House Pride.

Recently I found myself in a bit of a reading rut so I went back to Harry Potter. In this case, The Prizoner of Azkaban. On top of that, a friend had recently sent me that Ravenclaw sticker and I wanted to do something in theme with it! I went for the book House colours of blue and bronze rather than the blue and grey of the films. That said, I had a hard time finding anything properly bronze in my collection. The browns didn't quite cut it, and this one literally has copper in its name. Oh well, close enough. Tape used for the design, as per usual!

Blue is Koh's '130 Midnight Blue'. The word I'd use to describe it is brilliant - it is just so stunning and sparkly in the sun. My bronze substitute is an Essence polish from the Metallics collection from 2010 (oh my god, I've had this for 6 years?!) '02 Cooper Rulez!'.
Yikes, 'rulez'. Going to erase that from my memory now.

Sherlock Holmes.

Originally done back in August '11, I've been saving this one to post on a "rainy day".. that is to say, if I ever ran out of things to post. However, I do polish my nails fairly consistently so I figured it was time to finally just type up a post for this and put it here!
Sherlock Holmes nail art I was (and am still) quite proud of. The base polish is '02 Copper Rulez!', a magnetic polish from Essence's LE 'Metallics'. No actual magnetic effects in this mani, though, I just thought the copper was a suitable colour to go with Holmes.