Vampy Flakies

Nail polish fanatics have a huge array of the most amazing top coats to choose from. Crackle polishes, glitters, mattes and one flakies. 

Flakie top coats, in my opinion, are one of the best ways to instantly jazz up any nail polish. I find they tend to work best on a darker base colour.

Even on shorter nails like mine, dark colours and and a flakie top coat look lovely. 

I used two coats of Hanover Square from Nails Inc which was a freebie in Glamour magazine. 

The flakie top coat is called Rainbow by Gosh. I absolutely love it, it flashes between gold, copper, green and yellow. 

What do you think of flakies? Have you come across this one by Gosh?

Birds of Feather.... New Feather Nail Polish

As soon as we have got to grips with one nail trend another one comes along claiming to be the next “big thing”.

I spotted Nails Inc’s new line of feather effect polishes on the Daily Mail website, this is what they look like:

They come in four shades and apparently contains small feather like pieces which create the effect on the nail.

They will cost £11 from Nails Inc and are due to launch in stores next week.

The names of the polishes are Chester, Edinburgh, Cornwall and York.

Chester is a light blue, yellow and peach, Edinburgh is blue and peach, Cornwall is blue and white and York is peach and white.

What do you think of these? I am not blown away by this range. New trends come out so often now so when something which claims to be innovative and bold is launched I am a bit numb to it.

Picture source - Dailymail

Piccadilly Circus meets Blue Lagoon

I wanted to use some more polishes in my stash which I haven't tried yet, here we have Models Own Blue Lagoon and Nails inc Piccadilly Circus. I used two coats of each, but Piccadilly Circus could quite easily have been a one coater but I painted two coats on out of habit. I then used my black Andrea Fullerton dot and flick tool to just apply dots on a diagonal across each nail.

Lagoon Blue has a slight shimmer to it which I don't think is visible in the pictures, but in real life it is there, but only very subtly. Piccadilly Circus was a pain to photograph! In some lights it looks more pink, other times it has a plum ish appearance and other times it looks more red. According to the Nails inc web site this is a cerise shade.

Ooooh actually, the shimmer in Blue Lagoon is showing up in the picture above quite nicely. 

I think maybe I should try and do more posts on polishes which have been sitting in my collection for a while which I haven't tried before!