NOTD - Catrice - Steel My Soul

Hello everyone! VERY long time no speak and I can only apologise for that. I have been so so busy with school and just life in general. I was planning to get a load of posts prepared in half term so that I could post more regularly but then I went on a last minute trip to Germany and didn’t get any posts done and then I was on a school trip etcetcetc… Anyway! Seeing as I get basically no time in the week to take decent pictures, I thought I would at least post something and since I paint my nails almost daily, I thought I could do nail of the day posts. Hopefully this will keep my blog going until I find a bit more time to do some proper posts, thank you for bearing with me!

While in Germany I picked up a few new polishes (of course!) but sadly since I was only travelling with hand luggage I was only able to bring 8 home with me (boo!), I will show them to you over the next few weeks. Today I am wearing Steel My Soul from Catrice which I think is new.

 

 

It has a ‘brushed metal effect’ which I would say describes the polish well – it dries matte and kind of rough but in a nice way.  Here I am wearing two coats, formula was fine. The new brush is horrible and very hit and miss. For example, this one is far nicer than the brush in Genius in the Bottle but still pretty bad. The photos are as true to life as I could get but it is slightly darker and greyer. I love how the matte effect really brings out the gold shimmer.

 

 

Thank you for reading, hopefully now I can start to post more regularly!

Something a little bit more Autumnal…

Hello! Here is a manicure I did a couple of days ago. I was feeling in an autumn-y mood so I wanted something dark and vampy. 

Sadly yesterday I broke my index finger nail very low down and it looks awful so I don’t know if I will have any new posts for a while. The solutions are I don’t post, I use just my last 3 fingers of my left hand or I use my right hand (EEK!). If you have any ideas or advice, pleas comment below!

 

 

I used a deep burgundy colour for the base which is actually from Marks and Spencer called Grape. I have no idea if it’s still available as it’s very old, one that my mum was throwing out but I am sure that there are lots of dupes. I then sprayed my gold Sparkler from the Body Shop over the still wet nails to give a sort of shimmery effect. It’s nice but nothing particularly special. It got me in the mood for autumn though!

 

 

 

Thank you for reading and a huge congradulations to Sarah from Try My Hand who won Makeup Savvy’s nail art competition. Also thank you to everyone who voted for me!