Swatched - Catrice King of Greens

Hi all! 

Today I wanted to show you another swatch of a polish I picked up in a blog sale. I love Catrice polishes, and my small collection is expanding ever slowly. I love greens as well so I was really pleased to pick up this stunner!

Catrice polishes are always fantastic formulas and this is no exception - this is 2 coats.

Do you like greens as much as me? x

ER31DC - Day 4 - Green Nails

Hi all :)

Feels like the longest week of my life.. no time for blogging really, so I'm glad to have today to do a little catch up :)

St Paddy's Day is over, and I was lacking in inspiration (as I often am!) for anything different to do with my nails. I often peruse The Nailasaurus, as I love her stamping and 'glequin' manis, and I happened to come across some gold glitter I had from frankening. Turns out it has a reflective curl, so no good for polish but thought I could use it in some nail art :)

The base colour I used is 'I'm not a Greenager' by Catrice. I was a bit nervous about the giant black circle stating ' Use Base Coat' so I have 3 coats of base on, 2 coats of Catrice, and 1 coat of Seche Vite.

Personally, I think adding glitter is much harder than I have read about - all of mine kept turning last minute, etc and so I definitely think I need more practice! :)

Absolutely in love with this colour! The glitter was so difficult to place though - more practice needed definitely :)

 

What do you think? Also, don't forget to check out the other Green nails :) x

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Pokémon Nail Art Challenge - Week 9 Poison - Vileplume

Yaay we're upto week 9 - where has the time gone?

This week is Poison - there's not a massive choice of Poison pokémon, but as I was stuck between two for Grass, Poison was the perfect week to do Vileplume <3 . I love Vileplume, its one of my favourite pokémon from the original 151. I think its really cute :) it never has amazing story lines in the animé - infact i HATE the Jessibel episode where James returns home. If she was a real person, I might actually lamp her. Can't believe she has a Vileplume! And the way she says it... ACK!

Anyway onto the mani. The polishes I used are:

Base - Catrice - The Monkey Gets Funky
Vileplume - Loréal Color Riche - 607 Rue Montmartre, Essie - Forever Yummy, Essie - Case Study, Ciaté - Big Yellow Taxi, Zoya - Raven for outline.
Vileplume's stun spore (across the other nails) - Ciaté - Ladylike Luxe

Quite pleased with it :) even managed to get outside to take some pictures. Please don't forget to check out everyone else's Poison nails and feel free to let me know what you think about mine! x

Enter Catrice - The Monkey gets Funky!

Imagine my grin of happiness when I found out that Sally Magpies had started to stock Catrice and Essence polishes. Cue me and my debit card and a whole host of goodies being bought, which arrived earlier in the week. Yay! Been so busy with other things that I decided to leave them unopened until today.

I only have one swatched for you so far - keep an eye out for the others coming soon. This was my favourite choice out of all my purchases, just for the name - The Monkey Gets Funky!

 

It reminds me of the cheesiest song ever - Toy-Box - Tarzan in Jane where they sing "Hey Chica, Get Banana, Hey Monkey, Get Funky! (it has an even worse video, but I used to love Aqua / The Venga Boys who sing really cheesy stuff like this ever).

Catrice have no descriptions of their polish, but I would describe this as a warm brown that reminds me of milky hot chocolates and coffee dates with friends. It has a rosy pink tint and a fine gold shimmer, which is much clearer in the bottle but you can still see it on the nail in natural / bright light. It is what I see as a really classy, understated colour. I love everything about it - the formula is perfect - I have two thin coats on every finger apart from my index which has one thick coat, and I can't honestly tell the difference. The dry time was around 3 minutes a coat and it levels out well. No issues with the brush, I did worry that the top was quite big and clunky but it didn't affect how I polish my nails.

As you can see, the gold shimmer is really clear here in the bottle.

You can just about catch the shimmer on the nail in direct sunlight.

 

What do you think? I absolutely adore this colour - so understated and classy looking!