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!

Mix up nails

I was meant to post yesterday but I didn't cos I had a massive migrane *hangover* so I really didn't want to look at a bright screen but I'm here now so that's all that matters. I really wanted to do something fun and bright so I took out my nail art pen and nice colours and got to work, I only had three colours that matched so I decided to use a opposing colour as an accent so that's why it looks odd haha. 

 For my index finger I used Topshop Hypnotic which is silver with flashes of pink and green

 For the thumb I used Ultra Violet and Aqua Cool both by Rimmel Pro 

 The red is Urban purple by Rimmel Pro and the gold for the chains is 25 carot gold by Models Own.

I almost left the pinky and middle fingers with just the two colours but I thought they needed something to link (haha you get it ;)) with the metalic nail, I am happy with the way it turned out, the outline of the chains are really messy as it was my first time using the smallest dotting tool to draw with as it were so I didn't quite get the hang of it :P. I like it, it's fun to look at and so I'm pleased with it. I did this on saturday and everything is holding up well without a topcoat, naughty I know but I couldn't be bothered if I'm being honest lol. 

All the polishes dried nice and quickly and all bar the red are two coats, I really like the Rimmel pro polishes they are really saturated and have a nice big brush which makes applying it super easy, one stroke for my little nail :P.

I'm still waiting over a week after my orders for my two ots of polish to arrive, it's totally annoying because I ordered them to my house and I'm returning to uni tomorrow for 6 weeks.....I'll have to get my mum to post them up to me if they ever arrive *sigh*. I got two polishes from a-england and 3 from Nubar (my first Nubars, will they ever get here? Lol). 

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 ;)