Festive party nails!

Hi everyone!

 

I hope you all had a great Christmas, and got everything you wished for and overall had lots of fun! I certainly did, and thought I would show you what's on my nails at the moment!

 

This is such a simple and quick style to put on your nails, but still has all the glitter and festive colours you may want for New Year. Obviously the colours may not go with your outfit, but you could easily swap them out to match.

 

Sorry if the pink nail looks weird, I was rushing out the door and it was still wet when I took it!

 

Mavala- Peacock Green

Barry M- Raspberry

Topshop- Jem

 

I actually thought Jem (the glitter) was red when I first saw it on the Topshop website. I put it over Raspberry to make it more opaque and it was pink! But i can rock pink and green, I'm fine with that...

 

Anyway, Jem is an absolutely gorgeous glitter. The light kept reflecting off in weird ways so I couldn't take a photo of it, but the chunks of glitter in it are amazing. There are different sizes and... just everybody get yourself to Topshop asap.

 

Jem and Peacock green were both Christmas presents, and I love the green equally as much as Jem. It's such a gorgeous festive colour, and Mavala is such a lovely brand in general; there little bottles are soo cute!

 

I think I've rambled well enough about my nails for one post so goodbye! I hope you've enjoyed this post, it's my first nailsy one so let me know what you thought! I'll hopefully be popping up a small selection of my Christmas presents up in a post soon so watch out for that!

 

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Favourite A/W nail varnishes!

Hi everyone!
As you may know, it is now half term and as I can't wear nail varnish during term time I suddenly become obsessed in the holidays. I know I'm a bit late for this as its practically winter here in England now, but hey-ho. Also, I don't quite know why I chose one of the summeriest, most pastelly backgrounds ever, but we live and learn ;)
I've chosen 4 colours, from two different brands. 2 of them are really cliched autumnal colours but one of them definitely isn't.

The first is Barry M raspberry. I'm pretty sure everyone and their dog (or is it mother?!) has this and I can see why. It's pretty much the perfect pinky-reddy toned burgundy and it looks so nice on the nails. Barry M nail varnishes are also obviously really cheap (£2.99) and good quality, and can be found in Boots and Superdrug.

Next is Barry M pink silver glitter. An extremely inventive name, but I think this is just the perfect colour to complement burgundies as it has flecks of pink glitter as well as silver (as the name would suggest). I'm wearing it in the picture below over raspberry (I like to call my nail painting style shabby chic, just FYI).

Another favourite is Topshop blitz. This is again a burgundy (current favourite colour), but is a metallic and has a really pretty golden shimmer to it. It can be found in Topshop for £6.

My last pick is a bit different, and is Topshop gone fishing. It is primarily a S/S shade, it being mint, but it has more green to it so verges on the khaki side of things. I also think it can be nice to have some lighter colours, even in winter. This one is £5. Oh, and by coincidence it's exactly the same colour as the background!

To sandwich in these colours, I use OPI start-to-finish for base and Sally Hansen insta-dri for masses of shine! I won't say too much about these now as I will probably do reviews, so look out for those.

So hope you enjoyed this post! What are your favourite A/W shades? Thanks for reading! Bye!xx

(PS. Sorry about the lack of posts lately but I had a geography essay due in yesterday that I lost all of  Saturday.)

*L-R. Barry M raspberry, Topshop blitz, Barry M pink silver glitter, Topshop gone fishing*

Models own wonderland collection!!

Hi everyone!
I don't usually do this type of post as I think they're better when their PR have contacted you, but I just had to share this new models own collection with you.

According to their Facebook page, it's available in their bottle shop in Westfield now and in boots stores. As far as I can see, it's not on the boots website just yet buy is coming on the models own website next Friday, the 12th of October.

They say...

"Five magical polishes ranging in gradients of subtle to dense glitter for a sophisticated grown up glimmer. For a manicured finish use the iridescent shades to give an accent of glitter, or be brave and layer up the polish until it's opaque! Each polish gives a different nail finish from frosty to full on snowstorm."

The colours are Jack frost, a wash of iridescent soft sparkle in a translucent cloudy base; Snowflake, a mesmerising transparent mix of white gold flakes; Southern lights, an opaque holographic multi-tonal glitter in a lilac finish; Northern lights, a fine holographic multi-tonal glitter in a pink finish; and Blizzard, a dense mix of hand cut glitters to give a silver day-night sparkle!

I personally love it, and think it's the first collection I've ever loved every single polish of, and really want to buy it now. I love that there are transparent AND opaque glitters and think it's a properly festive collection. Buutttt, it could also be worn in other seasons!! These sets usually retail for £30 but I'll update you when I know.

What do you think of this new collection?! Have your bought it yet?
Bye!!xxx