NOTD Crows Toes - Hell Hath No Fury

Sorry for being MIA, blogging is taking a small back seat for a little while but will be back in full force soon :)

Today I have a swatch of the insane Hell Hath No Fury by Crows Toes, such an apt name for me at the moment since fury is am emotion I often feel at the moment!

This polish is an amazing mix, orange glitter in hex and line shapes, red hexes, micro glitter and some insanely awesome lilac glitter that should be out of place but glows from the base of this polish!

I did use undies for this but as this has been in my draft folder for so long I have forgotten but it would have been a generic drug store colour!

Due to the amount of glitter the base of this polish is quite thick, some might want to thin it out but I prefer to not do that so just dabble it on the nail

This looks like I have tip wear but I don't, my old phone camera frequently made polishes look like I had tip wear, very odd!

Drying time is quite long for this polish, but not unbearably so, I used a coat of Gelish and a coat of Seche to make it touch dry but had to be careful not to do anything that would apply pressure to my nails.

Removal is best done using the foil method, which I automatically do with glitterbombs!

Crows Toes is available from Llarowe and Overall Beauty

NOTD Crows Toes - Absolum, Your Potions Master

Quick post again! This is an absolute glitter bomb, this is one coat dabbled over a dark green base

Nightmare to remove but oh, so so so worth it!

This has all sorts in it and really is like a magical potion

Crows toes are available from Llarowe and Overall Beauty just er, not this one!

NOTD piCture pOlish - Krytonite

Quick post from me, life has been manic to say the least! This is one of my recent favourite polishes! 

Based on the flawless application, amazing wear and frankly awesomeness of this polish I have already acquired two more piCture pOlish polishes and will be getting more once I have moved (hence my lack of posting!)

Kryptonite is available from Llarowe and also through Sally Magpies the ONLY place currently selling Indies in the UK!

NOTD Girly Bits - Into The Night

Happy Weekend! I was so pleased it was Saturday today, this week the kids went back after half term and it honestly feels like they have been back a month! The school run is exhausting, roll on Christmas holidays!

Today I have another Indie for you all. Painting my nails has become a slight chore in that it takes me forever to choose what to wear from my ever growing collection! Think I need to exert some control on myself :/

This here is the gorgeous Into The Night!

This for me was a layering polish as I don't like visible nail line so I used it over Nails Inc London Nights for a truly dark night look.

The fact my 6 year old daughter declared my nails awesome and cool after seeing my new paint job says a lot as if a polish isn't wow then she doesn't care to comment!

I used two coats of London Nights and two coats of Into The Night and it reminds me of stars and fireworks! Micro glitter holo yuminess making this such a wonderful polish that I think will be used many times this winter!

Slight blur in the next two pictures to show the beautiful colours!

Be still my beating heart!

Into The Night was one of my many purchases from Llarowe but is not in stock anymore! You gotta be quick to buy from there but oh my, it is always well worth it!

NOTD - Boots 17 Holographic

Happy Saturday peeps! Had a super busy week of shopping, poorly daughter, her Halloween disco at school and general out and aboutness! 

Day of rest today (and washing :( ) so what better to do than blog?!

So we all know holo polishes are big news, I have the original Gosh Holo   but am amassing a collection of indies now and they piddle all over it!

So how does a high street holo compare?

Erm, well it doesn't! I mean it really really just doesn't!

Excuse the little finger, didn't like this enough to start over!

This is a linear holo, and even in the sunlight it was hard to really tell that it was a holo :( 

My camera struggled with this, although there wasn't really much to pick up!

Inside, and even now sitting in front of my window this looks just like a plain old silver/white polish on my nails!

If this is your first holo purchase then maybe you will love it and the plus side is that it is a million easier to apply than the Gosh one but still a good idea to use a sticky base, a coat of this, a topcoat and a final layer of this so as not to dull the holo

This is available from Boots stores for £3.99 but in all honesty pay the extra £1 and get the recently re-released Gosh version from Superdrug stores!

I will be doing some more holo posts soon as I have just got some from Models Own that look gorgeous!

Are you a holo fan?

NOTD A-England Tristam

Hello everyone! Lazy sunday here today, what better day to do a blog post!

Today's nail post has been waiting in my to do file for so long but is a much loved polish of mine so time to give it some love now!

This is a more blue version of my beautiful Lady Of The Lake and is an ultimate dark tone for Autumn/Winter

Inside it is a beautiful deep blue with what looks like silver shimmer running through it

But in direct sunlight you can see it is in fact teeny tiny scattered holo!

These are some of the easiest polishes to apply, 2 coats to full opacity and finishes to a high gloss though I do always use a topcoat. Wear was also amazing, 5+ days with no chipping!

I love A-England polishes and am currently after the Gothic collection but since my complete polish splurge this month I am holding back......

For now!

A-England polishes are available direct here or here  for customers in the US!

Well worth giving a go if you haven't yet!

NOTD - Black Mamba Samba

My last post showcased my first indie polish over a black base but thanks to the lovely black glitter I spotted I thought I would also use it over a white base!

The base of the polish is a sheer black so it changed the white to grey

You can see the beautiful smattering of matte black glitter here, never had a polish with matte glitter and can see why Jen from http://www.thepolishaholic.com/ loves it! Its unique and allows the holo particles to take centre stage!

I struggled to photograph the holo particles as the sun was sooo in and out (this is the UK afterall!) 

Ooh blurry really brings out the multi colouredness!

As you didn't see on this polish over black, this contains large matte black hex glitter, this did taco on two nails, but not enough to bother me and two coats of topcoat stopped it being annoying to touch!

I am really excited by this polish and hope to get my hands on some other Cool Waves polishes as indie brands are notoriously hard to get hold of! I was so in love with this polish that I promptly went on http://shop.llarowe.com/main.sc and placed a large order of polish that is so hard to get here!

Have you tried indie/franken polishes yet?

NOTD Leighton Denny Maroon Me Knot and OPI Serving Up Sparkle

One of my favourite polishes is this beauty from Leighton Denny but I do feel like it needs jazzing up like I did in this post but this time I went for more sparkles! I am such a magpie and after getting the gorgeous Serving Up Sparkle in a bargain set from TK Maxx I knew I had to try this!

Serving Up Sparkle is officially my new favourite top coat! It is tiny holo glitter in a clear base with larger holo hex glitter too!

The polish was buildable, this was 2 coats and the brush needed dipping in straight down to get hold of the larger bits of glitter!

But the effect is totally worth it, I kept this mani for a week and everytime I went in the sun I couldn't stop moving my nails about to catch the holo yumminess!

Wear was amazing, and I only took it off when I started getting growth at the cuticles but I had no chips and even tip wear was minimal, since I spend a lot of time on the lap top this is usually my biggest gripe with my polish!

Look at the colours, amazing or what?!

Serving Up Sparkle was part of the Serena Williams collection and hard to get now, I found mine in TK Maxx but you can get it here http://www.amazon.co.uk/OPI-Serena-Glam-Slam-Polish/dp/B0056K93MU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1346775843&sr=8-1

NOTD OPI - DS Bold

Morning lovely followers! I would say thank goodness it's the weekend but being a stay at home mum, and it being the summer holidays the days all meld into one!

Today I have another polish from the much loved and rather expensive OPI Designer Series!

This here is Bold, a red polish with red and silver glitter, when I say glitter I mean this is loaded with the stuff!

On my skin tone I felt this pulled pink rather than red but that may also be the silver glitter making it less of a full on red

This truly sparkles in the sun, in fact it sparkles all the time but in the sun it really is a glitter bomb!

Application was so so, the glitter made it drag so had to load the brush quite well, I also had to run my finger across the free edge of my nail to clear the poky bits of glitter hanging off the end!

Removal wasn't too bad, the tin foil method had it off in 5 minutes per hand but I did have to scrape off a few stubborn bits of glitter that refused to budge otherwise!

I got this with my much loved Magic polish from the lovely http://www.buyapowa.com/ but honestly I would not pay £16.75 a bottle for this on its own. I thought that compared to some of the other amazing DS shades that this seemed to feel more like a regular OPI polish!

Bold is available from http://www.lenawhite.co.uk/store/designer-series/bold

NOTD China Glaze - Ruby Pumps

Afternoon lovelies, hope you are having a great weekend! Crazy times here, end of term for my kids, night out on Friday which resulted in a huge hangover hence why this post is a day late!

Today I bring you a pretty festive polish, one that I have wanted for ages!

This is one of China Glaze's most popular and well known polishes and its easy to see why.....

This is a cool toned red base packed with red glitter, although I think there must be silver glitter in too as when this stared to wear off my nail had silver glitter on my nail!

This is the perfect red for my skin tone and I adored this colour, especially in the sun when it really came to life! I imagine this will be featured as a mani for the festive season, unless there are new releases to feed my habit!

Ruby Pumps is a perfect little polish, hardwearing, opaque in 3 coats, average drying time and tip wear only evident after 5 days

China Glaze is only available on the interweb unless you know of any salons that stock it, I got mine from Raven Cosmetics