Diet coke gets Breton and cheeky..

This is not like me to want to blog about something which can be sold at Harvey Nichols (I actually only been in a 'Harvey Nicks' at they say only once in my life and swiftly left the shop as I felt out of place) But I would like to make this sumptuous release my exception. I have just heard about this collaboration on Pampered and Polished and I just had to post about it too.


Jean Paul Gaultier poured some of his genius creativity and redesigned the look of diet coke bottles. The result is absolutely gorgeous and very sexy!




    
Wait. There is more!
People have said for many years that the shape of a bottle of coke is evocative of the curves of a woman well the creative team went a little bit further. They went on to paint the design of the bottle on two models, who wore, nothing but the design on their bodies, posing live in the shop window of a Harvey Nichols in London. Let me reassure you, the result is nothing seedy, just a little bit cheeky and superbly well done I thought.

The women who went on to fight for the 'Miss UK Beauty' competitions to be banned in England (and probably their descendants) will probably be up and arms about this publicity coup, claiming this is exploitation of women, and treating women like cattle yadi yada, but I absolutely love it!

Great creativity, great make up and just the right amount of cheekyness.




The limited edition Jean Paul Gaultier Night & Day bottle collection for Diet Coke was launched in Harvey Nichols stores across the UK on 16 April 2012, and will be available for 4 weeks at £1.95 each.

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Diet Coke Nails Inc ‘Plum’ NOTD

Blogging about nails and stay current at the same time is tricky: Your nails need to be decent for any eventuality and any release. Sadly my nails are not very good at the moment, especially the poor nail of my index finger which is slowly recovering from a bad break. But the ‘Nails Inc Diet Coke’ operation (buy 2 bottles of diet coke and grab a free polish from Nails Inc from 4 to to choose from) cannot wait for my all my nails to grow at the same length and I just had to show you this colour.  Apologies for the bad pictures, hasty application (no clean up – this is raw pictures baby) and missing index finger.






This is my second and final purchase from the Nails Inc Diet Coke this January 2011 as the 2 other free shades on offer (blue and lilac pink) didn’t appeal to me. This one is simply called ‘plum’.







Coverage from one coat was very impressive but here it is with 2 coats. Like caramel I tried on yesterday, this shade is nice enough but I don’t like on me. The finish is nice, the shine is nice, but I find it a bit dull and bland on me.

 




I was wearing caramel all day today (the first free shade I got from this diet coke offer) and actually quite like it with a sheer coat of revlon starlight on them, but this one is not a keeper and I am not quite sure what to do  with it? Does any of you like it?

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Best things in life are free? NOTD Nails Inc Diet Coke Caramel Nails

Shame on me. I can't believe I have not got round writing about my favourite to-go nail polish: London from Nails Inc, The London nail polish came about a few months ago, as a freebie part of the Diet Coke operation. Helen from SparklzandShine kindly donated it to me, as I was a slow taker and when I had got round to boots to get it, all the shades of London had gone. You bet when Nails Inc and Diet Coke joined forces and offered free polishes that I had to be there on the first day and grab my free polish. It was a no brainer and I wanted to get my hands on 'caramel' the shade which reminded me of London.


First impressions: I preferred when there was no diet coke sticker on the lid of the bottle, it makes the fact that you got it as a freebie even more obvious.





This second picture is probably the most accurate in terms of colour and 'mismatch' again my skintone. I won't beat around the bush and there is no other way to say it: I don't like it and I don't like this shade on me. I feel the nude colour does nothing for my skin tone and I find it bland bland and bland. I can already hear what a typical pragmatic bloke would think looking at this shade: what’s the point of having nail polish on if it’s going to look the same colour as your skin? He’s right!





Did anyone say corpse hands? How obvious, incidentally, is it that I am trying to hide as best as I can the nail of my index finger lol? :P









What a shame. I could cope with Miscellaneous (the rosy nudey  mannequin shade of MissGuided (freebie from cosmopolitan magazine) and by retrospect I quite like it now, but I honestly don't see myself wearing Caramel on my nails. Not on its own anyway.


I've tried to pair it with my new love (this will have to be the subject of another post) Revlon Color Beam in Starlight, it's a little bit better but still not me. I shouldn't complain, caramel came as a freebie but I cannot help but feeling disappointed. Caramel hasn’t never tasted as bland as today…

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