Remember, Remember...

The Fifth of November!

Hi Everyone!

Just a quick one from me today, as I wanted to share my fireworks mani with you!

 

This is two coats of Topshop's Gypsy Night, with a couple of stripes from various nail art pens to make my rather girly firework! Gypsy night is a brownish black jelly infused with multi-coloured and multi-sized glitter flecks which pop up in different lights! I thought of this one, as the multi-coloured flecks have always made me think of fireworks on a dark sky... but I couldn't resist adding a few of my own!

Whatever you do tonight, please stay safe! A pretty fizz in the sky is not a worthy risk for hurting yourself! And remember our little furry friends who will be terrified of all the loud noises and bangs, or who may have made themselves a little nest in the bottom of your bonfire. Please take a minute to check that all creatures are safe and sound too!

Have a great night,

Love Charlotte x

Topshop Hypnotic

Hi Everyone,

Whilst searching through my random folders of random photo's, I found a couple of swatches of a polish that I had almost forgotten about. Which is daft, seeing as it's only about 3 months old to me. Whilst at the height of my duochrome rampage, I picked this up after hearing many fantastic things about many Topshop polishes.

Side note: look at how long my nails were! Such talons!

/Sigh.

The bottle shows promise with a lovely petrol-y effect - a silver base with a purple and green duochrome. As you can see though, this doesn't translate so well to the nail.

All nails have about three coats on, except for the ring finger - this is two coats over Sally Hansen's Eel Skin. For the silvery effect, this will be my choice of combination in the future, to avoid the bleurgh VNL - especially seen on my thumb. I do wonder what this will look like layered over other colours too...?

All in all, a pretty polish, but it doesn't deliver the duochrome fantastic-ness I had hoped for. Still, this might make for some interesting layering experiments!

Thanks for reading,

Love Charlotte x