This manicure is a polish to gel one, created with the GelTouch Mini Starter Kit. This great little kit from United Beauty contains a mini LED lamp and a gel top coat. The GelTouch top coat is an LED-cured top coat that transforms any nail polish into a gel manicure. Typically gel manicures last two […] Read more
We’ve had a few weeks’ break for Christmas and New Year, but now the A2Z series challenge is back with the letter I, which is for inspired. I took my inspiration from a recent manicure by Nail Lacquer UK, where AJ punched out holographic butterflies and added them over black. I’ve done the same thing […] Read more
SpaRitual has released a new winter collection, called Snow Globe. It consists of three top coat polishes: Snow Globe, First Snow and Starry Winter Night. I received First Snow to review. It’s a clear polish, dense with holographic glitters, and with a sprinkling of tiny white square glitters. I love square glitters, and who doesn’t […] Read more
I’m grateful to the Golden Oldie Thursday (GOT) Polish Challenge today for making me attempt a technique I have never tried before: the ruffle manicure. I used the four Color Club 2013 Halo Hues that I own: Over The Moon (blue), Beyond (black), Kismet (gold) and Eternal Beauty (purple). I have mixed feelings about this […] Read more
The theme for this FingerFood’s Theme Weeks challenge is weather. I’ve been a bit lazy today. I have left this a bit late – I’ve not done anything until today – and I was originally going to draw the icons from the BBC weather forecasts. You know the ones, the curly clouds with raindrops and […] 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
While this glorious summer is still lasting, I’m making the most of all the wonderful sunshine we’re having this year in the UK by wearing lots of holographic and sparkly polishes. Over The Moon is from the Color Club Halo Hues 2013 collection, and it’s a perfect linear holo polish. Sometimes a top coat will […] Read more
I have long lusted after some of the Zoya Ornate collection … Blaze, Aurora and Storm. These jelly based scattered holo polishes are just beautiful. But Zoyas are expensive and difficult to get in the UK. So I was excited to see this Maybelline Color Show polish. I don’t normally stop to look for very […] Read more
The base colour of Beyond is not very summery; it’s a very dark grey … almost black but not quite. But it’s holographic, which absolutely is summery. Having said that, the sun isn’t out very much today, so I had to quickly grab a photo while I could. This polish is one of the 2013 […] Read more
I picked up four of the new 2013 Color Club Halo Hues at the recent Professional Beauty Show at ExCeL – the black, gold, blue and purple ones. It was the blue one that I really wanted, but they were so very holographic that I ended up buying four of the six. I don’t know […] Read more