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Dotted flowers: Beauty UK Smokey Lilac, NYC Pinstripe White and W7 Cosmic Purple
So many polishes: so little time! My stash of untried polishes keeps growing. A month ago, I had 104 untried polishes. Despite manicuring my nails every two or three days, and proactively trying to get...
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Collection 2000 Dynasty and Button Moon striped manicure
It was a lovely and sunny day, so I put something bright and cheerful on my nails in anticipation of Spring arriving soon (I hope!) I was thrilled to find out recently that I won a nail art contest...
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Easter pastel skittle mini egg nails
I wanted to do some Easter nails, but I’m not particularly religious, nor did I want cutesy bunny nails. So instead I thought I’d try to recreate some mini eggs on my nails. We love Cadbury mini eggs...
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Barry M Bright Purple stamped with Essie Nothing Else Metals
Stamping is a great way to use my untried polishes. This time I’ve stamped with Essie Nothing Else Metals, which I bought from a local branch of The Original Factory Shop for just £1. Bargain, eh?...
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Barry M Prickly Pear
I’m on a bit of a Barry M roll recently. It’s not that hard though. I have 38 Barry M polishes – way more than I have of any other brand – and they have such a range of great colours, it’s highly...
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Color Club Eternal Beauty stamped over Barry M Prickly Pear with Cheeky CH7
This is an incredibly subtle stamping. Perhaps too subtle. I was going to use Barry M Plum, but did a swerve at the last minute and picked up Eternal Beauty, the purple holographic Color Club polish...
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Essie Bikini So Teeny
I really couldn’t work out if this polish is blue or lilac. Most blogs describe it as blue, and it does look blue in the daylight. But in the evening and in low light, it looks more lilac. Anyway, I’ve...
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SpaRitual Cha Cha Cha
SpaRitual has launched a new, special edition collection of textured glitter polishes, called the Dance Collection. This is Cha Cha Cha, a gorgeous lilac colour, with an intense glittery sparkle. I...
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Maybelline Noite de Gal with stencilled French tip accents in Ciaté Sugar Plum
I had no idea what Noite de Gal meant. I presumed it was French, but I got nowhere with that. Google Translate helpfully told me it’s Galician for “night gal”. I’ll go with that (unless anyone can tell...
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FingerFood’s Theme Weeks: Weather: stamped lilac clouds over Zoya Payton
The theme for this FingerFood’s Theme Weeks challenge is weather. I’ve been a bit lazy today. I have left this a bit late – I’ve not done anything until today – and I was originally going to draw the...
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GOT Polish Challenge: Purple: Splatter
Today’s theme in the the Golden Oldie Thursday (GOT) Polish Challenge is purple; one of my favourite colours. I chose to do a splatter manicure with some purples over white. I started off using Ciate...
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Spring Pastels: Stamping Decal Using L’Oréal Les Blancs Collection
I’ve been wanting to do a stamping decal for a while now. I have used a similar method to more easily put a hand drawn image on my nails, which is how I did my Roobarb & Custard nails. But I’ve not...
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Revlon Lilac Pastelle: GOT Polish Challenge: Pastel
And so the second round of the Golden Oldie Thursday (GOT) Polish Challenge gets underway, and the first theme is pastel. I have only a handful of old pastels and Revlon Lilac Pastelle seemed to jump...
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A England Elaine with Stamping: Boutique: Never-ending Pile Challenge
There have been a fair few discussions in the GLITTAH Pirates Facebook group about what a “boutique” polish actually is, and most of these finally concluded that it’s a high end polish only found in...
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Tartan Nails: Twin Post with Em’s Little Corner
A while ago, I got chatting with Emma from Em’s Little Corner and we decided to do a twin post based on the theme of tartan (plaid) nails. I did some blue tartan nails last year for a challenge and I...
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OPI Do You Lilac It? with Lilac Stamping using MoYou Nails
I was offered some items by MoYou Nails for review and chose a lilac stamping polish and a couple of plates. They also sent a stamper and scraper. I chose lilac as I already have white and black...
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Shimmer Karen with purple zigzags
I meant for this manicure to have more than just a ring finger accent. I was going to do both the centre nails plus my thumbs with the zigzags, but I was really busy at the weekend and I just didn’t...
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SpaRitual Dynamics
This is the wonderful shade called Dynamics, from SpaRitual’s Spring 2015 collection, Rhythm. It’s quite a difficult colour to describe, but my best effort is that it is a dusky, pale pinky-lilac...
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Lilac Stamping On Cream : P is for: Pale
I’m extremely busy at the moment with work commitments, so nails are the last thing on my mind. It didn’t help today therefore when my first two efforts for “pale” in this week’s A2Z series challenge...
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Green and Lilac Barry M Flowers (52 Week Challenge)
I’m in a bit of a nail art funk at the moment. I am really busy with work and am doing my challenge manicures at the last minute all the time. Because of that, I am not devoting much creativity to the...
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