Exposed in Mystic with Butter London The Black Knight

The nails I did tonight are a combination of two of my favourite polishes - Exposed in Mystic, and Butter London's The Black Knight:

To show you how different this purple looks in other lights! Daylight at the top, artificial at the bottom!

What I used:

• Sally Hansen Nailgrowth Miracle basecoat
• Exposed in Mystic (2 coats)
• Butter London The Black Knight (tips)
• Seche Vite topcoat

 
I'm so pleased with how these look. The tips were an after thought really, but I think it works!


What do you think?

Calvin Klein Electric Blue, Technic Mermaid...and The Dark Knight Rises...

 A couple of lovely blues to show you today! These are two polishes that my husband bought for me last weekend!

First up is Calvin Klein Electric Blue (I didn't even know Calvin Klein did polish...) It's a gorgeous colour, so bright:

This is two coats of the Electric Blue, with one coat of Seche Vite topcoat.


Next is a combination - this is two coats of Boots No7 Sing the Blues with two coats of Technic in Mermaid, with two coats of Seche Vite on top. I wore this to work today and about ten people commented on it! It really is mermaidy! (Yeah that's a word. Now.)

As always, it's virtually impossible to get a good picture of this sort of polish. It just makes the camera go mental.


The rest of my week was spent working, as ever, and seeing The Dark Knight Rises. It's one of the best films I've ever seen. Good enough that I had to mention it here! 


What do you think?

Barry M Mint Green, Navy, Racing Green

Hello everyone! I've been slacking at writing here! Nothing stops me from painting my nails though, so here are the last couple of days:

First up is Barry M Navy. What a colour! I had so many compliments on this one while I was at work!

Barry M Navy (2 coats, Seche Vite topcoat)

Barry M Navy (2 coats, Seche Vite topcoat)

The next one is Barry M Racing Green. Another lovely one. I really do love Barry M, they're so good. Such good quality too.

Barry M Racing Green (2 coats, Seche Vite topcoat)

Barry M Racing Green (2 coats, Seche Vite topcoat)

Finally, we have Barry M Mint Green with a bit of leopard Konad! It was a Barry M kinda week! I really do love them...

Barry M Mint Green (2 coats, Seche Vite topcoat)

Barry M Mint Green (2 coats, Seche Vite topcoat)

Oh and lastly, here's one of the very good things that I did this week - got a visit from my sister and her family! This is me, and my beautiful niece Keeley (complete with whiskers!)...

That's all for now! Out of curiosity, what's your favourite Barry M colour?

Barry M Aqua Glitter and Bourjois Rainbow Apparition

A couple of spangly manicures to show you tonight!

First up is Barry M Aqua Glitter:

 I layered the glitter over two coats of Barry M Blueberry Ice Cream here, mainly because I don't like using about 5 coats of glitter. It's a really lovely bright shiny colour. The only downside is that I got quite a bit of shrinkage, which is annoying because it really is pretty.


The next pictures are of Bourjois Rainbow Apparition (best name!) over two coats of Barry M Berry Ice Cream. This glitter is also packed with holo pieces which sadly don't show up in the pictures! This one is really lovely and I didn't see any shrinkage. The only downside to this one is the brush, which is supposed to be wide and flat, which I suppose might be nice to paint with if you have big nails beds, but my nails are really small and it means that I have to be so careful not to just make a mess. I don't like to have to clean up after I paint my nails and I don't normally have to, but this brush is tricky.

Daylight shot!

For both of these manicures I used Sally Hansen Nailgrowth Miracle basecoat and Seche Vite topcoat. The Barry M glitter soaked up two layers of Seche Vite to be smooth, and the Bourjois glitter only needed one.

I'm still wearing the Bourjois glitter now, it's lovely. I'm not going to pretend it was easy removing the Barry M one though...the foil came out!

What do you think?