CrowsToes I Make The Path

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I hope everyone had a great Valentine's Day! My dogs made great V-day dates!!! After I put wee Buster to bed, Charlie and I even had some uninterrupted cuddles for once!!! (Buster loves to jump up on to my lap and push Charlie out of the way whenever I'm giving him attention, jealous much?!)
Anyone else have a fur-baby date instead of a 'real' one?

My friend Sparkly encouraged me to get I Make The Path by CrowsToes. She thought it was spectacular and I was on the fence until I saw her swatches. And to be honest I was still umming and ahhing over it once it arrived but now that I've finally worn it... Boy am I glad I listened!!!!

CrowsToes I Make The Path over Elevation Polish Alphubel

I Make The Path is a mix of blue, gold and silver glitters in a clear base. Some are holo, the light blue ones are matte, and some are square - they are all perfect! And IMTP is packed with glitter, so I only needed 1 coat over Alphubel for fantastic coverage. It went all super smooth with one coat of Glitter Gloss too.

I don't have many CrowsToes, but I Make The Path is possibly my favourite. Even over Cheshire!!!!

Which CrowsToes is your fave?

xxx

NPA

Crows Toes Cheshire is the "be all and end all" of purple glitters

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If you do not own Cheshire by Crows Toes, please SPRINT (don't walk or run or jog), to Llarowe or Overall Beauty IMMEDIATELY!

Crows Toes Cheshire over Elevation Pic du Gar

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 Cheshire is a mix purple, fuchsia, silver holo, and yellow glitters in a clear uncut suspension base. It's on the thick side, but I had absolutely no issues with application and I got great coverage in 1 coat (over Pic du Gar), so the thickness does not bother me in the slightest. Crows Toes lacquers are designed to be thinned to your liking, so you end up with tons and tons of glitter packed in to every bottle. The glow from the yellow and silver holo glitter just pushes Cheshire over the edge to the INCREDIBLE WINS of 2012 category.

The large fuchsia hexes and yellow medium hexes are sparser than the smaller holo, purple and fuchsia glitters, but they were still easy to get on the nail. I didn't have to do any glitter placing or dabbing, I just had to push back a few glitters that were hanging over my free edge. Cheshire is a bit chunky so I topped my mani off with 1 coat of Glitter Gloss and INM Out the Door (which I love for the hard shell it gives my manis with zero shrinkage).

Elevation Polish Pic du Gar

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I used Pic du Gar as the base for Cheshire. It's a semi-satin finish warm purple jelly from Elevation Polish's Pyrenees Collection. This is the sort of purple with red undertones that is seriously up my alley. I used 3 coats for perfect coverage, because with 2, it was a little thinner around my cuticles. If I had waited a bit longer between coats I could have made 2 work.

You can get Pic du Gar from Elevation Polish on Big Cartel or Etsy and I'm pretty sure it's still in stock. But please note that Lulu is on vacation til the 22nd September so the stores are temporarily closed.

God I love wearing a glitter top coat that isn't filled with those awful, hairy bars! I thought I had finally gotten on board with the trend, but I've recently realised I can only handle short, thin bar glitter. The rest just makes me angry!!!! Bring back exclusively hex glitter top coats please Indies!!!! Novelty shaped glitter has started to grow on me though. I've been yearning for some cute butterfly and heart glitter lacquers this week!

Hope your weekends are treating you well.
If you live in NZ make sure you enter my NZ Giveaway. You will have a pretty good chance of winning. Tell your friends!

xxx
NPA

Crows Toes Bunny Slope/Angel Paint & Orly Pixie Dust

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Hello ladies,

I had a lovely day at work! The kids were almost well behaved and I managed to while away the hours by supervising them outside and then playing some Uno! I also got to help them make skyscraper book marks and watched Matilda!!!!!! The best Roald Dahl movie adaptation ever!
Who can honestly say that Trunchbull doesn't scare the be-jesus out of them?!!!!
I forgot how good Danny Devito is in it too :)

I just looked up Mara Wilson (Matilda) and it turns out that she won't be making a comeback to the big screen any time soon. What a pity! She doesn't like making films - well not mainstream blockbusters anyway - but I think she's still doing theatre. Something tells me that she'd be good in a Juno type roll.

I have recently got my hands on lots of the Crows Toes range (thanks to a Sparkly friend) and have been experimenting with different layering combinations. I actually got this particular one from Llarowe, but it took a little time for me to try it out! Enjoy.

Crows Toes Bunny Slope/Angel Paint over Orly Pixie Dust

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Bunny Slope is a mix of fine white (matte), opal (iridescent) and silver (holo) glitter in a clear base. It's so beautiful and delicate! I applied 1 coat over Pixie Dust and the coverage was excellent. I'd quite like to try it on its own.

Orly Pixie Dust

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Pixie Dust was one of the earliest polishes I owned (once I started hoarding!). And it'll never get old! It's a blue grey with white flakie shimmer - freaking amazing - my favourite finish of all time. I can't remember if it's a 2 or 3 coater, but the formula is a wee bit thick, which me likey.

I'm edging closer and closer to the 35o follower mark and once I get there, I will be hosting a giveaway or two! This time it's set in stone. So get a friend or two to follow me through GFC and you'll be away laughing on a fast camel!

xxx

NPA

CrowsToes Murder by Numbers

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It was a LONG day!

But after work I got to sit down and polish my nails in a warm lounge, that smelled of yummy roast!!
It's always great when my flat mate's mum visits. She cooks and bakes and cleans!!!! Of course, I'm on a diet so I can't eat any of it, but I can live vicariously :)

Also, my Elevation Polish order was waiting for me when I got home! I missed out on the ones I really wanted (like Marble Caves!!! and Pic de Subenuix!) but I picked up some really great ones too!

L-R: Higravstinden, Sample 122A, Everest, Pic du Gar, Sarychev

And I have a CrowsToes to show you all today. I wanted Murder by #'s (formally Herat Breaker), since I saw it on Stef's blog in April! Once Llarowe started stocking the CrowsToes line I was in like Flynn!

CrowsToes Murder by #'s

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Murder by #'s is a beautiful aubergine purple with emerald green duochrome shimmer, fine silver holo glitter and green glitter in different sizes.

It's so gorgeous, I could not capture the amazing-ness!! The formula is pretty darn good and if you let it dry in between coats you can probably get away with just 2 coats. I rushed mine so ended up with 3 for these photos. The only problem is this dries gritty because the glitter isn't in a suspension base. After 1 layer of Glitter Gloss and 1 layer of NYC quick dry top coat it was still textured looking up close :(

But really, only I could tell :)

I also have Bunny Slope! So watch out for that.

xxx

NPA