Yearly Archives: 2011

The Best Things In Life Are Free.

April 26, 2011 Leave a comment

Lots of bunnies 🙂
Gorgeous sunset by the weir.
More gorgeous sunset by a second weir further along 🙂
Peeking through the trees 🙂
My brother’s sky pic?
We are very well coordinated (notice Andy’s asleep…lol)
Nice photo of Andy, I think my perception of myself in this photo is hunchback ogre lolololol.
A random snippet of our life 🙂 Hope you enjoy xx

Rimmel London 050 Tangerine Queen

April 26, 2011 2 Comments

This is a lovely bright orange creme polish. To be honest, I’d been putting off wearing it because I was worried about how it would look with my skin tone, but I’m so glad that I took the proverbial plunge (lol), because it really is much prettier than I expected it would be.
Tangerine Queen is a perfect tangeriney, satsuma-y orange colour, (I love to make up words…) it has a lovely glossy finish and good durability. It dries quickly, which is a definite pus because my one issue with this polish is that it takes 2-3 coats to cover all VNL (and staining if your nails are gross like mine). Other than that, no complaints! This is the second time I’ve worn this one in 2 weeks which says something, given how much I like to change my nails!
UK readers: I picked this polish up in Poundland (for… guess how much… £1), which considering the price of  Rimmel in Boots, Superdrug, Tesco etc shaves a good £2 off it, hence why I bought it in the first place because I never considered myself as a good candidate for pulling off orange!
Hope you are all well, a quick photo post is coming up to show you the lovely sunset Andy, my brother and I experienced on our bike ride last night 🙂
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 564 Golden Dragon

April 25, 2011 5 Comments

I confess, I bought this beauty from eBay 🙂 but there’s no reason why it shouldn’t be in your local Superdrug, they never seem to sort out the displays and sometimes you can find some lovely (discontinued? I don’t know if Golden Dragon is?) gems hiding away 🙂 If you see this polish, I 100% recommend you to buy it.

This is what it looks like in normal indoors light.
Flash.
Sunlight.
Sunlight.

I wore this on Andy’s recommendation for Earth Day, and also to go and see Derren Brown Svengali on Friday night, which by the way was FABULOUS, he’s such a good entertainer and I would one million percent recommend you see it if you haven’t already got tickets!!!

Golden Dragon has a lovely sea greeny-blue base, which is almost lost amongst the green and gold shimmer. I really is absolutely gorgeous, especially in sunlight and false lighting. It’s one of those polishes that doesn’t look right with a top coat, which isn’t an issue because on me it lasted 2 days with minimal tipwear before I caved and took it off. It dries relatively quickly, especially compared to many of GOSH’s creme polishes which take forever.

The photos don’t really capture the polish as much as I’d like. The top photo shows how it looks quite plain in natural light, but if you get the chance to wear this on a sunny day you will be rewarded with the gorgeous gold/green shimmer 🙂 It’s a lovely sea-green colour, and definitely the colour I picture a dragon to be! It’s certainly one of those more interesting ‘sophisticated’ polishes.

Hope you’re all having a lovely long weekend with the sunshine, I have 2 essays to get through before tomorrow lol really not motivated at all!
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.

Easter Mini Egg Nail Art

April 24, 2011 11 Comments

Gigantic jar of mini eggs and choccys – yum!
What I used:
– Rimmel Stronger Double Duty Base Coat
– Barry M 307 Lemon Ice Cream
– Revlon 044 Blue Lagoon
-Revlon 040 Fuchsia Fever
– GOSH 571 Wild Lilac
– Barry M 310 Mushroom
– Rimmel Lycra Pro Matte Finish
– Cocktail Stick
You can probably guess that I did 2-3 coats of each colour, and used Barry M’s Mushroom on the end of a cocktail stick to make the brown dots, then finished it off with a coat of Matte top coat. 🙂
I love Mini Eggs, particularly the colours and matte-like finish of them, has always reminded me of Easter.
Reviews of the polishes shown will be coming up 🙂
I hope you all have a good one 😀
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.

Boots No.7 Speed Dry Cherry Tang with Barry M Pink Iridescent

April 21, 2011 1 Comment

Sorry for being so long in blogging, my brother nicked the camera for a few days so I was lost, glad to be back 😀 This is a quick pic of a polish I’ve showed you before, but this time with some pretty glitter on top 🙂 First be warned, this polish actually has a more cerise tone to it than the pictures would have you believe, and it’s actually got a very jelly-ish finish.

This one looks horribly bumpy haha I assure you it wasn’t, you may want to click the photo to enlarge it 🙂
In all seriousness, where you see the red, imagine a gorgeous cerise colour because it really isn’t that red. So annoying! Anyway, since this polish is shimmery/glittery anyway I figured it would look nice with Barry M Pink Iridescent (and also partly because I smudged my right hand ring finger to beyond recognition lol).
I wore this to the Royal Albert Hall for a Royal Wedding Classical Concert (basically it was posh). It was gorgeous but I had to take it off the next day because of tip wear. I think that’s probably due to the fact that I used the old nude-base trick, so I ended up with quite a few layers of polish. Anyway, this is basecoat + 1 coat Accessorize Fudge + 2 coats of Cherry Tang + 1 coat Pink Iridescent.
I also tried the Models Own Smash Up Silver over one nail but it was such a fail I was ashamed to show you lol.
Cherry Tang, despite it’s flaws (not drying quickly despite its ‘Speed Dry’ name, being incredibly sheer etc), is actually one of my very favourite polishes purely because it is so pretty and unique. If you’re willing to put up with said issues, I would 100% recommend this polish on the basis of colour alone, I love it! I feel a huge urge to buy a backup.
How are you all? I’m ultra ultra excited because Andy and I are going to see Derren Brown tomorrow night, and for no reason whatsoever I’m in one of those bizarrely cheerful moods again 😛 Hope you are all well and I promise to make more regular appearances in the near future! I also have 7 Eyeko polishes somewhere in the post which I’m very excited about, despite the nightmare postage charge which all seems a bit dodgy if you ask me. Will expand if you wish me to?
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.