Bargain polishes!

So I managed to get to a Superdrug store to look at their new ‘bargain’ range MUA, which I have spoken about in previous blog entries. I brought 4 polishes which appealed to me the most, at £1 each it was tempting to buy them all but I want to give them a trial first!

Anyway the colours I chose are thoughtfully named (L-R)
Shade 14, Shade 4, Shade 5 and Shade 13!

Or: red with a smidge of gold, coral, light teal and emerald green as I’d describe them. I will swatch these when I get a chance and am looking forward to how they turn out.

I have a little more love to give to Models Own – Emerald City, I REALLY didn’t want to take it off and it stayed on so well but it had to be done!

Have any other UK beauty/nail bloggers tried out MUA yet? Let me know what you thought…

Emerald City

Hats off to Models Own again!

I decided not to use another colour underneath Emerald City as I just wanted to see how it would turn out, after the first coat I thought it wasn’t going to work but I kept going and after 3-4 coats I really started to love it. It has been years since I have worn a glitter polish and I so have the glitter bug now…I want a red one and a pink one and a blue one now!

Emerald City is definitely a polish I will be wearing again and I will be trying it over another colour polish to see how it turns out.

I had real trouble trying to get a decent picture of the colour of this polish, it comes out very teal-y in photos, whereas it is actually more green. I played around in Photoshop and (ignoring how green my hand looks) this is a better colour match for the polish. It hasn’t come out great but it really is such a pretty colour.

In conclusion, thumbs up for Emerald City!

Oh and it turns out MUA is only stocked it selected Superdrug stores, and my local store is not one of them! So I am taking a trip to the nearest one later on today, so I will let you all know how I get on and post some haul pics!

Stardust

First of all, here is the NOTD I've been meaning to post. It's a Rimmel 60 Seconds Polish number 530 - Stardust. It's a bronzy, metallic-y colour with slight shimmer/glitter in it. The glitter shows more in the bottle than it does when it's on the nails which I was quite disappointed about, but I might try compensating for this and using my own glitter in future. I also put a few little stickers on my thumb and little finger nails which had a bit of a glitter in them as they felt a bit plain.

This was with two coats but when I was adding a top coat I started to notice some dreaded air bubbles, grrr! Anyway I took this off after a few days because of the bubbles and also because my new polishes came, woohoo! When it came to taking it off, this polish did really not want to leave my nails and was a bit of a mission to remove.

So below is the line up of my most recent polish haul (L-R: PURE Persian Red, Models Own Red 'n' Black, Models Own Emerald City, Models Own Slate Green & Bourjois Black Green.)