Manicure Monday - Quick and easy removal

Greetings Sparkles…

It's been almost a month since my last post, and hasn't time flown? Well, for me it has - in a whirl of new joiners in work and lots of accounting fun during both the day and evenings sometimes. March is looking like a massively busy month but for lots of fun reasons - not least of all the 30th birthdays of not one but two of my favourite ladies!

This morning I wanted to share with you a great little buy that you can grab in your local Boots, Superdrug or pharmacy.

Manicure Monday - Speckle by Illamasqua

Happy Monday Sparkles

I'm not entirely sorry to say that while you read this on your commute to or from the office I will be relaxing in beautiful Norn Iron with the family. Today's plans include a little bit of napping, catching up with Sparkle Sisters 2 & 3 (I'm the eldest, so the numbering is purely chronological) and admiring my new freckled nails.

iPhone camera in some rare sunlight 

Yet another sale purchase from the wonderful Illamasqua, I was originally going to go for the lavender shade as pointed out on Instagram by Sparkle 3, but then realised I have a lot of lilac shades but don't really wear them. So when a certain work Friend (capitalisation intended) suggested Freckle looked cute I plumped for that instead. 

When the box arrived I will admit I was underwhelmed. I'm not sure I could honestly claim this looked attractive in the box. To me at least.

However as I built up the layers on this little beauty on Saturday night I fell firmly in love. It's a bit odd - it does kind of look like I've painted my nails as a speckled hen's egg but it's different, pretty and neutral. I sense a firm favourite coming - and am already thinking it would look ace with a black accent nail etc.