O.P.I swatches

Ahhh O.P.I - how I love thee! I'd buy these for the bottles alone....there's something so lovely and curvy about the bottles! 

Anyway, recently one of my sister-in-laws has taken to buying me O.P.I polishes for pressies:) This Christmas I was thoroughly spoilt; I Pulled A Plum and What Wizardry Is This were wrapped up, just for me, under the tree!

Stunning - it's already a winter favourite. IRL, there's a deeper purply colour that occasionally flashes into view, but my camera refused to capture that! It applies flawlessly, dries quickly and is just LUSH! 

She also gave me my very first Liquid Sands polish - What Wizardry is This (the name alone makes me happy, as I'm a huge Wicked fan!). I must admit this polish confused me; I couldn't decide if I loved it ir hated it - the Marmite of the polish world. I'll let you decide; the first 2 pictures are without top coat, the last 2 are with three coats of gloss:)

Hmmmm - I just don't know! Anyway, let's end with a picture of something I know I love; Smokey (posing as usual!). 

 Have a great week guys x x x

Urban Outfitters Allsorts

Howdy peeps, hope you're having a great day? I've spent this evening sweating it at the gym - got to get into my dress lol:)

So, today I have a real treat - Allsorts, a pinky/clear polish with neon pink, orange, white and purple glitter jammed packed into it - I've never had so many compliments as I have when wearing this. In fairness, you can't really miss this polish!

Bottle shop - ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh, soooooo shiny:) 

This wasn't the easiest to apply - it needed some dabbing which did result in some bubbles, but I'm complaining because I love this polish so much. Swoon. If I wasn't marrying my lovely fiance I'd marry this polish!

Models Own Purple Ash swatch

Another untried for you today. Now this is embarrassing to admit, but I've had this polish for 4 years! 4 YEARS! I had this even before I started blogging and for some reason I've never shared it, even though it's so lovely. So finally, here it is.....Models Own Purple Ash.

What can I say; this is a great winter weather polish, it applies like a dream and always get me a compliment when I slosh it on:) 

Over and out peeps:)

Models Own Purple Haze swatch

Sparkle alert! Sparkle alert! Sparkle alert! 

OMG, it's like having a Quality Street wrapper decorating my nails! Amazing:)

This is three coats over Imperial Purple, another Models Own lovely. I'm not sure it would become opaque on its own, I'm wondering what it might look like over some other colours, pink or orange maybe? 

Now, as much as I love this colour, there is one massive downfall. The removal is the BIGGEST pain in the bottom ever! This made me really wish I'd tried the glue method. Oh, how I wish I used the glue method.....

Betty Jackson Aubergine (using up the untrieds!)

So, last week I re-sorted and re-organised my stash. I found nmuerous more untrieds (how? Where do they hide???) including this little baby. I've had this for almost two years, it must have been deliberately hiding from me!

So, this was part of a pack by Betty Jackson; this one is Aubergine, a very deep purple, perfect for this winter weather. It's very vampy (especially on the long nails I was rocking), so I decided to pretty it up with glitter! 

Hmmmm, well it applies well, dries nicely, looks good, but I can see why it had managed to hide at the back so successfully; it's meh. Not bad, not good, just meh. Even when covered with the awesomeness that it Revlon Hearts of Gold (btw, how cute it Hearts of Gold? So adorable!). 

Models Own Pukka Purple

Shameful.....I've had this on file since the summer and I've not posted it - *shaking head in shock* - so here it is; Models Own Pukka Purple, part of the stunning neon collection Models Own treated us with last summer. 

This is the perfect purple - it goes on beautifully (if you're careful then this can be a one coater) and dries quickly with a matt finish, but a touch of top coat and et voila! Perfection. How have I not posted this sooner............deary me! 

Silver snowflakes - my first adventure into stamping!

Wow - this is embarrassing. My soon to be sister in law very kindly gave me a wonderful gift for my birthday, a Konad stamping kit. I was thrilled and resolved to start stamping asap. 4 months later......

But better late than never. And as it's Christmas, what other stamp could I use, but snowflakes:)

The base coat is Accessorize Electric Purple. I used Barry M Silver Foil Effects for the stamping and Bourjois It's Raining Stars for my silver glitter accent nail. 

This was hard work; I stamped off centre to disguise the fact that I struggled to get the whole image on my nail! Some of these took several attempts, but I have to admit I'm pretty pleased with them. 

Barry M Boots Special Edition polish - bar glitter

Oh wow - this polish is a party in a bottle...a stunning combination of bar glitter in what I consider to be some pretty dam Christmassy colours, red, green and purple (ok, purple isn't traditional, but for me it's the colour of Quality Street wrappers, and they ARE Christmassy:)

I layered this lovely over GOSH Deep Purple. Et volia!

My camera made the purple look a bit blue, apologies:)

Anyhoo, the best of parties are often followed by hangover. And so it is with this polish. The bar glitter is a pain in the ahem! It sticks out over the nail, sticks up in the air, I actually had to pick out pieces using tweezers. However, I got so many compliments about these, it was almost worth it (almost - I almost sliced my corneas off when doing my contact lenses!)

Would I wear it again? Er, probably. But on a day I was wearing my specs:)

Purple Leopard Print

It's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, .......................etc.

As this scheduled post posts, I shall be pouring a bottle of wine, unwrapping some Ferrero Rocher and snuggling on the sofa with my wonderful fiancee. Happiness is a tipsy Friday night.

These leopard print beauties are the last of the 'oldies' stored on my computer; from now on, it's Christmas manicure time! 

I love the base colour, Electric Purple by Accessorize, so much that I've almost finished the bottle. I'll be needing a back up asap:) The Models Own glitter is Bora Bora. 

Christmas manicures here I come:) 

Hola! Un-named purplely-ness:)

Ahhh, I can't believe I still have polishes that I bought in August and I still haven't swatched them - poor show me!

Today I have the gorgeous......er, no idea what this polish is called actually. Tbh, it cost me less than $1 in Argentina in a random drugstore. I wasn't expecting much from this, if anything to be honest, but ooooooooooooooooooh it's so pretty.

It's a lovely purple with a gold and blue shimmer - I didn't think it would translate from the bottle, but it really does, especially in the light:) Happy days - what a shame it took me so long to post this, it deserves some attention:) 

It's Friday tomorrow EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeek!

Barry M Dusky Mauve

Good grief - where had time gone? I hope you've all been enjoying the first few days of December, I certainly have! I kicked off the best month of the year with a brilliant Thankgivingkah themed evening with friends; latkes, pecan pie, macaroni cheese, donuts, truffles, brisket and all other manner of goodies were consumed; nommy!

I then spent the weekend treating myself for what feels like the first time in ages; I got my hair done, eyebrows done, bought a coat and some new tops - bliss:) And.................I did all my Christmas shopping. BOOM! 

Thus my lack of blogging. Anyhoo, for the next few days I'm going to post manicures that I've had on file for a while, before starting my Xmas manis at the weekend - WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! 

So, I've had this beauty for years now - and the other day I realised that I'd never papped and posted it; shocking! I get so many compliments when I wear it, and it's the most gorgeous winter shade.

It's just the perfect grey-purple; the delicate shimmer, the easy application, the sheer loveliness:)  It almost makes the winter worth it, just so I can rock this colour. Bliss. 

Btw - relaxing on the sofa the other night led to this adorableness.....

Still haven't decided if it was born of love or a desire to keep warm in these colder evenings, but hey; it's progress:)