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.

Mentality Kindness and a-england Excalibur

I have for you today a little break from the Llarowe Spring polishes with a mani I am wearing just now that I was really happy with.

Firstly we have the first of a few polishes I have to show you from Mentality which is called Kindness and is described on the site as 'Kindness is a stamping grade black jelly multichrome holographic nail polish with a color shift from turquoise to blue to purple.'

When wearing this polish I felt t was mostly a tealish kind of dark green with a shift to blue at certain angles.

Here is 1 coat of the Knight, 2 of the polish and 1 of the Shield.  Coverage was great so 1 coat would have probably sufficed.

After a day or so of wear I decided to try my hand again using my nail art brushes, this time I used a-england Excalibur and just drew random lines but I was really happy with the result.

I got my Mentality polish from Sally Magpies, which is a UK indie store, as they were doing an offer at the time.  But you can also get them from the official Etsy store or from Harlow and Co too.

a-englands can be purchased from the official site if you are in the UK, Llarowe ships worldwide but if you have a look on the a-england site you can see a list of all the stockists.  The 'old' Excalibur has recently been brought back and is now named Excalibur Renaissance and I am now even more happy about this as I loved how easy this worked with my brushes!

Thanks for looking and I hope you like this one <3

Enchanted Polish Finger Lickin' Good - Falloween Collection

I have for you all today the last of the Enchanted Polish Falloween collection, I am sorry I never showed this to you sooner but here it is now in all its glory.

Here is 1 coat of the Knight, 1 of a-england Excalibur, 1 of Finger Lickin' Good and 1 of the Shield.

Enchanted Polishes can be purchased from Llarowe, and Finger Lickin Good in still in stock at time of writing this.

Thanks for looking <3

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

Dollish Polish Deadly Nightshade - This Is Halloween Collection

Today I have for you the first of the polishes from the Dollish Polish This Is Halloween Collection, which is a line of 8 polishes inspired by the Nightmare Before Christmas, these took a little longer than planned to reach me so I will not be able to show you them all before 5 October which is the date they are on sale until, but I will show you one a day until then.

The first one I decided to show you is Deadly Nightshade, which is made up of blue, purple and black glitters in a clear base.

Here is 1 coat of the Knight, 1 of a-england Excalibur, 1 of Deadly Nightshade and 1 of the Shield.

Dollish Polish This is Halloween Collection polishes are being restocked each day until 5 October, keep an eye on the Facebook page for confirmation of times, and the official Dolly store is here.

Thanks for looking <3

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

Dollish Polish Domo Arigato Mr Roboto over a-england Excalibur

Today I have for you a stunning Dollish Polish, Domo Arigato Mr Roboto.

Mr Roboto is made up of black and holo micro glitter, small holo and black glitter and larger holo hexes all in a clear base.

This combo with a-england Excalibur was from the first time I wore this polish, and I will show you the second soon as well at some point.  I love this one, but that also seems to be a theme with me and Dollys polishes.

Here is 1 coat of the Knight, 2 of Excalibur, 1 of Mr Roboto and 1 of the Shield.

As far as I am aware, this Dollish Polish is an exclusive to Overall Beauty so keep an eye on their site for availability and the a-england can be purchased from the official site here or Llarowe.

Thanks for looking <3 xx

Lynnderella Thank Blue over a-england Excalibur

Yey, another swatch post!  Sorry for the little absence ladies but I am back now and have another lovely Lynnderella polish from Llarowe to show you.

This time we have Thank Blue which is also from the Funny Money collection and is described here, 

Thank Blue! has turquoise hexagons and squares with turquoise holographic hexagons, squares and aqua hexagons in a sparkling turquoise blue base.

As most of the Lynnderella polishes I have tried so far, they would be ok to wear alone but I am thinking I might show you them all over another polish and then alone at somepoint too, means I get two posts for each, tee hee!

I decided to layer Thank Blue over Excalibur as I was going for that icy wintery look, I think I worked how I wanted....

Oh and one thing I will point out before I get to the pictures is Santa was good to me and got me a new camera for Christmas so *hopefully* this will mean better pictures for you guys once I get used to using it that is......

This is 1 coat of the Knight, 1 of Excalibur, 2 (thin) coats of Thank Blue and 1 thick coat of the Shield.  Again all pics can be enlarged to see the detail of the different glitters.

I hope you like this polish, and the pictures taken by my lovely new camera, which can do proper macro shots, how exciting. 

Thanks for looking <3 xx

The Lynnderella polish was sent to me for review.

Hits Hefesto

Today I have for you another holographic polish, can you tell I am really loving these right now.

The one I have picked for today is Hits Hefesto which is a silver linear holo polish, which is designed as a top coat but also looks so pretty alone, so firstly I will show you it that way.

Here is 1 coat of the Knight, 2 of Hefesto and 1 of the Shield.

Now, as Hefesto was designed as a top coat, I decided to layer it over a silver to see the effect, I chose a-england Excalibur and was so happy with the result.

This is 1 coat of the Knight, 1 coat of Excalibur, 1 coat of Hefesto and 1 coat of the Shield.

Would it be wrong to want to wear Hefesto over every polish from now on???  It is just so pretty <3

Again the polish can be bought from the wonderful Llarowe, so check her website out or even go on Facebook to see some lovely pictures of all the polishes Leah Ann has available.

The Hits polish was sent to me for review, all other items purchased by me.

The Complete a-england Mythicals Collection

Wow, 100 followers on GFC, I would just like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who looks at and takes an interest in my blog.  I know there are so many amazing ones out there so I appreciate each person that stops here.  My thanks are obviously for you all - GFC followers, Facebook likers, Twitter and Bloglovin followers, email subscribers and even just the passers by.

I have had this post planned for a while but wanted to wait until GFC got to 100 to publish it, as anyone who comes to visit Pandora's Nails will know, I love a-england polishes and have shown each of the Mythicals in at least one post already, but I thought for ease of reference it would be good to have them all in the one place..............I also really enjoyed trying them all on at the one time and creating all the different combos.

I will show you today all of the Mythicals alone first (2 coats), then with 1 coat of Morgan Le Fay and again with 1 coat of Merlin.  The Knight was used as a base coat on all polishes, but I decided not to use top coat of any of them to show you just how sparkly they are alone, so the bottle I am holding is the Shield so it wasn't completely left out.

Incase any of you are wondering, I chose the order of the swatches based on the order of the polishes on the a-england website, which is how they are stored in my case too.  I will also link to each polishes individual post using their name incase anyone wants to look further.

First we have King Arthur, Excalibur, Iseult, and Guinevere.

Then with Morgan Le Fay.

Then with Merlin.

Now we have Elaine, Lady of the Lake, Tristam and Lancelot.

With Morgan Le Fay.

With Merlin.

And then we have Camelot, Avalon, Perceval, Galahad and Holy Grail.

With Morgan Le Fay.

With Merlin.

Thank you all for looking once again <3 xxx