Tara's Talons Clowning Around with hand placed glitter

Tara's Talons Clowning Around is another polish in my Autumn colour palette and it is a spectacular polish to put on if you only have time for a single polish with no nail art. I used three coats below. I love the varied colours and sizes of glitter in the polish which give it a really unique look.

I wore this polish alone for a day and then added a hand placed glitter nail. I haven't done hand placed glitter for ages but I love the effect you get with it. I started with the middle stripe and then worked outwards from there.

I used two coats of topcoat over the glitter to seal it in (although I still picked off a couple of pieces over the course of an evening).

Unfortunately my middle nail broke while I was doing some heavy lifting so tomorrow I will be debuting rounded/almond nails for the first time on the blog in my Indian design. This pots is also part of UK Indie Month which you can see through the inkslinks below.

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Pocket Money Polishes Fever Nail Art

I was totally overwhelmed by the response to my Electric Fish mani on Sunday! Thank you to everyone who commented telling me how much they liked it :). Today I am showing you some nail art featuring another Pocket Money Polish- Fever. I am an amateur singer and Fever is one of the songs I used to perform so it holds a special place in my heart. Fever is a gorgeous glitter topper with small red glitter, silver holographic square glitter and large red circle glitter. Because the bottles are so small (4ml) you only need to dip your brush in a couple of times to get the circles out which I prefer to fishing around. You are seeing one coat with placed large circle glitters.

The base colour for this is A England Bridal Veil and I stamped with Barry M Silver Foil. I chose the peacock's tail from the plate for the silver flourish

I also entered this manicure into PMP's contest for photos of their polishes with you holding weird things so here is this manicure with me holding a trilobite (a fossilised marine creature from 250 million years ago).

One of the best things about manicures with stamping and glitter accents is that it is relatively straight forward to get matching nail art on both hands. I am having a glitter topper moment right now and I can't get enough of the Pocket Money Polishes that I own (and I stocked up on a couple more at the latest restock including a one off called Harden your Heart) if you want to get hold of your own click here in the UK and here in the USA (USA is a pop up shop in September).
As a bonus end of post treat here is Peggy Lee singing Fever:

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My escalating love for Ascalon

A England's Ascalon arrived and it is beautiful beyond my wildest dreams. It is grey duotoned with violet and also with a holo finish. And my top coat doesn't change the effect of it at all. I am in love! And even with all the above going on I still think this is mature and subtle enough to wear in a professional context. This is my desert disks luxury. These pictures were taken with two coats of the polish and a top coat (not necessary but I prefer quick dry as it prevents me smudging my nails.)

Ascalon in it's grey form- you can sort of make out the lilac shine on my middle finger

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