Blooming Gel, Wine & Ribbons, all wrapped up in a bow… Here’s a pre-Valentine’s mani using Sherry Spark by @opallacgelpolish as reviewed earlier in this post. A wine-coloured gel polish. Also with a review for Born Pretty Store Blooming Gel in White. I wanted an organic backdrop for the ribbon charm, so I was playing around with some white blooming gel which I’ll

Who doesn’t love to match their nails to their wine, eh? 🍷😁 Since Valentine’s Day is not far off, I thought this gel polish #swatch would be apt. It is a nice, full-bodied kind of red for the collection. This wine-shaded, shimmery beauty is Sherry Spark from @opallacgelpolish 💖 I’ve tried to capture the shimmer of it so you can see, as it was

Pantone’s Colour of The Year 2018 is – Ultra Violet. Which is perfect as I own lots of shades in this colour – unlike 2017’s colour Greenery!?!?! That was not my favourite. So it seems the Mani Swap Circle is back ON! Which is great cos it was a lot of fun – at least when your assigned person actually

I love a good neon-on-black mani that really makes the colours pop. I also love floral manis. No surprised there, eh? So thought I should combine the two into a lovely popping neon floral number. Rather than hand-painting it, I chose to stamp – partly due to time constraints and the fact I have these unused but lovely stamping plates!

You can see the earlier review here of this shade. Providing a new swatch as the other one was on round nails 🙂 Hope the New Year is off to a great start for you. Here’s the first solo swatch of Black Market from @opallacgelpolish. A great black is a must in one’s collection! I’ve used this shade quite a number

Here’s the nail art I did over Opallac’s 24 Carat gold glitter gel polish. See the swatch review of it here. Otherwise read on… Let me Holla’ for a Dollar! Back with the nail art I did over 24 Carats by @opallacgelpolish which you can see a few posts back. This glitter reminds me bags of gold, hence the hand-painted

For all you sexy peeps who keep the web & IG fun (despite all the changes we still lament over there, haha), HAPPY NAIL YEAR! Big thanks to the companies, nail friends & followers for the support – and especially for those that stuck around throughout what turned into a (mostly shitty) tumultuous year ✨ Wishing your new year brings

Who doesn’t love glitter? And gold? And glitter and gold in a GEL POLISH?? I do, I do! Here’s the low-down on Opallac’s 24 Carat gold glitter gel polish… And with bottle shot. Pretty close to the label colour on this one too. You may’ve seen this one on Instagram recently, but here it is on le website. Better late

Yay, Sneaky WiFi! Thankfully I can lob on long enough to post this overdue snippet to Instagram and maybe schedule this post if the connections holds out. What a score 🙂 It’s so hard not being connected, as I need access to do basic things, so it’s not entirely ideal. CAN’T WAIT til things settle & I have proper net access

I adore this dusty shade of grape. Read on for a review! Swatch time! A preview of the polish that I will be using in the next #31DC2017 #nailartchallenge Meet Blink from Madam Glam. This dusty shade of grape is part of the One-Step Gel range – meaning it incorporates the base and top coats into the colour gel = simpler application.

Why it’s almost the end of the #31DC2017 (oh thank god!) and we’ve hit the 29th’s Inspired by Supernatural prompt.   I went with hand-painted symbols inspired by illustrated shadow-side imagery, the kind related to magic glyphs & tarot ✨ Look Ma, it’s matte! Who doesn’t love how sexy matte nails look? The base is Blink one-step gel from @madam_glam which you can see

My least favourite prompt in the #31DC2017 is the Flag one. Every year. It is the least inspiring yet I’ve never done a ‘serious’ flag, like for realsies. Didn’t entirely do that this year either, but incorporated the British Flag into a mani with some metallic decals I had on hand.     I did some matte stamping with Plate BP-L078 from @bornprettystore (use