Guest Post - Batmomo from Pokénailart

ATTEMPT 2! I am so sorry, especially to all my guest posters as I b*ggared up royally when I thought I could 'quickly' upload my guest posts before my holiday. Lesson learned, it doesnt work! Again, really really sorry.. so here is the first guest post from last week, this time with all the beautiful pictures!

Rachael xxx

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Hey everyone! 

I am so excited to say that one of my favourite bloggers is here with us today with a guest post!

Continue reading to see the amazing nail art of Batmomo from Pokénailart <3

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Hello everyone! I am very pleased and honoured that Rachael was willing to put one of my manicure on her blog, and I hope you will appreciate it ^^. So, pokémon nail art is my big speciality and with halloween coming soon, I really wanted to draw gengar! This pokémon is super funny and scary at the same time, so I really love it! For the background colour, I used a franken that I just created and that I called "gengar's puke". It is a teal/purple duochrome that I applied on a black base. Since the colours matched the ozotic 528, I decided to apply a layer of my ozotic, to give a more "sparkly" look. I drew gengars on my thumb and ring finger, and scary faces on the other nails. 

 

Wait, you can't see the scary faces? I'll switch the light off...

Boo! 

I hope you were not too scared :p

I really hope you liked this manicure, and most importantly: Happy Halloween everyone!!

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Thank you again my lovely for your beautiful guest post for while I am away! I am over the moon, especially with a 2 in 1 Halloween and my favourite pokémon ever all in one manicure! Look at his grin glowing in the dark!! Yay! <3

Rachael xxx

Guest Post from Jade at Life in Lacquer

ATTEMPT 2! I am so sorry, especially to all my guest posters as I b*ggared up royally when I thought I could 'quickly' upload my guest posts before my holiday. Lesson learned, it doesnt work! Again, really really sorry.. so here is the second guest post from last week, this time with all the beautiful pictures!

Rachael xxx

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Good morning everyone!

I have another beautiful guest post today - this time from the wonderful Jade from Life in Lacquer. I have read Jade's blog for a long time and I am sure you will agree on just how beautiful her nails are!

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Hello there nail lovers!

I’m Jade popping over from Life in Lacquer to write a guest post for you whilst Rach is off on her holidays, the lucky girl!

I have a simple hand painted nail art today. I used a tiny brush and three different colours. I love pastels and now it’s getting darker and colder outside I wanted to crack these out one last time!

I used China Glaze Aquadelic, Color Club Wicker Park and BarryM Gelly Blueberry.

I just have to say that the BarryM Blueberry smelt funky and not the James Brown good kind of funky either. I have no idea why but I can’t remember the other Gelly polishes smelling like this? Has anyone else noticed?

Thanks for having me today and I hope you liked my design!

Jade

Lifeinlacquer.blogspot.co.uk

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Thank you again Jade for sharing your gorgeous nails on my blog! I hope everyone else loves them as much as I do!

Rachael xxx

Guest Post from Rachel at Monkey Nails

ATTEMPT 2! I am so sorry, especially to all my guest posters as I b*ggared up royally when I thought I could 'quickly' upload my guest posts before my holiday. Lesson learned, it doesnt work! Again, really really sorry.. so here is the first guest post from last week, this time with all the beautiful pictures!

Rachael xxx

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Good morning all!

After a good few years of having no holidays, I am finally getting myself a way for a week. So while I am away, I am leaving you in the very capable hands of some guest bloggers who have offered to entertain you!

First up is a fantastic blogger, another Rachel (Best name ever. Fact.) from Monkey Nails <3 After seeing her photos, I just had to leave you with her post first as its getting me excited for the beautiful blue waters of Majorca!

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Hi there! When I said I'd do a guest post for Racho's Nail Love there was no contest what it was going to be about - my name is also Rachel, and one of the meanings of the name is ewe - that is, a female sheep. I got started on my sheep nails and there was going to be green glitter and googly eyes... then I left all my nail gear at my partner's house when I came home and I found myself with a problem. No googly eyes, no paintbrushes and no nail polish, not even a base coat. So I got inventive! What I did have was a whole bunch of new polishes that had just arrived in the posts from Nails Inc and Tara's Talons. I also found some PVA glue, a blunted pencil and some cotton buds. So here's what I came up with:

I used the PVA glue as a base coat. I applied it just before a long drive so by the time I got home it was totally dry! Then I applied three coats of Reef by Tara's Talons. I'm loving this dreamy blue polish - it reminds me of looking into a pond - there are bits of gold and green glitter in it and the slightly sheer finish means you feel like you're looking right the way to the bottom. I added dots of Tara's Talons Champagne and Nails Inc Mornington Crescent with the tip of the blunt pencil. (The more blunt the pencil is, the bigger the dots will be!) This look reminds me of paintings of water lilies by Monet. Did you know that Water Lilies is actually a series of about 250 paintings, and not just one? I did not.

I removed a bit of the cotton from the tip of my cotton bud and dipped it in nail varnish remover. Using just a little bit of cotton and the blunt end of the cotton bud made it much easier to clean up around my cuticles. And the marvellous thing about PVA glue is that it all just peels off afterwards!

Of course, this means that when I get all my nail art stuff back I'm going to have to finish off my Rachael/Rachel inspired nails. But this is not exactly much of a chore!

Thanks to Rachael for having me and I hope to see some of you over at Monkey Nails!

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Thank you again Rachel for your fantastic post, your nails are so beautiful and I am sure everyone else will think so too!

Rachael xxx

Guest Post over at Seriously Swatched!

Hello lovely readers!

Organised as ever, yesterday I had a guest post over at Seriously Swatched - Please go check it out, these were my nails that I wore for my Dad's 60th birthday <3

Thanks again to Cordia for letting me guest post - hope you're all having a fab day!

Rachael xx

Guest Post over at Polished Art!

Hello all!

Silly me, I wrote up this post to let you know about my guest post over at Polished Art and I didn't press Schedule, I left it in my drafts in my hurry before my holidays!

So yesterday, I had a post over there.. go check it out (I even tried doing my first tutorial) and go check Sam out if you don't follow her already - she has beautiful nails and always posts beautiful swatches and imaginative nail art!

 

Thank you again Sam for letting me guest post for you! 

Rachael xxx

Guest Post over at Kittys Painted Claws!

Hi all,

Hope you are having a great week - please head over to Kittys Painted Claws to check out a little guest post I did for her while she is away! :)

Hope you like them - here's a cheeky black and white preview! 

Rachael xxx

Twin Post with Laura from Little Laura Loves

Hey all!

Laura and I decided to do a twin post today! Our theme was Monkey See, Monkey Do - so check out her nails, she always has such cute ideas!

You can also check out my post, plus all her other posts at her blog - Little Laura Loves.

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Hey everyone, I'm Laura from Little Laura Loves.

Today me and Rachael are doing a twin MSMD post. I hope you like my post, if you do please check out my blog.

I spent so long deciding which mani to copy from Rachael's blog. She has so many beautiful idea's but I loved this one, I loved the idea she was inspired by her cat and had posted some super cute photo's of it.

So I decided to share some cute puppy pics as well as copying her mani. I hope you like it, please check out the original post !!

The base I used is Essie - All Tied Up. 

Then the pawprints are Rimmel - Torrid.

and here are my gorgeous puppies!

Thanks again so much Rachael !

xx

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Thank you so much Laura for twin posting with me! 

Guest Posting

Want to show off your work? Want a few more visits to your page? Just feeling really proud of a mani you've just done?

Why not do a guest post for me!

Guest Posts

I am often busy during the week, so I do have quiet periods each week where I would love to feature extra posts.

If you are interested in guest posting for me, then feel free to email me at:

 

rachosnl [at] gmail [dot] com

Your post can be anything as long as it is nail related. You don't even need to have your own blog - I am quite happy to prepare a feature on your favourite mani if you would like to share it but don't have your own space to share it.

Collaborations

If you have an idea for a collaboration, or twin post, then I am open to suggestions. As I mentioned, I am busy during the week but given prior notice I can prepare these in advance if necessary. I love working with new people and especially getting to see how people interpret things differently on their nails! :)

Again, if you're interested in anything like this - feel free to drop me a line at the email address above!


Look forward to hearing from you!

 

Rachael xxx

Guest Post over at Dakila's NailBlog

Things are hectic this week at work, so apologies for lack of posts - I will have some for you on friday night!

While you're waiting, why not check out my guest post over at Dakila's NailBlog - and give her a follow, shes so talented!

See you soon! xxx