Luck of the Irish.

Today is St Patrick's Day, so green nails with little accent glitters it is!
I don't need a reason to deck myself out in green, but I'll take it when it comes along! I'm also not remotely Irish, but I figure I can get away with it as a redhead.

As an amusing coincidence, I was given a little pastry at my grandfather's birthday the other day almost this exact shade of green. Meant to be. Should've taken a picture, but alas, I didn't think to do so until I'd dug in already.

This pale green with its light emerald shimmer is Catrice's own '240 Sold Out Forever' from.. quite a few collections ago. It still has the thin brush. A cute colour, but definitely one needing three coats to cover decently.

Red Was Her Favourite Colour.

I vaguely mentioned some 'family stuff' in previous posts. My grandmother's (already poor) health took a very serious downturn, and on December 31st of 2014 she passed away. It was no happy new year for our family.

Red was her favourite colour. This was the nail polish I wore to her funeral service, accompanied with a red tie.

Red was her favourite colour. I'll never be able to wear it quite the same way again.

Koh - Red! (123)

Rest in Peace, Leonard Nimoy.

I took a break from nail art, which unintentionally turned into a break from posting as a whole. Real life situations, and relying only on a temperamental laptop kept me away. I've built up a small backlog of photos I'll be posting in the future, but for now I want to post some new nail art.

On Friday the 27th, Leonard Nimoy passed away at the age of 83.
I'm a long-time Star Trek fan, and though he had lived a long and full life, it's still upsetting to see a hero go.


So my return to this blog is a little nail-art tribute to the original Mr. Spock.

I'm very sad about his passing, and I don't really have any more words to express it, so I'll just continue by listing the polishes used.




Base - Rimmel, '825 Sky High', Spock face - Essence, '03 Cotton Candy',
Blue - Koh, '217 No Worries', Hair & lettering - Catrice, '39 Black to the Routes'.

Belle de Nuit

The subtleties of the shade proved difficult to photograph on the nail.

One half of YSL's Duo No3, 'Belle de Nuit'. It's a gorgeous, luxurious, deep purple that goes with just about anything. It held up well for a few days but you can see the tipwear had already set in on the nail of my index finger.

I've grown a little weary of nail art attempts not going to way I want them to, so I've decided not to stress myself out over it and wear some specimens from my collection without any embellishments for a while. They are supposed to hold up well on their own, anyway.

I don't generally post attempts I've abandoned altogether, but I'm making the exception. I found myself insired by art deco patterns and wanted to expand on that with a mani. However after both these nails didn't match up to the standard I'd envisioned, I gave up on the attempt, but I liked the concept enough to give it an honourable mention of sorts here.

Isbjørn

Ever since my visit to Norway I've had a fondness for the word 'isbjørn' rather than 'polar bear'. A family emergency has made for a not-so-merry Christmas so I don't feel like going on and on, but I hope everyone had a good one and a happy new year in advance.

Polishes used, with Essence's '01 Wonderlicious Green' (which is still very much a blue) as base.
Koh's 'Baby Blue (226)', 'Pearly White', 'Red!' and 'Black!'.

Pastels.

't Is the season for themes I don't seem to be ascribing to. I had meant to, really, but the super sweet pastel polishes I got from my aunt were calling out to me to try them first.

I'm afraid I don't know what this particular polish is called, as its sticker is missing. A better reflection of the colour is visible in this post (I couldn't tell when I took the picture, and by the time I uploaded it from my camera it was too late.) The formula was actually pretty disappointing and it didn't cover well at all. Hurts especially for such a cute colour.

I imagine it comes as no surprise that this is the colour and nail art combination I went for. I can tell you the name of the purple however - Rabat 149. For a better idea of the real life colours I refer you back to the other post again.

Expansion.

My aunt was sorting out her collection of nail polish, and let me take what I wanted from whatever she was discarding. These are the polishes I took away! Lucky me.

That made me think it's probably a good idea to show another picture of my collection since the most recent one I have up is from 2011. As you're aware, it's nearly 2015.

My collection, pre-reorganisation.

Collection, post-reorganisation! With a sneaky cameo of my Ghostbusters tee.

I managed to get my hands on another beautycase (the larger, blue one) and transferred my ~fancy~ polishes to that (YSL, Koh, Herôme, Dior etc.) and managed to free up some space in the 'miscellaneous' case on the left, which was really stuffed to the lid. It's probably a good idea if I do some sorting out myself if I get the urge to add any more to the collection. It's not the biggest amount out there, but it's really more than enough for any single person to own.