Jade Mystic Gold

Last week I received the most AMAZING belated swap package from the wonderfully generous Rafa at Nails Ink. The package she sent me contained 29!!! stunning Brazilian polishes.  She sent the entire Jade holo collection, the entire HITS Mari Moon collection, there were Rivka Holos, Ellen Gold duochromes, 5cinco flakies and a few other goodies too. I am still completely blown away by the amount of polish that was included in the little box.  This is one happy little nail polish addict rolling around on her beg amongst bottles of polish!

Choosing one polish to wear first was a real trial, in the end I chose Jade Mystic Gold.  1. because it was a sunny winter's day and 2) because it is the most amazing rich gold holo I have ever seen and I have nothing like it in my collection.

After wearing it for a day, I added some stamping from the new Bundle Monster plates, that I just had to order after seeing everyone wearing the new designs.

I really need to practice my nail stamping.  It's ok, but I wish I had stamping skills like the nailXchange. Practice makes perfect, right!

Love the Jade holos. They are a completely different type of holo polish compared to the Layla's.  These are jelly like, transparent by opaque.  Can't wait to wear them all. Thanks again Rafa - I have something special planned to send you!

Priti NYC Chrysanthos with foil tips

I'm so happy with the way this mani turned out.  The combination of the different toned golds together with the combination of matte and chrome like shine just matched my jewellery so perfectly.  I felt like a million bucks wearing this.

I used Priti NYC Chrysanthos as my base colour, which I then mattified using Essie Matte About You.  I then applied some foil glue to just the tips of my fingers and allowed that to dry completely. I then used some gold nail art foil on the tips.

These photos were taken before I applied top coat to the tips, because I knew the top coat would slightly wrinkle the foil, which it did, but it also meant that the tips would stay on longer that an hour!

I am so totally off to do a silver version of this right now, in fact given the number of different coloured foils I have, I'm going to have to check out what other colour combinations I can pull together.