NerdLacquer Warrior Ethos

Hope you are all having a lovely long weekend!

We actually had some sunshine here so I took a drive down to the coast to see some friends which was awesome, it's so great to have time out to see friends you can't see often.

Anyway, I managed (somehow) to snag 2 Nerds at Amanda's last restock, and Warrior Ethos was one of them. To be honest I'm not a huge red person but this was one of two left in my cart by the time I checked out and I am oh so glad it was.

NerdLacquer Warrior Ethos is part of the Star Trek collection and it is described as a shimmering true red with red, sipper, opalescent and black glitter. Well I'm telling you right now that all of that mixed together equals sheer utter perfection.

As I said I'm not a huge red fan, and if you haven't been fortunate enough to gets your hands on some Nerds you might be wondering if they are worth all hype and insanity at restocks. Well, I think they absolutely are. This polish is just sheer perfection, it has all the squishiness of a jelly and the depth of opalescent glitters. I'll let the pictures do the talking, these swatches were taken with just 2 coats and a layer of HK Girl topcoat. I hated to take it off and I know one day I'll get my hands on some more. In the meantime you'll just have to drool over this.....

NerdLacquer can be purchased at Amanda's own shop www.nerdlacquer.com, Ninja Polish and Harlow & Co. Just beware, they sell out in about 10 seconds!
x

IsaDora Silver Sky Gradient

So Easter is almost upon us and I don't know about you but where I am the weather just doesn't reflect that at all! Anyway, I did this mani a little while ago and even though I'm still wearing winter shades I thought I'd post something to lift our spirits a bit.

So this is a mani with a base of IsaDora Silver Sky with a gradient of Color Club Jingle Jangle from the gorgeous Mistletoe collection and a hint of Girly Bits Hippity Hop for good measure. This mani was so sparkly, I just adore it!

In case you haven't come across IsaDora as a brand they are a Swedish make up brand that do some awesome polishes. I first came cross them when looking at Coewless Nail blog which you can see here.  This girl is awesome and literally made me want every IsaDora, luckily I have a polish friend in Sweden so she has done a few little hauls for me. You can find them on the web if you look hard enough, Amazon UK has them and I have seen them in Ireland but beware they are a tiny 6ml bottle so they end up being quite pricey (on Amazon the price is £7.95 each).

Personally I think if you love a colour then it is worth it. I got a back up of Silver Sky when it was discontinued a few months ago but I'm sure there will be some kicking around somewhere to be had.

Guess what I got in the post yesterday?? NERDS. I'll show you tomorrow. x

Zoya Valerie

Today I have a simple yet so elegant polish to show you, Zoya Valerie.

I was lucky enough to receive this from one of the amazing girls in my birthday group, given how hard and expensive Zoya is to come by in the UK this was a real treat!

Zoya Valerie is from the Fire and Ice collection and is described as a royal purple, dark violet, red, deep pink and gold iridescence amplified by a glittering sparkle finish. Well I'm not sure exactly what that means but I do have to say that Valerie is everything she promised to be in the bottle and more. I adore this polish, I wore her alone for 3 days and was sad when she eventually chipped and I had to take her off.

For this mani I used 2 coats of Zoya Valerie and one coat of HK Girl topcoat. If you don't already own her I highly suggest you grab her soon, she's such a classy gal!

x

OPI Liquid Sands Get Your Number

Hello lovelies!

So today I have one of the Liquid Sands from the OPI Mariah Carey collection to show you. OPI have plans to release another collection of Liquid Sands later on in the year based on the Bond collection, and along with Zoya, Barry M, possibly Orly and China Glaze later in the year it looks like these textured polishes are the big thing!

I personally have only bought the Mariah Carey ones and one of the Zoya Pixie Dusts, I like them because they have quite a lot of sparkle, and also because they have me intrigued. I really thought I'd hate the texture but to be honest it's fine and after a day I top coated it because I get bored easily and a few layers of topcoat really give a different look.

For this mani I used 2 coats of get Your Number and that was it. Very easy and very effective. I couldn't capture how sparkly this mani was but if I were to buy only one textured polish I think this would be it. It was beautiful!

I removed it after 3 days with no problem at all, it came off the nail almost like a creme with really minimal effort.

What do you think of the texture craze??

After a day I fancied a different look so added a layer of Gelous and a layer of HK Girl. The topcoat really allowed those holo glitters to shine. my husband even complained when I took it off!

Look at the holo glitters!!

x

Nails Inc Leather Effects Old Compton Street

So, it's that time again..... Sunday evening. It's been snowing here all weekend so today I stayed in with my husband, ate nice food, drank hot drinks and it all felt very christmassy Hmm, it's March I thought....

Anyway I also did some swatching which I will show you this week. What I have today is another Nails Inc Leather effect polish, this time it's the grey one named Old Compton Street.

After swatching the red Leather Effect, Shoreditch Lane (which you can see here), I think I had determined these really aren't my thing but I got this one in a drop of an auto-delivery programme from QVC so I thought I'd swatch it for you.

I used 2 coats for this swatch and I think this formula was a little thinner than the red one which made it easier to work with. I'm still not sure they look like leather to me and personally if I'm going for the textured effect I'm going to use a liquid sands but that's just me.

What do you think?