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Monday, 5 August 2013

NOTD - Essie & OPI Combo

Hello everyone! Two days off work so I've got the nail varnish out, woohoo. It was a hard decision trying to choose which nail polish to wear (white girl problems), but eventually I decided upon a two brand combo.

Firstly I applied my Essie Off The Shoulder on all of my nails which is a lovely hot pink which I love and have mentioned on the blog before. I applied two coats of this polish as I thought it looked best. Next I applied one of my favourite polishes, OPI's Teenage Dream which is from the Katy Perry collection and again, is a polish I've mentioned before.

Absolutely love this combination and think its perfect for summer. Also, pink is my favourite colour when it comes to beauty products and I love adding glitter to the top of my polishes at any given opportunity.

What are you wearing on your nails today?

Monday, 29 July 2013

NOTD - Essie's Miami Nice

Little nails of the day for you all. I love nail polish so much and I never get to wear it. I think I need a job where it's a requirement to have nice nails all the time so I can do whatever I want!

Today I'm wearing Essie's Miami Nice on my nails, and it was actually by accident. I have all my Essie polishes in a box and I meant to lift out Super Bossa instead as I haven't actually got to use it yet. I was painting them while watching YouTube videos and didn't even notice until I'd already done the first coat!

Anyway, I still love this colour (I didn't actually know I owned it but sure). It's a lovely hot pink with blue undertones as is perfect for summer. A big pro with this polish was also the fact that it dried a lot quicker than I expected it too.

What colour are you wearing on your nails today?

Tuesday, 25 June 2013

Nails Of The Day - Essie's Bikini So Teeny

Here it is, my favourite nail varnish for this Summer! I know, it came out in Essie's Summer collection last year but I have only managed to get it this year, and I absolutely love it.

I managed to pick up a really good deal with this and actually got it for only £1.99 on Fragrance Direct along with a few other polishes by the same brand.

The colour you are looking at is Essie's Bikini So Teeny. It is a gorgeous sky blue colour and is even nicer in person than in the photos. I'm not a big fan of super bright colours (unless they're pink), but I thought this was really nice and could really brighten up any outfit.

The consistency of the polish is also really smooth and it can be applied really easy. It's one of those polishes that I never make a mistake with, which is a big plus in my books. It also stayed on very well, and didn't really chip. The main photograph of me holding the polish shows my nails 2 days after applying the polish, and as you can see, there's only a few little chips, but its pretty perfect otherwise.

I highly recommend anyone to try this nail polish if they see it, and also to check out Fragrance Direct for Essie nail polishes as they are super cheap! They also ship worldwide so this isn't just for my UK readers!

What are you wearing on your nails this summer?

Tuesday, 15 January 2013

Nails Of The Day - OPI Live And Let Die

Firstly, I'd like to apologise for my absence for the past few days. I know it really hasn't been that long, but when you check your blogs everyday, a few days feels like weeks! I decided to do a quick post on my current nails, but I have a lot more interesting posts to come up soon, including my 2012 favourites (so late, I know) and a few Lush reviews.

My current nail polish is from OPI's James Bond collection which I had been lusting over for months. I had a list of shades that I wanted to pick up when I was in New York, but we couldn't find them anywhere! Eventually I found a mini set on ASOS, and I bought this at the start of last month. However, I couldn't mention it at all, as my friend who reads this blog received the set as a gift from me and I didn't want her to suspect anything. There's four colours in the set, but I'll review the set separately, and just talk about my current polish for now.

I firstly decided to use Live and Let Die as it was such a gorgeous colour and it was the one I had wanted most.

At first look, it looks like this polish is just plain black, but in the light you can see little flecks of a gold and very, very slightly dark green glitter. As you may know, I love glitter, so naturally I loved this. As with nearly all OPI polishes, this went on very smoothly, although I found I had to dip the brush into the pot a lot more since it was mini.

This polish is very easy to remove, for a glitter polish, and I found that only a few swipes with a nail varnish remover soaked cotton pad took it all right off.

What polish is currently on your nails? I hope you're all having a lovely evening/day depending on your time zone!

Wednesday, 5 September 2012

Essie Fun In The Gondola & Barry M Pink Silver Glitter Polish

I'm off work for a few days which means, I can finally paint my nails!

I decided to use Essie 'Fun in the Gondola' and Barry M 'Pink Silver Glitter' nail polishes together and do a little alternative french manicure. This Essie nail polish is my new absolute favourite nail polish. It's a really gorgeous rosey pink colour, and as mentioned in my August Favourites post which you can read here, I think it's very very similar to MAC's Creme Cup.

Firstly I applied some of my Sally Hansen Advanced Hard as Nails as a sort of base coat, and also because my nails are in terrible condition and I'm trying to help them! Once this was dry, I applied my Essie nail polish and left it to dry.

For the tip I applied my Barry M nail polish which is such a gorgeous colour, and reminds me of the OPI nail polish, Sugar Daddy, which I've used in a few other nail posts. I just kept my hand steady and applied it freely, but if you don't have a steady hand, I'm sure you could use some nail tips as a guide.

It's not very season appropriate since it's coming into Fall/Autumn, but I love these colours and really wanted to get some use out of them.

Sunday, 29 July 2012

OPI - Kiss Me On My Tulips Review

I absolutely love this nail colour that I purchased while away. We don't get OPI that easily where I live as far as I know, I've only seen it online. This colour is called Kiss Me On My Tulips and is part of the Holland collection from OPI. I had seen them whilst reading a magazine and this wasn't the colour I had originally planned on buying, but after seeing it I fell in love. I love the OPI polishes because they go on so easily and smoothly and a little goes a long way. I found one dip in the bottle done about 2 or 3 nails very easily.

This shows the colour directly under natural light. It's a lovely bright pink colour. I applied some of OPI's Sugar Daddy to the ring finger on each hand over the top of the polish, another colour which I also love (review coming soon).

This is the colour under normal lighting. Excuse the quality of my nails, they're a bit of a mess at the moment so nail polish won't go as smoothly as I want it too!

Thursday, 5 July 2012

OPI Fly Nail Polish Review

On my recent trip to San Diego I picked up a few nail polishes and one of them was Fly by OPI as part of their Nicki Minaj collection. I'm not an overly big fan of Nicki Minaj so I hadn't intended on even looking at any of her nail varnish collection, nor was I really even aware that she had one, but the colours were so beautiful I ended up getting two. I got this one and Pink Friday and I'm in love with them and the OPI nail polish collection in general.

Fly is a beautiful teal blue type colour which is perfect for Summer and seems to go with anything. It goes on really smoothly and easily and the texture of this one is quite thick so once opening it up it nearly covers three nails without having to dip it back in. It also dries fairly quickly comapred to some other brands I've tried, which I love as I hate having to wait ages before I'm allowed to touch anything.

I done two coats of this polish, but really, you could probably get away with just the one if you were pressed for time. These two photographs show what it looked like after one coat, and then after another. Sorry they aren't too good quality, they were taken with my iPhone camera and I really should probably just use my own proper camera for things like this! As you can see, it looks pretty much the same in both photographs because the colour is pretty bright and thick anyway! I'm writing this after applying the polish yesterday and it and I have to say that I'm pretty impressed at how well it's stayed on as I'm quite hard on my nails and it hasn't really chipped all that much. 6/10 nails are completely perfect, and the rest of just tiny chips in the corner which aren't really that noticeable.

If anyone is interested I can also do a review of the other Nicki Minaj nail polish I bought, which is the Pink Friday polish, and it's a lovely bright baby pink which reminds me of a Barbie nail polish would look like. I've used it a few times and love how bright and colourful it is.

Update: Just letting you all know that I found out that Asos actually sell this nail polish, and the other colours from the Nicki Minaj collection. You can find them by clicking here.