NOTD OPI - DS Bold

Morning lovely followers! I would say thank goodness it's the weekend but being a stay at home mum, and it being the summer holidays the days all meld into one!

Today I have another polish from the much loved and rather expensive OPI Designer Series!

This here is Bold, a red polish with red and silver glitter, when I say glitter I mean this is loaded with the stuff!

On my skin tone I felt this pulled pink rather than red but that may also be the silver glitter making it less of a full on red

This truly sparkles in the sun, in fact it sparkles all the time but in the sun it really is a glitter bomb!

Application was so so, the glitter made it drag so had to load the brush quite well, I also had to run my finger across the free edge of my nail to clear the poky bits of glitter hanging off the end!

Removal wasn't too bad, the tin foil method had it off in 5 minutes per hand but I did have to scrape off a few stubborn bits of glitter that refused to budge otherwise!

I got this with my much loved Magic polish from the lovely http://www.buyapowa.com/ but honestly I would not pay £16.75 a bottle for this on its own. I thought that compared to some of the other amazing DS shades that this seemed to feel more like a regular OPI polish!

Bold is available from http://www.lenawhite.co.uk/store/designer-series/bold

More Feet inside - an update on my file!

You may remember I got sent a foot file to test and I shockingly added pictures of my most hated body part here. I hate all feet bar babies so heaven knows how I will cope when I qualify to do pedicures, gah!

Anyway enough of that, on to the file ! I think this did a great job, it got rid of the hard bits, scraggly bits and all I have problem with now is dry feet but I didn't use moisturiser as I wanted to give this a shot on its own to test its effectiveness.

The worst bit of hard skin I get is on my ball, never got this until years of dancing on hard floors and it never went away, but with regular filing it has gone!

Overall I am really impressed with the file, it will last a long time and only needs a rinse under water to get it back to full effectiveness. 

My file was sent to me for review and all views are my own, you can purchase them from http://www.design-glassware.com/luxury-edition-nail-files/969-crystal-file-foot-365-2.html

Well worth it and check out the rest of the beautiful crystal adorned things such as compact mirrors, tweezers, keyrings and even brushes!

NOTD China Glaze - Ruby Pumps

Afternoon lovelies, hope you are having a great weekend! Crazy times here, end of term for my kids, night out on Friday which resulted in a huge hangover hence why this post is a day late!

Today I bring you a pretty festive polish, one that I have wanted for ages!

This is one of China Glaze's most popular and well known polishes and its easy to see why.....

This is a cool toned red base packed with red glitter, although I think there must be silver glitter in too as when this stared to wear off my nail had silver glitter on my nail!

This is the perfect red for my skin tone and I adored this colour, especially in the sun when it really came to life! I imagine this will be featured as a mani for the festive season, unless there are new releases to feed my habit!

Ruby Pumps is a perfect little polish, hardwearing, opaque in 3 coats, average drying time and tip wear only evident after 5 days

China Glaze is only available on the interweb unless you know of any salons that stock it, I got mine from Raven Cosmetics

NOTD- Color Club Fashion Addict

Ever get a nail polish and googles swatches online? I do and in this instance I wish I hadn't!

When I got this I thought it was midly holographic and it looked similar to an OPI DS I have blogged on here, but no, the holo isn't as strong and did not match the google images.

Of course then I found out this is like OPI My Private Jet all over again! Some Holo, some not so

Clearly mine is a not so holo one! Although after wearing this for 3 days and finally getting the sun to take some pictures I was actually surprised by the small amount that did show up since this is pretty flat in grey daylight!

I tried my hardest to bring out the subtle holo shimmer as the next three pictures show! But alas this was a nightmare to photograph!

As you can see this is a pretty flat lilac polish in the regular light and to be honest I found it a little bit boring!

Application was good, no brush problems and no dragging, this was 3 coats as even though it wasn't particularly holo I still got very very annoying bald patches, which are evident on my middle and ring finger in the picture above even though I did three coats!

I got my polish in a swap but you might be lucky on ebay and get one, even the holo one if you are REALLY jammy! Also keep eyes peeled in TK Maxx as they sometimes do the sets in there, I myself have not been so lucky :( but I still go when feeling flush just in case! True polish addict eh?!

My heart is full of ......

In March my life was turned upside down and my heart broken by someone I had given 8 years of my life to. I can honestly say it was a seriously dark time for me and for many weeks after I tried my hardest to get my life back to how it was but the fight was not worth it and in the end I decided I didn't need to try and stay in an unhappy relationship to be happy and in May I finally gave up and let go.

Currently me and the kids still share a house with my ex but next week I have a big meeting to attend and my heart is full of hope that we can get our fresh start. I have so many plans for our future and I can honestly say I am happier now than I have been for a long long time.

Once the kids and I have our new place I truly believe that me and my little family will be happy and will thrive together and will be so close and happy. My children are my all and I will work hard to provide them the best that I can give.

So just remember, if life seems tough and seems to throw rubbish your way. Always keep hope in your heart and please, do not blame me if you barf on your keyboard right now. I am enjoying my 'strong woman' soppy moment ha!

Night out eyes

I was meant to go out on Saturday night drinking and dancing, but two of my friends were unwell so it was called off, I know, sad face right? :(

But the night before I knew this, I was bored and alone so I decided to try out a couple of eye looks for the next evening, one of which I spotted on a fab make-up website

This fab bright, spring night out eye! 

For this eye I used MUA Pearl shadow shade 6 over the lid and used a damp brush in Shade 9 as a liner, I used a silver Light Show liner by Bare Minerals on the inner corner of my eye and Bare Minerals Curl and Lengthen mascara to finish off

This was my other option, a smoky eye using a beautiful blue palette. For this look I used all 4 colours from the Blue/Grey Shimmer Cubes from the Body Shop, the second lightest shade was used all over the lid up to just under the brow, then the lightest blue all over the lid and into the crease, the darkest blue dampened with my trusty brush and used to line top and bottom and the lightest shade was used to highlight under my brow and the inner corner of my eye. 

Finished off with a line of blackest eyeliner and smudged with the sponge end and all topped off with a big and volumising mascara which is not as good as my trusty Bare Minerals!

What is your go to night out make-up look?

NOTD - GOSH Holographic

I have decided to revisit and redo some of my old polish posts, sorting out pictures for my Facebook page I was quite horrified by the awful pictures and not so good polish application ha!

First up is my one and only true holo polish, this WILL be rectified when I move and am settled!



While I do love this polish, I have seen holo's that are simply breathtaking!



Although for £5 (plus the £1 Fix Base Coat I needed for it) mean this is a bargain compared to the other holo's, but then the cheaper price is levelled out with a pretty rubbish application, it takes about 3 coats to even out bald spots.



This macro shot really brings out the holo!



Unlike some, I do use a topcoat for this, or it just comes right off the nails! But although it is initially dulled by the topcoat, it does actually go back to full holo when the topcoat is dry!



Er, yeah, that is about all I can tell you about this polish since its almost impossible to find, whoops!