NOTDs from Nailbarone

After a successful time shopping for all manners of lovely stuff such as Culpeper soaps, exclusive cat toys and luxurious knitting yarn from Noro in York, we arrived at walk-in nail bar Nailbarone on Swinegate. After amusing ourselves for about ten minutes watching the 'assembly line' style nail service and perving on the shelves of OPI, Essie and China Glaze polishes on sale, it was time for our shape and polish. I chose the dark dusty seafoam green beauty "Going Incognito" and my pal Rachy went for the blood-red killer creme "Up's".

After washing our hands, the hands were smothered with luxuries hand cream and any old nail polish was removed. The nails were then shaped by filing. After that a coat of Nailtiques base coat went on, then the coats of polish was meticulously applied (no clean-up required!!) and it was sealed with a generous slick of Seche Vite top coat. We love these manis! I fell for "Going Incognito" so badly, I came home with a bottle for my stash...

In a sort of assembly line up to six clients was serviced at the same time by 3 nail technicians! I was very impressed with the super-neat and speedy service, and for less than £10 per person! We have been admiring our super-shiny nails while having a home-made curry and playing "Residen Evil" on the Wii with red wine! :) And tomorrow we are off to IKEA! Woohoo! But now I have to drink my coffee and cuddle Rachy's white kitty and watch some TV before bed!

Knitting on the train...

As the train has been mega-busy, I have knitted away squeezed up in a corner so I've not got very fast and the tension is all off... But it passes the time...

Cute story!

Usually Aberdeen does not have a lot of good stories in the press, but this story of a robin and a supermarket is just that - a feel good story! :)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-12276087

I am off to York for the weekend and it looks like it may be walk-in manicure day tomorrow while shopping so stay tuned :D

NOTD: Isadora "Pink Cadillac"

Feeling a not better but still very tired. So I chose a pink polish - or so I thought! In indoor light its grey-lilac, in this photo slightly mauve-pink and in outdoor light pink??

This is 2 sloppy costs with top coat (too tired to tidy it up). Kind of stringy formula but it had a kind of self levelling quality. I would love it if Isadora decided to break into the UK market, if only for online sales...

Anyway I'm off again, busy installing drivers onto my resurrected desktop pc... :)

Hey guys...

..check out LACQUERLAINE'S BEST OF 2010! It's a roll of the most glorious polishes of the past year and it certainly cheered me up :D

Comparison: Nails Inc "Denim" and "Hanover Square"

Please find above bottle comparisons for these polishes - they are indeed dupes.... Oh I really wish I'd gone for "Heather Grey" instead!

NOTD: Nails Inc Diet Coke Exclusive "Denim"

Sorry I've not been around lately, I came down with a stomach bug last Wednesday and I am still signed off sick as it has not improved... Very run down and waiting for test results to come back. Ugh... Anyway, onto today's story - when I went to Boots to get some more rehydration salts on Tuesday I spotted this years Diet Coke limited edition Nails Inc polishes, a free bottle with purchase of 2 Diet Coke 500ml! If you're quick you there may still be some polishes left!

I chose this one, but in hindsight I should've gone for the "Heather Grey", as they will probably be sold out by the time I get back there and "Denim" may be a little bit too close to the old, now discontinued Nails Inc "Hanover Square" of which I have 2 bottles... I will do some comparisons in daylight tomorrow.

This, I kid you not, is 1 coat with NO top coat. I am not joking. The formula on this is AMAZING!!! Just what I needed right now. That, and those juicy blueberries in the background. Now if I could only get my hands on "Heather Grey". I have a feeling it will be a lighter version of Essie "Angora Cardi", one of my top ten faves of all time. For the nostalgic of us, here is my top pick from the Diet Coke exclusives last year - "London".