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Showing posts with label nail paint. Show all posts
from left to right - Sugar Apple, Rose Hip & Huckleberry

I know I'm pretty late to blog about these but I've only just recently got them. As you're all aware, I'm a huge fan of the Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine Nail Paints, and I'm even more excited about them since they added 3 new colours to their range - Sugar Apple (soft mint), Rose Hip (pale baby pink) and Huckleburry (it could be Huckleberry but I have no idea...it's a pale baby blue, that's all I know).


from left to right - Sugar Apple, Rose Hip & Huckleberry

These shades are so sweet yet wearable. Perfect for work as they're so classic! I actually wore Huckleberry to work a few weeks back and I received so many compliments for it, with people thinking I'd had a gel manicure (yet again)! I'm practically a walking advertisement for Barry M, what can I say...

I just adore all three colours, they remind me of macarons (that I am yet to try. Sigh.) and ice cream. Aaaaand now I'm hungry...

What is your favourite shade? 
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A couple of weeks ago me and my friend Shannon popped into Leeds for a few hours on a miserable Thursday afternoon. Leeds is the home of the Victoria Quarter and Trinity Centre, making it one of the best shopping destinations in the UK (if you haven't been and you adore shopping, you need to visit!). I feel pretty lucky to be able to have almost every shop you could imagine all situated in one area. My purse, on the other hand, doesn't love it so much.

Surprisingly, I didn't actually go into Leeds with the intention of buying beauty products, I actually went because I really really reaaaally wanted Iggy Azalea's The New Classic album. HMV did have it, but didn't have the Deluxe edition, which is what I wanted. So of course, I had to cheer myself up with make-up...I just had to.


I'd seen this in an e-mail I received a few weeks back and after looking it up on their website I really wanted to try it out. Now although I work in a hairdressers and therefore get my hair done for free, I've never actually had my hair dyed. I'm pretty lucky to have hair that's in good condition and I know what dyeing can do to your hair so I've always been put off. Because of this, I'd been wanting to try hair chalks out for a while so when I found out that Body Shop were selling some in pink and in blue, I knew I'd have to try it out. For £5 why not?!




I like (but not love) their Lasting Perfection Concealer and I've been wanting a cheap (but good quality) foundation for a while so I picked this up. When I got home so many people had said bad things about the foundation and despite the colour (I didn't realise they had a Porcelain shade), I actually like it. I might do a review on it sometime in the near future so keep your eyes peeled!



As I've said many times before, I adore NC's Pressed Powder. I also adore their Loose Powder and decided to pick up two!




Ah, my one true nail-love. Adored by many, raved by me. These were the last two I needed to complete my collection...until I found out that Barry M were releasing MORE shades, this time a Summer 2014 collection (read about the Summer 2013 collection here). I'll obviously be buying the Summer 2014 shades too, and there shall be a post on the Spring Collection up soon. I LOVE THEM.




As I mentioned a few paragraphs above, I don't love the Collection Lasting Perfection Concealer as much as everyone else seems to, therefore I am still on the hunt for 'the perfect concealer'. As I love everything I've tried from NC I thought I'd have a try with their CoverUp Cream, and so far, I'm impressed.




Montagne Jeunesse Blemish Mud Face Mask - £0.79
Me and my mum are (secretly) obsessed with Home Bargains. If you haven't already heard of it, it's basically a shop that sells well-known brands (and some unknown ones) at a cheaper price. Sometimes a super cheap price, but not always. I'm a lover of Montagne Jeunesse and their fab face masks and whenever I get them, I get them from Home Bargains. They always have a good selection and they always seem to be on 3 for £2, that's why I bought three!

What have you purchased recently?
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Yes I know it's Tuesday not Monday but I'm having a pampering day today because it's CHRISTMAS EEEEEVVVVVEEEEE! Despite how excited I sounded then I'm actually not excited at all. I'm a firm believer that without snow, you just can't feel Christmassy. It was the same as last year, we didn't get snow in Leeds until January and it was heeeeavy! So last year I wasn't in the Christmas spirit either, and that makes me sad because I love Christmas so much.

Although I'm not feeling Christmassy, Christmas is around the corner (one more sleep!!) and I thought I'd go all festive and opt for a cherry red polish in the form of No7s Stay Perfect Nail Colour in Devils Delight and then Barry M's Limited Edition Christmas Gold Nail Paint on my ring finger to add a touch of sparkle.





Oh, and I hope you all have a fantastic Christmas!

What's your nail colour this week?
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I just had to tell you guys about the new 5 colours added to the Gelly Nail Paint line! As you may already know, I'm obsessed with them. The new colours came out a while ago but when I went into Boots to buy them all (obviously) they only had one colour in, Guava. But thanks to Leeds Bradford International Airport for their Superdrug in Departures, I managed to snag the other four colours! So here they are, soooo preeeettttttyyyyyyyy... (I said it like Natalie Portman when she was in the Black Swan and her mum just bought her that cake for getting the role as Swan Queen, god I love that film! Why do I always use brackets to digress...)
from left to right - Blue Grape, Guava, Key Lime, Mango and Passion Fruit


An electric blue shade - Blue Grape 

A camo/lime green shade - Key Lime

A soft bright orange shade - Mango

A minty teal shade - Guava 

A deep bright pink - Passion Fruit



These irresistible summer shades are a must to add to my collection (a daunting  104, oopsies). I'm not reviewing them seen as I've already done it here, and they haven't changed they're just new colours so there'd be no point!

What's your favourite holiday nail colour? 
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So I'm kinda a little in love with White Rose, a shopping centre near where I live in Leeds, I explaned my love for it in my first WR haul so this time i'm just gonna get stuck in. Enjoy my post my beautiful readers (oh how cheesy)!


Schuh
After buying my first ever pair of Vans which you may have seen in my last White Rose haul, I fell in love. Because I'm always on my feet at work I need comfy shoes, and because the weather is getting hotter my boots that I usually wear are becoming too hot and unsuitable. I really wanted to wear my Vans to work but the dress code is monochrome, therefore no pink Vans allowed :( so when I went back to WR I popped into Schuh and got another pair but this time in black.




I got some vouchers through the post and I'd been wanting the new collection of Barry M Gelly Nail Paints so I thought 'what the hell' I'll go in and get a couple new gelly nail paints (check out my review for them here)! Sadly, they only had Guava in stock so an hour later I left with Guava and a big bag full of other products including S&G Calm One, Calm All Bubble Bath x2, S&G Sugar Crush Body Wash, Boots Soltan Self-Tan Gel, Boots Tea Tree & Witch Hazel Exfoliating Face Scrub and Barry M Sequin Nail Effects Nail Paint in Pink...oops (I needed to cheer myself up due to the lack of Gelly nail paints don't judge me k).





Zara is by far one of my favourite shops purely because I find it really hard to get clothes to fit me due to the fact I've got a small waist. Their clothes are tailored to slimmer women so I usually come out of there with a few golden buys, and this time I managed to bag these beautiful shorts! Not only that, but as me and my mum were about to leave we stumbled across the perfume cabinet, we've always known it was there but we decided to have a look at them seen as mum needed some more perfume. Looking at a 100ml bottle of Zara Woman - Oriental I was shocked that the price sticker had '£9.95' on it. As if a 100ml bottle of perfume would cost that?! Obviously I had to get it. Not like I don't have loads of perfume or anything... Hehehehehehe.





I'd got a notification through on my iPad the day before our shopping trip from the Body Shop saying that they had 40% off, and me being the cosmetic lover that I am just had to have a quick snoop on their app and see what they had to offer. After around an hour and adding over 30 products to my wishlist, I managed to whittle it down, go into the store and make my purchases. I ended up with Vitamin E Cool BB Cream, Honey Bronze Bronzing Powder in the shade No3: Medium Matte (my new staple!), Skin Primer Matte It, Cranberry Joy Body, Room & Linen Spritz and my favourite under-eye Concealer Pencil in shade 02 (I like to de-pot it as it's much easier to use your finger than the pencil).





Of course, how could I go to White Rose and not grace Boux Avenue with my presence? Around an hour later of chatting to one of the lovely shop assistants, I was told off for thinking I was a band size of 32 when in fact I'm a 28, but because they don't do 28's for my cup size I have to settle with 30 and go up a cup size (oh how being petite can suck) but on the bright side, (and I quote from my new best friend that was the shop assistant) I've lost weight but had a boob job! Not only did I have a gabfest with her, but I also picked out one of the most beautiful bikinis I have ever seen, and a pair of invisible knickers but lets just pretend that didnt happen. I also got a couple of fancy-looking vintage perfume bottles that I've had my eye on for a while, I'll have to go back and get the other one next time I go!






Went for a wander round Topshop like you do and came across a little stand selling sweets and started (quietly) freaking out when I saw that they sold purple glitter Hello Kitty Pez dispensers. Four of my favourite things, rolled into one! After taking a while to calm down (I get excited over the littlest things, I know I'm weird) I grabbed one and a pack of refills too. I used to always get Pez sweets whenever i went on holiday and when I became a veggie I had to stop because I didn't know if I could eat them or not, but a couple of days before I went shopping I actually googled if they were, so finding them in Topshop was such a coincidence! Mmmmmmm, cherry Pez...


What are your favourite shops? Have you bought anything recently?
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Barry M are well known for their Nail Paints, but in 2012 they released their Gelly edition, promising a hi-shine finish and long-lasting pigmented colour. I have tried many 'high-end' nail polish brands, from Nails Inc to Orly and I must say, this nail polish beats them all. I work in a hairdressers as a Saturday girl and I find that when I finish work, most of my nail polish has come off due to all the jobs my nails have to endure. I applied the nail polish on Thursday (a base coat, one coat of the Blueberry polish and No7 top coat) and it is still looking shiny and chip-free, even after an 8-hour shift yesterday. I purchased the Blueberry, Prickly Pear and Watermelon shades after I saw one of my favourite beauty vloggers rave about them, and as they were on 3 for 2 at £9 altogether, I thought it was worth a try and at £3 each they were a fraction of the price of what I would normally pay. I have received so many complements with people thinking I had a Shellac manicure, including the nail technician at work! Amazing product and I intend on buying all the colours!

                          


I love these polishes so much that I bought 13 of the colours - Lychee (cream/grey), Papaya (salmon pink), Satsuma (bright orange), Blood Orange (bright red), Pomegranate (raspberry pink), Grapefruit (bright pink), Dragonfruit (pale pink), Prickly Pear (lilac), Blueberry (pale blue), Greenberry (mint green), Watermelon (dark green), Blackberry (dark blue), Plum (dark purple).



Barry M Gelly nail paints are available on the Barry M website or at Boots for £3.99

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