I love Nails Inc Devonshire Row. This is a real cheer me up colour. It’s not one of my untrieds, but it is an un-blogged polish. I bought it back in April last year, when I first started to do my nails. I wasn’t at the obsession stage then. I was just dipping my toe […] Read more
I was completely stumped about what manicure to do today. Yesterday, I created my kitchen sink manicure, but the base coats had been on for a few days longer than that and it was beginning to get some tip wear. So although I only posted it today, it was time to remove it and do […] Read more
I really didn’t want to take off my lovely For Audrey manicure with accent water marble. But it had stayed on for longer than I usually leave my manicures and had finally got a few tiny chips. So I removed it last night and set about doing a new manicure. It was quite late – […] Read more
I signed up a while ago for all the upcoming nail polish co-buys on BuyaPowa. I haven’t bought any of them yet, as they haven’t particularly appealed to me, but this one, a set of 4 mini Essie polishes from their Winter 2012 collection is very tempting … The site describes them thus: Shall I or shan’t I? I’m […] Read more
Today I’m wearing NYC Chinatown. I’m wearing it in keeping with my New Year’s resolution to use untrieds as often as possible. I bought it some time ago and catalogued it with my purples, so know that it must be purple, but it’s murky today in London, and that makes it look almost black. I can discern some shimmer, […] Read more
I have a spreadsheet and mobile phone application that I use to keep track of all my polish. I was updating it today to add the new polishes I’ve received over Christmas and I was looking at how many of each brand I have; how many of each colour; and so on. I also log […] Read more
We’re going to friends tonight for drinks, then coming home for a nice meal (before probably dozing on the sofa to Hootenanny and then being woken by the fireworks at midnight!). And tomorrow we are out for a meal with some other friends. So I want to do some New Year’s nails, but I’m not […] Read more
Another of my Christmas presents was the Bundle Monster plate storage zippered wallet. It’s a portfolio-style case with a vinyl, faux-crocodile textured outer cover and a soft lining. It has 14 vinyl pages, each of which has 6 slots. Each slot is designed to hold 2 plates – one facing forward and one facing backward – giving a total […] Read more
I finally had to use my “proper” camera to photograph my nails for this post. However I adjusted the settings on my mobile camera, I just couldn’t faithfully capture the purple of A England Avalon. It just kept on coming out blue. So I dusted off the DSLR and bit the bullet (still didn’t do […] Read more
My all time favourite red is All Fired Up from Revlon. It’s just a classic, perfect shiny red and I love it. But I can’t seem to find it any more, and my bottle is half empty (or is it half full?) I read somewhere on a blog that it has been rebranded and that […] Read more