In which I blather about nails again
I had a play with various types of mani this week, where I did a different style for each nail but with the same colours (the BN nail bloggers have a word for this, but middle age has eaten my memory for names, so). EDIT: poisontaster to the rescue, it's a skittles manicure!
This is three shades of L'Oreal shimmer polish, Nos. 277, 415 & 315.
Can I just take one second to brag about how I ROCK LEOPARD-PRINT NAILS LIKE A FRICKIN' BOSS!! *fistpump* ...before I wince at how bad the other nails are? The plastic-wrap scumble on the middle finger isn't bad (I like the effect, just not with this combination of colours), and the dotting is sort of barely okay, and I have some proper dotting tools on the way which will probably improve my accuracy. But the tape stripes are just horrible, and the cloud mani is all squared-off rather than pretty cloud-like curves. I need practice. Lots of practice. And we won't mention how much work my clean-up needs, okay? Okay.
And despite having taken delivery of new polish yesterday (Avon fuchsia glitter topcoat and Green Morph duochrome), I just blew more money on polish online. Indie glitter polish, to be exact. Twilight Sky (purple, blue and fuchsia glitter) and Harvest Moon (hexes and glitter in beautiful warm autumn colours) by GlimmerbyErica at Etsy. I'm blaming Chalkboard Nails, because she just keeps posting pictures of all these fucking gorgeous indie glitters, and I had to see what the fuss was all about, right? AND NOBODY ELSE IN ENGLAND WILL HAVE THEM, SO THAT'S AS GOOD AS HAVING A UNIQUE CUSTOM POLISH! No, I'm not trying to justify myself, I'm a grown woman with disposable income. *ahem*
Also, I've just found a UK company, Tiffany's Nail Supply, that sells American polishes like Zoya and OPI for really reasonable prices - they're wholesalers mainly aiming at pro nail salons, but there doesn't seem to be anything to stop an individual from buying in small quantities from them. They're actually based in my city, but it looks like they only do online sales (I might email them to check, though, because how much fun would it be to go browse their high-hundreds of stocked polishes in person??). JUST WAIT TILL I GET MY WAGES FOR DECEMBER. Given that I've never seen a Zoya polish I didn't like, this may get vairrrry expensive.
This is three shades of L'Oreal shimmer polish, Nos. 277, 415 & 315.
Can I just take one second to brag about how I ROCK LEOPARD-PRINT NAILS LIKE A FRICKIN' BOSS!! *fistpump* ...before I wince at how bad the other nails are? The plastic-wrap scumble on the middle finger isn't bad (I like the effect, just not with this combination of colours), and the dotting is sort of barely okay, and I have some proper dotting tools on the way which will probably improve my accuracy. But the tape stripes are just horrible, and the cloud mani is all squared-off rather than pretty cloud-like curves. I need practice. Lots of practice. And we won't mention how much work my clean-up needs, okay? Okay.
And despite having taken delivery of new polish yesterday (Avon fuchsia glitter topcoat and Green Morph duochrome), I just blew more money on polish online. Indie glitter polish, to be exact. Twilight Sky (purple, blue and fuchsia glitter) and Harvest Moon (hexes and glitter in beautiful warm autumn colours) by GlimmerbyErica at Etsy. I'm blaming Chalkboard Nails, because she just keeps posting pictures of all these fucking gorgeous indie glitters, and I had to see what the fuss was all about, right? AND NOBODY ELSE IN ENGLAND WILL HAVE THEM, SO THAT'S AS GOOD AS HAVING A UNIQUE CUSTOM POLISH! No, I'm not trying to justify myself, I'm a grown woman with disposable income. *ahem*
Also, I've just found a UK company, Tiffany's Nail Supply, that sells American polishes like Zoya and OPI for really reasonable prices - they're wholesalers mainly aiming at pro nail salons, but there doesn't seem to be anything to stop an individual from buying in small quantities from them. They're actually based in my city, but it looks like they only do online sales (I might email them to check, though, because how much fun would it be to go browse their high-hundreds of stocked polishes in person??). JUST WAIT TILL I GET MY WAGES FOR DECEMBER. Given that I've never seen a Zoya polish I didn't like, this may get vairrrry expensive.