Canvas ‘Will’s Alive’ manicure

Today I have ‘Will’s Alive’ by Canvas lacquer, an unusual polish and a stunning colour. It reminds me of tropical blue seas, don’t you think? in fact it doesn’t look quite real – if you know what I mean. I have embellished it with tiny stars from Born Pretty Store by setting them in clear polish. I love this colour and an added bonus is that it glows in the dark! Have a great week all!

Autumnal Holo Colours Mani

October is here, the leaves on the trees are changing colour, nights are rapidly drawing in, the clocks will soon go back and summer is now certainly a distant memory. With that in mind I wanted to use colours that have a strong Autumn vibe to them.

Here I have combined two polishes for each nail. We have:

Yellow: Potion Polish – Marvelous Maple Topped with il etait un vernis – Hello Sunshine

Purple: Leighton Denny ‘Raspberry Afair’ Topped with Tonic ‘The Answer is 42’

Blue/Green: Nails Inc ‘Gosfield Street’ Topped with ILNP ‘Interstellar’

Red: Nails Inc ‘Saville Row’ Topped with ‘New Burlington Place’

CBL Broadway Baby!

Howdy!

How beautiful is this limited edition polish ‘Broadway Baby!’ from Colours by Llarowe!?!

It is a multi chrome that shifts between royal blue, turquoise and purple.

Now my school uniform at middle school was royal blue and I hated it so much in fact that I haven’t worn that colour for years but this polish has changed my mind – with the colour shifts I found myself admiring it all of the time, I even had to be extra careful when I was driving as the colour would catch my eye when stopping at traffic lights etc and distract me – he he!

Believe me, if you love multi chrome shades, you need this in your life!

My all time favourite Nail Polish

Yes I own literally hundreds of polishes but this is just so beautiful that it hands down beats everything I own.

Tonic Polish – ‘Dragon Tears’

Made with a scattered holographic multitone pigment, the colour shifts through green, blue, purple, red & peach and even looks copper at some angles and also has a spattering of tiny silver holo micro glitter to finish off the look – not too many, just the perfect amount as to not dull the colour shift. The consistency is pretty thin so it flows on nicely and three coats result in a smooth, brushstroke free finish. I haven’t tried it yet, but I’m pretty sure that it would look equally stunning over black or a dark colour to create a different look.

If you haven’t come across ‘Tonic’ before I highly recommend that you check them out they have such unusual shades you will fall in love. They haven’t been around all that long – I believe that they started trading last year but it is my belief that they are definitely ones to watch!

INTRODUCING WANDERLUST BY ZOYA

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It’s time to embark on a new adventure in Summer color with Zoya Wanderlust. Featuring an exciting assortment of full-coverage classic creams and hip accent shades to really rev up your Summer nail polish wardrobe.

ZOYA WANDERLUST – SUMMER 2017 NAIL POLISH 

  • River (ZP898): a shimmering cobalt blue. 
  • Lois (ZP903): a rich magenta violet cream. 
  • Esty (ZP894): a muted fuchsia pink cream. 
  • Byrdie (ZP893): a rich bubble gum pink cream. 
  • Winnie (ZP895): a shimmering berry pink. 
  • Mandy (ZP899): a soft watermelon pink cream. 
  • Sonja (ZP892): a summery crimson red cream. 
  • Journey (ZP900): a shimmering strawberry red.
  • Cora (ZP896): a muted coral cream. 
  • Sawyer (ZP897): a soft taffy orange cream. 
  • Scout (ZP901): a shimmering moss green. 
  • Arbor (ZP902): a rich olive green cream.

*10 FREE FORMULA: FORMULATED WITHOUT FORMALDEHYDE, FORMALDEHYDE RESIN,
DIBUTYL PHTHALATE, TOLUENE, CAMPHOR, TPHP, PARABENS, XYLENE, ETHYL TOSYLAMIDE and LEAD.

ZOYA CHARMING COLLECTION – Spring 2017

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Spring arrives with six new nail colors from Zoya including three fresh creams and three dewy micro-sparkles. All in the long-wearing two coat, full-coverage, 10FREE* formula nail polish lovers love.

Jordan (ZP886): a soft blossom pink cream

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Abby (ZP887): a light lavender cream. zp887_abby_bottle_rgb

Tina (ZP888): a medium amethyst cream

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Millie (ZP889): a dewy violet micro-sparkle

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Lacey (ZP890): a light dewy green micro-sparkle

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Amira (ZP891): a soft dewy blue micro-sparkle

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 Available in the U.K from here

Enchanted Collection from Zoya

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Zoya have a new collection coming out soon – The Enchanted Collection. It is made up of four glittering Pixie Dust Mattes and two velvety colour flip metallics. Here are a few swatches of the colours available:

ELPHIE

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Green pixie: A bewitching emerald green with a sugary green sparkle in the exclusive Zoya PixieDust Matte Sparkle formula.

OLIVERA

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Green flip: A spellbinding color-flip metallic with an indigo base and a green and purple shift.

LORNA

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Plum pixie: A luscious berry with a sugary sparkle in the exclusive Zoya PixieDust Matte Sparkle formula.

WAVERLY

Sapphire pixie: A brilliantly deep sapphire blue with blue sparkles in the exclusive Zoya PixieDust Matte Sparkle formula.

I don’t currently have a swatch of this colour, but if one comes available from Zoya, I shall edit this post. You can see it in the group bottle shots above & below.

ALICE

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Periwinkle pixie: A captivating periwinkle with magenta and blue sparkles in the exclusive Zoya PixieDust Matte Sparkle formula.

SAINT

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Periwinkle flip: A whimsical color-flip metallic with a periwinkle base and magenta shift.

Which of these do you think you will be adding to your collection? I’ve particularly got my eye on ‘Lorna’.

*10 FREE FORMULA: FORMULATED WITHOUT FORMALDEHYDE, FORMALDEHYDE RESIN, DIBUTYL PHTHALATE, TOLUENE, CAMPHOR, TPHP, PARABENS, XYLENE, ETHYL TOSYLAMIDE and LEAD.

Emily de Molly ‘Tread Lightly’

It’s been a while since I’ve had on my nails a real textured polish packed with holo and sparkle – Well today I have for you – Emily de Molly ‘Tread Lightly‘ a beautiful sea blue/green full of  varying sized silver & purple glitter dots & pink & purple smaller hex glitters. I love the way the glitters appear differently after each layer – I used three thin coats here and the crelly formula really helps it come to life.

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It required a good couple of coats of top coat to even out the surface but was a fun polish to wear although I must say, although I love it in the bottle, it didn’t really suit me when I had it on.

You can buy it here

You can also see their other shades on the Facebook page here