NOTW (hands) - China Glaze 'Harvest Moon'

This is actually what was on my nails nearly three weeks ago now, but I wanted to share it with you :) This polish is from China Glaze's 'Colours from the Capital' (sometimes also called 'Capitol Colours/Colors') tie-in collection for the film version of 'The Hunger Games'. I'll spare you the fangirling about my love for all things THG as long as you promise to go and see it and/or read the book(s) :p

'Harvest Moon' is named after District 9's production of grain (it was originally called 'Cinna-Mon' and said to have been inspired by Cinna's signature speck of gold eyeliner; as an(other) aside, I have quite dark blue eyes and I love putting a little flick of gold eyeliner under my lower lashes (really just a little - imperceptible unless you come up way too close to me!) to accentuate the blue - it works really well as the colours are pretty much on the opposite end of the colour spectrum!). It's a nice orangey-gold foil that applies smoothly and is very pigmented. I loved the look of it!

I did get some of the other polishes in the Capitol Colours collection, but I'm savouring them and will try them out one by one to keep my excitement going :)

NOTW (feet): Rimmel Funtime Fuschia and OPI Japanese Rose Garden with OPI White Shatter

Sorry for the delay in posting! On my feet for the last week (well, nearly two weeks now as a) I'm lazy b) it still looks good and c) it's wavering between winter and spring here, so my toenails aren't on show much!) I've had Rimmel London 60 Seconds (it really does dry fast) in 260 Funtime Fuschia, with OPI's White Shatter over it on my left foot, and OPI's Japanese Rose Garden with the White Shatter again on my right foot.

I really like the colour of the Rimmel polish, although it looks almost straight-up red on the nail, not like the fuschia in the bottle. I was pleased with the OPI Shatter; it went on smoothly and it was kind of fun (nerd :p) to watch the cracks forming as it dried! Here's a photo I took after applying it (yeah, I have a case of the curly toes, look away if you hate feet :p):

I think the shatter effect is especially pronounced on my big toe's nail, but I really like the pattern that emerged on my second toenail! I don't know if you can see, but the effect on my fourth toe looks a bit like the Joker's face with a creepy big red 'smile' and a white face :p

Here's the bottle for comparison; am I alone in thinking it's pinker in the bottle than it is on? 

I also painted my fingernails with the Rimmel fuschia polish, which looked good (this was actually a week before I put on For Audrey...see the post below this one!):

As you can see, I had originally painted all of my nails with the fuschia, but shortly afterwards I got OPI Japanese Rose Garden and decided to try it out on my right foot :)

I forgot to take a photo of Japanese Rose Garden with the Shatter on when I had first applied it, sorry!

This is what my biggies look like today, after almost two weeks of polish. I'm impressed with the durability, although it would likely not look like this after a fortnight on my hardworking hands!

The effect is a lot more pronounced over the fuschia, I think. It's probably due to the contrast between the colours. Also, the Shatter didn't crack as much when it came to my right foot; must have applied it with a different degree of thickness.

What do you think? Are you a fan of shatter/crackle top coats in general?

Sorry about my ugly-ass toes :p

NOTW (hands) - China Glaze 'For Audrey'

A lot of the other blogs I follow post a picture of their Nails of the Day (NOTD), but since I only usually change my polish about once a week (due to finance constraints, laziness, enjoying the polish to its full extent, etc. :p), I've decided to go for Nails of the Week (I BET you didn't see that one coming :p).

For my first NOTW post, I'll show you what's been on my fingernails for the last few days. It's China Glaze's celebrated 'For Audrey', a cute blue that is, as far as I can, the *exact* shade of the Tiffany jewellery bags and boxes (i.e. 'Breakfast at Tiffany's) hence 'Audrey'. I was worried at first because it didn't look amazing with my pale skintone, but after a few hours with it on, I thought it was lovely. I'll definitely be using this one again!

These are my natural nails...my cuticles aren't amazing, but I'm working on them :) Sorry about my PS3 and computer keyboard getting into the photo; I'll crop next time, I'm just in a hurry right now!

Index finger

What do you think? Have you ever tried this shade?

Coming up, I've got a retrospective NOTW for my hands (last week's), my feet NOTW, and some review posts about skincare and other beauty products :)

Welcome!

Hi, I'm Becca, a 21-year-old student from the UK with a variety of pretty eclectic interests (ok...obsessions) ranging from nail polish to music to video games (and many, many more!). I thought about making a blog for a while as I love trying out new products and always jot down what I think about them. I decided to take the leap and go for it after encouragement from the lovely Rachael of Island Girl Insights. I hope my entries are useful for you or at least entertaining and enjoyable to read! I have some posts lined up for the next few days which I hope will be interesting. Let me know what you think :)

...and yes, I really SHOULD be studying right now.