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December 19, 2013

The Birds! Black and Grey Hitchcock Inspired Nail Art!

By Ruth
Messy Mansion Plate mm14

The Birds!

I am still loving my new Messy Mansion plates! 😀 I have been wanting the Birdy plate for ages! And it really is as lovely as I thought it would be! 😀

You can find this lovely plate here!

As soon as I saw the plate I thought of the 1963 Hitchcock film The Birds! 😀

I started with a sponged Gradient using Grey from Barry M and Pumice from Sally Hansen, I let the polish dry a little on the sponge so it would look grainy.

I used black stamping polish from Konad, followed by a coat of Seche Vite, followed by a coat of matte topcoat, I used a coat of SV because my ELF matte topcoat just smears the stamped image really badly (which is why my thumb is hiding!).

Now I think it’s time to file my nails because typing is becoming a bit of a challenge lol! 🙂

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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 30, 2013

Crackle Polish Experiment Part 2!

By Ruth

Here is part two of my experiments with crackle polish. Part one you can find here! 😀

Layered Crackle Polish

OPI Shatter Layered Nail Art

I have to say, I really like this Layered look, I started with two coats of Black Magic from Revlon, then one coat of Silver Shatter from OPI, then a coat of SV.

The topcoat here is really important, or the next layer of crackle polish will turn your nail into a horrible mess! (that happened to me the first time I tried this lol) you could even use a glitter polish for a bit more sparkle or even a gelly polish if you want to change to look of the crackle! 🙂

Layered OPI Crackle polish

I am definitely going to be using this layering technique again!

Crackle Polish With Stripes

Crackle Polish Stripes

Crackle Polish Stripes

Originally I was going to add this into the my first lot of experiments, but I didn’t, so here it is now! 😀

The silver base colour is Night Moves from Barielle shades, then I added one coat of Super Bass Shatter from OPI, then a coat of 60 second fast dry top coat from color club. I used tape to mask off the stripes then Black Magic from Revlon, after removing the tape I applied another layer of topcoat.

I think that this may look better with thinner stripes (and a bit more care than I used while cutting the tape) I did find that the black polish peeled up with the tape which I found a little odd, as I took the tape off while the black polish was still wet. I think it has something to do with the topcoat.

French Tip

OPI Silver Shatter French Tip

The base colour is Black Magic, the tip is OPI Silver Shatter.

I don’t like this so much, the crackle polish is a nightmare to get into a reasonably strait line for the french tip, I tried this 3 times before giving up :/

Crackle polish Background With Flower Stamp

OPI Super Bass Shatter With Stamping

I used the same polishes as before for this, Black Magic Super Bass Shatter. I used two layers of SV to smooth over the crackles before stamping. The polish I used for the stamp is Masquerading from Color Club.  The stamping plate is P21 but I actually have no idea what brand it is :/

Crackle polish as a base for stamping works really well! and this is another technique I will be using again 😀

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November 27, 2013

Poke, Snap and Scorn! Purple Dotted Stripe Nails.

By Ruth
Poke, Snap and Scorn from illamasqua

Poke, Snap and Scorn

The nail polishes I used for this are all from Illamasqua poke (purple shimmer) snap (silver) and scorn (black creme). Scorn has a semi matte/rubberized finish that I had completely forgotten about but the coat of Seche Vite made it all really glossy 🙂

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November 25, 2013

Urban Decay Twisted

By Ruth

Yay! my finger has nearly healed! I had a nasty washing up accident and It’s been looking horrible for days :/

I found my bottle of Twisted from Urban Decay while I was tidying up! 😀 And I couldn’t wait to show you all!

Urban Decay Twisted

Urban Decay Twisted

Look at the lovely gold sparklyness! I have to say that this is one of the few gold shades that I like, I’m not a big fan of yellow shades, This is more of an antique gold, there’s no metallic yellow here 😀

I was just going to do a quick swatch of this polish but then my Bundle Monster plates arrived! and I couldn’t wait to play with them! I Chose the CYO set, there are so many interesting images, completely different to any other BM collections!

Twisted With BM-406

Twisted With BM-406

Look! the images are just the right size for my finger nails *happy dance* I’ll do a full review of the set soon! 😀

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