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Blue leopard spots accent nail
I spent ages trying to draw these leopard spots. I watched some tutorials on YouTube and searched Pinterest and Google Images for some inspiration. I found something I liked and wanted to emulate, so...
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Collection 2000 Dynasty and Button Moon striped manicure
It was a lovely and sunny day, so I put something bright and cheerful on my nails in anticipation of Spring arriving soon (I hope!) I was thrilled to find out recently that I won a nail art contest...
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Stripey grey and peach nails
I did these nails for a little girl I see at my son’s cricket training most weeks. She’s fascinated by my nails – most people aren’t, so I am grateful for her interest – and she asked me to do...
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33DC Day 3: Tape Mani
My two most recent polish purchases are L’Oréal Color Riche Amazon Flower and NYC Blue Sky (which, like every other bottle of it I’ve ever seen, is mis-labelled as Raindrop). As the two newest, they...
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33DC Day 6: Textured
I really enjoyed this manicure that I created for day 6 of the Crumpet’s Nail Tarts 33 Day Challenge. Finally, I am wearing a manicure on all of my nails – not just four – and I will be keeping it on...
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33DC Day 22: Three colour gradient and pattern
Day 22 marks two-thirds of the way through the Crumpet’s Nail Tarts 33 Day Challenge. I’ve surprised myself that I’ve managed to do all the challenges, and do them on time. For today’s theme, I always...
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Christmas Challenge 2013 Day 3: Holiday colours
Today’s prompt for the Crumpet’s Nail Tarts Christmas Winter Challenge is holiday colours. So, like everyone else I presume, I thought of red, gold and green. As ever, I wasn’t immediately struck by...
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Christmas Challenge 2013 Day 5: Toys
I was really stumped about what to do when it came to this toys prompt for the Crumpet’s Nail Tarts Christmas Winter Challenge. Then, I was listening to Absolute Radio, and on Christian O’Connell’s...
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Christmas Challenge 2013 Day 8: New Year’s Eve
So, on this last day of the Crumpet’s Nail Tarts Christmas Winter Challenge we’re celebrating New Year’s Eve (a few days early!) I went with some multi-coloured blingy glitter over black. The base is...
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Silver and blue skittlette: L’Oréal Mystic Blue, 2True Christy and zig zags
After all the challenges I’ve been doing, I wanted to do something that was just for me on my nails. And this skittlette – or (everything but the) kitchen sink manicure – fitted the bill just...
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FingerFood’s Theme Weeks: Hearts: Rimmel Space Dust Luna Love
As we get closer to Valentine’s, it’s no surprise that this week’s theme in the FingerFood’s Theme Weeks challenge is hearts. I’m doing the Week Of Love Valentine’s challenge starting tomorrow too, so...
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Week Of Love Valentine’s Nail Art Challenge: Hearts: Reverse Gradient Hearts
It’s hearts in today’s Week of Love Valentine’s Nail Art Challenge and I’m so pleased with what I’ve done. I’ve created some reverse gradient hearts. Firstly, I created a gradient on my nails, from...
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GOT Polish Challenge: Chevrons: Pink, Peach and Orange Chevrons
It’s chevrons today in the Golden Oldie Thursday (GOT) Polish Challenge. I messed up completely today. Not with the manicure; I’m happy with that, even though they were rather hastily – and not very...
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GOT Polish Challenge: Orange: Orange and White Stripes using Nails Inc...
I don’t own many orange polishes at all, so the prompt today for the Golden Oldie Thursday (GOT) Polish Challenge was always going to be a toughie. Ultimately, I’ve done a (fairly rubbish) taped...
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GOT Polish Challenge: Skittle: Turquoise and Navy Skittlette
For this week’s theme in the Golden Oldie Thursday (GOT) Polish Challenge I’ve done a turquoise and navy skittle. I’ve used two old Ciate polishes that came with their 2012 advent calendar: Headliner,...
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Red with glittery gold stripes
I’ve been going through a bit of a nail art rut recently, so I have been trawling Instagram and Pinterest to get some inspiration. I was struck by this manicure by nailsofjessek on Instagram and...
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Pink stripes on cream: Z is for: Zoya Zanna
It’s the end! This week is letter Z in the A to Z series challenge. I bought Zoya Zanna some weeks ago, specifically for this series of challenges. It was the only polish I could find beginning with a...
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Geometric colour blocked nails: A is for: Angles
I’m starting a new challenge today, a new A2Z series challenge where the A to Z prompts are words, not polishes beginning with the letters. So, the first one is angles. I decided on a three-colour,...
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Multi-coloured Stripes: B is for: Bold
So for this week’s A2Z series challenge theme, Bold, I have created some bright stripes. I started with a white base as I was initially going to do some coloured squares over white, but changed my...
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Blue and Pink Curved Sections: C is for: Copy Cat
In the A2Z series challenge we’re on to C and the theme is Copy Cat. I’ve copied a manicure from one of my very favourite nail arstists, NAILBamboo. She’s Russian and so I rarely read what she writes...
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