LA Girl Textured Sandy Nails

Another catch up post here.  This time from October 2013!  My nails were longer and in good health, not the state they are in at present.

Anyway, what can I say, I know the view on textured polish is split, you either like it or you don't - well I like it, in fact I loved this one on my nails.  I am wearing LA Girl Sand Blast Textured polish.  I love the neutral shade of the sandy colour against my skin tone, and the glitter one, it looked and felt like I had little gold grains on my nails, how decadent.  I have worn the red textured shade from LA Girl here and still have a few to wear, but I have to say this combination is by far my favourite.

 

Items Used:
OPI Nail Envy
LA Girl Sand Blast Textured Nail Polish - Sands of Time - Gold
and Sandstorm - Beige

GOT Polish Challenge - Week 1 - PINK

I am taking part in the  (Golden Oldie Thursday) GOT Polish challenge this year as organised by Crumpet's Nail Tarts.
The aim of the challenge is that the polish used should be a least a year old. It should be previously used but if you are stuck you can use any untried polish. You can use more than one polish so long as it fits the theme.

So here is my first one of this challenge.  I have done an Ombre manicure using my OPI's.  Some I have used loads, some are untried.  All are well over 3 years old.

From thumb to pinky I used Make Love, Shorts Story, I'm Indi'a Mood for Love, It's Toe-tally Summer and one of my oldest OPI lacquers Vampire State Building.  I think VSB must be at least 7-8 years old if not older, the consistency was still perfect.

I hope I can keep up with this challenge, especially since it is only once a week.  I have a load of untrieds and lots of favourite shades that I have not used in a while, hopefully this will help bring them out again.

Make sure you check out the other fabulous bloggers who are also taking part in this challenge.

A Rosy Skittlette

Well the Christmas Holidays are over and it was back to work/school today.  Though I was not looking forward to getting up while still dark and having to endure all day at work, I thought I would wear a nice and breezy manicure to cheer me up.

I was all set to go, but finding all my stuff was not easy.  My daughter had had a clear out for the Christmas hols and things were everywhere.  I found the box I was after, got out the things I needed, went to put the box back, it slipped and did not want to go back in its place and I ended up snapping the whole of my index nail (which I might add I had been gluing together for the best part of about 3 weeks). I also broke an edge of my middle finger.  So they are even shorter than before.

But personally I think the design I have on is much better on these shorter nails, so I won in the end.
Anyway, onto the manicure, the top photo shows the skin still on my index finger, too painful to cut off so it had to stay.

...... in this picture I photo shopped the skin out.

Items Used:
China Glaze - Agent Lavender - for the base on nails from pinky to index
For the Roses I used Sinful Colors Easy Going, China Glaze Dance Baby and Nails Inc Shoreditch.  For the leaves I used OPI Don't Mess with OPI.
The glitter on the pinky is LA Girl Rockstar Overdose.
On the thumb I used CG Dance Baby, taped it off with striping tape and did a coat of CG AL.
Topped it all off with a coat of SV and voila.

MoYouNails Nella Milano One Coat Nail Polish Review

My first review yayyyyy :)

I was recently contacted by MoYouNails on behalf of OMG Marketing who are the manufacturers of  Nella Milano and MoYou Nails.  As you can imagine I was totally gobsmacked and thrilled.

Anyway they asked if I would be interested in choosing and reviewing 3 of their new one coat nail polishes which are made in Italy.

Well I jumped at the chance.

I set about and perused their site here and chose these 3 lovely beauties (with my daughters help).

These are from left to right - Lilac, Desire Red and Turquoise.

I must point out that these are as true to colour as I could get them.  The weather here in the UK today has been appalling!  Bright and sunny one minute and black as night the next.  It started off bright and sunny and with each swatch it got darker and darker. But I think I have managed to capture the correct shade and colour.

These are lovely 9ml bottles of polish and they have a beautiful wide brush that applies the polish wonderfully on the nail.

This first one is Lilac.  This first picture is one coat and unfortunately you can still see VNL.  But this could be due to the fact that I have quite opaque nail tips but I think you would definitely need two coats of this shade.  

This second photo shows two coats and I would say this is more true to colour than the one coater.  It applied beautifully and as you can see in the first photo, even with just one coat it is smooth, no streaks at all. I love it on with two coats.  Both are without top coat and still shiny.

Onto shade number two -  Desire Red.   I love this colour.  In this picture it looks a bit on the pink side but it is a true red, this is one coat and if you were in a hurry, one coat of this and a quick dry top coat, you could be out the door in no time.

Now this second picture is two coats and definitely true to colour.  Doesn't it look gorgeous?  Again both are without top coat and look at the shine.

The final third one is Turquoise. Again like the other two applied beautifully even with one coat no streaks and a beautiful shine. Again you could easily get away with one coat and top coat.

This second photo is with two coats and no topcoat.  Look, again how it shines.

I love these polishes.  The formula has a wonderful consistency and the brush is lovely to paint with.  I would say however say that the paler shades would probably need two coats but the darker shades are a one coater.  I have not applied a top coat on these swatches and they were shiny.  I wish I had applied top coat, I can only imagine how much they would shine then.  


So, if you would like to own these or their other shades, pop on over to their site here to peruse and purchase.  

*These were sent to me for a review. *

Happy New Year 2014 and a little skittlette...

... my nails for the New Year of 2014.  Wishing anyone who reads this a happy, healthy and prosperous 2014.

This is my take on the skittlette  manicure as made popular by Chitchatnails here.  I used lacquer from my haul here, which I still have not filed!  The glitter is from my stash.
I used Sally Hansen Bittersweet - brown, Bandage - beige, Tahitian Sunset - coral, Nails Inc - Devonshire Street.
I am happy with the most part of it, just not the middle finger, I wish I had given myself more time and taped it rather than freehand painted.  Lesson learnt for next time.