Wassail Nail Art

When I was doing my swatches of the Ethereal Lacquer polishes I couldn't resist adding a little stamping to this beautiful polish. This lightbulb image is from the Bundle Monster Create your own set.

I stamped with NYC Full Metal Jacket my go to gold stamper and love how this turned out :)

Just look at the  sparkle on that- stunning!

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Ethereal Lacquer Swatches

I had somewhat of an Ethereal Lacquer splurge the other week, buying three that I really liked the finish of. I love this jelly finish with holographic flecks in it. Two of these are exclusive to the UK store Rainbow Connection.
Boxing Day

Boxing day has a purple base, it is opaque in two coats but dries to a slightly satin finish so you need a glossy top coat to add the shine which brings out the holographic glitter in this to its best effect.

I didn't manage to capture the sparkle in this polish but I will be trying again when I next wear it.
Oracle

Oracle is a teal jelly with teal micro glitters and some holo flecks. This is two coats and it is amazing! Bright and interesting- a lovely finish.

Wassail

I have saved my favourite of the three for last, Wassail is a deep pink holo jelly. Again two coats with a top coat for shine work perfectly.

Ethereal Lacquer is one of my favourite indie polish brands, they have some gorgeous colours and effects and I love all six that I have from them.

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Nimbus and Pahlish Half Moon

On top of Smitten Polish Nimbus I decided to do a half moon using Pahlish Prayer for Rain a blue jelly glitter. I only used one coat of the Pahlish on top of Nimbus which meant that the jelly picked up a pale blue tone matching Nimbus really well.

This is very wintery and cool toned, perfect to wear for the start of December.

Tomorrow I have some Ethereal Lacquer swatches for you.

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Smitten Polish Nimbus

When I first saw this Smitten Polish collection this one really stood out to me, a dove grey holographic polish. I love light holographic polishes just as much as I love the dark ones where the holo stands out. This polish just seems to have another dimension to it when it catches the light, it is perfect.

I live in England and the days are very dull at the moment so this was the best picture I could get to show off some of the holo sparkle of this polish

This is two coats and you can still see a little nail line but it doesn't bother me too much.

Tomorrow I'll show you the nail art I did with this polish using another of my new untrieds.

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Imperio Sun Burst Half Moon

I decided to use one of my Tara's Talons advent calendar polishes to do some nail art on top of Smitten Polish Imperio. This is Tinsel an awesome gold polish.

I decided to do a free hand half-moon and sun burst design and I really like how it turned out.

Tomorrow I have another Smitten Polish to show you, one that I love very much.

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Smitten Polish Imperio

I recently got hold of Smitten Polish Imperio and I love the purple holographic ness of it. I am going to show you two coats because it was definitely opaque here. With this on every movement of your fingers makes them sparkle up at you.

Although this polish looks amazing on it was a little tricky to apply, coming out in very thick coats. If you get a bottle work patiently with it and leave it a while between coats to prevent dragging. It dries to a satin finish so I would definitely recommend using a glossy top coat to bring out the best in this polish.

Tomorrow I'll show you the nail art I did on top of this :)

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Makeup Weekends- L'Oreal Free Gift

I've been thinking about branching into makeup for a while now- I really don't want or have the time to change my nail polish every day and I do want to improve my makeup skills so I've decided to do occasional posts on weekends about makeup :). Boots is full of free gifts at the moment (the sort where if you spend £15 on a brand you get some freebies and I was very interested in the L'Oreal one for the Volume Million Lashes Holographic Top Coat mascara. In this set you get the Mascara, Nail Polish in Rouge Pin Up and Colour Riche Lipstick in Scarlett Creme plus a couple of moisturiser samples and a voucher for €3? off True match foundation. I'm not sure why the voucher is in euros when I purchased this in England.

First up we have the Volume Million Lashes, this is what really drew me to this set as i like the idea of a slight glittery hint to my lashes. The brush is nice and pretty easy to use on my tiny eyes.

I swiped the brush a few times on this bit of paper to give you and idea of the glitter pay off.

The other two items in the set are a fairly standard red lipstick and nail polish but if you've been looking for a pair to match your tips and lips these will do that for you.

Overall it's quite a nice little kit so if there are a couple of other things you've been wanting from L'Oreal it might be worth having a look (three nail polishes will get you close to £15).

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