My Recent Nail Polish Hauls Part 2

This is the second part of my nail polish hauls, you can see the first part here. I'm also expecting another large Enchanted Polish order to arrive, but this is all for now. I'm going to concentrate on showing you my newest make up purchases, I actually have bought some make up for a change!

Llarowe order

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My Nail Polish Stash and Storage Video (and Lots of Pictures!)

I've spent a couple of days re-organising my nail polish storage and creating a spreadsheet, so I know exactly where every single one of them are, so I though I would show you the fruit of my hard work. Also I enjoy looking at other people's stashes, so hope you enjoy it too.



I have also taken pictures of the contents of each box and separate packs, so if you're interested, have a look! No individual pictures, but I did do a rather extensive series on my nail polish stash last November, so click here if you'd like to check it out.

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NOTD: Andrea Fulerton Nail Boutique Colour in Kylie

Andrea Fulerton nail polishes are one of the few that last on me for over 2 days without chipping, usually best part of 3. I know this isn't that fantastic by normal standards, but it is by mine as almost everything chips on me within 48 hours. And that is why I now own quite a few shades of these polishes. Also they are pretty cheap and readily available from Superdrug, and they come in many lovely shades.

Taken without flash in direct sunlight

I have the shade named Kylie here which is a silvery light purple with gold and purple tiny flecks of glitter. Yes, I am fully aware that in my pictures it doesn't look the slight bit of purple and you can't really see the gold and purple glitter, but trust me, it's all there. It is rather a unique shade and very pretty in the sunlight, sadly my pictures don't do it justice.

Like other Andrea Fulerton nail polishes, this also has a lovely, easy to apply formula and doesn't chip on me for 3 days. I think the above shows 3 coats, but I'm not 100% certain, however, I normally do 3, so let's go with that.

You get 5.5 ml, so it's a rather small size, but only costs £5.10 (currently on offer for £3.99) from Superdrug. Have you tried any Andrea Fulerton nail polishes? What do you think? Let me know in the comments!

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NOTD: Andrea Fulerton Nail Boutique Colour Nail Polish in Beatrice

I had terrible trouble photographing this gorgeous nail polish. My regular camera cannot cope with pinky purples, turns them into bluey purples. So I tried using my camera phone which isn't that great, but the colour is much more true to real life. It's pinky purple with some blue/green duochrome. I managed to take these pictures during sunset by the upstairs window, so I still had some natural daylight, because that's the only way to show off the duochrome in this polish. You can see the duochrome best in the bottle in the second picture, but it transferred to the nails quite well too.

I really wish I could show you some better pictures, it's such a gorgeous shade and an amazing nail polish. I took the photos on day 3 and as you can see, I still only had a bit of tip wear (although I did have two small chips on my index fingers that you can't see) which is absolutely brilliant for me as pretty much everything chips on me within 24-36 hours. In the end I only took it off 4 days later and even then it didn't look too bad. Very pleased with it, not only it's very pretty, it stays on amazingly well and it applied well too. So far I've not been anything but amazed by the Andrea Fulerton line of nail polishes. £3.99 for 5.5 ml from Superdrug. 

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2011's Favourite Products: Part 3 - Lip and Nails

2011 was definitely the year of the lipstick for me. I purchased over 100 new lipsticks, spent a whole month wearing a different lipstick every day and really got into wearing bold, bright shades that I used to shy away from. So let's have a quick rundown of this year's favourite lipstick - in no particular order.

Guerlain Rouge G lipsticks have become one of my favourite lipsticks and this year out of them all Garconne and Girly, the two bright autumn shades were my absolutely favourites. Garconne is the most perfect red lipstick for me, and Girly is a fun bright pink shade.

Guerlain Rouge G in Girly (left) and Garconne (right)

Keep reading to see which other lipsticks made it into my favourites!

My Ever Growing Nail Polish Collection Part 1 - OPI, China Glaze, Orly, Mavala

I had some requests to show off my nail polish collection, so here it is. I'm going to do it in 3 parts because I have a lot of nail polishes, so make sure you check out part 2 and part 3 as well!

Some of my nail polish stash

Would you believe it that just a couple of years ago all the nail polish I owned fitted into this box?

Wanna see what's inside? A bit boring really, but here you go:

A bit samey, all pastels and hardly any colour. I just wasn't into nail polish, mainly because my nails are really thin and bendy, so nail polish chips off within a matter of days, and I couldn't be bothered to repaint them all the time, so I just used barely there shades. What's changed? I realised that there were some really gorgeous nail polishes out there from brands I'd never heard of! I also realised that nail polishes come in seasonal collections like make up, which of course made me buy even more so I don't miss out. And suddenly I don't mind painting my nails every 2-3 days. At the last count I had 130 nail polishes, which is really crazy, especially as some (most of them are large 15 ml sizes). I will now have to stop buying them and be sure to use them all, although that will certainly take a while. I'd say about 75% of the nail polish I own has not been used yet, so I'd better get cracking!

Without further ado, here are the detailed pictures. I haven't put the shade names down simply because it would take too long, but if you have any questions, just ask in the comments! Enjoy!

NOTD: Andrea Fulerton and Claire's - Now We're Talking!

You might remember my disappointing experience with Claire's glitter top coat over the lovely Andrea Fulerton pink nail polish (from the Princess duo) - if not, check out this post. I also purchased a holographic glitter top coat with blue and light pink large glitter that I tried out over my lovely Andrea Fulerton nail polish. This time I was pretty happy. Firstly, there was a lot more glitter on my nails after just one coat. Secondly, it didn't chip off nearly as quickly as the other one did. I did however apply it about 24 hours after applying the Andrea Fulerton nail polish plus Nails Inc top coat, so maybe that made the difference.

However, the amount of glitter in this is so much better than the other one I tried. I reckon if you were to use it on its own, 3 coats would give a pretty good coverage. Maybe I should give it a go! Let me know if you have this nail polish and whether you've tried it on it own! This one cost around £2.25 and is avialble from Claire's by the way.

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NOTD: The Good And The Bad

As you know, I love my Andrea Fulerton nail polishes and today I have a beautiful fuschia shade to show you from the Andrea Fulerton Nail Boutique Trio in Princess. On top of it I applied a glittery Claire's nail polish/topcoat, which has smaller and larger round glitter and also star shaped glitter in it (I don't know the name of it, it doesn't say on the bottle). Firstly, the good: Andrea Fulerton nail polishes are great, the formula's excellent, they go on nicely opaque and last for a good time without major chipping (on me it's 2-3 days I'd say, but everything chips on me very quickly). I love the colour of this polish too, it's a gorgeous fuschia pink with very subtle gold shimmer. The duo nail polish costs £7.99 and is available from Superdrug. 

Now onto the bad. While the Claire's top coat looked gorgeous in the bottle, unfortunately it was really hard to transfer any of that gorgeousness onto my nails. It looks like it's full of glitter, but actually it was very hard work to fish out any significant amount of glitter, as you can see on my nails. After about 5 minutes of trying, I only managed to scoop out 2 stars and a handful of glitter. I was expecting to see a lot more of them on my nails. The other problem was that it actually made the Andrea Fulerton nail polish chip off very quickly. I did apply the top coat directly on top of the AF nail polish while it was still quite sticky, so that might have been the problem, I don't know. In any case, a big dissapointment. I know the Claire's nail polish only cost £2.25, but still, you expect better than that.

So there you go, a beautiful nail polish and a not so great top coat. Maybe I should leave Claire's polishes to the teenagers and use more grown up stuff next time. What do you think?

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NOTD: Andrea Fulerton Nail Boutique Colour in Eliza

I have recently discovered the Andrea Fulerton nail polish range and I have a really lovely one to show you today. As well as the Colour Layering Systems, the line also contains single nail polishes and I picked up a lovely light blue one called Eliza. I absolutely love this nail polish, the colour is lovely, the formula is great, easy to apply and goes on evenly. This one didn't even chip on my nails at all for a whole 2 days (which is a big achievement!) and was still looking okay at 4 days. My only complaint is that the pretty pink duo-chrome you see in the bottle doesn't actually transfer onto the nails, but the colour on your nails is still very pretty.

With flash

You get 5.5 ml for £4.99 (available from Superdrug), so it's a great value nail polish, and there are so many colours to choose from. Definitely one of my favourite (if not the favourite) brand of nail polish at the moment.

Have you tried any Andrea Fulerton nail polishes? What did you think of them? Let me know in the comments!

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NOTD: Andrea Fulerton Nail Boutique Colour Layering System in Rainfall

Just a quick nail of the day post as I've been very busy with getting things ready for school in the last few days (children are going back tomorrow). Today's look is a lovely lovely blueish purple nail polish with green flecks from Andrea Fulerton Nail Boutique Colour Layering System.

Princess, Rainfall, Smile In A Storm

It's basically a double ended nail polish that you can either use separately or layered on top of each other. I haven't tried layering the polishes yet, because so far every shade I've tried was lovely in its own right. Today I'm sporting Rainfall, which is a blueish purples with green flecks at one end and a gorgeous metallic turquoise at the other end. I used the turquoise on my toes (no pictures, sorry) and the blueish purple shade on my fingers (the actual shade was more purple and less blue than in the pictures below, but unfortunately my camera refuses to pick up pinks and purples properly). The formula is excellent, the polishes go on really evenly and it only takes 2 coats to achieve a very good coverage. The polish lasted really well on me, only started chipping after two whole days (on my fingers, it's still intact on my toes), which is awesome for me as nearly everything chips on me within 36 hours or so. These polishes cost £7.99 each from Superdrug, you get 2 x 4.4 ml and they come in loads of shades. As you can see I have 3 of them now, so far I have not been disappointed. There are also individual shades in the Andrea Fulerton Nail Boutique line and I'm eager to check them out too.

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My Recent London Make Up Haul Video

Just a quick video to show you what I bought in London yesterday.