Thursday 29 November 2012

Primark Angelica


This duo was absolute chaos to get the proper colour to camera, it appears as a beautifully shimmery purple a lot lighter than I can get on camera but in a diferent light it's more a musky purple brown colour. The colours I used was Technic purple, a cheap 99p I picked up from a stall earlier this year and the Primark Angelica I've already posted about before used with a light blue, so you can see total different effects with the different bases. 

Pictures below:




Enjoy! x


Sunday 25 November 2012

Best of British 25/11/12

Emma practices polka dots in this China Glaze dotticure at Emma's Little Corner.

Nada got her hands on Miss Sporty's new nail polishes Metal Flip Duochromes! Check out the swatches!

Lyndsay from Pie's Eyes has been playing with fire this week Max Factor's Fantasy Fire. It's fast becoming a Top 10 polish!

Jazz at Glitter Infatuation has been continuing the Lazy 15 Challage Even if that means interpreting it in her own funny way.. Glitter is appropriate no what what the ocassion!

Wendy over at Wendy's Delights has a Yellow Mani with Glitter for the 31 day Challenge!

Claire at nuthin' but a nail thing has been fishscale manicuring it up - there is a tutorial too!

Rachel at Phoenix Nails has been getting all childish with a Disney mani for day 9 of the Lazy 15 challenge

Vic's been experimenting with layering and has come up with a Swishy Junk Yard.

Sally of NailPron has found some new Speciallita polishes, and they look amazing.

Anna from Anna's Polish Addiction has tried Nails Inc Southwark from the most recent QVC Today's Special Value, posted a rainbow mani and more pics of her stash.

Sam at Polished Art created this pretty half moon manicure using dried flowers!

Kerry at JustTalkNails has a swatch of Essie Smooth Sailing this week.

This week there was some Quilted Nail Art going on over at Enigmatic Rambles.

Saturday 24 November 2012

Essie Smooth Sailing

I picked up this Essie mini for 99p, Smooth Sailing. It is a lovely shimmery powder blue. It goes on quite smooth and is opaque in 2 coats. 

A pretty short post today, so i'll leave you with some pictures :)




Enjoy!

Monday 19 November 2012

Best of British 18/11/12

Emma has finally posted the purple gradient she created using a-england soft holo shades for No H8 day at Emma's Little Corner.

Jazz has been continuing the Lazy 15 Challange Glitter Infatuation. Glitter is appropriate no matter what the occasion.

Danielle continued the Lazy 15 challenge fun and also swatched the China Glaze Holiday Joy Mini Set over at Totally Nailed

Over at Pie's Eyes Lyndsay has been stamping over a glitter manicure as the one exception to a week of purple manicures.

Claire at nuthin' but a nail thing has been trying her new Lush Lacquer haul with a Cupcake Manicure which includes an easy to follow tutorial.

Wendy over at Wendy's Delights has a couple of fab indie polishes to share with you.

Lou has one of ther European Swap Polishes to show you today, first up is Catrice Steel My Heart which is a gem of a polish!

Hannah has been shopping! Check it out over at Doodle Nails

PrettyKittyClaws has been enjoying the beautiful fall colours and was inspired to do a Fall leaves mani

Nail polish advent calender, sounds good right? It's by Ciaté and quickly reviewed here. A new swatch of Miss Sporty's Goth Me Up top coat polish has also been done this week on Enigmatic Rambles.

Phoenix Nails has been supporting Children In Need with a mani to match

Friday 16 November 2012

Children in Need Inspiration


I'm sure everyone in the UK knows it is Children in Need night. This is a little fun mani to represent Pudsey. The colours I used are all Barry M, Lemon Ice Cream, Mint, Blueberry Ice Cream, Matte White, Black and Raspberry and a dotting tool to create the pattern. 





Enjoy! x

Tuesday 13 November 2012

Ludurana Marmorizado: Carraro


This is another polish I got in a swap, Ludurana Marmorizado: Carraro. This is my first Ludurana and it did not disappoint. This is such a pretty pale pink packed with fine darker pink and silver glitter. The glitter is not over powering and very subtle. It reminds me of strawberry milkshake. 
Application was a breeze, I have used 3 coats here and you can see there is still VNL so either another coat or a base underneath would solve that. 
I would definitely love to try more Ludurana polishes.



Enjoy! x

Monday 12 November 2012

Best of British 11/11/12

Emma has been looking for dupes in her stash and found a perfect dupe of Nails Inc and Barry M in amongst the comparison posts at Emma's Little Corner.

Jazz has been continuing with the lazy 15 challange, Is she sucseeding? Glitter is appropriate no matter what the occcasion

Lyndsay over at Pie's Eyes has done another theme manicure, this time it's FIREWORKS to celebrate Guy Fawkes night on the 5th.

Claire at nuthin' but a nail thing has been celebrating British Sausage Week with an English Breakfast Manicure. You gotta love the sausage!

This week The Teenage Shopaholic has been... supporting our troops! She created and wore her poppy mani in support of our armed forces

Sam at Polished Art has posted FOUR manicures for the 31 Day Challenge this week, but here favourite is this paisley manicure inspired by the Welsh costume she had to wear when she was a kid!

Another first for Wendy at Wendy's Delights a gorgeous Gradient Mani. Have you tried anything new lately?

Phoenix Nails has another Lazy 15 mani it's a watermarble have a look at how she got on.

Hannah at Doodle Nails has a James Bond inspired mani and a new haul! Check out the bargains here!

After all the excitement of Halloween Northern Nails had a bit of a forced Hiatus (nail breakage) she managed to do a post for Polish days before the disaster stuck, check out her new haul! Movember Mani <

This week Enigmatic Rambles got her own dot com. Along with that she was supporting 'Eradiate H8' as bullying is wrong no matter what age

Vic has been singing her heart out this week as the Digit-al Dozen have done music. She's put Cell Block Tango on her nails. Some guys just can't hold their acetone!

Kerry at JustTalkNails supports Hufflepuff house with a Daring Digits Hufflepuff manicure.

Wednesday 7 November 2012

Had better be.. Hufflepuff!!


Yes todays is a polish by Daring Digits, wonderfully named Hufflepuff which of course a massive Harry Potter fan and a Hufflepuff I was bound to love it.

A beautiful golden yellow with small and large pieces of black glitter , hufflepuff has a smooth application. I have applied 2 coats but it could have done with an extra as you can see a slight VNL.



I just love this polish, it is both pretty and rockin' after all it is Hufflepuff ;)

Enjoy! x


Sunday 4 November 2012

Best of British 4/11/12

Lyndsay has had busy week this week showing off her Halloween manicure and taking delivery of a new polish haul over at Pie's Eyes.

Ruth found some inspiration for her Halloween Special this week, with some fun nails and pumpkin carving for the day!

Wendy from Wendy's Delights has just done her first ever Half Moon Mani with added glequins!

Nada went a bit crazy and created two designs for Gruesome Halloween Check it out!

Claire at nuthin' but a nail thing has cats popping up all over the place... Miaow!!

Hannah at Doodle Nails got into the Halloween spirit with a skittle mani!

This week The Teenage Shopaholic has been... getting spooooky! She created and wore her cute Halloween nail art mani to a Halloween party

Rachel from Phoenix Nails has started a new challenge The Lazy 15 and the first is a tape mani

Steph has been taking inspiration from others and recreating their mani's and celebrating 100 followers with a new competition over at Never Mind Suzi.

At Northern Nails this week , Jo has been celebrating Halloween in style check out her Halloweenie Series Posts will also be a bit thin this week as she is also recovering from a cold!

D is for Dogstooth? Or is it H, Houndstooth Enigmatic Rambles gets confused here!

Emma bares all on holiday in this naked nail post at Emma's Little Corner.

Lou is back from holiday with the new Christmas Holiday 2012 Chanel Polish Malice which is a complete stunner and has a go a finding a good dupe

Kerry at JustTalkNails shows off her first Jade Holographic spectacular.

Jazz at Glitter Infatuation has been trying out nail art for the first time!Will it be a win or a fail? Glitter is appropiate no matter what occasion

Danielle at Totally Nailed started The Lazy 15 Challenge along with a group of very talented ladies, and also managed a Halloween post too!

Friday 2 November 2012

Jade - Energy


Today I have a new to me brand :) I got this Jade holographic in a swap this Halloween, this one is Energy and it is a beautiful green and an amazing holo. 
Sadly no pictures under natural light as it was dark out when I took the pictures and we barely have any sun out anyways these days lol

Here are a couple under artificial light, drowns the colour out a bit but I have one below of the gorgeous green. 

Application was simple, this is 2 even coats for full opaqueness and I had no problems applying it.  



Away from light you can see the beautiful colour, I really do love green polish.


I hope to be able to grab some more of the Jades, they are lovely holos.

Enjoy! x