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Today I have one of the Models Own Sticky Fingers products for review. I purchased this a while ago now when Models Own were still doing their 6 for £20 offer and I needed another polish to get when I bought the Polish For Tans collection. Getting the Pastel Pink & Bows option was a complete no brainer. The polish itself is a lovely baby pink, I used 3 coats on it's own, no topcoat for the photo below. The formula was a tad on the thick side but it still applied perfectly. I took inspiration for the nail art from the box of the Sticky Fingers. The bows are on the small side for my nails and I found that the stickers with the stripes didn't fit across my nail totally so I had to add in the extra bits. These stickers would be great for little girls nails or people with tiny fingers. The stickers themselves are quite thick and this means that they don't tend to stick too well to the nail so a little bit of gentle poking is needed to get them flat. I applied my stickers ont...

Hey everyone, I hope you're enjoying your weekend. I have to admit to loving wet weekends occasionally, it means I can sit inside and do lots of crafty things without feeling guilty for missing the sunshine. I have managed to get lots done today, including a sneaky spot of shopping and plan on finishing the evening up with some Chinese and a movie. Today I have the new Juicy Neon range by Seventeen (use to be 17) by Boots. I always keep an eye on these companies as they tend to release new polishes with very little advanced notice. This collection is made up of 5 glittery jellies which I find have duochrome shifts much like Rimmel's Cocktail collection ( post here ). To be honest there's little neon about them so the name is a little misleading, but they're beautifully bright summer colours. For the swatches below I followed the same pattern for every polish. I swatched each polish over black (2 coats), white (2 coats), a similar colour to the bottle (2 coats) and then ...

Happy Bank Holiday Monday everyone. Hope you've had a nice 4 day weekend. I've had a lovely day and have spent the last hour singing along to Frozen while swatching this polish. I love watching Disney while doing my nails. Anyone else? First off let me tell you that my passion for duochromes & multichromes has been of long standing. I love how the colours shimmer & shift. How your nails look like rainbows in certain lights. I've tried many different duo/multichromes from many different brands but the recent addition to my collection is a stand out.  Dance Legend is a Russian brand, hard to get hold of here in the UK & expensive to buy where you can so I've not owned one until last Thursday when a recent Easter nail swap arrived. I let out a little scream when I saw I had been sent Sulley. Not only is it one of the most gorgeous multichromes from the collection but it's was mine! All mine. Now if I owned a big safe you can be sure that this polish would b...

Happy Easter, I hope you've all had a yummy day. Just a quick blog post to summarise all my Easter nail art to date. I have never done any Easter nail art before but I have really loved it. First I did a vintage Easter Egg skittle mani using lots of Barry M pastels. Then because I loved the ring finger I had to recreate it on all the fingers. A cute chick mani. I used a tutorial from @ nailsbyjoha  for the chick. It was brilliant. These last two manis were inspired by @just1nail from instagram. I pretty much copied the rabbit mani dot for dot. But I had to have a go at the same mani but with chicks. The colours didn't look as good as I have envisioned but it's all a learning process. Well I am off to have a cuppa and eat some more of my chocolate.

Its Thursday again and so I get to drag out an old collection, swatch it and review it for your pleasure. I wanted to do an Eastery collection seeing as this Sunday is Easter. Time for bunnies, chocolate eggs, chicks and tummy aches. If you're a polish fan it's also a time to wear pastels! Barry M released these textured polishes last February (2013). I grabbed them instantly as they were some of the first high street release textures on sale in the UK and they came in 4 gorgeous pastel colours. Atlantic Road is a gorgeous baby blue. I used 3 coat for the photos below. The macro shows the texture of the polish better. Station Road is a sunny, canary yellow. I used 3 coats, no topcoat for the photos below. This is the only polish that has a shimmer to it. You can see the yellow shimmer in the bottle. It's truly lovely and I do not know why Barry M only added shimmer to this one. Kingsland Road is a marshmallow pink. I used 3 coats for the photos below. Ridley Road is a lovel...

With the recent release of Models Own Polish for Tans collection ( post here ), there has been a lot of buzz between the similarities between polish lovers favourite Flip Flop Fantasy by China Glaze. As you can see from the bottles, they're very similar looking polishes, but they're not dupes. They're both bright, neon coral polishes but the differences between them are marked enough to warrant having both polishes in your collection. Flip Flop Fantasy (FFF) is stunning. I used 3 coats on it's own with topcoat for the photo below.   Beach Bag (BB) is also gorgeous. I used 1 coat over white, no topcoat for the photo below. Side by side you start to see the difference, only slightly though. It should be noted that these polishes are very bright and because of this my camera has trouble capturing their true shade. However these photos are as good as I can get.     However under UV the difference is a lot clearer. There is far more neon pigment in FFF and I think this is be...

Happy Saturday everyone, hope you've had a great start to the weekend. I have been busy the last few days with some family birthday celebrations. It's been so lovely but I am glad to be back after my little blog break. Today I have Models Own new Polish for Tans collection to show you. This collection claims to be  the first-ever designed to enhance and compliment a natural tan. Sounds a little bit weird to me, but tan or no tan, these are amazing colours. Now as these are neon polishes I swatched them all over white. I always chose to wear a white base with neons as I feel they make the colours 'pop', however this is my preference and by no means the only way to wear these polishes. The formula for all these polishes was slightly thick, very similar to China Glaze's sunsational neon pastel polishes so be careful when applying them. I only needed 1 thick coat over white for each of the swatches below. They also dry to a semi matte finish so if you prefer to have mor...