Still no pics

Hey guys! Sorry still no pictures have to uy a whole new camera and just haven't had time. I'll get one as soon as possible so that my nail blog looks more like a nail blog. If I could show you pictures I would and I will... eventually. Gotta go now! Lunchtime!

Claire's nail polish

I've been told a number of times about claires nail polish being really suckish but I refused to allow other people to put me off without actually seeing for myself.

I went into Claire's on Saturday and saw their stand of nail polishes. Just looking at the range of colours I immediately thought how can I not love these??!! I bought numbers 26 and 7 but I can't for the life of mee seem to be able to find out the colour names. I know for a fact that there are colour names but I can't find them anywhere.

Anywhoooo, number 7 was a gorgeous lilac with lovely blue reflections when it hits the light. When I applied the first coat, I thought oh god they were all right about claire's being crud. But I would not give up and upon applying the second coat, I had never been happier!! The colour was taking form as its full gorgeousness that I'd hoped for from the bottle colour.

I ended up applying a third coat because I messed up the second while it was drying. I could not believe the result!! It was lovely as in I ahve never felt such an affection for a nail polish!

With that being a success, I decided to try out number 26. In the bottle it looked a shimmery light to medium blue with a violet shimmer. I fell in love with this colour the moment I saw it in the shop. But as soon as I began to apply it to my nails, my heart sank.

The colour was immediately more opaque than number 7. I would usually be pleased with this but, because I was expecting a very shimmery colour I felt like I had been misled by the bottle colour. I eventually applied 3 coats hoping that it would make the colour come out but no luck.

I went and had a bath and when my nails were wet I saw the violet shimmer I fell in love with. I finished my bath and went and applied a top coat just hoping that it would have the same affect as the water. And it did!

Still not the colour I was expectiong though. The base colour is much like a creme and form the bottle, that's the last thing you'd expect. Until you apply a top cpoat that's all you see, the quite ordinary blue colour and then afterwards, its nice but it would have been even better than the purple if it had been closer to the bottle colour.

Overall I'm not completely disappointed with claire's. It's a lot better than a lot of people are making it out to be. Number 7 was goooorgeooouuuuus! The blue was misleading but had a good result in the end.

My first entry!!

Helloooo everybody!!! My name is Nancy and this is my new blog. My real name isn't really Nancy, it's Hannah but a load of my friends suddenly decided that I looked like a Nancy soooo I guess it stuck.
I hope for this to be a nail blog as soon as I get my camera sorted out but until then I going to give you snapshots of my life and that's the etc. part of Nancy's nails etc.
I can't wait to get started and tell you guys loads!!