a england Saint George & Bundle Monster plate 314

Now I realise it was less than a month since I first wrote about a england Saint George (see here), but this beautiful, dark, rich teal green polish, shimmering with holo goodness, is too pretty to be put aside, so I pulled it out again.   And oh, how gorgeous it is, and applies so velvety smooth.  It really is a joy to apply.

This time however, I stamped it with Bundle Monster plate 314, using Barry M Foil Effect in gold.  Having picked the gold and the silver Foil Effects up from Superdrug after reading they were fantastic for stamping, I am happy that all reports rang true - loved stamping with it!  And I think my stamping is getting better - and if anyone is thinking "But it's not lined up the same on all her nails!", that at least was deliberate, to try and make them all look part of a bigger pattern, and I kept rotating the stamper.

Base coat Orly Bonder, 2 coats Saint George, stamped with Barry M Foil Effects Gold, top coat Seche Vite.





a england She Walks In Beauty

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that 's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes                         Lord Byron. 1788–1824

Along with yesterday blogged Saint George, in my order from a england, I also got this stunner - She Walks in Beauty, from the Heavenly Quotes collection.

I shall leave it up to a england to give you the best description: "An intricate and complex mix of large and small rose-coloured hexagonal glitter in a shimmering pale golden base that colour-shifts with light and movement"

Sums it up beautifully - pinky hexagon glitter in a shimmering opalescent base, mostly pale gold, but with hints of silver through to almost a greeny shade in it.

Absolutely beautiful - as Saint George, applies smoothly and the glitter disperses nice and evenly over the nail.  Not opaque but I never expected it to be - it looks gorgeous on it's own, and I think it would equally gorgeous layered over other colours.  Glitter tips anyone?

And I know this has a lovely, historic, classical quote aligned with it - personally when I look at it on my nails, I think of pixie dust and fairies dancing across my fingers.  And yes, I am older than 12.....

Was quite hard to photograph this one - two coats Nail Envy (I have a big annoying chip out of my thumbnail, so hitting NE hard at the moment), two coats of a england and Sally Hansen Insta-Dri top coat.

You can buy a england polishes from here - currently no international orders due to Royal Mail restrictions.  She Walks In Beauty is £9.00.

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a england Saint George

I was very excited to try my very first order from a england, after drooling after swatches for months.  I bought this one (Saint George) from the Legend Collection, and She Walks In Beauty, which I will post about soon.  Let's just say, I don't think they'll be my last.

This is just such a beautiful polish - a rich, deep, sumptuous forest green and applies so smoothly  I used two coats for this, but you could get away with one coat if it was thick enough.  And in the depths of that gorgeous green, in the right light, you get the fine sparkling holo glitter showing through . Truly gorgeous.

However, I was an eejit on Friday and left my camera at work, so I tried to capture this on my Samsung Galaxy SIII.  Not terribly bad for camera phone pics, but not the best, and I decided they simply weren't good enough to do this lush polish justice, so had to wait till today to photograph it properly.  But then, today my new light box and lamp set turned up!  My desk looks like a photographers studio, but loving it, so included a couple of photos from my new setup, as well as sunlight pics.  I was dithering over the black and the white backgrounds for my tent, but upon looking at the photos, the black highlights the very fine hairs on my hand and makes me look like I have hairy knuckles - eeeew!  White it is.....  I am quite pleased with the results, but need to play a lot more to find out how to take the best piccies.

Nail Envy base, two coats, Sally Hansen Insta-Dri top coat.

You can buy a england polishes from here - currently no international orders due to Royal Mail restrictions.  Saint George is £9.00.

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