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

Avon - Fiery Sky

Hello followers!

Today I have a swatch of an Avon nail polish called Fiery Sky. A pretty red flakie like polish that has been sitting around my collection doing nothing. I teamed it up with a favourite of mine China Glaze Stella. 

2 coats of Stella as the base coat and another 2 coats of Fiery Sky made a lovely burgundy purple polish. Fiery Sky applies perfectly, no problems. 

I took the pictures indoors with my new Samsung NX1100 so they are actually pretty accurate compared to my old fuji camera that never took good accurate pictures unless in very good light outdoors. 

Enjoy! x

My first mini frankens

I ordered a pack of 10 mini bottles online so I could have a go at frankening. (Which I hope to expand to my own if I can get my hands on suspension base.. any ideas?)

First up the one I am wearing now, I mixed with Barry M Pink Glitter and A England for some shimmery goodness, a bit of NO 7 Pink chiffon for lightness and then dropped in some China Glaze Stella as the main purple colour and I love Stella. 

Here is how it came out:

and these are others I made, the purple above, a light jelly blue (well I hope) with Barry M Blueberry Ice cream, A England Morgan Le fay, and silver fine glitter and a Jade shimmery green which I used Barry M Blue Moon, A England Morgan Le Fay and Barry M Spring Green. 

I'll be swatching these other 2 over the next days. 

Enjoy! x

China Glaze Good Witch? + Tokidoki Donutella

This Friday one of my most anticipated movies of the year is finally being released and I can't wait. To celebrate I had to use one of my China Glaze Wizard of Oz collection I've had for months but yet to use. The beautiful bubbly pink of Good Witch?

Good Witch? is a very sheer pink frost, it took 4 even coats to get full opacity but it's a beautiful delicate pink to wear. I added a layer of Tokidoki 'Donutella' to give Good Witch? a spunky edge, it really suits it. Donutella is a magenta bar glitter with spalshes of holographic bar glitter in there too. 

Enjoy! x

China Glaze Stella + Look Beauty Nail Pop Sequin Effect

Back with another Look Beauty Nail Pop - Sequin effect mani. I loved the red so much I want to experiment with some of my other polishes and one that came to mind is my much loved China Glaze Stella. I adore this majestic purple, it quickly became a favourite of my stash. 

This is 2 coats of the lovely Stella and 2 coats of Nail Pop Sequin effect. It is a very pretty combination but admittedly not as loved as my Barry M Retro Red, that was more electric. 

I'll be experimenting this Sequin top coat a lot more over the coming weeks, it should go quite well with some of my stash. 

Enjoy! x

Back to School - China Glaze Ruby Pumps

September already? Where does the time go ehh? It's back to school or work for some of us this week. So I thought a nice back to school mani would be cute for my first day back to work tomorrow and perfectly I had a cute apple fimo cane, teachers and apples go hand in hand right?

For my base I used China Glaze Ruby Pumps, beautiful. I've used this before but I didn't photograph it as my nails were little stumps after some bad breaks. This polish was opaque in 2 good coats and was easy to apply. The extra glitter on the tips is Barry M Pink Iridescent which I lightly coated over the apples and tips for a little sparkle. 

I added one large fimo apple to the tip of my nails and an extra smaller version of the apple above, pretty  cute?

Quite Autum/Fall like too yes.. bobbing for apples anyone?

Sorry about my not so clean cuticles, the camera really picked that up more than my eyes lol.

Enjoy! x

China Glaze Stella + W7 Cosmic Purple

These 2 beauties were both from my recent swap and I wanted to team them up. I've been trying to try China Glaze Stella the most as it was so pretty in the bottle. It was such a lovely polish to apply, no issues it did take 3 coats for perfect oppaqueness though I think you'd get away with 2.

It was also really hard to photograph due to the lack of light I had. The first picture is indoors under artificial light. It's a bit lighter in real life, i'd say it leans to a magenta purple colour to me, super shiny. Very regal and elegant, i'm so glad I got this as i'd probably never have picked this one up myself and i'd miss out because I loved from the first coat.

My accent nail is W7 Cosmic Purple, lots of glitter!

I took this picture with the flash on, it gives a better perceptive of it's true colour, all I can say is this is a beautiful colour that shouldn't be passed up!

Enjoy! x

New Polish Haul!

I got these new polishes in a swap and I love each one so much. They are polishes i'd probably not pick out for myself when shopping so i'm so glad to have these to try out. There all so pretty <3 There's only one problem I can see..... where do I start? LOL

So first up we have Revlon Pink Chiffon, how pretty and delicate this looks.

W7 Cosmic Purple, look at that glitter fest!

No 7 Milan- a lovely dusky rose shimmer

Catrice Browno Mars- my first Catrice looking forward to using these!

Catrice King of Greens- I really love this one, it's beautiful!

China Glaze Stella- how have I let this one pass me buy, it's lovely!

Essence Evil Queen- these are not available here so I was so excited to see this one!

Essence Glamourous Life

Essence Time for Romance

and the one I can't stop looking at! Butter London The Black Knight-look at all that gorgeous glitterness. Another first for me :)

I will be swatching them over the coming weeks when I decide which one to use first ;) What alot of pretty colours to come!