Lillibet's Jubilee all glittered up

This is one of the Royals Collection trio from Butter London. A wee bag of three polishes, all posh and royal and stuff. And since purple is the royal colour, they are all aspects of that. Total surprise gift as I had asked only for Pitter Patter and my son (yes, son!) got me the whole collection!

This is two coats of Lillibet's Jubilee and probably a polish I would never buy on my own. It is very very foil-y with a tinge of lavender. Difficult to photograph - you can see above that the bottle looks silver. But it is not. Definitely a colour I would only wear in the summer with tanned hands. I can imagine this not working well with my colouring in the winter.

Application was beautiful and I bet I would have survived with one coat. Not streaky at all like some metallic foils. Very smooth. a-england smooth. Then I thought I would jazz it up with some glitter. One coat each of Orly Can't be Tamed and Zoya Electra (Orly first).

My nails feel very bright! I think this is a polish my R-ladies would love! And I got compliments today from other ladies. So maybe a more "lady" combo. Am late posting this. Sunday café traffic got the best of me -  isn't that positive! And..... I sold some jewelry!

GOT: skittle – Hawai'ian style

Have been a bit lax in the GOT challenge. Seems it always falls on the wrong day. But I love skittlettes and wanted to take part this week. Was not without heartbreak, though, as I had to get rid of my lovely a england rosey mani. Oh well, the hurdles in life!

For this ABCCB skittlette I used Nicole by OPI Alex by the Books (A), Zoya Aurora (CC) and a base of Zoya Trixie with hand painted flowers (BB). The great thing about this challenge is that the longer the year goes on, the more polish I have to choose from! All colours are two coats each. I started with Trixie so I could top coat before continuing.

Then I drew big petals and filled in with Alex and then Aurora. Trixie is a fab silver. It looks a lot like foil and reflects. It really pops in the shade. The teal of Alex works well off the silver, too. Another coat of Out the Door finished off the BB fingers. For some reason the flowers and colouring remind me of Hawai'i.

I took yesterday off as well as I had my first glammy mani customer! Very exciting! And while I was all ready to do some nail art or something she was happy with For Audrey with glitter. Oh well, why make things complicated! Just need to find some way of advertising. The local supo keeps taking down anything I put up on the board (am currently relishing in a down-in-the-dumps mood). So doubt if that is an option. Word of mouth is always good - need more mouths!

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Check out the others below - looking forward to some groovy skittlettes! btw: made a cool necklace to match (read more here)!