Essie after school boy blazer dupe!

Collection work the colour nail polish £1.99 - boots.co.uk

I found this whilst browsing the shelves in boots the other day and it reminded me of essie after school boy blazer but obviously at a tiny fraction of the price. For 1.99 I found this polish to be easy to apply and quick drying, the pictures are taken after applying two coats, the colour pay off was impressive for such a dark colour. Autumn winter colour switch up as I usually stick to a dark burgundy (Barry m red black) to be precise. 

#NOTD Barry M Blueberry

 Barry M - Blueberry 306 - £2.99

So, iv'e decided to attempt to blog again, im attempting to post at least once a week but hopefully more, but we'll see. :| i know im a terrible blogger i'm just so lazy.

Anyway, i got this colour in april and yet iv'e never used it since tonight and actually i really like it, i didn't think i would as blue isn't really a colour i would go for. 

This is just one coat, after taking the photos i applied another coat which wasn't necessarily needed but i just prefer two coats, i like to know my nail is fully polished!

pigmentation - 9/10 - one coat is fine if your in a rush

drying time - 9/10 - a few minutes and its done which is good considering the thickness

application - 8/10 - standard brush, easy to apply.

overall - 9/10

Something to get festive about - ORLY Halloween 2013

Maybe not too exciting but nevertheless... this is the Halloween 2013 collection from Orly and to be honest, it's not fantastic but the fact that Halloween is coming so close and so fast i couldn't help but get a bit excited by it.

So basically there are only four shades in the collection which are all pretty much the same apart from the glitter black.

You may not be able to tell but the two oranges are in fact different shades:

Top left - Orange Punch

Top right - Liquid Vinyl

Bottom left - Goth

Bottom right - Melt your Popsicle

I can't wait for autumn now, get the be thankful Yankee candles out and start wearing shirt jumper combos and chunky scarves. And the sun's only just made it's appearance in the UK... OH WELL.

Anyway, the collection is out mid August in the US and September sometime in the UK.

Christmas Candycane and Rudolph glitter nails.

 Glitter - The Range £2.99

Brown - Barry M mushroom £2.99 from Boots

Black - Barry M black £2.99 from Boots

White - Given as a gift in a manicure set so i dont know :S

Top coat - Models own 

 

Tonight i seem to have come over all festive! Possibly because i caught my mom watching the worst christmas film ever made this afternoon, i don't even know what it was called but it was American and it was pure camembert cheese, so so cringey about 2 neighbours competing against each other over having the best christmas lights, there was also a teenage love story involving the daughter of one neighbour called suzy and the son of the other called chip. I say no more. As well as that god awful movie she also watched several of Jamie Olivers christmas programmes (which i enjoyed watching.)

So once all of this was over i ended up painting a reindeer onto my nail just messing around but then i thought hmm apart from his wonky nose i actually think i did quite well, so off i went and carried on with a candy cane. I wasn't thinking about blogging them so i didn't photograph the process but i basically just cut up thin lines of selotape to do the candy cane and also to do the reindeers nose. The glitter i got in a pack from the range (such a good homeware shop!) All i did was put on a clear base and then sprinkle over the glitter, so simple! To do the antlers i cut a cotton bud in a diagonal and used to point to dip in the black barry m varnish and voila!  

Festive Fingers :)