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January 5, 2014

Nail Polish From Japan. Part 1 Eternal Basic Nuru 06

By Ruth

A rather lovely friend of mine went on holiday to Japan last year, and brought back some nail varnish! Seven bottles and a dot artist kit! 😀 Much better than a postcard!

The first polish I’m going to show you is from a company called Dear Laura, the range is Eternal Basic and the colour is Nuru 06. you can find the website (in English) Here

Nuru 06 is a pale turquoise creme polish, this really isn’t a colour I would have chosen myself, it’s good to try new things! After wearing it for a couple of days I’m starting to think it’s not that bad lol!

Eternal Basic Nuru 06

Eternal Basic Nuru 06

I found the formula for this polish to be on the thin side, and there was a bit of dragging and streaking while I was applying the second coat, but luckily the third coat built up the colour really well, and with the fourth coat it’s not noticeable at all.

The polish is really glossy, a lot more than my pictures are showing!

Eternal Basic Nuru 06

Eternal Basic Nuru 06

I have to say. How cute is this tiny bottle? I keep thinking it looks like a tiny blue pumpkin!

Eternal Basic Nuru 06

Eternal Basic Nuru 06

(And while I was painting my nails I may, or may not have been pretending to be a giant…)

Eternal Basic Nuru 06

Eternal Basic Nuru 06

This polish really didn’t smell too bad and it dried really quickly even with having to apply four coats!

I think I would like to try a some other colours from this polish range… but it’s very unlikely at the moment… One day tho 🙂

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January 3, 2014

Foiled Again! Stamped Peacock Feathers.

By Ruth

Foil Peacock

I started this with a base of two coats of Black Magic from Revlon. For the stamping I used a combination, of Cold Metal (blue), Perfect Mol-Ten (green), Hot Like Lava (pink) and Antiquated (gold) all from the foil range from Color Club.

I put a drop of each polish on the image and and poked them all around with my scraper until the stamping image was covered, before removing the excess, I did mess up a couple of times as I wasn’t quick enough transferring the image to my nail. The Color Club Foil polishes dry really fast, I didn’t even have the chance to line up the image :/

This is the first time I have tried stamping with more than two colours! I really like how it turned out 😀 even tho it was a pain to do!

The stamping plate I used is Messy Mansion Birdie plate MM14, which is available here.

Foiled Peacock

Foiled again Peacock

I finished it off with a coat of color club top coat, The top coat is not too bad, it applied nicely and importantly didn’t mess up my stamping and it didn’t shrink…

After writing this I’m starting to think that this top coat might actually be rather good rather than not too bad! Lol.

It’s just I’m so used to using Seche Vite now that any other top coat lacks the thick glassy finish and seems to take for ever to dry! :/ Maybe I should start trying out other brands of topcoat, so is Poshe any good? What about HKgirl? 🙂

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December 13, 2013

Scaly Things!

By Ruth

Sorry about the lack of posts lately, life has been getting in the way! In a good way tho 🙂

I received my new Messy Mansion plates this week! 😀 I chose MM21 which is the Scaly Things plate, MM16 William Morris and friends and MM14 the Birdy plate. The image for today is from The scaly things plate! which you can find here

Gradient With Scaly Things!

Gradient With Scaly Things!

For the Gradient I used Tanzanite and Aquamarine both from the Chroma Chameleon collection by Revlon, I found the polishes are a bit on the thin side, so I applied the gradient over a coat of black polish to make the colours pop. For the stamping I used Konad SP in black and finished it with a coat of Seche Vite!

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December 2, 2013

Frosty Snowflake Nail Art!

By Ruth

Frosty Snowflake Nail Art

Here’s my first Wintery/Christmas nails for this year! 😀

I used Sally Hansen Dive Deeper as the base colour for this mani, it’s a really pretty pale blue frosty colour with loads of white, silver and iridescent shimmer and micro glitters! I applied two thin coats, then used a small dotting too to add a few dots of White on White from China Glaze. I applied another two coats of Dive Deeper, after the dots had dried. The stamping plate that I used for the snowflakes is HD 05 from Cute (I think) and I used White on White for the image. I finished it off with a coat of Seche Vite.

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November 28, 2013

Slightly Steampunk Tentacle Nail Art!

By Ruth
Slightly Steampunk

Slightly Steampunk

For this I started with a sponged gradient of Blackened Bleu a black jelly with blue and green glitter from Barielle Shades, Ciao Bella which is the dark blue shimmer with blue glitter and Gorgeous a teal metallic both from Sinful colors.

Mmmm Octopus

Mmmm Octopus

The stamping plate is BM-401 from Bundle Monster.

I used Konad special stamping polish in black for the image and a coat of Seche Vite

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November 6, 2013

Girly Gradient Nail Art With Glitter and Flowers!

By Ruth

Pink and Blue Gradient Nails

I started with a sponged gradient of Sinful colors Paradise which is a light blue creme and Daredevil the bright pink, then one thin coat of Ariel from Chit Chat, which is a blue holo glitter in a clear base.

I used Konad SP in black for the flowers, the stamping plate is Moyou Suki collection 02 Then a coat of color club top coat.

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