cool giveaways you should check out

so here is an awesome giveaway if you want to get your hands on a new bottle of gosh holographic !!!!
link : http://www.diavaslacquerbox.com/2011/03/mini-giveaway-win-bottle-of-gosh.html

this amazing giveaway is brought to you by nail fanatic,
everyone should definitely check this out :
one word amazing
http://nailfanatic.blogspot.com/2011/04/spring-cleaning-giveaway.html

the polishaholic has reached her 1 year blog anniversary *congratulations* and to celebrate shes got an incredible giveaway, you really should look at this
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barry m turquoise + barry m nail effects

hi everyone, 
so yesterday i finally gave in and ordered the nubar 2010 flakie nail polish, i have wanted a flakies nail polish for ages and have been looking on ebay, and i saw a bottle of sally hansen's hidden treasure for £25!! so when i did a bit of research i read that nubar 2010 is a dupe for sally hansen. i ordered it off of ebay yesterday as its reallly difficult to get hold of in the uk, in fact i dont think ive ever seen one in any shops yet : o !! i can't wait for it to come now and as soon as it comes ill do a post on it for you, you've probably seen this a million times before but ...


anyway todays mani is a lovely bright vibrant blue from barry m. no thats a lie i had this colour on a few days ago actually and at the moment my nails are tiny, lol. i love that barry m do some lovely bright colours, and they're so cheap too. 

 no top coat on these 

ok so then i got bored of plain blue and decided to add some on the barry m nail effects, couldn't decide if black or white would look better

so this is the left hand  

sorry for the awkward picy here 

and the thumb, 

pink was a lot brighter than in pic, i liked the way it cracked and its quite summery 

so.. i decided i preferred the black crackle so finished the right hand here, i haven't even cleaned this up or anything here, sorry, what do you think?

 yuk my fingers look awful here sorry 

oops almost forgot, ok so then i decided what it would look like if i layered the crackles 

 

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COLOR CLUB REVVVOLUTION CHARCOAL HOLO

helllooo everyone, how r you all?
so i dont have much time so ill just get straight to business
well let me share my frustration first,  put this colour on a few days ago because last weekend and monday and tuesday the weather was gorgeous and soooo sunny so to get into the summery mood i decided to put on a holo.


the hunt:


i must admit i only discovered holo nail polishes a few months ago, shocking i know, so unfortunatley i missed out on the gosh holographic and the china glaze omg collection, and becuase they arent available anymore people are charging ridiculous prices on ebay, and im not paying £11 for a nail polish which i could have got for half the price. so i went on a hunt for some good holo nail polishes which were cheaper, i found some gorgeous ones eg. catherine arley holos, they are stunning, however they dont ship to the uk : (
eventually my search led me to color club - i was so excited and i saw them on ebay for about £4 each and i decided to get 4 colours, so the shipping should have been combined, so you can imagine how annoyed i was when i saw that the woman had charged my $22 for shipping !!!!!! i know, ridiculous right, and i had no choice but to pay it and if im perfectly honest they weren't worth the money


ok lol so thats the end of the story i am sorry its so long, i have been diagnosed with excessive waffling syndrome : p lol


here are the picccieess

 

the sun did come out for a little while and so i managed to get a few photos, some of pics have turned out ok but i cant really capture the complete holoness, 

this is the most holographic nail polish out of the 4 and application is lovely, i must say color club nail polishes have a really good formula, this is 2 coats but you didn't need 2 coats

what do you think?

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orly spring 2011 and barry m white crackle

hi everyone 
so yesterday i had this on 

sorry for the rubbish pictures and very poorly painted nails lol 

its just a plain black nail varnish (cant remember which one lol) with the white barry m crackle over the top 

if im honest  i dont really like it maybe i dont like it on me 

anyway this only lasted a few hours 

anyway this is my current mani and i realllyy like it 

this is orly pure porcelain from the spring 2011 precious collection and i layered it with a silver glitter, i would have liked it with less glitter particles on the nail but never mind 

this is 2 coats and application is good too, the 1st coat though looked horrible with bald patches and oh yuk but the 2nd coat completely transformed it and gave full coverage and wasn't streaky or anything 

 i was going to put the pink shatter over the top but i decided to do it on a false nail just in case i didn't like and would have to do my mani all over again lol, here it is what do you think?

i got 2 orly nail polishes from this new collection, this one and royal velvet which is a purple with a blue tint will post a picture of this too soon.

i actually liked the whole of the collection and would have got them all but the others were sold out 

 they're very summery and we've had some lovely weather recently and its really got me in the mood for my summer nail polishes, but the sun was playing hide and seek today 

sorry for the long post 

xoxo

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barry m new instant nail effects review

hiii everyone, 

my barry m's have arrived im soo excited to try them out

so here they are 

( i already had a manicure on today so i didnt want to try them on my nails so ive done them on these falsies, but once i get fed up of this present manicure i'll do swatches on my nails for you and im sorry the pictures are soo naff)

 barry m instant nail effects 'pink fizz'

these are the pink crackle ones

1) the nails were actually white themselves so i didnt paint them white just added a top coat to them before adding the crackle - i read somewhere that the crackle works better over shiny nail polish instead of matte nail polish 

2) pink crackle over mint green 

3) pink crackle over color club worth the risque - a subtle holo

4) pink crackle over black 

i now theres loads of other combinations that would look lovely too so if you have any suggestions leave a comment 

 barry m instant nail effects 'blue print'

this is the blue crackle

1) blue shatter over color club worth the risque - a subtle holo

2) blue crackle over black 

3) again over the white nail with the glossy top coat

  barry m instant nail effects 'white frost'

1) white crackle over china glaze shocking pink neon, a lot brighter in real life than in the picture and prob my favourite combination

2) white crackle over red 

3) over mint green 

4) over black -

5) don''t ask what happened here, it was zoya renee underneath but then i painted color club revvvolution over the top and it was full covered so you couldn't see the pink underneath but once i applied the crackle you can see what happened 

 and this is silver glitter over white with the pink barry  m nail effects, this looks a lot better in the sunshine 

whilst i was waiting for these i thought i wouldn't be a big fan of the pink or blue and i didn't think they would crack as well as the black, i saw that some of the china glaze crackle didn't crack very well especially the purple but no these are well worth the money 

so my overall verdict : i am in love with these 

they crack just as well as the black the colours are lovely too and they are soo cheap too, what is there not to love ? 

see you next time 

xoxo

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3 NEW BARRY M NAIL EFFECTS LAUNCHED !!!!

aarrrghh, (why do most of my posts start like this lol)
hello girlies i have some very exciting news
after the huge success of barry m's black nail effects polish they have designed and launched 3 new colours of nail effects



pink fizz



blue print

and finally white frost


how exciting and cool do these look ?
they are available online now and are priced at an affordable £3.99, so you can get them all


cant wait to get some more pics of these and do some reviews !!!!!!
so which one will you get ?


until next time
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soo excited models own crackle : )

aaarrrrggh 
 heelllooo everyone 
i come today with some very exciting newss 
models own have paired up with wah nails and are launching 9 new crackle nail polishes in an  amazing variety of vivid colours !!!! 

aren't the colours gorgeous ?


i know opi are also launching a white crackle and i think a silver crackle with their new and upcoming pirates of the Caribbean collection, so i don't think i'll get the white or silver or black 
but ... the blue is gorgeous and the purple one too


ill try to get some more info and will keep you posted 




they will be £6 each and will be launched in April 
what do you think?


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