Nail Polish Addicts Anonymous

starrystarry

lilly1972 wrote: »

i love the nails ladies mine are starting to grow back know so i can start painting them again soon. is it this week the gosh nail polish comes out?

Indeed, get in line.

iamashoppingaddict

Ohhh thanks for the reminder, fingers crossed that it launches online too!!!

MulberryPeony

Oooh loving all the purples. I don't have many purples actually - I'd really like something greyed out and pale.

Here is my rather outrageous indigo/violet entry:

Using a-england Lady of The Lake and Tristam. See my blog for more details and a pic from the back http://1008hollywalkpark.wordpress.com/

I_wanna_live_for_free

MulberryPeony wrote: »

Oooh loving all the purples. I don't have many purples actually - I'd really like something greyed out and pale.

Here is my rather outrageous indigo/violet entry:

Using a-england Lady of The Lake and Tristam. See my blog for more details and a pic from the back http://1008hollywalkpark.wordpress.com/

WOW! That is amazing! Love it!

starrystarry

Gorgeous! (Wouldn't last five minutes on me though, I'm far too clumsy.)

MulberryPeony

Haha starry. My five year old made one with a black nail and gold (a-england Princess Sabra) bow with some Hidden Treasure thrown on for good measure and didn't even make it down the stairs to show daddy before it came off.

dragonette

Hi all, I was hoping to pick your lovely brains for some advice.

I recently had my first professional manicure (on sat) and it has definately resparked my interest in looking after my nails. I've been reading this thread but there's just so much of it! I have now learned that the tips should have been wrapped and that I know nothing about cuticle care or filing, just which colours I like!:o

As I work outside my nails get pretty beaten up - what type of file would be good for nails that split easily? I'm also assuming I need a fairly strong nail polish and top coat, my nails get badly scratched. They don't get very long before splitting either.

I don't know how to post pics, I've got a lovely purple on if its the right colour this week. An OPI with irridesence and shimmer though it. Silly me forgot to check the name on the bottle when picking it

iamashoppingaddict

News flash - OPI spotted coming to the UK October!!

starrystarry

dragonette wrote: »

Hi all, I was hoping to pick your lovely brains for some advice.

I recently had my first professional manicure (on sat) and it has definately resparked my interest in looking after my nails. I've been reading this thread but there's just so much of it! I have now learned that the tips should have been wrapped and that I know nothing about cuticle care or filing, just which colours I like!:o

As I work outside my nails get pretty beaten up - what type of file would be good for nails that split easily? I'm also assuming I need a fairly strong nail polish and top coat, my nails get badly scratched. They don't get very long before splitting either.

I don't know how to post pics, I've got a lovely purple on if its the right colour this week. An OPI with irridesence and shimmer though it. Silly me forgot to check the name on the bottle when picking it

Hi!

Ideally you need a crystal file, Leighton Denny's are very popular but I believe the OPI ones are good too. Using a crystal file will help to prevent splitting/flaking/peeling. I guess if you work outside you'll need to keep your nails fairly short. What do you do?

dragonette

Hi Starry, I'm an archaeologist so work varies but can include a lot of manual labour. I find digging gravels and boulder clay especially damaging. Will def need a good file, ty for the recommendation my nails don't need to be short, its just difficult to grow them longer than 3mm past the finger tip.

The surface of the nail gets badly scratched so I'm hoping to keep a top coat etc on to protect them