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Blog Round-up!

Blog Round-up Time! Click on the Sneak Peek pictures to admire the work in full! Here is our collective post for this week:-

Grace made a great tutorial video on how to use a konad and have these fantasticnails  

Emily watched put a twist on the usual nautical manicure. Watch out forthe sharks!  

 

Stacie went all a flutter

 

Sharondragged her way to a perfect manicure  

Jen played with fimo this week andcame up with this awesome design  

 

Nicole is pretty in pink with this Fauxnad design

 

Dawn kept the doctor away with this fantastic apple design  

Lovin Nails used China Glaze Four Leaf Clover for agorgeous accent nail manicure  

Claire was rocking with this cool shellac tutorial  

And as a little bonus we love this tutorial by the lovelyLeanne at do not refreeze

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So there you are everyone, I hope you can find something new and exciting to try! You can see another Blog Round-up next Friday xxx

Blog Round-up

A few of us, inspired by Stacie at KawaiiNailArt, have decided to start a "Blog Round-up", collating our favourite posts from the week :) Here is our collective post! -

Julie was inspired bythe spring and showed us this beautiful butterfly design

Jen showed us how touse our Konad plates in a more inventive way with this manicure

Stacie was in anangelic mood this week with her angel wing manicure

To celebrate herstarting a blog Claire is having an OPI Giveaway

Shella was inspired byfurry creatures and this lovely little bear manicure was the result

Linda had fluffy bunnies and baby chicks on her fingers this week

My favourite Manicure that I have seen in the whole Blog-iverse this week is For Your Nails Only's Spring Flowers

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Champagne anyone? *pic heavy!*

Today's Manicure uses MUA's B6 (is it too much trouble to actually NAME your shades, Superdrug?!), which is a pearlescent champagne kind of colour. It is a lovely shade, butIi think it would look a lot better on a darker skin tone, it kind of washes me out a bit.

This colour was quite hard to capture, it's slightly more beige IRL, and not quite as silvery (except at certain angles, in the light). The brush for this polish is NOT my favourite, the bristles are really thick, making the brush a bit clumpy and hard to keep neat round the cuticles. This was especially a problem as the pearlescence of this polish shows up every brush stroke!! I had to work hard to make sure each stroke was straight to avoid wiggly lines. A topcoat did help with this after the fact, however.
I then added the leafy/spotty image from BM04 using Claire's Black. This is not my favourite Mani, I think it's a bit "old lady", I prefer using creams and nice fun, bright colours!

Today is the online release of the new Illamasqua "Toxic Nature" collection, which has some interesting pieces, including some brilliantly pigmented, multi functional creams. Head over to their website to check it out - look at these promo pictures! Make-up for your alter-ego indeed!

I love the makeup - but if someone did that to my fringe I'd punch them very hard.

outrageous, no? They've also bought out some great looking nail polishes, including one called "Bacterium":-

Bacterium on the left, Purity on the right.

Now, I'm not claiming that my little MUA B6 is a dupe, but have a look at these swatches from Leanne over at DoNotRefreeze - She's lucky enough to own Bacterium, and has swatched it for us:-

PHOTO BELONGS TO LEANNE AT DO NOT REFREEZE!!!!

Considering MUA is darker IRL, this could be considered a cheaper alternative seen as Bacterium is £13.50, and my tight arse paid £1.00 for B6. It may be a bit more silvery (and obviously not as good quality), but I think I can make do with that when considering the price difference! Y'all need to go and check out Leanne's blog Do Not Refreeze by the way, easily one of my absolute favourite blogs to read!

Have a lovely day everyone, let me know what you think!
xxx