Day 22 marks two-thirds of the way through the Crumpet’s Nail Tarts 33 Day Challenge. I’ve surprised myself that I’ve managed to do all the challenges, and do them on time. For today’s theme, I always knew I wanted to do a gradient with a white pattern using striping tape. I’ve seen lots of people […] Read more
It’s day 19 and today in the Crumpet’s Nail Tarts 33 Day Challenge we’re following someone’s tutorial. I’ve always wanted to do the flowers that MrCandiipants does using just the polish brushes and decided at the beginning of this challenge that I would do just that when it came to day 19. In the past […] Read more
Day 18 of the Crumpet’s Nail Tarts 33 Day Challenge calls for a manicure featuring two patterns. I was going to do dots and stripes, but it kind of evolved into dotted flowers and stripes instead when I saw this post and wanted to copy the flowers. I started off with a base of OPI […] Read more
SpaRitual has launched six new polishes as part of its Illuminate collection for Christmas 2013. They are “infused with recycled glass to magnify colour” and they certainly look like glass. This is Intention, a red jelly polish, with gold and red glass flecks. I wasn’t entirely sure how to wear this as it’s quite sheer. […] Read more
Today’s prompt in the Crumpet’s Nail Tarts 33 Day Challenge is Chinese. I had an idea immediately that I wanted to use red, gold and black – colours that I associate strongly with China – and that I wanted to incorporate some Chinese lettering. I used a base coat of Sally Hansen Rapid Red, with […] Read more
I wasn’t sure what to do with today’s prompt in the Crumpet’s Nail Tarts 33 Day Challenge. For me, “Indian” is more about the sub-continent of India than Native American Indians because I’ve travelled in India a couple of times. So I did at least get that far, but then I got a bit stuck. […] Read more
Oh there really are some prompts in this challenge that I loathe. So far, Mexican nails is the worst and has caused me no end of problems. I started off by trying sugar skulls. I have usually only seen these done on a white or black base, but I had the great idea – or […] Read more
I’ve not done tribal nails before, and it’s quite out of my comfort zone because for the most part it seems that most tribal designs warrant some freehand art of some sort or another. And freehand is really not my forte, but I had to go with it for the sake of the challenge. First […] Read more
My most used polish is a bottle of Revlon All Fired Up. I am fairly certain that the polish was unique to Boots, and it was one of only about twelve polishes that I owned before I became rather obsessed with this little hobby of mine and before I started to keep my nails painted. […] Read more
From the Heart is a deep red cream polish. It is a beautiful colour for autumn, and has immediately replaced my previous favourite deep red, which was Rimmel’s Rapid Ruby. It’s a classy, rich maroon-coloured polish and I have to say it went on sublimely. I absolutely love the quality of SpaRitual polishes and am […] Read more