Illamasqua Radium Swatches

Hello, today's swatch is a colour that won't be to everyone's tastes but is totally mine and probably yours too Lizzy ;). Radium is a bright lime/electric green with darker green shimmer throughout, this doesn't make it shimmery but it adds dimension and shine to the colour. The shimmer is visible under artificial lighting though and it looks great!  

You are probably bored of hearing me rave about Illamasqua's quality so I'll skip it ;) but just so you know, this was a perfect two coater....

This colour is real bright but not neon bright which is a nice way to enter the neon trend I think, good for spring/summer but I loved wearing it now in winter, got a few dodgey looks from people thinking I had moldy nails but meh muggles will never understand a colour like this and that's why I love Illamasqua sooooo much :). 

                                       

I love their bottles, they feel so nice to hold and are easy on the eye ;). I've been eyeing up the new collection I'mperfection and am thiiiiis close to getting two of the speckled polishes, they're just so cute but I don't think I will as I can imagine only wearing them once (look at me being all mature and reasonable! What's happened??) but yeah, they look good on shorter nails, probably wouldn't look so good on mine ;). 

If you follow me on Instagram you'll have seen that I did do some nail art over this but I just couldn't decide and ended up disliking it and took it off within a couple of minutes of having it on :P so I didn't take a picture but you can see it in the instagram side box thing here if you wish. 

What do you think to Radium? Yay or nay? 

Zoya Zuza Swatches (finally)

It's Zuza time ;). 
The sun is lovely and perfect for Zuza to come out and play on my nails, I said I'd wear it today and that I am....obviously. I've taken my pictures outside as I could get them colour accurate and it's so sunny! Lol can't be inside when it's like that, it only happens once a year ;). 

Don't you just feel like you could swim in this? I am totally taking it on holiday with me, it's such a lovely colour, turquoise/aqua/greeeeeny blue whateves it's just beautiful :). I know it's been on every single blog but you have to see it to realise why. It was a pleasure to apply and dried pretty quickly. I didn't use a topcoat for these photos as it doesn't need it :) I feel like I'm on a foil hype lol but next time I'll hopefully have some nail art for you. 
All I can say about this is that I love it and thanks so much Lizzy! Can't wait to see Indigo Illusion now ;) 

Dior Bitter Orange swatches

 I noticed that I'd had a few people coming to my blog to see Dior Bitter Orange swatches so I figured I'd oblige. Bitter Orange is a discontinued shade I'm not sure when it's from as I got mine off ebay for a couple of quid ;). As it's an older shade it doesn't have the tapered brush just a regular square brush which is fine with me :P. Bitter Orange is a chameleon, sometimes its orangey, sometimes pink and sometimes a pinky orange/orangey pink. Haha it is lovely, is has small silver shimmer running throughout that is straying into frosty territory but stays on the pretty shiny side. Swatches below are with one coat!!! Amazing! 

One smoothalicious coat and no topcoat. I hope this has satisfied anyone who was interested in this polish. I'd say if you can get your hands on it, go for it. It feels quite classic yet modern? It's because it's quite bright in real life and therefore looks quite youthful which is what I think Dior stands for!! :) I like it. I want to change though and do GOOD nail art. ;) I think I'm becoming a Dior collector :| also I don't know which of the new Summer Mix to get? Blue, red or pink? Ugh decisions decisions  

Nubar Indigo Illusion Swatches

I have finally had a bit of time to redo my nails, I've been wearing Forget me Not by Dior for the past couple of days but I fancied a change today so I put Nubar on to fill time until my post arrives! I bought a limited edition Paul & Joe glitter "nail enamel" from ebay for.....£3!! Bargain especially as they are normally £11 :D it's rather pretty and I can't wait for it to get here, I love the bottle too :P. I got an email from Kiko today too telling me that my order has been shipped, it failed to mention at any point that they deliver from Italy! Oh well I got free shipping as it was my first order :D. Hopefully that won't take too long to get here now. Anddd I'm awaiting my two swaps so I'm excited everytime I check the postbox and everytime I'm disappointed :( :P.

Anywhoooo on to the polish that is actually here...

 Shiny and sparklyyyyy

Most of the time it is a greeny blue around the edges of the nail and then the middle is pink and  sparkly, it changes to that amazing green in different lighting and angles, sometimes the pink takes on a more purple tone, all in all it's very pretty and fascinating to watch :P. It's a very strong duochrome, it covers in two coats which dried pretty quickly and it applied so easily. It's very space age in my opinion, the colours look quite unusual and futuristic even though this came out a while ago. When you look at the bottle it looks kinda ugly but on the nail it's purdy!

I didn't do a good job at describing it or catching it in the state it's normally in, maybe I'll try tomorrow if I have time. 

It's deadline day on friday, I've managed to do my final prints this morning I was in the darkroom from 9 till 1 and made 3 final prints, it's a very arduous task but worth it :) I've got some more research to do and evaluation and then mounting my prints tomorrow all to be handed in on friday morning. So basically I'm going to be v busy, but I'll make time to read all the blogs :D. I hope everyone else has a less stressful day planned for tomorrow!

Hope you all enjoyed this polish! 

Barry M Denim Swatches and Review

I have been in a nail rut today, nothing was going right :( I took off disappointing Teal and put on one of the unnamed Color Clubs buuuuut it refused to dry! So I took it off and put on Denim instead, hoping to love it but no.....it was a horrid experience. It was runny and thick and kept pooling at my cuticles and dripping down the sides of my nails after I'd applied it! It was so frustrating D: it genuinely looked like a 5 year old had done my nails.....

On top of that I had major tipwear after a few hours! All I had done was boil some eggs, go to the post office and I was in the darkroom for 3 hours printing so not exactly strenuous on my nails, I know it's a matte but that is ridiculous! 

It's a real shame cos it has potential to be amazing! It really does look like a pair of jeans, the silver flecks throughout are the same as the ones in OPIs I have a Herring Problem, it's a lovely deep blue but the formula and wear completely ruined this for me :( so disappointed. 

Barry M Teal Swatches

Hi, yesterday I managed to find four of the new Barry M shades, Silvery Lilac, Black Multi Glitter, Teal and Denim, I bought the last two as they were the most interesting. I believe that Silvery Lilac is the same as Topshop Hypnotic! That let me down so I assumed that the Barry M would. Anywhooo Teal, I wanted to love it but I think it let me down, in the bottle it has a purple flash but it is not visible on the nail. 

It's pretty enough but I feel like it's something I would have seen donkeys ago, it just feels old fashioned, and I don't understand the conection between the new colours, they don't scream summer to me.....but then Barry M isn't really into collections so that is probably why. I think I'll be taking it off tomorrow morning and changing it to Denim as that looks gorgeous!! I have it on four of my toes and it looks hot! Haha :) 


what do you guys think? 

Maybelline Express Finish Khaki Green Swatches

Morning! 
Yesterday I went to TK Maxx (bad idea :P) and saw a set of 7 color clubs that were supposedly the Alter Ego Reveal your Mystery collection but when I got home and looked up swatches, I found that only three are from that collection and I have no idea what the other three are as they have no names on the bottles which I find weird. But anyway I bought this Maybelline polish the other day, I thought it was interesting. 
It was fairly sheer but easy to be built up, I used 4 thin coats with topcoat, 

 These two are with flash to show the shimmmmmer ;)

This is what it looks like normally, pretty :)

I really like this colour actually it's a nice pale green and the shimmer is pretty, it shows brushstrokes but it's not too bad, it's a quite refreshing colour like in the sense of it feels clean lol! It claims to dry in 40 seconds....not quite haha it was pretty quick though and it was really easy to apply so it was an enjoyable experience haha. 


Thanks to everyone who offered to get Candy Shop for me :) I've got it sorted now thanks to some lovely ladies :). 

OPI Swimsuit...Nailed It! Swatches and Review

Hi, superrrrrrrr excited to talk about this one, this was my one real lemming and o-m-gee it does not disappoint! I am forever grateful to Bethany for getting this for me, I think it is my new favourite polish....I've never really had one favourite before but all shall now bow down to this! :P. Gah just look at the pictures! :). 

would you believe that this is one perfect coat? It went on so smoooooth, I'm so happy with this polish, it's so shiny and sparkly and blue! Lol that may sound silly but it is so blue it's gorgeous, I might not be showing any other swatches for a while as I totally love this! I don't really know what else to say about it apart from it's amazing! Also it isn't brush strokey at all it's my stupid canyon nails again *sigh*

Hope you enjoyed!

Polish swap has arrived :D

Hey, so finally one of my packages has arrived and it was the one I was most excited about :) myself and the lovely Bethany from A plethora of Nails did a big polish swap, I sent her two Butter Londons and she sent me an Opi and Zoya that I wanted and then we decided that we would go out and buy each other a few polishes from our local shops ie Boots, for a polish culture swap ;). 
I was so excited when I was told I had a package eeee it was THE package so I ripped it open (quite literally) and three mini bottles rolled out of the tissue paper, they are so cute!! I want to say a massive thank you to Bethany, it has been really nice getting to know you better, I hope we continue to stay in contact :) I really love everything that you sent me :D! 

L-R Fruit Smoothie by Confetti, Lets Talk by Sinful colors, Phoebe by Zoya, Disco Ball by Sally Hansen, Trust Fund Baby by Spoiled, Sparkled by Wet N Wild, Battery Park Purple by NYC, Swimsuit Nailed it! By OPI and the three superrrr cute minis an unnamed Bon Bons (?) and HD Nails and This is it by Sinful Colors. 

How cool!! I am so in love with Swimsuit, it's so gorgeous and weirdly I nearly bought Lets Talk by Sinful the other day I kept picking it up and then I put it down, great minds and all that ;). 

The one that I have on right now is the pink glitter! I can't believe I'm typing this but I was drawn to the pink glitter! I tried it on my nail wheel first and decided to put it over the top of one of my only pinks lol. 

This is one easy coat of Rimmel's Style Hunter, it has a strong fine silver shimmer that make it have a pearlised finish.

I think this is one coat of Sparkled, I'm not sure though, this is in the shade as it were.

Two coats with flash

Two coats in sunlight.

My bf really wanted me to wear this one, I was attracted to it too but it was mainly him :P I do like it, Sparkled is a mix of small pink glitter and larger silver glitter, it is very bling as all glitter is but this is so sparkly like its namesake, haha. It is quite gritty, one thick coat of SH ID sorts that out :). One thing I do know is that I can't stop looking at my nails, they're pretttty, so far so good :P. Good choice Bethany!

On a side note I discovered today that Barry M now do Magnetic polish! There were about 8 slots but only two had polish in, one was red with a striped magnet and the one I got was grey with a circular waved pattern, I know another is blue with a star as that is what the woman in the promo is wearing! I'll be sure to check back soon to see what the others are, they cost £4.99 which is steep for Barry M but I guess these types of polishes are two in one and you can switch magnets if you get them all :). I'm quite excited to try it out to be honest I wasn't really feeling magnetic polish when it first came out but I am seeing the fun in it now :P. 

Thank you again Bethany :) I hope you're having as much fun with my package and I hope everyone else enjoyed this swap post :)

Nails Inc. Emerald Street Swatches

Hi, I have the final Nails Inc polish to show you today from the boxset that I got a couple of weeks ago, this is the polish that really sold me on the entire set as I thought it was lovely and unique in my stash at least. It went on in two easy, supa smooth coats and dried nice and quickly and shiny too :)

It is a gorgeous glowy colour but I'm just not loving it right now, it feels too christmassy I guess, I might mattify it see what that does but I like the shimmer and shine lol. It feels like the green sister of Barry M Navy and Vivid Purple, I love those two polishes but I'm not sure about this one.

One thing this has shown me however is that I really need to invest in some ridge filler! Jeez it's like I have canyons on my nails....

I am still waiting on three packages, I swear I am one of the most impatient people ever! Its just that normally they get to me within a week of ordering :(. I am trying to resist going shopping tomorrow but I think I will fail :P. 

I might feel better about this polish in the light of day (literally) we shall see. 

Hope you enjoyed!

Models Own Indian Ocean Swatches and Review

Hiya, today I have Indian Ocean from the new Beetlejuice collection, it is a lot more pleasing than the previous polishes from the collection, it feels so fresh :). 
I know it is a very sheer polish but I didn't have a suitable pale blue with me so I chose to wear it on its own, this is 5 layers and there is still VNL but it's pretty.

I'm not particularly pleased with these photographs but I have no choice! I do really like this polish, it's so pretty and delicate and it has a really strong duochrome, changing from blue with pink to golden yellow flash. It's really sparkly too and shiny without topcoat :) I think it should be called spring evening sky or something lame like that as the colours are exactly what the sky looks like blue and pink with the sun like this...

Lol. 

I like it alot, it dried quickly and went on nice and smooth, £5 well spent :) I kind of want to try out the other two now haha they see nice and summery as is this one but I think it could work in the colder months too as it is kind of icy looking. Go get it!

Topshop Hidden Treasure Swatches and Review

Hi! I stopped at my friends last night so I couldn't post but I have the most gorg polish today, I bought it along with two others the other day...

Topshop Hidden Treasure and Hypnotic and Model Own Indian Ocean (new beetlejuice) also I found this Barry M 217 apparently called Silver Sea in my drawer at home that I bought years ago for my prom! 

 So I chose Hidden Treasure as it is a very attractive polish and it does not disappoint :D

This was my first topshop polish, I don't know why but I had always been put off buying them, not least because of the price but this one is totally worth it :). The only problem is that is hows all imperfections, like the way it makes my index finger nail look like a grape :( and it makes my ring finger nail look wavy but I think that macro amplifies it, these faults aren't so visible IRL. I love it when it looks solid gold it's so lavish, I have had this on since yesterday and I plan to keep it on til tomorrow at least, I feel expensive whilst wearing it even though it's just topshop. All I can say is praise the Chanel gods for creating such a luxurious nail varnish! 

Truely in love, I'm happy that it is a really strong duochrome as well, I'm hoping that hypnotic is just as good. I think my nails are a tiny bit too long, verging on creepy lol!!

I shall probably see you tomorrow with Hypnotic! 

Max Factor Fantasy Fire!!

First off sorry for not posting! I had a plan to post on saturday and sunday but the internet has broke at home noooo so I'm at my dad's with working internet :). I planned to show you Barry M Indigo on Saturday to tease you all about FF but now you get it all together hehe.
I have tried Indigo once before on my little finger nail and decided I didn't like it but it looked like the perfect base for FF so I gave it a second chance. And I really loved it! 

 The first is in daylight 

 This was taken with flash
It is a more vibrant inky blue than this shows, it leans more red so it's totally blurple! I don't understand why I didn't like it before, I was silly I guess but it went to nice and smoothly in two coats. Basically a lovely colour that I should have paid more attention too. 
Fantasy Fire. I think those two words are enough, on with the pictures....Enlarge!!
First is with flash, the rest are just artificial lighting

I only managed to capture four of the colour shifts, in low light it looks bronze and blue, so cool! I am in love, especially with the green flash it's so lovely and unexpected :). That's all I feel I can say, many other people have done far better swatches than this. 

I hope you have enjoyed this and sorry for my absence, I will make it up to you all tomorrow ;)