It’s been a while … but Wallis made it on my nails again. This is such a pretty colour and I am still overwhelmed by the olive green base, that’s why I just had to post these photos.
Two coats applied, as usual.
Love the glitter, here’s another close-up.
March already. It’s carnival season at the moment although not in the North of Germany. Hope I’ll be at the house soon and enjoy some time off but this week will be a bit busy. Nevertheless I look forward to my next swimming session tomorrow.
I’m not sure whether I had applied Two Fingered Salute after the 2013 post again … but there are some new photos from last week. It’s been ages since I wore Butter London. Here’s Two Fingered Salute with two coats.
Close-up. Still admire the copper flakes, combined with the mint green base.
I have neither worn nor shown purple for a while. It’s rather berry and coral season now, since summer has arrived, so I had nearly forgotten how classy purple can be. Pitter Patter had patiently waited for its turn, so here is this eggplant purple with shimmer.
Two coats applied.
Daylight.
Close-up of the shimmer finish.
Here is another mani I had applied shortly before Christmas (which at present seems ages ago 😯 ), Fiddlesticks. I had worn this raspberry/magenta pink with sparkling glitter particles a couple of months before, at the beginning of last year or so, and I liked it – but the weather was not good enough to take photos, as lighting in the flat was somewhat bad. So here is Fiddlesticks.
I have no clue how the name relates to the name of this colour – but it is pretty. 🙂 When applying Fiddlesticks, I had a little scratch on my ring finger, thus the plaster.
Close-up.
Lilibet’s Jubilee is dedicated to the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s accession to the throne. I’m posting this now because … well, it’s been among my drafts for quite a while, and New Year’s Eve kind of marks a jubilee too, and so on, whatever. Cheap excuse, I admit. 🙄 (My actual mani today is Untitled Black topped with The Living Daylights.) 
The varnish is a pale lilac spotting a metallic finish.
Two coats.
Macro view.
Wishing everyone a Happy New Year, hope to find you again on this blog. 🙂
All Hail the Queen. I had this on my nails at the beginning of the week, pairing it with a shirt of the same colour, i. e. a nude beige, but of course, my top didn’t have any of the holographic micro glitter particles …
Two coats; All Hail the Queen dried quickly, and it looked stunning on the nails!
Macro shot.
About a week ago I received a package from Judi, packed with loads of beautiful varnishes. Again, many thanks Judi! 🙂
Two Fingered Salute was part of Judi’s package. This shade is Nordstrom exclusive, and I had been longing for it the moment I saw it because I thought that the combo of its pale, dusty mint green and copper microglitter would look great on my nails.
And indeed, it does! Since the copper glitter is nearly exactly the colour of my skin. 🙂
Here’s a close-up view of Two Fingered Salute.
One of my readers, Judi, asked me to swatch Wallis, so I grabbed it from my stash and took it to my temporary accommodation – and here we go. Wallis (after Wallis Simpson, I guess) is an olive green shade loaded with golden glitter. At first sight, it reminds me of Or Tsarine/Czarina Gold (Dior), but the latter has a more brown-ish base. The glitter, however, is similar.
Two coats; this is the actual mani. Please ignore the super short nails and my dry cuticles! 😦 Here’s Wallis under artificial light…
… and this is daylight, however, pretty cloudy. Judi, I hope you’ll like the photos anyway! 🙂
Close up view.
Recently, Alsterhaus department store had a clearout sale of their butter LONDON varnishes – 50 per cent off. 🙂 I chose Dosh, Wallis and Victoriana, which is a grey-ish blue, containing a slight tad of green (really just a bit), as well as silver glitter.
It’s opaque with just one coat 🙂 , however, shown below are two coats.
And a close up view, a bit blurred… sorry!
Sheer mix of lilac, silver and a bit purple with purple glitter. Limited edition in celebration of the upcoming Royal Wedding.
Catrice’s Dirty Berry (on the left) is said to be similar to this but I think there’s a huge difference. No More Waity, Katie is also pretty sheer and watery.
New and better pics, taken in November 2011 – these replace the old photographs. 🙂
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