Makeup MAYhem POST 28 - NOTD

I haven't painted my nails for a while because ive had acrylics on for the past 10 days or so but I was bored this evening so decided to paint them.

I used George quick dry nail varnish in number 70, Shipwrecked, which is a lovely turquoise as my base colour and put OPI Save Me over the top. On my ring fingers I used No7 Stay Perfect nail varnish in number 330 Totally Teal with the OPI Save me on top. I finished my nails with the Barry M Base Coat, Top Coat & Nail Hardener.

I'm really happy with the result. I'm not usually a glitter person when it comes to nails but Save Me was just too beautiful to resist!

What are your thoughts? Do you like glitter nail varnishes?

With Love,

Rachel x

February Wish List

This month I don't seem to be lusting after as many things as I was last month. Here's what I am yearning for in February...

Barry M Dazzle Dusts

During a recent visit to my local Superdrug I swatched a few of the Barry M Dazzle Dusts and I really don't know why I have never looked at them before now! They are amazing! There were quite a few colours that caught my eye so I hope to add a few to my collection in the near future. They are currently 2 for £7 at Superdrug too so it would be rude not to...

Collection 2000 Lasting Perfection Concealer

I have seen this concealer featured in quite a few You Tube videos and mentioned on quite a few blogs and really want to give it a try. I have been searching for a concealer to cover my under eye circles for what seems like an eternity now and still haven't managed to find one that does the job so fingers crossed this could be the one!

Bourjois Volume Fast & Perfect Revolving Mascara

I want to give this a try simply because it seems so bizarre! The reviews I have seen/read all recommend it but I think this is one of the products I would have to try for myself.

Minx Nails

I know I am waaay behind the times and I'm almost ashamed to admit it but I am yet to try Minx nail wraps! Luckily I have an appointment booked for my first Minx nails so will have a review up as soon as I have had them done.

What's on your wish list this month?

With Love,

Rachel x

Barry M Haul

As you may know, I have recently discovered a love for Barry M nail paints (Haul & Review)

With a burning desire to feed my new addiction I headed to my local Boots and picked up some more of my bottled obsession...

I wanted a few Christmassy/wintery colours and definitely wanted to try the Silver Foil Effects after falling in actual love with the Lilac Foil Effects I received free with my last Barry M purchase. I decided to go to Boots instead of Superdrug this time and was glad I did as Boots also had a Free Gift offer on when you spent more than £6 on Barry M products and, what makes it even better is that the free gift was different to the free gift I received from Superdrug. The free gift at Boots is a Limited Edition silver glitter Nail paint and I looooove it! Its really festive and just what I was looking for! What I love the most about it is that it is super glittery - I recently bought a silver glitter top coat from the George make up range at Asda and was disappointed at how un-sparkly it was on my nails but the Barry M silver glitter would satisfy even the most sparkle-obsessed, glitter-aholics!

As I had to spend £6 or more to receive the free gift I began searching the shelves for another shade (I already had the Silver Foil Effects clutched in my hand so needed to spend another £2). I made the mistake of asking my fiance, Scott, which colour he thought I should get and he proceeded to point to EVERY neon-bright, summery colour in sight! I was torn between the Dusky Mauve (Again!) and Mushroom but Scott insisted that I stop playing it safe and get a brighter colour, or at least something a little different. He tried to persuade me to buy Emerald but it just wasn't for me... I toyed with the idea of buying Coral, Peach Melba or Ice Cream Pink (All thoughts of Festive colours banished from my mind!) which were all lovely colours, but I eventually decided that they were too summery for this season. Finally giving up on the Emerald suggestion, Scott moved on to the Blues - we had Cobalt Blue, Blueberry Ice Cream, Blue Moon.. all of which were nice colours (I especially loved the Cobalt Blue!) but as I have only just started wearing nail varnish I felt they were just too bright and 'in your face' for me at the moment... Maybe I will invest in some brighter colours in a few months when i'm more daring with my nails. After suggesting every other shade of Blue, Scott finally got round to Navy and I was intrigued. I have seen quite a few people with Navy nails of late and really like the look. Scott almost died of shock when I said yes to the Navy, unable to believe that he had suggested a colour and I had actually agreed with him!

Now, after finally choosing the Navy, I had an extremely blonde moment! I forgot that the Silver Foil Effects was priced at £3.99 and, thinking that it was only £2.99, I started to scour the shelves for yet ANOTHER shade as I thought I hadn't spent £6 yet. Cue Scott suggesting Emerald (again!) and whinging that we had been in Boots for ageees! After another five minutes of bickering over which colour to get I decided to just get the three in one top coat - a boring but sensible choice in my opinion.

I took my purchases to the till and only when I was walking out of the shop did I realise that I didn't even need the top coat as I had already spent more than £6 before getting it! Not to worry, top coats always come in handy I suppose...

Do you have any of these Barry M Nail Paints? Which is your favourite all time shade?

With Love,

Rachel x

Mini Nail Varnish Haul.

I went shopping last Sunday and picked up a few goodies of the nail varnish variety for myself so here is a quick haul, just for you...

Barry M Nail Paints - Superdrug.

As I said in my Sleek Storm Palette Review, I am useless at applying eye shadow. Another thing I'm useless at is painting my nails... So, what did I decide to buy on a recent shopping trip with my Mum? Not one, not two but three Barry M Nail Paints. Well, technically I bought two as one was free (more on that later).

The first shade I bought was Grey (293). I've had my eye on this colour for a while as I aren't usually a fan of bright nails and prefer the understated, subtle shades (I really want to try Mushroom and Dusky Mauve next). My sister painted my nails with the Grey the night before my shopping trip and I loved it so much I had to have it for myself. My sister also applied the Barry M pink crackle over the top of the grey and the two went together really well. I did contemplate actually buying the pink crackle when I bought the Grey but decided that if I wanted to recreate the look my sister had done for me I could just borrow her pink crackle so decided against it. Maybe I will eventually buy it though as I cant keep 'borrowing' nail varnish from my fourteen year old sister...

Although I decided against the pink crackle, I did want one of the crackle colours. My sister already has the pink and blue so it seemed pointless buying any of those. I thought the black was a bit dull and if I were to wear it with the Grey it would just be too dark and dreary. I contemplated white but quickly decided that this would probably look like I had just applied Tippex to my nails... (I could be wrong though so if you have tried the white crackle please share your thoughts!) Then I clapped eyes on the purple crackle. Purple is my favouritest colour EVER and I quickly snapped it up. It did look a teeny bit dark in the bottle but I thought it would look amazing if put with the right colour.

As I had spent over £6 on Barry M products I received a free gift which was the Lilac Foil Effects (142). This isn't a colour I would usually buy but it is very pretty and cute. I didn't quite understand the whole 'foil' thing as it didn't really seem like a 'new, ground-breaking thing' to me as the advertising and bottle suggested. Metallic nail varnishes have been around for a loooong time and I couldn't quite work out what made this product so different, until I applied it... I will write a review on this over the next few days, but for now, let's just say I LOVE it! Receiving the Lilac Foil as a free gift made my choice of crackle perfect as the Lilac Foil and purple crackle look scrumptious together.

Collection 2000 Nail Varnish - Wilkinsons.

As well as picking up the three Barry M Nail Paints, I also treated myself to a bottle of Collection 2000's Buried Treasure. I was actually looking for a Rose Gold nail varnish as I have seen this on a few blogs and you tube videos but I couldn't find any [insert sad face here]. Buried Treasure was the closest thing I could find to Rose Gold but it is more of a creamy gold than a pinky gold - in fact, it is nothing like Rose Gold but I was adamant that I would be taking a gold shade nail varnish home with me and Buried Treasure was the nicest one I could find! I haven't actually used this yet but I have done a quick swatch on paper and I absolutely love the colour.

All About Face Nail Varnish - Tesco!

As said above, I had a mad search for Rose Gold nail varnish and, despite searching high and low, I just could not find any. After our frenzied dash around our local shopping centre, we rushed to Tesco (it was half past three on a Sunday may I add, and the shop was shutting in half an hour!) and while my Mum was looking for a Christmassy DVD I scoured the make up aisle - Or I would have done if they hadn't put those silly shutters down over all of the popular branded make up! This left me with the cheapo stuff to look at, and, I have to say, I didn't hold out much hope! I checked the 99p nail varnishes first but they didn't have anything even remotely like Rose Gold so I turned my search to the £1.49 nail varnishes (Last of the big spenders!) and actually found a shade quite similar to Rose Gold (Please note, I use the words 'quite similar' very loosely as it doesn't really resemble Rose Gold at all but at this point I was desperate and I think if somebody had presented me with a lime green nail varnish I would have said it was similar to Rose Gold and rushed to the checkout with it...). It was by 'All About Face' which I thought was a rather iffy brand name for nail varnish as you don't apply nail varnish to your face... Anywhoo, the shade is Fudge which I think is about as relevant as the brand name as it looks nothing like fudge! And even though its not really anything like Rose Gold I likes it and I'm happy that I added it to my (slowly growing) collection :)



Upper Swatch - Fudge & Lower Swatch - Buried Treasure



I thought both the Fudge and Buried Treasure were both nice festive-y (is that even a word?) colours and aren't too tacky, which golds (in my opinion) usually tend to be. 


So there you go, five new nail varnishes added to my collection in the space of two hours! Now just to practice actually painting my nails without making it look like I've been dipping my fingers in paint...

I'm going to do a review of the Barry M Nail Paints and Crackle next so watch this space for that!

With Love,

Rachel x