Golden Oldies Thursday: Valentines

I haven't been able to take part in Golden Oldies Thursday for a while because I've been super busy.  Crumpet's Nail Tarts are doing a Valentine's Day theme this week so I thought I'd join in.

My manicure is very simple.  I used Lac Attack's Amortentia from her Magical Musing's collection.  I love love her polish, they were the first indies I ever bought.  It's a beautiful pink glitter topper and finished off with a silver heart stud on my pointers.

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Golden Oldies Thursday: Blue

The rules of Golden Oldies is that we must use a polish that is at least 1 year old.  According to my Time Hop - this polish was ordered exactly one year ago, so I think it counts!

Lac Attack was the launch of my love for Indie Polishes.  I stayed up this time one year ago for a restock to make sure I could get my hands on her Magical Musings set after seeing them over on Nailasaurus and because of my love of Harry Potter (of course).

Durmstang is a fantastic blue that I don't give enough credit for.  It's a rich, metallically blue that has shards of black in them.  The polish applies really well.  My results are 3 coats of Durmstrang over two coats of white and two top coats of Poshe (which I love love love).

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Golden Oldies Thursday: Stripes

So this week's Golden Oldies Thursday challenge is Stripes.  I was determined to join in this week after failing at the Tri-Polish challenge.  I went to watch Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Tuesday so I think I can be forgiven!

If you're not clued up on the Golden Oldies Thursday challenge - a reminder of the rules can be found here.

I had a dig through my stash and found a couple of Avon polishes.

These are called Sea Breeze and Lemon Sugar.  They're lovely colours but I bought them ages ago and don't use them very often because they're very thin and need quite a few coats to make them work.

So here is my stripe manicure.  I painted my nails Sea Breeze with an accent of Lemon Sugar then striped the accent and middle finger with alternate colours.  I freehanded these stripes.

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Golden Oldies Thursday: Pink

Another day, another new nail polish challenge.  This is another of Crumpet's Nail Tarts challenges - Golden Oldies Thursday.

The rules are simple:

• The polish you use should be at least one year old.
• If you haven't been a polishaholic that long, you can use the older polishes you have
• The polish should be previously used, but if you're stuck, you could free a yearling from Mount Untried
• You can use more than 1 polish as long as it fits the theme and the rules.

So this week's challenge is pink.  I had a long look at my stash and finally spotted an OPI pink that has been there for so long, it's got wrinkles.  It's called Sparrow Me the Drama from the Pirates of the Caribbean range.  So actually, the polish is from 2011 which makes it super old!  I also found a tub of flocking powder which, although it's quite old.

I thought I'd do some fancy nail art with the flocking powder and striping tape.  I applied two coats of Sparrow Me the Drama then Insta-Dry over the top.  Once it dried I applied the striping tape in random patterns then added another layer of Insta-dry then the flocking powder.  But, by the time I'd applied the flocking powder, patted it down and got rid of any excess, the polish was too dry and it was very difficult to get rid of the tape without ruining the design.

So my nails looked like a muppet that had been mauled.  But I thought I'd share the pictures anyway, just so you can have a laugh!

Everyone else has done some fantastic designs so you should go and take a look.

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