Nail Mail Monday

Hello!

I've got some Nail Mail from Rainbow Connection UK to show you today.

From Left to Right is Colors by Llarowe 'Berries in the Snow', Femme Fatale Cosmetics 'Ethereum' and Fun Lacquer 'Black Holo Witch'

These polishes are so so pretty and just look at this BOX from Fun Lacquer! Very fitting for the Simplynailogical collection by the Queen of Holo!

Anything you like the look of here? All these polishes are available from the wonderful Rainbow Connection UK. The Fun Lacquer collection is currently on pre-order as they are selling like... well... like the amazing holo glitters they are!

Thanks for visiting,

Have a lovely day,

Helen xx

X Men Apocalypse Nails featuring ILNP 'First Class' & Foxy Paws Polish 'Black Hole Sun' PLUS Fab Ur Nails 'Clear Jumbo Stamper' Review & Clean Up Brush Update!

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Phew, that's a long title isn't it!? Lots of stuff to show you!

Today I've got my nails that I designed to celebrate the release of 'X Men Apocalypse' that I went to see last weekend. I really enjoyed the film. We've been spoiled this month with Superhero films, especially with Suicide Squad & Dr Strange still to come. (So much excite!!!!!) I also just finished watching Daredevil Season 2 which was so good and I loved the Punisher (though he was still Shane from The Walking Dead for me for the first few episodes)! Anyway onto the nails before I start geek rambling! (Very much a thing) Don't even get me started on this weeks Game of Thrones!!!! Oh my heart!

Thinking about the design I knew I wanted to incorporate the X from X men and also wanted a black & silver theme to match the X men chrome vibe they have going on at the moment. (and last time I did blue & yellow so thought I'd change it up a bit!)

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I love love love how these turned out!

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For my silver base polish I used ILNP 'First Class' (Obviously perfect for X men) which is a gorgeous holographic silver flakie polish from the ILNP Ultra Metallics collection. Application was very good and I used three coats.

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For my black base polish I used Foxy Paws Polish 'Black Hole Sun' which is a gorgeous black holographic polish. I love this formula and I needed just two super easy coats.

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For the X design I used the Bundle Monster blogger collaboration plate with elleandish 'BM-XL201'.

For the stamping I used Color Alike 'Silver King' & Konad Black Stamping Polish which both worked wonderfully. I also used my latex barrier 'Zap' from Rainbow Connection UK to speed up clean up.

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I also tried my Fab Ur Nails 'Clear Jumbo Stamper' for the first time so my X's came out straight. It worked perfectly! I used a rolling motion to pick up and then pressed the stamper directly down onto my nail for stamping the image while looking through the hollow holder and clear stamper head. Thanks to it being jumbo and fairly squishy compared to other clear stampers, when pressed directly down onto the nail it wrapped around my very curvy nail no problem and the image was perfect every time! A-MAZ-ING! I'm so pleased with this stamper and I'm getting the hang of looking through the stamper onto my nail now and knowing when to press etc...

I topped it all off with a coat of HK Girl top coat.

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I really think these nails looked so striking and all the tools worked wonderfully.

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I said here that I'd give you an update on my Fab Ur Nails Clean Up Brush after a few months. It's still just like new! So pleased with it!

Apart from the Foxy Paws Polish & Konad Stamping polish (which can be found on their own respective websites) all of this is available from Rainbow Connection UK!

What do you think? Have you seen X men yet? Did you like it? What are you geeking out over at the moment? (Nail Polish Included!) Let me know in the comments!

I'm also still unsure about the new picture size so please let me know what you think if you view my blog on the computer.

Thanks for visiting,

Have a lovely day,

Helen xx

Picture Polish 'Freya's Cats' Swatch & Review

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Today I have Picture Polish 'Freya's Cats' to show you.

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This is a beautiful royal sapphire blue with the Picture Polish scattered holo finish. It is a blogger collaboration polish from 2013 created by the Slovenian blogger Nihrida.

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I used three coats as the polish is a little sheer but VNL wasn't noticeable thanks to the shorties. I topped it all off with HK Girl top coat.

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These photos were taken on Day 7 of wearing this polish and it withstood travelling to Denmark and back with lots of luggage carrying etc.... HK Girl protects polish so well and it helps indies wear very well on me! Have you got any tips on making polish last? Let me know in the comments!

Thanks for visiting,

Have a lovely day,

Helen xx

Emily de Molly 'Fancy Sauce' with EDM14 Stamping

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No nail mail this week but I've got the beautiful Emily de Molly 'Fancy Sauce' to show you today.

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Since my nails are down to shorties at the moment I thought I'd make the most of it and try some polishes or nail art I'd normally stay away from due to the VNL. Last year Hayley posted these beautiful nails which I adored but was hesitant to try on my talons. I've recreated these (Obviously not to Hayley's AMAZING Standard) on my shorties.

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'Fancy Sauce' is a topper of beautiful shifting iridescent flakies and holographic sparkle. I've used it on it's own for this mani. I used three coats.

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For the stamping I used Emily de Molly Stamping Plate EDM14. I really love this design. I used my Fab Ur Nails Jumbo Stamper and BK Matte White polish to stamp with.

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I loved how sparkly this was in the sunlight and the stamping really makes this mani special. I topped it all off with HK Girl top coat.

What do you think of the bigger photo size for the blog? Let me know in the comments!

Thanks for visiting,

Have a lovely day,

Helen xx

Nail Mail Monday - Femme Fatale Cosmetics Haul featuring May 'Oops' Shades & More

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Today I have my Femme Fatale Cosmetics Nail Mail to show you! I've taken some sun and shade bottle shots as I wanted you to see the holo shine and the colours.

I completed my Midsummer Nights Dream collection and Dune collection with this order as it was their last pre-sale and I still had a few I was missing.

From Left to Right is Femme Fatale Cosmetics 'But a Dream (Thermal)', 'Liquid Pearl', 'Love's Wound (The Reformulated version) and 'Spangled Starlight' from the Midsummer Night's Dream collection and 'Genetic Memory' and 'Voice of the outer world (Thermal)' from the Dune collection.

This months pre-sale also included some 'Oops' shades which are shades that are made in error or from experimentation. They are limited and available through the Femme Fatale Fiends Facebook Group. I was lucky enough to snag all the shades available!! Clearly 1 am UK time is my polish ninja peak!

From Left to Right is Femme Fatale Cosmetics Oops Shades 'Asteroid Sunsets', 'Cracks on Ganymede', 'Enceladus Haze' and False Dawn'.

From Left to Right is Femme Fatale Cosmetics Oops Shades 'Grape minds think alike', 'Relics of the Red Planet', 'Terraforming' and 'Under Alien Suns'.

Sophie truly spoiled us this month with some Facebook group exclusives inspired by pictures which the members suggested which are just stunning! I also brought the May COTM.

From Left to Right is Femme Fatale Cosmetics 'Reticence' and 'Saturnalia' the Facebook group exclusives and the COTM 'Violet Starling'.

I also picked up the rest of the new Cique Colors collection which are so sparkly and reflective. Cirque really have this finish down to a tee! Femme Fatale Cosmetics also stock a huge range of indies, perfumes, eyeshadows and other make up. 

From Left to Right is Cirque Colors 'Besos', 'Cin Cin', Oasis', 'Saint Cloud' and 'Sencha'.

As always I'm in awe of these beauties from Femme Fatale Cosmetics. There's a new collection launching June 1st that I'm super excited about! Let me know in the comments if there's anything you'd like to see in a full mani first.

Thanks for visiting,

Have a lovely day,

Helen xx

Femme Fatale Cosmetics 'Rose Red' Swatch & Review

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Today I have 'Rose Red' to show you from the Femme Fatale Cosmetics Enchanted Fables Collection.

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'Rose Red' is a beautiful red-pink polish with strong turquoise shimmer. As you may already know this finish is my favourite by Femme Fatale Cosmetics. This was two super easy coats plus HK Girl top coat.

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I really loved the shimmer in this polish as even in the shade you could see the turquoise glow against the red. Very pretty!

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What do you think? Are there any Enchanted Fables you'd like to see next?

Thanks for visiting,

Have a lovely day,

Helen xx