Application is good on this, if a little streaky and it dries a bit matte so you definitely need a top coat with this. I don't love this new H&M bottle (I'm sure I've said this before!), the large cap is awkward to hold when painting the nails and it never closes flush with the bottle (just like the ELF bottles, which drives me a little bit crazy!) At time of writing, I've been wearing this polish for 4 days and wear is fine, I'm starting to get a little tip wear but that's about it.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
H&M Miss Stone Heart
Application is good on this, if a little streaky and it dries a bit matte so you definitely need a top coat with this. I don't love this new H&M bottle (I'm sure I've said this before!), the large cap is awkward to hold when painting the nails and it never closes flush with the bottle (just like the ELF bottles, which drives me a little bit crazy!) At time of writing, I've been wearing this polish for 4 days and wear is fine, I'm starting to get a little tip wear but that's about it.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
What I picked up in Spain
So here's what I got.
From L-R , the stampy set, two extra plates 01 have fun and 02 style it up!, Nail Art Twins 02 Julia and Nail Art Special Effect Topper 02 Circus Confetti.
And in more detail.
The stampy kit, this cost €3.49. This contains a stamper (on top), a scraper (left) and one plate (right)
The two plates, have fun on the left and style it up! on the right.
The two polishes Nail Art Twins 02 Julia, on the left, and Nail Art Special Effect Topper 02 Circus Confetti, on the right. Circus Confetti looks very Happy Birthday-esque to me on first look and Julia is a chunky holo glitter. Both of these are very sparse so a base coat will be needed with them.
I also popped into H&M and as well as buying a few dresses I picked up these Moody Model, from the last post and one more polish I can't find anywhere (which has made me mad!!!- I'm pretty sure it made it home with me, unlike my phone charger but that's a whole other story!)
I did find a Sephora but didn't pick up any polish there, it was quite small and any that I liked the look of were out of stock :(
Expect some stampy manicures soon, just as soon as I manage to get to grips with it!
Friday, August 5, 2011
H&M Moody Model
This has amazing application, the polish applies really well it's not too thin or too thick and it's very pigmented, pictures show two coats with seche vite on top, if I did the coats a little thicker it might have been a one coater. This is one of the new bottles and the new cap isn't great, because it's so big but I found holding it sideways made it easier to apply the polish, and as soon as you have worked out a way to hold it, it becomes less of an issue.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Comparison China Glaze For Audrey and H&M Bella's Choice
Friday, September 3, 2010
H&M Blue My Mind
Artificial light, flash
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Hello Kitty Turquise
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Nubar 2010
First up a bottle pic,
I’m not quite sure if Nubar is trying to insult me or encourage to revert back to my previous sluttish state, but anyhow for best resluts! Right time to compose myself and get over my nail polish insulting me, didn’t it know I was never a slut, hence no need to reslut myself!
So when I had the skittles from the giveaway win post on, I thought this would be an ideal time to try out the Nubar 2010 and kept them on for an extra day to try and do the 2010 swatches. (I got some very strange looks at work!) Since I’m a little late to this party, I thought I it was an easy way to try it out on a wide range of colours.
Of course all day when I was in work with my multicoloured nails the weather was lovely and sunny and I knew this polish would need sunlight to photograph properly, on my way home the sun went in. The next day I had a meeting with my boss so it had to come off, but I held off to see if it would be sunny in the morning and just as I had remover in my hand, the sun came out for a brief minute so I got 2 not very good sunlight photos, so I’ve put a few photos in to try and capture the flakey goodness!
Artifical light, flash

Tuesday, August 10, 2010
A Great Start to the Weekend
I couldn’t believe how quickly it arrived, all the way from Sweden. There were 11 fab nail polishes, 2 eyeshadows and 2 lipsticks.6 of the polishes and the makeup were from a Swedish brand called Viva la Diva. When my sister saw the makeup she swiftly decided I wasn’t going to wear it (!) and it was much better in her hot little hands, before I had time to object she was gone. I’ll track her down and demand a review!
So on to the polishes there were 11 polishes in total and since I actually already owned the lovely blue my mind I thought I’d swatch the other 10 polishes. The Viva la Diva polishes had no names only numbers. I’ve put Blue my mind away for a giveaway in future.
On my left hand, I swatched these (From L-R) Viva La Diva 13-17
The formula of these was really really good for pastels only the yellow (17) and the peach(15) were 3 coaters. (actually I dinged the yellow and it became 4 coats)
On my right hand, from L-R Viva La Diva 18, H&M Bella’s Choice, H&M Check Me Out, Hello Kitty Turquise Kitty, Hello Kitty Pink Kitty.
I loved them but Bella’s Choice deserves special mention as it was a one coater, and the colour was very simlar to China Glaze For Audrey (more of which tomorrow). The rest of the polishes were 2 coaters. There’s a shimmer in the Turquise Kitty colour, which I managed to fall to capture in the bottle picture and both of the swatch pictures, I’ll do a full mani with this and try and get better pictures. Here I should mention that Turquise Kitty is H&M's name for the polish and not my appalling spelling!
Have you seen the Viva La Diva range before, are there more products we should be trying? Also, has anyone got any other recommendations for any other H&M polishes?