Nails of the Week

So as a new regular thing, instead of including my nails of the week in a normal post I thought I'd give them an entire post of their own! *woo*

This week, because my nails are actually growing and not splitting for once, I'm sporting a nice simple french manicure that I've jazzed up a bit with Nfu Flaky #38 and a little bit of Konad. Though I have to say even though its more jazzy than your normal French I got bored of it after wearing it for two days. I blame the new China Glaze collection sitting on my desk begging for attention.


Please forgive the terribly uneven edges, I just freehanded them but as usual I left doing my nails til last thing Sunday night, due to playing too much WoW and I had to rush it slightly.

I started off with 3-4 coats of Nfu Oh 38, a gorgeous almost clear base with large chunks of glitter that change between orange, pink and green in the light. One thing I did learn while doing this is that less is more! I love flakies but having so many coats basically turned my nails into one giant flake which makes it really hard to photograph the individual bits of glitter in the polish.

Once that was dry I free-handed the tips with Color Club Ooooooooo La La, added some Konad to my ring fingers with dark blue special polish and applied some gems for extra bling.

Orange, green & pink flakies up close and personal

I like this look a lot but its just a bit too... tame for me. I'm lucky to work in an office where I can wear jeans every day and no one cares what colour your nails are, so I take full advantage of it as often as possible.

I have a fun challenge idea for next weeks NoTW so please come back and check it out!

Til then, happy polishing! ;)