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33DC Day 26: Something from Pinterest
For Day 26 of the Crumpet’s Nail Tarts 33 Day Challenge, the prompt is something from Pinterest. I have lots of other people’s manicures pinned that I want to someday recreate, as well as some general...
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33DC Day 27: A mani with 3 patterns
I really struggled with the prompt for Day 27 of the Crumpet’s Nail Tarts 33 Day Challenge. I just didn’t know what to do. I considered doing a nail with three patterns on it, then repeating that...
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33DC Day 28: Lines
The prompt in today’s Crumpet’s Nail Tarts 33 Day Challenge is lines. I have wanted to do tartan nails for ages, ever since seeing a tutorial on Tumblr. It wasn’t easy. I usually do my stripes and...
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33DC Day 29: Your favourite pattern
Today in the Crumpet’s Nail Tarts 33 Day Challenge we have to choose our favourite pattern. My favourite pattern – and technique, I guess too – is a gradient. Gradients are really easy to do, and can...
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33DC Day 30: the same pattern, different colours
I had a lovely manicure planned for Day 30 of the Crumpet’s Nail Tarts 33 Day Challenge. It would have used seventeen different polishes! But, I hadn’t had time to make a start on it until today, so I...
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33DC Day 31: art featuring your three favourite polishes
Day 31 of the Crumpet’s Nail Tarts 33 Day Challenge calls for me to do some artwork with my 3 favourite polishes. Picking your favourite polishes is like choosing between your children. It’s...
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33DC Day 32: shapes
It’s the penultimate day of the Crumpet’s Nail Tarts 33 Day Challenge and today the prompt is shapes. I was looking back over the manicures I’ve done for this challenge and it was very apparent that...
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Christmas Challenge 2013 Day 1: White Christmas
So with one challenge just finishing up, I’m now starting another. There were three Christmas nail art challenges being run by UK groups or individuals. I finally plumped for the Crumpet’s Nail Tarts...
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33DC Day 33: freestyle / recreate someone else’s mani
Well, this is it. It’s the very last day of the Crumpet’s Nail Tarts 33 Day Challenge. Today, we can either do anything we like (freestyle) or we can recreate another manicure from the challenge. There...
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33DC Roundup
So, I’ve just completed my first ever challenge: the Crumpet’s Nail Tarts 33 Day Challenge. I am really pleased that I managed to keep up with it. I’m not really one for swatching my nails and then...
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Christmas Challenge 2013 Day 2: Winter nature
I am a bit gutted about today’s prompt for the Crumpet’s Nail Tarts Christmas Winter Challenge. You see it calls for a Winter nature scene, and I have the perfect stamping plate for it. But I don’t...
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Christmas Challenge 2013 Day 3: Holiday colours
Today’s prompt for the Crumpet’s Nail Tarts Christmas Winter Challenge is holiday colours. So, like everyone else I presume, I thought of red, gold and green. As ever, I wasn’t immediately struck by...
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Christmas Challenge 2013 Day 4: Christmas traditions
Today is all about Christmas traditions for the Crumpet’s Nail Tarts Christmas Winter Challenge. There was so much I could have taken as inspiration for this prompt: Christmas trees, decorations,...
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Christmas Challenge 2013 Day 5: Toys
I was really stumped about what to do when it came to this toys prompt for the Crumpet’s Nail Tarts Christmas Winter Challenge. Then, I was listening to Absolute Radio, and on Christian O’Connell’s...
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Christmas Challenge 2013 Day 6: Christmas food
Christmas food was another tough challenge for me in the Crumpet’s Nail Tarts Christmas Winter Challenge. I didn’t really know what to do, and spent ages trawling through images of Christmas fayre for...
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Christmas Challenge 2013 Day 7: Winter characters
Today’s prompt in the Crumpet’s Nail Tarts Christmas Winter Challenge is Winter Characters. I did these nails back at the end of October, on top of my SpaRitual Intellect manicure. The blue and shimmer...
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Christmas Challenge 2013 Day 8: New Year’s Eve
So, on this last day of the Crumpet’s Nail Tarts Christmas Winter Challenge we’re celebrating New Year’s Eve (a few days early!) I went with some multi-coloured blingy glitter over black. The base is...
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Christmas Challenge 2013 Roundup
Now that the Crumpet’s Nail Tarts Christmas Winter Challenge is over, I thought I’d do a roundup of my manicures. This is only my second challenge, and while fairly easy because it was only two...
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GOT Polish Challenge: Pink: Camouflage nails
Today, my second challenge of the year starts. This is the Golden Oldie Thursday (GOT) Polish Challenge, another Crumpet’s Nail Tarts challenge. The idea is to use loved but rarely used polishes that...
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GOT Polish Challenge: Stripes: Black, grey and white gradient stripes
It’s stripes today in the Golden Oldie Thursday (GOT) Polish Challenge. There are prompts ahead in the challenge for a number of colours, so where I can, I want to try not to use those specified...
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