Colour by Llarowe Summer 2014 - Read My Lips, More New Colors, Frenzy and Liquor is Quicker

Today I have 3 of the crelly polishes to show you from the CbL Summer collection.  I was initially going to show you these just as normal swatches but when I was painting my nails last night I felt like doing something different.

As I said above, these polishes are described as crellys which means they are somewhere between a creme and a jelly polish.  The colours I am showing are:

- Read My Lips, More New Colors which is a neon orange polish.  Now this one is so bright in real life but seems a little less so in my pictures.
- Frenzy which is a neon pink polish (with purple undertones)
- and Liquor is Quicker which is a bluey purple (or blurple) polish.

I started with a based of 1 coat of the Knight, 2 of Nails Inc Floral Street (which is a stark white) and then first painted a chunk of the nail with Read My Lips, then the chunk next to it with Frenzy and lastly the chunk at the top with Liquor.  As I do not have the steadiest hand, my colours sometimes overlapped so to tidy it up - and also to act as a great contrast with the brightness of the bases - I drew lines to separate the colours with the Sally Hansen Black Dot and Flick tool and then a coat of the Shield to seal it all in.

Now as I said it is so much brighter when you actually see the polish but you get the idea from the pictures.  These colours will be amazing for Summer - if it actually ever comes to stay here.

Keep an eye on the Llarowe facebook, the CbL facebook and the Llarowe site for news about the next re-stock of the Summer polishes as this is the best way to hear these being announced.  CbL polishes can also be purchased from the Harlow & Co site and again check facebook to find out when you can pick these up.

Thanks so much for looking  <3

Some products in this post were sent to me for review

Polish Days Geometry Nails (feat Nails Inc and Andrea Fulerton)

Today I am taking part in the wonderful Polish Days event organised by the lovely Hannah of Polly Polish.

I didn't take part in the first Polish Day as I didn't have the Floam required, and I completely forgot to sign up for the Olympics one *edit: there was also a Jelly Sandwich Day I didn't do*, but after much reminding, I finally signed up for this round.

Now the theme is Geometry, and I would have loved to have done something more M C Escher inspired as I am a great fan, but do not have the talent unfortunately, so that left me with a basic colour blocked mani.

First I started with 1 coat of the Knight, then 2 of Nails Inc Floral Street.
Then I painted 1 coat of Nails Inc London Sky in a diagonal across the nail.
Then 2 coats of Nails Inc The Thames in a diagonal going the other way.
I then went over all the joining lines with Andrea Fulerton Dot and Flick tool in Judy.
And 1 coat of the Shield to finish it all off.

I was actually really impressed and really liked the finished result and I hope you all do too.

If you want to sign up for future Polish Days you can do so here.

Thanks for looking and see below for details of the other participants and their manis <3 xx

Nubar Polka Dot Collection

I have for you all today, the Nubar Polka Dot collection.

This collection consists of 2 polishes - Polka Dot Black which has a clear base with large black hexagonal glitter and smaller black hexagonal glitter and Polka Dot White which also has a clear base and large white hexagons and smaller almost holographic hexagons.  Application was fairly easy, although some of the larger dots did require slight repositioning with the brush to spread over the nail fully.

I decided to try these firstly over black and white polishes to get a monochrome effect.

So first here is Polka Dot Black.  This is 1 coat of the Knight, 2 of Nails Inc Floral Street, 1 coat of the Polka Dots and 1 coat of the Shield.

Next we have Polka Dot White.  This is 1 coat of the Knight, 2 of a-england Camelot, 1 of the Polka Dots and 1 coat of the Shield.

Then I went a little bit layer happy and decided to try something else out.  I wanted to try both dots over a grey, I needed a mid toned grey so both sets of dots would show up, so I chose Nails Inc London Sky.

So here is 1 coat of the Knight, 2 coats of London Sky, 1 coat of the Black Dots, 1 coat of the White Dots and 1 coat of the Shield.  Whew, thats a whole lot of layers!

I love these Polka Dot polishes!! I cannot wait to try them over all sorts of different colours to see what they look like.

What do you think of this collection?  Will you be picking any up?

Thanks for looking as always <3

The Nubar polishes in this post were sent to me for review, all other polishes were purchased by me.

Halloween Nails (times two) featuring Kleancolor, Nails Inc and a-england

Happy Halloween everyone!!

I couldn't decide on just one Halloween mani so decided I would do a post with two ideas I had.......

Kleancolor Metallic Orange with Nails Inc Camden Crackle

The first one me and my friend Fi came up with while trying to plan her nails,  we wanted an orange base with black crackle, simple but striking and very halloweeny.

I decided a shiny or shimmery orange base was more what I was looking for than a creme orange, and since I hadn't used Kleancolors Metallic Orange yet that was the best choice, and I will show you it without the crackle first.

Here is 1 coat of the Knight, 2 of the polish and no top coat.

Then I added one coat of Nails Inc (black) Camden crackle and 1 coat of the Shield.

And here is my second idea...

Nails Inc Floral Street and a-england Camelot with Spiders

Anyone who knows me, knows I hate spiders, even these little stickers on my fingers creeped me out a bit.

But as it is Halloween I soldiered through, again I wanted to keep things simple, so monochrome seemed the way to go.

The sheet of stickers I wanted to use had mainly black spiders and a few white so I done 4 nails with Nails Inc Floral Street and 1 nail with a-england Camelot and put the opposite coloured spiders on each nail.

I will not show you Floral Street or Camelot alone as I have already done this here and here.  So this is 1 coat of the Knight then 2 coats of each polish with the stickers placed on top and then 1 coat of the Shield to seal it all.

I hoped you liked my halloween nails and please feel free to leave me a comment <3

Nails Inc Floral Street with a-england Morgan Le Fay

This mani came to me in a flash, I had a sudden urge to wear white polish, it was a strange thought but it worked so much better than I had expected.

First we have Nails Inc Floral Street, this is a great white polish, it goes on great and I managed to get coverage in 2 coats.  So here is 2 coats of Floral Street with 1 coat of The Knight underneath, no top coat.

Then I topped it with 1 coat of a-england Morgan le Fay and 1 coat of the Shield.  My camera could not pick this up as great as it looked in 'real life' but I assure you this was amazing and I loved wearing it.

I hope you like my venture into white polish, what is your opinions on it?  Would you wear white alone, I am sure I would again!


And on a side note, the lovely Adina has just announced tonight, free shipping *worldwide* on all a-england polishes....... so get going to the a-england website xx