Sinful Colors Cupcake nails

Hello! This evening I have a new look using two Sinful Colours, I bought these two the other day for like £1.99 each and as it felt a bit warm and like spring today I figured it would be a good time to use these colours. I started with Ciel which is a pale blue creme which was darn awful to apply, this is three coats..

I think this colour is really cute I just know that IRL it doesn't suit me but I still like it :P however it took forever to dry :| I could probably still smudge it now even with SH ID on top! Anyway after it was partly dry (I got bored of waiting) I added Mauve in a french manicure styley over the top, it reminds me of the Zoya 'funky french' 

I like Mauve a lot more than Ciel, I think it would suit me more, it's a more substantial colour if that makes sense. It's a pale lilac which again looks a bit grey, I guess that's why they named it Mauve ;). I couldn't stop there I had to add one extra step...

This is one and a bit coats of Accessorize Crystal Shimmer I like it because it's not over the top glitter it's quite subtle it just adds a shimmer and sparkle to the mani which I feel would be flat without it. I put SH Insta-Dri over the top to smooth the glitter and that's it. The Sinful Colors are nice colours and the formula is never going to be amazing for how cheap they are really so I don't mind paying two squid for pretty polishes, I bought a pink as well Cabana which I am excited to try but I'm not scheduled to wear it for a couple of weeks yet ;). 

Yes, you read that right, I have a schedule of which polish I will be wearing for the next six weeks....it's the only way to make sure that I wear all of my untrieds otherwise I'll never do it! I'm going bare over the weekend to give my nails a break then I'm diving straight back in with A-England! Yay about time :D. 

See you soooon.

Vday is over! Accessorize Sapphire Swatches and Review

Good evening, I don't know about you but I'm over Vday, probably because I live with my boyfriend every day and we go to the same uni so I see him everyday and he treats me everyday so Valentines isn't really that special for us. So I got bored of my mani and replaced it with a polish I was quite skeptical to try Accessorize Sapphire, I've never paid attention to these polishes, the colours were too bland I guess but when I saw this I knew I had to have it. 


All of these are taken with artificial lighting and NO topcoat..

These pictures are colour (and shine) accurate! Sapphire is a grey-blue (?) with amazing silver-blue shimmery particles. 

Gah! Isn't it soooo gorgeous! So sparkly and glowy I am genuinely in lurrrrve. This is one perfect polish. 1. Application is AMAZING, so smooth,no clean up required. 2. This is a one coater just as it claims to be! 3. It dried within a couple of minutes, fully dried no smudging or anything within 3 minutes! 4. The colour! The shine! 5. The price £4....Bargain! Ugh I'm just overwhelmed by it all. This would be great if you were in a rush, seriously you need this in your life hahahah.

I'm sure they have more colours and I believe they have a hot pink metalized one as well which would be amazing. 

I cannot recommend this enough, please go out and get it, you will not regret it :). I'm going to hunt for the others now :P.

Also today I bought 3 Sinful colors and 2 Butter Londons with free delivery for the UK! I got them from www.naturisimo.com for £9.60 each so that's 40p less than Boots website plus free delivery. I must have been living under a rock to not know that Boots.com sells Butter London polishes at £10 each but they only have a limited range as do naturisimo but limited is better than international shipping costs ;). 

If you too were living under a rock like I was till my London trip you can buy OPIs from Colourcopia in Westfield Stratford and Selfrigdes and the website www.lenawhite.co.uk sells them for £11 which makes no sense to me but you get what you're given and all that. 

Seeyou all soon!

My heart skipped a beat

Valentines mani, Essie Limited Addiction, I said I was going to wear it on Vday and I was right! 

It was lovely to apply, a jelly(??) after two coats there was still a VNL but I didn't mind too much, it took ages to dry though, so SH inst-dri was definitely a big help most of the time I use it to smooth out mistakes and to add amazing shine :). These pictures are colour accurate, Limited Addiction is my new favourite red although I only have two real reds :O.

After it dried I did this design which is inspired by a Vday card I saw in a shop with the tag "my heart skipped a beat" I thought it was totally cute and not over the top. I messed up the index finger so I tried to distract from it by using Accessorize in Crystal Shimmer but it doesn't really work in all lighting 

Flash

Just artificial lighting to show the colours

It's a bitty polish, would be fun with more layers over a paler colour like Essie Navigate Her I think, I'll try it one day nearer Spring. 

I hope you enjoyed this Valentines day mani, sorry it's a bit rushed I'm waiting to watch Lost S3 for the fourth time, yes I love it that much ;). Have a great day 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!