NOTD: Zoya "Yasmeen"

So this one is for Zeke the evil beech - she requested eggplant/aubergine, but Zoya "Yasmeen" is as close as I get! This is a gorgeous polish, it is dark purple with a strong pink duochrome. Absolutely stunning in daylight, but here we will have to suffice with a daylight lamp as it's nearly dark already when I get home in the winter. Please excuse the slightly blurry photo, but it's the best way to illustrate the deep shimmery glow of this polish :)

This is 2 coats over Sally Hansen Diamond Strength with Sally Hansen MegaShine top coat. It's smooth to apply but slightly runny. This has got to be one of my top tens, it's just so glowy and pretty while still being totally unique! I've worn this before but I didn't take photos of it!

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NOTD: MAC "Baby goth girl"

This weekend was a busy one - yesterday I got up at 4.20am to go and watch the pink-footed geese, and we had a great view of the simultaneous lift of thousands of birds! Amazing stuff! :) I then took the train to Edinburgh to meet my friend Weebie, and we cleaned out the last couple of bottles of "Baby goth girl" in the MAC counter in Harvey Nichols! Unfortunately, they didn't have the Mineralize Eye Shadow "Young Punk", so that is still on my Xmas wish list! I didn't get home til about 10pm, but it was a great day out! Today was spent tidying up the house and putting more stuff away, so I really needed a cool manicure for the Monday morning blues...

The formula is great, very smooth and opaque. This is two coats of "Baby goth girl" over Sally Hansen Diamond Strength base coat and Sally Hansen MegaShine. It's hard to capture in artificial light, so I will try and get a nice photo tomorrow if the sun is out. It has a black-purple base and a pink tinge with purple flakey bits. Sadly enough it's not as purple on the nail as it is in the bottle, but it's still cool. In some lights it looks just black, but in the sun it truly comes to life! I will try and get a better photo tomorrow.

NOTD: Sinful Color "Show me the way" with nail art

So I was feeling I needed some mossy green goodness for my weekend so I unpacked my entire stash and decided on this beauty - Sinful Color "Show me the way". It has got to me up there in my top ten of all time nail polishes :) Sorry for the crappy picture, for a more accurate show of the glimmer and colour of this polish see my old NOTD.

This is 3 coats over Sally Hansen Diamond Strength base coat and then the little gems (fairly irregular in size but I've got thousands of them so I can pick away the bad ones) and then Sally Hansen MegaShine top coat.

I'm off to bed as I am up in the crack of dawn to watch migrating geese, then I'm off for an afternoon of shopping to Edinburgh with my friend Weebie! Hopefully I will have some goodies to show you tomorrow!

WOW!

Just looking around for stuff that would help my (still) suffering foot, I came across these Crocs "Powder". OMG. I soooooo want a pair!!

ANNIVERSARY: My 300th Post!!

Hello 300 mark!

It only seems like yesterday I started blogging. Thank you to all the wonderful (and Zeke the evil beech too!) people who stop past and comment on my ramblings all the time, you guys rock! :)

So tonight I made an extra-special manicure for my 300th Post - China Glaze "Wagon Trail" with Nfu-Oh #49 over it. It has a real depth to it but unfortunately my special spot was not so useful for picking up the shimmer and shine.

Hope you enjoy the photo anyway and hopefully by tomorrow night I can finish sorting out my stuff in my new "home office/laboratory" and get back to writing for all of you!! I've some exciting stuff coming up!

NOTD: GOSH "Metallic Green"

It's been really stormy here at the weekend, with sunshine and gusts up to 55mph. I've taken this as an opportunity to be inside and frantically been trying to clear all my stuff from the move now that all the cupboards and wardrobes are operational. I decided to cheer myself up with a nice green manicure for tomorrow :)

This is part of GOSH's metallic polishes; I've got green, blue, lilac, gold and silver. I didn't manage to do a very good job of this, sorry about that. Also if you have less than perfect nails, metallic colours will be cruel in showing every flaw (mine took a serious hit a few months back when I broke four nails on my photogenic hand hence the horizontal ridge halfway across). However this is only one coat of polish over Sally Hansen Diamond Strength 2-in-1 base coat. Low maintenance nails if there ever were :) It dries in about ten-fifteen minutes, and don't be tempted with top coat - it will ruin the finish of metallic polishes. These polishes are all satiny, mirror-like in appearance and dry so quickly you won't need a speed-dry top coat. However the formula is a bit runny and makes for a bit of tricky application; the polish pools very easily and leaves some brush marks. "Metallic Green" is very similar to China Glaze "Cherish".

I think I've found my "spot" now for taking pictures of nail polish. This is a lot better than some recent photos (save the poor application and ridged nails!). I will need to carry out some shots of different finishes and see how it goes!

Lina-Elvira Loves It Thiiiis Much:

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NOTD: ModelsOwn "Pink Explosion"

This is the brightest polish I've seen in a while! It's a bit like Misa "Bikini with a martini" on crack - it's highlighter pen neon coral pink with gold (or it could be orange) glitter. WOW!!! But it was a pain in the neck to photograph!! It took me 3 days to get the right picture and it doesn't show off the gorgeous glitter in this polish. The closest match to the colour on the nail is looking at the bottle. The polish is a bit thin on the pinkie, this is what one coats look like. It's only chipping a bit today, 3 days on :) That's decent in my book - most chip in less than 2 days on me!

I've not used ModelsOwn before, this is my first. New brands are always exciting! It applies a big goopy but is opaque in two coats, if you gloop it on a bit. It is large glitter hence a bit gritty on the nail so you need a thick layer of Seche Vite or similar as top coat. I love this polish - it's hard to dress around so I've been wearing a lot of black this week! :)

I got this in our new River Island store, I am too voluptous for most of their clothing, but I go in there for the accessories; their shoes, bags and jewellery is to die for! This polish cost me £4.99, which is a decent high street price. They had mostly creme neonish colours which didn't appeal to me but "Peacock Green" caught my eye, but I have lots of peacock duochromes already so I saved my pennies for something else!

Lina-Elvira Loves It Thiiiis Much:
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