Showing posts with label nail paints. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nail paints. Show all posts

A love for peaches

Hey everyone, the invasion is over and I am back!! I hope your enjoyed my 7 guest and most importantly, id like to think you missed me a bit too lol.

I thought id make this a quickie. I'm pretty sure I have posted about this polish in the past, but in saying that when I twitpic'd my nails the other day a lot of you were in ore.

I picked up the colour in Claire's over a year ago. Priced at £2.50, It has no name or number it was literally the only peachy one on the shelf.
I know a lot of you love the colour and were planning on heading to Claire's to pick it up. If you fail on that mission, why not check out Models own peach sherbet, apparently its a dead ringer.

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"A lack of pancakes, but an abundance of colourful nails"‏

Hey Ladies, im sorry ive been MIA for nearly 2 weeks *slaps wrist* Iv been ill and working, But fear not, my friend Emma has compiled a post to keep you satisfied for a few days whilst I sort myself out. Show her some love and make her feel welcome, Hope you enjoy.....

Morning all!

And I mean “morning”. It’s a rainy Saturday and Cat woke me up at 0800 by jumping onto my bed, lying on my hair and meow-crying until I tickled him in that spot under his chin, right at the back towards his left jaw line. If you have a cat, you know it.

I’m in bed, I’m hungover, I can’t find a decent internet-stream of the Grey’s Anatomy episode I want to watch and there’s no one here to make me pancakes. American-style pancakes.

What will make me feel less gloomy? Painting my nails. And so many wonderful, wonderful colours to choose from...!

Current favourites:

• Chanel “Black Pearl” (Boots - £18)

This colour is divine; I’m in love with it! The magazines have been raving about it and I want a Porsche in this colour. When people say, “Hey! Cool colour car; what is it?” I can say, “Chanel Black Pearl,” and look totally smug about it.

(I bet I won’t look so smug when they go and scratch it when I’m not looking, muttering, “we’ll show that smug fool...!”)

There’s also a white version you could use to French mani your Black Pearl nails with, but I’m feeling low maintenance nails lately.

The colour is slightly too teal-based to be genuinely like a black pearl, but it’s still fantastic. The best description I read about this colour is “dark cosmic green”, which is pretty much exactly what it is.

Suck it up and buy it. There are no close dupes out there. You’ll regret it otherwise. Go on. We might not be able to afford paint a whole car with it, but we can certainly have nice nails while we’re driving around London in our Volkswagons and Fords!!
• Chanel “Vendetta” (Boots - £18)

A dark purple colour, which looks black unless there’s a lot of light hitting it. As with many Chanel polishes it’s a pain to remove and not worth the money. There are better substitutes out there and things far more deserving of your eighteen quid!

• YSL’s Cornflower Blue / Mushroom Spring “Manicure Couture Duo” Set (Selfridges - £20 for both)

I already feel out of date with this since the A/W collections are strutting down various runways as we speak, but this spring set was too delightful not to mention.

Again, the two colours were intended to be used as a French manicure set, which I tried once but didn’t overly enjoy. While both colours look great, the navy – ohhh the navy! I got through half this bottle in a month I loved it that much.

Downside? £20 for 12ml of polish is pretty painful.

• Seche Vite’s Top Coat (Ebay - £4.99)

I know everyone has been going on about this since forever, but I only just bought it. It’s incredible. It makes your nail varnish touch-dry super fast and it doesn’t chip. I’m a programmer; I type on a keyboard from 8am until 6pm every day and my nails still.don’t.chip. That’s amazing, trust me.

• American Apparel Polishes (New York – 3 for £6)

California Trooper (left), Raccoon (right), my friend stole the third. I can’t say that I’m overly bothered about it (In fact, I might just give her the other 2..).

After I used up my 2 Mac polishes from the “Warm & Cosy” collection I’ve been looking for dupes, and while in NYC I stumbled across these colours. I love American Apparel clothes so I was more than willing to give their polishes a go.

The consistency is variable. While the lighter California Trooper’s is fantastic, Raccoon’s is gloopy and difficult to apply. When applied they’re pretty quick to dry and the colours and true to how they are in the bottle with a single coat. They chip quickly and I wouldn’t pay what they’re asking for in this country.
So I might not have fluffy, doughy pancakes with little chocolate chips and maple syrup. I might have Cat’s fur in my hair. I might have to spend money on the Grey’s Anatomy box set. But my nails are cosmic and everything feels a little bit better.

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Peachy Nude Nails

Was meaning to do a poost on this a few days back-but just seeing vexinthecity's Blog post on MAC Blissed Out,hurried me along

As soon as I saw the picture,I was like,but wait,thats the same colour im wearing *whilst putting my fingers on the computer screen*

Ok so I know there's a difference in lighting when taking pictures,So I tried to get the best image I could,But it still looks slightly different in reality....


This is a true peachy nude colour and I love it,Best of all I stumbled across it in claires,Um yep you read correctly,I did say claires-a place I dont usually venture lol,but I was searching for a nail colour I saw on someone elses blog.The only downfall id say is that I cant tell you what colour it is because it has no shade name or anything(sad times).And I know they have a few nude colours.There is a number on the back near the ingredients which is B32,I have no clue if it is associated with the colour in any way so dont get mad if it isnt lol

So anyway,two coats and I was done,It was quick drying and I havnt used a top coat.By the way, excuse the fact the picture above may include fluff or any other kind of crap,since I changed the settings on my camera it seems to pick up everything

Just encase you go on the hunt for this....
Its a solid colour (no shimmer)
Its a 9ml bottle
cost is £2
If all else fails just go for the shade that looks exactly like a peachy colour

I dont know what else to say,I wish they at least had a number I could give you-ahh well,Let the hunting commence

:)

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Famous By Sue Moxley

Nudes = Love for me,I already own a few nude nail varnishes but when I come across a shade I love that doesn't seem to matter to me

So the shade I picked up is called Nude,and it is from the famous range in superdrug


Oh so pretty,with a small twist that my camera wouldn't pick up.So this nail colour is not a solid colour varnish,its actually from the manicure range,so obviously when you apply one coat it comes out a nicely nude sheer colour,That isn't going to stop me from achieving the look I want,I put a few thin coats on to achieve the solid colour look,I think it was about 4,and must I say due to the consistency of this polish,my nails dried rapidly in between each coat.



I havnt got any top coat on so as you can see the shine is amazing,and what I realised when I put my hand near the light,is that the polish is shot through with an undertone of a subtle nude shimmer,so subtle that when your indoors it looks like your just wearing a nude polish,Even when your outdoors it looks like your just wearing a nude polish.The light actually has to catch it for you to see how pretty this colour really is,Its like two polishes in one

Perfect for the Christmas season

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Brief Barry m update

My barry m paints finally arrived yay,pink flamingo and mullberry pink
heres what pink flamingo looks like


Definate summer shade to have,dries to a nice shine too
and here is mullbery pink....


havnt had the chance to wear this yet but when i do,il do another post 4 ya


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i love barry m and others of course

So i thought i would share half of my nail varnish collection with you,thats right half because theres so many dotted around the place i couldnt be bovered to have an early morning nail varnish hunt.Although that could be an alternative to an easter egg hunt haha....

Anyway back to the subject.I love barry m nail paints,and i did order some more off their site the other day when i discovered there was yet another new shade wooopie

So here is my nail paints collection so far......


from top to bottom, left to right,we have.....
303-bright purple , 301-block orange, 304-mint green
191-vivid purple , 302-fuchsia, 292-cobolt blue, 1a-red wine
296-coral, np-neon pink, 119-baby pink, 293-grey and 134-yellow

And soon to come pink flamingo and mulberry pink,cant wait

Heres some of my other nail varnishes....


with a couple of faves,Rimel 60 seconds in coralicious



ladies you have to buy this,especially if your sporting a tan,the colour pops like nothing else

And another love of mine is this ...


Rimmel pro 365 Beige style,i love it,i am wearing it now and i must say its probably one that i wear alot if im not wearing a bright colour.

All in all, i love nail varnish,some would say i am a bit obsessed,and i dont care because i know i am : )

The colours always on my hands

Hope you enjoyed my post

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e.l.f virgin

so i was a total e.l.f virgin up until a week ago when i ordered a whole bunch of products,but today im going to do a review on 2 nail varnishes i ordered off their site,which i will add,even though i ordered late in the afternoon it came the next day.Lucky i was on my way home as my postman decided to leave it at my front door,"WHAT WAS HE THINKING"
these are the 2 polishes...


chocolate and mod mauve,i couldnt wait to stick the chocolate on..


this colour only needed two coats and even without a top coat it had a brilliant shine.I love it! each nail polish is only £1.50 so in theory you could go mad and order as many colours as you want.i havnt tried the other one yet but i am sure it will be as nice as the one i have already got on,i will be doing some more reviews on e.l.f stuff as i have got quite abit,but in the mean time click here to grab your nail polishes.

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