ILNP 'Juliette' Swatch and Review

Hello!

Today I have the beautiful ILNP 'Juliette' to show you. This is part of the ILNP Winter 2015 collection. Lots of sparkle ahead!

Natural Daylight with Flash

Natural Daylight with Flash

ILNP 'Juliette' is a beautiful rose gold polish with the ILNP 'Precious Metals' finish meaning it has a gorgeous metallic holo finish with silver flakies running throughout.

Natural Daylight with Flash

Natural Daylight - Shade (This really shows off the Flakies!)

This was just two easy coats and it dries super fast. It also has the benefit that it's not a glitter so you don't have to worry about a difficult battle to remove it after all the sparkles!

Natural Daylight

Natural Daylight 

Natural Daylight - Direct Sunlight

Natural Daylight

I love rose gold and this polish is perfect! It's so sparkly and I love the light shade of rose gold Barbra picked. What do you think?

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Have a lovely day,

Helen xx

Nail Mail Monday

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It's that time again and I've got more mail from Rainbow Connection UK to show you today. Enjoy!

From Left to Right is Colors by Llarowe 'Breathless', Femme Fatale Cosmetics 'Enchanted Desire', 'Reverend Mothers' and 'The Weirding Way' and Emily de Molly 'Deep Sea Wonders (a Rainbow Connection UK Exclusive)'

'Breathless' is so gorgeous but my camera really wasn't liking my swatch stick picture today. The bottle shot is much better so apologies for that. As always I'm never left with buyers regret ordering from the RC treasure trove of indie polishes!

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Have a lovely day,

Helen xx

Femme Fatale Cosmetics 'Love's Wound' & Emily de Molly 'Record Keeper'

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Today I have more beautiful polishes to show you. This is Femme Fatale Cosmetics 'Love's Wound' with an accent nail of Emily de Molly 'Record Keeper'. It's all topped off with HK Girl Top Coat.

Natural Daylight

'Love's Wound' is a gorgeous Fuchsia/Orchid Pink with a Gold / Lime green shimmer. It's part of the Femme Fatale Cosmetics 'Midsummer Night's Dream' Collection released last year. It has a beautiful formula as all of the Femme Fatale Creme Shimmers have. This was two super easy coats. I really love this silk like finish!

Indoor Lighting with Flash

Natural Daylight

Emily de Molly 'Record Keeper' is a beautiful holographic pale gold with tiny sparkly glitters throughout. This was three easy coats. I love how this sparkles in and out of the sun.

Natural Daylight

Indoor Lighting with Flash

Natural Daylight

 I just can't get enough of Femme Fatale at the moment. The polishes Sophie comes up with are so unique. The formula is always spot on and, just look at it!

Indoor Lighting

Indoor Lighting with Flash

If you're in the UK Femme Fatale Cosmetics Nail Polish is available from the indie polish heaven 'Rainbow Connection UK'. 

I'm trying to improve my bottle shots at the moment. What do you think?

Thanks for visiting,

Have a lovely day,

Helen xx

Nail Mail Monday

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Welcome to another Nail Mail Monday! I've got that Rainbow Connection UK order I mentioned last week to show you today. Here are the pretties!

From Left to Right are Femme Fatale Cosmetics 'Prim and Copper' (a Rainbow Connection Exclusive!), 'Love Potion' and 'Bewitched', Bow Polish 'Mutation' and 'Northern Lights' and Emily de Molly 'Summer Skies' (another Rainbow Connection exclusive).

I love all these so much. 'Love Potion' and 'Mutation' are both thermal polishes so am excited to try those out. 

'Prim and Copper' totally stole the show though. As you know I love love love copper polish so this was a must.

Femme Fatale Cosmetics 'Prim and Copper' Indoor Direct Lighting, Just look at that Copper Shimmer!!

Although 'Prim and Copper' is out of stock at the moment Rainbow Connection will be restocking soon so keep an eye out for that!

Thanks for visiting,

Have a lovely day,

Helen xx

Nail Mail Monday

Hello!

Welcome back to another nail mail Monday. I've got hauls from Rainbow Connection UK and Bundle Monster to show you today.

These pretties were all from Rainbow Connection UK.

From Left to Right is Fun Lacquer 'Royal Chapel (H), Colors by Llarowe 'Blonde Ambition' (mmm that holo!) and 'Rare Orchid', Lacquer Lust ' Cherry Blossom' and Femme Fatale Cosmetics 'Crystals from clouds' and 'Sleighing through the Stars' 

I was really happy with all these polishes especially the Femme Fatales, Sophie is really knocking it out of the park with her polishes. I can't wait to see what 2016 brings!

I also got some more stamping plates this week. These are two of the blogger collaboration plates I purchased from Bundle Monster, 201 and 202. I'm really looking forward to using 201 for Valentines and I love that Star design. I think the Aztec Manis on 202 will be coming out for the Summer this year! I also got the Sugar Bubbles Plate SBS09 from Rainbow Connection UK.

Last but not least I got some new Stampers to play with from Rainbow Connection UK. The new Space Creative Shop Stamper and the new Fab Ur Nails Clear Jelly Stamper.

The new Creative Shop Stamper is much squishier than the original and also has an even larger surface area! It comes in light and dark side shades each with four different colours. I picked light and dark both with a blue shimmer. I'm hoping to have a full review of these up soon!

This is the new Fab Ur Nails Clear Jelly Stamper and is to help with lining up your stamping either for placement or straightness as you can see all the way down the holder onto your nail. It's less squishy than the other stampers I own but I used it today and it stamps perfectly and it really did help straighten my stamping which I've always had trouble with. I can't wait to use it some more and again hopefully I'll have a full review up soon!

You can find Rainbow Connection UK here. I already have my next order placed which will be revealed next Nail Mail Monday!

Thanks for visiting,

Have a lovely day,

Helen xx

Emily de Molly 'Cracks in the Walls' Swatch & Review

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Today I've got the first of my Christmas haul polishes to show you; the beautiful Emily de Molly 'Cracks in the Walls'.

Natural Light

'Cracks in the Walls' is a beautiful linear holographic polish with a beige grey base with twinkly silver glitters within. Even with no sun the glitters sparkle and as soon as the sun hits your nails the linear holo really shines. I couldn't stop staring at this one and wore it all by itself for a few days. Yes it's that pretty!

Indoor Lighting with Flash

Natural Lighting

Indoor Lighting

The formula was perfect and this was just two easy coats (which I rarely get away with due to the length of my nails). I can't stand VNL! (Visible Nail Line) I added a coat of HK Girl top coat to protect my nails, the polish really didn't need it.

Indoor Lighting with Flash

Natural Lighting

Direct Sunlight

I really love this polish. What do you think?

Thanks for visiting,

Have a lovely day,

Helen xx

Nail Mail Monday Christmas Haul Featuring 'Emily de Molly' & 'Picture Polish'

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I have another Nail Mail Monday for you today in the shape of my epic Christmas nail haul. Those that follow me on Instagram would have seen my gorgeous collection from my lovely friends and family. My haul consisted of Picture Polish and Emily de Molly, two of my favourite brands!

From Left to Right are Emily de Molly - Veiled Flame, Heavy Aura, Fixed Course, Crystal Crown, Deep Sea Coral, Rough Sketch, Modern Luster, Cracks in the Walls, Queen of the Sea and Corsetry (a Color4nails exclusive)

From Left to Right are Picture Polish - Ornate, Cabaret, Muse, Big Bang, Saphira, Glitch and Winter

From Left to Right are Picture Polish - Rebelle, Bardot, Arabian, Bordeaux, New York, Wanderlust, (a)live and Allure

I was so excited about all these polishes and can't wait to try them all. Any favourites or ones you'd like to see me swatch for the blog? Let me know in the comments!

Thanks for visiting,

Have a lovely day,

Helen xx