GOT polish? Neon!

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I've had a bit of an unintentional blogging break for a few days, but I'm back with this weeks golden oldie for you, and the prompt was neon. I've been loving a bit of neon lately but for these nails I went for pure trash and I love it! My neon was a mini Orly in Hottie - a bright pink that looks slightly coral toned. I think it would have been brighter if I'd used white undies but I knew I'd never get it even with the chevron French tips, and that the overlay of fierce animal print would hide any visible nail line - this was three coats and the VNL was a plenty! I accented it with zebra stripes and leopard print (with glitter - China Glaze Glistening Snow - because it just needed to be more in your face...) I think this is possibly one of the loudest manis I've ever done! And I'm helping out at my sons school today...perhaps I should have changed it! I had to shorten my nails a little because of a break and I thought it was the perfect time to try the chevron tips. They're not 100% but I really like the shape.

What do you think? Tacky or timeless? I think I know the answer...

Hx

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Tri Polish Tuesday - April #1 Blue, Pink & Yellow

How is it April already? Not complaining, the sooner summer comes the better! The tri polish colours this month are blue, yellow and pink, which just screamed floral to me so that's what I went with for week one! The base is Barry M Huckleberry (naughty, steaky, gloopy polish, but so pretty!) which I then stamped this script writing from MoYou XL Pro 07 on top of. I have no idea if it says anything, means anything or is from something but it fitted what I wanted here! I then freehanded some flowers using two pinks, Orly Preamp, which I thought would add depth as it is sparkly, but it wasn't enough, so I added OPI Pink Friday accents. The middles of the flowers are Illamasqua Blow. Once I'd topcoated it, I mattefied it too, and it just made it all so much more delicate looking.

I think this is one of my favourite manis ever! Possibly...I think...there's been so many now! I am rather fond of it though!

Hx

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GOT polish - Skittles!

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Today's Golden Oldie Thursday theme is skittles. Now, you know I love me a skittle, but these didn't quite turn out how I imagined. In fact, I nearly re-did them until I saw how the photos came out and they looked ok. I went for blue, and actually one of my oldest polishes in Barry M Blue glitter, on the accent nail. The other polishes I used were Orly Stone Cold, Barry M Cobalt and Avon Colour Trend Silver Plated (glitter on the pinkie). The patterns were freehanded with Barry M's silver nail art pen, which I wish was just a little bit more sparkly.

Not wowed by them, but they seemed to facinate my son's speech therapist who admired them for half an hour! Next weeks' GOT is going to be purple and I'm excited!

Hx

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Holla On Top - Lacquerdaisical holo topcoat

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The lovely Alexia from Lacquerdaisical recently sent me two of her new holo polishes to try, the first being this awesome holo topcoat. I'd been thinking about getting one for a while but was worried about it affecting the base colour I wanted to holofy (totally a word) too much, so I was excited to give this a try. I've been jonesing for a baby pink holo for a while, so I knew what I had to try first - Holla On Top over OPI Pink Friday to create this perfectly pretty pink holo. As you can see, it didn't turn the base too grey, and just gave a lovely, holo finish. I love this combination!

Just how perfect? Next, I thought a good way to show it off would be some bright skittles! Any excuse for a skittle ;) Red holo in particular is hard to get without ending up slightly pink or slightly grey, but this is holo perfection. I used one coat over Barry M Blood Orange (red), Nails Inc Baker Street (blue), Barry M Mango (orange) and Orly Lucky Duck (green).

It barely affected the base colour at all, and I just love love love it! It has the perfect density of holo pigment - not too much that it masks the base colour, but not too little that you don't get that all important magic rainbow. Win!

Lacquerdaisical Holla On Top (and all of Alexia's other polishes) are available from her Facebook page.

Hx

Laquerdaisical Holla On Top was a PR sample provided to me for free for review consideration. All opinions expressed are my own and 100% honest. Please see my disclaimer in the tab above for further details. All other products featured were purchased myself.

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GOT Polish? Chevron!

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Have you got your sunglasses ready? This one is BRIGHT! And I loved it! This week's Golden Oldie Thursday is all about the chevron, and my golden oldie is Orly Glowstick. In terms of nail polish, it doesn't get much brighter. I used a white base to really get the highlighter effect, and accented it with Barry M Silver Glitter, because, you know, it just wasn't bright or blingy enough already.

Bright enough? Not very me really, but who cares. It's February, it's depressing. Grab your highlighters and get colouring in!

Hx

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Loves Me, Loves Me Not?

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I haven't done a Stamping Sunday manicure for a few weeks and this week over at Adventures in Stamping we had two themes to chose from - Valentines day or Love and Hate. I did a bit of both, and I must say I'm rather pleased with my effort! I started with a base of OPI If You Moust You Moust - a mid-pink creme. I then stamped on love hearts (the little sweeties!) in pastel colours by mixing Konad White Polish with primary coloured polish. I have sooo many pastel polishes, but I didn't think any of them would stamp opaque enough. It was really easy to do, too - I just put a blob of the stamping polish on my plate, then a smaller blob of the colour polish and mixed them with a nail art brush before scraping and stamping as usual. The polishes I mixed were Orly Lucky Duck, Sinful Colors Amethyst, Nails Inc Notting Hill Carnival, Orly Shockwave and If You Moust You Moust again. The plate I used was Bundle Monster 421, which has two versions of the love hearts - the usual, lovely dovey ones (lover, cutie pie, crazy 4u etc) and not so lovey dovey ones, which I stamped on my right hand (stalker, go away, don't call me, dumped, and my personal favourite, not tonight!). Please excuse the lumpy thumbs, they both have patches that I'm struggling to get smooth.

I think the stamping on the "mean" side came out better, but I don't actually mind the miss-stamping because I think it looks like the real sweets. Or that's my excuse anyway...

I'm starting a little Valentines week tomorrow, so check back for that!

Hx

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Golden Oldie Thursday- GOT polish? Pink Nimbus

Well, yes, yes I have got polish. Almost 900 at time of writing! And the worst part is, most of them have only been used once (if at all!) So, over at Crumpet's Nail Tarts we developed a challenge to dig out some of those unloved polishes and put them to use! The rules are that they must have been used at least once, and be at least a year old (or your oldest polish if you've not been an addict a collector that long!) This will run weekly and the first theme was pink! I used a grand total of 6 pinks in this mani, all of which I've owned for a year or more. I started with three coats of Revlon Starry Pink (which was a birthday gift two years ago and has been used once since!) and then created a pink Nailasaurus Nimbus using OPI Steady As She Rose, Pink Friday, and Elephantastic Pink, China Glaze Dance Baby and Orly Preamp.

I'm really looking forward to this challenge, as well as Tri Polish Tuesdays! Lots of fun to be had at Crumpet's Nail Tarts if you want to join in!

Hx

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Merry Owlmas!

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If you've been a reader for a while, you will know I have a thing for birds and feathers, especially owls and peacocks. So when the mood struck for matte flakies and silver stamping I rolled with it and came up with some festive owls! Sticking with the bird theme I used Orly Fowl Play as my base, then amped up the flakie level with a coat of Finger Paints Motley. I stamped the cute owl from Pueen 40 in Barry M Silver Foil and once it was dry (with the aid of Poshe - does anyone find flakies take forever and a day to dry?) I mattefied the whole thing. The accent finger was Maybelline Foil Flash (from the Colour Show Brocades collection). As well as taking ages to dry, I find flakies have a tendency to shrink - there's a teeny bit of shrinkage here unfortunately. Still loved it though. I know it's not strictly a Christmas image, but I do think the colour combo looked quite festive.

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Twit twoo!

Hx

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Mavala Angel Violet Diamond - Let the Christmas nails begin!

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Now I've completed the 33 day challenge, and caught up with samples and swatches I needed to do, I can finally just do the nails I want to do for a while. And that means some Christmassy nails will be coming your way! Not all of them, mind you, but I thought I'd better show you this one quick before they sell out! I was browsing Beauty Expert and feeling very scroogelike when I spotted these cute Mavala polishes, encased in a little box with angel wings, ready to hang on the Christmas tree and had to have one. I needed the Christmas spirit! I chose Violet Diamond, as I didn't have any other glitter similar in my collection (and because it goes with my Christmas tree, which is silver, white, gold and black!) I actually thought it was a full cover glitter, but it isn't so I layered it over Barry M Lilac Foil, and combined with Orly Au Champagne and some snowy stamping for my first Christmas nails of the season.

Mavala Angels are available from Beauty Expert for just £3.83 with free delivery here, but they only have the silver one left now so be quick!

Have your nails gotten festive yet?

Hx

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