♥ ♥ Happy 1st Birthday My Blog! ♥ ♥

Tomorrow is a very special day! It is time to celebrate this blog's 1st birthday! :) Thank you to all my lovely readers, who come back and comment time after time! I will try and keep things interesting for you for another year!

I share with you today a very special mani, duo-tone with Rimmel LycraPRO "Urban Princess" (pink) and Bloom "Isla" (purple). OK so you've seen these polishes together before you say, but they are so frickin' good they deserve the praise!

Also, I give to you some of today's work (and it's NOT typing or mail merge!) - a set of little acrylic nails topped with a French mani with China Glaze "Innocence"! A big thank you to the willing participant who shall not be named! :) This is a tip for all you nail biter girls out there -

yes, a nail tech can give you lovely long nails too!

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HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY,

PRETTY PERFECT BEAUTY!

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First acrylic nails, and what I've been up to today...

I spent most of yesterday afternoon doing acrylics, and this is the first results, not great but not too bad! :) Camera ran out of battery after these photos, but now have to practice my hands 60 times for the final exam so plenty more opportunity to photograph some finished acrylics :)

Today I worked on my tan while catching spiders in St Cyrus Nature Reserve in Scotland. The day ended with a freak intense hail storm, but it was very warm and sunny for the most part. Here I am shaking the tree to get spiders to fall out of the hawthorn tree onto the plastic sheeting and then I suck up the spider and put them into pots with that bit of plastic tubing :)

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NOTD: Barielle Shades "Decadence"

This is a lovely colour isn't it? :) Nice opaque coverage in two coats and a lovely deep glow. It dries fairly quickly too. The only gripe I have is the brush. It overloads easily, making the lovely formula pool in the brush and suddenly releases an avalanche of nail polish onto your nail :(

I got this is a swap from America, but there is whispers that Barielle is breaking out the Shades range is the UK soon!

I'm off to do some studying for my exciting new course - Essential Nails Acrylic Tip and Overlay. It comes complete with the creepy nail trainer hand... :/ I am also fully insured now so I will restart my mobile nail tech business. It's amazing how the acrylic products have moved on in twelve years - I think I will have a ball doing my course :)

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