Monday 29 February 2016

Nail Mail Monday featuring lots of Femme Fatale Cosmetics

Hello!

Today I've got lots of Nail Mail to show you!

My beautiful Femme Fatale Cosmetics Hella Holo Customs finally arrived this week. Well worth the wait! These were only available through the Hella Holo Customs Facebook Group which works with lots of polish brands to create gorgeous unique holo polishes every month.


From Left to Right is Femme Fatale Cosmetics, 'Unicorn Treasure Trove', 'Cry of the Red Sky' and 'Iridial'

I also had some Rainbow Connection UK nail mail. More Femme Fatales!


From Left to Right is Femme Fatale Cosmetics, 'Sunspring', 'Brain Link' and 'Wine and Dandy' (a Rainbow Connection UK Exclusive), Apologies for the picture quality my camera hated these :( the bottle shots are much better at showing off the true beauty!

My Color4Nails order also arrived this week. Color4Nails are based in the US but ship worldwide with amazing shipping rates!


From Left to Right is Femme Fatale Cosmetics 'Morning Glory' and 'Brain Freeze' (an Oops Shade from Nov'15) and Cupcake Polish 'Blood Hound', 'Bitter Almonds' and 'Unrequited Love' (The last two are an exclusive duo to C4N)

These are my first Cupcake Polishes and they don't disappoint! I'm really excited to do a full mani with these beauties soon! I also picked up a C4N cuticle oil in my order. If your looking for a cuticle oil C4N is brilliant and they have lots of lovely scents!

My Beauty So Fly order from a group buy also arrived this week! Beauty So Fly are a stockist based in Singapore but ship internationally. 


From Left to Right is Femme Fatale Cosmetics 'Sideshow Sparkler', 'Glass Carnival', 'Solar Storm', 'Haunting Spectre' and 'Dreamscape'. All but 'Haunting Spectre' are Beauty So Fly Exclusives!

As you can see I had a great week of Nail Mail! Femme Fatale continue to produce one beautiful polish after the next. Their new After Light Gala Collection is releasing at midnight tonight GMT. I'll be poised at the ready for that!

Let me know in the comments if there are any full polish manis you'd really like to see out of these beauties!

Thanks for visiting,

Have a lovely day,

Helen xx

Sunday 28 February 2016

Femme Fatale Cosmetics 'Love Potion' & 'Grandfather of the Desert'

Hello!

Today I have some more Femme Fatale beauties to show you. I just cannot get enough of this brand at the moment!!

Cold State - Natural Lighting
'Love Potion' is a gorgeous thermal polish that goes from a peachy hot pink when cold to light French pink when warm. It also has a gorgeous lime/gold shimmer and a silk effect finish. This was three easy coats. This polish is Limited Edition and part of the Sweet Secrets Valentine's trio. It's still available at some stockists so grab it while you can!!

Warm - A gorgeous pale pink

Indoor Lighting
Indoor Lighting with Flash
Natural Lighting with Flash
Natural Lighting with Flash
Natural Lighting
Natural Lighting
Transition 1 - Pale pink with hot pink tips.

Natural Lighting with Flash
Natural Lighting with Flash
Natural Lighting with Flash
Natural Lighting 
Natural Lighting 
Natural Lighting 
Transition 2 - Yes this polish has another transition! As it's getting colder it has a beautiful almost fuchsia pink colour with hot pink tips. I really love this one!

Natural Lighting with Flash
Natural Lighting with Flash
Natural Lighting with Flash
Cold - A beautiful peachy hot pink.

Indoor Lighting
Indoor Lighting with Flash - Featuring Cold water droplets (yay photographing thermals!!)
Indoor Lighting
Natural Lighting with Flash
Natural Lighting
Natural Lighting
Natural Lighting 
Natural Lighting 
Natural Lighting, that Shimmer is gorgeous!!
For my accent nail I used 'Grandfather of the Desert' which is a beautiful gold holo microglitter with a similar lime/gold shimmer. This was also three easy coats.

All topped off with HK Girl top coat.

I love these nails and I have a serious love for thermals. (Let me just play with the hot and cold water for a while, it must be the science geek in me!)

Remember this is LE so won't be restocked so grab it now from a Femme Fatale stockist if you want it!

Thanks for visiting,

Have a lovely day,

Helen xx

Tuesday 23 February 2016

Native War Paints - The Walking Dead 'No Sanctuary' Collection 'Constable' and 'This isn't the End'

Hello!

Today I have a new to me brand on the blog. Native War Paints is a US based indie polish brand created by the lovely Amanda. They make beautiful polishes of all types. The two I have to show you today are from the The Walking Dead 'No Sanctuary' collection!!! My love for The Walking Dead knows no bounds and 'No Sanctuary' is my favourite episode so I picked up this collection without a second thought. The whole collection is gorgeous and with The Walking Dead back on our screens for season 6B I thought I'd wear these for the mid-season premier. That episode was soooo good!! Anyway before I start going on about that here are the pretties.


Natural Daylight with Flash
'Constable' is a gorgeous mauve/taupe polish with subtle holo and coppery red flakies. Walking Dead, Copper, love love love! The polish is based on our favourite constable Rick Grimes. This was three easy coats.

Natural Daylight
Direct Sunlight to show off that sparkly glitter!!
For my accent nail I used 'This isn't the End' which is a gorgeous brown holo microglitter full of gold, red and blue sparks. It's so pretty. Also a nod to the character of Tyreese in the season 5 mid-season premier. All the feels!! This was one coat plus a sponged layer coat to make it nice and opaque without it being too thick on the nail.

Natural Daylight 
Natural Daylight with Flash
For my stamping on my pointer finger I used the 'Zombie Love 01' Uber Chic stamping plate with my Fab Ur Nails Jumbo stamper and Konad black stamping polish. I love this plate!

I topped it all off with HK Girl to make it nice and glossy and to smooth over the glitter accent nail.

Hopefully I'll get around to showing you the rest of the collection soon!

You can buy Native War Paints direct from their website and they ship internationally!

What do you think of these? Are there any other polishes in the collection you'd like to see featured first? Let me know in the comments!

Thanks for visiting,

Have a lovely day,

Helen xx

Monday 22 February 2016

Nail Mail Monday Returns

Hello!

I've finally got some Nail Mail to show you. And quite a lot of it at that!

I've been on the hunt for a back up of my Femme Fatale Cosmetics 'Fatal Attraction' for ages now (featured here) and finally I found a bottle at Ninja Polish. Ninja Polish is an indie polish brand from the US that also stocks some other indie polish brands. They're currently doing a lot of clearance of old stock with grab bag offers and lots of old 'vintage' Femme Fatale shades. They did a 5 bottle grab bag offer so I picked up these 5 beauties. Shipping is international and mine shipped super fast. Check the site out here.


From Left to Right is Femme Fatale Cosmetics - 'Winter Hyacinth', 'Fatal Attraction', 'Mirror of Dawn', 'Ruby Hare' and 'Wickerman Embers'. Beautiful!

Emily de Molly did one of their yearly samples sales this month and I snagged a couple of the gorgeous LE polishes that Hayley made. I also picked up Fancy Sauce which I love.


From Left to Right is Emily de Molly - 'Fancy Sauce', 'LE30' and 'LE24'.

I also got lots of Rainbow Connection UK nail mail this week. Here are the pretties.


From Left to Right is Esmaltes da kelly -  'Fox Fur', 'Haltere', 'Carina' and 'Andromeda'

These are all super holographic and one coaters that stamp beautifully!


From Left to Right is Glam Polish 'Forbode' and 'Hostile', Pretty Serious 'Toxic Tiara', Femme Fatale Cosmetics 'Chrysoprase', Grace-full Polish 'Uluru' and the new Colors by Llarowe Rainbow Connection UK exclusive 'Did the Penny Drop?'

I hope you like these. Any favourites you'd like to see a full mani of? Let me know in the comments!

Hopefully Nail Mail Mondays are now back on schedule! 

Thanks for visiting,

Have a lovely day,

Helen xx