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Hello lovelies,

Today's post will be two-fold as it will have nail art AND review of polish. I've been recently sent some products from the brand SEVENTEEN to try. SEVENTEEN is Boots' own brand and is increasingly bringing trendy products. You might have already seen their Define & Contour sculpting duo in my December Favourites. I've also played around with their polishes and because they've got a great formula I've decided to feature them too.

First up is a manicure that was quite simple to do yet it looks very striking to me thanks to the gold sticker. I have started with two coats of SEVENTEEN Garnet, then I've free-hand painted a diagonal line with SEVENTEEN Sapphire and filled in the tip of the nail. When it all dried I've used gold chain stickers from IZ Beauty Of London - DECO iT. DECO iT stickers were gifted to me at the Cosmopolitan Blog Awards 2014 and they were very simple to use. Just stick them on, gently pat them down to make them stick properly and become translucent and seal with topcoat!

Garnet - dark vampy red with crelly formula (cross between jelly and creme). You know I love vampy colours, especially when they are purple or red and this one was spot on for me. It applied very easily and two coats were opaque as you will see in the pictures. Garnet dried smoothly with very glossy finish. It's a very nice polish and an excellent value for money. Garnet and Sapphire shades are from their Gel Colour line for £3.99 per polish or £3 when purchased on current offer 2 for £6.

Please excuse the lower photo quality, the daylight was really bad that day but it still shows the colour much better than photos in lightbox (the nail art pics taken in lightbox and you can see the difference).

I hope you've enjoyed today's post! Lucie x

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Hello lovelies,

The first weekend off work is finally here and it couldn't come soon enough! Don't you just hate that post-holiday return to work where you're still in the lazy holiday mode and really don't want to do anything? I do so weekend is something I really enjoy :) Today I won't be doing nails. I will be taking a day off to edit pictures and maybe write a post for tomorrow but that's it. Bring on the laziness!

Today's nail design was an experiment where I didn't really know how it's going to end up and whether I'll even like it. I wanted to to do something with the Color Club Made in New York collection full of iridescent toppers and also with triangle glitters I got from The Sparkly Shop! This is what I came up with:

I have used Color Club* Night At The Met as a base colour. I've also used Color Club Bright Lights Big City, Concrete Jungle, Lady Liberty and Million Dollar Listing for the iridescent parts. Then I've outlined parts of the design with white lines (white acrylic paint) and added the triangle glitter. The glitters have holographic finish so they really stand up. Once they were stuck to the nail I've outlined them with white acrylic paint and sealed the design with top coat.

Color Club Made In New York is available here and you can shop all the different litters and nail charms in The Sparkly Shop! here. I have a special discount just for my readers for 15% discount, just use code LUCY15 when shopping at The Sparkly Shop!

Have a lovely weekend everyone and hopefully see you tomorrow! Lucie x

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