The gelcolours will be:

Next Stop…The Bikini Zone
Don’t Bossa Nova Me Around
Taupe-less Beach
I São Paulo Over There
OPI Scores A Goal!
AmazOn…AmazOff
I Just Can’t Cope-acabana
Where Did Suzi’s Man-go?
Toucan Do It If You Try
Kiss Me I’m Brazilian
Love.Love.Carnaval
Red Hot Rio

We shall have a yellow and green in the OPI which is marvelous!

Price & Website:

It is a more expensive polish at £9 a pop, but they do have a monthly deal at £6 and sets called ‘Harmonies‘ that come in at 3 for £19.50 and 2 for £15. When I paid for my order it was free shipping. My order was dispatched within 48hrs and I got my polish 2 days later.

Base & Top Coat:

A England have their own top & base coat which I don’t have, so for this review I used OPI Nail Envy & Essie Super Dooper Top Coat. Both of which I love.

Application:

I am CND Shellac trained so I basically use the same PEP as a Shellac Manicure. I do cuticle work, file to desired shape then use scrubfresh to cleanse the nail plate. You can also use Isopropyl alchohol (99%) or another brand of ‘gel cleanser’. I use Gellux Prep & Wipe sometimes too.

1. I prepared the nail as above.

2. Applied OPI Nail Envy and let dry for 10 minutes.

3. Applied 3 coats of colour with 10 minutes dry time in between.

4. Applied Essie Super Dooper and let dry for 10 minutes.

5. Sprayed with Avon Nail Freeze, as it is basically cuticle oil in spray format!

The brush and application of A England polishes is smooth and easy. My non dominate hand was easy enough to do.

Finished Manicure

Colour & Coverage:

I needed three coats with this polish which is an olive colour with gold shimmer. It is shimmery enough for you to admire it at times.

Longevity:

I had this on for 4 days perfect. It probably would have lasted 5 if I didn’t assemble my spinning bike on the 4th day. I had a slight chip on my weakest nail so then it had to come off. So done properly you can get 4-5 days out of each mani, or maybe longer if you don’t type or bash your nails like I do.

After 3 days and a better colour representation.

I am glad I purchased this polish, and will look to buy more of these polishes in the future. If you want to buy this shade, here is the direct link: http://www.a-england.co.uk/heavenly-quotes/91-love-is-enough.html

Apart from building my normal biz I have been re-stocking up on stuff for the kimono biz too as in previous posts.

Here are my latest purchases on the kimono side of things:

It is essential to have cool stuff that people want to wear!

I have also been developing my nail hobby. My final bit of training is this month. I shall start reviewing things as I purchase a LOT of nail stuff!

Do I have New Years Resolutions?

Yup! Better my Japanese and save for a new car! Also to get fit. I bought my OWN spinning bike in order to do this. It’s so much fun!

Yup…this I think is now the completing part of my wedding outfit #2

Such pretty stuff to build up a business in kimono, rather than using the same items over and over again keeping the nicest stuff for my collection. I bought synthetic so it can be fixed/cleaned after events.

My next project is mans stuff. I am going to get some in the golden week sales on Rakuten!

I have kinda gone a bit mad after not buying kimono things for AGES but I realized I have been using the same kimono in the dressing box for years!

The difference is these have been bought specifically FOR dressing. I managed to get great bargains at the end of the season.

I have been using the same kimono for dressing for a while now so I thought a refresh would be good.

It is fairly clear that as soon as one gets dressed in Furisode thats all that happens! Yukata Shmukata! So I have invested in some pretty and quite patterned furisode which don’t match MY taste but EVERYONE wants a really patterned look!

Yukata has its place so I have invested in some more modern fashionable yukata for dressing and workshops.

New obi too as my gold/blue obi is getting quite worn out and it really matches my favourite furisode so I want to save it now

Added to the collection we have two ‘kimono ageha’ furisode:

Gah…ghastly pink! But pink was missing from my dressing collection!

I shall get more of the ageha style kimono if MCM makes money! For now the ageha kimono will be kept for smaller events, and I need to get accessories to make up outfits inc modern obi. I have fancy enough obiage and obijime now in the dressing box.

I don’t buy kimono for me anymore, only working kimono with which I have to expand my comfort zone. Not everyone likes plain furisode with a pretty hem like me! Hopefully these kimono will give a really good range for people and I can mix up the selection at events so I am not using the same kimono each time!

This is my collection currently. I have so many I want but I am also a Shellac tech so need to balance my colour collections!

From the left…

1. Muir Muir on the wall – Deep cherry purple with lighter shimmer.

2. Dining al fresco – Cartoon sky blue with a pearlised finish.

3. Keeping Suzi at Bay – Mid royal blue creme. I can see glitter in its future!

4. A-piers to be tan – Melted galaxy chocolate creme.

5. Peace & Love & OPI – Silver with a purple/green slight holo shimmer.

6. I knead sour dough – I can only describe this as a coffee purple with gold shimmer. It tends to be more mauve in the light.

All good colours, not sure about the tan, but I could jazz it up with foil. My favourite is actually I knead sour dough. No shrinkage on the pop either, good to apply.

Swatches are two coats.

I will try and update this blog with kimono gel nail art, pictures of dressing events and kimono life events!