Disco Tiger

It's the return of the stupid mani names! Just what are you supposed to call these things? Personally I like giving them silly names, makes it more fun :P and so we have Disco Tiger!

You may notice that the corner of my ring finger nail has snapped off. Oops! The perils of having square (squoval?) nails!

I used colours from the Color Club Take Wing collection - top to bottom: Fly With me, Wing Fling, Sparkle and Soar, Daisy Does It. I then used Konad plate M57 to stamp the tiger print, using Konad special polish. I finished with a top coat of ORLY Sec 'n' Dry. 

I love this mani, I want to wear it forever! It may be a little too loud for the office though :P have a good weekend everyone!

GOSH Galaxy - Swatches

Hi! I have one of the new GOSH polishes today, although I'm sad to say it's one of those that looks better in the bottle. I still like it, and I think it'll make a nice base for some stamping ideas I have, but the bottle paints a much prettier picture. It's also nothing like the promo pictures suggest! Oh well!

It seems to be an almost black, metallic base with shimmery blue and gold particles, and there's also some green in there somewhere (the green barely seemed to show up in my pictures though) It's completely different depending on the light source.

Natural light - 

Direct sunlight -

You can see the pretty particles here (click to enlarge)

The formula was great and it was opaque in two coats, though a little prone to bald spots so you may need an extra coat. I'm not terribly impressed with it but it's nice enough for me to want to keep.

I heart Jade

Hi! Today's post can be filed under "almost fail" because the stamping didn't work out too well. Stamping is difficult with such stupidly long nail beds, if you don't line it up JUST right, the design won't cover my nail (it's a particular pain with my ring finger) and my nails are insanely curved. Plus I'm just not great at stamping anyway! It's still pretty though, especially if you don't look too closely!

I used Models Own Jade Stone and Snow White for the bases, Konad Special Polish white to stamp over Jade Stone, and Jade Stone to stamp over Snow White. However, JS doesn't make a good stamping polish!  Nevermind. 

The heart design is from BM plate 317.

It still got a compliment when I was buying polishes in TK Maxx! 

a-england Perceval and Lady of The Lake - Swatches

Before I start, my blog has a slightly new look. I just had to go for the pink, I couldn't help myself. I also made some social media buttons for the sidebar. What do you think?

Moving on...

I know that everybody has heard of a-england by now because they're very popular (and rightly so!) but I love my e-englands so much I just had to swatch them. First we have Lady of The Lake and Perceval, of The Mythicals collection, which I recently got in the Mythical Fair sale.

Click the jump for the post!

Gradients and Lasers

Hello! Happy August! This is my birthday month. Bitter sweet...I like Birthdays but I don't like getting older. Sigh! Is anyone bored of gradients yet? I'm not, and I doubt I ever will be! Today I did another, with a laser accent nail.

I used Models Own Mystic Mauve for the base colour, then I sponged on Models Own Black Magic using a make-up sponge (the best way you will ever find to do this is shown here) 

For the accent nail I applied strips of striping tape and painted over with the black before removing the tape. Easy! I finished with a top coat of ORLY sec 'n dry. 

My one year blog Anniversary (blogiversary?) is coming up on the 12th, so I'm going to try and have a giveaway for that.