WHERE HAVE I BEEN???!!

Hi guys, where have I been? Long story short, I've been very busy, I've lost my blogging mojo and my love of polish, I've only painted my nails 3 times this year! :o

So I have some stuff sat in my folder which I will be posting over the next God only knows how long and a few things which I need to review which you'll see soon too. 

In the meantime here is OPI I Carol About You topped with Comet In The Sky and Globetrotter. 

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ORLY HIGH ON HOPE

Happy Wednesday everyone! So we are halfway through the week yaay, hasn't it gone fast? I'm sorry I've been a bit quite but I just haven't really had time to get a post up but I'm having the night off tonight so I knew I had to blog! 

So today I have a swatch of a gorgeous Orly polish! I remember wanting this when I first saw it but never got round to getting it so I was really happy to find this in T K Maxx for £2.99! 

It's a gorgeous blue with duochrome shimmer/flakes in it! Such a gorgeous combination! 

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ESSENCE A HINT OF LOVE

Hey guys, I hope you've all had a lovely weekend! 

Tonight I have another pretty polish from Essence to show you. This is A Hint Of Love*, it's a gorgeous pinky red glass fleck polish which just glows! 

I used 2 coats and even though you can see a bit of vnl in the pictures it's not there irl. 

Ok, so that's it for today, I hope you have a lovely Monday and I shall see you in my next post :)

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ESSENCE CANDY LOVE LACE NAILS

Hey guys, how are you all? How's your day been? I think I'm becoming ill yet again, this is so weird because I'm normally never ill or if I am it's only once a year but this year in the past 3 months this is the 3rd time I'm becoming ill :( 

Anywho I have recently been infatuated with lace nails and since I discovered I can actually paint something on my nails which resembles lace, it's all I've been doing! 

So for these nails I used this gorgeous Essence polish in Candy Love* and then used black acrylic paint to paint on the detail on my ring finger. 

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ESSENCE IT'S RAINING MEN

Hey guys, I hope you've all had a lovely weekend! So I'm back at uni tomorrow which means I've spent my weekend sorting, organising and just getting ready to go back. 

Tonight I just have a quick swatch to show you of a really beautiful nail polish, this is Essence It's Raining Men* You only need 2 coats and it's just stunning, you really need this! 

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ILLAMASQUA MELANGE

Happy Friday, Today sees the launch of the new Once collection from Illamasqua so today I'm going to show you my swatches of the stunning new nail polish* in the collection. This actually dropped through my post box yesterday and I was so excited I had to swatch it straight away. 

I'm always excited when Illamasqua release a new collection and they've been teasing us with this since the beginning of the month! 

“Once is the beauty of the burnished, eroded and erudite. A palette inspired by the gentle and exquisite point when a flower starts to fade and becomes impossibly beautiful in its complex decline. Combined with the subtle opulence of faded gilt layers that reveal themselves the more you blend and search. She is an incandescent moment, a poem alive and a light within a palette of decaying decadence.” – Alex Box, Creative Director

This polish is exactly what this whole collection is about, it fits in perfectly and is just so beautiful, I know this one will be a favourite with many!

Melange* is a dusty teal ( with a bit of jade) which is filled with similar gold/bronze shimmer and microflakies to Facet (which is one of my favourite Illamasqua polishes) It also has some purple micoflakes which sometimes look red. 

The formula is the perfect signature Illamasqua formula and this is only one coat! Yes, you guys know 99% of the time I use two coats well this polish simply did not need it ! 

Ok, that's the end of my rambling, enjoy all the pictures and scroll all the way to the bottom to see some pictures. 

Isn't this polish just stunning? 

Melange is being released today and you'll be able to get it from Illamasqua stores and online. 

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GOSH STARDUST COLLECTION AW 14

Hey guys, I'm sorry for being a bit quiet here recently. I've been a bit busy and now I'm not feeling well, haha! But hey ho, never mind, today I have the new Autumn Collection from Gosh. 

They have a textured sticker on the lid so when I got these I thought they were texture polishes and my heart sunk a tiny bit but when I tried them out I was happy to see there's no texture in sight! 

There's a lot of pictures so grab a beverage of your choice and enjoy :)

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ESSENCE HELLO SPRING 178

Hey guys, today I have a beautiful nail polish by Essence to share with you. This is Hello Spring* a gorgeous pale green with lots of silver shimmer in it. Even though it looked gorgeous in the bottle I thought it may be really sheer but I'm really happy to report that it only requires 2 coats! The formula is great and it's a really pretty polish. Unfortunately the silver shimmer in the bottle doesn't show as strongly on the nail but it's still visible. 

  

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