Wow!

I didn't realise I had taken such an extended break from blogging!

So now I am back with ironically a spring FOTD, this weekend has been miserable weather wise!









This look was created using Mally primer
Laura Geller Balance and Brighten in porcelain
Bare Minerals Blush in Azeala
Bare Minerals All over Face colour in Turn On (used as a cheek, and under brow highlighter)
Bare Minerals eye shadow in Magnetise (foiled to line eyes, dry for all over wash of colour)
Mally Face Defender powder
Bare Minerals lip gloss in Fruit Punch

Happy Mothers Day!

Hope you are all having a wonderful mothers day! I was awoken by Emmy at 8.30 this morning, she was meant to let me sleep in but couldn't wait to give me my presents! She chose me a bunch of my favourite flowers - tulips! Plus a box of chocolates for me to share with her of course!

I was also treated to breakfast in bed and a cup of tea. She also chose and wrote in my cards by herself.

Here is my lovely Mum, with Emmy
My gorgeous nutty son Callum!
My pride and joy

Our nutty little lot, my reasons for getting up in the morning, including at 3.30am, thanks Callum!

The nutty 5 year old!
Personally I am going through a pretty tough time at the moment, but my children are my reasons to smile, they make me happy and tired and sometimes cross, but my heart will always be full of love for my Tiny Humans!

Hope all mums, and mums to be have a fab day today!

weigh in..... week 10

So I feel a bit in two minds about this weeks weight loss. It is the result of one of the most stressful weeks of my life, which resulted in me living off of sugary tea.

But every cloud and all that, so here is my second sparkly silver 7, I got this as I lost 9lb this week. See, bitter sweet. Its not a good loss to have by any means, sure they do it on The Biggest Loser, but they are generally a heck of a lot larger than me.



I also got my 5%, am hoping that now that I am able to eat again that I won't put too much on, although appetite is still very small.



This weeks weight is 15st 5lb. 17lb off since I started and 4lb to my next silver 7!

NOTD - OPI Your Royal Shine-ness

I was so excited when I got this polish, but on receiving it I was a little disappointed, its a pretty bog standard silver foil



I was expecting brush strokes and ridges galore with this as many foil formulas highlight every little sin your nails may have! That wasn't the case with this and it looks pretty spectacular in direct sunlight



I thought that I could see teeny, and I mean teeny, coloured shimmer within the silver base but thought my eyes were playing tricks until I did these two close up shots with the light on them! Shame they weren't more apparent in real life but then maybe they aren't meant to be and its a trick of the light :)





Wear has been good, still looking good 5 days post application with minimal tipwear, the shine has dulled so if you want to wear it longer a topcoat on day 3 would refresh it. All the above pictures have no topcoat

Your Royal Shine-ness is avalable at QVC Lena White and Amazon

NOTD - OPI Wing It!

This is another from the Summer Flutter collection that is hard to find, sorrrrrrry!

This is the polish, I just HAD to take pictures in a shop as the bright lights really captured the blue glitter suspended in this jelly polish!



This is my first use of a jelly polish, it took 4 coats to get opacity, but it was worth it!



Believe it or not these are taken with no top coat, jelly finish = incredible shine!



This picture shows of the duochrome, being pink into orange it isn't a wow duochrome but it is enough to make me stare at my wiggling fingers! Anyone else do that?



It is a beautiful polish, but felt squishy the whole time it was on my fingers and was an odd sensation when it rubbed against a hard surface!



This is a beautiful polish, far more understated than Catch Me In Your Net but worth the wait!

Available here but I have not used them so check reviews before buying
http://www.nailsandbeautydirect.com/opi-summer-flutter-collection---wing-it---nail-lacquer---995-664-p.asp

Weigh in..... week 9

Sorry for the woe is me face, 3lb on this week. 3 big fat pounds! I did eat out and we had a takeaway BUT I cut back the rest of the week so I am gutted!

I am due on and resisting the urge to melt 5lb of chocolate and suck it through a straw!

Onwards and downwards!

NOTD - Zoya Tao

Today's polish is from the Zoya collection, Smoke and Mirrors from Autumn 2011. I do love new nail polish but sometimes the new collections drive me mad as often they have many that I seriously end up lemming after, then boom - another new collection alert! Either that or like OPI they end up being removed from the range and end up seriously hard to get!

Anyhoo, this is from the Mirrors part of the collection and when this says taken in sunlight, that was kind of a lie since the sun was not really playing ball!



I had been after this polish for a while, but was really disappointed.



It was streaky and showed up brushstrokes, a big hate of mine. It wasn't a true metallic so really the brush strokes are pretty unforgivable!



Length wise, I think the fact I had to use 3 coats to even it out left it susceptible to chips and by the end of day one I had to patch up two nails.



It is a shame I don't like this, I love pewter polishes and this one would have been perfect had it been ever so slightly shinier and nicer to apply. This does have teeny tiny particles of pink and green micro glitter.



Overall I would not purchase the full size of this. But it doesn't put me off Zoya and I have never been disappointed before, this was just a dud for me.
Zoya is hard to find in the UK but ebay have some reputable sellers and it is available here but I have not used them so look up reviews first.