Plastic Bag

It was most sad to hear that Poly Styrene of Xray Spex died yesterday :( Today's nails are for her.

La Femme Orange Cream Swatch.

This is three coats La Femme Orange Cream, which is a brightbrightbright orange - the same colour as a Sainsbury's plastic bag, in fact. It goes on OK, it's dirt cheap and you can get it easily from eBay. I got 9 bottles of colourful cremes for £8.49, which was nice. It would have been nicer if I'd got the neons, though, a Poly Styrene manicure really needs some proper dayglo colours. Ah well.

Orange Tartan and Chains. Just needs a torn t-shirt and we're done.

I wanted to revist the old days of punk and went for some bright orange tartan nails with chains. For the tartany effect I used Konad plate m60 and Superdrug MUA Shade 2 (black) (which wouldn't get on straight for love or money, but that's alright cos all the 80s punks I knew were quite scruffy anyway) and the Bundlemonster BM12 plate and Stargazer Chrome Silver was used for the chains. All it needs is some big stompy boots, a ripped t-shirt and a pint of snakebite and black to top it all off.

Fingers O' Fire

I've not worn any orange for a very, very, very long time. It isn't really my colour, y'see, but I decided to try out this possibly ancient bottle of Constance Carroll 238 Squash because it looked interesting as it had a green shimmer to it. Oooh.

Constance Carroll 238 Squash Swatch. Very messy as there was a splodging incident

The green shimmer that made it interesting didn't show up at all on the nails, making this orange a bit boring, really. I decided to chuck some Nubar 2010 over it, and suddenly, my fingers looked aflame like I was some sort of superhero, or something.

Fingers. Of. FIRE!

I absolutely love this but I hate it at the same time as I really can't bear orange on my fingers, it just freaks me out :(