NOTD OPI - Pompeii Purple

Bit of an odd one today! My eye just cannot detect a purple, even the duochrome flashes blue rather purple!

Still love it though, bright pink is a very me colour. The formula was good, 2 coats to opacity and wear was good, as you can see tipwear here but that was after 5 days!

Can you see purple? I see a blue-y silver flash!

This was a lovely, eye catching polish that makes a change from the regular hot pinks!

Pompeii Purple is in the core range so available from http://www.lenawhite.co.uk/store/pinks/pompeii-purple now

NOTD Sally Hansen - Deep Blue Sea

This was another Poundshop bargain! I snapped up 3 shades in one shop and they have only had in some really insipid shades since, but I check once a month or so!

I loved this when I saw it in the bottle, even the cashier mentioned it but I found it a bit meh and bland on the nail

Even my mum was unimpressed and she doesn't often comment on my nails! Only if she really likes something, she said it just wasn't a polish that made an impact!

I felt this was on the wrong side of frosted, a bit old fashioned

But staying power was good and it lived up to its extreme wear name!

I am glad this was a Poundshop find as I would have been disappointed to have paid the regular £7 for this.

I did pick up other colours that I shall blog and alreadythink will be more flattering than this!

NOTD Color Club - Blue-ming

This polish very nearly did not get blogged! Never have I had such a problem photographing a polish in my life! I had to play around with some never touched before settings on my phone to get the colour right!

But it was worth it as this polish caught my eye straight away when I was perusing the shelves in TK Maxx!

Application was a chore, I won't lie I was tempted to take it off almost straight away! First coat was streaky, second coat was streaky, third coat was great and opaque BUT then it took forever to dry. Even with a quick dry sparkly-ish topcoat!

You can see a hint of the sparkle on my ring finger. The worst part of this mani was that after an hour and a half I put a dvd in the player and made a huge dent in two nails of my right hand *face palm*

This was a beautiful polish and the white base made it a really bright pop of colour on my nails. Alas, next time I wear it I will give myself half hour between each coat!

Blue-ming came in a set from TK Maxx and that is the only in the UK I have found Color Club but they have some on Amazon which I didn't know until today!

NOTD - 2 True Crystal Polish Shade 3

Well looky here, we have a so called 'drug store' polish on my blog! As you may tell I don't do these often but recently had a polish splurge and some offers in Superdrug tempted me!

This is the amazingly named Shade 3 by 2 True and is limited edition so not sure how long this is available for. 

This is a real sparkler, the photos do not do it justice! I would also like to point out that these pictures were taken on day 7, yep SEVEN and only minimal tipwear and my next confession is that I was too lazy to do a topcoat, so not only did it last this long before I got bored, it lasted that long on its lonesome!

This polish is a teal base with teal, turquoise and lilac micro glitter, which I just couldn't photograph!

Just amazing!

2 True polishes are £1.99 each from Superdrug, or 3 for £5 and when I bought mine I got a free polish from there permanent range for free too but not sure that is still on!

I can't wait to try the other two crystal polishes I got!

Me, my weight and I!

of my weight that is! I have become a bit stuck, I go between eating rubbish and barely eating depending on my mood. I managed a solitary Zumba class since the holidays started and now my instructor is off until the kids go back anyway! Last week I stepped on the scales and was 15st 13.5lb, so close to going back into the 16's! Scared me a bit as I don't want to get back to there. So cut back a bit and as pleased when the scales showed 15st 10.5lb. But I know I can do better, I have devised a fitness plan I can do while the small people are off school and I have taken some measurements as well as my weight so even on the days the scales don't shift I can check those too. My mum is back to bike riding so 3 or 4 times a week, once the kids go back, I am dragging her with me to the woods and she can cycle and I can run, I love running and want to get back into it. Coupled with Zumba and some light weights plus a healthier attitude to food and I will start shifting weight again I will also be using this website http://www.myfitnesspal.com/ as its really good for keeping track of things and its FREE!

Cheap find! Pound shop version of.....

Bourjois 1 Second polish remover! I have yet to try that as I remove polish so much I just buy a cheap bottle of remover from Sainsbury's and £6 on a remover when I can get polish, well, the polish wins!

So I frequent my towns new Poundshop after finding a couple of Sally Hansen gems so go in after a restock, one day this caught my eye!

As some of you know removing glitter can be a pain, even if it is over a base coat, 2 coats of regular polish and a topcoat so I really did test this to its full potential!

Now, being a bit cheap it stunk to high heaven and the sponge was a bit meh! 

Wrong finger for the last shot but this is basically what you do, you put your finger in, leave it a few seconds, and as the name says, twist and pull!

Overall I am pretty impressed! I will say that I did have to kind of smoosh my nails round the sides to lift off the glitter properly and some nails took a few seconds of keeping them in the pot but it worked as well as my foil method! 

If removing glitter you will need to wash your hands thoroughly as the glitter in the pot transferred to my fingers haha!

For £1 this is a bit of a gem and one I will stock up on again!

Check your Poundshops (the official one!) and see what make-up gems you can find!

NOTD- Extending a lovely manicure!

Well, this is my first go of kind of gradient nails, these are nowhere near as good as the gradients I have seen with block colours! 

But I loved A Englands Lady Of The Lake so much that when I got tip wear I really didn't want to take it off so decided to add some glitter, then thought I would try gradient!

The gradient is lower than I wanted as I didn't find the best way to do this until my second hand so I went back and did it again! I used China Glaze Prism for the tips and it was so thick that the nest way for the gradient effect was to do it from the tips and drag down so the glitter disperses down the nail

This was my favourite nail! Rubbish shot as it was on my right hand and camera skills with my left hand are not my forte!

Excuse my ravaged skin, can't seem to find any cream or oil to help!

A England polishes are available from http://a-england.co.uk/ and China Glaze from http://www.amazon.co.uk/China-Glaze-Prismatic-Glitters-Holographic/dp/B0071JE27A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345330010&sr=8-1

This was a great way to extend my mani, even if it was a pickle to remove, but that is all to be revealed in my next post......