Showing posts with label introduction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label introduction. Show all posts

Monday, 17 October 2011

Hello!

Hello!  Welcome to my brand spanking new nail blog!   Let me introduce myself: I'm Elanor, I'm in my (not at all late, definitely not!) thirties, I live in a small town in Derbyshire with a couple of cats and far too many bottles of nail varnish.  I work in an office, I like going camping, I do modern jive dancing and like reading novels about Scandinavian detectives or a nice apocalypse, and can't understand why nobody has yet written a series of novels about a Scandinavian detective in a post apocalyptic world...

I used to have a relatively "normal" approach to nail varnish: I had a few bottles, a couple of pinks and reds, maybe a clear and a black, a glitter or two. I painted my nails every so often, if I was bored, or if I was going somewhere special. Then somehow, in the last year, I have become totally obsessed. My collection has gone from "a few" to "quite a few" to "oh, that's quite a lot of nail varnish!" to "OMG woman, you need a whole special set of shelves just for all that nail varnish!"


I then discovered nail blogs, and my eyes were opened to a whole new world - I found out about all these fancy brands that either aren't available in the UK, or are hard to get, or that cost FAR more than I'd ever considered paying for a bottle of nail varnish. I realised there were a million colours out there that I absolutely HAD to have, and crazy, inspired techniques and ideas that I thought I'd never be able to copy but I just had to try.

So, the aim of this blog is just to join in a bit, and to share my nail varnish obsession from a UK-based point of view. My nails are nowhere near as neat or fabulous as many of the other bloggers that I love, but I'm learning!

I'll start with a proper post tomorrow, but for now, here's a photo of last week's nails:




This is China Glaze Reggae to Riches, with Barry M Lavender Hexograms over the top, both new polishes for me. The China Glaze looked fab on its own, very shimmery and smooth, but I was tired and the weather was grey and depressing, so I felt the need for glitter!  The Barry M was incredibly sparkly in the light, I had to keep stopping to look at my nails!

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