Showing posts with label varnish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label varnish. Show all posts

Monday, 18 March 2013

The Infamous Mint Candy Apple

How is it possible that I haven't tried this must have polish before!?! Especially as I love blues and green polishes! 




Mint Candy Apple is one of Essie's best selling colours and is talked about everywhere in the blogging world. MCA was released with the 2009 Sweet Time of Year collection alongside Lollipop and Rock Candy and was the mint green polish that started the trend!




The formula is one of Essie's best, that means no streaks! as always I applied three coats for full opacity, and I think I have an OCD about that, but I think you could get away with just two if you applied it carefully.







Saturday, 19 January 2013

Miss Beauty Haul

While browsing the aisles in Wilkinsons my bf came across these Miss Beauty nail polishes. They were priced at only £1 a bottle so he encouraged me to pick out some colours I would like to share with all of you! (isn't that nice of  him).

Miss Beauty is a UK brand made by Pascalle LTD who formed back in 2004 and are based in Stoke on Trent. The company produces everything from skin care, foundations and concealers, to powder and creme eye shadows, eye liners and of corse nail laquers and treatments.  Their clients over the years have included Molton Brown, M&S, Bodyshop, l'occitane, UK supermarkets Tesco, Asda and Sainsburys and COTY (the new owners of OPI).

Thats quite a resume for a £1 polish!

Lets see if their "right first time" mentality has paid off.

I picked up three colours from the range, no.11 Lagoon, no.12 Lilac and no.16 Ocean

Ocean is dusty muted teal/aqua colour, darker and more muted than OPI Mermaids Tears, very similar to the base colour of No7 So Neat, but missing the gorgeous shimmer.



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Application was a little tricky, the first coat applied streaky, but the pigmentation was good. In the end two coats was enough and is what you see here.

My camera is picking the colour up to be much more of a vibrant green than what it is :(

Drying time was quite speedy, touch dry in around 3-5 minutes.

Lagoon is a beautiful cobalt blue colour with golden shimmer. Application was easier than Ocean, less streaks. I used three coats here.



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Lilac is the sheerest of the bunch, but still a gorgeous colour. More of a magenta than a lilac in my opinion but lets not pick hairs. This is four coats.



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Tuesday, 6 November 2012

Poundland Hauling!

Poundland is becoming my favourite haunt at the moment, what with Christmas coming up and trying to save a little bit of money for the holidays and the sales ;) and the FANTASTIC products I keep finding!





First up are two polishes from Revlon, I keep seeing a few of their products in the discount shops, are they discontinuing some or just re-formulating? either way I love a bargain and scooped these two up for Holidays tutorials.





This is Revlon 863 Ruby Ribbon and 933 Emerald City, and both are from the Matt Suede line.

Next are two Sally Hansen polishes from the Complete Salon Manicure line that has just crossed over the pond, and are now available in larger Boots and Superdrug stores for around £6.99. I picked two colours; Dorian Grey, a very soft light grey creme and Himalayan Blue, a bright blue, almost cyan colour. I love, love, LOVE blue polishes so I can't go wrong with that one :)




The last two items are wild cards, which for a pound I couldn't leave behind.

This is a Sally Hansen Sculpt and Shape Lip Treatment in the colour Classic, I'm on the lookout for some darker, Autumn/winter colour lipsticks and this one looked like it fit the bill. Its a brown, nude,
 plum colour, just a few shades darker than my natural lip colour. Not sure if I like the colour or not but it does feel very moisturising on the lips and is a very work appropriate colour. Not all bad then! ( I have also spotted this product in DiscountUK stores too)!





The final wild card item is a nail drying spray?! C talked me into buying it, so I get to blame him if its a waste of money! It claims to be the "ideal solution for nail varnish that takes forever to dry. Fast drying this spray speeds up the natural drying process, leaving you with almost touch dry glossy nails in around 60 seconds" and says it is suitable for most types of nail varnish. hmmm I wonder what that means...




I will give it a go and let you know how I get on.

xoxo

Monday, 29 October 2012

Trick or Treat?! How to Remove Glitter Polish

Everyone should be able to enjoy wearing glitter nail polish at this festive time of year without being afraid of the removal process. Today I am going to show you a quick, easy and efficient removal method, using household items that everybody should have to hand.


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You will need:
Nail Polish Remover
Cotton Wool
Kitchen Foil

and that's all you'll need!

Fist we will need to tear off 10 equal squares of kitchen foil, they need to be large enough to wrap around your finger nail and accommodate the cotton wool.

Next you will need to saturate your cotton wool in nail polish remover, I am using Cutex Moisture Guard with nail whitening formula. This is the one I like, any will do, but I find this one quick and easy to work with. I am also using balls of cotton wool instead of the pads as I find these soak up the polish remover better.

Lay the cotton wool in the middle of the foil, place your nail over the cotton wool and wrap around your finger, ensuring a tight as possible seal to prevent the nail varnish seeping out.

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When you have wrapped all 10 fingers, relax ....

and do the robot!

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Leave for about 2 minutes, then carefully, without tearing or ripping the foil, rub the cotton wool over your nails, if it moves with ease it is ready to be removed, if not leave for a further minute and try again.

Hey Presto! Glitter free nails!

I hope this was helpful to some of you! enjoy your festive glitter nails!

xoxo

Wednesday, 3 October 2012

#OrangeOctober Candy Orange

Day 3 #OrangeOctober

Today's polish is by Nails Inc, and it was a Freebie! This is Nails Inc for InStyle magazine Candy Orange.

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Although a slightly unoriginal name, I like it! makes me think of Halloween candy :)

Candy Orange is a bright orange, with a hint pastel.

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But don't worry if you missed out on this colour, Nails Inc have many other fabulous orange hues

Don't forget to follow and share your favourite #OrangeOctober colours on Facebook and Twitter :)

xoxo

Sunday, 30 September 2012

#OrangeOctober

Tonight's subject on #bbloggers chat on Twitter is 


Bloggers Block; How to overcome it, inspirations for posts.


Which makes now a perfect time to talk to you about my next project #OctoberOrange

For the month of October I will be turning my blog orange!! 

... and sharing with all of you some of my favourite orange polish swatches, a different one everyday!

So I want to know ...

What is your favourite orange nail polish?


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