12 Days of Christmas Nails: Day 1

It's December! My countdown to Christmas has officially started and I'll be documenting it on my nails (of course!). It's my plan to post 12 Holiday themed manicures before Santa pays a visit . Apologies in advance if I don't manage to post 12 but I'll try my best!

I used A-England Galahad* as a base and sponged on Barry M Blue Glitter from the tips. I stamped the snowflake from Bundle Monster plate BM14 and finished it with a rhinestone and a top coat of NYC.

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Day 17: Glitter

So today we come to Glitter manicures. Glitter and I have a strained relationship. I go through phases of loving it and at other times I just detest the stuff and get the urge to throw away every polish I own that contains glitter! The main reason for the hatred is the hassle it takes to remove it. I always use the foil method for removal these days to minimise any stress!

Don't forget to check out Cristina and Rie's glittery nails too!

Barry M Blue Glitter

BYS Gold Finger sponged from the tips down

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Nebula Nails... Take Two

I posted my first set of Nebula Nails all the way back in February [here] and I decided yesterday that I wanted to give them another shot. This look is still really popular and so easy to do. You just cannot get them wrong!

I think I may have gone a bit overboard with these though. There are crazy colours and some irrational sponging involved. But as I said, they just work, and somehow always will as long as you have a sponge and some glitter!

Here are the polishes I used clockwise from top middle:
W7 - Purple Paradise
E.L.F - Twinkle
GOSH - Holographic
George @ Asda - Buttercup Shine
Collection 2000 Hot Looks - Dynasty
George @ Asda - Cloudless Sky
Wet N Wild - White

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Meet EOTD and NOTD. They're twins!

I've been trying to create a video tutorial for a Smokey Eye look all week after someone requested it on Facebook but it seems like the world is against me on this one.

The first time I tried, I just didn't get good enough footage because I'm still a rookie. On my second attempt, I got the footage but it refuses to play on my computer. It just crashes any software that I try to open it with, including the editing program! Très frustrating! 

So anyway, here are my takes on the ever classic smokey eye and it's companion, the smokey nail!

I used:

E.L.F. Eyelid Primer

Bourjois Eyeshadow - Blanc

17 Solo Eyeshadow - Thunderbolt

MUA Eyeshadow - Shade 20

E.L.F. Cream Eyeliner - Black

Jerome Alexander Mascara

I think I'll try one more time to make a tutorial for this look but if the universe can find yet another way to tell me that it's just not meant to be, I'll have to concede!

I created a (sort of) gradient using one sponge and three colours. I utilised a combination of dabbing and dragging the sponge

Collection 2000 - White

La Femme - Grey Cream

Rimmel - Black Satin

Top coat of NYC

I'm going camping this week so I won't be blogging. I have one holiday inspired nail art post scheduled for Wednesday and I should be back to blogging by the weekend.

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The Nailasaurus is One Year Old!

It was my blog's birthday last night and I missed it. I saw that Steph @ Imperfectly Painted is having a blogaversary giveaway so I decided to have a look back and see when my first post was because I knew it must be coming up to a year and it was exactly one year to the day! I feel kinda bad that I missed it. Like I should have had a giveaway, or at the least a post, prepared but oh well. I'm planning a giveaway soon to make up for it.
I got Juicy Jules last weekend and I'm infatuated with it! It is without doubt THE sparkliest polish I own and it's just stunning in the sun. I plan on wearing it a lot in the summer.

The base colour is Urban Outfitters Matte Black and I used a sponge to apply the Juicy Jules to the tips in a gradient.I used two coats of NYC to finish it off.


And out of focus so you can see all the amazing holographicness of the glitter...