Red Eyes and Lilac/Glitter/Matte Nails.

Working my way through new nail polishes...

I have twenty five Illamasqua nail polishes as of last week. I plan on doing a collection post/summary of them at some point because they are clearly a big favourite of mine. I have plenty others from cheaper brands, too. I currently have over twenty untried polishes. Now, let me say this - I only buy polishes (and most make-up in general) when it's on offer. That way I can afford more. 

While I'm on the subject, I plan on doing a giveaway with some polishes I ordered yesterday, more details on this soon... 

Now, these days everytime I wash my hair I dye my fingernails blurple. Therefore I have already worn two different colours of polish this week. Saturday/Sunday/Monday morning I wore this - 

 Color Club Glitter Envy is a neon green jelly with glitter throughout. Because it's semi-opaque the glitter suspended in it looks more like little polka-dots than shiny glitter. I actually really like it, but don't think I'd want more than one, or even the whole collection... unless it was free. I got a few comments at work, mainly from customers, who didn't know whether to look at my hair or my nails first. It was fun!

And for the past two days I have worn Illamasqua Blow (creamy pastel yellow) with Essence nail twin glitter in Edward on top. It has tiny flecks of holographic glitter, small circular blue glitter and teal/turqouise chunky square glitter. It's just stunning, probably my favourite glitter top coat overall. Teals/blues/greens are still at the forefront of my mind. This Illamasqua yellow applies really easily, this was two thin coats. 

I suppose I like it as it is almost the exact shade I obtained from a discount shop (that's right, not even drugstore/highstreet... it was £1) when I was about 11. I used it for all over yellow nails or sometimes as the centres of daisies on lilac nails (what my friends called fried egg nails). Yeah. I had around 20 nail polishes then and I'm pretty sure my pre-teen buddies were all jealous. 

Maybe that's why I collect them so much at the minute...maybe I'll never get over the tastes I had as a schoolkid. I'm ok with that :) 

I made my first holographic franken today, which I plan on road-testing tomorrow. I couldn't bear to part with this particular manicure (in the above photo) today...mostly because glitter is a bitch to remove for me, even with acetone remover. Any tips?

Ruth x

Nails - trying out a new Illamasqua and a couple from Color Club

 I finally tried out Illamasqua Baptiste and I love it. It's more obviously blue than their other dark blue Propaganda, which sometimes looks black on me. The blue flecks catch the light even if they're not glittering (does that make sense?) and it sort of glows blue. It gives off blue vibes. I really loved it!

After a couple of days I got bored though and decided to add Color Club Covered in Diamonds. 

I got it from 8ty8beauty.com and delivery was super fast and amazing. I found this previously on ebay for about seven pounds plus postage, and I found it at other online nail supply shops in the UK for about 6.50 (plus postage). At 8ty8beauty they're three dollars. All the colours. Even with postage from the USA, this worked out cheaper. I got six colours - including postage this cost me just over £20. It was very good indeed.

It was a total nightmare to remove. Argh! But sort of worth it. 

Then I tried Color Club Wild at Heart, which didn't look as holo in the bottle as I had seen it in swatches online. Whatever. I had heard their polishes were getting less and less holo (there's not enough pigments to go around :( ) It still looked pretty...

Then yesterday it was quite sunny and the holo finally came out to play!

It's more of a scattered, orange dominated holo but I really loved wearing it. You could see all the colours of the rainbow, but it's still more subtle than my most holo-holo so far (which is OPI DS Sapphire). I also bought a couple of other supposedly holo polishes to try, including Color Club Worth the Risque and A-England Tristam. I'll post more about those when I've tried them out.

Bonus: more about my cats for those who asked. I only noticed this when I cropped it, but you can see Malcolm's head at the bottom (he is a black and white stray we took in from the streets about two years back). Isobelle is in my arm (one handed while I snapped this). She only tolerates Malcolm and hates all others, especially the tiny black cat that visits sometimes. She's so chubby and cuddly ^.^ We took her off the hands of a pregnant lady who had too many pets and couldn't cope around about exactly ten years ago. She was halfway between a cat and a kitten at the time, about six months old. So she's ten and a half.

/crazy cat lady.

Ruth x