The Black Jewel

For my birthday my aunt in England sent me a few beauty bits, and among them was this little package from Boujois containing 12 self-adhesive face jewels. They are ridiculously cute and fun to experiment with, however I don't think I will be approaching an occasion where "face-jewels" are a necessity all too soon I though I should find another use for them. As my current nail polish is one from TopShop called Jewel In The Crown I though I was appropriate to combine it with a couple black jewels, just to top it off you know? And so I did...

Two coats of the sea blue/green base colour, a black jewel on each of my ring fingers and a good coat of Seche Vite Top Coat and my nails went from ordinary to something new and slightly more interesting. I haven't had the jewels on for too long yet so I am not sure of their longevity, but I will get back to you on that. 

Just a quick note though, the TopShop polishes are incredible! They are super-opaque, rather long-lasting and they dry very quickly! The only downside I have experienced is that those with darker colours such as Jewel In The Crown does leave quite bad stains on my nails - worse than for example O.P.I and Essie. However, with a protective base coat underneath, there will be no stains in sight. So the next time you are in a TopShop store, check out their nail polishes (as well as the rest of their make-up which is also pretty darn good).

- Em

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Peach Diaquiri

From right to left: Essie - All In One Base, Essie - Peach Daiquiri, Seche Vite - Dry Fast Top Coat.

So I am back with, surprise surprise , not another review! I am simply sharing what my nails looked like a few days ago, as I love knowing which colours other people wear on their nails I thought I might share what I use myself. In this case Essie's peach daiquiri :) I love this peachy, orange, coral colour - especially in the spring and summer time and that time is approaching quickly so let's prep for it with beauties such as this! I won't go into detail about how many strokes I did on each nail but I did one coat of the base, two of the colour and one of the top coat. This lasted me well over four days before it started to work some serious chipping. But four days is good right?

I think this is one of my favourite Essie colours, but I wonder, what is yours? I would love to find some new nail polish treasures so feel free to share your favourites in the comments:)

Talk to you guys soon!

-Em

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Add some glitter this Christmas!

Christmas is sneaking up faster than I want to realize - Have you thought about the fact that in just a little over two weeks 2012 is over? I certainly feel like this year has literally flown by. 

Before I start on sharing what I have on my nails, I thought I would share a little fun fact! In my sweet, sweet town/city, that never gets a lot of snow before Christmas (only after...and with that I mean in february - ugh), it has been snowing like CRAZY the past 24 hours! It snowed constantly all day yesterday and the result? About 70-80 cm of beautiful, white snow. Ahh, I couldn't have asked for a better December.

Now over to nails! Currently I have on a lovely little combo of some taupe and gold. I recently picked up Essie's Don't Sweater It, after I heard Anna rave about it. It is such a lovely neutral taupe/brown colour that works so very well at giving your nails a clean, but sophisticated look. The formula, as always with Essie polishes, is creamy and smooth and the colour is so opaque that one coat will work well if you don't have time for a second one. With the wide brush that the new Essie polishes have you avoid the fuss with streaking - it is simply just a dream to apply.

The super glittery gold is from the O.P.I Skyfall collection, and carries the name Golden Eye just like the old Bond classic. I briefly mentioned this in another post where I reviewed a different polish from the collection which you can read about here. This little mini is no different to the other ones in the set - just as opaque (well as opaque as a glitter polish can get - but two coats and you have a solid gold nail) and long-lasting. As it is a mini the brush is a little bit small, but it is definitely workable. I am wearing two thin coats of this over the Essie colour, but only on my ring fingers. I love having one nail in a different more "poppy" polish, especially when the other nails are in such a neutral shade.

I am not sure if I have mentioned this already, but tomorrow night I am going to Paris with my best friend (the same best friend I went to London with), and although I am staying there until Monday night, I will try to avoid it getting in the way of my Twelve Days of Christmas . I cannot promise anything though as I don't know what our program looks like, but if there are no new posts up this weekend I will make it up to you with extra posts next week, sounds good?

Would you like me to make a vlog from Paris where i take you with me on what we get up to?
If you think that could be fun, then leave me a comment and I will definitely make sure to bring out my camera whilst walking around the streets of Paris, even though I will look like an idiot talking to a camera :)

- Em

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O.P.I The World Is Not Enough

A sudden gap in posts there, sorry about that, but it has been a busy week filled with school, interviews,  ballet's, and some exciting opportunities. Anyway, I will come back to that another time, right now - lets talk nails!

My parents went away last  weekend  and my mom brought a mini set of the O.P.I Skyfall collection. I have seen a few bloggers mention them but I didn't really plan on getting them for myself,but here I am - completely in love with all four of them! The past few days I have opted for the gorgeous, glittery, iridescent silver called "The World Is Not Enough". It is pretty sheer but 3 quick coats and you should be ready to go with a opaque layer of gorgeousness on the tip of your fingers. As for the lasting power - I find it to stay put and not chip, I have been wearing this one for 3 days now and it is only a little faded on the tips but nothing too bad.

I would definitely recommend you to go check this collection out, and if you don't want to go for the full sizes then try the mini's - that way you get to try 4!

- Em

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