16 November 2013

Nails: Black Matte French

I thought I had done these nails before but apparently I hadn't!

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Base Polish: W7 - Black
Matte Polish: George - Matt Finish
French tip nail guides

15 November 2013

33 Day Challenge: Using Most Owned Colour

Looking through my polish collection it was clear that the colour I have the most of is purple, I counted them and I have 40 bottles of various purple cremé. So that number doesn't include glitters, holographics and magnetics.

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Sinful Colors - Verbena
Barry M - Indigo
W7 - Black
V Shaped Nail Guides
Fauxnad M57

14 November 2013

Swatch: Stargazer - Purple Chrome 235

Another Stargazer chrome polish which is great for stamping with.

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Colour: Purple (235)
Finish: Metallic
Opacity: One coater
Brush Type: Standard
How Much? 14ml

13 November 2013

33 Day Nail Challenge: Geometric

Geometric was the prompt given for today's challenge, and these are the nails I came up with for this. Teal double stamped nails, I also used these for the base of my PCOS awareness nails:

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Sinful Colors - Snow Me White
Barry M - Guava
W7 - Black
Bundle Monster 213
Bundle Monster 223

12 November 2013

Review: XXL Squishy Stamper

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I like to stamp my nails, its relatively easy and can look really effective. When my nails are short they are easy to stamp, but when they get longer it is more difficult and I end up missing the top corners. My nails have quite a strong C curve. This makes stamping more difficult, also I press down quite hard when I stamp which can be damaging to my natural nail.

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So this is where the XL Squishy stamper comes in, it is larger than a normal stamper and it is very squishy which means it lets the image easily go around the C curve of my nails and it is gentle enough to stamp the length of my nails without breaking them.

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When I first got my squishy XL stamper I thought it was a waste of money as I couldn't get it to pick up any images. I found that swiping some pure acetone over it removed the layer of substance which was causing me problems, other than this one time I don't recommend using acetone on it as it will degrade the surface. The stickiness of the stamper also means it likes to attract lint stamping this on a lint roller cleans it.

The squishy stamper end constantly falls out of the plastic holder, I jammed it in there with a tissue and that also really helped it to stay in and work properly.

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You can stretch images to fit longer nails with this stamper too.

These nails are the result of the first time working with the stamper once it is cleaned with the acetone;

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W7 - Black
Bundle Monster 314

Not my best stamping but I am sure I can improve.

I got my XXL stamper from eBay for £1.52 inc P&P

11 November 2013

33 Day Nail Challenge: 3 Colour Gradient and Pattern

This would have looked so much better had the top coat not of smudged the stamping!

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Base Polishes
Sally Hansen - Delphinium
Color Club - Pucci-licious
Ciaté - Cabaret 046

Stamping Polish: W7 - Black
Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster - BM412