A big bottle of Seche Vite

I have been a fan of Seche Vite's fast dry top coat  for more than three years. I used it before I started blogging. I have dabbled with other top coats but none compare to Seche Vite. Until now I picked my bottles up from Sallys at the business park near home. 

Last week I ordered a bumper bottle of Seche Vite from Amazon after finding out my local Sallys had none in stock.

This kit cost just under £20 - it comes with a full size bottle of Seche Vite and a 118ml refill. The refill bottle comes with a plastic nozzle to make decanting the polish into the small bottle easy and mess free.

This should last a very long time, at least I will always have it to hand!

Sainsburys sells flakie nail polish

While out shopping in Sainsburys recently I stumbled upon a nail polish brand called Eye Candy London. I don't think I have come across this line before but I saw they had a flakie polish so I snapped that up.

This particular polish cost £6, they did have some duochrome polishes too, I might pick those up another time, but they did remind me a lot of Models Own Beetlejuice polishes. I layered two coats of this flakie top coat over two coats of Models Own polish Peacock.

I do like the look of the flakie topcoat, however, I felt it took a bit of work to get it looking good. The clear base is quite thick and the flakies within it are sparse. The particles are thick and rough, not like Nubar 2010 or Gosh Rainbow, the two flakies I love to layer. Even SV top coat didn't feel like it smoothed the flakie top coat out.

Models Own Peacock before the top coat:

It's My Turn with Black Crackle

Using my latest holographic polish, It's My Turn from the Kaleidoscope collection by China Glaze and Andrea Fullerton's Mock Croc shatter polish.

I do love this polish, but it is so sheer, it took three coats to build it up, but on its own it is stunning. 

Sorry, I didn't realise the second picture was so blurry until after I loaded it! As I mentioned in a previous post about this polish, some of the black text on the bottle has worn off, but I heard this is quite common for older CG polishes.

Such a wonderful polish on its own, but I wanted to see how it look under black crackle, here is Andrea Fullerton's Mock Croc without a top coat. 

Crackle tends to dry to a mat finish, but I prefer it shiny, so one coat of Seche Vite to complete the look.

I normally wear a bright colour as a base for black crackle (just so it doesn't look like just black nail polish that has chipped!) but I quite like the way the holographic gold shimmers underneath.