My mani is cooler than yours <gloat>

[JodieHarshHasALumpyPennie]

Ho dear me yes indeed. Oh yes.

I am currently sporting MATTE BLACK NAILS, with SILVER GLITTER ON BLACK as accent nails on my ring fingers.

In my opinion this makes me currently the coolest girl in the school by roughly 39.33%.

cor I quite fancy gradient nails - bit of a faff though.

I did an easier version of gradient nails by using 5 colours of pink from ldark to light and doing one finger in each like <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=dark+to+light+nails&num=10&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&biw=1137&bih=612&tbm=isch&tbnid=XpEcQ_XX66pdrM:&imgrefurl=www.psbydila.com/ombre-nails&docid=YK8fPFMl0wr-vM&imgurl=www.psbydila.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/gradient-nails.jpg&w=615&h=534&ei=QxTST5DvD82g8gPAwIygAw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=272&vpy=140&dur=215&hovh=209&hovw=241&tx=173&ty=64&sig=101450852458733953599&sqi=2&page=1&tbnh=131&tbnw=149&start=0&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0,i:73" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this and if I say so myself it looked ace

Oooo. I like that Faux.

My name is Shirley and I am a nail polish addict. I had to FORCE myself not to buy yet another bottle at lunchtime.

TK Maxx is my pusher.

Miky sounds like Shellac would be a good call for a holiday...or a busy week at work with no time for grooming etc...Yay for black nails! They are WAY more chic and less Goth than they sound.

The only place I have found the matte top coat is the Rimmel one that Faux has bought. I am sure there are others but I scoured the shelves before I even found that one...(it was chez Boots).

Wargh! Gradient nails! AMAZE!

...I'd have to buy, like, five new bottles of polish though

I want matt polish now!

You see me and shirley don't have that problem jodie - I did mine from colours I already had because I have loads

You definitely need to buy 5 new bottles of polish. Like this

I will have to as well.

Goldarnit! Still. This is what Boots Advantage Points are for, am I right or am I right? Not going to waste those babies on Tampax and similar.

Coco Pop to the nearest Boots! It's like, £3.50 or something

OK controversial but i'm not liking the matt black - it seems to show up all the ridges in my nails but I can see how it would rock on a pastel shade so i'm still glad I bought it...and luckily you can just whack a shiny coat over it and get back to shiny so no need to start all again

SHHHH Faux....I NEED more nail polish.

No, dear! I'm not talking about buying more nail polish! Don't be ridiculous! Why would I do that?

I've been looking for matte top coat forEVER, and now you tell me it's in boots?

Can you not freehand the shiny black tip Jodie? () i used to do my french mani's freehand, and it definitely gets easier with practice.

Oh Shirley Oh! Oh! Look at those beautiful cafe au lait colours in their little package! No-one would notice my lumbering gait and shabby egg-stained clothing if my hands were decorated thus!

Wow, those gradient nails look AMAZING - but even amongst my extensive collection of pink nail polishs I don't think I could cobble together 5 different shades of the same colour.

Yes, my matt topcoat is Rimmel - the only one I have ever seen.

My nails are getting quite long now and starting to look a bit much - but I have always found that longer nails suit paler colours and shorter nails look fab with dark colours.

Wah! I was in Boots this morning too. I think i' ll try a gradient tonight with blues

Yeah good point, I can try a hand job

That's a shame Faux - maybe a base coat before the black??

Shellac is deffo the way forward for holidays.

I want matte now too. Gonna head to Boots over the weekend, hink i've also got some points saved up.

Argh!! i cant seem to get on that Gradiant link, or even when i search for it direct. I'm not giving up though - i wanna see how she did it.

For my pink gradient I had
thumb: rimmel funky diva
1st finger: Rimmel Hot Shot
2nd finger: Barry M Bright Pink
3rd finger: Barry M Strawberry
4th finger: Rimmel Rose Praline

Beautiful

Hold on Mikyahrose, How about this?

I reckon I have at least 20 shades of pink so I might be able to cobble together 5 differing shades.

I wanna go home NOW so I can start rummaging through my bottles

Oh Oh! I have freehanded matt ends onto my glossy black nails! I LOVE! Will try and do a photo...

That nailosaurus blog is utterly dangerous. Whoa and that led me to born pretty

Ooooh all the nail prettiness and pictures are killing me! I was pretty happy with my short red nails this morning, now they just look DULL.

Another one I really want to do is this

And this is a great summer one!

OK I think I put a pic up - subtle but CooooooL! Thands jodie I didn't even know matt topcoat existed til today