MISS SPORTY PINK DUOCHROME & ZOYA CHLOE ACCENT NAIL

Hi guys, I hope you all had a lovely weekend, today I've got a simple mani that I wore recently to show you. 

I started off with one coat f w7 Black and then applied one coat of Miss Sporty Lasting Colour polish in the shade 111. I got this several years ago from a car boot? Anywho I never used it because it looked like a frosty pink in the bottle and this was before I was aware of duochromes and how they come to life over black, this flashed green and pink which a bit of copper. On the accent nail I applied 1 (and a half) coats of Zoya Chloe. 

So that's all for now folks, take care and see you in the next post :)

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BUTTERFLY WING GRADIENT NAILS

Can you beleive this is my first time attempting the butterfly wing nail art, I guess when you see a lot of a design everywhere it kinda makes you feel satisfied so it never appears on your own nails! Anyways I finally decided to try it and was kinda disappointed with the result, my lines just weren't neat and it just didn't look right, so I am going to have to try these again !

For this I started off with a gradient using Kiko 340, China Glaze For Audrey and and unnamed light pink Color Club, when that was dry I topped it off with one coat of China Glaze Glistening Snow before drawing on the the butterfly pattern. I've actually done a tutorial for these which I'll probably post tomorrow. 

My middle finger was probably my favourite but I think I need more practice. What do you think about this nail design, do you like the whole wing nail art thingy?, have you tried it out?

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NEON ONE STROKE FLOWER BRANCH NAILS

It's too hot and I'm not a fan of it! Since it's summer though I thought I'd better use some neon and I still wanted to try out different one stroke techniques, so I came up with this. I used 2 coats of China Glaze Flirty Tankini and then used black acrlylic paint for the branches and blue and white acrylic paint for the blossoming flower buds, before topcoating the whole design

It's not perfect but I still quite like it, China Glazes Summer 2012 neons were gorgeous, speaking of which I am so disappointed with this years China Glaze Summer Neons, I mean the colours look lovely but the formulas seem to be pretty poor and I can't be bothered with tricky neon application, have you guys tried them? Let me know what you think of them 

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OPI SPOTTED THE LIZARD & SOME STAMPING

I haven't done any stamping in a really long time! So when I tried out OPI Just Spotted The Lizard I thought I'd have to stamp something over it! For these nails I used 3 coats of OPI Just Spotted The Lizard and then used an image from the BM-319 plate from the Bundle Monster 2012 collection and w7 black.

So what do you guys think? I really liked this !

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ZOYA VERUSCHKA & ROCOCO GOLD LEAF

Hi guys, I hope you enjoyed your weekend, mine has been lovely and relaxing :) 

Anywho so here's another mani from the vault, I saw this combination over at (I can't remember, I'll check tomorrow and update it) and I fell in love with it instantly so had to recreate it ! 

So this is 2 coats of Zoya Veruschka and 1 coat of Rococo Gold Leaf, all topped off with one coat of NYC Turbo Dry. 

Ahh, so beautiful :) Love, love, love this combo! What's your favourite combination with the gold leaf topcoats?

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CHANEL TABOO

It looks like summer might actually be here ! It's hot outside : o but inside our house is lovely and cool : ) 

What's the weather like where you are? 

Anywho sometimes a nail polish comes along which is so awesome that it has to be swatched, photographed, edit and posted asap! This was definitely the case with Chanel Taboo! I have a really long line of posts and this one just skipped the queue. 

I didn't know if I should get this but then I woke up on Wednesday morning and decided I needed it! I picked mine up from Harvery Nichols but Taboo is available from lots of other department stores which have a Chanel counter.

Anyway this is one of the limited edition summer polishes released by Chanel. It's such a gorgeous polish, I'm not even going to attempt describing it because there's so much going on, I think the photos speak for themselves. 

All photos are 2 coats of Taboo and one coat of Taboo. 

The red shimmer is much more evident in direct light and I swear I could see a touch of green duochrome on the edges but it might just be me ? 

The colour is so complex and gorgeous and unique, the formula is flawless, it can cover in just one coat but I used 2.

I definitely think everyone should pick this up and because it's limited edition I wouldn't risk waiting! I'm even thinking of picking up a backup 

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ONE STROKE FLOWERS

Are you guys doing anything exciting this weekend? I'll just be home playing with polish, watching movies and cooking! 

So I did some more one stroke flowers, I always try to do something a little bit different so for this I thought I'd try double petals like I did on the middle finger but once I'd finished it I kinda prefered the other nails with just one layer of petals. So I started off with 2 coats of OPI Rumple's Wiggin' and then used blue and white acrylic paint for the flowers, then I used yellow acrylic paint for the centre and white acrylic paint for the dots!

Crickey, look how long my nails are here !

So what do you think of these flowers then? Have you tried the one stroke technique yet?

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