Recent NOTDs

Been a bit busy lately, thought I'd just nip past and show you one of my oldest nail polishes Gallery Cosmetics "Sea Green". Still works great, no thinning. I love it :) This is 3 coats. It's a frosty seafoam green with microglitter, but it doesn't pick up very well in photos... Go by bottle colour and glitteriness for this one.

And for today's NOTD, my lovely Hard Candy Just Nails "Lava". This is so smooth, so glittery and so amazing! It is very aptly named! This is 3 coats, it doesn't need it, but I wanted some more depth. I had to put on 2 coats of Megashine, it's a bit of a top coat eater. I really love this, I think I will have to start fishing for a second bottle! :)

NOTD: Isadora "Poppy Red"

This is an old favourite of mine, I think it might actually be part of the core collection for Isadora. I get these beauties from my mother from Sweden, I wish Isadora would come to the UK, as it's a great brand and has so many innovative products! My very first nail polish was an Isadora, and it was a plummy gothic looking thing.... I think it's in the stash somewhere still.. Now what was it called... I'll dig it out one day.

This is two coats with a cute nail sticker from a set I found in Boots today over Sally Hansen Nail Quencher base coat and a healthy dose of Sally Hansen MegaShine top coat. I also finally broke and bought the Pulse Perfection mascara from Maybelline. You can look forward to a review of that at the weekend!

I love this polish. It's one of those glowy pinks that just is both girlie, sexy and punky at the same time. Conjures dreams of cocktails under a parasol on a hot beach... I wish. Scotland + November = Rain, storm winds and icy cold. Oh well, a girl can dream... :)

Oh and I think that Zeke the evil beech will HATE this one :) Here's to your xmas parcel being devoid of pink, Zeke!

NOTD: Zoya "Richelle" nail art

So I found myself craving a graphic pattern manicure after fixing my boyfriends computer. I broke out my old gold favourite Zoya "Richelle" and my fave black Rimmel 60sec "Blackout". And a dotting tool! I forget how much I adore "Richelle" :)

This is two coats of each polish over Sally Hansen Nail Quencher with Sally Hansen MegaShine top coat.

NOTD: Sinful "Nail Junkie" layering

I love the name of this supremely sparkly teal polish! :) It is a bit sheer so I decided to layer over GOSH "Blue Monday". However, "Blue Monday" was also quite sheer to my dismay; I had to work 2 thick coats of it under "Nail Junkie". "Nail Junkie" is one coat only. Anyway it's hard to capture the super-sparkly nature of this layered manicure! I must've take 50 pics of each stage, but only these 2 photos turned out OK! This is with Sally Hansen MegaShine top coat and Nail Quencher base coat.

Please excuse the dry cuticles, I am back doing DIY and painting so my hands are incredibly dry at the moment, and I have two broken nails on my right hand. Oh well. Soon I will have everything done! :)

Oh yeah I meant to say - Essie "Angora Cardi" was on and looked great until Saturday when I started the DIY. Thats 5 days, people. I *love* "Angora Cardi" :D

NOTD: Essie "Angora Cardi"

I gotta say, this is an unlikely love of mine. No glitter or anything, and such a muted sophisticated colour! I just love it. This is from Essies winter collection "Cuddle with color", which is full of deep, dusty, cosy colours :)

This is 3 coats (3rd coat to cover dodgy Konad stamping...) over Sally Hansen Nail Quencher. The formula is nice and opaque, smooth as butter to apply. It dries very quickly to the touch. I added my Sally Hansen MegaShine over it to speed dry it so I could have some Tosca cake...

I am hoping this lasts til Friday night, although I am dying to try one of the swap polishes I got, Hard Candy "Lava"... Or Sinful "Nail Junkie" over the dark navy sparkler GOSH "Blue Monday"...

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Check out Scrangie you guys, she has the China Glaze Ooh Ahz collection swatches up!!! In true Scrangie style, they are perfect and oh so desirable... I can't wait to get my hands on these!

But I can't help but think I've already got a dupe for "Good Witch?". Check out my Retro NOTD...

And I might faint but this review of the Orly Metallic Matte "Glam rock" has some amazing photos that makes me instantly want to get it!

NOTD: Zoya "Veruschka" with China Glaze "Emerald Sparkle"

I finally got this polish - it wasn't easy to wait so long :) My heart started beating as soon as I saw the comment on my post for Zoya "Posh". It's amazing!! :) I did have this idea of putting on diagonals of China Glaze "Emerald Sparkle" :)

I use base coat with mattes as I am paranoid about staining. I used Sally Hansen Nail Quencher here, I think any shiny base coat would work, but I've got a limited supply to try. I will probably get chipping tomorrow but I don't care, the end result is worth it.

This is 2 coats of "Veruschka" over Sally Hansen Nail Quencher with one layer of "Emerald Sparkle" on the diagonals topped with Sally Hansen MegaShine top coat on the diagonals. Please excuse the messy tips, matte polishes are so fast-drying that they tend to clump up the brush a bit which makes painting a bit of a pain.

I'm off to pick out something green from my wardrobe for tomorrow!! :)