What's on my nails today?

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The second prompt of the 52 week nail art challenge is School. The first thing that I think of when I think about school is the huge blackboard that was hanging on the wall and the teacher using her pointer to focus our attention on something... or slapping the same pointer against the board if we didn't stop making a ruckus (but that fortunately for both pointer and board didn't happen too often ;) Also, our blackboards weren't black at all, they were dark green and when you held the chalk the wrong way, they produced the most horrible squeaking sound that can still send shivers down my spine just thinking about it!

Since manicures are usually soundless, I left that part out of my highly impractical rendition of the blackboard of my youth:

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The fourth prompt for the 52 Week Nail Art Challenge is Mermaids. And of course I don't own any mermaid themed plates... so I opted for a sophisticated mermaid with color changing scales:

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The questions in the title are what people have been asking me today. I can understand their confusion as I've been wearing one of the most beautiful multichrome polishes I know, Spell Polish Escaping Gravity. I kept my manicure as simple as possible, just to make sure that gorgeous multichrome could take center stage. Let's take a look :)

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It's that time again... the moment that I have to confess once again that I did paint my nails, I even took pictures but I didn't sit down to write a post about it... I'm so sorry :'(
But it also means you get not one, not two, but three manicures in one post today :)
(and as usual you can click on the pictures for a larger view)

Here's number one, a skittle using Cirque Topless in Times Square and Il était un vernis Pinot Noir:

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Cirque Colors Topless in Times Square, Il était un vernis Pinot Noir, Il était un vernis Live, Love, Laugh

I started out by painting two coats of Cirque Topless in Times Square, a lovely beige creme that dries extremely glossy, on my middle and ring finger. My thumb and index were done in one (!!!) coat of Il était un vernis Pinot Noir, a beautiful deep red that seems to lean a tiny bit to the pinker side. My pinky was done in three thin coats of Il était un vernis Live, Love, Laugh. A quick stamp with Pinot Noir and Born Pretty plate BP-17 on my ring finger and a coat of Seche Vite on all my nails and another fall ready manicure was done!

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Yep, another post today. Last week I had no time to do anything but study, study and study some more, but it paid off. I took my exam yesterday and I passed with flying colors!!! So this weekend it's time to catch up on the chores I neglected, do some cleaning around the house, put away all the polishes that are scattered everywhere and finish the posts of the manicures I had on. The first one is online already and this is the manicure that is on my nails right now.

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Once again I have to apologize for my absence. I could blame it on the absolutely gorgeous polish I'm about to show you and that I did not want to take off, but a bout of the flu had something to do with it as well. I felt so sick I didn't even want to think about painting my nails, and I didn't mind watching the same beautiful nail polish for over a week though but I've been told it didn't suit my slightly green complexion very well :)

I'm talking about Spell Polish - No Place Like Home, a lovely green-teal-purple multichrome that changed to pink and gold and bronze as well. No Place Like Home is part of the Magichromes: Magic Happens collection that was released in September and is still available through the Spell Polish website and various stockists.

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Finally, another post... it's been almost two weeks :(
I blame real life! I have been shopping like crazy!! In the Netherlands we celebrate a holiday called Sinterklaas or Saint Nicholas (yep, that's where Santa Claus originates from ;) that is mainly for children but usually grown ups get gifts as well and with a lot of family and friends I have been searching everywhere for the perfect presents. Also, it's tradition to add a (preferably self written) poem to the gifts for the adults so I think I'm even dreaming in rhyme by now! Add to that the ridiculous amount of birthdays that we have to go to in November and December (I guess February and March are fertile months in my family ;) and there's the reason for my absence.

But on to today's manicure. It's still on my nails but not for long as I've been wearing this for a week and I really need a change.

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I painted one (1!!!) coat of Illamasqua Scorn on all my nails, after applying OPI Natural Base as base coat. Scorn is a very pigmented black polish that dries with a rubbery matte finish. As with all Illamasqua polishes, I LOVE the brush: thin but not skinny with a medium length, and since discovering the square cap can be removed to reveal a much smaller round one, I hardly have to do any clean up after painting my nails.

I wanted to add some sparkle to it so I applied one coat of Spell Polish Light As A Feather after Scorn had dried. Light As A Feather is a glitter polish with a clear base that is filled with small, various sized iridescent glitters that show gold, orange and sometimes green. It has a more chemical smell than other polishes I own, but that disappears when the polish is dried so I don't mind one bit, especially when looking at the gorgeous sparkles. Light As A Feather is part of the "It was written in the Stars" collection and is still available on the Spell Polish website and various stockists.

I finished with a coat of Seche Vite to shorten the drying time as I had to go out and I was running late again. I took the picture above after seven days of wearing this manicure and I had to correct hardly any tip wear before taking it so I guess Scorn is very durable as well :)

Illamasqua Scorn, Spell Polish Light As A Feather