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Last Easter I did mini egg nail art, so this year I was casting around for more inspiration. You know when you get the cute little chocolate eggs in coloured foil? That’s what inspired me this time. My camera seemed to be playing up a little, the second photo is a bit blurry (sorry!).

These were done with sellotape (lots of it!) for the straight lines and many many polishes…! Here’s what I used:

• BeautyUK Moonstone
• Max Factor Angel Nails
• 2True Shade 4 (Crystal Polish ‘Regal Purple’)
• Deborah Lippmann Glitter in the Air
• Accessorize Goddess
• Boots 17 Fury
• Models Own Indian Ocean
• OPI Rainbow Connection

Hope you like them! What did you adorn your nails with this Easter? Link me up if you have any pictures/blogposts on Easter manicures!

x

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.

Um.. so I didn’t get round to that new year’s nail polish because, well, I didn’t have one. I wore Barry M Indigo, which I took photos of, but they just don’t come out right. Sorry 🙁 I will definitely do a new-year’s-themed nail post though… I have it on my nails right now!

Oh yeah, happy new year to you all 🙂 how did you spend new year’s eve? Tell me! Or link me to your blog posts! I had a lovely evening with my Andy – he treated me to a marvelous meal out, then we watched the countdown on TV (man I love those fireworks! Did I ever tell you that one of my many life dreams/goals is to organise firework displays?! Never going to happen but.. I can dream!) with his family & neighbours. We then watched Lee Mack (hilarious!) – all in all it was a fab night. The next day I went to visit my Granny in Wales. 🙂

Anyway, enough boring you all… I’ll do a full long synopsis of what’s happened in my life in 2011 on my (new!!!) lifestyle blog – ghostofmysoul… I’ll let you know when that’s up!

Glitter in the Air was the second Deborah Lippmann polish my Andy gave me for Christmas… I am utterly overwhelmed by Deborah Lippmann, or at least the three I’ve tried, and eternally grateful for such wonderful gifts!

As is well known in the blogosphere, Glitter in the Air is very sheer. Which personally, I love! Maybe I would love it even more if my nails weren’t so yuckily stained…! Anywho, I layered it over Barry M Blue Moon, to give the illusion of opacity, and it looked, ah-may-zing!

 

I layered Glitter in the Air over Blue Moon because the latter has a somewhat jellyish formula, so that the sheer-cum-jelly formula of Glitter in the Air wasn’t lost by layering it over a harsh, chalky pastel. I think it maintains the jellyish quality of Glitter in the Air quite well – and is neutral enough to allow the grey-blue tone of Glitter in the Air to dominate, rather than a blue which really isn’t present in the polish alone – see the bottle, I think my nails are similar enough! 🙂

In a nutshell (or not – I’m not very good at brief blogging!) the pictures show 2 coats of Barry M Blue Moon, followed by 3 coats of Glitter in the Air. If I had been more proficient in my application of Glitter in the Air, I wouldn’t have needed 3 coats of it – the glitter doesn’t always come off the brush and sometimes I needed to push the glitter round, or decided after it had dried that I needed more glitter (fussy, me?!) hence the 3 coats. To be honest, 2 would have been fine.

Glitter in the Air is essentially a grey-blue sheer jelly polish, with lovely pale blue and pale coppery-pink glitter floating around in it. Something I never noticed in other swatches, purely because I wasn’t looking for it, was the lovely green-turquoise-blue micro-glitter throughout the polish. It’s quite hard to see, but adds a super-cool dimension to the polish. I think you can kind of see it in the fourth photo. It’s mostly hidden by the glare of the flash, sadly. You may have to just trust me that it is, just, SO COOL.

Application:

Obviously it drops marks on account of the glitter not being evenly spread… but honestly, I can live with it. Ditto the sheer formula. Otherwise, it’s a fabulous layering polish, and dries quickly, so the extra layers don’t make too much of a difference.

This would make for a spectacular Easter manicure… it really reminds me of Mini Eggs 🙂 I foresee myself wearing Glitter in the Air this coming Easter 🙂

Worth £16? YES! Just like Across the Universe, this is DEFINITELY worth the money in my books. They are just so unique. Saying that, Revlon seems to have come up with another Deborah Lippmann dupe for Glitter in the Air, called Whimsical. As far as I know, it’s only available in the US at the moment, but who knows what might happen for us lovely UK ladies (and gents…?). Oh and the aforementioned green-turquoise microglitter is a lot more apparent in The Polish Aholic’s swatches of Whimsical – that’s pretty much how they look in Glitter in the Air, I’m just very amateurish when it comes to photography!

Tell me your thoughts on this one 🙂 and don’t forget to tell me about your new year’s antics! 😀

x

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.

So everyone knows about the iconic Beatles. I love them, I love being British 😀 I love that Deborah Lippmann names her polishes after songs. Across The Universe was never one of my favourite Beatles songs, but it is lovely. Funnily enough, this polish has a deep, inky, night-sky blue base, but the glitter is green and blue. I’ve never actually seen any universe but what I have seen of the night sky doesn’t look like this! Not that I’m complaining, the polish is totally gorgeous and has been on my wishlist since the beginning of time.

My very amazingly generous boyfriend Andy bought it for me for Christmas, along with another Deborah Lippmann polish… I can’t thank him enough, this zooms straight to my top 20 ever nail polishes, and is very high in the running!

The polish takes very different faces dependent on the lighting (hence the picture spammage) – the first 5 photos were in sunlight, the final 2 in natural light. I find that in natural light the glitter tends not to stand out so much and the deep blue base really dominates the polish, while in false lighting and sunlight, the glitter really comes alive.

Application

The photos all show 3 coats. The blue base is a jelly, making the polish quite sheer, but it builds very quickly. This is also helped by the density of the glitter… I don’t think it’s possible to avoid the glitter, there’s so much of it! The polish dried relatively quickly, so the 3 coats weren’t a problem. I found that, worn alone, the polish was quite dull, presumably because the blue base covered a lot of the glitter. However with 1 thick coat of topcoat, the polish became a magical lagoon of sea-green and blues 🙂 It has so much depth, I absolutely love it!

What do you guys think? Across The Universe retails at £16 from House of Fraser.. I don’t think there are many around on eBay or Amazon but it may be worth a look. This one frequently sells-out on House of Fraser though, so if you’ve missed it before, now’s your chance 😉

Do I think it’s worth it? Well I suppose I’m biased as the polish was gifted to me, but I really do think it’s worth the money. It’s sooo pretty and I can guarantee you won’t stop looking at your nails! 1000x more worthy of the price than a Chanel polish, in my very humble opinion. What are your thoughts?

Wanted to say a huuuuge thank you to my Andy for this rather extortionate present, I am eternally grateful! 😛 <3

Hope you are all well my lovelies, I do have a little New Year’s manicure lined up, so hopefully that will be up in the next few days. What are you doing for New Year’s? Any special manicures/nail art/makeup you’re planning on doing? If so, link me up, I’m very curious! 😀

Emma x

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.

First of all, this mini polish came in my favourite GlossyBox so far, their Christmas box. I believe you can still get one for the next couple of days. I absolutely loved this box! But I won’t waffle on about it now, there’s plenty of blogposts dedicated to it.

Now Deborah Lippmann has always been one of those brands I’ve admired from a safe distance, as a single full-sized bottle costs a whopping £14-16! Saying that I feel that all the glitter is more worthy of the hefty price tag than Chanel…

Anywho, the mini polish is a fairly decent size, probably roughly the size of Barbara Daly’s (at Tesco) smaller bottles, maybe a tad larger. Unlike OPI with their outrageously small bottles.

3 coats, without topcoat

With topcoat!

This is a lovely lovely polish. Essentially it contains a tonne of cranberry-raspberry glitter, suspended in a deep blackcurrant jelly base. The base is quite sheer, it took 3 coats to achieve full opacity. But it does give the polish quite a lovely dark dimension, as the glitter catches the light the rest looks deep and rich in colour. It dried relatively quickly, a bit longer than most glitters though.

Without a topcoat it’s a very grainy, average texture for a glitter, but just one coat of thick topcoat and it’s smooth and lovely. It catches the light beautifully.

My one major problem with this polish is that it stained my nails. I put on two coats of basecoat and I am still left with a pinky-orange tinge to my nails. I put on two coats of basecoat because Scrangie reviewed Razzle Dazzle and noted that she experienced staining. Now, call me fussy, but if I was to pay £14-16 for a polish I would NOT expect staining, and I would be unhappy to have to apply 3 coats. And I can’t buy it anyway, because House of Fraser (who presumably supplied these to GlossyBox as they were cited on the description card for ‘where to buy’) don’t even stock it.

So is this polish worth it? In my eyes, no. I feel like if I bought a similarly coloured glitter topcoat and layered it over a murky pinky-red base I would have a cheap and cheerful (perhaps mediocre) substitute. However I do see the appeal as it is gorgeous and quite unique, I just feel that for the price, it really isn’t something I would stretch to. Across The Universe, on the other hand, wow!

I am of course very pleased that this came in my GlossyBox as Deborah Lippmann is a brand I’ve been dying to try for a year now!

Hope you are all well my lovelies, I’m well and truly knackered after such a heavy semester at Uni and fully glad to be on holiday! Andy and I are planning to go to London tomorrow to the Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park, will be so much fun! Last day to enter my giveaway everyone! I’ve had some good suggestions about how to improve my blog so this is very good 😀 So close to Christmas, eee!

Emma x

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.