A England Festive Bargains

Festive greetings ladies! This is just a quickie to share some exiting news...AEngland are having an awesome festive sale...It's well worth a look, and as Christmas shades go I can't recommend "Perceval" highly enough. It is quite simply THE perfect metallic red. If by some horrible trick of fate I was forced to choose only one red from my collection to keep then I would pick this one without hesitation. Check out my blog post on Percival for more...

I would also highly recommend Avalon, if like me you live metallic purple then this is also hard beat. I also loved Dragon...

Sadly for me I already have a lot of these and none of the AEngland shades that I've been lemming are this offer but hopefully you'll find a nice bargain amongst them :-)

Go to http://www.a-england.co.uk for details

Klaatu Barada Nikto - by Smitten Polish

Today's NOTD is the utterly jaw-dropping 'Klaatu Barada Nikto' by Smitten Polish.  This satisfies two of my passions - nail polish and geekery as it refers to a line in a classic sci-fi movie that's been used in a ton of pop-culture references included one of my favourite films of all time Army of Darkness.  The fact that this is one of the most astonishing polishes I've ever clapped eyes on is just the icing on the dead-ite cake.

So without further ado....let me introduce you

Smitten Polish - Klaatu Barada Nikto - Artificial Light

KBN is a royal blue/blurple jelly so densly packed with holographic glitter particles that this is possibly the sparkliest polish I own.  It's truly astonishing.  My pictures only capture a fraction of its lustre, it has to be seen to be believed.  Shown here I'm wearing two coats for full opacity, with NE base and two coats of Seche.

Smitten Polish - Klaatu Barada Nikto - Artificial Light - Macro

 

Formula on this was very tricky.  It is so packed with particles, that it applied with a really gritty texture that I struggled a bit with clumping/dragging.  It also dries looking downright nasty - matt, and gritty looking - so you need a nice shiny topcoat to finish it off.  As soon as I laid down the Seche this polish came alive and is just such a pretty finish.  One coat of Seche would have been enough for a perfectly smooth finish, but I used two for extra lustre.  I don't own a liquid sand type polish, but the kind of 'texture' to the un-topcoated polish isn't anything like as textured as one of those polishes so this didn't 'drink' top coat like I've heard those can.

Smitten Polish - Klaatu Barada Nikto - Artificial Light

This polish is just astonishingly beautiful, I'm completely in love.  This is a new brand for me and I'm definitely impressed.  Smitten Polish is a hand-mixed indie polish brand from Missouri, and available through her Etsy store or here in the UK from Rainbow Connection. I got this on sale, and it's now down to £7.50 a bottle so expect it to run out soon.  This polish is definitely going to make my top 10 favourites, I'd highly recommend it....

Smitten Polish - Klaatu Barada Nikto - Natural Light

A-England sale!

A-England are having a summer sale! From 21-26 th August only, for UK customers only, they have 18 shades reduced to £6 each with free postage. There are some amazing shades in there...I'd personally recommend Lady of the Lake and St George. Also, this month's "gem" is Avalon, and is also just £6 for the whole of August. It's utterly fab, I'm wearing it now in fact, and I'll be blogging it soon.  Hurry off to A-England's website and grab yourself a bargain ;-) I have!