Nerdlacquer Hyperspace Bypass

Hello lovelies! 

As promised today I will show you Nerdlacquer - Hyperspace Bypass.

I LOVE THIS POLISH!

It doesn't look that yellow on, actually, it's more gold... just like a Hyperspace Bypass... Man as a fully fledged geek I love the names of these polishes.

Hyperspace Bypass is packed full of big black and gold hex glitter as well as innumerable other smaller glitters and its just fab. I think this was four coats just to get rid of visible nail line, but it would be cool layered over a gold polish. I might try that next. This is another one I didn't have the heart to stamp over 'cos it's just so beautiful. All the kids on my placement loved it too.

 

YUM!

Thanks for looking

Aimee x

Icecream Nails with Me Me Me polishes and The Hungry Asian Mint Condition

Hello everyone! How are you today? 

I did these icecream inspired nails using some new Me Me Me polishes I picked up yesterday - Pensive which is a lovely pale blue and Playful which is a gorgeous dusty pink. For the 'sprinkles' I used Illamasqua - Load and China Glaze - Light as Air which are both gorgeous. The lovely green is The Hungry Asian - Mint Condition over pensive which I absolutely LOVE! Mint Condition is a beauuuttiful minty green colour with different coloured small glitter shapes floating in it. It looks like mint icecream with smarties in. I love it sooo much! Mint greens are one of my most favourite nail polish colours. Looveeely.

I stamped the stripes with Konad Special stamping polish in red and used Seche Vite to affix the wee heart. Yummers.

 

Thanks for looking!

Aimee x

Nerdlacquer - All of Time and Space

Afternoon lovelies! 

This right here is one of the four nerdlacquers that I own. I think I've shown you this before as part of nail art, but never on its own, and it's FAR TOO BEAUTIFUL not to do that! :)

It's a beautiful minty green with all kinds of beautiful glitter in; mainly different sized magenta hex glitter and various sizes of silver hex glitter with some teeny tiny shimmer. It's so deep and beautiful. I love it so much. Nerdlacquer were one of my favourite ever brands! I wish they'd come back! Come back Amanda!!!

I am currently listening to Ground Control to Major Tom whilst writing this post, which I thought was particularly fitting. If I ever did my own line of polish, I'd totally name them after Bowie songs :)

 

Can you believe I didn't do any nail art on this? It takes a very special polish for me to not want to nail art it up!

Tomorrow I will show you Hyperspace Bypass!

YUM!

Thanks for looking

Aimee x

Uh oh - Lynnderella Sweets to the Sweet

Hello lovelies! 

So I guess this isn't the best time to post this, given the whole brough-ha-ha regarding Lynnderella. Thing is, I bought this polish and Boy Girl Party - my first (and probably my only) Lynns just before the whole drama erupted. I guess it kind of soured the whole thing for me, but I wanted this polish for soooo long and I was so happy to finally get the chance to own it, plus d'you know what? I couldn't really care less about the drama thing. I mean, I know full well that a lot of people are pissed, and rightly so.. I mean they are entitled to feel slighted and I empathise with everyone, but at the end of the day I just like painting my nails. And my word this is a cool polish!

I layered two coats of Lynnderella - Sweets to the Sweet over three coats of Cult Nails - Charming which is a totally stunning sheer purple. It's all squishy and delicious and I love it. Cult Nails are probably one of my favourite brands around right now. 

GAH I LOVE THIS POLISH! Look at all the pretty glitter! There are so many types in Sweets to the Sweet - it's mainly those little hex and square white ones, but there are also larger holo hex glitters, big red square ones, some yellow and purple ones, a few orange ones and some lovely background shimmer which really sets it off. There's also some bar glitter in there. It's just... cool! I'll tell you what it was a nightmare to remove though.

I really love this polish. And I love it over the purple. I will wear it again but I don't think I'll ever buy another Lynn. Not at $20 a pop. It is totally stunning though. 

What do you guys thing? Are you over the Lynn thing or are you still lemming some pretty glitters?

Thanks for looking!

Aimee x

Rainy Day Nails

Hello lovelies! 

The weather here is DIRE. It's July. And it's raining. ALL. THE. TIME. 

Now this sucks, but I decided to make the best of it so here we have: rainy day nails! :) 

The lovely, beautiful Marnie from my polish birthday club sent me Girly Bits - January Morning in my birthday package! I was soooo excited. I've wanted January morning for ages. So for this mani I layered January Morning over China Glaze - Elephant Walk from the China Glaze Safari Collection (which I LOVE). On the accent nails I put China Glaze - Snowglobe which is one of my all time favourite glitters ever. I love the different coloured glitter and the way the colours shift in different lights. It really does look like a snowglobe and it looks fab over any colour. On the other nails I did some clouds with China Glaze - White on White and Collection 2000 Hot Looks - Angel Wings for the accents on the clouds and the raindrops. I love the way January morning just shimmers and sparkles in the background. It makes me almost like rainy days. Except when I have to go outside in them. BOO!

 

See the shrinkage on my accent nails... UGH I did that nail TWICE to try and stop it, and both times it did that. Is that just Seche Vite? Or is it something I'm doing wrong? I'm using a new base coat - Essie Nourish me... could that be causing shrinkage? Or is it just too many layers of polish. Anyway.

What do you think of these? Is it raining where you are or are you one of those lucky ones who live in sunnier climes? If so can I come and live with you please? I'm FED UP of all this rain :)

Thanks for looking

Aimee x

Guest post for The Crumpet!

Hi! Check out this guest post I did for the awesomely wonderful Debbie at The Crumpet. I was so honoured to do this because I love Debbie's blog and she's also something of a pillar of the nail community. She tells it like it is as evidenced by her stunningly articulate, measured and eloquent post on the Lynnderella debacle, which is required reading fir anyone who wants to know about the whole indie polish explosion. 

Here's a little teaser of my post - go over to Debbie's blog to check out the whole thing and check out her other guest blogger posts too because she has featured some seriously fabulous bloggers.

Thanks for reading!!

Aimee x

W7 Lava Flow with an accent nail!

Hello lovely ladies! Thankyou for all the kind comments on my last post. I love your comments. Even if I don't always have time to reply to them, I really really appreciate you guys taking the time to say something nice. Thankyou. 

So someone (I can't remember who, sorry - if I find the post I will link to it I promise) of W7's new polish line on facebook and I simply HAD to get them IMMEDIATELY! They're very similar to Nail Inc's Sprinkled collection but I can't ever justify the price of Nails Inc polishes. They seem very expensive for what they are and the W7s are just as good - awesome quality and a fraction of the price (gosh I sound like a radio advert! I'm not endorsed, honest!). This is W7 Lava Flow which is a milky white polish with red and black hex glitter that floats quite sparsely in the base. It looks a bit like basalt and also like sweeties. I've had a couple of friends tentatively lick my nails hoping they'd taste like gobstoppers or something. I have weird friends. They also said that it would be cool if someone made some kind of tasty nail lacquer that you could eat! Like sweetie paste that sticks on the nails. That would be awesome if not awfully sticky and possibly quite impractical. As well as something of a bug attractor. It's probably not such a good idea, actually. 

The accent nail is W7 Strawberry Daquiri - a beautiful pink polish with lots of lovely shimmery glass-like flecks. I stamped with Konad Special Stamping Polish in Royal Purple using an image from my Dashica SDP Big plate. I ran out of Seche Vite for this mani so I used W7's topcoat which, whilst it's no Seche, is a great cheap substitute! I was pleasantly surprised.

Enough jabbering on. Pictures!!!

 

I looveeee these nails. I think they're so pretty! You can see a bit of the tips at the end of the pink nails, but you can't really see that in real life. Don't you hate it when your awesome camera is so good that it shows up stuff you can't ordinarily see? Ha.

What do you think?

Thanks for reading and I hope you have a lovely weekend!

Aimee x