tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42858147986658921752024-03-05T05:07:49.574-08:00Clavum esNail art and soon to come beauty, fashion and jewellery Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger118125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4285814798665892175.post-7674939020229260822015-04-05T21:37:00.005-07:002015-04-05T21:37:50.909-07:00Clavum es has moved!!!<div style="text-align: center;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4285814798665892175.post-29538983188157762872015-04-01T04:40:00.001-07:002015-04-01T04:40:13.656-07:00Speckled Eggs Nail Art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Some more Easter nails for you today. These were inspired by speckled eggs but are a bit of a fail. For whatever reason the chevron stripes just didn't turn out right. Also I was pushing it for light when I took the pictures so picture quality is also quite low...but whatever! I must attempt to post all nail art attempts.</div>
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I previously said I was inspired by speckled eggs, which are totally my favourite type of Easter egg considering I ate a bag full today. However I wish I hadn't have added the chevron stripes. They just weren't working and I ended up having to freehand most of them anyway. However I did do these fairly quickly so I really shouldn't complain too much!</div>
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<i>Bella Belle Nail Couture</i> - Lagoon, Orange Blossom, Lavender Fields, Bluebell, Smell the Roses, Jet, You Crack Me up, I like it on top, Matte</div>
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<i>Nailvinyls.com</i> - Chevron Nail Vinyls</div>
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Also got some exciting things in the work which will hopefully be revealed after the chocolate feast which is Easter! Get excited people. </div>
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This design isn't exactly new. I've seen a lot of people with the cliche cracked egg and little chick poking out. However I think this design makes a lot more sense on my little round nails. After all most the eggs I've seen are roundish in shape and not square...duh!</div>
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This is not a complete list of nail polishes I used, but just the ones I remembered (I'm too lazy to go check haha):</div>
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These nails are what happens when you want to paint your nails but then get lazy part way through. You can tell I got lazy half way through as I haven't bothered much with clean up and my stamping efforts are pretty lackluster.</div>
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So basically I started these with the plan of needing more green nails in my life. After painting my nail green I lost all enthusiasm for actually doing my nails. I wanted to do something more than just green though, so I decided to chuck some stamping on top. Not that I bothered to wait for my nails to dry or put liquid latex on to stop the glitter finger problem. So I ended up with glitter herpes fingers and smooshed green polish, which by this time I was way too lazy to fix. So I did minimal clean up, added a top coat, took a picture and took them off haha.</div>
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<i>Celestial Cosmetics</i> - Liquid Lawn, Jet and Argent</div>
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They're still alright all things considering, but maybe next time I'll put more enthusiasm in what I'm working on and it'll turn out better!</div>
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I finally did something freehand that look's exactly like I imagined it would (well on the left hand anyways). I mean, check out that anchor. It looks like it could be a decal. My happy face is so very happy right now! Does your face match mine? :D</div>
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So I had planned on using water decals for the anchor in this look but they were kind of tiny. So I decided to freehand and it wasn't as much of a struggle as I thought it would be. The only thing I would have liked better is if I could have added another row of studs. Unfortunately my nails are round and not square and it wasn't going to look good with another row. That's a very minor complaint though, so overall these are awesomesauce. Perfect for any classy pirate.</div>
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It's a Sunday so it's time for a swatch! It's definitely been a while and I can't say I've started back up with something super exciting. Don't get me wrong the polish is nice but it's not glittery goodness like I normally show. Anyway, here is Bella belle Nail Couture - Snow.</div>
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Snow, as the name suggests, is a white creme polish that is slightly on the sheer side. This is my second bottle as I've used my first so much! The fact that this polish is sheer is not actually a negative because it means that it watermarble's amazingly well. Most of my watermarble's use this as a base and in the marble itself.</div>
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The swatches below are three coats of snow without a top coat. Enjoy the simplicity of this polish, it one of my more frequently used ones!</div>
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Kawaii, in Japan, literally means cute. If these nails aren't the very definition of adorable I don't know what is! Who knew adding cute faces to chemistry equipment could be so awesome? I didn't but now I know that it does, I'm carrying googly eyes with me to every chemistry class I attend.</div>
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From pinky to index finger there is:</div>
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- A joyful volumetric flask because it's been measuring really well that day</div>
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- A sad test tube because it fell over and lost all it's contents</div>
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- A winking conical flask because it's been turned on and is now bubbling along</div>
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And what you can't see is that on my thumb is a measuring cylinder which was please with itself for being perfectly full.</div>
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The only complaint I have about these is that the acrylic paint I used to paint the Kawaii chemistry figures reacted terribly with the gel polish I was using as a base (I had done these for a science in schools event so wanted them to last more than a few days). So therefore some weird bubbling of the top coat over the acrylic paint occurred and some nails started peeling after only a few days of wear. Not sure how to fix this problem, but at least it made removing the gel easier at the end of the week lol.</div>
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Yay for science and cute things!</div>
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I brought new sponges the other day to do some more gradients but for whatever reason, I've lost the skill. Anyway, there are other methods of doing a gradient, I've just never tried them before. So because a sponge wasn't working for me, I pulled out my fan brush and came up with this!</div>
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These are amazing for me. They were super simple to do and look pretty and girly. I especially like the subtle glitter on top. I think it's very similar to the popular China Glaze - Fairy Dust except it from my favourite brand Bella Belle Nail Couture and therefore supporting local and handmade products.</div>
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<i>Bella Belle Nail Couture</i> - Snow, Smell the Roses, Lavender Fields, Diamonds and I Like it on Top<br />
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Oh also, I took these photo's lateish at night because I'm too lazy to actually organise myself to take pictures earlier. So that's why there's some variations in skin tones and stuff. Oh and why there is fluff everywhere, because no one has time to get rid of that stuff ;P</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4285814798665892175.post-5925103513605827522015-03-16T00:38:00.001-07:002015-03-25T23:05:29.406-07:00Straight down the line foiled!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Aren't my titles just so witty and creative lately? I know you're all exclaiming "Hell yeah they really are!" Right now and I am thankful to you for that. Ok but seriously, let's talk about the nail art for a second and not my awesome wit. These nails seem very different than what I normally do but that's simply because I don't use blue colours very often. I think I should do more blues because they look awesome, if I do say so myself.</div>
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I don't think I've ever had nails which were exactly what I set out to do and these are no exception but I can't seem to care in this case. I especially love the base, not that it's really visible in this case. Basically I finally figured out how to add nail foils on top of polish without special glue. It's called base coat and basically everyone has some and it's brilliant. I then went to stamp on top of the foil though, which was a fail, but adding a blue stripe and some stripping tape and it was all good.</div>
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<i>Chi Chi Cosmetics</i> - Mile High Club, He So Fly</div>
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<i>Emily de Molly</i> - Holographic Studs</div>
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This nail art is what occurs when you screw up one design but are too lazy to completely redo what you were working on. For me, this was a massive fail and no where near as easy as I thought it was going to be, especially because I was using nail vinyls. But whatever, I've made myself to promise almost all the nail art I produce, and so here you go.</div>
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The main things I don't like about this look are the sparkles on sparkles and how hard the nail vinyls were to use. I wish I had have kept my original idea of black and red but failures lead to me just using whatever I had on the table before me. I often do that and it doesn't always produce amazing results. The nail vinyls were hard because I couldn't get the stencil to sit right, nor even come off the sheet properly. So ergh.</div>
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<i>Picture Polish</i> - Black, Holiday and Altered State</div>
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I found <a href="https://mockingslayshopoff.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/tribal-pattern-4.jpg">this</a> tribal pattern and wanted to use it for nail art. Instead of just drawing lines I decided to attempt making a tribal print using glitter placement. In some ways it was a win, in other ways it was a fail. More on that after the jump thingy...</div>
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So basically this is a win because a few nails turned out exactly like I imagined! The thumb and the ring finger are pretty much perfect. How this failed is I screwed up the pointer finger but I tried to fix it without totally redoing it. This basically lead to a lot of bubbles and not so neat lines of glitter. Bubbling also occurred when I topped coated most of the other fingers as I had to trim the glitters and the glitter kept lifting when I did, leading to me having to add quite a few layers of top coat. I wish I had done the design from my ring finger across all nails but no way was I going to change them after I did them, because glitter placement is a time consuming thing!</div>
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<i>Picture Polish</i> - Bright White</div>
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Bella Belle Nail Couture - Base and Top Coat (<u>slightly</u> slower drying so better for glitter placement!) </div>
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This nail art is deceptively simple looking, but I actually spent most my day doing them. I blame the cold weather and my impatience for this, but in the end, they turned out awesome! I am loving these triangle studs and marked triangles. Triangles are definitely a new favourite thing for me, they kind of look like arrows pointing in the direction my nails need to grow haha.</div>
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To be precise, the triangles in this nail art are actually isosceles triangles. Isosceles triangles are those with two equal sides and therefore two equal angles. And because we're here for nail art and not a maths lesson, that's all I'll say about that topic. To make these isosceles triangles though, I used straight nail vinyls and added the gold hollow triangles after because I felt they completed the look.</div>
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<i>Picture Polish - </i>Mallard, Camo</div>
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I'm loving these a lot. Hope you do too!!!</div>
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I've actually found a use for short nails! Using stamping plate images that would no way cover nails that are any longer than itty bitty cute things. Today's stamped nails are an example of this. I've never used the plate, despite the fact that I like the patterns, because I don't want to double stamp. So suddenly small nails and I can finally get zebra print happening on my nails!</div>
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Now let's be honest, I rarely have a clear idea of where I want my nail art to though. I actually did have an idea in mind for these, but the final result was not what I had originally set out to do. It's ok though, because it has pretty much everything I was aiming for, which was random watercolour background plus black something on top.</div>
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For the watercolour, I placed random blobs of nail polish on my white base, then thinner it out using a brush dipped in nail polish thinner. There's probably better ways of doing this but I'm a scientist and it was experiment time.</div>
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In the pictures I think this looks a little chipped but it's actually because this was annoying as hell to clean up and I took a little off my tips when cleaning around my lack of free edge haha. So yeah, I swear these actually looked a little better in real life than the pictures! </div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4285814798665892175.post-6246824733262630722015-03-03T02:34:00.002-08:002015-03-03T02:34:49.769-08:00Watermarble Triangles (Sort of...)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I mentioned in a previous post that I accidentally cut my nails down a tad too far. Well today's nail art is proof that even small nails can get some loving. And I mean real loving because they got watermarbled, which isn't exactly the easiest thing in the world.</div>
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So in person, these looked awesomesauce, but the top coat smudged the marble design a tad. I was just a bit lazy to grab my other top coat. I also don't think they photographed to well, but trust me, they were cool. Annoyingly though, this wasn't actually the design I was going for, however at least I managed to get triangle-ish shapes happening on all nails...so that's a win.</div>
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Product wise absolutely everything is by Bella Belle Nail Couture because her polishes watermarble brilliantly. So to list the colours:</div>
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Oh and just a shout out to crappy colouring of photo's. I swear the base polish is actually grey, not purple. My top picture is probably the most colour accurate of all. Yay for watermarble!</div>
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This design was not what I had intended. I wanted something cute and delicate to go with the nail shield on my ring finger, but nope, that didn't happen. Instead I kind of ended up with edgy party nails that I'm not sure are working for me. Sure, I like the chevron, but with the nail shield I think it's a tad over the top. But you can decide for yourself.</div>
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I'm still trying to determine how I can improve these. I think just throwing the charm away might be a good start. I like it but it's kind of awkward looking actually on the nail. Like it kind of dwarfs my hand haha. But those chevrons are on point! (ignoring the random hair everywhere...I did these a while ago and wasn't too bothered about the clean up side of things).</div>
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And yep, I think that's all I have to say on that particular topic. The nails I'll be posting from here on (for a while) are all nub nail arts, so have fun with that :P</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4285814798665892175.post-8301032096293472772015-02-27T15:05:00.000-08:002015-02-27T15:05:37.380-08:00Stamped Daisies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
If you want quick nail art in a fix, then stamping is the way to go. However stamping is not actually as easy as it looks, but for once, I kept it simple and came up with these stamped daisies! These were super simple and quick to do, it took me about 10 minutes per hand, so that's like a 4 minute mile for me :P</div>
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I actually did these quite a few days ago now, but I did say I would be posting saved up nails because of time restraints. I'm still digging these, even after all the time that has passed since I did them. The only issues I have with stamping is impatience. It's important to wait for the base colour to dry before stamping but no body has time for that. That's where a fast dry top coat comes in. Put that down and a few minutes later and you're ready to go. Anyway, these were a very easy way to spruce up my nails for a nice dinner out.</div>
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<i>Born Pretty Store</i> - Plate number 46 (I actually won this one. Yay for free stuff)</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4285814798665892175.post-50283875660516847132015-02-26T03:45:00.001-08:002015-02-26T03:45:02.915-08:00My cat has been foiled - Nail Art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I'm getting busier in my everyday life which is cutting into my nail art time. I can't dare to bare my nails but I can't spend ages each week painting them just to have them chip off a day or two later. This is where gel nail polish come in. This awesome invention means I can wear a mani for a few weeks with no chips (if I apply it correctly). All I have to do is not get bored with a design :P</div>
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At the moment I only have 3 gel polish colours from <a href="https://www.sensationail.com.au/">SensatioNail</a>. This does mean I'm pretty restricted in nail art ideas but you'd actually be surprised at how much you can do with just three colours, or even one as seen in these cat foil nails. Before I said I could wear this nail art for a few weeks without chipping...well in this case I kind of lied. I got three days (I think), before I chipped one nail on my non dominant hand. But that was due to poor application, everything else is still sweet and it's approximately day 5 (will be changing it up soon though).</div>
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<i>SensatioNail </i>- Lily White, top/base coat, Led light</div>
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<i>Born Pretty Store</i> - Silver Nail Foil (plus time turner necklace)</div>
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<i>The Sparkly Shop</i> - Cat Flat Metal Charms and Silver Triangle Glitter</div>
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Shout out to my mum for being awesome enough to help out with the photo taking. Also, gel nails does mean one thing...less posts, but that's kind of the point because busy. However I do have some saved nail art to share, so fear not creepy fingernail stalkers, you shall have gawking material for a while yet!</div>
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Today I have some nails I did for an instagram competition to show you. The theme was purple and I created a swirl drag marble design, then decided it looked slightly like a galaxy, so added stars. I kind of wish I had left it swirly though because I think I liked it better then but whatever, they're still cool.</div>
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Uh, I'm so annoyed by these pictures as well. Most of them weren't in focus and those who were made my clean up look like poo and my cuticles all dry and stuff. That being said, there are still 5 photos here so hopefully you can understand that these looked better in person than in the pictures.</div>
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<i>Picture Polish</i> - Wisteria, Altered State</div>
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<i>Ulta3</i> - Spring Break, Lily White</div>
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And bam! I'm too lazy to write anymore...I have like 6 or so nail art looks saved up to show you in the next couple of weeks (because I'm getting busy in the real world), so hopefully I'll remember to post them.</div>
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Ok, so I actually brought these nail polishes with the intention of doing this nail art (and also because they looked like the most perfect colours ever). I have to say, oh my gosh! I am totally in love with this gradient! Absolutely no polish buying regrets! (But then again I'm likely to never have issues with buying polish haha).</div>
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Look how amazing the texture is in this! I purposely put a thin top coat on top of the glitter, so I could keep the texture in this nail art. Also it was my first time using liquid latex as a barrier while doing nail art and I have to say, it minimised clean up to an extent, but I still had to soak off a lot of glitter. I think with more attention to detail it'll be a very good addition to my arsenal of nail art supplies.</div>
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<i>Hollish Nails</i> - Copper, Bronze and Garnet</div>
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I've worn these for about three day's now, and they're pretty badly chipped now (mainly because I've been opening and closing chemistry instruments all week). But even though it's chipped, I never want to take it off! I'm in love :D</div>
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It's swatch Sunday and finally we're ditching pink and red polishes for something different. On my nails today is Tiffany by Picture Polish, which is a pretty blue creme polish to match Tiffany and Co. packaging. I don't own anything Tiffany and Co. to compare, but I can guarantee this is the case.</div>
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It was kind of hard to get a colour accurate picture of this polish. It actually leans slightly more towards teal in person, but you win some swatches and you lose some. What I did find that although I had no Tiffany and Co. box to compare the colour too, it did go very well with the dress I was wearing.</div>
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Anyway the swatches show 3 coats of Tiffany plus one coat of HK Girl Top Coat by Glisten and Glow. Two coats we're enough for opacity but my application was kind of streaky so I added another just to even it all up. </div>
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I also added a bit of an accent to my swatches with some cute temporary tattoo's I got at the local odds and ends store. Oh and thank you to my little brother for helping out with the photo's.<br />
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I was feeling the need for something girly today and wanted to do something for Valentine's day that didn't include hearts or love puns. After a few failed attempts, I finally managed a very delicate quatrefoil design that I was very happy with.</div>
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The quatrefoil design is deceptively simple. All it seemingly required was four dots of one colour to make a cross pattern, then, on top of that, another set of four slightly smaller dots. This was way harder than I thought it would be but I got there in the end. Also I like the colour combo but it's sort of difficult to distinguish what it's meant to be...but meh.</div>
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<i>Born Pretty Store</i> - Matte Surface Oil</div>
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It may not look it, but these are matte in most the pictures. Because of the sparkle in Metallic Mush they still look shiny but they look 10 billion times better matte than with a shiny top coat.</div>
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Let's call this a collaboration between my Mum and I. My nail art here was inspired by some gloves my Mum knitted, using wool we dyed together. You can check out my Mum's knitting blog, <a href="http://knitographical.blogspot.com.au/">Knitographical</a>, because eventually she'll put up proper pictures of the gloves (and wool and everything). Until then, you can see sneak peaks of the gloves in my pictures and see how they inspired my nail art.</div>
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So this all started back when Mum decided to dye her own wool. I helped out with that process and we ended up with some pretty pink, yellow, camo and orange-ish wool, which we're calling <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/ninja-knitter/lady-jane-greys-gloves">sunrise/sunset</a>. Eventually I decided the wool needed to become gloves, so my Mum knitted some up for me. Because my Mum and I are both bloggers, she needed some pictures for her blog, and because my nails were visible, I needed some nail art to match. I initially started off with a water marble in mind, but it was a massive fail, so I picked out the greenish colour in the wool to be the base and added the colours of the wool in with sparkles.</div>
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I'm not sure how to describe the nail art technique here. I painted my base colour, then added drops of coloured polish over that and smooshed it everywhere with a plastic bag. So whatever that is, that's the technique used here. I added studs because I felt they were needed.</div>
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Now I just want to thank my little bro for these pictures. It was commented by one of mum's knitting friends that these gloves would look perfect at a cafe, holding a hot chocolate, with the snow. Unfortunately for us in Australia, that's not a likely occurrence but we wanted to replicate the vision anyway. So my brother and I had Iced Chocolate and Iced Mocha in 30ÂșC weather, wearing gloves, because that's what you do in the name of art!</div>
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In continuation of my stamping practice, I decided to pull out my white Celestial Cosmetics stamping polish and create a delicate design for Valentines Day. To do this I used a lace stamping pattern, added some freehand french tips and finally the freehand hearts and dots. In my opinion these are a very non obtrusive form of nail art and would be perfect as simple bridal nails. </div>
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My only wish for this nail art is that the hearts would have actually been in the centre of each nail. I probably should have looked a bit closer before drawing them on. What I do love is that the polish I used for the hearts is holographic, with give and awesome sparkle to what otherwise could be a quite bland design.</div>
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Not many polishes were needed for this look, and it's didn't take too long either. I used:</div>
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<i>Celestial Cosmetics</i> - Nebula and Snow (stamping polish)</div>
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<i>Drama Queen Nails</i> - Squishy Stamper (Literally a life safer for me when it comes to stamping. Will do a review on it soon!)</div>
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I'm going pretty well this week, two designs in just two days. I'll have another design up hopefully tomorrow (inspired by some of Mum's handy work), so let's see if I can do 5 days of Nail art (doubtful but here's hoping).</div>
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Ok, so it was my aim to keep up a theme of pink and red polishes until Feb 14th. Today's nail art fails that completely. However it does still keep in the theme of Valentine's Day with a funky heart, so I think it's forgivable. So introducing my Valentine's Day mosaic hearts.</div>
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I absolutely love the pastel colours in this nail art! If I had to choose between pastels and true colours, pastels would win every time. The only think that annoys me about this mosaic nail art is the border on my pinky nail. I ruined two stripping brushes so I had to do the pinky with a cut down brush which wasn't cooperating. I have to go and buy new brushes now because this is about the 5th I've destroyed this week.</div>
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All the polishes I used are by China Glaze, apart from the top and base coat. They are:</div>
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I've also been trying out a new method of photo taking (which includes stealing my Mum's fancy camera). Not going to lie, it's making picture taking 100% cooler, however I'm not giving up my light box just yet. This is just good for a change!</div>
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It's Sunday and you know what that means? It's time for another swatch! Today's swatch is the pretty in pink, Snowstorm Paramour by Pretty Pots Polish.</div>
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I am not going to lie to you, this polish looks pretty enough on the nail but I would probably never wear it again. The application process was terrible, I couldn't get any glitter (apart from the tiny blue hexes) on the brush and therefore had to fish out all the other glitter, with a toothpick, to get any glitter coverage. Let's a take a look at the bottle shot to see what the issue was.</div>
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Snowstorn Paramour is a jelly glitter polish with various hex glitters, bar glitter, large circle glitters and scattered silver glitter. However the base polish itself is very thin and sheer, meaning the glitter does not suspend throughout the polish and instead just settles to the bottom (I took this bottle shot very quickly after tipping the polish upside-down for a while but the glitter still sunk almost immediately). Therefore getting the glitter from the bottle to the nail is a nearly impossible task...unless you use a toothpick and patience like I did.</div>
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In the swatches, I used one normal coat of polish, one layer of placed glitter, one normal coat of polish, plus some more placed glitter. All up I think I used about four coats of Snowstorm Paramour and I still wasn't overly happy with the finish so I added one thick coat of HK Girl Top coat. Even after this the large circle glitters weren't behaving and pretty much immediately after I took these picture I lost some glitter due to it catching on my clothes.</div>
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(Prettypots Polish currently doesn't have an active shop but I think I purchased this polish through Powder Perfect, which you can google.)</div>
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