a-england Excalibur Renaissance and Hurt No Living Thing

Today I have a post to show you that I am really excited about, I will warn you know, there are a lot of pictures, but not one the same as I wanted to show you so many different things.

This post not only marks the return of the wonderful a-england Excalibur, now Excalibur Renaissance, it also debuts the new Heavenly Quote, Hurt No Living Thing, which is inspired by the lovely poem by Christina Geogina Rossetti.

Firstly I will show you Excalibur Renaissance, which is essentially just the re-branded and re-launched original Excalibur, but that does not make it any less beautiful.

This is 1 coat of the Knight, 2 of the polish and 1 of the Shield.

Now we have Hurt No Living Thing which is a great addition to the current a-england line up, and joins the existing Heavenly Quotes.  It is a lovely muted polish that shifts between grey and dusty pink, and the shimmer in this one is just so amazing.

It is quite a sheer polish, so is good for layering, but also looks so pretty and delicate alone.

This is 1 coat of the Knight, 4 of the polish and 1 of the Shield.

Then we have both polishes together, I used a fan brush dipped in Excalibur and dragged it over the existing mani of Hurt No Living Thing.

Now, I wanted to show you how Hurt No Living Thing looked over several different shades so picked a few out of my a-england family to use.

I also wanted Excalibur Renaissance to make another appearance and since I recently found out just how good it is for nail art, I decided to use it this way.

Each picture is 1 coat of the Knight, 2 of the base colour with 1 of Hurt No Living Thing on 3 fingers.  On my ring finger I just left the base alone - which also shows how Hurt No Living Thing changes the base colour - and done some nail art using Excalibur Renaissance, please don't let my very basic skills take away from how good it is at coverage....

I then added 1 coat of the Shield to seal it all in, and noticed no streaking from the art which I have had issues with before when using other colours.

First here is Hurt No Living Thing over Guinevere, with Excalibur hearts.

Now over Briar Rose with Stripes.

Then over Bridal Veil with some sponging.

And now over Elaine with some crosses.

And lastly over Her Rose Adagio, which due to the light base, I didn't think it would show up Excalibur alone too well so I did some Camelot dots and then Excalibur on top.

Wow, that was a long one, thanks so much if you made it to here.

I hope I have shown you how versatile both of these polishes are, and I know I will be using both often.  I especially love how Hurt No Living Thing looks over dark colours and I am sure there are many many more combinations to be tried.

Both of these polishes are now available on the official a-england site, if you are in the UK, and if not, a-englands can be purchased from Llarowe or visit here for a full list of international stockists.

Thanks so much for looking <3

Some products in this post were sent to me for review.

a-england The Complete Holos

Morning everyone!

I have something I am very excited to show you all today, and it is not a polish you haven't seen before, here or on other sites.  But I was doing my nails last night and simply could not decide which polish to wear, and when I am in that mood I generally gravitate towards my a-england, especially the holo polishes, as I know I will find something to suit my mood, that does not require a lot of effort to apply.  But not even a single a-england jumped out at me, so was originally going to pick two to alternate, then it was like a little lightbulb went off, why not wear *all* the holos!!

So thats what I did, and thats what I have to show you now.  As you may be aware there are only eight a-england holos so I done both thumbs with Camelot (not pictured but here is my original post)  and then took my holos out and started on my left hand pointer and went from there to pinkie, then from right hand pointer to pinkie, in the order the holos are on the a-england site.  This is how my a-englands are stored in my helmer anyway, so didn't take much effort to work out the order to paint, and here is a picture of all the pretty holos lined up.

I will just say this now so don't have to keep saying it, each nail has 1 coat of the Knight, 2 of the polish and 1 of the Shield (which is the bottle I am holding).  I will also link to the full post on each polish when I name them.

First here is my Left hand, which you are all very familiar with by now, so from pointer to pinkie we have:

Saint George, Dragon, Princess Sabra (Tristam Eyes) and Princess Tears.

And then we have something I don't think you have ever seen on here, my right hand, which as you can probably tell, isn't as used to being posed for pictures!  Again from pointer to pinkie we have:

Ascalon, Bridal Veil, Lady of the Lake and Tristam.

Then since I got a tripod for my camera yesterday too, we have a picture of both hands just 'cause I can.

Now I hope you liked looking at my pictures of this mani as much as I love wearing it, I think I will be keeping this on as long as possible!!

All these polishes can be purchased directly from a-england for £9 (with free shipping) or also at Llarowe for $12.

So I will leave you now with one last pretty holo picture to say goodbye...

Thank you for looking and please leave me a little comment to let me know your thoughts on my holo skittle nails.

Some of the products in this post were sent to me for review.

a-england Bridal Veil

Hello everyone!!  Oh how I have missed you all!!

I cannot apologise enough for my extra long absence but today is the first day I have really been feeling up to doing a post, being ill and creative at the same time do not mix, haha.

But wow, you have all been keeping my blog feeling loved while I have been gone, **waves hi to all my new followers** and my pageviews that I was so excited about getting to 20,000 at the new year, are now over the 40,000 mark!! I don't even know what to say!!

So without further whittering on from me, here is the beauty I have for you today, a-england Bridal Veil from the new Legend collection.

Bridal Veil is a black scattered holo and is extremely opaque, 1 coat would be fine for complete coverage if you were tidy enough.

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

Wow, I love this one, but you all know that already, the Legend collection is an amazing set of polishes, each one just as stunning as the last.

I hope you all like this too and I hope to be back to normal posting very soon <3 <3

This polish can be purchased from the official a-england site for £9 with free worldwide shipping here and you can also buy from Llarowe here (and yes that is little old me on the Llarowe site, thanks Leah Ann <3 xx)

This product was sent to me for review.

a-england The Legend Collection

I have something very special for you today, my beautiful new a-england collection, The Legend.

I unfortunately never got the chance to even try any of these on tonight, but will try and get posts for each up soon.

But to keep you going for now, here is a bottle shot of the full collection and some single shots too....

In this order we have:

Order of the Garter, Ascalon, Saint George, Princess Sabra (Tristam Eyes), Princess Tears, Bridal Veil and Dragon.

Order of the Garter

Ascalon

Saint George

Princess Sabra (Tristam Eyes)

Princess Tears

Bridal Veil

Dragon

You can click on these pictures to make them bigger to see the pretties in more detail.

Can't wait to try these out and Thank You to Adina for bringing us this stunning collection.

You can still order at the moment by emailing hello@a-england.co.uk but these will hopefully be on the a-england site soon.  You can also still pick up The Mythicals from the a-england site too....

Thanks for looking <3