MeeBox #RiRiMee May 2016 Review + Exciting News!

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Every time one of these little boxes pop through my door, I get so excited!  For the last 10 months, this little company have gone from strength to strength in terms of the content and quality of the products that they release.  I have yet to be disappointed!

I am, of course, talking about MeeBox and this months theme was Rihanna!  When I first seen the theme I thought how on earth can Rihanna be a theme?!  But the girls at MeeBox were seriously on point - just take a look at the contents of this box and then try to tell me that you didnt think of Rihanna.  Perfectly chosen polishes, finishes and accessories.

#TBT Then And Now - WaterMarble Nail Art

Before I start this blog post, I have to throw in a small disclaimer saying I do not claim to be any sort of water marble expert! :) I have merely picked up a few tips over my nail art career and it seems to now be working for me.  Keep reading this post to find out what those tips are and to see my video tutorial, as usual! :)

I thought it would be perfect to start my #TBT series off with Water-Marble.  I first attempted water-marbling 82 weeks ago, and at the time, gave myself 6 out of 10 - CLEARLY I was being a little cocky.  Looking back, my attempt doesn't even deserve 0.6 out of 10!  Even although I can still see mistakes with these nails today, I am still much happier with them, and can defiantly say its one of my best water-marbles to date.

As always, you'll find a picture of my "Then" or "TBT" Picture, after the jump ;-) Brace yourself....

Nautical Nail Art & The Launch Of The New Spangley Nails!

Welcome to the new & improved Spangley Nails! :)

I am very very very excited to welcome you, as I have some really exciting things planned to take Spangley Nails to the "next level," and where ever that is - I hope to see you there, friend!

Things will still be relatively the same - regular nail art, videos, tutorials and swatches BUT I hope to throw in some extras & have set things that I post on set days as well.  For example, if you have been here a while, you may remember I used to post my "Then & Now" manicures on a Wednesday - this will now be moved to a Thursday to tie in with the very popular hashtag #TBT which stands for Throw Back Thursday.

Onto today's nail art though, is this nautical themed manicure.  Video tutorial will be after the jump, as well as all details on polishes and methods used.

Colourful Flower Nail Art & Video Tutorial

I am not ready to let go of summer floral's yet.  I thought I'd make a bold statement with the following nail art to really emphasise this point.

I seen the following nails on Pinterest by @nails_by_cindy and knew I just had to recreate complete with a tutorial for you guys - I cant believe how easy and beautiful they are. 

After I completed this manicure, I started thinking I could add nail caviar or glitter but I really think in this case that less is more and the bright colours do all the talking for themselves without added extras like caviar or glitter.

Polishes Used:

Models Own - Dream Stream (Pictured)

OPI - Go Into The Light

Essie - Fear & Desire

Rimmel - Sunshine

Sinful Colours - Snow Me White

Sinful Colors - Sugar And Spice

Barry M Matte - Malibu

Rimmel - Too Cool To Tango

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - Blinding Blue

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - Pinch Of Punch

OPI - I Brake For Manicures

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Glitter Striping Tape Manicure With Video Tutorial

I started today's Nail Art originally intending to redo a Blue Striping Nail Art Tutorial, as I didn't like the way that I filmed it (you can find the original blog post here.)  But I painted my nails with Too Cool To Tango then remembered that the base colour for the Blue Striping Tape Manicure was Go Into The Light - whoops!!  Couldn't let a fresh base colour go to waste so I came up with this nail art & filmed a video tutorial for you guys, too! :-)

Polishes Used:

Rimmel - Too Cool To Tango (Pictured)

nails inc - Hammersmith

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Dry Brush Technique & Video Tutorial

I seen @SpilledMilkNails doing a dry brush manicure on Instagram earlier this week and I just fell in love with the colours she used.  It was gold and very rustic looking, so I decided to recreate it, with a video tutorial for you guys.

Polishes Used:

Models Own - Bronze Rage (Pictured)

Sinful Colors - Snow Me White

nails inc - Chelsea Bridge Road

OPI - All Sparkly And Gold

OPI - PURE 18K White Gold And Silver Top Coat

Revlon - Really Rosy

nails inc - George Street

nails inc - Mulberry Walk

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Colour Stripes With Black Frame Nail Art And Video Tutorial!

Another great response was received by Spangley Nails yesterday in response to my Pink Roses Nail Art!  Thank you to everyone who has liked, commented, shared and followed - it is all very much appreciated.  My Instagram account is now at over 4000 followers and my Facebook account has just under 500 likes.  I really cannot stress how much I appreciate every interation I get from you guys, whether its likes, follows, comments or shares - so thank you very much! :-)

As I mentioned yesterday, all my nail art designs will come with their accompanying video tutorial from now on and today's nail art is no different!! I seen such a lovely design on Pinterest and just knew I had to recreate it.  I cannot remember the nail artist though, so if you know who, please let me know and I'll credit appropriately.

I really love this design, I think its really versatile and could be worn with any shades of colour, for example, how great and effective would it look all different shades of blue or pink.

Polishes Used:
Sinful Colors - Snow Me White (Pictured)

Models Own - Black Magic

Rimmel - Sunshine

Rimmel - Too Cool To Tango

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - Jade Jump

Essie - Fear & Desire

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - Twisted Pink

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Pink Roses With Video Tutorial!

Yes, I am still here.  Yes, I am still alive.  Yes, I have Nail Art to share with you today!  I figured those would be the questions you were asking yourself whilst reading this post ;-)

I've started making the Nail Painting process a lengthy but exciting one for myself, but a great and equally as exciting one for you readers.  I paint my nails then take and edit the pictures as well as write a detailed blog post including extra pictures and the polishes I used.  I will then film & edit a 15 second tutorial for my Instagram followers, but I will also post it here on www.spangley-nails.com and Facebook.  Phew - alot of work, but worth it in the end for both you and me!  I will always post the video on here before it goes live on any of my social media sites, so be sure to check it out here if you want a sneak peak.  

The design today is this really pretty Rose design featuring a Models Own Hypergel Polish.

Polishes Used:

Models Own Hypergel - Pink Veneer (Pictured)

Barry M Gelly - Coconut

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - Twisted Pink

Barry M Gelly - Kiwi

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MoYou London Rainbow Challenge - Saturday: Purple

AHHHH!! Was the feeling that I woke up to inside my head!!  Some seriously large accounts on Instagram caught onto my Blue Manicure and it seems like everyone went crazy for them.  I couldn't be more grateful!! Its all very exciting!! 

Onto today's nail art though... I was working this morning, and admittedly was thinking about it all day.  I don't know about you, but the only thing I can think of when you say purple is rain.  But how naff is that, really.  Great song - but not such a great manicure I think!

I did my usual, skim through the plates for inspiration, when I hit Sailor Plate 04's Octopus tentacles stamp and then SHE hit me...  URSULA!!

I have done Ursula from The Little Mermaid on my nails before - you can read that post here - but I have to say I much prefer this version of the purple sea witch! 

Polishes Used:

Revlon Parfumerie - Moonlit Woods (Pictured)

Sinful Colors - Black On Black

Sinful Colors - Amethyst

Sinful Colors - Snow Me White

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - Lively Lilac

OPI - You're Such A Budapest 

China Glaze - Adventure Red-y

Rimmel - Purple Reign

Color Club - Unnamed Light Purple

Color Club - Unnamed Light Blue

MoYou Plate(s) Used:

Sailor Plate 04

MoYou London Rainbow Challenge - Friday: Blue & Video Tutorial

I want to start off by saying, my favourite colour is blue.  If there was any day of the week of this challenge that I should be looking froward to it would be today, right?  Wrong!  I have been sitting doing my nails since 9pm and NOTHING has gone to plan with this colour - at all! :-(  

I was very near quitting - I said to my boyfriend, I'm not doing today.  He thought that meant I was fore-fitting the whole thing, when in fact  think you can pick what days you want to do, I just think if you do all 7 it increases your chances of winning.

But then suddenly it hit me slap bang in the face!! When-ever I'm struggling with things, I strip them right back to the bare minimum - this helps me understand things and ultimately "get it."  I know everyone works differently but this works for me - this is how I have done my "Roses are Red" nails and my "Follow the Yellow Brick Road Nails," by stripping the colour back and thinking about what it really means to me.

Every single human being on this earth (I'll bet) has owned, does own and/or will own a piece of clothing made from the material: Denim.  What colour is denim I hear you ask?  Yup, thats right - BLUE!  I suddenly remembered my George @ Asda Denim effect nail polish that I've used like twice... Come here my pretty... ;-)

Polishes Used:

George @ Asda - Denim Effect (Pictured)

Konad - White

Sinful Colors - Snow Me White

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MoYou Plate(s) Used:

Princess Plate 09

MoYou London Rainbow Challenge - Thursday: Green

That's it - over half way through, only 3 more manicures to go, whose excited! I'm going to plan ahead for my last 3 manicures, as I am terrible for not knowing what I'm going to do until I sit at my nail station.

I looked through everyone's designs under the #MoYou20K hashtag and there is some beautiful green designs.  I went back to my plates and had a look when something on Fairytale 02 caught my eye.  Green to me means Irish I suppose, so I have done this classy irish fuelled manicure, that, if I'm honest, would be great for St.Patricks day. 

Polishes Used:

Sinful Colors - Pistache (Pictured)

Sinful Colors - Last Chance

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - Lickety-Split Lime

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - In Record Lime
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MoYou Plate(s) Used:

Fairytale Plate 02

MoYou London Rainbow Challenge - Tuesday: Orange

Hi everyone (again!)  Cracking on with MoYou London's Rainbow challenge, Tuesdays colour was Orange.  I struggled coming up with an idea for this one actually.  I have one of their Easter plates which has carrots on, but because you can only use the daily colour, black and/or white, my carrots wouldn't have had any green at the top, so I had to 100% think of something else.  

My boyfriend decided to Google it for me, and was shouting random things at me like Doritos and Garfield, its so easy to say yes, okay, I'll do that - but how to encorporate the MoYou plates?!  Finally, he shouted an idea, I just simply went with it, and I'm really happy with the outcome - GOLDFISH!

Goldfish are gold by name but are Orange by nature, so here is what I came up with...

Polishes Used:

Sinful Colors - UFO

Sinful Colors - Snow Me White

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - Heat Flash

Rimmel - Tangy Tangerine

Konad - White

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MoYou Plate(s) Used:

Fairytale Plate 02

Sailor Plate 04

MoYou London Rainbow Challenge - Monday: Red

Hi everybody!  Welcome back to Spangley Nails.  I am sorry I have not been posting as regularly as I would've normally...  Its not because I didn't feel like it, its because I have really bad eczema that has totally flared up on my left hand/4 fingers - the ones I paint, like, all the time.  It looks very unsightly and is making me very sad.  Does anyone else out there have this problem?  How do you control it? 

Anyway, I have decided that I am no longer going to allow dry skin to ruin my polishing party so have decided to come back with a vengeance and participate in the MoYou London Rainbow Challenge on Instagram.

Basically, this challenge will run for a week - much more realistic than the last one, AND all you have to do is post a manicure with the corresponding colour of that day - I will post said itinerary at the end.  I am posting Monday's Manicure (as MoYou annouced it quite late, they said it was A-OK to post yesterday's, today) and todays.  The only real rule, as such, with this challenge is that you can only use the colour of the day, black and/or white on your nails (as well as MoYou Stamps) - oh boy, have I underestimated this bad boy?!

As you can see by the title of this blog, Monday was Red day.  I remembered the green roses I done for depression awareness last Sunday (if you missed it, read it here) and kept chanting "roses are red..." SO I done a spin off of my #FightForLightAndLive manicure for Day One.

Polishes Used:

Sinful Colors - Snow Me White (Pictured)

Color Club - Unnamed Red

w7 - Red Dazzle

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MoYou Plate(s) Used:

Pro Plate 04

1 Manicure; Worn 3 Ways

Ever have one of those weeks where you seem to have NO time to do your nails.  Yup, that would be me this week.  I did a manicure on Saturday, and haven't had the chance to do anything since then. 

One of the main reasons why I love nails inc polishes is they have loads of different special effects, so if your wearing a plain colour for work all week, you can throw on a layer of glitter on Friday night for the weekend therefore no need to spend however long it takes you to re-paint your nails for your night out.  Voila! You've ultimately recycled your boring work manicure.  

I've did just that this week with my nail art.  I've learnt a new technique using my fan brush (tutorial coming reeeeal soon, so look out for that one my friends!) and have been changing it up for the last 5 days because I love it so much and I've had no time, boo! :(

Polishes Used:

Rimmel - Purple Reign (Pictured)

Rimmel - Too Cool To Tango

Rimmel - Out Of The Blue

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - Twisted Pink

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#FightForLightAndLive Depression Awareness Nail Art

After the tragic passing of Robin Williams just under a week ago, the nail art community decided to come together and paint our nails green in honour and respect of depression awareness - which is what caused Robin Williams to take his own life.  If you are suffering from depression or its sidekick anxiety you need to speak up! Sometimes this can be the hardest thing in the world to even think about doing, but it will be so worth it in the end.

What a tragic loss of life RW was - I think everyone felt it.  Its not like I knew him personally, and you reading this probably didn't either, but everyone knew him in a different movie playing a wide verity of characters.  A career which spans over so many generations.  Whether it was Jumanji, Mrs Doubtfire or Aladdin, it was Good Will Hunting or Good Morning Vietnam.  A true legend indeed.  

I decided to paint my nails white, with some green floral stamping.  I love this plain, simple and delicate look.  

#FightForLightAndLive

Polishes Used:

Sinful Colors - Last Chance (Pictured)

Sinful Colors - Snow Me White

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - In Record Lime

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - Lickety-Split Lime

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(MoYou London Pro Plate 04)

Nude, White and Gold Floral Nail Art

Happy Saturday, Friends!  I hope you are all well and are enjoying the weekend.  I am back tonight with this cute floral manicure, that was a very simple one to achieve & I must say that I am really happy with the results.  I have been really loving floral manicures lately - seems like I'm a bit of a Johnny come lately on the whole floral thing if I'm honest!  I always thought they were so difficult, but they're not - promise!  

Polishes Used:

Barry M Gelly - Almond (Pictured)

Sinful Colors - Snow Me White

nails inc - Chelsea Bridge Road

OPI - All Sparkly And Gold

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Stamping Decals Made With MoYou London Stamping Plate

I started off writing this post last night, but had no idea how to finish it in an upbeat mood given the news that graced the world yesterday.  I was so utterly shocked to hear that Robin Williams had died in such tragic circumstances.  The nail community has decided to paint their nails green in honour of him on Sunday, I will absolutely definitely be participating in this and hope that if your reading this, part of the nail community or not, you will do the same.  If you do, be sure to post your nails under the hashtag #FightForLightAndLive.  A collage of my favourite Robin Williams movies will be after my nail art.

The nail art I have to share with you is stamping decals made with MoYou Londons Fairytale Plate 05.  I have done 2 variations of it as I wasnt 100% happy with it.  Be sure to let me know which one you prefer - the second one is after the jump.

Polishes Used:

Rimmel Space Dust - Aurora (Pictured)

Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure - Bandage

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - Co-Balt Blue

Models Own - Unnamed Rose Gold

Models Own - Unnamed Kaki Green

nails inc - Seymour Walk

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(MoYou London Fairytale Plate 05)

One Stroke Flower Nail Art

Hi everyone!  I sat down to do Nail Art today  without really knowing what I wanted to do, these just sort of happened.  I love floral patterns at any time of the year but especially during this crap weather we're having as I only need to look at my nails to feel bright again, so this seemed like a perfect time to bring out the miracle grow (miracle grow is what you use on garden flowers to help them to grow for those of you who don't know haha!) 

I first seen CutePolish apply the below technique and decided it looked so easy, I just knew it'd end up on Spangley Nails too.

Polishes Used:

OPI - Pink It Through (Pictured)

Sinful Colors - Snow Me White

Sinful Colors - Pistache

Sinful Colors - Last Chance

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - Red-io Active

nails inc - Pelham Street

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#NailArtJul Round Up & Happy 45th Anniversary Abbey Road Photo!

Hi everyone!  Bit of an exciting post today as I round up #NailArtJul and post some Beatles nail art for this momentous day in history.  45 years ago today the 4 Beatles stepped out from Abbey Road Studios onto Abbey Road and Iain Macmillan snapped the famous picture of the 4 men crossing the road at the Zebra crossing.  Being a MASSIVE Beatles fan, I couldn't let this day go by without doing some nail art to mark it with.  

I recently got my hands on the MoYou London Time Traveller 70's Plate 01 which has a really neat image of this famous scene on it - I knew it would be perfect for what I wanted to do.  I didn't want to take anything away from the scene shown on middle and ring fingers below which is why I just painted the other 2 nails with Space Dust...

Polishes Used:

Rimmel Space Dust - Shooting Star (Pictured)

Models Own - Black Magic

Konad - White

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(MoYou London Time Traveller Plate 70s 01)

#NailArtJul Day 31 - Watermelon

Hi everyone!! The day has arrived!! I have officially finished #NaiArtJul! I'm super happy with all my efforts in this challenge - even if I do say so myself!  The last prompt of the challenge is Watermelon!! I seen a few Watermelon nails floating about recently because the highly popular nail guru "CutePolish" posted a tutorial on her YouTube channel for them a few weeks ago.  

I love the fact that I was able to incorporate my She-Sells-Seashells chevron nail stickers into this design - I think they look like the outside of a Watermelon (use your imagination, lol!) 

Polishes Used:

nails inc - Porchester Square (Pictured)

Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure - Kook A Mango

Sinful Colors - Snow Me White

Models Own - Black Magic

Color Club - Twiggie

Rimmel - Camouflage

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