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Too Fancy Lacquer Champagne Cocktail.
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Too Fancy Lacquer Champagne Cocktail.
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Hi Goddesses
And Happy New Year! I wish you all the very best for this year - I hope that whatever it is that you're seeking, you find the opportunity, the will, the luck or the sheer courage to go for it. Go on, you deserve it!
We start this year with possibly the most elegant mani I have ever done, and I know Denise from Adventures In Stamping has been waiting for this for a looooooong time :)
The base is the epic and legendary OPI Parlez Vous OPI, a perfect smokey dark lilac that just always looks perfect. It works really well with my skin tone too.
I then stamped using Too Fancy Lacquer Champagne Cocktail and MoYou Artist Collection 09. The overall effect is exquisite.
One of the things I particularly love about this mani, is how the pattern is *just* thick enough to really capture the holo of Champagne Cocktail. THEN CC soaks up a little bit of its base, and translates it into pinky gold in some lights - it's just utterly divine.
I absolutely love this mani. The benchmark has been set. Do NOT fall below this Crumpet, do NOT. And if I do? Call me on it!
Hi Goddesses
Welcome to Christmas Eve, the best day of the year! I love Christmas Eve - the anticipation, tracking Santa with Norad ... THIS is where the magic is.
Whether you celebrate or not, I want to wish you the very best of holiday seasons. Thank you to each and every one of you who has followed this mad blog this year - you are ALL appreciated more than you will ever know, and I hope Santa rewards you accordingly :)
I have a relatively simple mani today. On base we have the lovely OPI Underneath The Mistletoe, a port-coloured fleck which is truly beautiful.
Stamping - again - comes from Champagne Cocktail by Too Fancy Lacquer. It's proving itself a very valuable addition to my stash!
And finally, this uses Pueen 15 for the stamp, although I know I have a very similar pattern on one of my MoYou Sailor plates.
That's it for me for now. I'll be back on Boxing Day to start counting down my blogs of the year, and yours. I'm off to put more sherry in the trifle - however you spend your next few days, enjoy xx :)
Hi Goddesses
Ok, this is *half* the post you've been waiting for :) I know a lot of you are eager to see how glorious Champagne Cocktail is on the nail. If that's you, tonight's your night.
I know another group of you are DYING to see how it stamps. If that's you, tonight's NOT your night, but you should be happy by the weekend. Oh, and by the way, the answer is - "like a champ".
In a word, Champagne Cocktail is spectacular. I wasn't really expecting to like it, as gold is a colour I never wear except for nail art, but this is some very special gold.
CC is a gold to copper holo, opaque in one coat. There's a duochrome quality to it too - look how it flicks rose gold in some lights, and cools to lemon in others.
I adore the photos of this polish, and can't stare at them enough. This is going to be on my nails a LOT over the holiday period.
If you haven't yet, you can buy Too Fancy Lacquer HERE and follow on Facebook HERE.
