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

Recycling - Black tips on copper.

Arggggggggggggh sooooooo busy, I only just had time to recycle my mani from yesterday. And when I say recycling, I mean lazily sticking some black tips on it. Quick, but effective:)

Secretly, although this is a VERY lazy recycling effort, I'm super pleased with them because I managed to do them freehand:) Eeeeeeeeeeeep!

Swatch - Maybelline Color Show Brick Shimmer

Come esta amigos y amigas? Lol - my Spanish is still pretty basic, how I'm going to cope on my hols I don't know:(

Anyhoo, this is a quick post to show you my other Maybelline Color Show purchase. Like I said, Color Show is a nice, but not remarkable, new collection from Maybelline. This little cutie caught my eye, and I fee=ll for the cute colour with a slightly pinkish tinge. 

It's application is really good; fast drying and a nice brush. The above is two coats, no top coat. There is one weird problem with the bottle though - the neck of the bottle is so long that it's really hard to get enough polish on the brush. While the bottle is full this isn't a huge problem, but when it gets emptier it's going to be super annoying. A design fault or Maybelline's cunning plan to make us buy the polish before we even finish the bottle? Lol:) 

Kelly Brook for New Look Nail Polish - Swatch

Hope you've all had a good weekend peeps. It's back to work for me tomorrow (boooooooooo), so I've spent all weekend with that Sunday night feeling. 

Anyhoo, when I hit the sales after Christmas I found a few polish bargains in New Look:) It's not somewhere  I'd have thought to by polish from before, but this colour (frustratingly un-named), from their Kelly Brook collection, really caught my eye. 

It's a really unusual colour, and I couldn't place whether it was red, orange, bronze, copper - it seemed to change every time I looked at it:)

The formula? Well, it retails normally for £2.99 (though I got it for the bargainous price of £1!), so I wasn't expecting much. Ii smelt odd, kind of like sweets, and took forever to dry! However, it lasted well and didn't chip for the few days I wore it. If you're broke and have a few hours to spare maybe worth a try lol:)

As I'm never quite happy with just one colour on my nails I went for a design. Leopard print seemed like a good idea. However I don't actually like the colour scheme on this; it just seemed like dodgy 70's wallpaper! 

So would I buy a polish from this collection again? Yes, but only if they had a colour that I hadn't seen anywhere else, I wouldn't use it as a basic range. Or if they were £1 again.....I'll buy almost anything if it's £1:)