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Freehand Jar Of Hearts Valentines Day Nail Art

Allo polish Pals!

How are you all doing today, I hope you've had a great week?

Do you have anything fun planned for the up coming weekend? My cold is finally on the shift so I am going to focus hard on crunching some miles and getting my polish stash organised (its organised but ya know.. there could be more order!) Earlier nights are also making me feel much better.

Its that time of year again when all the lovey dovey nail art designs start making their rounds, pink and red nails covered in hearts and what not.. I do have a trio of designs aimed at Valentine's day but being a little more on the anti-valentine side. Ok.. I've got one super cute love-themed one. I'm saving that one until last!

I actually did this one towards the end of last year but ended up with so many other seasonal themed nail art I couldn't post it until now. Look how short and nubby my nails look here!

Freehand Colourful Hearts

Allo polish Pals!

How are you all doing today? Welcome to another weekend, I hope you will have an awesome one!

Today I am chilling after three heavy shifts at work, I don't think I'll get up to too much, perhaps some painting and plenty of family time. I'm mostly done with my Christmas shopping now – thank goodness. I am not one to leave everything to last minute. Are you feeling prepared? Its going to be super weird this year going to work on Boxing Day (second Christmas day depending on where you are from and what you call it.)

A lot of people seem startled that I have not posted anything festive yet but don't worry, its coming!

Today's nail art is again another one I created whilst in Holland (there can't be many left now) What I want to say in advance is... Look how round and stubby my nails look here! Baha. Yay for shaping them out a little better now.

Freehand Fantasy Sunset Castle Nail Art

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How are you all doing? I hope you are excited for a fun or lazy weekend? Which ones do you like best?!

Today's nail art was actually created the last time that I was home in England, yeaaaaah. I kept having other posts come up that I had to push in front (weekly challenges, reviews etc) so I finally get to share my fantasy sky castle with you! Wahoo. Those clouds look fluffy, right?!

Actually.. talking about England... I'm going back at the end of the month!

Glossy Version.

I opted for a pinky orangey sky for this manicure because it looks sort of dreamy, my dear friend said to me it looks like candy land, what do you guys think? You guys know I am sucker for rainbows!

For this manicure I used only my OPI Nail Envy base coat (I am not sure I'd have nails without this stuff.) Barry M 'White' and my Pro-FX top coat. I finished this one off with a matte top coat, a glossy top coat just did NOT fit this manicure, but you can decide for yourselves!

Have you had fairytale style nail art before? Would you want to visit this castle?

Thank you so much for stopping by, don't forget to let me know your thoughts or even just say hi! I'll be back on Monday with another freehand design - any ideas what it might be?

Love,

Ithi

#RememberLiam - Blue & White for Liam

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How are you all doing today? I hope you are doing great.

Today's nail art comes with a more serious backstory. Recently the lovely Dani of Tiny Canvas appealed to TC members to come forward with blue and white manicures with a blue ribbon to raise awareness and support on a cause I just couldn't ignore and many others joined in too all in the hope of shining a light on something so serious that happens far more often than it ever should.

#RememberLiam was created to remember a beautiful little boy who recently and very tragically lost his life due to a drink driver. Liam was only 15 months old and was sadly stolen from life far too soon. My heart goes out to his family and I hope this sweet boy is now in peace.

While having a drink or two is fine... making the decision to get behind a wheel is never ok, no matter how sure you are that you feel fine and in control. It's one thing to put your own life at risk but its another to put at risk everyone you cross. I hope one day it is never possible to start a car while under the influence.

While Liam's tale is so tragic it is not isolated; And its not always just children who are the victim's. My heart goes out to all those who lost their lives in the hands of those incapable of making wise decisions, for all the family and friends who had to suffer for such an unnecessary reason. Any drink driving or hit and run victims deserve to be remembered.

The awareness is AGAINST drink driving. FOR organ donation. You can show your support and learn more by finding #RememberLiam on Instagram.

For this post I wont go into product details but if you have any questions you are welcome to ask.

I decided to go for hearts because I wanted to send some love to all those suffering, I know it seems cheesy.. But it felt right for this manicure.

For those wishing to participate and put a manicure forward for the support of Liam and his family,

Please visit @fbtinycanvas on IG where you can learn more.

What do you think of this manicure? Have you done support/awareness nails before, what did you support?

Thank you for visiting, guys! I hope you have a beautiful day, I'll catch you again on Thursday.

Love

Ithi

Greyscale Acrylic-Gradients And Rainbow Love Hearts

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How are you all doing today? Happy mid week to you all. Did you get up to anything interesting so far?

I feel like I've just been plodding along so far, better make today more interesting!
Today I have another 'acrylic-gradient' style manicure for you. I feel like I am happiest when I am playing with paint... My manicures used to feature about 4-5 different nail polishes..now I cover them all up or they are already white to start with.. Oops!

For this manicure I began with just a single polish, Barry M's 'White' – what am I going to do when I run out of this?! I then created a greyscale gradient (Or acrylic-gradient as I've taken to calling them) on all my nails excluding my ring finger using black, white and grey acrylic paint. I then went over those nails and made some white hearts and tried carefully to create a rainbow inside each one. On my ring finger I reversed this by doing a rainbow acrylic-gradient for the whole nail and added a black heart with stars inside. I sealed everything off with my beloved Pro-FX top coat but I also tested it in matte too using Barry M's matte top coat – which do you like best?

I really like how this turned out, I really love pairing dark colours with bursts of colour, I think it is so eye catching.

What do you think of my grey and rainbow combination? Have you had heart nails before?

Have a wonderful day, I'll see you on Friday!!

Love

Ithi

Dry Brush Hearts & Kisses Nail Art

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How are you doing today? I have a manicure I created almost by accident.

I was having a really bad nail day, nothing was going right for me at all. Just when I almost gave up I decided to just throw some colours around. I'd never done the dry brush technique before but it seemed as good'a time as any to try it out!

For this manicure I began with two coats of Barry M's 'Persian' and once dry began dab/drag my dry polish brushes across it using China Glaze's 'Fly' and 'Pink-ie Promise' and Rimmel's 'Neon Fest'. So colour wise I was thinking it would make a kinda cute and edgey Valentines themed manicure so I cracked out my acrylic paints and added a border and some hearts and kisses!

I really enjoyed using the dry brush technique. I'll certainly be revisiting it in the future!

What do you think of my dry brush manicure? Have you tried this type of nail art before?

Have a super day!

Love

Ithi

Colourful Mixed 3D Nail Art Studs - Born Pretty Store Review

*This item(s) was provided for me to review but as always this post will contain my full and honest opinion

Allo polish Pals,

How are you today? I hope you are looking forward to the weekend, are you doing anything nice?

I don't know if you guys have noticed my blogging pattern but I usually post every other day...Well tomorrow I have a post that isn't a post – lets call it a surprise so be sure to stop by tomorrow!

Today I am showing you another product from The Born Pretty Store. These are 'Mixed Bowknot Nail Studs Resin Colorful 3D Nail Decoration' – Phew that was a long name. This manicure is crazy and I like that!

Don't forget you can get 10% off your order at the Born Pretty Store when you use the coupon code DRX31

Born Pretty Store states that these studs will come in sizes 1mm-10mm so there's something for everyone if your not a fan of larger studs. The picture shown on the Born Pretty Store shows a variation to the studs I received – it looks like they are really randomly selected but I absolutely loved what was in my pot. I had beautiful 3D tear drops, Tiny cute bow ties, big pearly hearts and half beads, small crystal like studs, squares and rectangles and one beautiful white moustache. There was also three big beaded hollow heart shapes (You will see this in the picture featuring the studs, click read more)

Meet My Friends at FinderThings.net & Stencil Review

*This product has been sent to me to review but as always will contain my full and honest opinion.

Allo polish Pals!

How are you today? I have a special post today and there will be several of these.

I'd like to introduce you to my new friends at The Finder Things .net. The Finder Things is owned and run by husband and wife team, Karen and Jayson with additional help from their one year old little angel. I enjoyed meeting this lovely family run business, they are such sweet people!The Finder Things is an online store featuring a huge selection of unique and wonderful nail decal stickers.

Just an example of a few of the beautiful decals from The Finder Things. They also stock a lot of great awareness decals.

I urge you to read on if you will, this post has a lot of pictures!

Black Roses And Hearts

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Happy Valentine's day to you all! I hope you have a great day even if you celebrate or not. I can't say I'm really making a big fuss out of today and I'm secretly glad the Valentine's manicures will be over with (I sound like Scrooge, huh?) I have a very simple manicure for you today featuring black rose decals from The Born Pretty Store. I do think these decals are no longer on sale, sadly.

For this manicure I used two coats of China Glaze's 'Something Sweet' and applied Barry M's 'Rose Quartz' on top. I then applied my decals and added a few little sequin hearts here and there. Simple, maybe too simple for my liking but I just wasn't feeling the theme!

What do you think of this sequin and decal combination? Do you love seasonal/holiday nail art?

Have a great Valentine's Day!

Love

Ithi

I Met My Valentine At Midnight

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How are you today? Can't believe its almost the end of the week again! Today I have my first Valentines Day manicure to share with you. I'll be honest... I wanted to be fancy which didn't work out too well for me. Do you have any plans for Valentine's Day? Its not really one of my favorite 'Holidays' and the idea of keeping up with manicures for this occasion has me wanting to head butt a wall! Haha...

For this manicure I began with two coats of Fearne's 'Night Owl'. Once dry I applied OPI's matte top coat and began creating hearts using my Oumaxi acrylic paints. I also added some small dots in between using Orly's 'Rose'. I then used an old brush to apply nail glue to the center of the hearts on my index and ring finger. Once the glue was transparent I laid some pinky/gold foil on top and gently rubbed it with a Qtip. I then peeled the foil off. I personally love how my ring finger turned out... the index finger sort of cracked (I guess it adds effect..?)

What do you think of this Valentines Day Manicure? Do you prefer unusual colours or brighter, more pinky/red manicures for this occasion?

Have a great day!

Love

Ithi

Nude Sparkle Meets Black & White

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How are you today? Sorry for my short absence, I'd like to say I am all settled back in to my Holland life but I'm just not. The puppy grew a lot in five weeks, she's gorgeous. The only sucky thing for me is that even though she has a huge sleeping pillow in our room she is jumping on me all through-out the night so I am so exhausted... I have for you today a manicure I did while I was still in England – excuse the bumps on my nails, I still had my nail rehab tea bags on!

This manicure looks so terrible, I know. But I'm in such a mani-mojo-lacking position right now...And I still wanted to share something with you guys. For this manicure I used only a few polishes, Barry M's 'Matte White', Yes Love's 'Black', Sinful Colors 'Nude' and finally OPI's 'Snowflakes In the Air'. I finished off with a heart, a simple cloud design as acrylic borders.

What do you think of this mix-match manicure? How do you feel about cloud designs?

Have a great evening, Hopeully I'll have something more interesting to show you soon!

Love

Ithi

Happy Valentine's Day!

Allo polish Pals!

Happy Valentines day to you! How are you doing today? Do you have any plans for Valentines day? If I'm honest with you its not one of my favourite holidays to celebrate. I just don't understand celebrating your love for someone on a given day ~ why not just do that all year round, huh?! My perfect valentines would probably be snuggled up in the warm watching a movie or two with Mr Bravo but I'll be at home on my own tonight. On the plus side I will have some long girly chats with my mother and sister on Skype. Today's manicure features a brand that was new to me!

For this manicure I used different shade for each nail. My sister-in-law (we call each other that even though Mr Bravo and I are not married yet) ever so kindly surprised me with 30-something new nail polishes this week and among the selection was a brand that was new to me, Guylond. I had a gradient set in all pink shades so decided to use these. The collection of pink polishes had no name/numbers apart from 'pink'. I made heart decal stickers using my BM 317 stamping plate and Barry M's 'Silver Foil' and applied these on top. On my thumb I used the same shades in a cloud design. I finished by applying Model's Own top coat to seal the decals. Its not really the 'amazing' valentines day manicure I had planned but still..

What did you think of this simple manicure?

Have a fantastic Valentines, whatever your plans!

Love

Ithi

My Heart Beats Holographic-ally!

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Here's wishing a fantastic and sparkly start to your week! Are you feeling refreshed and ready? Today is going to be a good day, I can tell! The sun is shining, my head is full of manicure ideas! Today I have something you could consider a valentines manicure to show you. I'm really not one for posting holiday manicures all through the month but I came up with the colour concept (Inspired by this manicure I did a few months ago) a few days ago and I'm the biggest sucker for holographic polishes.. so here it is!

On my thumb and ring-ding finger I began by painting two coats of Rapsodi Pacific Nail Polish in shade '23'. I then painted on a weird heart shape (Mr Bravo calls them graffiti hearts!) using Models Own 'Utopia', 'Purple Grey' and finally Color Clubs 'Cloud Nine' in the center. On all my other nails I started with two coats of 'Utopia' and added an angle before applying '23' to the tips of my index and pinky. I then applied two little holographic hearts which I picked up months ago from the Born Pretty Store. On my middle finger I applied Model's Own 'Hot Stuff' shredded glitter.

Every nail has a little slice of holo! Sadly the hearts didn't want to co-operate too well and show their full holo beauty.

What do you think of this manicure? Do you like holographic polishes as much as I do? Do you like to see other colours used for valentines manicures?

Have a great day!

Love

Ithi

A big thank YOU! Pigment Hearts!

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How are you all doing today? I have to start this post by saying a huge huge thank you! Over the weekend I was lucky enough to witness the #ShareTheLove movement on Facebook; I have found so many new wonderful blogs to love and share. I am so grateful for all my current facebook fans and for all the new people who joined me over the weekend. You helped me reach two of my long term goals which I didn't think I could ever achieve. I went from 61 likes to 220 and I can not thank you all enough <3 b=""> It really has meant so much to me.

Not My Best Pigment Nails but hey...! Love hearts!

On all my nails I applied China Glazes 'Smoke and Ashes ~ Although you wouldn't know it!'. While the polish was still wet I applied various eye-shadow pigments in green and blues. On my ring finger I applied one generous coat of Essence's 'Cool Breeze' glitter (One of my absolute favourites!) I finished off by adding a few dots and hearts with black acrylic paint.

What do you think of this manicure? Did you take part in the #ShareTheLove movement? ~ It's not too late! If you have a facebook account then share your favourite blogs! Keep the love going, guys :)

Have a great day!

Love

Ithi

A heart of Glass Manicure

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How are we today? Today I excitedly decided to break out something I had wanted to try for quite a long time. A few months ago I picked up these beautiful little hearts from the born pretty store and decided to picture them against an old glass heart pendant I have had since forever.

I'm personally so in love with these little rainbow delights!

With a lighter glass heart

I started with two coats of Barry M's 'Cobalt Blue' and using striping tape I created angled lines. I then added Zoya's 'Indigo' to the tips. With a good lick of Sally Hansen's Double Duty top coat I carefully applied the hearts using tweezers.

So, what do you guys think? Its not very festive for Halloween but then I'm not feeling festive :s Do you guys have some fun Halloween plans lined up?

Have a sparkly day!

Love

Ithi

My Love-Story Nails!

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How have you been? Today's post is going to be a little different as my manicure is inspired by love so I'll be including a background story as to why I felt it was important to do something 'lovey'. I also figured that its about time I stop calling my Partner my 'Partner' so I'll be referring to him now as Mr Bravo (Johnny Bravo) which seems cute.

This time last year I began speaking to a wonderful man I met on facebook. I had had him on my friends list two years before we actually ever exchanged words; I honestly wish I had been plucky enough to talk to him sooner because I had met the kindest man I've ever met. When my father had his heart attack he was there for me in every possible way despite us being in different countries. It was this time last year I was wishing him Happy Birthday on Skype. I could never have imagined that by December I would have boarded the plane for my first ever trip abroad alone to Holland when I would finally meet him. Everything was fantastic and if you have been following me for a while you'll know that when I was supposed to return back to England for Christmas I didn't, I stayed longer. Finally it was time for me to return home and it was one of the hardest things I've ever done. I knew that when I next saw him I could not leave him at the airport. When I returned back to Holland I officially stayed. Now it is one year on and I am the happiest I have ever been in my life.

I can not thank my Partner enough for all he has done for me.

Now onto the manicure! I started off with two coats of Barry M's 'Baby Pink' and applied a generous coat of Barry M's 'Rose Quartz' glitter on top. Using W7's Black I used the brush to carefully make abstract heart shapes. I did the same in the centre of the hearts using the gorgeous metallic pinky-red from Sinful Colors 'Dancing Nails' (A gift from Mr Bravo that seemed to suit perfectly!) I used a small dotting tool for the dots and little black hearts and finished off with Model's Own Pro Matte topcoat. I'm not the happiest with these nails I've ever been but my love nails where so important to me I kept starting and restarting over.