Giveaway winner & Continued mani!

My giveaway has now ended and the winner is: 

Ariana Cheng! 

I have emailed her and she has 24 hours to reply otherwise a new winner will be announced

I layered Cinderella over Bluebell this morning and here are the results: 

Because Cinderella has a milky blue base it tainted Bluebell slightly but you could still see the original colour underneath. The shimmery flakies in Cinders looked really light and pretty over the top of Bluebell, definitely nice and springy. The only problem I had with it was the fact that it ended up looking really thick on my nails and I really can't stand that, you know what I mean when the gap between the polish and your cuticle isn't very big and it makes it look like you have a mountain of polish on, cos it's like shadowy in the gap....I know what I mean ;). 


Hopefully tomorrow I'll have a tasty haul post for y'all :D

Nails Inc Instyle Bluebell Swatches

Today I have a pretty mani for you, featuring the free nails inc polish Bluebell, I haven't seen too many swatches around so I figured I'd wear it now for people to see how nice it is ;). I did an accent finger with Sinful Colors Cinderella which I got in my swap with Katee, I think they go together real nice. I'm going to layer cinderella over the top of Bluebell tomorrow :) 

I think this photo above is colour accurate, it is a very purpley blue. 

This was amazing it was opaque in one coat! I did two to cover up my ridges, it was so smooth to apply and dried fairly quickly. I used three coats of Cinderella, it's so beautiful I know it's been featured on everyone's blog and I now why, I can't wait to wear it as a full mani. I can't decide whether Bluebell is blue or purple, it changes in different lights, now in my low light it looks very lilac but earlier in the day it looks very cornflower blue. Either way it's so nice and definitely worth £3.80 so if you have access to Instyle magazine I recommend you get it for this polish! 

I've trimmed my nails down again, even though you probably can't tell but they are at the perfect length for me I can't wait to wear Lucky and Waterlily when it gets here and my other swap package and my Kiko order lol a lot of things :P

How'd you like this? 

Nail art tutorial: Pandas!

So for my first nail art tutorial I decided to do something that was easy and supa kute! ;) what is cuter than pandas right? 


For this all you need is a white polish, three different sized dotting tools and black polish like so:

One tip I have is:  I found it was better to have a deep blob of polish that you are dipping into as this means that you will have excess polish on the dotting tool which means you can move the polish around and create bigger circles or straighten edges.  Also make sure you put a base coat on first :). 

Here are the simple four steps to pandas: 

1. Using the brush that comes with the white polish, start half way up the nail and do one stroke down to the tip and then starting from the same place as before curve the brush round and down and both sides to create the curved top. Don't worry if you can't make it as curved the ears help cover it up anyway :). 

2. Taking the largest dotting tool (or suitable substitute) dip it into the black polish that you have put onto paper/empty lid etc, and put one dot on the side of the curve near the skin as you can see on my ring finger. Then you may need to place another large dot to make the ear as big and cute as possible. I liked to have straightened edges at the bases of the ears as I think they look cuter than just circles. Repeat on the other side. Using the ears as guides, place two big circles just under the ears. Then with a smaller dotting tool make a smaller dot joined next to the big eye dot, and join the circles with more polish. Repeat on other eye. 

3. Once the black has completely dried, dip your medium sized dotting tool into the white polish and carefully dot the white in the middle of the big black circle only. It's this ring arond the eyes that make them cute! 

4. To finish get the smallest dotting tool and dot on two tiny black dots for eyes and then dot inbetween the eyes at the tip of your nail for a little nose. Once completely dry then you can add a top coat over your whole nail. Et voila you now have 5 cute pandas!


Of course if you have a nail art pen, the ears are easier to do but the dotting method definitely works best for the eyes as it help creates the perfect circle for eye patches. 


Here's what my whole hand looks like

:D! 

Here's me creating the curves on my other hand, it's easy once you get into it :)

I hope this was clear and helpful, let me know if you are going to try this out, I'd love to see other pandas! Eee so cute :) 

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!