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Day 9 of the 30 Days of Untrieds Challenge: rainbow nails. Something I’ve always wanted to try! I racked my brains for this one, trying to work out what the best way of doing it would be but my mind was drawing blank, so I just went ahead with a simple gradient.
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Abstract Nail Art
Today I have an ‘ultra-modern’ inspired creation as part of the ‘Three Nail Challenge‘, devised by the lovely ladies at Mateji Ustvarjata. To be honest I don’t really know what qualifies as ultra-modern but colour blocking and abstract art came to mind for some reason, so that’s what happened!
Missguided x Cosmopolitan Freebie – Misstique
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.
Missguided x Cosmopolitan Freebie – Misstaken
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.
