Lucy's Stash

Hello lovelies,

Today I want to share with you a polish that I fell in love straight after first few brush strokes. I have a major love affair with red nail polish and HJ Manicure Red Wine is my latest addition. Yes, today I'm testing out HJ Manicure polish!

HJ Manicure is a luxurious boutique nail polish range, created by Helen J. These 5-free, cruelty free and vegan friendly 14.8ml polishes come in a core range of 20 vivid colours.

Let's have a look at this beauty..

HJ Manicure Red Wine - Review & Swatches

Red Wine - dark red creme-jelly. This colour is beautiful and super glossy and although not excatly the colour of re wine, it's a nice medium-dark red. The formula was a bit runny but that's better than thick in my opinion. It was easy to manage and apply. I've only needed two regular coats for the coverage in the pictures, the polish has a good pigmentation. I've applied topcoat as well.

I'm so excited about this polish, I truly am! I love reds and this one is stuning! HJ Maicure polishes are available at http://hjmanicure.com/ and they offer free UK shipping over £20!

Have a lovely day! Lucie x

*PR sample

Hello lovelies,

I'm back from a short holiday break in Czech Republic so I've been very quiet this week. In the light of this week's horrific attacks I wasn't going to post any more nails BUT I refuse to feel and act defeated, scared and depressed. I will not stop doing what I love and since some French ladies in the nail community already expressed that they do not wish to see 'Pray for Paris' nails I will respect that and post something neutral I've prepared last week before I left England. So I will not further modify this post and will post it as it was originally intended.

Today's manicure combines different textures and I've created it a while ago. Unfortunately it took me ages to edit the video tutorial so I couldn't show you just yet! But good news is - it's done now and there is a tutorial!

I have been trialling different texture nail art manicures in the past few months and this lavender manicure is the first one. At the time I still wore rounded nails on my right hand so to precede your questions - no, I did not change my nail shape completely ;)