24 Days of Ciate - Day 1 Snow Globe

Hello everyone. 

Today December the 1st is the start of my 24 days of Ciate. I bought the QVC special calender and I will do a post everyday of December. 

Day 1 I opened the door to find Snow Globe a pretty glass fleck top coat. I have swatched it over Barry M Racing Green (originally I was going to do black but I couldn't find it lol)

Enjoy! x

British Bloggers Top 10 Favourite Nail Polishes

On Friday British Bloggers partook in your top 10 favourite nail polishes. I'm a little seeing as it's Saturday, I was going to do it on Friday after work but I was so tired I forgot *embarrassed* so here are my top 10 favourites:

My favourite so much that I used 1/4 of a bottle in the first month on 2 separate manicures:

Barry Ms Summer Limited Edition Green.

My second two come as sort of a pair. 

Galahad from A England, I love this beautiful teal like blue but doubly when paired with favourite no 2 ;)

A England Morgan Le Flay a beautiful shimmer polish fantastic for layering over an array of colours but my favourite is when it's teamed with Galahad like below. 

Max Factor Fantasy Fire, I adore this for layering over blacks, dark blues purples even tested over a lilac once. So many combinations but black has the best stand out factor. 

Another A England, there are just so many pretties but none like Dragon, a perfect smooth forest like green with scattered holo. 

One of my first indie brands given in a swap Daring Digits Hufflepuff. This was lovely but also my house is Hufflepuff so it gets special mentions ;)

China Glaze Stella one of my absolute favourites I was given in a swap which I'm really glad about because I'd never got this for myself and would have missed out. 

OPI German-icure. I just love dark vampy autumn colours.

Barry M Greenberry (covered in glitter) perfect summer green. My favourite colours for polish is green so I have a lot. 

Another Barry M Limited polish from Christmas 2012 in pink (covered in glitter), this was a nice foil, easy to apply and just a perfect fairy pink colour. 

I hope you enjoy my top 10, when you have so many to choose from it's a hard decision but these are 10 I apply again and again. Sorry for the old mani pics type was not of the essence. 

Enjoy! x

Barry M - Dusky Mauve

Hello followers! 

I have been gone a while from my blog but I have in no way abandoned it, I just went through a time where I had no energy to keep changing my nail polish and just wanted some bare nails but that's over and now I am back with a polish that has been in my collection nearly a year and I'm sure I've never worn it but it's kind of hard to keep track lol ;)

Another exciting thing, my next update I will be using a new camera that is on it's way due on Tuesday. A Samsung NX1100, that comes with Photoshop Lightroom 4, I've never used any type of editing software so I am excited to try that and also a Galaxy tablet 2. Woo lots of goodies but the camera was the thing I wanted this was just a good package. 20.3mp camera and it comes with a 20-50mm lens, my experience is a basic 10mp point and shoot camera so this should be fun :D

Anyway onto the swatch of Barry M Dusky Mauve. 

2 good coats for full opaquness, this is a gem, a lovely dark brown like colour a bit like there Cappuccino but in the right angles and light, it flashes through with a beautiful lavender colour. 

Enjoy! x

A Barry M and Glitter Sandwich

Hey guys!

First off yeah my blog has been quite for a few weeks, very good reason. I've basically just been going nude on my nails, no polish to give them a breather after this sandwich I'm going to show you. I wore this a few weeks ago and haven't actually posted it yet. 

It lasted a whole week and was a pain to get off my nails of course, there's a whole bunch of layers starting with the LE Barry M Green Jelly a favourite of mine, I've used 1/4 of my bottle in the month I bought it eek! There's some of L'oreal Confetti top coat, I bought this one because no matter where I looked I could not find Maybelline Polka Dot polishes in Chalk Dust *sigh* I love how easy the glitter spreads on the nail in this. I think there was 3 layers of Confetti and then 2 layers in between of Barry M Diamond glitter finished off with a last coat of the green. 

So yeah when I removed it very yellow/greeny stained nails yuck! I tried the lemon thing and I swear my nails were much worse after!! So I have been going without any polish for the last couple of weeks and neglecting my blog as well sorry x 

My nail beds are now getting back to there former pinkness from the top to just above the nail tip which is still a bit yellow but no where near as bad as before, they looked like a sickly green >.<

I really do love this green so much :3

Enjoy! x

Barry M LE Fuchsia Pink (Boots)

Last of the 4 Barry M LE colours here. The Boots darker pink and my second favourite after the green, this is a crelly? not quite a creme but not quite a jelly I'm not up to speed with all these polish names lol

Basically it's just beautiful and bright and summery. This is 3 coats of the fuchsia pink. The wear time for all of the LE polishes are just great. 

All pics taken outside on a good sunny day. 

Enjoy! x

Barry M LE Yellow (Boots)

Another of Barry M's new LE colours today, this one you can get from Boots for £3.99. It is a beautiful and very bright yellow. This is quite opaque considering yellows are generally sheer and was fully opaque and smooth in 2 coats. 

I really love this yellow, it is so sunny and happy and I added little butterfly fimos I had hanging around to match my summer mani :)

Enjoy! x

Barry M LE Pink (Superdrugs)

Today I have the second of the LE Barry M Neons, I just love these and I wish they would bring out more!

This is the light pink that you can purchase from Superdrugs with the cute zebra pattern on the lid. 

For this one I painted it over a white nail polish (Barry M matte white, 2 coats) to really make it pop and then applied 3 coats of the LE pink. 

They are taken in natural light but it's pretty washed out, this was so so bright, shockingly so, I got so many comments about how bright my nail polish was lol so pretty!

Enjoy! x

Barry M LE Green

Today I have the first of 4 new Limited Edition Barry M Nails polishes. Two from Superdrugs (Green and pink) and two from Boots (fuchsia and yellow). They are currently free when you spend £6 on Barry M or £3.99 each. 

I have the green one which is a perfect summer green jelly. This is the first time I have worn a jelly type polish and I have fallen in love with this finish. I want many more now lol this one is also my favourite of the 4 and possibly from my whole collection. 

For the swatches below I have used 3 coats of Barry M LE Green and as you can see it still shows some VNL but it's beautiful none the less. So smooth and shiny and perfect application. 

Enjoy! x

Barry M Confetti - Dolly Mixture

 Finally got my hands on the one confetti from Barry M that I really wanted! Dolly Mixture, I took advantage of the Superdrugs 3 for 2 offer but it took me a few shop trips to find the ones I wanted in one store lol

I am wearing 3 coats of Dolly Mixture over 2 coats of Barry M Lychee, they go perfectly together mmhmmm. It was very easy to apply Dolly Mixture but it did take the extra coats to fill in bald spots lol

Removal was tough just like other glitters, I'd wished I'd tried out my peel off base coat with it but next time I use a tough glitter definitely!

Enjoy! x