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Gold stamping over Barry M Raspberry
I jazzed up my Barry M Raspberry manicure with some stamping. I used Cheeky plate CH5 and Barry M Foil Effects Gold, which always stamps beautifully. I’ve peaked a bit too soon with this look. I have a...
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Revlon All Fired Up – my favourite red
My all time favourite red is All Fired Up from Revlon. It’s just a classic, perfect shiny red and I love it. But I can’t seem to find it any more, and my bottle is half empty (or is it half full?) I...
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China Glaze Electrify
My son absolutely loved Electrify when I first bought it around Halloween time and has been nagging me to use it ever since. I think it’s more suited to Christmas time and the accompanying party season...
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H & M Je T’Aime … and a New Year’s Resolution
I have a spreadsheet and mobile phone application that I use to keep track of all my polish. I was updating it today to add the new polishes I’ve received over Christmas and I was looking at how many...
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Nails Inc St James
I love red nail varnish. In fact I love red. Currently, I have a matching red handbag, red scarf, and red leather gloves (which I bought way before the Mr Selfridge TV show popularised them … get me...
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Classic skittle manicure
I’m taking part in a Trade School event today. If you’re not aware of these, they’re classes that run on a barter system. The teacher gives a class on something they know about, and instead of paying...
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Sally Hansen Wined Up
I have long been wanting to own Chanel Malice. It’s a gorgeous deep wine red, with a sparkly undertone of shimmer. But I can’t find it anywhere. It was a limited edition that came out for Christmas...
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L’Oreal Rouge Cancan
I was hoping to do some Valentine’s Day nail art, but work has been so busy this week that I didn’t get around to it. So my nod to Saint Valentine today is red. (I always have enough time for a new...
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Essie Leading Lady
I rarely fall straight in love with a polish and go out and buy it immediately. Typically, I hear about a new collection coming out via the blogs I read, and then I see some swatches. I may notice a...
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Rimmel Double Decker Red
I own 11 different pillar box/London bus plain reds. Four of these I’ve not yet tried. But so far, L’Oreal Rouge Cancan and Revlon All Fired Up have been my favourites. Rimmel Double Decker Red...
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Revlon Bewitching
This is a nice shade. It’s Revlon Bewitching, and it’s a rich, deep, raspberry colour. I have similar colours that have “plum” in their name, but it’s more red and less purple than something I would...
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Nails Inc You’re A Peach stamped with Sally Hansen Rapid Red using Konad M73
This isn’t my best effort at stamping, but I like the colour combinations and the plate. I’ve used Konad plate M73 and Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Rapid Ruby to stamp over my Nails Inc You’re A Peach...
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China Glaze stripey pink, plum and white water marble
This is my first (successful) full manicure water marble. Before I started blogging, I attempted a water marble manicure on all ten nails, but it was pretty rubbish because there wasn’t enough contrast...
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Barry M Passion Fruit
If you had a colour that was a perfect mix of pink, orange and red, and which you could not describe except by using ALL those words, then you would have Barry M Passion Fruit. Passion Fruit is from...
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China Glaze Ruby Pumps
My one true red, glass-flecked polish love was always Essie Leading Lady. I adore it on my nails, but the application difficulties I had with it left me so disappointed. So I went out and bought Ruby...
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Union Jack accent nail for the 60th anniversary of the Queen’s coronation
Today across the UK, many people are celebrating The Big Lunch. It’s a chance to get together with neighbours and have lunch in “a simple act of community, friendship and fun”. Our road is holding a...
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L’Oréal Color Riche Addictive Plum
I felt like I was gradually getting through my untried polishes, but I have six new ones on their way, so it’s one step forward, two steps back! Hey ho! Nice problem to have, I guess. Today’s nails are...
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Chanel Malice
Chanel Malice was launched last year, for Christmas. I didn’t manage to get hold of a bottle and it became a long term lemming of mine. I had already bought two fairly close dupes: OPI Every Month Is...
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Reverse glitter gradient in gold and red
I’ve not done a reverse glitter gradient before – I’ve only ever done a gradient at the tips end. To my Chanel Malice manicure, I firstly added some red glitter: Ciaté Enchanted Rose. It was one of the...
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Black manicure with sparkly red stripe French tips
I wore a red top to my son’s school Speech Day (prize giving day) yesterday and matched it by wearing China Glaze Ruby Pumps. Today I wanted to switch things up a bit and do something that I could also...
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