Talon-tastic Thursday: Tardy vintage-feeling mix

It's high time the classic retro colour combo of mint and peach made a comeback, and I've been doing my bit over the last couple of days with this manicure. I've had loads of compliments on it - even my surgeon commented that he thought they were the coolest nails he'd ever seen and called his clinic manager in to check them out - which has been a nice and much needed ego boost.

My look post-treatment on Tuesday has been very walking dead, complete with very bloodshot eyeballs (turns out those thumbs from last week were pretty close to the mark) so my strategy is to make sure everyone's too distracted by my awesome nails to bother looking at my eyes.

I started with a base coat of OPI Start To Finish and then used...

Thumb: Eyeko Rain (discontinued)
Index finger: Clarins Blanc French (discontinued) with Claire's Accessories CM241 (snot green) and Eyeko Rain (pattern is my attempt at Sophie's vintage-y floral print, which is amazing)
Middle finger: Rimmel Peppermint with H&M gold
Ring finger: Barry M Peach Melba
Little finger: Clarins Blanc French

I pulled out a Sally Hansen nail art pen for the black detailing and then whacked on a layer of Seche Vite to set everything nicely. I'm really pleased with how well it's lasted: I did this manicure on Monday night and as of today there's just one solitary paint chip. Wahey!

Can you tell where it is yet? I accidentally caught the index finger on my right hand in a door (ow) and completely bent back the nail in question (OW!), so it's fairly incredible that the polish was the only casualty.

PS: Apologies for the gammy looking watermarks, but one of my lovely readers emailed me the other day to let me know that another blogger was passing off one of my manicures as her own - cheeky or what? The offending post was removed as soon as I asked for it to be taken down but even so...

Thanks again for the heads up VanillaLime x

Talon-tastic Thursday*: Eye eye!

I'm having laser eye surgery on Tuesday - finally! - so I'm eye obsessed at the minute. I was going to go for the full complement of eyeballs, but decided they were a bit freaky looking so settled on a design inspired by the nazar (Turkish amulet which protects against the evil eye) with eyeball accent thumbs instead.

It turned out pretty well, I think, but I just can't shake the feeling that the nazar design reminds me of something else...

Ah. Oyster card. Well, at least my fingers will look appropriately coordinated when it gets flashed during any public transport outings this weekend.


* I know, I know!

Topshop EDITED by Lynnie*

I have a dress to return to Topshop, and despite searching high and low and everywhere in between, I can't find the receipt anywhere. GAH. The good news is they'll do an on-the-spot exchange but the bad is they won't give a credit note, and that means I'll need to have something ready to swap before I head to the counter.

Looking through their latest A/W drop online to find a suitable garment, I think that my biggest problem will be getting out the door with just that one exchanged item.

1. Leopard print scarf, £16
2. Knitted sequin star jumper, £46
3. Bronze sequin front vest, £32
4. Metallic scallop mini skirt, £38
5. Sequin pencil skirt, £45
6. Glitter platform sandals (Miu Miu-tastic!), £80


* Hey. If Susie Bubble can do it...

An excuse for cake. And shoes. (AS IF one was needed.)

  

{source: The Curious Confectioner}

Did you remember that last Thursday was this blog's 6th birthday?

No. No, of course you fecking didn't.

Well, don't worry that you completely forgot and didn't even bother your arse to send a card, let alone bake a cupcake with an edible chocolate bird on top... because I got my dates mixed up and thought that it was on Saturday. 

Oops.

Anyway, I picked up a little birthday/anniversary/bloggiversary present for it from all of us to help ease the pain.

 

 

What?

Did you not know that a blog's favourite gift is shoes in my size?

I just wanted to take the opportunity to thank you all for your support, for reading and commenting and, er, putting up with a very basic site design that hasn't changed since 2005. Who knows: maybe this is the year I'll finally get organised and spruce things up around here.

Lynnie x