NOTD - Nails Inc - Tate

Hullo Ladies!

Hope your all having a great Sunday! 

I'm wearing this sexy little thing today :-) 

It's Tate from Nails Inc, you may have noticed that I'm obsessed with them lately and this polish was one of the firsts I purchased. 

I bought it in a magazine back about six months ago. 

Back then I applied it on one nail and hated it. 

For some reason It just didn't go on right and at the times I was all for the bright colours so a dark red really wasn't my thing. 

I haven't touched it since, until last night. 

I was watching something on the telly and noticed how amazing the leading lady looked with her dark red polish. 

It's such a sexy statement polish.

I was worried about the application at first but I didn't have any trouble, I have a feeling this is because I am much better at applying than I was six months ago when I first tried it :-) 

For this polish I applied my usual Barry M 3 in 1 base coat, two coats of Tate and Seche Vite top coat. 

Hope you have all had a great weekend, I'm off to watch a movie with the family now!

Linzi xxx

The Body Shop Secret Sale Haul

Hullo Lovely ladies!!

Earlier in the week I posted about The Body Shop's secret sale which they do every so often.

So as soon as I had a chance I placed an order online and I managed to pick up some lovely things to show you :-) 

My lovely bag of goodies!!

I also found out the my Love Your Body 10% discount still worked on the sale items which is amazing!

I can't wait to try them all out and do some reviews :-) 

"Ginger Anti-Dandruff Shampoo"

I have heard many things about this product so I can't wait to see if it works. 

£6 for 400ml

"Fuzzy Peach Bath and Shower Gel"

Was £4...down to £2 but with my LYB membership I bought it for £1.80

"Raspberry Ripple Bath and Shower Gel"

Was £4...down to £2 but with my LYB membership I bought it for £1.80

"Satsuma Body Mist"

£7

I love it already! Can't wait to try some of the others I have a feeling I'm going to want them all just like the Body Butters! 

"Candied Ginger Body Scrub"

I bought this for Christmas last year and fell in love with the range, they smell so good!

 Ginger has always been one of my favourite scents as I like the mix of sweet and spicy scents :-) 

As soon as I opened this tub all the memories of christmas came back to me which was strange when we are in the middle of June but who cares because....... It was originally £12.50  but was just £3 in the sale!! Yay! 

"Limited Edition White Musk Sun Glow Eau De Toilette 60ml"

Was £15 down to £7.50 but with LYB I bought it for £6.75

"Smokey Eyes Palette in Silver Black"

Was £14...bought it for £4.50

 All of them are powder shadows except the silver colour which has a mousse texture to it! You also receive a mini brush and mini eyeliner in black, I already have the same full size eyeliner which I picked up in the latest InStyle magazine...but you can never have too many of them! 

So all these products together should have cost me just over £30 even after the sale but searching the interweb I found a voucher that gives you £10 off a £30 spend!! 

So I ended up paying only £20 :-)

 This is why I love The Body Shop....Great quality and they nearly always have discounts going on! 

Did you get anything form the sale? 

Linzi xxx

P.S Here is the voucher code I have found :-)

NEW30 

Tuxedo Nail Art Fail :P

Hullo Ladies!

I've been searching though the photos on my camera today and found pictures of some old manicures that I had forgotten about!

This one I tried to do when watching the Eurovision, I had spotted a picture like it on Google around the same time and loved the idea! 

It's one of those mani's that from a distance looks fine but up close falls apart hehe

I really want to try it again at some point to see if I can improve it :-)

I used Barry M Matt White as a base and then Barry M's Black for the detail. 

Both are very pigmented polishes, I'm pretty sure it took three coats of the white to get a great, even base. Which isn't so bad for a white colour! 

Well I don't think its my best work but I had fun which is what counts! 

Have you tried the Tuxedo look before? 

Linzi xxxx

I Won A Giveaway! + Recent Buys :-)

Hullo beautiful ladies!

So on Jubilee Weekend I received the most exciting email ever from Robyn - Want Buy Blog saying that I'd won the second prize in her Giveaway! How amazing right?  She a lovely girl so go check out her blog it's great! 

Ain't he cute? As a big book worm this is a keeper for me :-) 

She wrote me a lovely little message including some tips on what to do with the products!

Included also was a lovely little black makeup bag that some of the products where in :-) I forgot to take a picture but it's very pretty!

This is what she gave me! 

• MUA Blusher
• MUA Nail Polish 
• ELF Pressed Powder
• NYC Mascara
• 17 Concealor
• Natural Collection Hair Mask
• Benefit Moisture Prep Sample 

She also threw in some lovely sweeties! YAY :-P

She gave me the Pressed Powder as an extra gift, sadly she's had a lot of stuff to deal with lately, I wasn't worried about it coming late but she was very apologetic love her and left me a note attached to this saying that it was a bit of something extra!  

  I've never tried MUA or ELF before so trying them out shall be very exciting!

I loved the box it all came it, it was lovely and girly with little stars and black ribbons.

So as well as that I also went shopping again today, well really I just went into Superdrug to pick up some paracetamol but I couldn't pass the clearance box without having a look and ended up picking up all these lovely gosh products! 

The two eyeliners at the beginning are from the new InStyle magazine, they're giving you a choice of two Body Shop eyeliners or a mascara. 

So from GOSH I picked up:

Green Eyeliner in Green Boost

Green Eyeliner in Lemongrass

Twin Eyeshadow in TES 03

GOSH On Stage Cool Lip Jam in 102

GOSH On Stage Cool Lip Jam in 106

GOSH On Stage Cool Lip Jam in 101

GOSH Lip Gloss in 0074

GOSH Nail Polish in Snow

GOSH Nail Polish in Rainbow *gave to my mam as an extra Birthday present :-)*

GOSH Effect Power in Purple Rain

All these Gosh products came to just under £10!!!!

 I know... Unbelievable! 

These are all the lovely lip products I picked up, the Lip Jams are amazing they smell like Bubblegum..YUM!

"From Top to Bottom: Lip Gloss in 0074, Lip Jam in 106, Lip Jam in 101 and Lip Jam in 102"

I swatched them for ya ;-) 

Look how gorgeous they are and so pigmented!

I'm off for a nice DIY makeover now to calm myself as I have my first driving lesson tomorrow! I can't believe how nervous I am..can you imagine what it would be like when I have to do the test!! God Almighty! 

Hope you have all had a good day! 

Linzi xxx

Swatches of GOSH's Rainbow Nail Polish

 Hullo Ladies!

I managed to pick up a bottle of GOSH's Rainbow nail polish yesterday so as soon as I got it home I put it on and here's what it looked like!

I applied it on over Nails Inc's West Hampstead which is a dark purple so that It would stand out and I loved the effect it gave! 

It looks gorgeous :-) 

It's aptly named, as your nails change all different colours when touched by different lights. 

I can't wait to see what effect it gives on different nail polishes.

I'm so happy I found it in the clearance box.

  Find any great bargains lately? 

Linzi xxx

The Body Shop Sale

IT'S BACK!!!!!

Hullo lovely ladies...I was just checking to see what was new on The Body Shop and found out that their Sale start's today!! 

Here's the link!

Hope you all get something nice...I have my eyes on the Candied Ginger line which I fell in love with last Christmas...I know it's the wrong season but at those prices I don't mind :-)

Sometimes they do take a bit extra off the price a week into the sale but by then there is hardly anything left, so if you want's something get it quick! 

Testing The Hype! - Bourjois - Magic Nail Polish Remover

Hullo ladies!

So a few weeks ago I picked up this Bourjois Magic Nail Polish Remover.

I was slightly outraged by the price for 75ml of product but caved as so many people where praising it.

So as soon as I got it home I tried it out and used it to take off my China Glaze For Audrey and took photos for a future review. 

I was amazed, it all came off so quickly and what I liked also was the smell it left on my fingers afterwards.

It's a lovely sweet/fruity scent. 

So for weeks I used it everyday and even included it in my May's Favourites!

Then this week I noticed that when using it, I was left with a yucky dark mess on my fingers. It was obviously the excess from all the old nail polish that had been soaking into the sponge. 

A few days ago I bought Nails Inc's Edinburgh Gate which is a lovely full coverage glitter polish, the day after using it, I used the nail polish remover and something awful happened!

I stuck my nails in, pulled them out and my hands where a mess, I had glitter everywhere! 

It took me ages to wash all that glitter off and after some time I decided to try it again but had the same outcome. 

Maybe it was because I was using it everyday sometimes more than once, If your only using it once every five - seven days then this would probably be great for you. 

"Yucky stuff that came out of the sponge and bottle :-("

Of course, being me I decided that I would simply wash the sponge and bottle and re-use it by pouring another type of nail polish remover into it. 

What really got me in the end was when I tried cleaning the sponge all this disgusting "purple" liquid came out  . It looked like the water cup you used to use in art class when you paint in primary school. I was sticking my fingers in that!!! 

It just didn't seem hygienic and was just a hassle in the end. 

So It went in the bin. 

My conclusion.

Great if you paint your nails once a week and don't mind spending the cash but just not worth it if you love painting your nails frequently and don't want to be buying another bottle every 3 - 4 weeks. 

I think I'm going to be sticking to my cotton pads and Superdrug's own brand of nail polish remover.

Depressing, I know. After so many people loved it :-( 

So have you tried this product? Love it? Hate it? 

Linzi xxx