Freckles Polish - Kicking Up Leaves

You may remember that I posted recently about winning a couple of prizes in the Digit-al Dozen giveaway. I posted about one of my prizes, Laquerdaisical Jaffa Fake, here.  Tonight I'm showing you the other!  I won a polish of my choice from Freckles Polish, plus a matching pendant!

Freckles Polish is a UK indie brand, made by Julieann, and can be found on her Etsy shop here. She has some gorgeous colours, but I chose this beautiful brownish gold holo called Kicking Up Leaves. 

Kicking Up Leaves is a stunner! This is two coats, with topcoat.  Application was perfect, and it dried easily.  

Isn't it lovely? So perfectly autumnal. In general office light it looks like a nice tasteful, natural colour, but then in sunlight or more direct light, it really comes alive with the linear holo particles. 

I like this so much! I've worn it for two days running as well, and it still looks perfect. No chips or peels or tip wear or anything.

The necklace is really nice too. It's more ornate than the things I usually wear, but I think that works really well with the colour. 

 

If you haven't already entered my birthday giveaway, you can do so here - entries are open for another week. 

 
 
    

BPS Guitar Ring & Stars + Stripes Stamping

Since I became a Springsteen fan a few years back, I've become kind of obsessed with stuff with guitars on, and when I saw this ring on the Born Pretty Store website, I had to have it!

I mean - look at it! It's fun and silly and sparkly, what more do you want?

This is a cheap, adjustable, two-finger ring. It's not precious metals or gemstones or anything fancy, it's just a bit of fun. It cost me under $2, which is even better value than the fun kind of jewellery that I seem to keep buying from Claire's Accessories, even though I am 41 and not 14... 

The red is Barry M Blood Orange, and the blue is Barry M Blue Grape. I stamped over them with Konad white and MoYou London plates Pro 01 (the stripes) and Pro 09 (the stars) and then over that with Konad black using MoYou plate Rockstar 01 (the guitars). I'm a bit disappointed that the large guitar over my thumb and index finger doesn't show more clearly, but oh well!

I love the ring though! It's not the sort of thing I'd wear every day, or to work, but it is fun, and if and when there are any more Bruce shows to go to, I will have something to wear. 

I bought this from the Born Pretty Website with my own money. I can't find it on the website today - I think it may be out of stock. But they do have loads of cool, fun rings (click here to see!), all of which you can get 10% off using my discount code. They still have my cool Doctor Who ring (see post here)!

 

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Doctor Who Ring! And Fifth Doctor Nails!

I don't know how I've managed this, but somehow I have NEVER posted any Doctor Who nails! This is despite the fact that I am a fan (especially of classic 'old' Who) and that I have definitely done Who nails on more than one occasion. So now I'm remedying that. 

I bought this ring from the Born Pretty Store recently - it's described as "Question Mark Shaped Ring", but we all know that means DOCTOR WHO!  It's only $1.59 too, which puts even Claire's Accessories to shame (and I love their cheapy jewellery!) 

To go with this, I did nails inspired by my favourite Doctor - the Fifth. I love him LOTS. He had a lovely crickety outfit with lots of beige, and I ADORED him.  (Photo: BBC)

This is a base of Barry M Pearl (the white one from the Silk range), with stripes made using striping tape and Barry M Truffle and Crush - these are Five's trousers. For the accent nail, I used a base of Pearl, which I taped off and then added Essie Allure for his jumper. I used a Barry M nail art pen in black, and Crush again (with a striping brush) for the jumper details. I then added a matte topcoat.

While I know these aren't perfect, I'm pretty happy with them - I've been wanting to do Fifth Doctor nails for quite a long time and now I have, so I'm happy. And I LOVE this ring! It's really cute, and feels nice and solid too, so I'll definitely get some wear out of it.  

You can of course still use my discount code if you want 10% off any BPS items:

 

Ruby Wing UV Sensitive Glitter - Gold & Brown Nails

I've posted both these polishes before on my blog, but I was a bit lacking in inspiration today.  This is Jacava Chocolate Melts, with an accent nail of Ruby Wing Strawberry Shortcake, and some studs.

Indoors, Strawberry Shortcake is a beautiful sparkly gold glitter, with various extra colours in there giving lots of extra sparkle.  

In the sunshine, the clear base for the glitter changes colour, becoming a rusty browny red colour.   

Even outdoors in the shade, there's a distinct colour shift. 

I wore this with the ring that I made from the same polish a couple of weeks ago (full post here), which also changes in the sunlight. 

I do love this combination!

 

More Nail Varnish Jewellery!

My first nail varnish jewellery post on here is my most-viewed post ever, by a very long way, and my other posts also have high view count, so I'm guessing there are still lots of people out there who like nail varnish jewellery!  I've been at a bit of a loose end this week, as I'm off work until next Monday, and I had some fabulous glitters sitting on my desk.... so I made some more jewellery!

The ring bases and glass cabochons are from an American shop called Beadaholique, who also sell on Amazon UK. I bought these some time ago but hadn't got round to using them yet. 

First up, I liked my Models Own Midori jelly sandwich so much that I made it into a ring.

I love how this looks, as it's not overtly glittery and sparkly, it's more subdued and interesting, I think.

Next is one of the Firework collection, Models Own Rocket.  I backed this with black to make it stand out. 

This one IS sparkly! 

This ring is made with Barry M's Superdrug Christmas 2013 Limited Edition. You can see from the state of the bottle how much I like this one!

It's ridiculously sparkly in the light.

The last one is Ruby Wing Strawberry Shortcake. I love this polish, so I made a pendant and a ring to match.  

The gold glitter is dense and super sparkly, and changes colour from a bright gold to a rusty pink gold in the sunshine (not that we have much of that today) and also smells of strawberry shortcake. 

 

What do you think? 

 
 

Jade Holografico - Magia Negra - and another ring!

So this is the third of my Jade holos from Sally Magpies - Magia Negra (Black Magic).  This is three coats, no topcoat.

As with the others, formula is excellent - smooth and even, dries fast with a glossy finish, and lasts well.  

In normal light this is a nice charcoal shade of dark grey-black, with some glimpses of multicoloured shimmer. Get a bright light on it though, and it goes bananas! There's a whole rainbow in there!






I liked this so much I made yet another ring to go with it. Again, normal light.... 

and bright light...

I apologise for my dry skin. I swear I moisturised my hands about ten dozen times before taking these. What can I say? It's just very cold recently!

Jade Mystic Gold - in a Ring!

I liked yesterday's Mystic Gold so much that I had to make a ring!

I love it! So sparkly! I love that in the right light, it shows blue and green and yellow and red as well as gold...

I give up! I'm going to have to go back to Sally Magpies and buy more from this range!

More Nail Varnish Jewellery!

I hadn't made any new jewellery in ages, several months at least. But the Layla holos and some other polishes I've bought recently inspired me to make some more!  So here are six new rings that I made this week.

This is Kleancolor's Born to the Purple. I did make a ring of this before, but it was in a different setting, and the cabochon got water under it, and fell out, so I finally made a new one.

This is Opi Get Your Number.

This is Rimmel Baby Bellini with Fantasy Fire over it:

This is Zoya Blaze:

And this is Layla Purple Illusion:

And last but not least, China Glaze Glitter All the Way (I don't love this on the nails, but I really like it as a ring!)




What do you reckon?