HaPpY HaLLowEen!!

Happy Halloween Peoples

I think Halloween has been playing on my mind, I'm bit of a baby and a scaredy cat. I've been having the most awful nightmares! I swear, I had such a terrible dream about Zombies I woke up in a right state lol. But I can't complain, because this time of year brings such fabulous polishes. I only bought two this year though, China Glaze - It's Alive and the Wet'n'Wild Fantasy Makers Glow in the Dark polish. I'm trying to not buy every polish in sight. Luckily for my pocket, I'm not a fan of Christmas collections usually, but I'm a sucker for Halloween.

This is 3 coats of It's Alive, a stunning green based jelly containing green glitter. Good coverage, applied a little stodgy and it was a total git to get off. Didn't really work with my skin tone, but I'm not going to let a little thing like that put me off.

On another note, the wonderfully fabulous Cara @ Cara Robinson Nail Technician wrote a post about my Mushroom holo franken I sent to her a couple of weeks back. So check her out, it's a great beauty blog and Cara is lovely. I'm pretty new to the blogging community, and meeting other bloggers like Cara really makes it worthwhile. Which brings me to my second point...I've reached over 200 followers!! Blooming hell. I really appreciate the support everyone has shown my little blog. Hopefully those who have followed since I mentioned my giveaway will find something here interesting and worthwhile. Your comments have also been really supportive. SO thank you!

Before I get too gushy, enjoy your evening and Happy Halloween. Don't eat too many sweeties :-)

Tee Dee xx

Topshop Smoke and Mirrors Nail Polish - Bourbon

Hello Everyone!

Today I have the second polish in Topshop's Smoke and Mirrors Collection - Bourbon. A deliciously named dark chocolate jelly polish. Mmmmm Chocolate Bourbon, one of my favourite biscuits coincidentally.

In Sunlight

In Shade

Closeup

This is 3 coats of Bourbon. A few application problems but no biggies. Not as opaque as Lady Marmalade but still good coverage. I think this one is the most anticipated shade out of the collection and I can see why. Their ain't many shades like this on the British commercial nail polish market, you go into Boots or Superdrugs, there's not many dark chocolate jelly polishes on the shelves. Miss Sporty had one in their collection but its hard to find. More chocolate cremes please...the polish kind.

Source

Fun Bourbon Fact: The Bourbon biscuit is over 100 years old. Not looking too bad for its age is it?

Enjoy everyone!

Tee Dee xx

A bit of Klean fun - Chunky Holo Black

Hi ya all

So this is my 49th post. Wow doesn't time fly when your having polish fun. I want to say a big hi to all my new followers! Hello :-) So chuffed that anyone givse my little page a gander.

Today I have another Kleancolor polish - Chunky Holo Black. This is such an unusual polish, not because of the glitter (that's stunning) but because of the brown jelly consistency. I overdid it buy using 2 coats. Should of just stuck to one.

As you can see it's a brown jelly rather than black, although when indoors it's more darker in appearance. Didn't get an indoor shot though. Sorry.

My application was awful but I thought I would show you the shots anyway. The holographic glitter is really effective in this polish, indoors and outside. This is layered over Rimmel Black. The glitter particles are larger in the Kleancolor polish in comparison to the other holos they produce. It smells a bit  funky but it's worth it.

I'm going to try and get the other Kleancolors I bought swatched, as hopefully I will be putting some new orders in on their metallic range. For $1.75 each you can't go wrong.

Ta ta for now.

P.s 5 days to go til Olympia Beauty (yeah yeah).

Tee Dee xx

Revlon - Facets of Fucshia

Hello Everyone!

Nearly September! Gosh where has this year gone!? I swear I can hear Jingle Bells already. Today I have for you Revlon's new shade - Facets of Fuchsia. Apparently a dupe for Deborah Lippmann's Bad Romance. Haven't a clue on this as I'm a polish pauper and I can't afford it :-) Facets of Fuchsia is a purple based jelly containing silver regular and hexagonal glitter. The glitter looks fuchsia because of the purple jelly. A glamorous polish, perfect for the fall/winter season and dare I say it...office Xmas parties :-S

Started off with a base of Rimmel Black 60 seconds and used 2 coats of Facets of Fuchsia. I tried Facets of Fuchsia on its own and got opacity in 4 coats, but it ended up a pretty thick mani. No topcoat used. Purchased from Boots in store for £4.29 although I used my loyalty points and got it for free.

Am I being too premature about Christmas? or like me can you feel the frosty chill of Santa breathing down your neck (I do actually like Christmas though!)

Tee Dee xx

Barry M Red Black and a little Flakie Goodness

Hey Everyone

After my post about Nfu.Oh UK, I've had flakies on my mind a lot and needed some flakie goodness in my life. I started out with Barry M Red Black, a lovely dark red jelly polish. Really vampy and super gorgeous. I love these types of shades. I'm not really a girlie girl. It's not often I have pastels and pinks on.

This is 2 coats. Slightly runny, and had some bleeding round the nail (not literately). I probably could have cleaned up a bit better. Dries to a super glossy even finish. I then decided to get myself some of them flakies on my nail and applied two coats of Nubar 2010 which is a sheer polish containing multiple coloured flakes. I love this polish, it looks good over any colour. Light or dark.

I hope Nubar doesn't decided to discontinue this polish, especially now that Nfu.oh is so expensive. I used 2 coats of 2010. I bought this from Feelunique.com which delivers for free. I think I paid around £6 odd for it, although the price has now gone up to £7.25.

What do you think? To Flake or not to Flake?

Tee Dee xx

Kleancolor - Chunky Holo Purple

Hello All

Today I have for you one of the Kleancolor polishes I recently purchased Chunky Holo Purple. I started first with a base of Rimmel 60 Seconds Nail Polish - Blue My Mind. For those interested in this polish I have some pics with applied on it's own but be warned my application was a bit sloppy as I was only using it as a base coat. Blue My Mind is a lovely royal blue polish, looks almost purple.

Rimmel - Blue My Mind

I then layered Chunky Holo purple over the top. Chunky Holo Purple contains rainbow coloured or 'Multichrome' coloured glitter in a sheer purple jelly based polish. Really pretty in the bottle and looks even better on the nail.

With Flash

This polish is beautiful. Looks stunning on the nail. 2 coats and you have this wonderful rainbow glitter effect. I can't wait to try the other 3 I purchased! I purchased my polishes from Beauty Joint online for $1.75 each which is around £1.00 a bottle! Super Bargain. I think delivery was around £9 but I bought quite a few polishes :-)

Have a lovely day folks

Tee Dee xx