Shades of Phoenix - Wild Fire

Hi Goddesses

Today's Shades of Phoenix polish is gorgeous, glorious and GAH !!  Lol.

I do love me some red sparkle, and Wild Fire is perfect.  This is soft in tone, which is a wise move, as it means the polish base never overshadows the glitter action.

And look at that sparkle!  Ah, I die!  This is like a raspberry fruit pastille, dusted with sugar and blackberry dust.    I'm always a sucker for red and purple together, and this is just sublime.

For the stamping I used MoYou Holy Shapes 02 and Mod Lacquer Interstellar Artifact.

Although I love the pattern and the combo, the stamping isn't as proud as I would have liked it, and for me it's a little too subtle.  Better in my head lol.

Shades of Phoenix can be bought here - check back tomorrow for the final gorgeous.

13 Days of Halloween - Super Simple Stamping

Hi Goddesses

I had an awesome day in the nail room yesterday - 9 manis done, and more fun to be had today.

I mentioned last week how I hate the cutesy commercialisation of Halloween, which is why I usualy avoid it as a mani theme, but I have to say, since I've started these 13 posts, I'm having more and more fun.

It also struck me how some of the things I am doing are relatively advanced, so I've decided to throw in some extra posts to make sure that ANYONE can have Halloween styled nails that don't make you throw up lol.

Today is just about as simple as it gets.

Recipe -

* take 1 gorgeous orange polish - I have used MOD Lacquer Interstellar Artifact

* find 1 or 2 cool stamping images - both of mine come from Cheeky Jumbo plate 6

* pick a black stamping polish - I have used MoYou black

Et voila!  Now, I appreciate this post assumes you can stamp (and isn't that the tricky beast to master), but this is a really simple Halloween nail art to pull together.

Check back for more soon!

MOD Lacquer - High Strangeness, Interstellar Artifact, Aerial Phenomenon

Hi Goddesses

Happy Hump Day peoples!  It's starting to get dark and depressing in the UK.  Right now is when I start envying all the Oz girls doing their summer challenges lol - ah, neons.

Anyway, I have 3 polishes for you today from MOD Lacquer, which were sent for review.  All had great formula.  All were amongst the bendiest holos I have ever seen (look at the rainbow rings in the bottle shots) and NONE of them needed top coat for these photos (which explains the tiny dent on my index finger, sorry).

High Strangeness is a super-bendy silver lilac.  This was fairly opaque, and I am sure all 3 of these polishes will stamp well for that very reason.

This looked a little bit different under different lights - sometimes more silvery, sometimes more lilacy.

For those of you still lusting over OPI DS Original and struggling to justify the cost, this is a really good option.  It's less "fine" in terms of the holo pigment used, but very similar in tone and colour.

Interstellar Artifact is a nice warm gold, that looks especially lovely with the dink on the nail.  Dammit, I really wish I'd re-done it.  Sorry.

This is somewhere hotter than gold but cooler than copper, and really interesting as a result.  It's very autumnal too.

This is just so warm and cosy - it speaks of toffee, golden liquers and snuggly evenings.  A lovely glow of a polish.

Aerial Phenomenon is a lovely pink.   Again, this one tries to twist colour on you - sometimes it's definitely darker than at other times.

This is a lovely rose, but with enough cool raspberry edges to make it interesting.

I think this would be really dull if it was "just" rose-pink, but those ice blue tones really add it to its allure.


These polishes were sent to me for an honest review and can be purchased HERE.  For the longest time, Jennifer didn't ship outside the US, so I am delighted she now offers international shipping. I've bought from her before and it's a quality product at a good price.