BARRY M ROSE HIP & HALF MOON DAISIES

Hey everyone, how are you all? I hope you've had a good weekend :) So today I went to the Essence Bloggers Event and it was awesome! I came away with loads of new goodies and lots of exciting nail products to share with you soon :) 

So today's nails I used Barry M Gelly in Rose Hip for a base, I had to use 2 thick coats.  I didn't instantly love it but the colour grew on me and I ended up wearing it for longer than I had meant to! I decided to add a little bit of nail art and painted on daisies as half moons and I love them, how cute are they?

As a bonus, here's a plain swatch of Rose Hip

Ok, I am very tired so I'm heading off to bed and I'll see you in my next post. Have a good week guys :)

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SPONGED PASTEL RAINBOW NAILS !

So the last time I watched The Rise of The Planet of The Apes, the image of Ceasers window stuck in my head and so when I sat down to do my nails I ended up with this. 

I started off with one coat of w7 White and then I sponged on Butter London Jasper, Kiko 340 and a pink, purple and a green Color Club. I then used white acrylic paint to draw on the rest of the detail before topcoating it all.

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SPRING FLOWER GLEQUIN NAILS

Hi guys, I'm still obsessed with glequins but when I did these nails I didn't have a patience to do my whole nail so I decided to create these simple, cute flowers which totally remind me of spring  ! 

I started off with 2 coats of Color Club Take Me To Your Chateau (which I really really love) Then I just applied a dot of topcoat where I wanted to apply the glequins. I used the pale green and the pale pink glequins from the Born Pretty Store set !

My placement isn't perfect but these are so darn shiny in real life you really can't tell at all!

It looked really awesome in real life, the colours worked so well together! Do you like it? The weathers been so pants here recently so these nails make me a feel a little closer to spring ! Lol ! What's the weather like where you are? 

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BUTTER LONDON JASPER (SPRING 2013)

Hi guys, so anyone braving the sales today? Me, I'm just chilling at home watching too much tv and worrying about the enormous amount of work that awaits me ! 

I have a few mani's to show you but I had to post this first because I was way too excited! So the polish I have to show you today is part of Butter London's Sweetie Shop Collection for Spring 2013. I found this on Ebay for a reasonable price, not sure what it was doing on Ebay but oh well! It actually came before Christmas but I had way too many X mas manis to show you so I couldn't squeeze it in then. 

Ok, so this is a gorgeous creamy pastel yellow creme, below is 3 thin coats (but on a swatch stick it only needed 2 coats) It was a little streaky but the formula was otherwise perfect and it doesn't look chalky which I love ! 

This collection will be released in January 2013, so will you be picking this up ?

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PASTEL WATERCOLOUR NAILS

So do you remember the watercolour trend which used acetone from earlier this year? If not then check this out. Well I wanted to try it out but I didn't have any acetone : o ! So when I got some about a month ago I decided it was time, I tried to create like an early sunset effect which didn't really work out so turned into this mani you see right here ! 

I started off with one coat of Models Own Baby blues and then I used Barry M Pale Pink and Berry Ice and then Models own Lemon Meringue and the middle finger kind of looks like a sky and the others just look random but kinda cool ; )

So have you guys tried this technique and do you love it ?

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MINI EGGS

Yep this is kind of a late easter mani, I should have posted this earlier but ... you know ; )
Anyway here it is,I'm not totally happy with this because I wanted to use a mint green and pale pastel yellow instead of the peachy colour on the pinky but my polishes were locked upstairs in the den and it was cold ! loll Also I wanted to use my trusty Jessica polish in double dipped which is the exact colour for chocolate, anyway I made do with what I had and was a great chance to try out some of my recent untrieds ! : ) (haul + nail mail posts coming v. soon ; )

L-R , Barry m - pale pink, blue lagoon, berry ice cream, Nails Inc - wellington square 

I've been helping a lot more in the garden and stuff so please excuse the terrible condition of my hands and cuticle, my hands get really dry and the skin around my nails, does anyone have any recommendations for a good hand cream or some other remedy?

*EDIT* - Giveaway entries are being verified, there were a lot of false entries, Winner will be announced soon 

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30 DAY CHALLENGE, DAY 11 - POLKA DOT

 i love polka dots, we all love polka dots

ok so this is what i came up, i wanted to try something a bit different and attempted a polka dot 'gradient' which i think looks best on the middle finger

i used all pastel colours and i added the black first and thought i'd make a huge mistake as it might overshadow the lighter colours,  but now i look at it i quite like it as i think it adds a bit of depth, what do you think ?

oops, i almost forgot, does anybody remember what pointillism is? it's basically drawing a pictures out of loads of tiny dots and i remember i was taught this when i was little but one of my old teachers who has sadly passed away now, but i really wanted to try this on my nails, and only tried it on my thumb, and decided i'd go for something simple, like a love heart loll

hmm, now quite as good as it looked in my head loll, unfortunately the dam red smudged and started turning yellowy yuk 

and i'm sure many of you are probably wondering when will she get her act together and sort out a giveaway, loll, well i am working on it, progress is a little slower than i'd hoped, anyway i am currently in the middle of some swaps and this challenge too, soo i've decided my giveaway will go live as soon as this challenge ends : ) *fingers crossed*

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