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Monday, 30 April 2012

Cult Nails Manipulative

Morning dears! 


So yesterday I spent the whole day moving and unpacking. It's so tiring! My nails also suffered a little damage, I got a few chips so I'm sporting nubbins again! 


This week is going to be Cult Nails Divas and Drama collection week! I'm going to be posting both swatches and nail art using all of the shades in this awesome collection. 


First up I am going to show you Manipulative. I'm starting the week off with this shade because my awesome friend Goisa over at Life in Color has started something called Monday Blues where we showcase a blue colour on Mondays! 


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Manipulative is a dusty blue opaque creme with a hint of green and a gorgeous subtle shimmer that really stands out in the sunshine. You all know I am a hug fan of blues and this is no exception. 


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Maria was inspired to create this colour when she was vacationing with her family, she says, "We went to a local beach and the water was this amazing milky blue color that kept showing hints of green. When the sun would hit the water just right, this amazing shimmer throughout the water was noticeable. I must have taken a hundred photos of the water and as soon as we returned home, I set out to replicate it in a polish."


I think she completely captured shimmering water. This colour really is breathtaking. I used 2 coats for these pictures and had no trouble with the formula. It was beautiful and was almost a one coater, just needed the second to even everything out. 


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For my nail art for this polish I grabbed some of my black rhinestones and started placing them in a line on about a third of the way in my nail. 

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I love how edgy the rhinestones look against the polish. I wanted to do some nail art that captured the name, Manipulative. I felt that something edgy would represent this well. 

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Even though I loved how this looked I got a sneaky idea. I grabbed Sneeze Breeze and striping brush and went to work. 

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I'm loving this so much!! I feel like Sneeze Breeze was such a perfect compliment to Manipulative. 

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cult-nails-manipulative

Manipulative is a beautiful blue that is 4-free and cruelty free. It can be purchased from Cult Nails for $10 USD. I strongly encourage you to go buy the beauty! 

What do you think of Manipulative? Do you like wearing these kind of dusty blues?

Do you like my edgy nail art?

Don't forget to check out the other girls participating in Monday Blues!
Goisa from Life in Colour
Marta from Chit Chat Nails

Wednesday, 21 December 2011

Christmas Cookies!

My sister and I went up to my Grandma's the other day to make cookies for Christmas! After six hours of mixing, rolling, cutting and decorating we ended up with 110 gorgeous cookies! A few broke along the way, which we obviously tasted and they were delicious! I took some pictures of the process to share with all of you :) 
rolling out the dough
cookies on the baking sheet 


sprinkles for decorating!
decorating area
the first decorated cookies!
more decorated! 
and more cookies 
cookies waiting to be decorated...
the final product!!! All 110 cookies!
don't they look delicious!
so yummy. 
one of my favourite bows 
snowman! 
another snowman
one more bow :) 
Don't they look fantastic! I can't wait for christmas eve to enjoy them will all my little cousins! 


Until next time,


Sincerely Stephanie

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