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 2 True - Shade 6

When I went on a little drug store haul I knew I wanted to go to Superdrug, they hold a few lines that are always on special offer!

Including 2True, of course I was drawn to the Crystal nail polish and got 3 of them for £5, bargain!

This has a noticable duo chrome effect, flashing between orange and pink

I really liked the colour but the application was a bubbly nightmare!

Can you see the shift?

I didn't have the same issues with bubbling with the other 2 shades I got and didn't shake the bottle, so wouldn't be put off buying more if my local Superdrug EVER get more colours in stock!

2True is available from Superdrug stores for £1.99 each or 3 for £5 and are a real bargain!

NOTD Sea Lore - Ariel

Ever bought a polish just for the name? I have a few! This one I got because my sister is a Little Mermaid fangirl! So much so that I donated my first purchase of this to her and had to get myself another one!

I loved this polish, a light green shimmery base, purple and green hex and red square glitter! Gorgeous!

I layered this over a black to prolong the mani underneath as I had no time to remove it! Next time I would use a similar basecoat to the green in this. Having said that this is two coats using the dabble method of glitter application and you can't see much black poking through!

Although this is a glitter polish, it is not a total glitter bomb as I know some people aren't as keen as me!

Sea Lore is available from here

NOTD Enchanted Polish - Ciao Milano

Ah, my heart rate rises when I look at these pictures! This is one of the prettiest polishes that still has a subtlety about it. 

This is a layering polish so I layered it over a speed dry inky blue for speed and added 2 coats of Ciao Milano. Needless to say the multi chrome kept me enthralled, especially when it was sunny!

A checkout girl at my pharmacy grabbed my hand and demanded to know where I got my nails 'done' and when I said I did them myself she wanted to know what polish it was, of course she was gutted when I said it was an Indie but told her where to buy!

When you have your hand flat this flashes green, blue, purple and a teal like colour

ahhhhhhhhhhh.......

when you put your nails back you see a flash of orange, just visible on my middle finger

Enchanted polish is available here and of course at Llarowe but this polish is currently out of stock, sorry!

Pretty & Polished True Blue Duo

Hello! Today I have my second set from Pretty & Polished to show you! This spoke to me because I love blue and I love holographic polishes, so a blue holographic that isn't a baby blue? Pass it my way!

The set also includes a glitter topcoat, you can buy as a set or as single polishes

I decided to do a few different nails to show you Thumb and middle finger are Sea Spray on its own. Index finger is Sea Spray with a coat of Bubbles on top. Ring finger is two coats of Bubbles, I know some people who like to wear glitter topcoats alone so thought I would show you! Pinky finger is Sea Spray with Bubbles as a glitter tip!

As I love Holo polish I would keep Sea Spray to wear alone for full effect, but will definitely wear Bubbles over a white next time, its got holo glitter, different shades of blue and even some square glitter, I love glitter that is different to the normal plain hexes!

Here are two pictures with a flash against light as I live in the UK and we have had no sun for days, so the holo in Sea Spray was hiding until I played around with different light settings, but here it is coming out to play on my middle finger!

This blue is an awesome shade for my skintone, I like anything that works well with my paleness (which is finally returning after the accidental tanning of this summer!)

Pretty & Polished is available from here and here and is all made by hand :) which I am kind of in awe of, I wouldn't know where to start!

Pretty & Polished Heavy Metal collection

Good afternoon :) 

As you may know by now I love indie polishes, so it will come as no surprise that when offered the chance to buy some and review them before release (well would have been had I not been in the UK!) then you can guess my answer!

Today is the Heavy Metal collection by Pretty & Polished. Name had me first being a heavy metaller :)

First up is House Of Brick, a pinky red shimmer. Unlike some shimmers by a well known brand, these shimmers are full coverage! 

The shimmer really is eyecatching and this is 2 coats so fully opaque, impressive!

This went on like a dream, easily some of the best to apply and the below pictures were quite rushed and yet they were perfect!

This started off as my favourite from the collection......

Origins and Endings is a cool, greyed out dark green. This is again a 2 coater

I adore this and think it really suits my cool skin tone

Again, the shimmer is crazy and doesn't need undies!

But for me I think this is the star of the collection!

Romance is Dead, bit apt for me at the moment :D

For some reason this looks patchy but I think it was the light on the insane shimmer!

I used two coats again and instantly fell in love!

Overall I am really impressed with these, the shimmer and colour payoff are amazing. Having purchased shimmers before and having to use them as layering (hello, £10 and no coverage?!) polishes these are great and well worth a purchase!

Pretty & Polished is available from Chels Website here and her Etsy shop here

Go forth and buy!

NOTD Ciate - Caviar nails

Afternoon peeps! How is everyone feeling about back to school times this week? Can't say I am looking forward to the early starts!

Today's post was a mani that literally lasted a day, and I took the pictures pre clean up (whoops!) as I was sure it would be off straight away! 

Onto the caviar!

This is done with two products I got from my Ciate Advent calendar! The polish is Ladylike Luxe, and I teamed it with the Bumblebee caviar pearls. Probably not the best combo as Ladylike Luxe dries quite fast so you have to get the pearls on quick!

As soon as I got this set out to use (at my daughters request!) I knew I would be doing an accent nail only! 

It took 3 tries to get the beads looking how I wanted as frankly they were a pain!

I ended up picking off the pearls by the evening (tsk tsk) as they were so annoying, but I like the look for a night out. Not something I would wear for a week like my usual mani! 

Ciate is a hard brand to find on the high street but they do it here

Have you tried the caviar trend yet?