There's no Place Like Home

Hello!
Its been a while yeah? Urghhh that's all I'm going to say...I've had the Mother of all coldy fluey things this week that just won't go and I've only now started to function, and blog, again.

The photos of this look aren't fantastic (the sun wasn't cooperating that day) but this manicure was captivating and I couldn't stop staring at the shimmery blood red of it. It reminded me so forcibly of the ruby slippers that I had to include it in this post. I wonder whether if i click these magical nails together 3 times they will take me home so I don't have to get the train?

This look was created by layering a sheer red transparent jelly polish over a bold gold glitter. The only thing I wasn't keen on was the texture as the glitter obviously made it bumpy. After these photos I added about 100 coats of topcoat!

Its maddening that the camera makes these look like simple red glitter! in reality The jelly over the glitter gives much more depth and a subtle shimmer but with plenty of colour punch that you rarely get from one polish with glitter suspended. Ah well you will have to try for yourselves and see. xx H

The polishes were nails inc. Victoria (which is a really shiny blood red jelly and is lovely on its own) and Shelton street (a very opaque brassy gold glitter)

Khaki Leopard... Grrr

Grace Woodward started this one off, so blame her. One week, I don't know which because maddeningly I can't find a picture of this online, on BINTM Grace woodward wore a khaki green dress with neon Orange eye-shadow. I'm not gonna lie, It made a deep impression on me. So weeks later and I received my new Bundle Monster nail stamping plates I ended up making this look inspired by Grace's popping neon orange and khaki combo.

Incidentally if anyone does know which look i'm talking about I would love to see it again. If only to make sure I didn't dream it.

The Colours I used for the look were: Khaki from urban outfitters ( the bottle doesn't have any other brand name on it) I got this colour and a few others at the weekend and I really like it. The formula is nice and thin and silky to apply, goes opaque in 2 coats and was on buy one get one free at Urban outfitters. They've run out of colours online but they look like this. For the leopard print I used Bundle Monster plate 221 and Nails Inc "Maple Street". I then applied the gold accent spots free hand using a kirbie grip and "pixie dust" by German nail brand Essence.

For the random Orange thumb I used Barry M "Block Orange" 027 and stamped the very Abercrombie looking stag in black with BM plate 214.

Hope you like!

xxx H