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.

Wheely Thursday!

A couple of weeks ago, I posted some pictures of my nail wheels and the lovely Karen from Frazzle and Aniploish (go check out her blog here!) asked me to name them.  So here’s the first wheel, in a feature that was to be called Wheely Wednesday, but since today's Thursday we'll just have to call it Wheely Thursday! (You can click the picture to make it bigger) 

1. Amour Rain Glitter
2. Opi Sparkle-icious
3. Nicole Such a Go-glitter
4. China Glaze Ick-a-Body
5. China Glaze Zombie Zest
6. China Glaze Mummy May-I
7. OPI Tease-y Does It
8. Color Club Revvoulution
9. Eyeko Rain
10. Eyeko Posh
11. Eyeko Indigo
12. Illamasqua Muse
13. Illamasqua Rampage
14. NY Summer – Amaranth
15. Misa Dirty Sexy Money
16. Asos by Ciate Lily
17. Asos by Ciate Megan
18. Asos by Ciate Lauren

These are all 2 or 3 coats. 

Misa Dirty Sexy Money

Sorry, I'm only getting around to posting now, things are very busy here, I'm working crazy hours and getting very little done (or so it seems!) and now I'm sick to top it off.  I have a couple more posts pretty much ready to go, so I'll try not to leave it so long! 
Today's NOTD is Misa Dirty Sexy Money. There are not words to describe this one, I heart it! The colour is a dusty-ish green. The pictures will describe it better than I can, a picture's worth a 1000 words and all that,

I have no bad words to say about this one! Application - perfect! Wear- Perfect! I wore this one for about 5 days and no chips and minimal tipwear. This is my first Misa and if they are all like this, I'll be getting some more post haste!


Have you tried any Misa polishes? Are they any I *need* to get?

ELF Purple Party

Today's NOTD is Elf Purple Party. It's a lovely deep purple, think aubergine colour, with glitter in it. The glitter is silver but this is covered by the base colour so when it's on the nail it's not really possible to see it's silver.


First up a close up of the bottle to show the glitter,

On the nail, 

A slightly out of focus nail shot to show the glitteryness, the first picture is more colour accurate, this one is tending towards navy. 

This wore well, I think I wore it for about 5 days with minimal wear. Application was fine and once I put a topcoat of Seche Vite on top, it didn't feel gritty at all.