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With spring well and truly upon us – I am LOVING the sunshine! – and Easter just around the corner I decided to do a little Easter themed design on my nails. I used a pearlescent nude as my base with white polka dots, whilst on my ring finger I used the white as a base and then painted a little Easter bunny. Isn’t he sweet!

Easter bunny nail art

I used Posh, Purity, Vogue, Swag and Trist from the Artistic Colour Gloss range of gel colours.
What are you wearing on your nails?


NOTD: Easter themed nails

With spring well and truly upon us – I am LOVING the sunshine! – and Easter just around the corner I decided to do a little Easter themed design on my nails. I used a pearlescent nude as my base with white polka dots, whilst on my ring finger I used the white as a base and then painted a little Easter bunny. Isn’t he sweet!

Easter bunny nail art

I used Posh, Purity, Vogue, Swag and Trist from the Artistic Colour Gloss range of gel colours.
What are you wearing on your nails?


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Christmas summary 2013

♥ Christmas had kind of lost its magic over the last 10 years or so. It just wasn’t special anymore, not like when I was a child. But this year, Christmas got its mojo back. Being a parent at Christmas is the ultimate feeling. Watching N’s face as he opened his presents, so full of intrigue when we put up our tree, it was just amazing. I love Christmas again!

♥ I took part in a Secret Santa with my mummy group. I got some awesome socks, a fab eyeshadow palette and a parenting book that has been on my “must read” list for a while. We did a Smile Exchange in the summer, which is basically the same idea but just not Christmas. I love putting together parcels for my swapees and love the element of surprise and anticipation in receiving a gift.

♥ I put our Christmas tree up as a surprise for the mister while he was at work. I even made my own decorations out of slices of dried oranges. I also made some gingerbread men out of salt dough and a salt dough print of N’s hand. The mister was really happy and it made me feel all warm and fuzzy :)

♥ I had already done my nails ready for Christmas but felt that Rudolph was looking a little lonely, so added Santa to keep him company!

♥ I had planned to do all my baking on Christmas Eve but I’d gone to bed ill so I had it ALL to do on Christmas Day. One of the things I baked were these amazing chocolate chunk cookies using a recipe from Crepes of Wrath. OMG they were amazing. I will definitely be making them again. Maybe as soon as I’ve finished writing this post...

♥ This Christmas was the first year ever that I have cooked Christmas dinner. I’ve always been to someone else’s house for – usually my parents’ – but I have now graduated to “proper grown-up” status as I have done a full-on Christmas spread for five people all by myself. Okay, so it was two adults, two children and a toddler, but hey, I still deserve a high-five as I was in the kitchen for pretty much the entire day. Apart from when we ate dinner, I didn’t sit down until gone 9pm. I well and truly earned that glass of wine!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!

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Christmas summary 2013

♥ Christmas had kind of lost its magic over the last 10 years or so. It just wasn’t special anymore, not like when I was a child. But this year, Christmas got its mojo back. Being a parent at Christmas is the ultimate feeling. Watching N’s face as he opened his presents, so full of intrigue when we put up our tree, it was just amazing. I love Christmas again!

♥ I took part in a Secret Santa with my mummy group. I got some awesome socks, a fab eyeshadow palette and a parenting book that has been on my “must read” list for a while. We did a Smile Exchange in the summer, which is basically the same idea but just not Christmas. I love putting together parcels for my swapees and love the element of surprise and anticipation in receiving a gift.

♥ I put our Christmas tree up as a surprise for the mister while he was at work. I even made my own decorations out of slices of dried oranges. I also made some gingerbread men out of salt dough and a salt dough print of N’s hand. The mister was really happy and it made me feel all warm and fuzzy :)

♥ I had already done my nails ready for Christmas but felt that Rudolph was looking a little lonely, so added Santa to keep him company!

♥ I had planned to do all my baking on Christmas Eve but I’d gone to bed ill so I had it ALL to do on Christmas Day. One of the things I baked were these amazing chocolate chunk cookies using a recipe from Crepes of Wrath. OMG they were amazing. I will definitely be making them again. Maybe as soon as I’ve finished writing this post...

♥ This Christmas was the first year ever that I have cooked Christmas dinner. I’ve always been to someone else’s house for – usually my parents’ – but I have now graduated to “proper grown-up” status as I have done a full-on Christmas spread for five people all by myself. Okay, so it was two adults, two children and a toddler, but hey, I still deserve a high-five as I was in the kitchen for pretty much the entire day. Apart from when we ate dinner, I didn’t sit down until gone 9pm. I well and truly earned that glass of wine!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!

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Some of you might know that I recently completed the Artistic Colour Gloss - The Art of Perfect Polish course and since then I have been gradually building up a collection of different colours from the Artistic Colour Gloss range of gel polishes. I couldn’t resist buying the Holiday Collection which includes the gorgeous rose gold shade currently being sported on my nails. 

My friend Jo, who owns Vanity in Hitchin – the salon and training academy where I undertook my training – is amazingly talented when it comes to nail art and when I saw some cute little reindeer designs she had done I decided to have a go myself. Sadly, I’m not ambidextrous so I settled for snow on my other hand!

Rudolph reindeer rose gold christmas nails gelsnow white rose gold christmas gel nails (1)

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The colours used are Goddess, Purity, Vogue, Swag, Hotzy and Gold Digger, and are all from Artistic Colour Gloss. And yes, I do need to moisturise my hands. Cold weather and central heating are not a great combo for the skin!

Are you rocking any festive nail art this Christmas?

NOTD: Christmas Gel Nails

Some of you might know that I recently completed the Artistic Colour Gloss - The Art of Perfect Polish course and since then I have been gradually building up a collection of different colours from the Artistic Colour Gloss range of gel polishes. I couldn’t resist buying the Holiday Collection which includes the gorgeous rose gold shade currently being sported on my nails. 

My friend Jo, who owns Vanity in Hitchin – the salon and training academy where I undertook my training – is amazingly talented when it comes to nail art and when I saw some cute little reindeer designs she had done I decided to have a go myself. Sadly, I’m not ambidextrous so I settled for snow on my other hand!

Rudolph reindeer rose gold christmas nails gelsnow white rose gold christmas gel nails (1)

A photo posted by Sian (@quitefranklyshesaid) on

The colours used are Goddess, Purity, Vogue, Swag, Hotzy and Gold Digger, and are all from Artistic Colour Gloss. And yes, I do need to moisturise my hands. Cold weather and central heating are not a great combo for the skin!

Are you rocking any festive nail art this Christmas?
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