Cult Nails Cruisin Nude

Today's NOTD is Cult Nails Cruisin' Nude. When I first applied Cruising Nude, I loved it, a nude creme with pink shimmer what's not to love. The colour kinds of reminds me of rosegold. The pink shimmer is pretty noticeable, if not obvious and makes this polish stand out from all the other nude polishes out there. 

Click to see the shimmer! 

 The application was really good, the polish maybe a little too thin but no issues with it. The pictures show three coats and I really think it need the third coat to eliminate visible nail line, but you could get away with two.   In the cold light of day, however, the colour just does not love my skin tone, I think it needs to be a smidgen lighter or darker. It seems in artifical light, it looks better on me but unfortunately in sunlight I mean daylight (there is no sunshine here!)  it kind of gives me dead hands. So I think this one to put away until summer, if that ever happens,when maybe my hands will be a little more tanned. But if you are darker or paler than me, it should work for you.    



Do you have any polishes which you love  but they just don't love you back?


Cult Nails polishes contain 15ml, cost $10 and are available from the Cult Nails website, www.cultnails.com.

Cult Nails Iconic with China Glaze Cracked Concrete

Happy easter lovelies hope you are all having a lovely chocolate filled day! 


I loved Cult Nails Iconic I had to wear it again, but I decided to go for a little twist. I had also ordered some of the China Glaze Crackle polishes (except for the black, since I already had the Barry M black, and White because it reminded me a bit of tippex!). So I put the grey China Glaze, called Cracked Concrete over Iconic.  I think this is a fab combo, so on to the pictures and you can see what you think! 

Like always, you can click the pictures to see them bigger. The lovely glow in Iconic peeps out through the crackle and it is really lovely. The wear of this combo was really good, I think that I wore it for nearly a week with only the minimum of tipwear. 


When I went to order the China Glaze crackles, they were sold out on Transdesign where I normally order my polishes from, so I ordered them from Head 2 Toe Beauty instead. The arrived very quickly and I had no issues with the order. 

Cult Nails Iconic

Before we get to the lovely polish, I just wanted to apologise for being a bit random with my posting at moment, work is taking up the majority of my time at the moment, I'm quite behind with that too and things are getting done by deadline rather than importance, which I hate!  Things will hopefully calm down for me in early to mid April, hopefully, you can stick with my sporadic posting schedule until then! 

Today's NOTD is Cult Nails Iconic, when I saw the original pictures I thought this was the Cult Nails Polish I'd like the least, but in fact it's my favourite.  This  a raspberry polish (jelly I think - I should have written that down sorry) with flakies á la Gosh Rainbow/Nubar 2010/ Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure etc etc. 


Pictures below taken, in sunlight, or what passes for sunlight around here!

I think that these pictures are pretty colour accurate, but I'll caveat that with, when this arrived it looked nothing like I expected it to based on the pictures I had seen. I'm not sure it's loveliness transfers into the photos I've seen. The wear was good on this too, I wore this for 5 days before I started seeing a little amount of tipwear. The application was perfect too, as they say, it went on like butter.  I think this is my favourite of the 4 Cult Nails Colours, at the moment anyway! 

What do think, have you tried this or any other of the Cult Nails polishes?

Cult Nails My Kind of Cool Aid

Today's NOTD is from a new nail polish brand called Cult Nails. Cult Nails is run by blogger Maria, who runs a blog called  R3 daily, on her blog and twitter she talks about some the process of creating your own nail varnish brand like dealing with the lab. My Kind of Cool Aid is the first polish that she has released, she had 2 more planned (Iconic and Living Water) but actually ended up with an extra polish called Quench.


First before we even talk about the colour, let's talk about the packaging, Maria packs her polish with cotton wool balls instead of packing peanuts, as seen below.

Cotton wool balls are infinitely more usual for a nail varnish lover, than packing peanuts. Although, confession time - I can not stand the feel of cotton wool, it's my "nails on a blackboard". It sends a shiver down my spine, there aren't enough words to describe my dislike of cotton wool and I had to touch it to take the picture (see the things I do for a picture!!!)  All that said, I still think the cotton wool balls are a great idea, and I will pass them to a good home with my sister or mother and make sure they are used.


My kind of Cool Aid is a gravender (grey-lavender) polish, it's a creme with a really hard to detect shimmer in it, but the shimmer is what gives it, it's unique qualities. The shimmer is easiest to see with the polish wet but I did my best to capture it below. So on to the pictures,

I had taken the bottle picture to show the shimmer but thought it was more noticeable on my thumb nail, so I left my thumb in the picture, click to make to larger as always.

Firstly, I love, love the colour and the way the hidden shimmer gives it an extra depth. Application was perfect the pictures show two coats and a coat of seche vite. ( I should add that the polish was really shiny and only needed the seche for it's drying abilities and not it's shiny ones)  I unintentionally ended up wearing this for 6 days and the wear was just starting to show on the 6th day, so wear was really good too.  

The polish retails for $10 on Cult Nails' website and I paid $8 postage for three polishes. The bottle looks roughly the same size as a models own bottle but holds 18 ml compared to models own 15ml. When I ordered My Kind of Cool Aid, there was an offer running if you pre-ordered the other two polishes you got Quench free. So I have the rest of the Cult Nails polishes on the way and will show them to you as soon as I get them.