If you ever revert to the internet for beauty how-tos than make sure you check out Dope2111 for amazing ‘how-to’ beauty transformations. We just had to post this one as it’s a little different from her usual videos and offers some lush homemade products ideas.
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While January is the start of a new year, it’s hardly the start of the cold. It’s been around long enough to make us all moody for some sunshine. We’ve offered some handy advice for winter nail colour and today we are cheering things up a bit with warm, sunny colour to beat mid-winter blues.

What to Wear

During cold months we have to enjoy simple pleasures and the importance of a warm meal, a roaring fire and thick woolen sweaters is undeniable. Generally our nail colour advice is based on trends & fashion – however sometimes it’s simply about lifting your spirits and current fashion be damned. Frankly if you are stylish enough, you can pull of almost any colour almost any time of the year, (just use your colour intelligently).
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Although it’s the dead of winter, we like to start thinking about warm summer months as soon as the holidays are over. So we decided to dedicate one day a week to daydream about our summer wardrobe and cosmetics.

Weekly Report

The idea is to stay up on the designer trends and the latest in ethical and safe cosmetics. Combine the two and you have some seriously guilt-free colour that you can be proud of. We’ll offer weekly tips and info about the latest in fashionable nail shades.
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We’ve all heard of colour therapy and while you may not subscribe to superstitious ideas, you may be willing to admit that colour does have a (tiny) effect on your mood. Sit in a bright red room for 24 hours and you’ll probably be inclined to agree with us.

Colour Therapy

Colour Therapy (or chromotherapy) is based on the colours of the 7 chakras located in the body. When the chakras get out of whack from illness or stress, a good dose of the correct colour can help to rebalance the chakras and keep the body healthy. For the sake of argument we’ll use these 7 colours, (it’s the rainbow, after all) explain what each one represents and provide you some brilliant colours you can use on your nails to help balance your own chakras.
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