The Nail Arcade - Indie/International nail polish store in the UK!

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Some exciting news today! The Nail Arcade is a new online UK stockist of indie and international nail polishes, and it's opening up for a week long pop-up event from August 4th to August 11th. UK bloggers and nail polish addicts will know it can be a huge pain to source indie/international polishes without big shipping costs, so this is great news for all of us! The Nail Arcade is run by a lovely girl called Rachel and I'm really hoping she gets plenty of support in her venture.

For the pop-up event, The Nail Arcade will be stocking Dance Legend, Smitten Polish, Serum No.5, Cadillacquer, Crazy Polish Lady, Franken Frosting and Jindie Nails. Some really exciting indie brands there, and all easily available to us UK people...I've got a feeling I'll have to sit on my hands!

Rachel has sent me a couple of polishes that she'll be stocking to show you. First up is my very first Smitten Polish!

piCture pOlish Blog Fest 2013!

Celebrating the Year of the Blogger!

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It's time for the piCture pOlish Blog Fest 2013, and I'm really excited to be taking part! This year, participants will be in with a chance of creating a collaboration shade with piCture pOlish! There'll be 3 winners - one voted for by piCture pOlish friends and fans, one voted for by the participants of Blog Fest, and one voted for by Jules and Megs of piCture pOlish. To vote, visit this link - (Vote Here)

Each participant has been sent 3 PP colours, and instructed to create some nail art using only those colours (black and white polish and decoration is allowed, so long as it doesn't overshadow the PP shades!) We've also been asked to write a tutorial for our finished designs. 

The shades I've been given are Peaches 'n Cream, Sky, and Malt Teaser. They have quite a retro feel to them when used together! So, now that I've explained what's going on, I'll show you my entry. 

Tutorial ahead!

Summer Gradient with Barry M Gelly and L'Oreal Confetti

 Barry M's Gelly collection are some of my favourite polishes ever, they're just so bright and colourful. Whenever I see them lined up in front of me I just have to use them! Today I've done a summery gradient and I liked this one so much I didn't want to take it off at all!

I started with a base of Lychee, then used Grapefruit and Papaya to make the gradient using the sponging method. I topped it off with one coat of L'Oreal Top Coat Confetti. 

piCture pOlish Wisteria - Swatches and Nail Art

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I unfortunately missed last weeks piCture pOlish post due to my back problems, but the shiny wonderfulness is back this week in the shape of Wisteria! Being a big Desperate Housewives fan (and missing it terribly) I was drawn to the name!

Guest post at The Nailasaurus!

I'm really excited to have a guest post today on none other than The Nailasaurus! Head over and let me know what you think - view the full post here

While you're there, be sure to check out the other guest bloggers on The Nailasaurus this week!