Polish Days Sentimental Polish (feat a-england)

And here we are again, Polish Days.  Thanks again to the lovely Hannah of Polly Polish for putting this all together.  Octobers theme is Sentimental Polish which Hannah was nice enough to let us interpret in our own way, but using her words here is the idea behind it 'maybe there is one polish that started it all, a polish you went through hell and high water to get your paws on, some nail art that reminds you of someone you love, or simply a polish that you would return to a burning building to rescue'

I decided to go with the 'one polish that started it all' theme, but not the first polish that started my collection, the first polish that gave me the push I needed to start my blog.

Before I discovered a-england, my collection was almost exclusively Nails Inc but a-england was a very welcome discovery to me and made the thought that had been at the back of my head about wanting to start a blog jump right to the front.

Now this wasn't the first a-england to be featured on my blog, but it was the first one I purchased, Lady of the Lake.  Now after much thought I decided just to show you the Lady again alone, even though you have seen her here, and many other places, one more post on such a beauty can't hurt.

So here is 1 coat of the Knight, 2 of Lady of the Lake and 1 of the Shield.

Thank you for looking and please see below for the other ladies participating in this months Polish Days.

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.

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

a-england Lady of the Lake

I know, another a-england polish, I can't have that many left to go now, lol.  I have just really been taking pics of the mani I have been wearing, which seems to be a-england almost exclusively these days.

I love this polish though, so without further ado here is Lady of the Lake, which is the purple version of Tristam, and I cannot for the life of me decide which I prefer, maybe Tristam but probably only because he reminds me of his fluffier counterpart, which leads me to me next point.

Taking pictures of to capture the colour of this polish was quite difficult, but for a different reason than usual........

Yes this is my tom cat, Lestat, who was obviously miffed that he wasn't getting the same attention as the nail polish and kept sticking his head in front of my camera.  If it wasn't so cute, it would have been annoying.

Anyways, back to nails, I have first a few pics of Lady of the Lake under natural light, where the purple looks darker and the holo more subtle.

Then a few more pictures under a more direct light where the purple is brighter and the holo particles are dazzling.

Hope you are all loving the a-england polishes as much as I am and again please feel free to leave any comments.