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The Lazy 15: Favourite Colour

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Hullo again. And I’m back for Manicure No 6 of 15 which is favourite colour.

Now I have a general favourite colour. You know, the colour that you buy pens in, the colour that you’ll select a toothbrush in, your hole punch, your post it notes. And for me that is purple. I love purple. And I own quite a few purple nail polishes.

However, when it comes to nail polish purple is not, as it turns out, my favourite colour. I like it on my nails. Enjoy it even. But for whatever reason, it is grey polish that I seem to enjoy wearing the most. Greys of all hues, from the silvers through to the charcoals. And I love a simple grey creme too. Dunno why, just something about the colour that seems to suit my pale pinky white freckled skin. So in homage to my love of grey polish, I’ve tried to do a mani using a number of greys.

Lazy 15 – Favourite colour mani

Unfortunately when I was rubbing some cuticle oil into my fingers I’ve somehow managed to twist the polish on my ring finger. Those lines were straight I swear:(. I should have done it again but I was running out of time. Plus ‘warts and all’ remember. So here we are.

Lazy 15 – Favourite colour mani

First we have a further attempt at a marble manicure using China Glaze Recycle, Chemistry (Ozotic) 509, China Glaze Pelican Grey over undies of China Glaze White on White. I was actually pretty surprised that I wanted to try marbling again quite so soon. It worked ok expect I should have used grey undies as I taped too close to my cuticles and lost some edging of the mani when I was removing the tape. Next is Contrary Polish Purple Smoke with two coats of The Hungry Asian Mumbling which is the loveliest mix of silver glitter. My ring finger is Purple Smoke on the base with stripes of The Hungry Asian Zera Grey over the top. Finally on my little finger is Manglaze Fuggen Ugly with a tip of Layla Flash Black.

Lazy 15 – Favourite colour mani

Again sorry for muffing up the stripped mani. It looked good before I managed to bugger it up. But even so I was quite happy with my efforts having never tried such a mixture of techniques before.

So there you go, my efforts at showcasing my favourite polish colour, grey:).

To check out the work of the other lovely lacquerheads doing this challenge with me, please click on the following links as each of these lovely girls have the inlinkz details for each blogger at the bottom of their posts:

http://phoenixnails28.blogspot.com.au

http://nails4dummies.blogspot.com.au

Until next time,

xx


A England – Bridal Veil: queue jumper extraordinaire

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The A England adoration continues….:)

Sorry for the lack of updates. I’m away in Hobart for the week telecommuting for my job from my parents’ dining room table. My mother fell and broke her hip about four weeks ago and has been in hospital until today. So I came down to Hobart where my parents live to just be about for the week and to help out with cooking and cleaning etc. So I won’t be posting much at all this week. If I get desperate I’ll spam myself with iPhone pics of my nails:) So apologies in advance for that. I felt like I was just starting to get on a role with the blogging thing and now this. But oh hey, this is just a bit of fun after all.

Anyway, shortly after I posted swatches of A England Lady of the Lake I ordered another couple of A England polishes, including this one – Bridal Veil. It arrived with a few other polishes, including my (latest) Cult Nail purchases and it was a beauty.

I may be a complete knob-end but I tend to nut out what I’m going to wear next in advance…not all the time but a lot of it. Anyway I had my next mani planned until I saw Bridal Veil. It’s what I like to call a queue jumper. Well ok, that term is possibly a little harsh since, in the Australian media at least, it’s a term used disparagingly and rather unfairly against illegal immigrants and boat people. I don’t mean it in any pejorative sense here. Simply that Bridal Veil was shimmering away subtly with the finest multitude of micro sparkles and that was enough. I was sold.

A England – Bridal Veil

A England – Bridal Veil

A England – Bridal Veil: I love that this pic shows the multicoloured micro sparkles in the bottle

A England – Bridal Veil

This is two coats of Bridal Veil, with Nail Tek II ridge filler foundation and a top coat of Seche Vita. You could get away with just one coat but I struggle with the concept of one coat. For me, a second coat is about fixing up what you buggered up on the first coat.

I do own a black holo by Chemistry so I will have to see how these compare. But Bridal Veil was lovely to wear, applied really easily and dried quickly. I had some tip wear by second day but that’s standard for me.

I think there are a couple more holo polishes from A England that I’m lemming for. How about you?

Mani-faces of Manglaze Nail Design Contest

Also, I wanted to give a shout out to A Lacquered Affair who, together with Shoppe ElCletcticCo, is hosting a Mani-faces of Manglaze Nail Design Contest.

Now I’m not big on ‘Giveaways’ personally. I don’t like them as a means of building readership. I’ve always taken the view that people will either get me or they won’t. The process of that nutting itself out is a purely organic one and nothing that I do will change that either way. I apply that view to this blog-thingy too. So I won’t push or promote a ‘Giveaway’ like that here.

But I make exception for offering of prizes for excelling in a contest involving some particular skill or creativity. Particularly when it depends on skills and abilities that I simply don’t have. Amongst those skills and abilities are particle physics, acrobatic gymnastics, cello playing and nail art. I’m pretty confident I’m never going to master any of those:). Plenty of folks out there will and do, however. A Lacquered Affair herself is pretty flash with the nail art (case in point) and so it strikes me that she is pretty well qualified to be hosting a nail design comp. So please, check out the comp she and Shoppe ElCletcticCo have organised, if for no other reason than to perv on the gorgeous matte-ness of everything Manglaze and check out Lego Crook Man’s little mate:)

xx

 

 

 

Glitter Gal glittery bits: Operation Untrieds

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I’ve been on a mission to try all my untrieds as my untrieds by far and away outstrips the number of polishes I have worn.I also hacked off my nails whilst I wait for my right middle fingernail to regrow. It will be a slow process sadly.

Back to Operation Untrieds. Amongst those untried were two of my three Glitter Gal polishes. It wasn’t long after discovering the world of nail polish blogging back in February that I came across Lizard Belly by Glitter Gal. That was thanks to the beautiful nails and polish skills of the owner of Fashion Polish. Lizard Belly was just stunning in her photos, so off I went to investigate and order. I ended up ordering Lizard Belly and wore it straight away.

Glitter Gal Lizard BellyGlitter Gal Lizard Belly

Glitter Gal Lizard Belly

I also order Turbulence and Code Red. But I’ve only just got back to them, having got swept away with a range of other new polishes shortly after buying them. Glitter Gal have recently brought out some new polishes and I dearly want to buy a few of those to try as well but I felt I can’t go there until I’ve worn all the GG polishes that I already have:). Here’s Turbulence.

Glitter Gal Turbulence

Glitter Gal Turbulence

And Code Red:

Glitter Gal Code Red

Glitter Gal Code Red

These are two coats each, except for Turbulence which took three coats because it’s a little more sheer that the other two. No base coat or top coat. These are the only holo polishes I’ve worn so far. They seem to take longer to dry than your average polish and fast dry top coats don’t seem to make any difference. Am unsure whether that is just a feature of holo polishes generally or Glitter Gal holos. Anyone know? I have a number of holos in a brand called Chemistry (made by the same manufacturer as Ozotics) so I will experiment with them soon and see. It just means it’s not a polish to apply when you’re about to rush out the door:)

I thought I’d better pull my finger out and post these as I’m off to Noosa for a week as of Friday morning. My lovely partner is home alone for the week whilst I get to have a girls week away. For those of you not familiar with the east coast of Australia, Noosa is a lovely cluster of beach and river-side villages and resorts about 90 minute drive north of Brisbane. Most importantly it is well and truly feeling like Autumn in Canberra where I live, inland in the south-east of the country. Overnight temperatures are getting down to zero degrees celsius here so it will be lovely to spend a week in climes where it is still warm enough to swim at the beach. The trip has kind of snuck up on me and I got a surprised when I realised how close it was. But now my head is used to the idea I’m starting to get excited about it.

So there’ll probably be limited further action here until I get back home on 11 May, that is unless we manage to find internet coverage and iPhone photos don’t look completely awful.

xx