Nail mail!!

Today has been a very good day! 1. Handed in my final project so I can relax for a bit now (without feeling guilty :P) 2. I got two packages 3. I got two Dior polishes :D. 


One package was my Paul and Joe polish, soo pretty! The other was one of my swap packages :D it was from Katee off of A girl and her polish and she totally surprised me with a bunch of 'non- nail related goodies' as she said :), it felt like my birthday when I opened it, sooo much stuff! 

Sorry about all the mess, I was too excited to arrange it nicely lol but yes you are seeing 10 polishes, two lip glosses, one body wash, one body lotion, one card and one bag of sweetiess!

Orly - Fowl Play and Androgynie 

Funky fingers - Power Chord, Tinsel Town and Sand and Stilettos. 

Sinful Colors - Cinderella, Unicorn, Amethyst and Rise and Shine

China Glaze - Fast Track

How awesome! I can't wait to wear the Orlys, I might wait for autumn though, they are so perfect for that season. Fast track looks so coool and cinderella is so cute! Basically this is a lovely package from a lovely lady! I am sure all of you follow her anyway but if you don't you should! 

I had £15 on my Debenhams beauty card somehow (I'm not complaining though!) so I got one of the Dior polishes Lucky :D I am seriously considering going back and getting the matching lipstick, I really like the thought of matching lips and nails. So Lucky cost me £3 wooo, a couple of months ago I would never have bought this shade but now I can realise how unique and pretty it is. Here it is with the Paul and Joe 

Love the bottle! So cute 

Alsoooooooooo I have finally won Dior Waterlily!!! After weeks of bidding I finally won one for £14 so not exactly a bargain but I don't care, all I knew is that Forget me not needed the partner! Ha  

So I have had an awesome day! I got a really nice jumper from H&M too but that's a whole other story ;)

Free Nails Inc!

Hi, just a quick post to let all you UK girls know that the magazine 'instyle' is giving away a free Nails Inc polish! There are a choice of three colours, a lavender, a pink and a nude/beige to chose from, I have never even looked at this magazine before but as soon as I saw FREE I grabbed it :P I chose the purple/blue one :) 

Very pretty and spring/summer appropriate :) and only £3.80! Not bad

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! 

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! 

50 Followers Giveaway!! Woo

So I have reached 50 followers! This is a total milestone for me as I genuinely thought that no one would be interested in my blog but I'm super glad they do :) I write this blog as I enjoy doing it so I'm happy other people enjoy it too! To say thanks I am holding my first giveaway :) featuring these polishes: 

Barry M:

Dusky Mauve ie Chanel Paradoxal Dupe! Mushroom, Teal and Lilac Foil 

Topshop:

Hypnotic

H&M: 

No Mambo Jambo

If you read my post yesterday you will no that none of these polishes are brand new however I have used No Mambo Jambo on one nail, Topshop on two nails and I have never used Dusky Mauve! Some of the Barry Ms have purple grey polish on the bottle as they were in my box when purple grey smashed :( but other than that they are fine! Woo 

New followers are welcome but please don't be a dormant follower, I really love reading comments s don't be shy :)

There's a week to enter so go go go! It's open internationally by the way :)

You can use the picture on your blog/post if you wish

What to do......

I need you guys help, I have just bought a ton of polish from Kiko and I have two swaps arriving over the next couple of weeks and so I thought it was a good time to have a clear out of my stash, I only have about 15 that I don't want but I don't know what to do with them......


Should I give them away? The problem with that is that most of my followers are in the US and postage can get quite expensive 


Should I sell them?


Should I hold a 50 followers giveaway and have an epic prize :P 


I don't know what to do, help lol 


There are 2 OPIs, 2 Nails Inc, 3 Barry M, 2 Sinful Colors, 3 Color Clubs, 1 H&M and 1 Topshop, I'll put pictures up later but what would you lovely people like?? 

Spring Retro Nail art with the mysterious Color clubs

Lol! Good title right? :P
It's the only way I can describe what this mani is haha. So after yesterdays disaster nail day, I swiftly removed the Barry M and decided to do some fun nail art. I chose two of my newly acquired unknown Color clubs, a green and a pink (!!). Here are the 6 colours that I got in the "Alter Ego" set. 

L-R ?, Revealed, ?, ?, ?, ?

 The pink is okay for as it isn't straight pink, it has a purple undertone to it, if that is possible haha, I thought the green went perfectly with it, they looked pretty and spring appropriate. Here they are without the design. 

Pretty right? Both colours only took 2 coats each.  
Then I used the nail polish brushes to paint one stripe down the middle of each nail, they took forever to dry so I added SH ID to speed it up and then once they had dried I used my Wah nails art pen to draw the zig zag/ diamonds and that was it :)

The good thing about this design is that the zigzags don't have to be perfect, it adds to the fun when they are less perfect ;) I think it looks like a retro pattern off a pair of awful trousers from the 90s :P

Question: Why don't Color Clubs have names on the bottles??

Hope you enjoyed!