I'm back! It's been TWO WEEKS since I was able to get online at home, and I'm so excited to be back - isn't that ridiculous? I bought a new laptop (my old one died of coffee/milk/sugar poisoning, caused by cat) - and by the way I am NOT a fan of Widows 8! - but still couldn't get online for another week because my ISP had to send me a new router, as the old one wasn't compatible with Widows 8! So anyway, here I am, and normal service will be resumed asap.
I still can't edit photos properly - I've downloaded Gimp and Picasa, but I'm not convinced by either yet. I obviously need to spend a lot of time working on them - I can't get used to how complicated Gimp is! (Can anyone advise easily how you can save a pic there as a JPEG?) and Picasa isn't as useful as my old Photoshop Elements was (also not compatible with this computer!) So I apologise for the photos here.
While I was offline, here are some of the nails I wore:
Butter London The Black Knight. This is two coats over a coat of Rimmel Black Out.
I have to say, I was a bit disappointed with The Black Knight. It wasn't as sparkly or as amazing as I hoped it would be. Application was nice, it was smooth and dried fine (although the finish was gritty, it does need topcoat) but it just wasn't as awesome as I thought it should be.
I also did more snooker nails - the yellow and blue is the setting of the snooker World Champs this year (they had a blue carpet and a yellow side wall, with arches cut out at the bottom), the thumb is obviously the triangle of reds, and the accent nail is my attempt at the World Championship trophy using a Barry M Silver nail art pen. The other colours are Barry M - Cobalt Blue, Yellow, Spring Green and Red.
I was very excited to see at the weekend that Boots is now stocking Butter London! I have seen Butter London polishes on blogs and been very impressed. I have also tried Knackered, and liked it, so I was very keen to try out some more. Tonight I have Disco Biscuit to show you.
Disco Biscuit is a very sheer, bright pink, with lots of tiny purpley-blue glitter particles. This is two coats of Barry M Shocking Pink as a base (because Disco Biscuit really is sheer!) and then two coats of Disco Biscuit, and two coats of topcoat. Disco Biscuit does dry rather dull and a little rough, so I found you really do have to pile on the top coat.
I think this is pretty, without it blowing me away. I was expecting a bit more, somehow. Formula was fine, although perhaps it could be less sheer. And the glitter just wasn't as visible as I'd hoped.
Butter London polishes are available in larger branches of Boots, for £12 each. I was a bit shocked at the price, I have to say! That's twice the price of a China Glaze, and four times the price of a standard Barry M! If the polish was really amazing I wouldn't mind paying it, but I don't think this is four times nicer than a Barry M.
