Whats Up Nails Store & Nail Vinyl/Sticker Reveiw

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You guys will know by now that I love my nail vinyl's.  They make for a quick and easy manicure in minutes, with no fuss or stress.  I have some vinyl's & stickers from the store Whats Up Nails to share with you today.  Whats Up Nails is an online store selling everything from Nail Polish, Nail tools, Charms and Stamping Supplies, and is run by Lena from Nails By Freckles.

You might remember I used a few of their holiday vinyl's around Christmas time, and I had nothing by praise for the way they performed.  Keep on reading for the manicures I've created this time around, as well as why I think they're different to any of the other vinyl companies out there...

Nail-Mail.co.uk Vinyls & Stickers Review

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You will know by now, that I am a lover of effortless nail art, infact, sometimes I think the manicures that took the least amount of time are the ones that turn out the best!  Nail stamping, water decals and nail vinyls are perfect examples of how to achieve the "at home salon manicure" but with half the fuss.  So, whenever I'm in a rush or want to add "a little something extra" to an otherwise boring manicure, I reach for my vinyls!

Today I have some stickers & vinyls from Nail-Mail.co.uk to show you.  This home grown company is run by my friend Kelly and she makes everything you can see on her site herself.  She's been running Nail-Mail.co.uk since 2014 and for the past 2 years her site has gone from strength to strength now listing Liquid Nail Tape as well as the vinyls and stickers.  I would keep an eye on Kelly's site, because she has big big plans for 2016 which may include adding a few more items for sale....

NailPolish.co.uk Review & Swatches

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Bargain Nail Polish + Online Shopping = NailPolish.co.uk!

Stocking brands like OPI, nails inc, Essie and China Glaze, to name but a few, NailPolish.co.uk is a well visited website from SpangleyNails laptop.  With over 1000 colours in stock and OPI Nail Polish priced at just £4.95 (yup, you read that correctly), there really is something on this website for the bargain hunters as well as the nail enthusiasts!

I have 3 polishes from the site to show you today, 2 OPI's and a nails inc (my favourite brand!)  as well as a full review on the website itself.

Twinkled T Nail Vinyls Review

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Twinkled T is a family run company by 2 sisters from USA.  They sell nail art supplies from nail brushes, charms, rhinestones and even jewellery.  But most importantly, and with the largest selection, Twinkled T sell Nail Vinyls.

Nail Vinyls.
This nail art craze is going nowhere.

They are the creators of the original swirl (pictured on my nails after the jump) and the Cyclone vinyl (pictured below to the right of the word "review" - not my nails) and just incase you're new to nail art or wondering what on earth I'm talking about, nail vinyls are small pre-cut stickers for your nails that come in loads of different patterns, shapes and sizes.  The most popular ones are chevrons and single chevrons. 

Be sure to check out the "Additional Comments" section below for something exciting that makes this company stand out from the crowd!

MEEBOX SUBSCRIPTION BOX: ITS DEFINITELY FOR MEE, FIND OUT IF ITS FOR YOU TOO!

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In the words of Lionel Ritchie "Hello, is it me you're looking for?" I think you'll find that the answer you (and Lionel) will be after is YES! It is me you're looking for!  I haven't blogged in so long, let me be the first to call myself out on that.  No real reason really, but it was great to take some time out and off the internet.  But I'm back! And that means loads of new and exciting things to share with you!

I'm going to kick off by introducing MeeBox, its a brand new subscription service, exclusively related to all things nails!  Subscription boxes are being pushed through peoples letter boxes more frequently than ever before these days, so lets delve into MeeBox and see what it has to offer...

SNAIL VINYLS THE REVIEW: ESCAR-GO OR ESCAR-NO?! #SnailVinyls

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If you haven't heard of Nail Vinyls before - where have you been?!  I have to presume living under a rock; because to me, it seems like the whole online nail community has gone crazy for them, myself included.  Just in-case you're not planning on coming out of your rock any-time soon; nail vinyl's are small pre-cut stickers for your nails that come in loads of different patterns, shapes and sizes.  The most popular ones are chevrons and single chevrons.

The vinyl's pictured below are from Snail Vinyls - a company based in America, who make everything they sell in their store by hand.  They offer a huge variety of vinyl's; everything from waves to diamonds, stars, fire and swirls.

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.

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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Feeling Blue? Striping Tape Nail Art With Tutorial!

So I dug out my camera this week and got myself a little thing called Windows Movie Maker...  I'm going to start channelling my inner Stephen Spielberg and make some nail tutorials!!  At the moment, I hope for these to be 15 second clips fit for Instagram and hopefully in the future I'll start moving onto bigger things like YouTube.

The below nail art is really super simple, relatively quick and can be done in loads of different variations & colours.  You will find the video for this nail art after the jump.

Polishes Used:

OPI - Go Into The Light (Pictured)

Rimmel - Too Cool To Tango 

Revlon - Royal

Maybelline Color Show - Superpower Blue

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#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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Nude And Black Nail Art

Happy Friday All! :-) Another day and another Nail Art accomplishment haha... I won a competition this week - hence my lack of posts.  The whole process was so nerve racking from start to finish.  I entered the manicure on the Monday morning, then I had to wait until the Monday night to find out if I was shortlisted, which I was, then from that point to the Tuesday evening, friends, family and any Tom, Dick or Harry that I could find had to vote for my nails to win, this voting then found out I had won on the Wednesday morning - so if you're reading this and you voted for me - THANK YOU! Onto today's manicure though, I was inspired by a picture I seen on Pinterest. 

Polishes Used:

Barry M - Lychee (Pictured)

Sally Hansen Sugar Coat - Lick O' Rich

Models Own - Black Magic

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Review: She-Sells-Seashells UK Nail Vinyl's

Hi everyone, Happy Sunday.  Lately, my Instagram feed has been taken over by manicures where the end result has been achieved using Nail Vinyl's.  I love the idea of it, but somehow if you don't have these Nail Vinyl's your end result is not going to look as professional or precise.  Let me explain, Nail Vinyl's are small, pre-cut stickers for your nails and they come in loads of different shapes, patterns and sizes.  The most popular ones, however, being chevron and single chevrons.

Of course, there are ways to create "Home-Made" vinyl's, which I tried, but really - you're only kidding yourself.  When I try these methods, somehow, they never end up uniform.  I knew I would have to give in to purchasing Nail Vinyl's at some point and it seemed after my tried, tested and failed home methods was a good point to start!

I thought that there was only one supplier of Nail Vinyl's around - oh how wrong I was.  I stumbled across She-Sells-Seashells whilst browsing Instagram one day and assumed it was a rhinestone shop - wrong again!  This company is based in the UK and produces Nail Vinyl's/Stickers in LOADS of different shapes and sizes.  Before I knew it, my mouse button clicked "Purchase"... I've never looked back.

I ordered some thin single chevrons & some larger singles too, I also picked up a mixture of different sized chevrons and look how it arrived - do you not think this is beautiful?  I do!  Full review continues after the jump.

Then And Now: Fashion Inspired Nail Art

Hi all! I know you all love a Wednesday's Then And Now and today's post is just that!  I first done today's design 63 weeks ago and it was the second design I done that was pictured in my lightbox! I was so happy with the way the lightbox made my design look quite professional - but looking back now, it was more of a flop & anything but! The outfit that my nail art was inspired by was an ensemble that @thuyy_trann put together on Instagram.  

I think this design looks sort of edgey, I'm quite happy with it and love how it turned out.  As always, the "Then" picture, including Thuy's outfit inspiration are after the jump.

Polishes Used:

Barry M - White (Pictured)

Barry M - Black

Revlon - Metallic

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - Wet Cement

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Then And Now: Great Gatsby Nail Art

Hi all, I'm sure you don't need me to remind you of our Wednesday theme by now but its time for... Then And Now! I first done this weeks design 56 weeks ago, so just over a year!  I seen a lot of people on my Instagram feed doing Bestie Twin Nails - and I felt left out! So I put out a disclaimer and my fabulous pal Tracy took me up on my advertisement.

For those who don't know what Bestie Twin Nails are, its when 2 nail artists decide on a theme or design for some nail art and go and create it! It can be quite fun to see how one persons interpretation of a design differentiates from another.

Tracy and I picked a manicure that was inspired by The Great Gatsby and as usual, our original manicure is after the jump.

Polishes Used:

Barry M - White (Pictured)

Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure - Gilty Pleasure

nails inc (Kate Spade) - New York Noir

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Colour Blocking Tape Mani Nail Art

Hi everyone! Happy Fathers Day too! I hope all the Dad's out there are having a real special day - I know mines is! ;-) He doesnt know this yet, but I have Fathers Days nails that I will post later for a special surprise to him - so make sure you check back for that.  Without further ado though, I will move onto today's nail art.

As you may know, I done a tutorial on the dreaded "Tape Mani" about 10 days ago and it was very well received both on here and on all my social media outlets, if you missed it you can check it out here. So I decided to re-create it as I was feeling pink! :-)

Polishes Used:

Barry M Gelly - Rose Hip (Pictured)

nails inc - Leonard Street

Barry M Matte - Rhossili

Sally Hansen Sugar Coat - Treat-Heart

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