Ramblings and Some Nail News

If you are not inclined to Ramblings of any sort I suggest you skip to the 3rd paragraph for nail news.


Firstly, I didn't think I'd have to write this again but apologies for the complete lack of posts. Every time, I think I have my life calmed down, I either have work or real life explode in my face. To be honest, I have 11 months of study left (or pay any way) so the next year or so is likely to be extremely stressful, and while I'll do my very best   to keep on top of blog things.


Those of you who follow me on twitter probably know I was away last week, for work. The idea was I'd work Mon- Thurs lunchtime and take the rest of the week off until I flew back Saturday night, so I could do some shopping and catch up with friends. On Thursday, I spent the rest of the day with my  friend and her daughter, before going to meet my other friend for dinner and so I could stay with her. Despite my best plans, I ended up working most of Friday and only got to hit the shops for about 2 hours, and London was hotter than Hades.


While wandering around the shops, I popped into Boots Carnaby St, I was surprised to see that they had the Orly minis in already, at £5 each I decided it was almost as cheap to get full sizes online, plus there was nothing that caught my eye. Right below them though, were a new professional line from Models Own, much as I would love to show you a bottle shot here, I can't! The bottles are square, to differentiate from the usual range and the retail at £8.  I had a good rummage around and decided that while a lot of the colours were quite safe, I found one called midnight something ( a quick look on the horrendous boots website tells me the only thing it can be is madnight blue), a starry starry night -esque navy polish with silver glitter.


Up I wander to the counter, and the guy says "you can't buy that, it's been recalled", so since I really wanted the polish I tried to push it a bit, but there was no go, his supervisor told me to go pick another colour, whereby I pouted and said "I didn't want another colour, I wanted that colour". Realising it was futile, I wandered off.  


The next day, I was in boots liverpool st and what do I spy with my little eye but another models own pro stand, and nestled in there is the polish I want. So we start, the same drama all over again, and again 24 hours later they can't sell me the polish because it's been recalled. This guy is a bit better and suggests he'll find me a similar colour from another range. and is very worried something might happen to my nails if he sells to me, because the recall may be safety related. The whole bloody thing takes so long, I miss my train, which nearly makes me miss my plane.


I did manage to pick up some polishes in superdrug but I'll save that for my next post as I've rambled on so much today!  


Have any of you manged to buy any of the Models Own Pro polishes?I can't find much info on them on the internet, so I'm assuming that they are very new, have you seen them? Is it just me they won't sell them too?    

NOTD China Glaze Zombie Zest

When Jennifer’s package arrived, I was wearing Orly Wandering Vine and loving it, but as I was swatching the polishes Zombie Zest was the one that stood out to and it looked a little sheer so I hit on the idea of putting it over Wandering Vine.

This is one coat of Zombie Zest over Wandering Vine, application was good. I think it looked lovely and got loads of compliments on this mani. The wear was really good no chips after 4 days and I had been wearing the wandering vine for  2 days already. 


Also,  everyone probably knows that October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, the lovely girls at Beaut.ie did a post here about some of the lovely beauty buys that donate to BCA.   October is also Depression Awareness month and the colour for this is green is this mani is appropriate, Scrangie did a wonderful post about Depression Awareness here. 

NOTD Orly Wandering Vine

Today’s NOTD is the most amazing Orly Wandering Vine. This was one my first Orlys and definitely caused me to love the brand. Wandering Vine is an amazing green cream polish, the pictures below are one coat, yup, that’s right ONE coat!

As mentioned above this is one coat in the pictures and the application was perfect, the polish is really pigmented but easy to work with too.   If you get a chance to get this one, I definitely recommend it. Incidentally, if anyone uses Transdesign to order polish from the states, they no longer ship Orly outside the states.  

Orly Mirror Mirror V Collection 2000 Wham

Today a comparison between Orly Mirror Mirror and Collection 2000 Wham. Both polishes are light grey creams. Check out the cute Orly bottle with the little mirror charm, it's too cute!

First up a picture of the two bottles,

Looking at the bottle, you can see that the two polishes look similar.

Next up, on the nails. From L-R Mirror Mirror, Wham, Mirror Mirror and Wham.

On the nail Mirror Mirror looks a bit lighter than Wham. I like this colour, so I'm glad I have both but they are very close.

For these swatches, I did three coats of each polish and both polishes needed all three coats. There’s no top coat on these swatches. I love the handle of Orly’s polish it’s very easy to hold whereas the Collection 2000 handle is a pain to hold I think it’s not long enough. However I think I preferred the Collection 2000 brush.

My Stash

Today, I thought I'd post a few pictures of my small stash, so to start off here's a picture of most of my polish stash. I found a few more lying around the place after I took the pictures and I know my Mum and sister have a few too. I must make a spreadsheet because I have no idea how many polishes I have, I guess around 60.

Next up, The OPIs

The China Glazes.

The Orlys and Ruby&Millie.

Elf and No7

Essence

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Collection 2000, Rimmel, Maybelline and H&M

Essie, Claires and mini OPIs from the Spanish collection

That's it for now. Have a great weekend!