Double, double toil and trouble

...fire burn, and cauldron bubble - Macbeth Act IV, Scene I

I've been digging Milani's gold lacquer recently; it has large chunks of hexagonal glitters swimming in clear polish. Shakespeare popped into my mind yesterday so I decided to team Butter London's Macbeth with gold french tips. 

This is the first time I've used the glitter as tips and it's really fiddly; I ended up getting too much clear polish on the tips, just to get the amount of glitter that I want. Me likey a lot, but I don't know if I'll be doing this very often :S

I forgot that I had to stock shelves later that day and by the end of it, my nails were a mess. So there I was at 11pm peeling off what's left of the gold bits. 

What does one then do with half-painted nails? One slaps on something dark and mysterious. OPI comes to the rescue with its blue-black shade. 

The nail guide strips go on again...

And my nails are fixed...

...just in time for getting snap-happy at Sculpture by the Sea the next morning :)

I used:

Manicare All-In-One (as base and top coats)

Butter London - Macbeth

OPI - Yoga-ta Get This Blue

Milani - Jewel FX Gold

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Lilac nails!

Yay, public holiday, a day to devote to creativity :) Thanks to Pinterest, I've had ideas galore for my nails and here's one of them.

With my most recent drugstore find, a pretty shade of lilac, I thought I'd amp it up just a little using a dark purple shade. 

1. One layer of base coat
2. Two light coats of lilac 
3. Dark purple polish painted freehand and cleaned up with corrector pen
4. One layer of top coat

This'll add some fun to the work week ahead!

I used:

Manicare All-In-One

Manicare Nail Enamel Corrector Pen

Natio Dazzling Lilac

Nine West Shade 317

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