Sally Hansen Sugar Coat Swatches - Royal Icing, Red Velvet and Treat-Heart!

Hey all,

Boyyyyy...it has been so long since I have blogged, painted my nails and even bought nails polish. It has been 2 months and a bit...I really suffered from loosing my so called "mojo" 

I had exams which were pretty stressful, they literally took over my life. I lost interest in a lot of things, my love for nail polish and crochet had actually gone...I'm slowly getting back into the groove now since University is over for the summer (more like rainy weather) so im getting back to my hobbies :)

A few weeks ago I popped into Poundland to buy some much needed tissue and happened to walk past the cosmetics section and saw that they had some new Sally Hansen sugar coat polishes *gasp* they're so pretty and im so glad im not paying full price for them! Lol!

I picked up the three I saw and now I managed to swatch them and they're STUNNING! Shimmery and textured and just WOOOOOW :D The only annoying thing that goes with shimmer polish is that during removal you whole entire finger is gonna end up shimmery! 

First up is Royal Icing

It's a light blue base filled with purple shimmery bits, it is a bit sheer. I have four coats on but there still is a visible nail line, drying time is fast and rock hard within 5 mins :)

Next up is Treat-Heart

A lovely baby pink base with shimmery darker pink bits. Again it is sheer so I have three coats on but I love how dainty it looks! Definitely an elegant polish and I would wear it to fancy events ;) haha

Lastly, my absolute favourite is Red Velvet. An absolutely lushhhhhh raspberry red, it contains light pink shimmers and is a one coater! I added two just because I feel better having two coats on :) haha

I could literally wear this polish all the damn time! It's bright, textured and just fantastic!

Now I am so glad I got my hands on these polishes as I really do love textured polish! 

What do you ladies think? :) 

Stay tuned, I have some nail art coming up with a crochet item! 

Thanks for reading!

Bye for now!

x

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Seventeen - High Shine - Miami & Wave!

Hey all :)

Today I have a swatch of Seventeen High Shine nail polish. I've mainly seen this polish in Boots, I saw them the other week for £1 each in the reduction basket! Can't beat that! lol

I know that I vowed I wouldn't buy nail polish and I haven't, these ones my sister bought (THANK GOD!) and I decided to swatch them :)

Typically, blue and pink cremes are colours everyone has and I myself have them too...they've run out so im defo stealing these from my sister >:) hehe! 

They are pretty shiny and I didn't need top coat at all, similar to the Barry M gelly's really :)

Here are the swatches:

First up is Miami, a lovely two coater (could defo get away with one!) very shiny and dries really fast :)

Next is a lovely blue called Wave, defo an accurate name! It's such a lovely opaque creme blue...two coater as well and really shiny!

I think that these polishes are really good for stamping and I will try them out in the future! :) They are very close to the Barry M Gelly collection and also worth the £1 :D ahah can't beat a good bargain!

Thanks for reading!

Bye for now! 

x

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Barry M - Papaya and Limited Ed. E!

Hey all :)

Miss me?! I will be posting whenever I can, just to juggle out all my work and this. I do miss being free!

Afew days ago I made use of the offer in Superdrug and bought 2 Barry M polishes and got 1 free! Wooo hoooo FREEEEEEEEE

I bought a gelly and matte polish because I totally love those finishes! I got Papaya here for you today with the glitter topper by the name of E :)

I have to say Papaya is a really awesome colour! Its a corally pink and I absolutely love it! I have two coats of it on my nails and it's just soooooooo shiny! You can still see my nail line, but thats only cause my nails are so white! 

The glitter topper is amazing too, really densely packed with glitter, I only have one coat of it on and amazing coverage!

Here it is :)

Overall, I do really like these polishes. I can't believe how fast Barry M is becoming my favourite all time polishes!

Thanks for reading :)

Bye for now!

x

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Texture Jelly Sammich!

Hey all!

Yes, I've been away for quite a while now! Been swamped with school crap :( and been so stressed!

I had to force myself to do something on my nails today, even though I'm coming up with the cold! wahhhh :(

I wanted to do something lazy...what lazier than just dotting on a design?! lol!

I did a tectured jelly sandwich, painted my nails with a base coat of Barry M's - limited ed A and one of the new textured polish called - Countess :) then topped it off with another coat of the sheer jelly pink!

Here it is :)

What do you think!? I love how the texture still shows through the coat of pink :) I love texture!

Thanks for reading :)

Bye for now!

x

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Swatcher - Revlon Scented - GrapeFruit Fizz!

Hey lovelies!

Thank bloody goodness grief it is FRIDAY! I am tired of travelling with the train, Flipping Metropolitan here in London keeps getting delayed or terminating earlier than I want it to! Can you believe I took 7....YES 7 trains on Tuesday due to flippin signal failures!

Phew! Now onto today's postie post :) I have for you another Revlon Scented polish and it is GrapeFruit Fizz, another extremely sheer polish that took about 4 layers and you can still see my nail line. I love the sparkle it but I am really not a fan of the smell! It smells like grapefruit but more like those cleaning products that have the scent of a flavor! I don't like it at all!

Here it is :)

Overall, I am not a fan of it...glad it was for £1 and not the original price lol since I would have defo regretted buying it!

What do you ladies think?

Thanks for reading!

Bye for now!

x

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Swatcher - Barry M - Pink Silver Glitter!

Hey Ladies! And new followers <3

Swatch post for you all today! For my birthday my Mum got me some awesome glitter polishes by Barry M :D They have to be one of my favorites! So I decided to swatch them for all you lovely ladies :)

Today I will be showing you Pink Silver Glitter (what a catchy name right!? :P) This is one of the finest glitters I won, Its filled with...you guessed it pink and silver fine glitters! that build up amazingly!

Completely dry in a couple minutes and FULL coverage! It does dry to a kinda gritty feeling but I love that so didn't bother with top coat :) My swatch is three thin coats!

I'm really impressed with this glitter and it is one of my favorites now!

What do you ladies think!? 

Thanks for reading <3

Bye for now!

x

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Foil Explosion Stamping - Pink Edition!

Hey Ladies! 

You all saw my post yesterday, where I showed you how the NYC Foil Explosion blue version stamped! Here I am today showing you how the Pink one stamps! 

Initially I was going to use a simple stamp design and do some curves...Instead I decided to go for something more complicated to really test how these polishes stamp and I have to say I am really impressed! The design I used is so fine and delicate that even other polishes don't work well with it!

This is the design

You  can see its really fine detail :) Here it is stamped with Power Of Elements over Lavender Cupcake!

Ultra crap lighting! Sorry ladies :(!

As you can see it stamped the design really well! What do you gals think!?

Thanks for reading, stay tuned for tomorrow for the green version!

Bye for now!

x

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Indie Look-A-Like Sandwich!?

Hey Ladies :)

So the other day I wanted to create another glitter sandwich manicure and I got out my gelly like sheer polish and a glitter and began to paint away! 

I painted on two coats of Barry M's Limited Edition polish in colour A (Swatch HERE) which is a sheer pink. Then I painted a tiny bit of Barry M's Glitter polish I recently bought called Amethyst Glitter (Swatch HERE) let that all dry fully then added two thin coats of the pink back on top.........

After a few hours I looked at my nails and was wondering to myself...OMG did I just create an Indie on my nails by doing a glitter sandwich?! Heck yes I did! The pink acted like a milky sheer base for the glitter and really made it look like I frankened the polish! The glitter was so densely packed that it felt textured and just looked amazing to my eyes!

SoooOoo there it is ladies! I kinda sorta created a indie without event thinking about it! LOL :D 

Here it is :)

OMG! So coooool :D

Seriously LOVEEEE how this turned out!

What do you guys thinkies?!

Thanks for reading!

Bye for now!

x

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Elegant Gold Manicure

Hey all :)

It's funny how I quickly run out of ideas and Just feel like poop when I paint my nails! I tend to feel disappointed quickly and wipe em all off, have you ladies had this before!?

I love it when some one close to me helps out with ideas :) really gets me going quickly! 

I was given the idea to do a half-moon with gold, taking this idea I turned it into something along the lines of elegant :) haha

here it is :)

It looks good right?! I think the pink dots just added that effect to it :)

What do you gals think?!

Thanks for reading :)

Bye for now!

x

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Glitter, Gradient And Tiger Stripes!

Hey ladies!

What more could you want from this post?! There's glitter and a pinky gradient and to top it all off some tiger stripes! 

I know for me that's the most perfect combination! 

I am really into gradients recently as you can tell! Hope you guys are enjoying it as much as I am :D

The pinky gradient I did in my last post, I topped it off with some glitter that really made it POP!

Super out of focus glitter pic! I love how it looks out of focus :)

Now for the awesome tiger stripes :) I lurvveeeee how it looks on top of the gradient and glitter!!

What do you guys think of the stripes on top? It really adds that last effect :)

Thanks for reading this longgggggggg full of pictures post!

Bye for now :)

x

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