Technicolor Entertainment

I was going to a musical, and wanted a special manicure for the occasion. The musical was Rent by Jonathan Larson, preformed by the local theater group here in Northern Ireland, marking the end of summer.

Lately I have been buying a lot of indie nail polishes, and I wanted to use one of them.
I promised you girls to follow up on #itrustindiepolish and mainly fature indie polishes on my blog this month, so I am very excited to kick it off with this manicure.

After thinking long and hard, I ended up with Nail Pattern Boldness - Le Big Party.
I even went full on glitterati (!).

Recently I was browsing Poundland, and I came across a set of nail charms "accidentally" ended up in my shopping cart... I am sure we have all been there. Nail stuff; in the shopping cart it goes.
The brand is called Allure, and I think most my nail charms are from that company, they usually have really cute Christmas themed ones, as well as cute bejeweled bows, that I have worn on a couple of occasions.

Nail Pattern Boldness - Le Big Party

It took 3 coats and a bit of dabbing to get it to cover perfectly. I am very pleased with the final look, and it did award me some compliments at the musical. Job well done.

Christmas/New Year Haul

I have gotten my hands on a couple of new polishes and nail art items lately. This post is dedicated to those new darlings.  This time I have been to the 99 p store, Poundland, The Works and H&M. 

I have noticed that The Works sometimes has great rhinestone sets, as well as flocking powder. Great for nail art.  

From the 99 p store I picked up the Shatter collection from OPI.

OPI Silver Shatter
OPI Black Shatter
OPI Shatter the Scales
OPI Super bass Shatter
OPI Red Shatter
OPI Gold Shatter

Gold/White glitter from H&M NOK 29,-

From Poundland. Allura Diamante Nail Charms. Purple bows, white snowflakes, Christmas stockings and Christmas tree.

From Poundland, Revlon Chroma Chameleon Collection.

Revlon Chroma Chameleon - Pink Quartz
Revlon Chroma Chameleon - Gold
Revlon Chroma Chameleon - Cobalt

I know there is a green and a purple as well in this collection. Will have to keep my eyes out for them, and see if they are at any of the other Poundlands in town.

Nail Wraps. Got these two for £1.99 ea.

£ 1.99,- set of three (0,3 - 0,4 - 0,5) different sized rhinestones in four colours, from The Works.

China Glaze - Jolly Holly with snowflake

I have been gone from this blog far to long now, but it seems like I am getting my life back on track now, and I'm just a week away from getting my own flat.

It's going to be great. Best thing is, I can get back in a nail art routine, and have a nail station again. 

For now, I am keeping my nails short, to make it easier with the packing. 

At Poundland I found this great little Christmas set from Allura. It had two types of snowflakes, a Christmas tree and a Christmas stocking.  I decided to use one of the snowflakes for my Christmas manicure.

Two coats of China Glaze - Jolly Holly, and a snowflake accent.

Hope King Winter has treated you all nicely. It's good to be back.

Enchanting Fire

I recently swatched all of the NYC Foil Explosion Collection. I am now back with Enchanting Fire, and one of my new nail art items. Nail Charms. 

I picked them up at Poundland. 3 different types, 2 of ea, for only £1. Bargain. 

Like last time, I used 1 coat of Enchanting Fire, added topcoat. I really like this look. 

The Allura Nail Charms are completely flat on the back, and does therefor not have much contact with the nail itself. With some extra topcoat around the edges it will stick on the nail for a couple of hours, but don't expect it to hold if you brush your hand through your hair. 

So save them for a special occasions where it's okay if they only hold for a couple of hours, if you are careful they might hold a day. Best would be to use nail art glue for these. 

Let me know what you think in the comments below. What kind of dress would you wear for this, and what sort of event would it be?

For a Pound?

This is going to be one of those odd little posts of stuff I have gotten for a pound.  I live in the UK, for now at least. There are stuff from Poundland, other pound-stores or Primark.

It was a bargain. It really was.
There I was at Pound-land, in front of me is the nail art / random girl section. It has glitters all over the place, someone has smudged a lipstick all over the shelf. But in-between all the smudges and dirt I see something shiny.

Caviar Nailart -set from Allura

So ofcourse I had to pick them with me. I grabbed 3 packs with the Diamaté nail charms, in case I where to loose some, or give away. Good thing I did, cause by the time I got back home, I had lost one of them. 

Where did it go?

It could be number of places. The airport (where I dragged them out to look at them), at my friends house in Edinburgh, or in Bristol. No matter where it is, I am sure it will be taken good care of. 

For a manicure using the nail charms, follow this link.

Much later on I was on a trip to town, and decided to take a look at Primarks. This is what I found there. 

Nail wraps, nail file with different grits, and cotton pads.

 First thing I noted about this haul from Primark was the nail file. At closer inspection you see this [picture below]. The numbers are all off. For why would you buff your nails before filing them? That seems odd to me. I took it out of the packaging and inspected it closer. 6 - 5 are for filing, 1-2 are of softer grit almost leather-y and works for even it all out. I would never ever ever in the world use 2 for smoothing out nail surface, it tugs on the surface, so it still has some grit to it.
3-4 are leather-y, and works great for buffing, and shining.

 If we look away from the obvious number-error, this is a great file. I have used it a while, and it's a cheap option instead of diving in and buying more expensive ones. I used to have one like this ages ago, on one of my earlier attempts to stop nail biting from Sally's which was about £5 or something. I remember it was my entire weekly allowance, so it must have been around the £5 mark.

I also picked with me these nail wraps. I'm usually not into nail wraps, I have done a few attempts of applying and using some, but I had to take these with me cause they have a clear base. My other nail wraps have been more foil-like in finish with overall blinding shine and would wrinkle on the nails and never set one even. I can actually see myself get some use out of these. Those little rhinestones are sitting neatly on a line, and I have tugged a bit in them and it seems like they would apply even. Looking forward to try that.

My review and manicure with the wraps can be found here.

For another pound (£1.99) I got myself 500 ml of PVA glue. so  I will be testing out glue base for glitter manis. Really looking forward to that. Have you tried it? Which glitter where you the most happy for being able to wear without the hassle?