21 May 2014

Review: Avon - Nail Decoration Brush

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Create unique nail decorations with this double-ended brush. With a small cone and a fine brush. Approx 11.7cm long - Avon

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This is a dotting tool and a nail art brush in one. The dotting tool end is very small and you can easily get small even dots on to the nail, also you can use this to create other shapes which is useful.

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The brush end of this tool is less useful. It is a small brush compared to a lot of brushes out there however I like to use a 0000 brush for nail art which is a lot smaller than this one. You can get thicker lines with this one if this is the case. For me this brush is too thick to get any definition or detailed art work on to the nails.

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Here is a quick comparison of this Avon brush to the brush I usually use, as you can see although the Avon brush is small, it is large compared to the tiny detail brush I like to use.

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Overall this isn't a bad product, and the dotting tool is particularly small which makes it very useful in my nail art tool kit. The brush end though leaves a lot to be desired, and I will always opt to use the smaller brush. I will use this dotting tool but not something I would recommend if you were wanting a small brush for neat nail art.

20 May 2014

Tri-Colour Nail Challenge: Purple, Red and Green #3

This is the third of the Tri-Polish Challenge for this month. The colours are Purple, Red and Green. If you want to join or want to know more about this then you can do here.

I chose to use: NYX - Purple InkCiate - Dangerous Affair and Barry M - Guava.

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Polishes Used:
Ciate - Dangerous Affair
Barry M - Guava.

Dotting Tools

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19 May 2014

Nails: Blue Addicted

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OPI - Road House Blues
Essence - Blue Addicted

18 May 2014

Sunday Stamping: Pink Base

Another pink manicure, not my typical style really but a challenge is supposed to be challenging!

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Base Polish: La Femme - Pink Cream
Shatter: Barry M - Burgundy Croc Effect
Stamping Polish: Models Own - Red Black
Stamping Plate: Cheeky Stamping Plate CH40

16 May 2014

Swatch: Maybelline Color Show - Cool Blue 651

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Colour: Light Blue
Finish: Cremé
Opacity: One coats
Brush Type: Flat and wide
How Much? 7ml

Going through my polish collection I did see that Maybelline Cool Blue looks similar to other polishes.

Barry M - Blueberry Ice Cream
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A slight shade lighter

George @Asda - Smarty Pants
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 Smarty Pants is more of a green than a blue

15 May 2014

GOT: Textured Nails

I used Barry M's Countess from October 2013, A England's Sleeping Palace from August 2013 and A England's Ascalon from July 2013.

For these nails I began by doing a gradient with A England Ascalon and Sleeping Palace. This turned out to be a very subtle gradient. I then added some striping tape and used Barry M's textured Countess over the top of the striping tape and then I removed the tape revealing the pattern below.

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Barry M - Countess

Striping Tape

13 May 2014

Tri-Colour Nail Challenge: Purple, Red and Green #2

This is the second of the Tri-Polish Challenge for this month. The colours are Purple, Red and Green. If you want to join or want to know more about this then you can do here.

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Polishes Used:
NYX - Purple Ink

Striping Tape

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12 May 2014

Nails: Black and White Leopard

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W7 - Black
Sinful Colors - Snow Me White

Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster 221

11 May 2014

Sunday Stamping: Spring

What is more Spring like than pastels and cute animals. I used the stamping decal method to get the colours in the animal faces.

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Base Polish: Pretty Quirky - The Hitcher
Stamping Polish: Nails Inc - New York Noir
Stamping Plate: Konad S10

Other Polishes Used: 
Sinful Colors - Snow Me White
ELF - Fire Coral
La Femme - Grey Cream
Color Club - Amost Famous

10 May 2014

Stamping Plate: QA79


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This stamping plate has 13 images on, stars, crosses, faces, lightening bolts and what looks to be an RFID Barcode. I found that all of the images stamped well, and the only one I struggled with were the filled in stars although I think that is down to my scraping technique.

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I was particularly impressed by the line stars. Overall the stamping plate works well and the images are quite fun and can be used in various designs. You can see a couple of these nail art designs which I have done using this stamping plate;

Face
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Leighton Denny - Steel Appeal
Nails Inc - New York Noir

Crosses, large and small
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Leighton Denny - Steel Appeal
Barry M - Silver Foil Effect

Stars
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OPI - Alcatraz... Rocks
Barry M - Silver Foil Effect

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I was sent this product to review, this doesn't affect my opinion of the product.