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Cult Nails I Got Distracted – Perfect Birthday Nails

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I had a birthday a bit over a month ago. I made it a rule years ago not to work on my birthday . My partner had the day off as well and since it was a Friday it made for a lovely long weekend. On the Friday we had brunch in a garden cafe, went to the zoo, had foot and body massages at a local beauty spa and then that night we had a couple of friends over for drinks, indian take out and lowbrow movies.

So, given that it ended up being a little ‘mini-festival of me’, I just had to do my nails for the day. It wasn’t hard to pick which polish. Cult Nails I Got Distract was begging to be worn, being the latest acquisition in my on-going quest for the perfect black jelly glitter polish. And what a ‘mini-festival of me’ appropriate polish it is.

Cult Nails I Got Distracted – indoor light

As you can see, the dominant glitter is a teal green but there is a lovely smattering of multicolour holo glitter kicking about in there too.

Cult Nails I Got Distracted

Cult Nails I Got Distracted

Now because of the teal dominance, my search for the perfect black jelly glitter polish will no doubt continue but this was absolutely gorgeous to wear. It made it feel like it was a special day. Application was great, very easy. The polish is thick enough and the glitter small enough to be easily controllable. It dries a bit gritty so I applied two coats of Gealous and then one coat of Seche Vita to smooth it all out. Removal was easy too. I can’t comment on wear as I think I removed it by the Sunday.

And for those of you who have cats, you can well imagine how this shot occurred:)

Esmarelda getting her tail in the way

xx

 

Polish Days – Polish Geometry

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Hullo.

Being (a) generally lazy, and (b) crap at nail art, has largely kept me out of Polish Days. It wasn’t because I hadn’t tried. I’ve twice attempted manis for previous Polish Days events. It was simply that on both occassions, to quote Mark Weber, I ran out of talent.

And my initial effort for today was awful too, a complete fail. But after chatting on Twitter with A Lacquered Affair, I thought I’d give it one more crack. And it’s far from perfect but well, who cares. I give you my first second attempt at a tapped mani.

OPI Deutsch you want me baby & Jade Fascinio Violeta

I didn’t mean for it to look quite so pentagram-ish. All a bit sinister and witchy-poo really. Or would if it weren’t bloody bright orange and holo purple. This is two coats of OPI Deutsch you want me baby because that’s what I happened to have on my nails already. Refer to first paragraph above re ‘lazy’. Having whacked on some tape I applied two coats of Jade Fascinio Violeta and then waited what felt like an age (but turned out to be not quite long enough) before attempting to remove the tape. Let that be a lesson to me. Patience is a virtue, particularly when it comes to nail art it would seem. Anyway, after only slightly buggering my index and middle finger nails in the tape removal process, I slapped on two coats of Gealous and a coat of Seche Vita.

OPI Deutsch you want me baby & Jade Fascinio Violeta

So this is my slightly wonky take on ‘Polish Geometry’. My take away from this exercise? Make sure your top colour polish is a quick drying, very opaque one coater.

I gather that Hannah’s Polish Days events are getting more and more participants each time so checking out all the participants’ posts is going to take a while but get cracking because there’s certainly been some very talented lacquerheads take part in pervious Polish Days.