Showing posts with label nail varnish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nail varnish. Show all posts

Monday, 24 June 2013

Collective Haul

Matalan (price unknown)


Joules Clothing

Geometric Pattern Vest Top - H&M


Cropped Black T-Shirt - Topshop £10

Cropped White T-Shirt with button detailing - £6.99




Barry M Nailvarnish
(From left to right) "Mushroom", "Liquorice", "Blueberry"

Here is a collective Haul of things I've been buying over the past few months - I haven't been buying a lot as most of my money is going towards university etc. But I hope you enjoy my purchases :)

Amy X

Saturday, 26 May 2012

Summer is here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe the last few days we've had, so hot and sunny!

So in spirit of the sunny days we've been having i thought flowery photos would be suitable!

H&M nail varnish in Hunt Me Down (left)  & Nerd (right)

Hunt me down £2.99- I love this colour, I'm definitely a muted colours person rather than a bright neon person

Nerd £2.99- really good nude colour, more on the pink side than yellow

Rib cage sleeveless tee from H&M - £9.99 ( i think?)

LOVE the back detail!!!! I didn't realise it had a sheer strip all the way down the back, but i really like it, makes it a bit more interesting

Cross bracelet (ant not included) this was a birthday gift a few months ago from my best friend, i believe she got it from Topshop


She also bought me this necklace (Topshop?) which i love, i like the mix of bright colours and spikes. I think because i always wear quite dark/muted colours, this necklace really stands out


MY ALL TIME FAVOURITE NECKLACE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD  UNIVERSE.
Again a present for my birthday, i adore this necklace, it goes with everything, its studded and its a short necklace. I've really been a fan of short necklaces recently.
Hope you guys have a lovely sunny weekend!

Lauren xo

Thursday, 12 April 2012

Beauty Products Haul

LUSH, Barry M, Body Shop & Boots

Hey guys!
Last week I decided that it was time to get some new beauty products as I had basically run out of everything and had put off getting new products for a while :P  
So here are a few of my purchases :) Enjoy!


Barry M Nail Varnish - Black Croc Effects; Mint Green; Coral; Grey.

I love Barry M nail varnishes! I love their range of colours and nail effects and I also find that their nail varnish lasts a decent amount of time.
Firstly, I bought the Black Croc Effects nail varnish and it basically makes a crocodile skin effect pattern on your nails. It takes about 5 minutes to work though - I was worrying at first that it didn't work at all when I tried it, but it does work :) You also need to put a clear top coat over it to keep it in place.
The next one I bought was the Mint Green one which is my FAVOURITE one :) I just love how bright it is and how much it reminds me of spring. I've been wearing this colour non-stop for the past week.
Thirdly, I got the Coral colour - my sister has this one and I kept "borrowing" hers so I thought I should probably get my own before she notices ;)
Lastly, I bought the Grey one. On the nail it actually has a very slight teal tint to it which I actually like but it's definitely not the colour in the bottle :P

American Cream Conditioner and Curly Wurly Shampoo - LUSH

This was my first time ever buying anything in LUSH and I was really impressed with the products that I bought! Recently, my hair has been very dry and damaged and I just wanted something quite natural to revive it and make it look healthy again. I bought the Curly Wurly Shampoo which is a coconut-based product and smells absolutely AMAZING! It's strange actually, I didn't like the smell of it at first but now I really like it! The smell also lasts on your hair for days!!! I wasn't expecting it at all, so I'm quite chuffed with that :)
The American Cream Conditioner is a Vanilla-based conditioner and again, the smell lasts for a long time on my hair. Because I have curly hair, I only really condition my hair once a week, so this bottle should definitely last me a long time :) These two products mixed together in your hair is a match made in heaven!
They were quite expensive - that is the only downside I have, but I think that they are worth the money.

Boots Extracts Brazil Nut Body Scrub; The Body Shop Passionfruit Body Butter.

So I kind of neglected my skin over winter, which is really lazy/bad of me and of course, during our lovely sunny week in England the other week when I wanted to wear a skirt/shorts, I was horrified at how dry and unflattering my skin was!! I was like, OMG.. that's awful!! So I decided to buy the Brazil Nut Body Scrub from Boots so I could scrub away all my dead winter skin on my body and revitalise it. Words cannot describe how amazing this scrub smells!! It smells like dessert! I'm always so tempted to eat it! And it works a treat :)
I then went into the Body Shop and they were having a sale on some of their body butters; I primarily thought that they would be all the ones that don't actually smell that great, but I decided to smell them anyway and the passionfruit one was so nice!!! It's a bit like the satsuma one they do (I think it's a satsuma one :P ) but more subtle and not so overpowering citrousy. I think the other ones on sale were Blueberry, Ginger and another one I can't remember, but they were reduced from the original £12 to £5 which I thought was a really good bargain!!



So that's all I've bought beauty-wise, but I'll be doing another haul in a couple days to show all the clothes and jewellery that I have bought over the past month (I've seriously been spending waaaaay tooo much money!) So I hope you guys liked this blog post and I'll be writing again soon. :)

Amy X

Friday, 24 February 2012

Models Own BeetleJuice Collection

The infamous Models Own Beetlejuice collection! I received this for my birthday, I'd had my eye on it for a while and to be honest £20 for six nail varnishes (it comes with a topcoat) is really good value!

They are great quality and only need 2 coats for a great colour payoff, they do however wear away at the tips pretty quickly, though i have been wearing them without a base or top coat...

My favourite shades are Pinky Brown, Emerald Black, Purple Blue. However Golden Green is growing on me more and more!





You can find some amazing photos and descriptions of them being worn here!

XO Lauren

Monday, 16 January 2012

Some of 2011's nails

A few nail designs i did during 2011, definitely be having some fun nails this summer!
Let me know if you want tutorials for any!
:)

USA Nails

Strawberry nails

Rose nails

Cookie monster nails!!!



Playing with konad

Modern french manicure

going with the fluorescent theme


Some of my nails where done following instructions from the incredibly talented cute polish on youtube, definitely check out her channel!



xo Lauren


Tuesday, 20 September 2011

Black and Gold


Hey everyone, 


Thought i would post another nail tutorial, this time with black and gold nail varnish to give a modern take on a french tip :)


                             

Les Nudes Geometric

Geometric Nude Nails
 Hey guys, sorry we haven't updated our blog in a while, we have been on holiday to Ibiza (we'll write a post about that soooon ;) ) But today I was a bit bored and thought about experimenting with my nude nail varnishes and try and make them a bit more interesting to look at on the nails. SO, I used a Barry M white nail varnish, a KIKO nail varnish in 220 Satin Beige and a KIKO nail varnish in 322 Caffe Latte.
To start I just applied a different colour to each individual nail, sort of as a base colour. For example, on the thumb nail I used the white colour. Next, I just went a bit crazy and added the colours in mainly straight lines and boxes etc. If you want you could use even more colours ;)    And that's how I spent my afternoon :P  I hope you like this idea and try it out for yourselves. Send us some pictures of your own designs, we'd love to see them! :)

My favourite Nude Nail varnishes at the moment :)
I thought I would also show you guys my FAVOURITE nude colours at the moment. From left  to right (little finger to thumb): ELF in Mod Mauve; Collection 2000 in Milkshake; KIKO in 322 Caffe Latte; KIKO in 220 Satin Beige; Collection 2000 in Fruit Loop.
They are all really good prices as well. Unfortunately I don't think KIKO has any shops in England... but they do in Italy and Spain and I think you should be able to order online as well.

My favourite Nude Nail Varnishes at the moment - close up shot ;)
Love Amy X

Friday, 26 August 2011

Summer Leopard Print Nails :D

Hey everyone, hope you're enjoying our lovely British Summertime..... To cheer myself up from all the drizzle outside i decided to create some cool leopard print nails using the new Konad set that i bought myself off Ebay a few days ago :) Unfortunately i forgot to take photos of me doing it step by step!! :( SO, i improvised and drew a step by step guide on my iPad :) so excuse the crappyness... Unfortunately i STILL don't have photoshop transferred from my old laptop to my new one so its not a very good guide :( But oh well!



Click read more to see how to do it!