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Cosmeticsfairy.co.uk have it. Cheap and free postage but the site is a bit 'when it's gone it's gone' so my advice is when you see something you want, don't tarry.
 
Oh cool, cheers - hadn't heard of that site before. Wtfftw told me she got hers (Barry M) in Superdrug, so I'm going to have a look in there when I go past one.

Edit: My nails are manky and blackberry-stained at the moment, as a result of my jam-making adventures :(
 
Check you out being the nail varnish expert all of a sudden :cool:

I've been looking for some of that crackle stuff too so I shall purchase forthwith :)
 
To be honest I've just transferred art & craft skills to nails (which is why I used the term craquelure). I now realise nail varnishes refer to good old plain crackle :o
 
Jut got some of the crackle glaze - OMG it's amazing! Check out my toes!!!
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That's Nails Inc 'Brook Street' (base coat), Barry M 'nail effects (black) over the top, then Nails Inc 'Albert Bridge topcoat to stop it chipping too quickly & give a glossy finish.
 
I use OPI because the woman in the department store said it was the best. I don't know how it rates against Nails Inc because I've never used that but the OPI is the only nail polish I've ever had that lasts on my nails for at least a week. I've got about 10 different colours now and a couple of them I find a bit thin and they don't give good colour but the rest are great and all of them last well without shrinking back from the ends. I use a base coat, two colour coats and a top coat, with all that effort it has to last at least a week.
 
I find that Nails Inc only needs 1 coat. I like that. Haven't really tried OPI though (other than for my sister's wedding, when we all had mani's beforehand, but then I went for a really boring translucscent pale-pink, so I'm not really able to judge on my usual standards).

Currently wearing Nails Inc 'St Johns Wood' (kinda purply-blue) on my fingers, and the aforementioned pink-black crackleglaze combo on my toes.

Edit: It doesn't match at all, I know, but I had an important work meeting today and the pink-black crackle glaze would have been a step too far (on my fingers. They didn't see my toes. It wasn't that kind of meeting.)
 
Shirl said:
I use OPI because the woman in the department store said it was the best. I don't know how it rates against Nails Inc because I've never used that but the OPI is the only nail polish I've ever had that lasts on my nails for at least a week. I've got about 10 different colours now and a couple of them I find a bit thin and they don't give good colour but the rest are great and all of them last well without shrinking back from the ends. I use a base coat, two colour coats and a top coat, with all that effort it has to last at least a week.
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I love Opi varnishes, bloody expensive though :mad: :D

Do my own toes, but have to pay someone to do my fingers, it's a bit indulgent but looks and lasts better, currently sporting 'first kiss' right now which is really pink :)

Not sure about the crackle stuff.
 
Shirl said:
OPI is the only nail polish I've ever had that lasts on my nails for at least a week.
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I'm new to this nails lark (I'd been biting them for over 50 years) and have just got cheap ends of range online in case it didn't work out, but so far Max Factor Diamond Hard has been the best but I tend to build it up in layers with a clear (Sally Hansen hard as nails) varnish so it's about 5 layers. I only have to redo when an unvarnished gap of plain nail grows. I want to get some OPI though because there's a particular colour I want that I can't find (the reddish brown of Carnelian). The trouble with OPI is that the colour names really don't give you any idea whether they're scarlet, dark blue or bright yellow. I need to go somewhere that stocks the full range, have a look and find the colour because you can't be sure of how true the colour is looking on a netbook screen.
 
...got to say, amazing though they look, they're making things harder to do. Typing for instance. I don't know whether it's getting used to them (two months of long compared to over half a century of bitten) or whether long nails are a permanent impediment to manual dexterity.
 
I type a lot and find I have to keep my nails fairly short, otherwise they start to split and flake with constantly tapping on the keyboard.
 
I can't do a thing with them longer. And every activity's so noisy :D

Long nails really give me the creeps, too.
 
Mrs Magpie said:
...got to say, amazing though they look, they're making things harder to do. Typing for instance. I don't know whether it's getting used to them (two months of long compared to over half a century of bitten) or whether long nails are a permanent impediment to manual dexterity.
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I have nails and a 55 won typing speed. When I know I have a big dictation typing job coming up I will always cut them shorter as my accuracy goes down by about 20% when they are really long.
 
Andrea Fulerton Cute-icles Love Oil is brilliant with sweet almond, ginger and horse chestnut and is amazing for sorting out cuticles. I also use Rimmel's Stronger / Try Harder which is a base-coat and strengthener in one and seems to stop any discolouring.

My favourite nail vanish ever is kind of like a silver hologram from Marks and Spencers :eek: It's a pig to put on - about 5 coats on perfectly buffed nails as it's really thin and you have to shake it before each dip as it separates but looks AMAZING and never chips.
 
Currently wearing Rimmel [edit: no, it's 17] 'Forever' - it's kind of calamine, in shade. Reminds me of a colour my mother used to wear in the '80s, reminds me of our old house at a certain point in time.
The name also reminds me of the Judy Blume novel of the same name :D which was banned in my school when I was early-teens, and therefore rapidly became our most-read book.
 
The copy of 'Forever' which was passed surreptitiously from hand to hand around the classroom always fell open at a particular page :D A bit like Lady Chatterley really - there was only one scene worth reading ...
 
i Loved forever.

In other news, I had a manicure on saturday. Nails Inc Victoria - which is like rouge noir, but not rubishy and thin like the chanel version. Anyway, it looked fabulous and then i decided to clear out the costume cupboard at work, and three nails got chipped. Arsery.
 
Bummer - I hate it when it chips while you're still in the honeymoon period of loving your latest mani. :(

(I started a thread about 'Forever' in the books forum, btw, for those of you who haven't seen it.)

I just bleached my hair white-white-white (was brunette before) and am trying to re-work my nail varnishes to suit. Clothes are far easier than nail varnishes, I've found :hmm: All my strong blues and reds look wrong. 'Forever' (the shade, not the book) is working well as a neutral holding-stage, while I try and think of something else.
 
Interesting you should suggest raspberry, I just bought a couple of strong-pink tops (Dorothy Perkins :cool: ) because they seem to work well with jeans.
I tend to go for blues/greens/neutrals/darks for nails, rather than 'traditional' pinks, maybe I just need to steel my nerve and not be so hair-focussed. It's weird being so blonde-blonde-blonde :hmm:
 
BUMP!!!

I bought Glamour mag this month, just to get the free bottle of Nails Inc varnish :oops:
It's a glorious dark maroon-ish red ('Picadilly Circus' I think). Unfortunately I've just realised it's the colour of my old school uniform :D
 
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