Model's Own Juicy Jules

In my last post, I mentioned that my little bro bought me Juicy Jules and Purple Mystique  for Christmas. He bought them with intention of me wearing them together, so I duly complied! 
First a close up in focus on top and out of focus on the bottom,

A holo glitter the boy done good! 


Now on the nails,


In focus first,

Lastly out of focus to show the holo-y goodness! 

The application of this was a little of a pain, it was a bit thick and if you went over the same bit of nail twice, you were likely to leave a bald patch, maybe a bit of thinner would help, but this is a common issue with glitters.  Since I wore this, I've swatched it on a nail wheel and *think* it might be wearable on it's own with two or three coats, as soon as I get a chance I'll try it.  


Have you tried this one with it's holo-y goodness? What do you think?

Models Own Purple Mystique

Today's NOTD is Models Own Purple Mystique. My baby brother bought me this one for Christmas along with another models own polish, Juicy Jules ( more about this tomorrow) and the best foot cream known to man (in my opinion!). I have the world most horrible feet, unfortunately inherited from my mother and Burt's Bees Peppermint foot lotion is the only thing that makes it possible for me to wear open toed shoes in Summer and not have people run away in fright!   My baby bro is only 13 and picked all these out himself, so I was well impressed!

The colour of Purple Mystique reminds me of the colour of the box of Cadbury's Milk Tray, a really lovely rich,  deep, purple.


Close up to see the shimmer 

And on the nails

The application of this was lovely, however the wear wasn't great I had the start of chips when I took these photos about 4 hours of I painted my nails. I don't remember doing anything detremential to my mani but I *guess* I could have done a lot of cleaning (although I  highly doubt it!) 

Wheely number 2

In the second of the Wheely Wednesday series (well I posted the first one on a Thursday but think Wheely Wednesday sounds much better!) , here's what we have today! (Sorry about the massive time delay from first to second wheely post, you can find the first here if you are interested)

1. Bourjois 9
2. Essence Groovy
3. Maybelline Red Comete
4. Asos by Ciate Blake
5. Nubar Violet Sparkle
6. China Glaze Lubu Heels
7. Orly Snowcone
8. Model’s own Bubblegum
9. Ruby & Millie Pink
10. Barry M Raspberry
11. 17 Smoke Signal
12. 17 Sherbet Lemon
13. Viva La Diva 15
14. Rimmel Corralicious
15. China Glaze Aqua Baby
16. Models Own Purple Grey
17. No7 Rose Truffle
18. Elf Pink Passion

If there are any of these you'd like to see in more detail, just holler and I'll add them to the list! 

OPI Sparkle-icious

I hope you are all having a lovely start to the new year, and had a lovely polish filled Christmas! For the first post of the new year year I'll be extremely tardy and show you my Christmas mani, please excuse my tardiness my life just got completely on top of me (I won't bore ye with details!) and I couldn't find the time or enthusiasm to post, but I have been taking photos, so I have a whole load of posts upcoming.

Right on to the polish, today's polish is OPI Sparkle-isicous, which I thought was just the glitterbomb for Christmas. 

First up a close up shot, 

You can see that Sparkle-icous contains many different colours of glitter that maybe aren't so obvious on the nail picture.

Despite this being (the best) one of about 100 photos I took of this, I don't think this picture is doing this polish justice, this is a fab colour. 

Application was ok on this, I found it hard to stop bald spots appearing, as like many glitters it didn't like being painted over. The wear on this was good too, I wore it for a few days with no issues.




Sparkle-icious is part of OPI's Burlesque collection and I guess it should be in shops in Ireland around now (I'll try to get in to a OPI selling shop tomorrow to see) , I picked this up on the internet a few months ago. 

China Glaze Lubu Heels

Today's NOTD is actually a Nail of a few weeks ago, I wore this one to a black tie event I was at. I apologise in advance for the application, I literally put this on as the cab was waiting outside.  This a lovely red glitter in a black base and it's beautiful! 


First, an upclose and personal picture,

Now, on the nails,

Eeek! I didn't realise my thumb was quite so bad! I got quite bad shrinkage on this, don't know if this was because I applied it, in such a hurry or not. So it's not tipwear, you see in the photos, it's shrinkage caused by the Seche Vite.  Despite the hurried application, I actually ended up wearing this for a few days, actually close to a week and it wore well.  There were no issues with application, other than the shrinkage, but I think I didn't leave it long enough before I put on the Seche, because the taxi was waiting outside. 


Have you tried Lubu Heels, what do you think of it?

ELF Glitter Glam

Today’s NOTD is another one of the ELF Christmas collection, ELF Glitter Glam. This is an icy white, silver glitter. On to the pictures,

Close up of the bottle,

On the nails,

Slightly out of focus to see the glitter

This is 3 coats with a coat of Seche Vite on top, the surface isn’t very bumpy because the glitter is quite fine. The visible nail line in the pictures isn’t really apparent to the naked eye and is more down to the macro setting I used on the camera. In fact I only used two coats on my right hand and it’s sufficient coverage. The application is good on this one, the big ELF brush helps with the glitter I think. I’ve worn this for two days at the time of writing and no chips or anything. I never expect glitters to last too long.

I actually ended up wearing this for 6 days and had no problem with wear.

Illamasqua Muse

 Hello, hello! I'm actually back with a post. Since I last posted, I have spent most nights in a hotel, been on five flights and spent a whole day in airport!  The first few nights I spent in a hotel were with my lovely girlies, we attend a ball and it was so nice to have everyone away together for a couple of days. Then, when I got back we had tons of snow, now for people who live in countries were it snows a lot you probably think so what, but in Ireland and England snow pretty much stops everything, and I had to get accross the country to the airport (which was closed most of the time), I ended up having to leave home a day early which meant I had to fit an extra days work in to the remaining days I had left, so in a nutshell it's been a bit hectic. I had planned to write up some posts and schedule while I was away but I never got around to it.  I also have the worst luck with internet access in hotels, the hotel I'm staying in at the moment has working internet sporadically it's taken me a day and a bit to get this post up, but things should quite down after tomorrow, so hopefully I'll be around more.  Ooops .....end ramble and on to the nail post ....

When I tried my first Illamasqua polish, I guess I was whelmed. I just wasn’t feeling it, but this one, it’s love! I present to you Illamasqua Muse.  It’s a perfect one-coater, somewhere between a teal and a turquoise.

The first picture is with a flash, which washed the colour out

Three days later I managed to get a picture in natural light ( I swear the sun never shines here any more, or more accurately when they sun does show itself for 10 mins or so in between showers, I’m usually at work!)

Like I said this was a one coater, absolutely no application issues at all. By the end of the fourth day I started to get a little bit of tipwear but nothing awful.

The only bad thing, I can say, is now I want more Illamasqua  polishes and they recently closed down their Irish counter.