1 Year Blogiversary Giveaway Winner!

Do you like the strategically placed "Winner" text over my original picture...I'm so good at graphic design it kills me. 

Anyway!
The giveaway is over, thank you so much to everyone who entered, the response was better than I imagined! And as usual, I'm sorry to those who didn't win :( I have more giveaways planned for the future :)

The winner is! - 

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Well done Vicky! Email has been sent, please respond within 48 hours :)

Louise Gray for Topshop - Junkyard - Swatches and Review

Hello! I spotted this polish while shopping with my Mum in Topshop. It's one of four gorgeous glitters in a special collection by designer Louise Gray.

The polish itself is packed with large, medium and small hexagonal blue/turquoise glitter, with an iridescent sparkle. The base has a slight blue tint, but would probably need about 500 coats to replicate how it looks in the bottle! Therefore I've layered it over China Glaze Sexy In The City for this post, and I think it's pretty close to the bottle. You could probably layer it over any sort of blue/turquoise/green and it'd look great.

In my pictures I have 3 coats of Sexy In The City, and 2 coats of Junkyard.

Outdoors in sunlight - 

Indoors in natural light -

Outdoors in sunlight (looks like a jelly sandwich!) -

The formula was great, no bubbling and 1 coat of top coat smoothed it out.

This is what it looks like on it's own, 2 coats - 

Just a very slight blue tint to the base, not worth trying to build up on your nails really.

A couple more outdoor pictures (click to enlarge) - 

It comes in a cute bottle with a metallic lid! -

I love this and want to get the rest in the collection! These polishes cost £6.50 for 8ml. 

P.s. not long left to enter my giveaway!

New from Models Own - Mirrorball Collection

I'm sure you've all already seen this by now, but I'm so excited for it I just HAD to have it on my blog! LOOK HOW SPARKLY! (I am seriously like a magpie over this sort of stuff).

Picture from the Models Own Facebook page

Here's what Models Own has to say about it - 

NEW! The MIRRORBALL Collection, a completely unique glide-on glitter that will revitalise your entire polish collection! Wear alone or over your favourite colour polish to give a frosting finish, taking nails from boring to BLING! 

Each polish contains five different chunky colours of hand-cut glitter that are guaranteed to get the party started: 

Disco Inferno, a glittery gold disco bomb; 

Hot Stuff, an intoxicating mix of pink and gold sparkles; 

Freak Out, a crystal shimmer mix of bold blue and purple; 

Dancing Queen, fabulous flecks of emerald, blue and gold; 

Boogie Nights, a multicoloured mix of intriguing purple, pink and blue! 

The Mirrorball Collection launches (with LIMITED EDITION metallic coloured caps!) exclusively at the Models Own Bottleshop on Thursday, September 6th, on the Models Own website from Monday, September 10th and in Boots stores nationwide from Wednesday, October 3rd. 

I can't wait! I live nowhere near the Bottleshop so I'll have to wait but I'm excited to try them. I think I'm most excited for Dancing Queen. Will you be buying any of these?

NV - New UK cosmetics brand - Swatches and Review

Hello! Today I have a review and some swatches from a new UK cosmetics brand called NV. 

Click the jump for the post! If that pretty packaging doesn't lure you in I don't know what will...

Sea Green Glitter - Birthday Nails!

It's my Birthday today (I'm old) and this probably isn't what you'd picture for birthday nails but it's just what I ended up with!

The base is an unnamed colour by Maybelline MNY, and I sponged some Models Own Peacock Green on the tips. When it was dry I added some Models Own Juicy Jules. 

With flash - 

Juicy Jules is quite a gritty glitter, but the result is it ends up looking like little diamonds!