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Ciate Power Dressing

I tried dotting some yellow and white flowers over my Barry M Sping Green manicure, but I just didn’t like the outcome, so took that off and decided that navy blue was the way to go. Ciate Power Dressing is a lovely shiny two-coater, that went on so well. I received the Ciate advent calendar […] Read more

L’Oreal Insolent Magenta

I don’t much like pink nail polish, but there are a few shades of pink that I am drawn to over and over again. Magenta is one colour I always love. This shade of magenta has something special to it though. This is L’Oreal Color Riche Insolent Magenta. It’s a bright fuschia pink that goes […] Read more

Barry M Denim

Picture this scenario that I was met with yesterday … My current manicure is ready to come off. I have about half an hour before I am due to receive a delivery that needs to be stored in my garage. The garage has a fiddly lock that typically wrecks my nails anyway, even if they’re […] Read more

Lincoln Square Lavender

If ever a polish was wrongly named, then it is this one. This is not lavender. It is pink. OK, so it errs on the more purpley side of pink (albeit the pictures don’t show that at all well – my nails look full on Barbie pink looking at the pics!), but lavender to me […] Read more

Grey gradient nails

I was loving my snowflake nails, but they chipped. Typically I just re-paint the chip and all is good, but because it’s the weekend, and we are stuck in with builders sorting out our hallway floor, I have plenty of time today to do a new manicure. Sometimes it takes me an age to decide […] Read more

L’Oreal Cafe St Germain … and a repair to a broken nail

I woke up this morning with wrecked nails. Yesterday’s manicure had come off (OK, I had picked it off), but worse than that, I had a broken nail. I was having too much of a good time (and too much to drink!) and caught my hand on someone else, breaking off the top of the […] Read more