Another quickie, this time with Arcane Lacquer

Hi everyjuan (thank you ediotz for that- every time I pronounce "everyone" in my mind it's like that now).
Anyway, that's a totally obscure reference to e-drama that I'm guessing 99.99% of you will find completely meaningless, so onto something we all know and love, nail polish :)
Today is just a very quick post featuring a couple of new Arcane Lacquer releases, Strutter and Lividity Setting In. Both are fabulous on their own, as usual (Bec makes fantastic polishes) but they also look great together in a subtle, vampy gradient.

I only have a few, sub par swatches of Lividity Setting In, but here's a couple to give you an idea of how lush these colours are;

Lividity setting In

Lividity setting In is a deep, deep eggplant purple with a gorgeous gold shimmer effect that I totally failed to capture in these pics- I will take some better ones over the next few days and you can see just how lovely it is.

Strutter

Strutter is a stunning deep burgandy with a subtle gold shimmer running through it and it is one of my current favourite polishes, full stop. It is so rich and lush and yummy.

And here they are together, such a fantastic match;

And there you have it, a very simple but very effective gradient using two gorgeous polishes from the wonderful Arcane Lacquer.
Arcane Lacquer is (are?) also releasing a Halloween duo that looks amazing- the always lovely Christine over at Serenity Nails has a review of them up now and her swatches are fantabulous, so go check them out...they've been added to my "must have" list (even though I'm technically on a "no buy" boohoo).

Welp, I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend... it's school holidays here so I'm just going to be chilling with the kid for the next couple of weeks.
In other news, I have emailed the vet clinic where I had my job interview, just to touch base and keep my name fresh in their minds and I really, really hope I get the position as I need to be working at a vet clinic for 15 hours a week if I want to get in to that veterinary nursing course next year *fingers crossed*. I will definitely post about that when I find out, either way.

Oh, and I also have some very exciting news regarding a lovely Aussie indie polish that I'll be revealing soon, so keep an eye out for that one.

Until next time, ~love and polish for all~
Em xox

Almost home

I feel so negligent,  I haven't swatched or blogged or done anything for over a week.
But, I've had a good excuse as I was back in ol' St Vincent's hospital having another operation. Thankfully it's all over and it looks like its gone really well (that's a first!) so I'm hoping that I won't be going back in for at least another couple of years. Fingers crossed and all that.
Obviously, being in hospital means no nail polish, but I am going home to a fairly gigantic haul of nail mail, so there should be lots of swatches and reviews coming up over the next couple of weeks... yay!
I did manage to throw on a couple of coats of Zoya's Dahlia, a black and silver textured polish, the night before I was discharged, and I even took a couple of really crappy pics :D So here ya go;

Hospital lighting just adds that something special, doesn't it

Stunning eh? Hehe

I'm still at my dad's until the last couple of tubes come out, so I'm hoping to be home either tomorrow or Monday- I miss my cats and my own place terribly, although I'm lucky to have my little girl staying with me in the meantime, which certainly helps with the homesickness.

Anyway, hope anyone who stumbles across this is well and I promise to be thrilling you all with numerous nail polish related posts in the very near future :D

Em xox