Monthly Archives: July 2011

Missguided x Cosmopolitan Freebie – Misstique

July 15, 2011 7 Comments

Finally I’m back! Basically my camera connecting lead broke so I couldn’t upload any photos, sorry guys 🙁 Anyway, I have another lovely Cosmo freebie today, one of the three different colours available 🙂 The other day I showed you the bright orange, Misstaken, and today I have a beautiful aquamariney teal colour – Misstique.

In sunlight.
Indoors (natural light)
Indoors
Sunlight
Indoors 🙂
This polish is good to go with one coat, two just to make sure everything’s all even and opaque. Application-wise, it was still a little slow-drying, not amazingly so, I think I’m just judgemental after using so many polishes that dry very fast! It’s not a problem, just one that you’ll need to sit down for 20 minutes to let it fully dry before doing any dent-worthy activities. Also the polish drags a little, so if you just load the brush with plenty of polish (more than you would usually use) then it will glide on more easily.
Misstique dries with a lovely high shine, and really dazzles in the sunlight. I’ve been looking for a polish this colour since forever, because (don’t hate me) I just think that pure turquoises need more green to be flattering on my skin tone! I absolutely love this colour.
Also, looking at the photos, it looks a little similar to Boots 17 Wave, so I thought I’d do a little bottle comparison for you 🙂 I included Nails Inc. Electric Teal to show a true teal for comparison too 🙂
As you can (hopefully) see, Misstique is a lot brighter than Wave, which is more muted.
Once again, Cosmopolitan is £3.50, which is pretty good going for a 13ml polish which would ordinarily cost £5 plus P&P; online at Missguided! So if you’ve been looking for a turquoise aquamariney colour, a bright orange or a hot coral then look no further 😉 and again, Cosmopolitan have included a ‘chequebook’ which includes discount codes and competitions etc., including discounts for NYX and Nfu-Oh! 🙂
Hope you’re all doing well, sorry for my heeeuuuge absence. I’m seeing Jason Manford with Andy tonight, then waking up ultra early tomorrow morning to get to the train station to go up to Keighley for my cousin’s wedding party, so I’m very excited at the mo! Let me know your thoughts on this polish if you’ve picked it up too.
Emma xxx
Disclaimer: Everything mentioned in this blog post was either bought by myself with my own money, or given to me as a gift from friends/relatives. All opinions expressed here are my own.

Marks & Spencer Neon Pink

July 10, 2011 5 Comments

First of all, sorry for not doing the 2nd Missguided freebie post but I’ve come down with a hideous virus and frankly feel like the waking dead, so I haven’t taken pics of my nails today so that may have to wait. I’m sorry. I do however have a couple of pictures from a few days ago so hope this will suffice.

Contrary to what the pictures will have you believe, this is actually a very very bright pink. It’s not neon, but it’s closer to neon than not, if that makes any sense? If you have Eyeko’s Punk Polish and feel it’s a bit too neon but still want that eyecatchingly bright pink then this one is the one for you. I personally have been searching for a neon pink that is as neon as Punk Polish as I found the formulation terrible… but that’s another story. Blog post.
Neon Pink applied beautifully – you are seeing 3 coats because my nails are in a right state and the nail line was showing through ever so slightly at 2. However if you have lovely clean nails or if you were to wear a base of pure white this polish would be perfect in 2 coats.
The polish was a good consistency – dried quickly and with a high shine so all in all je suis tres satisfied. I am still however on the lookout for a good neon pink so if you have any suggestions please feel free to suggest 🙂
Finally, as you’ve probably gathered if you’ve been reading my blog for a while, M&S; beauty products are BUAV Approved (they don’t test on animals) so that is another bonus of this lovely polish. You can view the M&S; nail polish ranges here.
Hope you’re all doing better than me because I feel absolutely dreadful, the laptop screen is burning my eyes, hence the brief(er) overview of this polish. I may have to revisit this post at a later date.
Emma xxx
Disclaimer: Everything mentioned in this blog post was either bought by myself with my own money, or given to me as a gift from friends/relatives. All opinions expressed here are my own.

Missguided x Cosmopolitan Freebie – Misstaken

July 9, 2011 3 Comments

So basically, in case you haven’t already heard/seen/bought, Cosmopolitan is giving away one of 3 different shades of Missguided nail polish in each magazine this month. Which is pretty good value if you think about it – £3.50 per polish as opposed to £5 online plus something like £3.75 P&P.; There are three shades up for grabs, ‘Misstaken’ (orange), ‘Misstique’ (turquoisey teal), and ‘Misschievous’ (coral). I picked up the first two, I’ve yet to get the coral!
This polish is everything I’d hoped for in Rimmel’s Tangerine Queen – it’s bright, bold and eye catching, the perfect summer shade.
Just an FYI – I compared my nails with a bottle of Barry M’s Block Orange in Superdrug today and they look pretty much the same, I don’t have Block Orange to compare, but I’d say you don’t need both.
The pictures show 3 coats. This is mainly because at 2 coats you could still see some visible nail line (VNL), which usually doesn’t bother me, but it looked quite dark under the orange. The third coat rectified this 🙂
Dry-time wasn’t amazing, but it wasn’t terrible either. I guess it was fairly average – it was touch dry within a minute or two but you know that time inbetween coats where it’s dry but not dry enough to risk another coat and hence bubbles? It was like that. Also, I found that unless I loaded the brush with plenty (what would seem too much) of polish and applied that, the polish tended to drag a little. Nothing that couldn’t be sorted out, but nevertheless it’s worth drowning the brush a little as the polish isn’t too runny, so pooling in the cuticles isn’t really a problem and it’s fairly easy to control.
It took me absolutely forever and about a million photos to manage to capture the actual colour of the polish. It’s very bright, not neon, but bright enough that my camera would only pick up red, which it really isn’t.
Overall, this polish hasn’t wowed me, I feel that there are probably better polishes (application-wise) out there, but it truly is a lovely colour and that alone makes it worth the £3.50. Also it’s a lovely big bottle of 13ml so you aren’t being cheated out of your money *coughminiOrlybottlescough*
Oh, another FYI, in the Cosmopolitan issue comes a Cosmo Readers’ summer ‘chequebook’, which has a fair few discount codes and competitions, which is also worth picking up. Including NYX and Nfu-Oh, amongst other things, which I personally am most excited about!
Hope you’re all well, I’ve been loving this gorgeous summery sun today, especially after yesterday’s miserable excuse for weather. I seem to suffer with SAD quite heavily and grey skies really bring me right down.
I should be reviewing the other turquoisey teal colour tomorrow, all being well.
Emma xxx
Disclaimer: Everything mentioned in this blog post was either bought by myself with my own money, or given to me as a gift from friends/relatives. All opinions expressed here are my own.

GOSH Purple Heart

July 8, 2011 5 Comments

First of all, sorry for the large amount of photos, I blame the fact that it’s a duochrome and I’m not satisfied with the usual 3 pics! And second of all, sorry for not blogging as much, I don’t actually have a reason, I just… haven’t. My nails tend to get a bit raggedy before I take photos which I suppose I could use as an excuse but that’s not why- I’m just lazy and unmotivated and as soon as I feel like I ‘have’ to do something I automatically don’t want to do it, which is also the reason why I’ve taken down my ‘Upcoming Posts’ list – because now that everything’s on the list I feel a pressure to do it and that makes me put it off and blah blah blah, enough of my mindless rambling, and well done if you’ve bothered to read all of this! Anyway, I’m in a positive frame of mind and feeling happy about my blog again, hence the appearance of this post. Shut up Emma! Photo time!


Do you see the beauuuuutiful green duochrome?




This is yet another of those black-ish but not quite black polishes that I adore, since you probably have deduced by now that I really dislike pure black polish on me, but I love the very dark, not-quite-black polishes.
GOSH Purple Heart is essentially a graphite-black base with all that lovely purple floating around. I will just mention, the polish looks largely purple-black in most lights, but in some indirect sunlight (don’t ask, I can’t work it out either) it does have a lovely green sheen to it, like the feathers of a raven or crow. For this reason it has nudged it’s way into my top 10 (if I could ever decide exactly what they are) because I have always had a weird fascination with the lovely iridescence of bird feathers, and always had a desire to replicate it. Anyways, enough of my weirdoness.
The photos show 3 coats, although the polish actually only takes 2 coats for full opacity, but I used the third after a day of wear and I needed to touch up a few edges on my 2 problem nails (peeling and flaking – not the polish’s fault!)
Application-wise, I’ve found this a little thicker than other GOSH polishes, but it still is lovely and dries quickly and lasts forever with a topcoat!
All in all I’m in love, I couldn’t stop staring at my nails both times in the last 2 weeks that I’ve worn this baby.
I know this isn’t exactly a new polish, but it’s one I’ve never been grabbed by in the shop, then on a whim I went crazy and bought 3 GOSH polishes and this was one of them, and I am very glad I did! So if you’ve never been totally convinced in Superdrug then maybe this will help you one way or the other 🙂
Hope you are all doing well and lovely, I have a couple of photos of my school ball and my AMAZING (if I say so myself) dress, but I myself am not looking amazing, but I’ll probably put it on anyway. Argh, too much waffling. Too much of my thought pattern is appearing in this post so I’ll leave you with that! (P.S. I have 2 gorgeous brights coming up in the next couple of days! Get your sunglasses ready!)
Emma xxx
Disclaimer: Everything mentioned in this blog post was either bought by myself with my own money, or given to me as a gift from friends/relatives. All opinions expressed here are my own.

Marks & Spencer Quick Dry Sherbet

July 1, 2011 3 Comments

I stumbled upon the new M&S; beauty range last Sunday on my shopping trip, which, can I say, is HUGE compared to how it always was (in my M&S; at least!) They have a huge range of nail polish so obviously I was in heaven. You can have a browse here. I am absolutely in love with the beauty range as you can probably guess, because it is BUAV approved (non animal-tested).

I limited myself to one polish, which was this one, from the Quick Dry range. It retails at £5. The pictures show two thin coats.

So the polish – the polish was opaque in one coat but I added a second for good measure. It dried quickly and glided on my nails beautifully 🙂 it dries very glossy so doesn’t require a topcoat and lasts wonderfully, I didn’t experience any tipwear, which I usually do with most polishes after a day of wear without topcoat. The ragged edges on my cuticles were because I was watching Being Human all day and was chewing on my nails 😐 don’t ask…

The polish was also unusually ‘tidy’ for a red, I don’t know about you but I always find that reds make an absolute mess of my nails and fingers during cleanup and also removal, which wasn’t a problem with this colour, so I was very happy about that!

The only thing I’m not sure of is the name – I’ve never seen any sherbet of this colour!

What do you think? I am very happy with the polish, I know the colour isn’t unique but they have a big range of colours, and at £5 for 10ml (compared to GOSH’s £5 for 8ml for example) I’m happy!

Hope you are all doing good, I have a few lovely polishes coming up so look out for them 😀 Spent a lovely day at the Garden Centre with my mum, we bought the most beautiful Dahlias I’ve ever seen (they’re called Mystic Enchantment, Google them if you haven’t already seen them!) and also some bright pink Gerberas for my room (which I am utterly convinced I will kill within a day but there we go). What have you been up to in this gorgeous sunny weather?
Emma xxx

Disclaimer: Everything mentioned in this blog post was either bought by myself with my own money, or given to me as a gift from friends/relatives. All opinions expressed here are my own.