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Hot Tipped Nails

The Nerd — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:37:25 +0000

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with brushes/tools

I was at Walgreens the other day and they had these Milani nail art brushes on clearance, so I had to pick up the colors that were left: Purple Outline (it sparkles!), Yellow Design and Orange Graph. After letting a two coat base of OPI Black Cherry Chutney dry, I added a few swipes of [...]

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Blue Burnout Nails

The Nerd — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 10:06:05 +0000

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Tags: blue China Glaze glitter Milani OPI Sinful Colors white

Firstly, suuuuuuuuper bummed with the nail situation right now — had a little bike skerfuffle and wound up breaking some nails, big big boo (will be back to regular programming in the next coupla days). So ignore the sad state of affairs and try to enjoy the blues here. Just a simple gradient with (from [...]

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Purple Sparkle Pop Nails

The Nerd — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 09:03:55 +0000

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Tags: Borghese glitter Milani purple

I ended up liking this purple more than I expected to with two coats of Borghese Bella Berry — lots of shimmer and that great deep purple shade. Then used some Milani Diamond Dazzle to sparkle up the middle finger. Super thick sparkle polish, on eyeballing it in the bottle it struck me as a [...]

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Peace Party Nails

The Nerd — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:44:18 +0000

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glitter

Tags: China Glaze glitter green Milani

And now in the knockoff department… I realized after application that China Glaze Peace on Earth is really just a poor man’s Chanel Peridot, and that’s a good thing. After getting the second coat on I went to Walgreens and, as is customary every time I get sucked into the drugstore, I first cruised through [...]

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Blue Crossing Nails

The Nerd — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 09:46:00 +0000

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taping

Tags: blue Milani nubar purple

Started with a base coat of Milani Neon Dude Blue which, unlike its pink sister color, went on perfectly in a single coat. Taped it off in crisscrossing Xs then went over it with a coat of nubar Passionate Purple.

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Pink Fishnet Nails

The Nerd — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:27:32 +0000

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stamping

Tags: black Bundle Monster Milani pink Sinful Colors

Two things I learned this morning: one, this neon doesn’t look neon when it’s not put over a white basecoat and two, I either have enormous fingernails or the Bundle Monster plates with the full coverage swatches simply aren’t big enough. Went for the Milani Neon Pink Rocks! color as the base (four coats and [...]

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