Glitter and Smarties. Glarties.

I have been nomming on Smarties and painting my nails with Orly "Sunglasses At Night" which was sent to me by one of my YouTube besties ArcadiaNailArt cos she's cool and safe and mental and completely awesome.

I love to arrange things in rainbow order. Especially Smarties.

I was feeling a bit nostalgic. Remember when Smarties had plastic different coloured lids with letters on? I used to collect them and write rainbow words. I didn't always have every letter though so they'd say things like "hip hup hop" or "dip dap dop"...

I always ended up with lots of p's and d's. Or are they both the same? H was quite popular too...

And then the B@$T@7D$ changed them and now they have paper lids. No more fun games where you whack the empty tube on the table and see what you hit when the lid shoots off. They still have the plastic lids on the big tubes, like the one I'm holding here, but it's just not the same. My lid was orange today and had a picture of a raccoon on it. I can't spell anything with that!

DAMN YOU, SMARTIES!!

I still love you though, because you're rainbowy and sweet. And you DO always have the answer. You're who I turn to in my hour of need.
Thank you, Smarties.
Your lids will always be missed, but your sugary goodness will still always be nommed.

   

Thank you. Please enjoy Smarties excessively and irresponsibly this Christmas.

**DISCLAIMER** 

I am not sponsored by Smarties. I am just a complete nut job. Probably all the excessive irresponsible Smartie consumption.

Lazy Leopards and Colourful Bombsite

It's been a while since I wrote here and I thought I'd share a couple of my latest lazy leopards.

I've seen a lot of girls who make indie custom polishes and they always seem to make these weird matte glitters, and glitters in creme polishes. I love the effect but I don't usually buy nail polish over the internet, especially when it's just ONE bottle and it's being shipped from halfway across the world.
But I found this one in Superdrug by Accessorize. Conveniently named "Leopard Moth". It's actually amazing and applies smoothly and perfectly without any effort or glitter manipulation. I had just spent about an hour painting my left hand for a tutorial and lost track of time so this design was kind of like, shit I've got fifteen minutes before I have to leave the house and I can't go out with one plain hand. So I just scribbled some quickie leopard spots on the tips and topcoated...

I went out to see a kick-ass band called Alabama 3 in Bristol and my outfit was black and pink, cat inspired and slightly gothic. I guess I should have taken a pic of my outfit and pink leopard eye make up but I ended up getting really drunk and forgot. Hey ho I'm only human.. WOO!!
I quite like them in this order. Makes a change from the thumb and ringfinger "accent nail" jobby.

The boiler man came round today un-announced. I usually like to make sure it's super tidy before people come in but I was in the middle of doing absolutely everything at once and my flat is a complete dive... oops!

Me: Sorry for the mess... I'm an artist.
Boiler Man: Haha no worries. Is this room an "artistic expression" then?
Me: No. I'm just very "abstract" with my version of clean and tidy.
Boiler man: .....       o_O    

One small step for us

This is my first test post for 'The Nail Art Company' new online blog. We really are going to try hard to bring you news from the nail industry, infromation on new nail art products and cutting edge techniques.