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33DC Day 21: Europe

So, on day 21 of the Crumpet’s Nail Tarts 33 Day Challenge we travel to Europe. I grew up in the 1970s amid social and cultural reminders of Britain’s heritage of “splendid isolation”. I had a sense that we weren’t part of Europe, that it was a different place altogether, a group of seemingly unspecified […] Read more

33DC Day 14: Abstract

I am managing to keep up OK with the manicures for the Crumpet’s Nail Tarts 33 Day Challenge. Most of the time I am painting three manicures at the weekend, in preparation for the coming week. This manicure though I prepared almost a month ago, in between Day 3 and Day 4 . I was […] Read more

33DC Day 3: Tape Mani

My two most recent polish purchases are L’Oréal Color Riche Amazon Flower and NYC Blue Sky (which, like every other bottle of it I’ve ever seen, is mis-labelled as Raindrop). As the two newest, they are swatched next to each other on a nail wheel. I thought they complemented each other nicely, so chose them […] Read more

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 in our house, so why not?! I was a bit flummoxed when I looked more closely at […] Read more

Pink stripes and vintage flowers

I’ve seen a number of manicures where stripes have been teamed with vintage roses, and I’ve pinned many of them on my Pinterest board that I use for saving manicures that I want to try to recreate. Pretty much all of the nails I’ve ever seen seem to be of the Cath Kidston variety, with […] Read more