Pretty & Polished Cuttlefish

Hello!

Helly the lemming slayer strikes again! This polish has been on my wishlist ever since it came out last spring, and I finally got my grubby little mits on it and straight on the nails it went! Cuttlefish is a thermal glitter polishes that changes from a mid-teal blue when cold to a lighter teal/aqua when warm, with green and blue glitter added in the mix. I just love how more glitter is revealed when the polish is warm, like it's come out of hibernation! I used two coats, and then two of topcoat because it is a little thick and bumpy, but I had no problems with application. The accent finger is Sinful Colors Snow Me White stamped with MoYou Sailor 04 and Color Club Perfect Mol-ten. LOVED this manicure. I wore it to Ikea and kept bumping into things because I couldn't stop looking to see if it had morphed! And because I'm a klutz...

Such prettyness! I want MOAR thermals!

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Gone to the dogs...

Evening!

No Sunday Stamping mani for me this week - the theme was french tips which I think would look ridiculous on my shorties, so I skipped it! Instead I have a mani to show you which I matched to a sparkly top for a night out. I do like being a bit matchy matchy for special occasions, and I will normally try to match my outfit with my make-up and nails if I can. It was a friends birthday, and we celebrated by going greyhound racing, getting drunk and then dancing the night away at a cheesy disco, perfect! The top I was wearing was navy blue with green sequins on the top half and matte black sequins on the bottom, so I painted my nails with two coats of Pretty & Polished Black Swan and added some green Born Pretty glequins to the ring finger.

I think it matched pretty well! Now, as for the night out it was brill, really needed. I had a few bets on the doggies, and think I more or less broke even. I also think I broke my toe! Ooops! Although I did manage to carry on dancing, in 3 inch heels! That'll be the vodka...

Do you ever match your nails to your outfit? Or even your outfit to your nails? I'd love to see!

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Adventures in Stamping - Leafy...

Bonjour

So this week's Adventures in Stamping theme was simply "leafy", something which can be broadly interpreted I guess. I didn't want to use green, or autumnal colours so I went for black and silver. But not just any black and silver. The base is 3 coats of Pretty & Polished Black Swan, a pretty pretty black holo. It's not quite linear, but so gorgeous. Hard to photograph though, the little scamp. I stamped with Barry M Silver Foil and Bundle Monster 310. Please excuse the shrinkage, my nails are too short to wrap the tips at the moment and Poshe is not kind when you have 2 layers of it on top of and underneath the stamping...

Black Swan alone

Bottle shot! Trying so hard to be linear...

My challenge manis have been a bit sucky recently. I feel like they're not coming out as well as I imagine them, or they just plain suck. This is better, slightly. More practice needed I think...

Have you got any Pretty & Polished bottles in your collection? I heart this! It is quite sheer so although it's a big bottle I think I'll layer it over a black creme next time I wear it. So pretty :)

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