without further ado, let's get on with it. The first in the box is Alpine Snow:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I actually already own the full size of Alpine Snow, and I did a comparison post with My Boyfriend Scales Walls </span><a href="http://www.maspooase.com/2012/11/opi-alpine-snow-vs-opi-my-boyfriend.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(HERE)</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> which is one of my most popular posts. The first coat is patchy, but the second coat evens it out, so this is two coats. It's also pretty fast drying. I was pleased to find that the brush in the polish was still a pretty decent size, even though it's a mini polish.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next up we have Bubble Bath:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also own the full size polish of this one (why did I buy this set haha), and I already knew I didn't like it so much, too sheer for me. This is two coats. Of course it would be good for a french manicure, which is probably why it was formulated in the first place. I noticed that the mini bottles are comfortable to pose with.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next is Tickle My France-y:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was also quite disappointingly sheer. At two coats I still had alot of VNL. However I do like the colour, so I went with another coat, so this is 3 coats in this picture. It is a very pretty nude.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Second to last we have Kiss Me On My Tulips:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a bright pink that does nothing for my skintone, but no fault of the polish for that. It reminds me a bit of Orly's Basket Case. Perhaps I'll do a comparison on the two at some point. At one coat it still had VNL, but this is two, and as you can see, hardly any VNL left. Dry time was med/fast.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And last but not least we have Red Lights Ahead... Where?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is two coats. Too sheer for me. It was relatively fast drying though. Lifes too short for undies on a polish when I have other reds that don't need it. Not too impressed with this one.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a picture of the brush, which was pretty consistently good across all the polishes:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So there we have it. That's the whole (half of the) set reviewed. I paid £19.99 at TK Maxx and to be honest, if you're like me and don't like to see your nail line through your polish, I wouldn't recommend this set. Oh well, live and learn! One of these days I'll actually have that blog sale I keep wondering about having, and most of these will probably be in it. I'm sure there's somebody out there who has the patience to apply more coats than I do. I can't comment on wear time, as I haven't liked any of them enough to wear for any length of time.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They were all very shiny though, no topcoat in any of these pictures, and pretty fast drying, so it wasn't all bad. Now I know the brushes are OK, I would buy more OPI minis, but I would check out the reviews first to make sure they're opaque enough.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">What do you think? Yay or nay? Is VNL a big no-no for you too or don't you mind it?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">Until next time...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">~Wendy~</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708141705529719428.post-78982519103522030242014-12-01T20:15:00.000+00:002014-12-01T20:15:33.646+00:00Sci Fi Nail Art<script type="text/javascript">
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hope you're enjoying your Saturday, and are keeping nice and warm? The roads all around my house have been closed today because of the snow, so I've been stranded in! So instead of going out doing shopping and visiting the Post Office as I'd planned, I've been confined to the house. That doesn't mean it's been a wasted day though, I've painted a picture, and have been doing some nail art too, so it's all good.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not long ago, I saw this post from Work, Play, Polish </span><a href="http://workplaypolish.com/2013/03/14/digit-al-dozen-does-geek-the-original-star-trek-u-s-s-enterprise-crew-uniforms/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> about Star Trek uniform nailart, and I couldn't get it out of my head. I asked her if it was ok to have a go myself, and she kindly said yes it was fine. Actually what I ended up with wasn't exactly the same as hers, and not as neat or nice, but I'm still pretty pleased with it. Please excuse my middle finger cuticle, I nibbled at it in a fit of gin inspired (ginspired?) madness, I've tried to blur it with my photo software so you don't have to look at it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here's the manicure:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After applying my basecoat, I applied Maybelline Express Finish in Cherry, which I blogged about </span><a href="http://www.maspooase.com/2012/11/millennium-nails-nail-striper-review.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(here)</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> just one coat needed. The blue is Nails Inc's Ebury Bridge, which you can see more of </span><a href="http://www.maspooase.com/2012/11/millennium-nails-nail-striper-review.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(here)</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and the yellow is Collection 2000's Lemon Soda.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then I marked off the bottom section of my nails using gridding tape, which I prefer to striping tape even though it's more expensive because it's less curly, and painted the bottom of my nails using the black from the Simple Pleasures scented halloween set which I reviewed last year </span><a href="http://www.maspooase.com/2012/09/simple-pleasures-scented-halloween-nail.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a> <br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally I used Rimmels silver polish Your Majesty and a dotting tool to make the badges and I was done. I think they came out OK.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So this got me thinking of other sci-fi nail art looks. I've already done one on the daleks </span><a href="http://www.maspooase.com/2012/08/nail-art-daleks.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> which looked like this:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The base for this manicure is Jessica's holo polish Disco Diva, and this mani looked awesome in the sun.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, back to today. I decided I wanted to do some batman nails, so off to the internet I went. I found two sources of inspiration. This post from appletosh </span><a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/how-to-create-batman-nail-art/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and this youtube video by pixiepolish </span><a href="http://youtu.be/4yYC5KQjgKE" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It didn't come out brilliantly, but it was a bit of an experiment. In her video pixiepolish paints using acrylic paint and a cocktail stick. I've never done this before, I usually use small brushes, but she made it look pretty easy so I thought I'd have a go. As usual with YouTube, it looked easy only because she's reeeeaaaally good at it haha.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here's what I ended up with:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you can see, my thumb is lumpy bumpy, even with a thick coat of Seche on, and my Seche picked up some of the black paint when it smudged the thumb and dotted it all over my manicure. I've had better nailart attempts haha.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, strangely, I'm still quite pleased with it! I think the ring finger came out really well, this is the second attempt at that, the first one was so rubbish I actually took it off and started again. On the tutorial I saw, they painted his face on the bottom half of the nail, but I preferred it without.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you ignore the thumb, it looks pretty good:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is one manicure I'd like to try again, and get neater, because I think it's pretty ace. Batman is too cool.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">So there we go, three different ideas you can try. Which is your favourite?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">Until next time...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">~Wendy~</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708141705529719428.post-8509585136341243702014-12-01T19:55:00.000+00:002019-07-23T10:43:27.431+01:00Artsy Wednesday - Pastels<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hi everyone, hope you're having a good week?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Silly me forgot to bring my laptop, so I'm going to attempt to make this post purely with my iphone 3gs. Don't expect too much! I won't be able to resize or colour correct, so sorry about that. The theme this time is pastels, which is great for me, as they're my favourite!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's what i came up with:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used M&S Limited Collection in Pale Lavender, then i masked off the top half and painted the end of my nail in OPI Mod About You.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I then used a Color Club striper to paint the white stripes, and then removed the tape. A coat of Seche Vite, and voila, funky french!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope you like what I came up with, don't forget to check out what the other Artsy Wednesday girls did - </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Catrine - Unnaked Nails</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">www.unnakednails.com</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Michelle - Lab Muffin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alanna - Pretty Purple Polish</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">www.prettypurplepolish.com</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maria - Maria's Nail Polish Blog</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Melanie - Nail and Polish</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap;">Jessica - Beauty Gnome</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap;">Emily - An Accent Nail</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ameerah - Valiantly Varnished</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap;">Until next time...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here we have a surprise buy for me, a super-cheap £1.99 nude polish! Now I'm not a big fan of nude polishes, despite loving my pastels, but this one caught my eye because I'm looking for an antique cream for a nail art look I've got in my head. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought this might be the one I'm looking for. Unfortunately it wasn't, (not cream coloured enough) but I like it all the same:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was streaky in one coat, and opaque in two, which is what's shown here. The formula was a tiny bit runny, but nothing too awkward, and perhaps half a shade darker once on and dry than in the bottle. It reminded me very much of the 'camel coats' we all used to wear, way back when...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It also reminded me very much of a bottle of concealer, and once I'd got that in my head I felt weird painting it on my nails haha! Here's another pic:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And actually, the brush was the only thing that slightly let this polish down, the shape was actually fine, I did my little finger in more or less one stroke and pressed flat it went into a more slightly rounded shape, but it was just that little bit too stiff bristled to be perfect. However, bear in mind I'm comparing it with Nails Inc and Jessica polishes that cost more than a tenner each. No complaints on glossiness or coverage though!</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708141705529719428.post-2979545323518110552014-12-01T19:24:00.000+00:002019-07-23T10:48:49.357+01:00Mid Browns - Nails Inc Ganton Street Vs Jessica Guilty Pleasures<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have decided that fate doesn't want me to blog about nail polish at the moment. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because of my pesky ongoing achilles tendon problems, I have to have physiotherapy on a Thursday afternoon. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because I don't have enough annual leave left for my hospital appointments, I'm having to work on Saturday morning instead to make my hours up. This is so INCONVENIENT! Guys and girls who regularly work at the weekends, you have my undying admiration. I just feel like theres no time to do anything. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Also, because I'm working on the Saturday, I can't have my usual swatch-a-thon on Friday night.... so all in all it's a right royal pain in the behind.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial";">Well, here's two fingers up to fate, because I've managed to do it anyway! You may know that I'm craving a dark brown nail polish right now, but with the aforementioned problems I've had to resort to just mooning over web swatches and wishing for things to get back to normal. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial";">I </span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial";">decided to look through my polishes to check what browns I actually do have, in case I already had one (I didn't but you never know until you look!), but I did find two mid brown polishes which were virtually identical, and similarly priced, so I thought you might be interested in seeing a comparison. They are, as the post title suggests, Nails Inc Ganton Street and Jessica's Guilty Pleasures. For a change I will start with the brush & bottle shot:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There you see, pretty similar, right? The Jessica is a tad warmer, but very similar all the same. Apologies about the dark corner on the picture, with Autumn setting in it's getting harder and harder to find bright places to put things...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So onto the swatches, I found the best place to show the difference was under the trusty LED craft light. All pics are two coats with no topcoat. Nails Inc on left 2 fingers:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then, amazingly, the sun came out for a moment:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then it went back in. So here's a pic in shaded light:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Application wise, there's hardly anything to pick between them either. If you've used Nails Inc before, this is their usual creme formula, which I like as it's got good coverage and is pretty quick drying. The Jessica was a teeny tiny bit more sheer on first coat, but by coat two they looked the same coverage-wise. I preferred the Nails Inc brush, because the Jessica one was a tad softer so therefore not quite as easy to work with, but I really am splitting hairs (LOL) here.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Out of the two, it was the Nails Inc I chose to put on afterwards, it's a Malteser brown, and somehow for a darker colour it seems quite work appropriate, which is good. Unless of course, you do what I did and put nail art all over it haha. It didn't exactly work, but I liked the colour scheme:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Jessica has 14.8ml in and the Nails Inc has 10ml in. Nails Inc polishes cost £11 and Jessica Polishes cost around a tenner, but I have seen both cheaper on Ebay. So mil for mil the Jessica is probably better value, but if you're willing to spend more than £10 on a polish that doesn't really matter so much to you.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial";">So there you go! Formulation and application are both pretty much the same so it just comes down to the tint you like the best. Hopefully this will prove helpful to someone!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial";">~Wendy~</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708141705529719428.post-2286696098395569112014-12-01T19:23:00.000+00:002019-07-23T10:52:49.343+01:00Sally Hansen Nail Art Pens Review<script type="text/javascript">
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial";">Hope you're having a great weekend</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, this story starts with me in my beloved TK Maxx.... just browsing around in the nail section, as you do, when I came across a Sally Hansen Nail Art Pen in gold. It was only £2.99, so I thought I'd give it a go, and as it happened I really liked it! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had a look on Amazon UK to see if there were any more colours made, and there were, so I got a few more. There were none with free shipping, so all in all I paid about a fiver each for the others. Here's what I've ended up with:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial";">As you see, as usual I went a bit mad haha! Obviously at some point in Rite Aid in the USA these have been half price and in a gift pack. Good job I wasn't buying them as a present. I bought the silver one from a different seller and the packaging on that one was all neat and tidy and nice. I didn't get a black or a white because they were alot more expensive or in 2-packs. Who needs 2?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial";">These are:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial";">I thought the best way to show you the coverage and finish was to paint two nails in a dark colour and two nails in a light colour, so I used my new OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls (2 coats) for the light, and my Collection 2000 All That Jazz (one coat) for the dark. I used the same colours on the other hand only the opposite fingers, and I really liked the look, I'm going to try it as a proper mani at some stage. But for today, they are just canvasses:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My Boyfriend Scales Walls was OK to apply, but because of the hype surrounding it I was expecting more - I know, never happy. It was how I was expecting Alpine Snow to be, not bad application but took longer than I thought to dry. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So first off I did some (very wiggly) stripes, thick and thin, with all the colours, on both the light and the dark. The sheerest was the red, which reminded me very much of tomato soup, and the most opaque was either the pink or the blue:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The white polish canvas wasn't quite dry, if you look carefully in the thick silver stripe you can see where it dug in a bit. As you can see, the gold is more of a copper really, but pretty anyway.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And heres some nail art to show you what you can do with them:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once it was dry I topped it off with a coat of Seche Vite, and that's how it's shown here. I wasn't very pleased with the cocktail glass on the index finger (yes, that's what it is!) but the rest came out ok. My favourite is the stars and dots.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial";">And in the best 'showing the brush' tradition, here's what the nibs look like:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial";">They feel a bit like a felt pen to use, and theres a ball bearing inside that rattles when you shake it up and down to mix up the lacquer inside. You press the nibs in if you want to work more polish down onto the nib, but so far I haven't needed to do that, except for the first use. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial";">All in all, I like them. They're definitely great for doing tiny dots with no fussing and worth owning just for that alone. They didn't have very good reviews on Amazon, and if I'd read those before I got I the first one I wouldn't have bought them, so I'm glad it happened the way it did. I just have to hope that a black and a white one are on special offer at some point!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial";">I hope this helps someone who's been considering them, or just been interesting for you generally, am planning some cuticle and nail care product reviews soon, and will have some Essie swatching to do if I ever get a day when I'm off when there's some good light! All to look forward to :-)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial";">Until next time....</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial";">MASPOOASE x x x</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial";">~Wendy~</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708141705529719428.post-56602797232139771912014-09-15T23:06:00.001+01:002019-07-23T10:58:06.933+01:00Barry M Gelly Paprika Mustard and Cardamom swatch and review <span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hey there!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I hope you're all doing well? Here we are at the change of the seasons again, and we're now getting into my favourite! The leaves are starting to turn, and whether you call it Autumn or Fall, I reckon it's the most beautiful season there is.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Having been completely underwhelmed by high street nail polishes of late, and unwilling to pay the higher prices of indies when I already have so much polish, it means I've actually bought very little lately, and that's why I haven't had very much to show you. I haven't even done much nail art, and that which I have done has been simple dots or stripes and not really worth shouting about.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, I was in Superdrug last weekend, and ka-pow! Some polish that made me do a double take. In fact I might have even said "ooh!" out loud, for here were some polish colours I didn't already own, and in wonderful Autumn colours. There were 5 or 6 in the range, but Superdrug had a 3 for 2 offer on, so I rationed myself to three.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These were the three polishes I got:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From L-R they are Cardamom, Mustard and Paprika. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I may as well now show them to you in the same order as this picture, which is just the order I picked them up in my hand (professional to a fault hehe).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For each colour polish I've taken three pictures. One in direct sun, one in the shade and one showing the bottle so you can see how the polish on the nail compares with the colour in the bottle.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So lets go with Barry M Cardamom. First in the shade:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The formula was lovely, if you've used Barry M Gellies before, it's pretty much their standard formula. This is one coat with no top coat, and it had the lovely shine as they all do. I find that this shine doesn't last long on me and if I manage to wear it for a couple of days without chipping (I'm tough on polish) I find I want to add a topcoat at that point just to get the shine back. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Usually by a couple of days I've chipped any polish anyway, no matter what the make. I think it's because I wash my hands alot, and am typing most of the day.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here it is in direct sun:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have had to do a little bit of electronic dry skin gardening on these pics. Not to make my cuticles look marvellous (as I'm sure you can tell) but just to make sure I don't put you off your breakfast. They were most incredibly dry, despite me treating them better than most Egyptian princesses day and night. They're so ungrateful and insist on shedding all the expensive moisture I try to pamper them with. Sigh.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have to say I was a little bit disappointed in this colour when it dried. As you can see, the colour in the bottle is a more greyed out green, which I prefer, and it dried to a kind of light British Racing Green, which is not what I was looking for. But still, it's not unpleasant, and I do think I'll wear it. Dry time was the usual Gelly medium-fast.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Next up we have Barry M Gelly in Mustard, firstly in the shade:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Again this is one coat with no top coat, and for a light colour it gave pretty good coverage. The same nice formula with a medium-quick dry time. I do find I have to be quite careful when applying Gellies to wipe the brush stalk or else there is a high possibility of a big blob of polish making its way onto my nail (or leg, or carpet, etc, in a nail polish Russian Roulette stylee). </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here it is in the sunshine:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can see on this pic, very slight VNL on my index finger and the edge of my thumb, but in real life that wasn't noticeable. Another coat would have sorted it out, but to be honest, I was too lazy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here it is with its bottle comparison:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Again, a little bit darker than in the bottle. When I first applied this colour I said, OMG this does absolutely nothing for my skin tone, but it was that fugly I actually fell a bit in love with it. Of the three colours, this is my fave, and I think it will be my go-to Autumn colour this year. Though not really office friendly in the conservative environment at mine so I'll have to reserve it for weekends.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And onto the third colour, Paprika:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A true russet red, this one really did need two coats. However I didn't, because I'd only done one coat for the other two colours, I wanted to keep the same for this (see also, lazy). Same formula and dry time as the others. Reds are not really my thing, but this one is wearable as it's definitely more in the brown family.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here it is in the sunshine:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This picture is actually pretty spot on colour wise, and is the most office friendly of the three I bought.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Again a bit darker than in the bottle, a recurring theme.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The three look lovely side by side, so I thought I'd mix them up a bit:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I used striping tape to section off the end and middle of my nails and just using the brush from the bottle I painted between the tape. Leaf for topical interest ;-)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's not the neatest nailart I've ever done but I absolutely love the end result. So much so, I took another pic haha. This time in the sun:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was topped off with HK Girl Glisten and Glow top coat which is my current favourite. It doesn't go gloopy and shrink like Seche can after a while.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So there we have it, the three I bought, and I'm very pleased with them. I would definitely recommend them. I paid £3.99 per bottle, but as I said I got them on a 3 for 2 offer which means I ended up paying just over £2.50 per bottle.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial";">You can see the full range of the Barry M Gelly colours by following this <a href="http://www.barrym.com/products/nails/effects/gelly-nail-effects.html">(link)</a> and the list of ingredients are also there. Barry M are cruelty free, so guilt free polishing.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The next polish on my want list will be a thermal, I've only got a couple of those and the formula of the ones I have is not great. Do you have a favourite I should be looking at?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Is Autumn your favourite like mine, or do you prefer another season?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Until next time....</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">~Wendy~</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708141705529719428.post-67324213406385663922014-05-11T19:42:00.000+01:002019-07-23T11:02:34.948+01:00Barry M Gelly Nail Polish in Olive review plus freehand lace nailart<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Woot! I found some mojo! It's been a long time people, and good to be back. What an up and down few months I've had. It's certainly true what they say about not fully appreciating your good health until you don't have it. However, things are looking up now and so I've got room in my brain for the fun stuff. So OBVS I've gone straight to my finger ends :-)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've hardly bought any polish these last few months (I knowwwww), and have spent most of my time with just strengthener on them. My cuticles are awful due to a dermatitis attack, despite constant moisturing I'm pretty sure I'll have to photoshop at least a couple of fingers to prevent my post looking like an episode of Casualty haha.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On a happier note I reached 100,000 pageviews yay! Actually it's a bit past that, but for some reason I can't fathom, one of my Feelgood Friday posts is getting ALOT of love. It must be linked somewhere in somebody populars' blog, but because I can't work Google Analytics properly I'll never know. So I'm not counting the pageviews from that one post, because it makes me look much more popular than I actually am.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, I went out shopping today and some new Barry M Gellys caught my eye. I'm always on the lookout for pale green polishes and GNP23 Olive fits that bill perfectly. A washed out khaki that reminds me very much of Essies Navigate Her, which I loved the colour of, but hated the formula. I would do a comparison post for you, but am pretty sure I gave Navigate Her away.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So how was it I hear you ask? Well, here's how the colour looks:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As you can see, a pale grey/green.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's the full hand swatch. It has a coat of HK Girl Glisten & Glow topcoat on it as I forgot to take a picture before I applied it, doh! It was the usual Gelly shiny finish though.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's looking slightly more greyed out here than it looks in real life, and it is flattering to my skin tone. I used two coats, but you could definitely get away with one thickish one if you're using a fast dry topcoat over it. Dry time was pretty fast, and I didn't have any problem with the formula. Nice and smooth, and no bubbles, lovely.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But of course, due to the aforementioned return of the mojo, I couldn't just leave them all blank and sensible. So I went to YouTube to look for some inspiration. I found some in the form of this video </span><a href="http://youtu.be/yC3P3pIrR3o"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://youtu.be/yC3P3pIrR3o</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> by LNETSA for some lovely lace nails. Keeping with the Barry M theme, I used their nail art pen, which I reviewed in full </span><a href="http://www.maspooase.com/2013/11/artsy-wednesday-polka-dots-with-barry-m.html"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(here)</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And this is what I came up with:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm really pleased with how they came out, considering they didn't take much time at all, and I'm considering doing a step by step tutorial for them, if anyone would be interested?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As you can see in the background, the bluebells are back out in the garden and I couldn't resist giving them a part in the show:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How gorgeous are they? And they smell divine. They really do make something simple like walking up the garden path a pleasure. Yes, I do stop to smell the flowers, I think we all should whenever we can. How are your gardens going, do you have flowers out yet?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And finally, back to the polish, here's the brush shot:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is probably the most accurate picture colour wise, and I would say it has dried to half a shade richer on my nails. As I said, I had no problems with application and I'm very pleased with it. I can see it becoming a regular for me.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I paid £3.99 in Superdrug, and because they had a 3 for 2 offer on, I got it a little bit cheaper than that. In fact I didn't realise about the offer until I already had two things in my hand, so I felt like I got a bonus freebie.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So what do you think, is it a colour or design you'd go for? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Until next time...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">~Wendy~</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708141705529719428.post-83341582492605870902014-02-28T11:57:00.001+00:002019-07-23T11:04:31.941+01:00Liquid Sky Lacquer Holo Top Coat Review and Swatch<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well hi there, long time no blog! Life is just too annoying getting in the way of my nail polish fun. Today not only has the sun finally come out, but I also have a day off work, yay! I am, of course, using the time wisely to finally show you my new nail polish.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You must know by now that I love holos. LOVE them. Somewhere along the way, I saw someone talking about a holo top coat, and was instantly intrigued. I went onto Google (as you do) to have a look for reviews. I found alot of swatches but nothing easily findable in the way of reviews, so I thought I'd buy it anyway and do my own review. So here I am.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Firstly, lets see it:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pretty rainbows hooray! In real life it looks mega holo in the bottle, I could look at it all day. I like the simplicity of the label too, I don't think it needs any more than that.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So lets have a look at some swatches. The thing I was looking online for the most, and couldn't find, was a swatch of it by itself. Well, I did one for you. Here it is:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just a linear holo sheen which is eminently safe for work. I really enjoyed having the polish on my nails this way. It was like my own secret portable rainbow.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But of course, that's not what it's designed for. I got a nail wheel out and experimented:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It really pops over black! I think you can click the picture to zoom in. The two I was most pleased with were the yellow and the white. All too often yellow holos are actually gold. A yellow holo makes me happy. And I don't think I've ever seen a white holo, it does work.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So how about on my nails? I thought I would go double whammy and swatch over a thermal polish. I chose In the Mood polish in a shade called Devious. Here is is "naked":</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is pretty by itself, despite having tricky application, I still use it because I love the end result. It dries semi-matte though, so I'm thinking a holo top coat might be just the thing.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Application was easy, with no clumping or dragging, and the polish itself was fast drying. No hassle at all. This is without top coat, but I did apply a coat of HK Girl Glisten & Glow Topcoat after I took this picture, for longevity. It didn't dull the holo, so that's another plus. I got lots of compliments on this mani, and quite a few people asked me where I'd had them done *smug face*.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So what do I think? I love it! I don't know how I'm going to resist using it over everything. I highly recommend. I bought mine from Mei Mei's Signatures who ship internationally </span><a href="http://meimeisignatures.com/index.php?id_product=3978&controller=product"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> for 17SGD which equates to roughly £8, plus shipping. It probably worked out around £10 overall as I bought other polishes while I was there so combined shipping. You can pay by PayPal so don't have to worry about exchange rates and currencies too much. Considering how much it will save me from buying other coloured holo polishes, I think it's well worth it! This is my first Liquid Sky Lacquer, and I'm sure it won't be my last. Any recommendations?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So what do you think? Are you mad on holos like me?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">~Wendy~</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708141705529719428.post-4433373501144672582014-02-04T21:16:00.000+00:002014-02-04T21:16:42.607+00:00Fairy Dust vs Electric Lane Comparison<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hey there people, now here's a question. Who doesn't want sparkly rainbows on their nails? I know I do! Nails Inc Electric Lane is the nail polish that made number one on my all time top ten polish list. If you want to look at that, here's the </span><a href="http://www.maspooase.com/2012/12/my-all-time-10-best-nail-polishes.html"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> which also includes a couple of Electric Lane swatches. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I've seen manicures online using China Glaze Fairy Dust. The difference between these two polishes is something I've been wondering for ages. Finally, I couldn't wonder any longer so I bought some Fairy Dust so I can compare the two. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I bought my China Glaze Fairy Dust from Amazon, and when it arrived, I couldn't see much difference at first glance:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The glitter pieces seem to be exactly the same size and colour to me. So I made up some nail wheels with lots of different colours to try over:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">White: Poundland Jess </span><a href="http://www.maspooase.com/2014/01/poundland-jess-white-polish-review-and.html"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link to full review)</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided to do one coat of each and no topcoat so you can fully tell the difference (if any). Here's what I got:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think you'll be able to guess, but the N's are the Nails Inc Electric Lane, and the C's are the China Glaze Fairy Dust. As you can tell, more noticeably on the red and black is that the Electric Lane has a denser consistency. However, in this light you can't really tell so well. I have a couple of close ups which show it better:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Firstly the black:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think this shows the difference in density much better, although in this lighting my photo seemed to come out a bit blurry, strange. I think it might be the holo freaking my camera out.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Again, a heavier glitter presence from the Nails Inc. However, in my opinion, for a glitter topper, that's not necessarily a good thing. The heavier covering of glitter is hiding the base polish somewhat, rather than enhancing it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also, Electric Lane dries to quite a sandy matte finish, which I like, but is another difference from Fairy Dust, which dries to more of a gloss as you can see.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Definitely on the black you're starting to see the holo.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They both performed admirably, no problems with blobbing during application, and both glitters went on pretty evenly. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a full nail swatch of Electric Lane over Nails Inc Devonshire Row:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So how much do they cost?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nails Inc Electric Lane costs £12 for 10ml</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">China Glaze Fairy Dust costs £6.49 for 14ml</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, there isn't anywhere on the high street I can buy China Glaze, and Amazon have stopped free Super Saver Delivery unless you spend £10, so there will be extra to pay for shipping. There is a Nails Inc stand in larger branches of Boots, so you can get them with no P&P to pay.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, even with this taken into account, Fairy Dust is cheaper, and you get more.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, which do I recommend? Amazingly, I actually recommend Fairy Dust! Electric Lane definitely has more bling, but I prefer the glossier and less overwhelming finish of the China Glaze. Plus of course it's cheaper.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">No one could be more surprised about this outcome than me, but that's the conclusion I came to. I still like them both though in different ways, so you could certainly justify owning both.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For anyone not living in the UK, I should explain that Poundland is (I'm imagining) our version of the Dollar Store, although at the moment a dollar is worth about 61 pence, so I wish it really was the equivalent. Let's make the "61p Store" a thing people!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They had a pretty good range of colours actually, but because I didn't know anything about the brand, I thought I'd just try one. My bottle of Alpine Snow is getting a bit gloopy, so I thought I'd go for the white. White is always a good test of formulation and brush. I've had quite a few disappointments, most notably a Calvin Klein white polish which had an awful brush, although the polish itself was okay.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So anyway, without further ado, let's get on with it. Apologies in advance, I know my nails and cuticles aren't top notch right now. I had to use my leftie for this because the cuticles on my right hand were cracked and bleeding, yuck. I did take photos, but they were just too gory to use.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wait a minute, didn't I say without further ado? Here's the bottle and brush shot:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The brush was actually pretty good, no different from a regular high street polish, think Rimmel or Barry M. A slim flattish oval, I could do one finger in three or four strokes. Reasonably flexible but not floppy, the polish had a pretty good flow from it. I did notice a tiny amount of bubbling during application, but they weren't left on my nails at the end.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's the first swatch, natural light, but indoors at the window because it was raining:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here we have two coats. As you can see, the line at my cuticle is quite neat, this is with no clean up. The first coat was quite patchy, and I did find the formulation slightly gloopy, but actually no different to OPI Alpine Snow. It didn't remove any first coat when I applied the second coat, as can sometimes happen.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wish I'd done another coat on my ring finger, it is heavily ridged, and they show through on the finish. All these pictures are taken without top coat, and still it had a pretty decent shine to it, which can be tricky for a white polish.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Originally I only put this on to swatch it, but I liked it that much that I actually kept it on for work the next day, and I did have a few favourable comments. I did have some chipping at the end of day two, but I am pretty hard on polish, so I wasn't surprised. Next time I wear it I'll topcoat it, just for longevity.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Talking of the white stuff, we've had some snow here in Cumbria last week! This is near to where I work, luckily the roads around the base of the mountain didn't get any:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Snow just the way I like it. Beautiful, but quite far away, haha. The lines through the middle of the photo are power cables.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thankfully my blog mojo is starting to return. I have a few comparison posts to do, and some pretties on the way from </span><a href="http://meimeisignatures.com/"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mei Mei's Signatures</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://www.bornprettystore.com/"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Born Pretty Store</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> which I can't wait to show you.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I haven't done any nail art at all since Christmas, which is unheard of for me, to be honest I think I burned out a bit, having to post regularly got on top of me. I was always just used to posting as the inspiration took me, and have come to realise that scheduled posts just aren't for me. I like to create, then let it fly baby, yeah!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, have you tried any of the Jess nail polishes? Any colours that you'd recommend, or any I should steer clear of? Would be interested to hear! If you've reviewed any, pop a link in the comments.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until next time,</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~Wendy~</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708141705529719428.post-84759411410719482162013-12-31T15:08:00.000+00:002013-12-31T15:08:08.560+00:00Top Ten Nail Art 2013<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And so we say goodbye to 2013. It's been a pretty boring year for me, and looking back at last years New Year blog post, I see the year before was too. Hmm should probably do something about that.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I managed to keep off the ciggies for another year though, which is a success. On New Years' Day, I will be two years quit. £2,800 saved. WHERE'S THAT MONEY?? Haha, I must have spent it on something I suppose! Books and CD's, probably.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So how did I do on my resolutions?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Decide what I want to do with my life, and do something about it. - Nope, didn't do that</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do something with my hair and eyebrows. - Hair yes, eyebrows nope</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Get more organised. - Definitely didn't do that one</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Start a creative thoughts, dreams and blog idea notebook. - Nope</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Carry on the healthy eating. - Yes for most of the year, failed in Sept/Oct. Weight back on.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, in all, not very well. I'll carry them forward and use them as this years resolutions.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aaaannywayyy.... let's get on with the run down of my favourites of the nailart I've done this year. I'll put them in order of date, and then none will get jealous haha.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh, just as a sidenote, there were two I couldn't choose between, so there are actually 11 here....</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First we have a stamping design using Essie's Borrowed and Blue over Pretty Jelly's Grape escape:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next we have another Pretty Jelly polish used as a base, Diamond S-teal-er, with a dotting tool used to create the daisies:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next up we have a sponged gradient inspired by a friends art:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was so much in love with this when I did it, I can't even begin to tell you. Link to the full post is </span><a href="http://www.maspooase.com/2013/04/nail-art-gradient-inspired-by-actual-art.html"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(here)</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, we're getting into spring, and a flowery look happened that I loved:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next, another outing for Grape Escape, been rocking those Pretty Jellys this year! This time I teamed it with Estee Lauders Pure Colour Smashed, which I didn't like on its own, but has been fab for doing nailart with:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The link for this one can be found <a href="http://www.maspooase.com/2013/05/striped-nailart-feat-estee-lauder.html">(here)</a> I think its bold simplicity is part of the reason I liked it so much</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gotta love that rainbow nails look! Link to the post is <a href="http://www.maspooase.com/2013/06/holographic-floral-nailart-inc-artsy.html">(here)</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">Now for another one. This one completely freehand:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The post for this one also included a tutorial, and can be found </span><a href="http://www.maspooase.com/2013/06/koi-nailart-tutorial.html"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(here)</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Getting in to the summer now, and this one is probably my favourite of the year. Inspired by a beautiful chair by Joris Laarman:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The organic look really appeals to me, and the colour came out just how I wanted. There's a picture of the chair that inspired it on the original blog post <a href="http://www.maspooase.com/2013/07/artsy-wednesday-designer-inspired-joris.html">(here)</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next up, one that other people seemed to like more than I did. I've included it just because it got so many positive comments:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The link to this post can be found <a href="http://www.maspooase.com/2013/07/neon-nailart.html">(here)</a> along with a mini tutorial</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">Next up, probably my second favourite of the year. A freehand/nail sticker combo for Alice in Wonderland:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">Link to the full post is <a href="http://www.maspooase.com/2013/10/alice-in-wonderland-freehand-nailart.html">(here)</a> and that's not the Cheshire Cats body, he's mid-disappearance on a branch hee hee.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">And last but not least, more flowers. Bright and cheery:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The link for that post is </span><a href="http://www.maspooase.com/2013/11/artsy-wednesday-white-nailart.html"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(here)</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And there we have it! My 2013 in nails.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">I hope you've enjoyed my stroll through nostalgia land, and thank you for joining my nailscapades in 2013.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">I wish you all the best for 2014, lets make every day colourful!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">Until next year,</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">MASPOOASE x x x</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">~Wendy~</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708141705529719428.post-39951710287385967352013-12-30T16:05:00.000+00:002013-12-30T16:05:36.602+00:00Christmas Nailart - Artsy Wednesday<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally! Better late than never, here I am with my Artsy Wednesday post, which should have gone up on Christmas Day. I actually did have these nails done on the big day, but I feel like I haven't had a moment to myself to put them on the blog. I kind of lost my nail mojo for a while there, but thankfully it's coming back now. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've had a lovely Christmas, FAR too much indulgence, but will be back on the wagon in the new year (that's the plan anyway). I actually didn't get much in the way of nail presents, just four No.7's in a gift box, and some manicure items from my mum, but that just gives me all the more reason to buy my own hee hee.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been nursing a split on my middle finger. It went above the nail line and I've been babying it along until it grew out enough to cut off without including my actual finger in the operation, so you will see a lump there where I've been gluing it. It's come off now, and that nail is super short, so it'll be a left hander for the new years nails. Which means stamping probably.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The best glue I've found so far for nail splits is Loctite Superglue Power Flex Control. Here's the Amazon </span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/LOCTITE-Powerflex-Ultra-Control-Super/dp/B004JN4UN2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1388416964&sr=8-2&keywords=loctite+power+flex"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LINK</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to the one I have. The lid doesn't get stuck on, polish remover doesn't take it off too easily, and it's lasted a good 3 or four days on me before I have to reglue. Plus, as I keep it in my handbag, it's a hard tube so it doesn't get squished. You have to squeeze the grey handles at the side to get the glue out, and it comes out nice and slowly. I like alot.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, for my Christmas nails, I fancied something glittery. I own quite a few glitter polishes, but hardly wear them as I hate the removal. But for Christmas, I don't mind a bit of extra work. I eventually decided on a cloud manicure of festive red, gold and green. As chance would have it, I own all three colours in China Glaze glitter polishes. So I went with those. Here's what I made:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I started with a base of the green glitter Running In Circles. Just one coat needed, but I did touch up a few slightly bare areas at the end, so I should probably have done two coats.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then I did the cloud detail in red, which is of course, Ruby Pumps. This is a really easy technique, just three swipes of the brush, straight out of the bottle at different heights. Being over the green darkened it a bit, bit it was still bright enough to look like red, so that was okay.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then, over that, I used I'm not Lion, which is a holographic gold, which I love. Same technique, three swipes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's the bottle shot:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On top of that, I used Glisten & Glow HK Girl topcoat, which has had some brilliant reviews, but I haven't used enough yet to form my own opinion on. It certainly get marks for wear though, because after three days I had almost no chipping, which is a first for me. It could be just because it was on top of glitters? More on that as I find out myself.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I took a few more pics of the mani, so I may as well show them to you. Here's the first. Bauble-tastic:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here's the other. Traditional close up bottle shot. You can see the lump on the left of my middle nail quite clearly there, down by the red section:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And that's my lot! Christmas nails, done. Have a ganders (goose pun intended) at what the other beauties in the Artsy Wednesday Club have come up with:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Catrine at Unnaked Nails </span><a href="http://www.unnakednails.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Michelle at Labmuffin </span><a href="http://www.labmuffin.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maria at Maria's Nail Polish Blog </span><a href="http://mariasnailpolishblog.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Melanie at Nail and Polish </span><a href="http://nailandpolish.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ameerah at Valiantly Varnished </span><a href="http://www.valiantlyvarnished.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anna & Haylee at Makeup and Masala </span><a href="http://makeupandmasala.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rosemarie at Every Little Polish </span><a href="http://www.everylittlepolish.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anna at Makeup N More </span><a href="http://makeupnmorebyanna.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So what did you have on your nails this year? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until next time...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~Wendy~</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708141705529719428.post-42927634304670452332013-12-11T12:00:00.000+00:002013-12-11T12:00:04.380+00:00Artsy Wednesday - Geometric Nail Art<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another Wednesday, another nailart! This weeks theme is geometric, and I'm keeping it simple. I shopped like a BOSS last weekend and got all my Christmas shopping done, how cool is that? Now I have to wrap it all and get it sent off, which is probably more effort than buying it. I'm not complaining though, I'll pour myself a G&T and put some music on, and it'll be soon done and dusted.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I feel like I don't have five minutes to myself recently, so I just rustled these up in a jiffy. The base is Maybelline Express Finish in Silver Speed, which is my go-to silver. This is two coats and it really is nice and fast drying.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had better show you a picture! Here you go:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I created black triangles at my cuticles with my new Barry M Nailart Pen, which for some reason seemed to be in the mood to turn itself into a crackle effect polish. Not liking that. I don't know if it's because I hadn't waited for the base coat to fully dry, but it's something I'll have to watch to see if it does it alot.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a pic in more natural light (that lifelong winter lighting problem):</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then I used my Color Club Artclub red striper to draw a line under the black block. I have to say that the quality of the Color Club stripers are fab, I got mine in a set from TK Maxx (of course) but I've seen them on Amazon for around a fiver including delivery </span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Club-striper-Satin-White/dp/B0035LLAIM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1386715546&sr=8-2&keywords=art+club+nail+striper"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was going to do more to it, but I actually like the simplicity of this. It was fast and easy, and it reminds me of the 80's styles, which is all the more reason for me to like it. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have a split on the edge of the nail on my ring finger (bah) which means I'll have to go back down to shorties soon, but I've had a super-long run without any breakages at all so I can't complain. Actually it's my own fault, as I had a week off the perfect formula strengthener, and now the split. I got a bit too lax, oh well.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One more pic. This one under the kitchen light. It really shows that crackling I was telling you about earlier:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've actually done my first Christmas nailart design of the year too, I'll pop the photos up for you soon to have a gander at.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But until then, why not take a look at the geometric designs that the other lovely Artsy Wednesday ladies have come up with?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Catrine at Unnaked Nails </span><a href="http://www.unnakednails.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Michelle at Labmuffin </span><a href="http://www.labmuffin.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maria at Maria's Nail Polish Blog </span><a href="http://mariasnailpolishblog.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Melanie at Nail and Polish </span><a href="http://nailandpolish.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ameerah at Valiantly Varnished </span><a href="http://www.valiantlyvarnished.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anna & Haylee at Makeup and Masala </span><a href="http://makeupandmasala.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rosemarie at Every Little Polish </span><a href="http://www.everylittlepolish.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anna at Makeup N More </span><a href="http://makeupnmorebyanna.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks for reading, and I hope you liked it!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until next time...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~Wendy~</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708141705529719428.post-7805727407944112622013-11-27T12:00:00.000+00:002013-11-27T12:00:03.210+00:00Artsy Wednesday - Polka Dots with Barry M Nail Art Pen Review<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Really? Last minute rush again, me? I'm so glad this weeks challenge is polka dots, as they're quick and easy. Also I've been itching to give my new Barry M nailart pens a go, and let you know what I think. I looked up the definition of polka dot on Google, and it said 'a regular pattern of round dots, usually on fabric'. Which actually changed my idea of what to do, as my orginal pattern wasn't going to be at all regular. Good old Google.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got these nailart pens last weekend when I was *supposed* to be Christmas shopping. I ended up bringing more home for myself than I did for friends and family, oops! Happily my TK Maxx are getting their polish stocks back up for the festivities, but nothing really shouted 'buy me' this time. I'm happy to see that they're starting to sell individual polishes in there too, because all too often I'll have to buy a set of three just to get one colour I want. There were L'Oreal polishes in Poundland though, and I picked a couple of those up. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did make a start though. One person has a present haha.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, back to the nails. I started with a base of Nails Inc's Bruton Street. I like this colour, it's a pretty neutral dusky pink that's most definitely safe for work, while managing to be at least a bit interesting.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also flattering to my skintone and with great opacity, I've only used one coat here. It's an all round winner for me. I did somehow manage to apply it a bit unevenly on the end of my ring finger, but that's my fault for rushing, not the polish formulation.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here's a picture of what I did:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was really impressed with the Barry M Nail Art Pens. The polish flowed neatly out of them, and they were incredibly precise. As you can see, I managed to do teeny weeny dots, and it took no time at all.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a pic of the nibs, they're not like traditional felt tips, they're sort of a hard plastic, but lovely and smooth to use:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The one thing I did notice is that when I tried to do stripes with them, my initial line went slightly thinner as it dried, and sometimes I had to do over it twice to get the thickness I wanted. That didn't bother me too much though, and as you can see it worked brilliantly for dots.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's what the full pens look like:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The nailart pens also came in pink and silver, but I didn't buy those. They were £4.99 each in Superdrug, and at the moment they are having a 3-for-2 offer, so you could pick up 3 at a good price if you're quick.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One last picture of the nails:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, there we go, I was really pleased with the quality of the Barry M Nailart Pens, and would definitely recommend them. They're quick, easy, and mess free.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don't forget to check out what the rest of this weeks dotty ladies have to offer:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Catrine at Unnaked Nails </span><a href="http://www.unnakednails.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Michelle at Labmuffin </span><a href="http://www.labmuffin.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maria at Maria's Nail Polish Blog </span><a href="http://mariasnailpolishblog.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Melanie at Nail and Polish </span><a href="http://nailandpolish.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ameerah at Valiantly Varnished </span><a href="http://www.valiantlyvarnished.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anna & Haylee at Makeup and Masala </span><a href="http://makeupandmasala.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rosemarie at Every Little Polish </span><a href="http://www.everylittlepolish.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anna at Makeup N More </span><a href="http://makeupnmorebyanna.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, have you tried the Barry M pens? Did you like them as much as me? Are you a fan of dotty nails?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until next time...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~Wendy~</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708141705529719428.post-39096188489325368392013-11-13T12:00:00.000+00:002013-11-13T12:00:01.747+00:00Artsy Wednesday - White Nailart<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Artsy Wednesday once more! These days whizz around I can tell you. This weeks offering is the product of one of those happy occasions where you just throw something together out of neccessity and it actually comes out okay. Nice one!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As quite often happens with me, it was after 9pm on Tuesday night when I started thinking about doing these nails. As I work all day through the week, I have to prepare my posts beforehand, so this really is the last chance saloon. I have of course been trying to think up designs for a couple of days, but it turns out that white is quite difficult to think of designs for. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I went through all the thoughts of glitter accent nails, or crystals/glequins, but nothing really made me think, ooh yes I'd like to try that. So I just went upstairs to my polishes, grabbed the obvious white, OPI's Alpine Snow, and thought, what colour do I really like with white? And as it happens only one colour came to mind, and that's orange. Now, I have done an orange and white manicure on the blog before, </span><a href="http://www.maspooase.com/2013/02/orange-and-white-nail-art.html"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(here's the link)</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> but that was stamping, and that means waiting for the base to dry, and no time for that today, not even with Seche!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here's what I came up with:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the brightest oranges I own is Essie's Orange It's Obvious, which I swatched and reviewed in full </span><a href="http://www.maspooase.com/2012/10/new-essie-haul-swatches-and-review.html"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(here)</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> so I thought I'd go with that. A good nailart technique to use if you're in a rush is dotting, because you don't have to wait for the base colour to dry fully before you get on with the art. I decided to make random flowers instead of plain dots, just because I wouldn't have to take so much care (and therefore time) over it, and actually, I like the results!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Here's another pic with the bottle getting a look-in:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you can see, the Essie dries a shade or so darker on the nail than it shows in the bottle. I used one quite thin coat, and then one thickish one because I was in a rush (as I think I've mentioned haha).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I might as well put in the last picture, seeing as I took the time to edit it:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back to indoor photos now, as there's no light left in the sky when I get home from work. But to be honest, I didn't really take that much advantage of it even when there was. So many more fun things to do when the sun's out, like sunbathing and reading a book in the garden. I actually enjoy my polishes more in the winter, when I'm indoors and sitting still long enough to let them dry properly.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Catrine at Unnaked Nails </span><a href="http://www.unnakednails.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Michelle at Labmuffin </span><a href="http://www.labmuffin.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maria at Maria's Nail Polish Blog </span><a href="http://mariasnailpolishblog.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Melanie at Nail and Polish </span><a href="http://nailandpolish.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ameerah at Valiantly Varnished </span><a href="http://www.valiantlyvarnished.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anna & Haylee at Makeup and Masala </span><a href="http://makeupandmasala.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rosemarie at Every Little Polish </span><a href="http://www.everylittlepolish.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anna at Makeup N More </span><a href="http://makeupnmorebyanna.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All in all, I like this, and I think I'll definitely have a go at it in some other colours. What's your go-to "in a rush" nailart technique?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until next time...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~Wendy~</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708141705529719428.post-30626878214344869252013-11-10T21:34:00.004+00:002013-11-10T21:34:53.498+00:00M&S Limited Collection Textured Polish Pink Mix Swatch and Review<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love a bargain, me. LOVE. So, while having a browse in Marks & Spencer last weekend, this lil pretty caught my eye. I've stayed away from textured polishes this far. The only ones that have caught my eye have been the Liquid Sand ones, but they cost too much really to justify as a 'novelty' polish purchase, so I haven't bothered. And all the swatches of the Barry M ones I've seen have been a bit meh.
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But at £4, this one called to me from the shelf... "Buy me, buy me, you know you want to.... I don't cost much and look at how prettyyyyy I am" then somehow jumped into my hand, and magically towed me to the cash desk. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But sadly then all week the weather has been rainy and grey, and no good for showing the new addition to my polish family off to her full potential. Saturday I was rough as anything due to slight over indulgence on Friday night, so no polishing happening there. But today, the swatching gods got their act together, I felt OK, the sun came out, and I was able to take some pics to show to you. Slightly too many if truth be told, but I couldn't pick, so you get the lot.
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So without further ado here's the first pic. Now in winter jumpers, yay!
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sparklicious! This fuschia-y shade is one of my favourites, which is lucky because as far as I could see, it seemed to be the only colour it came in haha. It's called Pink Mix and it's a jellyish watery berry base with fuschia and electric blue micro glitter mixed in. There's also something holo-y in there, but I couldn't figure out what. One coat was passable, but I got full coverage in two coats. This is obviously shown with no top coat, and dry time was initially fast, but stayed denty for about 7 or 8 minutes. I found that once you can't smell them any more, they're dry.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a truer representation of the colour, and the blue has come out to play. It dries ever so slightly lighter on the nail than it shows in the the bottle, but not much. If you like it in the bottle, I think you'll be pretty pleased with it on your nails. I know this sounds weird, but it can't be said of all polishes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Application was ok. I didn't need to do any clean up, and I didn't have the 'not going to the edges' problem you sometimes get when applying glittery polishes. The brush dropped the polish pretty much where I wanted it to without flooding or blobbing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It looks a bit stubby there, but actually the lid's quite long and it was good to use. Sometimes the lid of a polish can be a distraction while you're using it, but not the case here. You can see the brush itself is slightly splayed, and that made it work well with the glittery formula.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bright enough for you? It comes into its own much more in real life. I wouldn't call it a full on blingy sparkle, but a more grown up twinkle. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As its selling point is as a textured polish, I guess I should talk about that a bit. I think that pic shows the texture well. It's not gritty to the touch, just slightly bumpy, so it won't pick up hairs or accidentally scratch you. Think teeny tiny fairy woodchip wallpaper.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Packaging wise, it wins points also:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yep, holographic deers. I don't care what's in the box, I'm having it! I think it looks like it cost more than it did, and the packaging also makes it easier to wrap. A definite win/win gift-wise.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can see on my middle finger, I have a little bit of wear. I'd put the polish on in the morning, and this is mid afternoon. Although admittedly I didn't wait very long before I starting doing things, wear time is going to be interesting with not having a top coat. Actually in real life you can't see that wear at all, but it is there (obvs).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Surprisingly, removal wasn't too bad. I use Cutex Ultra Cleansing remover which contains acetone, and gets rid of regular polish in one or two sweeps. This one required a little bit of rubbing, but I wouldn't put it in the 'painful' category along with my other glitters. Also I wasn't covered in glitter after I removed it, like some polishes. It put me more in mind of removing a foil finish polish.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, I think you can tell, I like this one. I think I'll get a fair few uses out of it, and it's not too seasonal to have to just stick to wearing it in the winter. So far I haven't found a polish from the M&S Limited Collection colours that I haven't liked, and I've got 6 or more now, so thumbs up M&S! If you want to buy online, here's the </span><a href="http://www.marksandspencer.com/Limited-Collection-Special-Effects-Polish/dp/B005B3451Q?ie=UTF8&ref=sr_1_1&nodeId=42966030&sr=1-1&qid=1384117048&pf_rd_r=1BRCCRQ0YVTA8MNYN74A&pf_rd_m=A2BO0OYVBKIQJM&pf_rd_t=301&pf_rd_i=0&pf_rd_p=321381407&pf_rd_s=center-3"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> which shows me it also comes in a blue version, which they didn't have in my store.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708141705529719428.post-60364250962842730012013-10-30T12:00:00.000+00:002013-10-30T12:00:00.509+00:00Artsy Wednesday - Halloween - Graveyard Nailart<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Boo!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yay for Halloween! My absolute favourite celebration. I love all this spookiness, and the fun that comes with it. It's impossible to think of it without having a bit of a smile to yourself. And so many nailart ideas to play with of course. These days it's hard to come up with anything that hasn't been done before, and last year I stressed myself out trying to do so. I did come up with my favourite nailart ever last year though, and will post a picture further down this post. If you can't wait, the link is </span><a href="http://www.maspooase.com/2012/09/blair-witch-nailart-for-halloween.html"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(here)</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So anyway, as I was saying, this year I decided I'd pick a tutorial and give it a try. I'm terrible when it comes to looking at other peoples stuff, and only usually look at things that pop up in my Twitter feed or YouTube subscriptions, so it was nice to make an effort to go out and see what everyone's got on their nails this season.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alot of it was too cutesy for me, because as far as I'm concerned, it should at least be a bit spooky! So I decided after looking at hours of tutorials, to give this </span><a href="http://youtu.be/rlJO79eyIbk"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">VIDEO</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> a try by Gorgeous Nails. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here's the result:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, typically for me, there are some elements of this that I'm not 100% happy with. I wish I hadn't made the two crosses on the middle nails lean the same way, and I would have been a bit happier with the bat on my index finger if I'd worked on it a bit more. However, the tree on my little finger is only there because I made a massive blob on my nail accidentally, and that came out alot better than I would have thought, so a good save there for me.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did this look by painting all my fingers with OPI's My Boyfriend Scales Walls, then using black acrylic paint and my </span><a href="http://www.maspooase.com/2013/07/daler-rowney-100-spotter-brush-nail-art.html"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">spotter brush</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to draw in the details.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In real life this actually looks pretty good, and I'm thinking some kind of gradient behind it might make it really special. Very tempted to give it another go for the big day. Everything of course was topped off with a coat of Seche.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've booked November 1st off as a holiday from work this year (yay!) so I can have a drink, a bit of a one-girl celebration with a bottle of red wine and some spooky movies. And lots of popcorn of course! My favourite is Metcalfes Skinny Sweet & Salt </span><a href="http://metcalfesskinny.com/products/sweet-n-salt"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> which seems to be relatively guilt free and oh so yummy. Looking forward to it already! Not sure which films to watch yet though.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's one last pic of this years halloween manicure, in close-up:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And, as promised, here's a pic of last years nailart, inspired by the Blair Witch Project:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interestingly and co-incidentally, my nails look to be almost exactly the same shape and length as they were last year! That's pretty weird considering they've been all sorts of lengths and shapes this year. This is probably my favourite nailart ever. Spooky-wooky. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, make sure you mosey on over and check out the scaaarrrryyyyyy offerings from the rest of the crew:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Catrine at Unnaked Nails </span><a href="http://www.unnakednails.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Michelle at Labmuffin </span><a href="http://www.labmuffin.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maria at Maria's Nail Polish Blog </span><a href="http://mariasnailpolishblog.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Melanie at Nail and Polish </span><a href="http://nailandpolish.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ameerah at Valiantly Varnished </span><a href="http://www.valiantlyvarnished.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anna & Haylee at Makeup and Masala </span><a href="http://makeupandmasala.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rosemarie at Every Little Polish </span><a href="http://www.everylittlepolish.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anna at Makeup N More </span><a href="http://makeupnmorebyanna.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'd love to know what your favourite halloween nail look is! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~Wendy~</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708141705529719428.post-18566582900311314012013-10-21T22:40:00.001+01:002013-10-21T22:40:21.299+01:00Alice in Wonderland freehand Nailart<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've got some mojo back, yay! This is the manicure I wanted to do for the Artsy Wednesday Disney week, but I just couldn't make it work. I absolutely love the book Alice in Wonderland, and I've wanted to put a representation of it on my nails for a long time.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My favourite character in the book is the Cheshire Cat, so he's the centrepiece of my creation. One of my favourite quotes from the book is:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alice "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I don't much care where –" said Alice.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"– so long as I get <i>somewhere</i>," Alice added as an explanation.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Simple yet clever. A sign of great writing, and the book's like that all the way through.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So without further ado, here's what I came up with:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I painted the Cheshire Cat mid-disappear. I'm not completely heartless though, so gave him a nice branch to sit on.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The playing card characters are actually stickers, which I got from Amazon, here's the </span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nailtopia-nail-stickers-Wonderland-playing/dp/B009CQWBAU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1382389929&sr=8-1&keywords=alice+in+wonderland+nail+stickers"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and here's what you get:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some of these are a bit too cutesy for me, and I probably won't use them, but for £3.25 with free shipping, I don't mind that too much. They are quite thick, and as you can see I had a little bit of wrinkling, but in real life you can hardly tell.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here's another pic, and then I'll go through what I did:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, I started off with kitty cat. I painted my nail with Nails Inc Albert Place, which is one of my go-to light blues. I then put a coat of Seche on it to dry it quickly. Then I used a silver Sally Hansen nailart pen to sketch out the design. I like this because it doesn't matter too much if it's not exactly perfect, as you hardly see it at the end. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then I drew in the branch with a brown Precision striper, and the leaves with a Color Club green striper.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then I used my </span><a href="http://www.maspooase.com/2013/07/daler-rowney-100-spotter-brush-nail-art.html"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">spotter brush</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and black acrylic paint to place out the mouth and eyes. Once that was dry I filled in the eyes with green acrylic paint, and made the teeth with white acrylic paint. Then I filled in his pupils and nmade a little highlight in his eyes, again with acrylic paint. I then went over the whole thing with a coat of Seche, being VERY careful not to drag the design after all that painting!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The green nails (representing the Queen of Hearts croquet lawn) are one thick coat of Barry M Gelly in Key Lime, and the white nail (as a nod to the White Rabbit) is OPI's My Boyfriend Scales Walls.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A coat of Seche then went over everything to dry it in a reasonable time, and smooth out the stickers.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a close up of my Cheshire Cat nail:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can just about see the silver pen I used to sketch out the design under his right eye. In real life it kind of makes it look 3-D, which is pretty cool.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here's the tools of the trade:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you haven't read the book, I wholeheartedly recommend that you give it a go, it's a real delight. And if you do, please let me know what you think of it!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">Until next time...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">~Wendy~</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708141705529719428.post-12236442366184577662013-10-16T12:00:00.000+01:002013-10-16T12:00:10.070+01:00Artsy Wednesday Nailart - Crystals<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hi All!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here I am again with this weeks Artsy Wednesday. The last Artsy Wednesday was Disney, and I had quite a good idea for it, but every way I tried to do it, it just came out in a mess. Eventually I got that stressed out with it that I decided not to put anything at all up. I think sometimes you have to know when you're beat haha.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week is quite a straightforward theme of crystals. I am a total magpie, so I have plenty of pretty shiny things to put on my nails. The challenge for me was to try to come up with something a little bit original, and hopefully I've managed that.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's what I came up with:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The base polish is the lovely A-England Tristam. Here it looks like it has a silver sparkle in it, but in real life that's a very subtle holo. This is one coat, and it had enough coverage. If I intended this mani to last I would still do two coats though, just for the extra wear.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I then stuck some crystal stars straight onto the wet polish. I got these ones from ebay, in a wheel with different sizes and shapes in it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's another picture:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My nails are far too long at the moment. I keep waiting for one to break so I've got a reason to cut them down, but they seem to want to stay long right now! I will have to cut them soon though, because once they get to a certain length typing gets uncomfortable.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm sure now that the weather's turned cold they'll start to dry out a bit. I love this autumny weather, my woolly jumpers are already out, and I've broken out the hot chocolate too, yum!</span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;"> Hopefully I'll get a lovely crisp day soon to take a walk and get some lovely photos to share with you.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope you like my blingy offering! Don't forget to check out what the other lovelies came up with:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Catrine at Unnaked Nails </span><a href="http://www.unnakednails.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Michelle at Labmuffin </span><a href="http://www.labmuffin.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maria at Maria's Nail Polish Blog </span><a href="http://mariasnailpolishblog.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a></div>
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Melanie at Nail and Polish </span><a href="http://nailandpolish.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><br />
<span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #4c1130;"> <span style="font-size: small;">Emily at An Accent Nail </span></span></span><a href="http://anaccentnail.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ameerah at Valiantly Varnished </span><a href="http://www.valiantlyvarnished.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anna & Haylee at Makeup and Masala </span><a href="http://makeupandmasala.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rosemarie at Every Little Polish </span><a href="http://www.everylittlepolish.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anna at Makeup N More </span><a href="http://makeupnmorebyanna.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link)</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until next time...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~Wendy~</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com12