Zoya Kelly Gets The Cheeky Holo Treatment

Hi Goddesses

Today I have another great non-musical pattern for you from the Musical plate from the Cheeky Jumbo series (plate 5).

Zoya Kelly makes the perfect backdrop in many ways - gorgeous though she is, she's almost the deadpan partner in this mani, and looks great and aloof against all the shizz going on around her.

The shizz is mainly Color Club Blue Heaven, and this amazing linked square pattern - I'd love a necklace like this!

They play beautifully off each other, with the blue holo just subtle enough, and looking like pure spectraflair against the stormy backdrop of Kelly.

I'm a huge fan of this Cheeky plate.  Whilst it has some definite musical images on it, I love the ones like this that are more generic - they're all winners.

Enjoy xx :)

Crumpet's Top 10 Polishes of All Time

Nails I Love

Hi Goddesses

I don't know about you, but I love lists.  Favourites, weirdest, funniest, I love it all.  This is the first of what's going to be quite a series, not only my Top 10 Polishes of All Time, but there will be separate features on my favourite blues, red, pinks etc as well as glitters and effects.

Each entry will also link back to it's original post, so that you can see it in all its glory or read my little ramblings lol.

I'm going to start with Part 1 of my Top 10 - and I hope this will change every month or so as a new beauty catches my eye.  To get maximum suspense out of the situation, we’re going to go in reverse order, from No 10 up to No 6 … mwahahahahahaha J

10. SALLY HANSEN – Mystic Lilac - here

My holy grail of nail varnishes is always to find the perfect lilac-grey-taupe and oh my god does Mystic Lilac deliver.  Stop the clocks, the search is over J  Mystic Lilac is amaaaaaazing.  Its beyond gorgeous.

Mystic Lilac is a greige base with some lilac / lavender applied.  There is no bright whiteness here – just a whole lotta sludge going on.  This is a dirty girl’s lilac.   A swampy lilac.  A concrete lilac.  A lilac porridge.

It’s dusty and murky in tone with just that beautiful lilac hue and then …. It has green glass flecks.  Teeny tiny itsy bitsy flecks that catch the light and turn it into an elfin masterpiece.   This is the colour the rebellious teenage elves would wear in ElfLand to match their dirty blonde hair and their grass-stained knees.

9.  OPI Planks A Lot - here

One thing you can always rely on from OPI, a super glossy crème that spreads like butter and shines like moonlight.  From the Pirates of The Caribbean collection, Planks is pretty much the perfect lilac.  Subtle, but not pale; deep, but not overly rich; colourful, but not overpowering; juicy, but not sickly. 

Every time I wear this, I stare and stare and stare at my nails.  It’s the ultimate in elegant, aloof prettiness.

8.  China Glaze – MUMMY MAY I - here

I found this totally by accident on eBay, but as I can never have enough purples, thought “what the hell” and added it to my order.   In the bottle, it is super pretty, devilish and full of voodoo.  A purplish black base, flecked with violet, on the nail this looks like blackcurrant crush, the clash of the bruised skin mixing with the sweet inner juices.

This, girls, is BEYOND magical.

7.  Sally Hansen – CONCRETE - here

Sally Hansen’s Concrete is delicious.  She’s soft, she’s feminine, she’s subtle – she’s awesome!  Concrete is a super-soft fairy-lite taupe with barely there lilac overtones.  She’s like a pastel version of one of my all-time faves, OPI’s Parlez Vous OPI.

The perfect taupe is one of my polish Holy Grails, and Concrete has just about ended it.  She’s such a perfect blend of the cool and the warm, the aloof and the luscious, the greige and the lilac.  This is one delicious babe.

6.  Zoya KELLY - here

Kelly is an amazing melodrama of a polish. A deep dark plume of darkest grey smoke with purple and bluish tinges, this colour stops traffic, and heralded the start of the recent grey / smokey colours.

Kelly is fabulous and twisted in a conventional yet unconventional way.  She’s dark, indigo-hearted and perfect for wintry nights.

So, which polishes do you think made it into my Top 5 ????  And what are your favourites ?

Enjoy :)  xx

Zoya KELLY - Timeless Perfection

Nails I Love

ZOYA – Kelly

Hi Goddesses

Zoya’s Kelly is the 2^nd polish I have decided to reboot, because my original post is just tooooooo woeful lol.  She’s probably the first example of a polish that really opened my eyes to how amazing a colour can be, and dragged my ass out of it’s favourite pinky-reddy-browny rut.

Kelly is from Zoya’s WONDERFUL Collection of 2010 and is a traffic-stopping drama of a colour.  Darker on the finger than in the bottle, it’s a dark plume of purple smoke – deep, mysterious and totally unlike any other colour.

personally, i think the time stamp makes the photo waaaay better :)

Kelly is a smoky purple on top of a dark grey base.  Under certain lights there are some real petrol blue tones in here as well.  It’s an undefinable melodrama of a colour, and I really don’t get why Zoya thought they had to reinvent the wheel and create Petra, when Kelly is already one of the amazingest polishes of all time anyway.

Kelly is perfect for dark nights.  She’s not grey, nor purple, nor blue, but some new invention inbetween.  She screams for chunky knits and heavy boots and roaring fires, unlike her twinset and pearls twin, Caitlin.  Is she a blackened indigo, or a dark indigo denim ?  Maybe.

Either way, and however you try to define her, you’ll find there’s one word that’s essential – stunning.

Enjoy xx J

NAILS I LOVE - Zoya - KELLY

Nails I Love

Nails I Love is written to celebrate some of the most beautiful nail varnishes on earth and to help you choose which colours and styles will suit you. 

Each posting will feature details about the colour as well as photos.  I guarantee every photo will show the varnish as it looks on your fingers, otherwise, what’s the point ? 

Top Tip – if you’re ever unsure what a nail colour looks like, go to Google images, which will give you plenty of contrasts and compares.

ZOYA – Kelly

Kelly is from Zoya’s WONDERFUL Collection of 2010 and is a traffic-stopping drama of a colour.  Darker on the finger than in the bottle, it’s a dark plume of purple smoke – deep, mysterious and totally unlike any other colour.

Kelly is a smoky purple on top of a dark grey base.

The index finger has been shattered with CHINA GLAZE Latticed Lilac Crackle (I prefer China Glaze to OPI for crackle / shatter as it seems to give more a more varied effect).