I’ve not done tribal nails before, and it’s quite out of my comfort zone because for the most part it seems that most tribal designs warrant some freehand art of some sort or another. And freehand is really not my forte, but I had to go with it for the sake of the challenge. First […] Read more
My two most recent polish purchases are L’Oréal Color Riche Amazon Flower and NYC Blue Sky (which, like every other bottle of it I’ve ever seen, is mis-labelled as Raindrop). As the two newest, they are swatched next to each other on a nail wheel. I thought they complemented each other nicely, so chose them […] Read more
My most used polish is a bottle of Revlon All Fired Up. I am fairly certain that the polish was unique to Boots, and it was one of only about twelve polishes that I owned before I became rather obsessed with this little hobby of mine and before I started to keep my nails painted. […] Read more
Today is the first day of the Crumpet’s Nail Tarts 33 Day Challenge. I’ll be posting my challenge manicures three times a week on a Monday, Wednesday and a Friday for the next eleven weeks. I’ve not taken part in a challenge before, so I’m rather excited. But I’m also a bit daunted by some […] Read more
This is the last of my Emily de Molly polishes that I bought back in June. I don’t always match my polish with the seasons, but I guess I do for the large part, and this one seemed too dark to wear in the lovely summer weather we had this year, so it has waited […] Read more
I bought L’Oréal Divine Indigo a year ago, which makes it one of my oldest untried polishes. What a mug I am! I so wish I had put it on before then, because it’s gorgeous. It’s a beautiful shade of purple, and it’s metallic-looking and super shiny. It is so reflective and smooth. I absolutely […] Read more
Believe it or not, this is the very first textured manicure I have worn. I only own a few textured polishes. I have the black and white Barry M sequin effects ones, which I swatched but didn’t like enough to keep on my nails. And I also own one of the OPI Liquid sand polishes, […] Read more
I had been wearing a glitter polish, and had used PVA glue as a base coat. As always seems to happen with me when I use PVA glue, one nail just pinged off randomly, and so I was unexpectedly left in need of creating a new manicure. The weather was due to be hot and […] Read more
I got this manicure all wrong! I thought it might be opaque in two or three coats, but it wasn’t, and so I ended up having to use FIVE coats. I should have checked my swatch wheel and would have seen that it would need a base coat. Never mind; I’ll know better next time. […] Read more
Autumn Weathers is a multi-coloured strand glitter in a clear base, produced by AJ of Nail Lacquer UK, a new indie polish maker I chose to wear it over a base of Sally Hansen Beige Blast and found that the best way to apply it was to dab it on, almost stipple it as if […] Read more