December 2011
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500 followers and 9000 views!
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I woke up this morning to see that I now have over 500 followers and have had 9000 views of my blog! This is such a lovely Christmas present.
Thank you to everyone who followers me and stops by to have a look even if they don’t have a tumblr. You are all so amazing!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
Lex :)
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Merry Christmas!
I have finished work, I have packed for my holiday and I have just done all of my Christmas wrapping. Why do I leave these things until the last minute?!
I am away in York for Christmas and not back in London until the beginning of January so no nail posts until then (not sure how I’ll cope…).
Will have lots of new polishes and manicures to share with you when I get back though so...
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Save The Nail...
Secret Santa has worked out for me this year!
I had never heard of ‘Save The Nail’ but when I looked closer I saw this little stamp on them:
Interesting!
As you can see above, there’s a fast drying top coat which I’m excited to try out. Also a wet look top coat for when ‘shiny’ won’t do, and you need SUPERSHINY.
Am trying them now so will keep...
Anonymous asked: I loove these blogs<3 solongkitty(.)ca,trincess,thepolishedperfectionist,chalkboardnails,justnails
forthelove--ofmybody asked: Oh my goodness I love your blog! I am obsessed with everything nails and polish and nail art (though my blog isn't really anything to do with it)... Instant follow :) Just thought I would tell you that you are doing an awesome job and keep it up : )
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Watch
Nails Inc. Gossip Girl range:
‘Lily’ with ‘High Society’ top coat
‘Blair’ with ‘Privileged’ top coat.
Lex :)
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Nails Inc. Gossip Girl range...
As well as the polishes from my previous post, I bought the above packs in the ASOS sale. They were £12 each which means Nails Inc polishes for £6 each…too good to pass up.
The two creme polishes are Blair (a beautiful dark teal) an Lily (a black-plum colour). The top coats are flakies. Excuse me for one moment….EEEEEEeeeeeeeeee! I love them. I can’t even describe how...
alovelyblonde asked: tricks to make the nails dry quicly ?
mentalexplosion asked: Hey, so I tried my own variation on your snow (Christmas mani #2) mani that you posted the other day, it is absolutely gorgeous (which I tell you all the time) you're so talented, thanks for the inspiration and for being a sort of mentor to those of us who are beginning :)
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Nail haul swatches...#4
I went a bit mad in the ASOS sale and bought lots of lovely nail varnishes. No more for a while now, that’s 32 I’ve bought this week!
These are my first Essie polishes and I love them! Colour names shown in the photo below:
I’d never tried Models Own Pro before, but was drawn to the gorgeous peacock-esque colours:
Below left to right:
Essie - Bahama Mama
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alovelyblonde asked: hello again haha i'm a stalker :b okay, so, i'm sick of the nails polishes i already have and i wanna buy new ones. advice me some cute colours ?
itsabrokenhallelujah asked: I have some questions. I am going to sound really naive lol. I absolutely love nail polish and nail art. I went to cosmetology school but we didn't get too in depth with nails. Within the last year, I've been collecting a lot of nail polish but I want to get more into nail art. I saw that you've been into it for about 4 months or so? I literally know nothing about nail art brushes...
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Swatch: Barry M 'Croc Effects'...
I bought this in my huge haul the other day and absolutely love it. It’s part of the Barry M ‘Nail Effects’ range (which includes the various crackles). This one is designed to look like crocodile skin.
This polish works in a very similar way to the crackle effect ones. You apply your base coat and wait 2 minutes until your nails are *just* touch dry (the effect polishes...
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8000 views!
I am absolutely thrilled that so many people have come to look at my nails. I started this blog as a hobby to keep myself entertained and thought a few of my friends would look at it occasionally. I had no idea I would get proper followers!
Thank you so much to everyone who looks at my blog, likes my post, reblogs, retweets the links, gives my inspiration and requests. I love you all!
Lex :)
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Christmas nail wheel!
I have seen so many wonderful ideas for Christmas manicures and don’t have time to do them all on myself, so thought I’d do a nail wheel.
I am really pleased with these. I feel so festive now!!
Merry Christmas everyone! (To be said in a Tiny Tim voice, of course)
Lex :)
starlettapproved asked: Thank you for following. It's weird your url seems so familiar I thought I was already following you (^_^). Love your work, thanks to you I'm obsessing over Models Own Juicy Jules now lol. Hope ur feeling better <3
nailsinthecity asked: Hi! I absolutely love your Christmas Mani #2 (Snow). I was wondering what silver glitter polish you used. I've been looking for the right mix of glitter and silver and that's AMAZING. Keep up the beautiful work. :)
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Christmas mani #2...
As you should know by now, I love Christmas. So I couldn’t resist doing another Christmas themed mani. I wanted to do another mixture of pictures like my last one, but unfortunately I’m still ill so am too shaky to do any freehand :( A-booooo!!
So I decided to do a simple snow-themed mani instead…
I did two coats of 17’s ‘Mini Skirt’ and then used...
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3D nail decoration haul!
In all the nail polish excitement yesterday, I forgot that I bought loads of 3D nail decorations as well!
Check out these bad boys…
These should keep me quiet for a while!
Lex :)
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Nail haul swatches...
I swatched my huge nail haul from today on a nail wheel as I was so excited about all of them I couldn’t decide which to do a proper mani with first!
Left to right:
Beauty Forever - #26
Gabrini Summer Edition - M118
Gabrini Summer Edition - M115
Gabrini - 323
Gabrini - 374
Left to right:
Gabrini - 344
Gabrini - 365 (already own this colour but wanted a back up!)
Gabrini...
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Nail haul!
I am ill again, so on my way to get painkillers, soup and ice cream I stopped into the local beauty wholesale shops and Boots. I ended up buying 21 nailvarnishes…which seems excessive but they all came to about £30 in total so I think that’s allowed. All of the LA Colours, BF and Gabrini ones were 99p! I LOVE THEM ALL.
I have swatched them onto a nail wheel so will post...
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Swatch: Revlon 'Facets of Fushcia'
I have never bought a Revlon nail varnish before, I’m not sure why. I think I had a perception of them being quite a dull brand…an opinion which has been totally altered by this nail varnish.
I saw Facets of Fushcia on another blog (my brain is like a sieve…if I remember where I will link it in) and fell in love. It is apparently a dupe of Deborah Lipmann’s ‘Bad...
Anonymous asked: So I am going to a wedding, what would be a good look?
Anonymous asked: Do you do a different manicure everyday?
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Swatch: Nails Inc 'The Thames'
I was off work poorly today (A-booo!) so I redid my nails to cheer myself up. I also filed them right down as they were looking a bit fake plus I’m getting some minor cracks in a few so just mentally preparing myself for the inevitable break…
I swatched this colour on a nail wheel a few posts back and fell in love with it instantly. I adore grey polishes anyway, and if you’ve...
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First try with 3D nail art...
A few weeks ago I bought some 3D nai art from eBay and haven’t got round to trying them out. It was a wheel with 120 of these pretty little flowers. Some of the colours are dreadful (who wants brown roses?!) but some, like these baby pink ones, are so adorable.
I have done this flowery mani before and did a brief, very simple talk-through on how to do them (back in the early blog...
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Christmas manicure...
It was only a matter of time!
Anyone who knows me is aware that I am a huge fan of Christmas. Everything about it: the decorations, the colours, the music, the films, the happiness…just amazing!
After my autumn themed mani yesterday I knew I would have to do a Christmas one.
Everything was freehand, but I used about 10 different varnishes so if you want to know what a specific colour...
alovelyblonde asked: they look stunning ! i absolutely love them ! thank you so much !
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Request: Autumn nails...
One of my followers (what-a-lovely-biatch) asked me to do an autumn-themed manicure aaaages ago and I have only just got round to it. I’m so sorry it took so long, I did two manis to make up for it!!
For the first one, I did a base coat of 17 ‘Chaperone’. I then used a paintbrush to draw the tree onto my thumb nail using Rimmel ‘Black Cab’. I used a dotting tool...
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Swatch: Nails Inc - Bruton Street *and* Chelsea...
More swatches from my ‘first-new-job-pay-packet’ haul! I adore Nails Inc polishes: the colours are beautiful, they dry perfectly and the names are super cute (all named after places in London, in case you didn’t know).
This mani is Bruton Street which is a gorgeous dusky pink creme polish and Chelsea Square glitter polish for the accent nail. Both only need two coats which,...
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Nfu-Oh vouchers...
For those of you who loved the Nfu-Oh flakies I’ve posted recently (examples shown below), nfuoh.co.uk are currently offering 20% off online orders if you type in the following code at the checkout: NFUX20. Bargain!
I cannot recommend their flakies highly enough, although all their other polishes look beautiful as well.
Also, if you ‘like’ the official Nfu-Oh page on...
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7000 views!!
I passed 7000 views overnight!! 7000 views in 2 months - that’s madness!!
Thank you so much to everyone who visits my blog, I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy writing it!
Lex :)
okfinewhateverigetit asked: I love the fox nails :) absolutely awesome!
alovelyblonde asked: hello there :D you're so talented ! i wish i had half of your talent ! hahaha gotta ask you something: cute ideas for autumn ?
prettyproject asked: Hi! I just saw your post-challenge blues message! Check out my blog (post/12883677571/10-day-nail-polish-challenge) - there's another challenge where you can keep going! It's more questions & answers but it's still fun to do! Just last night I posted *another* 10-day challenge but you might have done all the challenges with the 30-day one! :) Anywhoooo i'll browse your blog...
mentalexplosion asked: what sort of paintbrushes do you use? do you buy them special or are they just normal paintbrushes? & how do you clean them?
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Swatch: Nfu-Oh 60...
I did a post (here: http://talonted.tumblr.com/post/13675040767/swatch-nfu-oh-51) on Nfu-Oh’s beautiful 51 polish and here is the swatch for number 60 from the same ‘flakies’ collection.
It is more red-based than 51 and has a lot bigger fragments in it which makes it look more like bits of gold leaf.
The way the colour shifts is very similar and I tried to include as...
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My first nail wheel...
I bought some nail wheels from eBay for swatching and nail art practice. They are brilliant and super cheap. I ordered 20 wheels, each with 20 nails on. I also got two free paintbrushes and an eyeshadow which was lovely!
I bought lots of new nail polishes to celebrate my first pay day of my new job, so thought I’d do a quick swatch session on a nail wheel until I can get round to trying...
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2 month blog-iversary!
Yes, hard to believe but I’ve been doing this for 2 months! When you’re being bombarded by my Twitter posts about nails and manicures it probably feels like a lot longer but sadly not!
I always enjoyed painting my nails but only started taking it ‘seriously’ and trying out nail art about 3 months ago. A few people on Twitter (including my ridiculously supportive and...
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Swatch - Nfu-oh 51...
Let me begin by saying that this is the most beautiful polish I have ever seen, let alone owned. It has been on my wishlist for a few months after hearing bloggers and forum dwellers wax lyrical about it until they go blue.
Unfortunately Nfu-oh isn’t readily available in the UK, there is only one place that is licensed to distribute it (http://www.affinitinailandbeauty.com/) so I ordered...
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Swatch - BF multi-glitter
NB: This polish does have a number, but it is in London and I am not so I will have to update it when I’m back!
This is another of the beautiful polishes my lovely friend Gemma bought me. Another 99p bargain!
It is a very sheer gold polish with tiny gold particles and multi-coloured circular glitter as well. It wasn’t very impressive by itself, but over white as shown here, it...
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Other people's nails no.3...
Last week I did a manicure for my friend Helen as it was her birthday. She loves foxes so wanted a fox theme.
I mixed InStyle orange and Barry M ‘Mushroom’ to make the burnt orangey colour for the middle nails. I painted 2 coats of 17 ‘Mini Skirt’ (a subtle pearly white) on the thumb and 2 coats of Rimmel ‘Black Cab’ on the little finger.
I used...
AWOL...
Hello!
Sorry for being AWOL recently, I have been so busy with work. I am planning a blog extravaganza this weekend to celebrate my 2 month anniversary so will hopefully make up for my absence.
Meanwhile, keep the questions and requests coming, i am getting round to them i promise!
Lex :)
