Smitten Polish You're Turning Violet, Violet

I had never heard of Smitten Polish until Llarowe announced that she was going to carry it and people started posting pictures - I saw You're Turning Violet, Violet and knew I needed it!

You're Turning Violet, Violet is multiple sizes of various shades of purple and blue holographic glitter suspending in a purple jelly base. It is super sparkly and very pretty.

For this mani I used a base colour of A-England Avalon which I got in Adina's recent £5 sale and 1 coat of You're Turning Violet, Violet. I do think you could probably use this polish on it's own because it covered quite well but I wanted to save mine.

These pictures just didn't capture how sparkly this polish was,

If like me you live somewhere where you are sunlight challenged I wanted to show you that it is still pretty indoors too:

You can buy Smitten Polish from Noelie's Etsy store here or from Llarowe here

Olympic Braid Mani

It's still Olympic fever here in the UK and I was lucky enough to get tickets to see the quarter finals of the basketball. I thought I'd do a mani using Team GB colours and I've been seeing some awesome braid mani's so I thought I'd try one out! I used an awesome tutorial from Lucy's Stash which you can find here.

For this mani I used a base coat of OPI Into the Night. This is from the Spiderman collection, I really hadn't been too excited about this colour to be honest but when I put it on it is actually beautiful. The polish is almost lit from within if that makes sense. I might do another post about it later because it really is special. I then used OPI DS Radiance and A-England Percival for the braids. The OPI prowide brush was a little fat for this so when I do another one of these I think I'll use a different brand.

Anyway, I loved this mani so I hope you like it too.

Of course I thought you'd like to see some pictures at the basketball too so here you go!

Look how HUGE these guys are!!

We were lucky to get great seats and the French womens' basketball team came to watch their male counterparts - I guess in fact my mani ended up supporting France as GB weren't playing but look at the ladies nails - I was sneekily trying to take pictures.....

It was a great day and we even ended up on the Kiss Cam at half time! I'm going to be sad when it's all over although there's the paralympics to look forward to yet..... and we've got opening tickets!!

A-England Princess Tears

Untried Month is here!

Ok so one of the lovely ladies in my birthday group, Helen at Nail Newbie, came up with the idea of an untired month - the idea being to help us all get through the huge mountain of untrieds we all have!

So, between the 14th April and 14th May I will only be wearing my untrieds. Now, I almost didn't join in on this because at my work for half the week I can't wear polish which makes me sad, but then again for 4 days a week I can so YAY!

The first untried I have is A-England Princess Tears which I received from my lovely birthday group friend Tracy. I was super excited to receive this as I have a few other A-Englands and their formula is just amazing.

Princess Tears is from the A-England Legend collection. This is the second collection that the lovely Adina has released and it is awesome. This polish is a liliac scattered holo and I think it has a bit of a dupchrome going on. In some lights the pink is more noticable, in others it's more grey. It's a beautiful polish and I liked it enough to wear it for 3 days!

For this mani I used my normal base of OPI Nail Envy Maintenence and because I had just buffed my nails in an attempt to de-stain them I also used a thicker protective base coat which was Leighton Denny Under Cover.

This was 2 easy coats of Princess Tears, it has the same beautiful formula as the other A-Englands and a topcoat of Poshe, which didn't appear to affect the holo at all.

These pictures were taken in the sunshine:

As we in the UK don't often get sunshine to show off our holo's I thought you might want to see it in the shade too:

And in artifical light:

This is what your bottle should look like:

A-Englands can be purchased from the A-England website http://a-england.co.uk/ where i believe they offer free worldwide shipping!

Please have a look at some other untrieds from my birthday group ladies - they do awesome swatches:

Helen at Nail Newbie

Zoe at Obsessive Compulsive Nail Painting Disorder

Alyssa C at Polish Junkie Ninja

Ashley at One Nail To Another

Lexi at Finger Painted

Alyssa B at Fancy Phalanges

Nicole at Epitome of Superficiality