O.P.I OPI Ink

Where have I been? Well.... On Tuesday I was about to leave for school when I fell down the stairs and landed on my back on a hard-wood floor! That was the LAST thing I needed especially since this week has been so busy in terms of exams. Anyway I'm okay (ish.. I'm in a lot of pain but it doesn't matter)

So back to the polish. First of all can I say, this is such a difficult polish to photograph!!! But it is so beautiful at the same time!

Here is O.P.I - OPI Ink, a polish that I've wanted ever since I first saw swatches of it!

It is a gorgeous blurple that looks magical in the bottle! The base is right between blue and purple and it is loaded with small glass flecks that shift from blue and purple right through to pink and even gold (although the gold is pretty hard to see on the nail). On the nail it settles as a duochrome deep violet shade in most lights and a deep navy occasionally.

Application was quite good. The first coat was pretty sheer and patchy and a second coat evened out the patchiness but a third coat made it totally opaque. At three coats it has this very luxe look to it.

It really does look like ink, albeit a colour-shifting shimmering ink.

The formula was easy to work with and I experienced no dragging but I was working quite quickly and my nails are quite short at the moment anyway. Dry time is normal but with three coats it did dry faster than I expected.

Under artificial light above, and under sunlight below:

The duochrome can really be seen under artificial light:

Under flash the metallic element really shows through, as does the bluer side of this polish.

So basically what I'm saying is that this is one heck of an awesome polish! It exudes gothic glamour and looks very luxe on.

Color Club Sparkle and Soar

Quick post today, a polish I have already shown you as part of my Halloween nails.

This is Color Club Sparkle and Soar.

It is a warm tangerine jelly with gold glass flecks.
Say hello to my right hand! It's making its debut, and probably rare, appearance. <-- Only cos I had nail art on my left hand which you can see here.

It is sooo bold and bright! You could say it was neon but I think it's much nicer than the regular neon oranges out there.

This is 3 coats but it is still not totally opaque. I chose to leave it there simply because I was going to cover it with a shatter polish and this is where it evened itself out. If you wanted it totally opaque you could layer it over a creme orange base.

After 3 coats it begins looking like a foil! Sooo sparkly! The gold flecks are so densely packed that they begin to make a duochromey layer of their own (if that makes sense...?).

Ah, I love Color Club! Unfortunately they're not sold in the UK so the only place I know of to but them is TKMaxx, but I love TKMaxx so thats totally fine with me! 

Halloween Nail Art!

Happy Halloween everyone!!!

Normally I'm such a nail art lover that I actually can't believe I haven't posted any until now!

Anyways, onto the art...

This is my Halloween creation:

With Topcoat

Thumb: Pumpkin

First finger: Blood Drip

Middle finger: Frankenstein

Ring finger: Web

Pinky: Ghost

Without Topcoat

I was short for time and didn't want to do something half heartedly on my right hand so I just went with black shatter over orange glass fleck.

Orange: Colour Club - Sparkle and Soar
Shatter: China Glaze - Black Mesh

Hope you all liked it! x

FashionistA Mystical Dragon - Swatch and Review

Monday is another one of my best friend's birthday and so today we went to Covent Gardens! There was 7 of us and it was great day out!

I went bag packing yesterday with my cousin and because it was in a supermarket i couldn't really paint my nails while handling other peoples food so i had to paint them this morning. Grr. Me no likey paining my nails in a rush -_-

This is FashionistA Mystical Dragon.

Its basically a whole lotta glass flecks thrown into a beautiful teal base!

This is 3/4 coats. I used four on some nails because my nail line was still really quite visible. To be honest it'll probably take about 20 coats to make this totally opaque but like I've said before with other polishes, you can only tell if you hold your hand up to a light source.

The annoying thing about this is actually to do with the bottle. The square lid separates from the inside lid! I don't know if this is was supposed to be like that or not but its pretty annoying when you need to paint your nails quickly and only remember afterwards that there are two lids to take off. :/

I guess you could say it has a duochrome effect to it because in some lights it is a pretty bold blue and in others it is sparkling sea green, but mostly is sits somewhere between the two. Also, because of the amount of coats I've done, it kind of looks like a foil.

Overall, a totally awesome polish except for the lid(s)

Happy Birthday (for monday) Seevana! x

Fearne Ruby Cotton - Swatch and Review

So according to the shops, Christmas is officially here!

Everywhere you look, there are Christmas displays out, Christmas music playing or Christmas 'special' offers. Oh well, I'm not complaining because it means that there are some awesome items out that are only sold at Christmas times and the offers are actually quite good! An example of this awesomeness is the Models Own polishes I got from Boots last week.

Anyway, on to the polish I'm wearing today. Today is one of my Best Friend's birthday and so yesterday we went out to celebrate. We were going to watch Sinister but the lady at the till in Vue wouldn't let us in because we didn't have ID on us even though we were ALL old enough to go in! My nails were supposed to be related to the film though so here goes...

This is Fearne - Ruby Cotton. It's designed by Fearne Cotton.

It's a ruby red jelly polish with red and gold glass fleck shimmer shot through it.

It is GORGEOUS! Perfect for Christmas I'd say!

It's pretty sheer due to the fact that its a jelly but it becomes opaque in 3 coats. That said, you can still see your nail line if you hold you had up to the light... But no-one does normally that do they?

The great thing about this is that the shimmer shows up on the nail! I've go so many polishes where it looks lovely in the bottle but they it disappears on the nail. :(

Have you picked up any great Christmas products yet?

And Happy Birthday Faika! x