I’ve seen a number of manicures where stripes have been teamed with vintage roses, and I’ve pinned many of them on my Pinterest board that I use for saving manicures that I want to try to recreate. Pretty much all of the nails I’ve ever seen seem to be of the Cath Kidston variety, with […] Read more
I’ve had some fairly bright or noticeable colours on my nails recently: bright blue, red, mint green. So I was craving a more neutral look. This dusky rose pink from L’Oreal, called Boudoir Rose, is perfect. It would be a great colour to wear to work too, especially if your employers only allow subtle manicures. […] Read more
I own 11 different pillar box/London bus plain reds. Four of these I’ve not yet tried. But so far, L’Oreal Rouge Cancan and Revlon All Fired Up have been my favourites. Rimmel Double Decker Red doesn’t quite beat either of those for me. It’s a lovely colour and the application of the polish is great, […] Read more
I wanted to jazz up yesterday’s manicure a bit. Green really isn’t my favourite colour, and although I liked my nails, I didn’t like them enough to leave them plain. So I added some gold glequins (I still think they should be called hexaquins!). I’ve only added them to my ring fingers, as accent nails, […] Read more
I don’t own very many green polishes; green just isn’t a particularly favourite colour of mine. But as it was coming up to St. Patrick’s Day, I thought I might try a relevant manicure. I’m not Irish, but my husband is half Irish (although born and raised in England, so doesn’t particularly feel Irish). So […] Read more
It was announced this week that Google Reader is going to be retired. I was really disappointed with this and signed a petition to try to keep it. I expect that Google won’t be reversing its decision though, however many signatures the petition gets (it’s at 115k as I write) so I looked around for […] Read more
I bought this polish quite a few months ago now, and loved it so much I thought I would wear it straight away. But I bought it near the beginning of my polish obsession, when I was buying so much polish it seemed I’d never wear all of it! (And that still seems quite a […] Read more
We’ve started this as a new feature on the British Nail Bloggers Facebook group I belong to. Basically, once a fortnight (or so), each of us that wants to take part answers some questions on nails or blogging. Then we all link into each others’ posts. So, this is the first feature and is all […] Read more
Despite some great feedback on a Facebook group I belong to, I really didn’t like Sally Hansen Ion on me – it was just too light. But it was perfect as a base for some nail art. I wasn’t sure what to do, so thought I’d try something completely new to me – using a […] Read more
I wasn’t going to take my colour blocked manicure off so soon, but something made it really soft (doing the washing-up, I think!) and it easily peeled off a nail or two. OK, so I’ve stretched the truth here a bit. It didn’t so much peel as *was* peeled – I’m a consummate picker! Sally […] Read more