From the Vault... SPAM

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These photos have been sitting in my edited file for a few months now, so I decided I had to post them now or say bye-bye...

Enjoy!

 Pahlish Twelve Drummers Drumming

 Twelve Drummers Drumming - I can't remember if this was 2 or 3 coats... Probably 3 since it's sheer. It's got a creamy nude base with gold/orange micro-flakes, iridescent and copper glitter. Beautiful!

L'Oreal 811 

 811 - do these mini sized L'Oreals actually have names or is the boring number all we get? Gorgeous blue with green shimmer though! This was 2 coats.

Sation Delete Your Junk Male

 Delete Your Junk Male was part of the Miss Antoinette Collection, but I couldn't get it to photograph true to life so I never posted it. In person, this is a dark pink jelly with subtle white sparks, just like Love Is In The Heir! Sadly it just looks super coral/orange/red in photos... Maybe it's got some neon to it? Anyway, this was at least 3 coats because she's pretty sheer.

 OPI Every Month Is Oktoberfest

Every Month Is Oktoberfest is a deep aubergine loaded with rich rusty shimmer. Two thin, easy to apply coats and you're good to go. Faboush!

Red Carpet Lacquer Glades over BYS Black & Gold

 Glades is a glitter colour-shifting top coat. The glitter is translucent and when layered you see a shift from green-yellow-orange. I applied two coats over a back base with gold shimmer flakes.

Elevation Polish Grotte et Cascade

 Grotte et Cascade is a rich, deep brown with blue, purple, pink and red micro-flake shimmer. It's opaque in 2 coats and sooooooooooooooo gorgeous! I've been rocking it a little this winter already.

Lilacquer Leeloo Multipass

 Leeloo Multipass - who didn't love The Fifth Element?! It's quite possibly the only Mila Jovovich film I've ever seen :) And Brucey is AWESOME as per usual. LM is another shade that would not cooperate with the camera. It's a warmer orange with pink shimmer, but it looks terribly yellow toned in these shots :( This one was a streaky sucker; I might have ended up with 4 coats because I was trying to even it all out! I think 2-3 coats was opaque.

Daring Digits Love Dragon over Pahlish Eight Maids A Milking

 Love Dragon is a pink to purple shimmery micro-flake top coat. I added two coats to a pink and purple Pahlish glitter and it looked so sparkly! The name is fantastic too!!!!!

Dollish Polish Mermaid Scales v2.0 with stamping and gems

I tried my hand at a mermaid tail themed manicure and all was swell until I put top coat over the rhinestones. It went all bubbly and nasty :( I learnt not to top coat these gems though... I used BM 209 and China Glaze Millennium for the stamping.

China Glaze Full Spectrum

 Full Spectrum is a pink/silver duo-chrome choc-a-block full of rainbow hexes. I've since sold this because I'm not that in to the rainbow glitter, but the base is pretty. This was two thin coats.

Femme Fatale Quivering Heart over Hits Unconventional

 I've posted Quivering Heart before, but this is it layered over a darker base. I love how the moody red-purple duo-chrome sets off the gold sparks in QH.

Candeo Colors Sweet Sierra over Essie Madison Ave-Hue

Sweet Sierra is a lavender and rose pink holo glitter top coat. It's squarey-hex and sparkles like mad! I'm wearing 1 coat over a pink from Essie.


Yes, that got rid of so much backlog! Now I need to go study and edit some newer snaps!!!!!


xxx
NPA

Stamping Fail?

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Hey all,

I wore this manicure months ago now, but never committed to posting it.
I can't figure out whether it looks too strange because I stamped in the same colour as the glitter. Will you help me decide, please?

Daring Digits Snowed In & NC02 stamped with China Glaze First Mate 

Maybe if the blue I stamped with was more opaque?

The Nailz Craze plates are awesome btw - you can buy them HERE or from Ninja Polish


xxx
NPA

Sunday Spam

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You may have seen on Facebook already, but the winner of the 25th B'day Giveaway is Kelly Graham. Congrats Kelly! She has claimed the $25 voucher for Harlow & Co.

Thanks for all the support guys, it was great reading through what you all did for your last b'days! For everyone who had to cook dinner for their family, I sincerely hope that this year your husbands/children put in some effort and either cook for you or take you out for tea!!!!

Got some swatch spam for you today, enjoy.

Happy Hands Banana Stand

Sparkly Red Spam

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It's Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, oooohhhhhhh...

Ok I was singing that to the tune of Baby by Justin Bieber. Been a bit quiet the last few days because I've just had no interest in blogging. Not sure I really feel like posting now either, but I woke up at 3:30am and couldn't get back to sleep so I eventually started editing some swatches, so why not?!

The theme is Sparkly Reds, because I had a bunch of red glitters/shimmers sitting in my edited folder and now is as good a time as any.

Pretty Serious ViciousVampire

First time painting with acrylics: Heart Tips

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This was my first ever try using acrylic paint on my nails, yikes!

I chose a really simple design, heart tips that I've seen on a number of blogs and can't quite remember where now, sorry.

You just paint the top half of the heart on part of your nail plate and free edge. Well, I may have struggled to get my heart lobes looking right so more like half of my nails became hearts!!
Here's how it turned out:

(before i took photos I'd picked the polish off my index and thumb, so you have a 3 fingered photo! "Busy hands," my Mum says)

OPI You're A Doll! with acrylic paint hearts and China Glaze Fairy Dust

I started with a base of OPI You're A Doll, a  very odd light pink, neutral shade with silver shimmer and tiny specks of red running through it. It was released as part of the Holiday in Toyland Collection 2008. Then I mixed some red and white acrylic paint together and used a very fine tipped nail art brush for the hearts. They looked a bit streaky but 1 layer of SV had them glossy and even! I added a coat of Daring Digits Love Dragon. That gave some extra shimmer/sparkle to YAD. I decided they needed a little more pizzazz so I painted 2 layers of China Glaze Fairy Dust just onto the hearts (which I never use even though it's AWESOME!), and topped it off with another coat of SV.

Simple Pimple!

Another easy Valentine manicure. Hopefully my painting skills will improve though! Maybe it helps to be good at art in general, because I really wasn't!!!! I dropped it as soon as I was able. My school made us do it up until 5th form :(

xxx

NPA