My stash (Picture heavy!)

Hello, by popular demand, I spent some time yesterday photographing my stash. Now this is only about half of it, the other half is at home so I'll have to photograph them when I get home in Easter!
As I don't have that many here with me I figured I would divide them into brands and do them like that. 

All names will go L-R and bold names are ones which I have swatched, they won't be linked but you can simply search the name in my blog to find it.

First up is my precious Dior rainbow :D

 

Forget me not, Riviera, Lucky, Bitter Orange, Gold Nugget, Waterlily, Saint Tropez, Nirvana and Amazonia

 

 Blue Boy and Graphite

 



Monogamous, Nomad and Stance I need more Illamasqua, I love all these!

Sweets Way,Pudding Lane, Baker Street, Chester Terrace, Park Crescent, Chelsea, Holland Park Avenue, Fenchurch Street and Hampstead Gardens which I intend to swatch tomorrow for you :)

Nude, Vivid Purple, Pink??, Black, Blueberry Ice cream, Blue?? and Blue Plum

Gold Foil, Boots Xmas LE (currently on my toes), Gold Glitter, Gold Mine, Yellow Topaz Glitter and Silver Diamonds

Riveting, I'm with the Lifeguard, Westside Warrior and Swimsuit....nailed it! 

Sand Tropez, Little Black Dress, Going Incognito, Gemma and Saint George

The Hungry Asian - Sea Creature, Funky Fingers - Tinsel Town and Sand and Stillettos, Androgynie, Fowl Play, Unknown (Urban Outfitters), Sneeze Breeze (Seriously need to wear this!!) and Vote for purple

Kiko 338, Kiko 332, Kiko 346, Holographic, Intense Plum and Fantasy Fire. 

Phew! Like I said this is only about half my collection, I could only bring as many could fit into my box so that's why the rest are being neglected at home :P. If you like to see a swatch of any of the colours please let me know!

And this is how I store them and my nail art stuff, not the usual way lol

I feel kind of bad for just shoving them all in there but I ain't got time to arrange them by brand and colour! Hahah. Ain't nobody got time for that ;)

So there you go my half stash! My uni stash haha, I have a hankering for Taylor by Shimmer as I saw A Polish Addict's swatch and just fell in love!

Like I said if you wish to see a colour swatched then comment :)

Nail art: Gradient and Union Jacks

This is a post about two pieces of nail art that I have done over the past three days. That's the good thing about coming home, I get to do my sister and my mum's (rarely!) nails :). For my sister I gave her a purple and pink gradient, of course it had to be pink :P it does look good though....and then leopard print over the top :) I really love this especially on her short nails so if you have shorter nails you should totally try this! 

Action shot ;) 

The pink is Rimmel Pro Urban Princess (?) and the purple is Rimmel Pro Ultra Violet, I'm glad she chose these two actually they merge real nice and go with her tan ;). I used the same method as last time for the gradient. 
My mum works at a primary school and today they are having Jubilee day as obviously the real Jubilee day is a bank holiday, so they're having a "street party" on the playground with a bbq and fun stuff. So she wanted me to give her Union Jack nails, so that's what I spent my night doing :P and here they are

mum's nails

Hehe :) the base colour of these is Order of the Garter from a-england, the white and red are just stripers. Mum's nails are a nice size for these, she has wider nails than me so the flags could be quite even :) she loved them, she keeps waving them at people in the street :| LOL! 


Hope you've enjoyed these nails that aren't mine :) I'll be back later with a Nails Inc sprinkleeeee! Woo 

April buying

I've been really good this month and hardly bought anything! I'm doing this post as some people asked to see more haul posts, these types of posts might not be as often as people would like as I am trying really hard to buy less nail polish lol. Here is what I have bought in April! 

Nubar White Polka Dots, Black Polka Dots and Indigo Illusion 

Color clubs

a-england Galahad and Avalon, Barry M Denim and Maybelline khaki green
Not many which is good for my bank :) 


This weekend I am going to do my first nail art tutorial as per a few requests I received so I hope you all enjoy it and find it useful! So look out for that, probably saturday as I have my final project deadline on friday so I can relax this weekend wooo! 

a-england Galahad

This evening I have another a-england polish for you, it's Galahad which is from the first collection, the Mythicals, I bought Avalon as well but that's for another day. I am struggling with 
how to describe this colour so I'll just show you.

It's quite the chameleon so I'm not sure whether this photo is colour accurate, I think it is a greeny blue, it's a very nice colour looking at it on my nails now it looks deeper and less bright than it is in this photo. I wanted it to be more dusty like the colour in the bottle, but it's still nice. I got bored pretty quickly as is the norm nowadays so I did a little wahnails inspired design on top. As a little treat you are going to see my left and right hand! As I did the design a bit too big on my left hand so I wanted to show you my favoured hand :P

 Left hand

Right hand 

It didn't quite turn out the way I wanted but I still like it :) something different I guess, I freehanded the design with my extremely blobby nail art pen. Also I just realised I inadvertently stole Sarah from Chalkboard nails hand pose! Oops it's a nice elegant pose hehe imitation is the biggest form of flattery :D. 

Also today my Nubar Polka Dots arrived and Indigo Illusion! I'm so excited to wear both Polka Dots, I've tried them over Zoya Pheobe which Bethany sent me so I expect I shall wear the zoya on its own for a day and then go Polka Dot cray cray ;)

Hope you enjoyed! 

a-england Order of the Garter Swatches and Review

Hiya, 
Last night I recieved two comments from two lovelies saying that they would like to see OotG today and I have obliged, I'm so glad you wanted to see this because ooo it's gorgeous!
I honestly think this is my favourite out of my two a-englands :O! It's super shiny, sparkly, blue and for me the colour is something I genuinely would associate with England, it's like a dusty royal blue, the Queen would totally wear an outfit this colour ;). 
Again this is going to be pretty picture heavy 
You have to enlarge these!! Click away!

I don't know if you can tell but I love this colour! Like I said it's like a dusty royal blue with brighter blue sparkles that just make an amazing polish, when the light hits it it's mesmerizing. Really cannot stop looking at my nails they look so beautiful, this polish has made them a bit wider than they actually are, which for me is a good thing oh I don't don't know but I think my nails look perfect in this colour!! Haha. 
One thing that was less enjoyable was the brush, the bottom has been cut on a slant (on the wonk) so it looks normal from front but you can see the slant from the side, this just made applying it a bit awkward but it must have just been a mistake as my other brush was fine. I'm just being pernickety :P. The formula was great though, smooth as you like. It took a while to dry though. 


Stupidly I put my Models Own topcoat over it, for innocent reasons y'know I wanted it to stay shiny but when I woke up this morning, I had my first ever incident of bubbling! It's horrid, looks like my nails have a disease :( yuk. On top of that on my right hand I have these weird dents that look like tiny teeth marks :S BUT all of this is down to the topcoat not the a-england polish.


The weather man lied, as per, so there is no sign of sun today, it's super gloomy so again my a-england polish isn't getting the sun it deserves, this combined with bubbles and teeth marks means I shall (unfortunately) be removing her :(. I just can't wait for summer, then they will get the attention they deserve! :)


Phew, it's been a long one, I hope you made it till the end :) again I can't get enough of this brand, I seriously want Avalon from the Mythicals!! Another high recommendation :) :) Hope you enjoyed girls! 

a-england St. George Swatches and Review

Hey, like I said yesterday I am wearing St. George today and it was sunny as predicted! *high five* for perfect timing ;). I have been drooling over swatches for ages and when I bought it I was staring at it in the bottle waiting for a sunny day to let it sparkle and that day has come :). I warn you I took 107 photos (!! lol) but I've narrowed them down to 10 butttt I might not put all 10 photos on, might be a tad excessive :P. I know you've probably seen a trillion photos and reviews but if you're like me you still won't be sick of this nail varnish...I hope :).


I urge you to click on them to enlarge these babies!! 
These are taken in direct sunlight with one coat <3 

These are truer to colour taken with flash 

Weird angle I know but it's accurate colour! 

 Okay, weird picture full stop (everyone needs a strange picture, right? ;)) but look at the two tone sparkly, holographic goodness!!

The sun was setting but it's a very colour accurate photograph, so green and dark ish and blue.

So 8 photos later (8!!) do you think I like this polish? I lurve it, so very much. It is one of those things where I kept staring at my nails whilst doing dangerous things ie. crossing the road....but I couldn't help it the sun was shining on my nails it was like magic! Haha! It has a thick formula IMO but it's easy to use, one coat if you are in a hurry but two if you are meticulous ;). 

It took quite a while to dry for me as I had two smudgeys :( but I filled them in so it's okay. 

Basically I want it to be sunny all the time so I can wear this polish everyday! I want more a-englands now though :( I'll have to wait. 

Again this is another polish that you NEED in your life!

I'm hoping to keep this on till tuesday evening but I have a swatch I can put up to fill in the gap, so seeyou tomorrow! 

Good afternoon, I'm back (obviously) I had a great time in London, hope everyone had a good weekend too. I got 5 polishes from London and 6 before I went so I'm going to show you what they are, I'll do the 6 pre trip first...

L-R: Essie Limited addiction and Little Brown dress, A-England Order of the Garter and St. George, Accessorize Crystal Shimmer and Sapphire. 

Cannot wait to try out my A-Englands but the weather here is so bland, it would be a waste, these babies need sunshine and lots of it! These are my first Accessorize polishes I have high hopes that sapphire is going to be really nice it claims to be a one coater, but we'll see ;). 

When I went to London I hoped that the flagship store of Topshop would sell OPI so I looked everywhere but they didn't yet they sold Barry M which can be found in every Superdrug and Boots! Anyway we went to Harrods on the last day and they had a small selection of OPI and Essie yay, I was disappointed that the latest collection they had was Touring America so as I thought I wasn't going to find my beloved OPIs anywhere else I bought Russian Navy and Diva of Geneva (it looked pretty). They did have Essies Spring 2012 collection though so I got Navigate her :) the women who worked there were so snobby haha. After Harrods we went on to Europes largest Westfield which was where I discovered THE MOST AMAZING SHOP....why was it so amazing....because it had every single OPI nail varnish! Even the NOPIs!! If you're reading this in the US I'm sure this is no big deal for you but for us Brits who have no access to real life OPIs it was awesome! I was so excited I could have bought all of them but I was on a very tight budget so I got two, I have a Herring problem (!!!!) and Royal Rajah Ruby. 

L-R OPI Diva of Geneva, Russian Navy, Royal Rajah Ruby and I have a Herring Problem and Essie Navigate Her. 

I'm going to swatch Royal Rajah Ruby later and if it lives up to its reputation and bottle *fingers crossed* I might wear it for Valentines Day tomorrow instead of my planned nail art. 

Seeyou soon sweets!

Lust list and purchases

Hi, I have no new pictures today as I don't want to take off my tartan mani just yet :) so I thought I would tell you what polishes I am lusting over and what I have just bought hehehe I've been naughty! 
What I am reallly lusting over at the moment are: 
OPI, 
Wooden Shoe like to Know and I don't give a Rotterdam.
Essie, 
 Navigate her, 
Zoya, 
Skylar, Lotus, Jem, Dree
      Also i feel I need just one Holo in my life but no English brands that I can find do them!! What's wrong with this country?! 
      I gave in and bought two A-England nail varnishes from The Legends collection, I bought St George and Order of the Garter, i nearly bought The Dragon but I thought I'd try something a bit different with the blue. 
      My favourite colours of nail varnish are green and purple as you can tell from my lust list :P
When I started this blog I told you that I had just bought my first non UK brand nail polishes but I failed to tell you what they were so I'm going to tell you now:
      I got China Glaze 108 Degrees, Essie Going Incognito, OPI Stranger Tides and Take the Stage, Zoya Neeka and Yara. They should arrive this friday but I'm going to London for the weekend so I won't get them till Monday :(. My Legends should arrive mid week to friday, hopefully midweek :D. 


I can't buy any more polishes till I get my bursary or I sell some stuff on ebay! 
I will post on Tuesday with a new design +/ swatches :) till then Goodbye :)