Diamond Dust

I have just the right thing to jazz up your Saturday night. Meet Diamond Dust, one of the 2 releases from Rimmel latest 'Precious Stones' collection.





Rimmel were not kidding when they wrote 'high coverage' on the bottle: What you see is just two coats of Diamond Dust with nothing more than a transparent base coat underneath. not bad, huh?





I would still like to wear a dark blue or black base coat underneath but I just couldn't fault the handy flat brush allowing a very quick application ad the superb coverage. Lasting power is below average (1 day and I saw some tip wear) but then again, I didn't wear a top coat and I didn't have high expectations. This is, for me, very much a 'party polish' and a rather stunning one!




Expect all eyes on your nails when you wear Diamond Dust, a gritty finish if you don't apply a top coat,a typical troublesome removal process and you'll enjoy this polish as much I did. I loved it. Want to wear this polish 2 or 3 nights in a row? Apply the ‘lazy cow’ method: Just apply some polish on the tips. No one will ever know. 




  



If 'Ruby Crush' is anything like Diamond Dust, then I am in for a heck of a (sleigh) ride as I couldn't think of any more festive and convenient nail polish to rock at a Christmas party! Dang. Looks like I have just convinced myself to purchase the red one now





what: Rimmel Precious Stones Nail Polish in shade Diamond Dust
how much: £3.99
bought by me on a 3 for 2 mix and match deal at boots
where: Boots and Superdrug.
credit: last photo belongs was borrowed from Llymlrs blog.

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Holographic Polish Flash Giveaway: Win 1 of 2 Holo Polishes (Boots 17)

Guess what I’ve found lying in the secret cupboards of my ickle Boots Store today? 2 bottles of 17 Cosmetics holo polishes (reviewed in detail here). I am giving them away to celebrate my more frequent return back to blogging and the fact that you have not forgotten me despite the tumbleweeds growing on my little jardin.

   





All I need from you to enter this mini giveaway is to tell me a nail polish colour which you have repurchased basically. Simples. The rules are the same for every of my giveaway. Open internationally. You just need to be a follower of my blog (Google Connect, Google Reader, Hellocotton, Blog Lovin, email)

   
How to enter: This giveaway is for all my blog readers from all over the world.
It will end this week end: Sunday 14 October 2012, 23:59 BST (UK).
All I would like you to do, to enter in this comment giveaway is to tell me:

Tell the name of a nail polish colour which you have repurchased (or that you would like to repurchase if this hasn’t happened yet)      
     
     

--- your name
--- your email address
--- how you found out about this giveaway
--- how are you following me? google connect? Blog lovin? hello cotton…? 


Additional Information: - There will be 2 winners and the winners will be sent one 17 cosmetics holo nail polish each 
- Winner will be chosen at random with random.org
- The prizes are new, unswatched and unopened and were bought by me.


Full review and additional pictures of the sumptuous 17 Cosmetics Holo polish here.
Good luck

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Hello Holo :)

What? Another nail post. Yes. I really need to mix things up a bit before this blog turns into a nail polish blog but I am trying to get back into the habit of updating my blog more frequently and nail polish is the only thing I can stick my teeth into at the moment. I hope the little beauty I have to share with you will make up for it.





Hot from the Boots oven, this is 'Silver' 17's take on the holographic trend. About time the high street gave Gosh Holographic a little bit of competition. The Silver Holo is much more subtle that the legendary holographic from Gosh, recently renamed 'one night only'.It also doesn't quite have the 'metallic wave' effect which you find on your typical holographic craft paper, but it still just as hypnotising.

   

  




Like the Gosh Holo, you just can't quite comprehend what's on your fingers, the effect is just so magical. Application was far more superior than the Gosh Holo: effortless, smooth, with the added bonus of being fast drying.
   







You need this in your life.









The end.


what: 'Silver' Holo Nail Polish from Boots 17 Cosmetics
where: erm, Boots.
how much: £2.99 or £3.99 (I don't remember)
bought by me

A big wave to my blogging friends Claire (Eyelining Obsessions) and Liz (Cappuccino Lace) for joining me tonight for a #bloggingdate.

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I’ve been holo-ed and I liked it - NOTD

I had a very exciting moment today. I met up with a friend who happened to have a bottle of  THE Gosh Holographic Nail Polish (549) This nail polish is so hard to find, that some greedy souls are selling it on eBay for £16 which is way over while its retail value of £4.99. 


First impressions: this is the weirdest polish you'll ever try. If you though Barry M nails effects or other polishes from the crackle family are weird, wait till you experience this one.


Probably the weirdest thing about this polish is its formula. First coat, and it feels like you're applying some runny sour milk mixed with eyelash glue which just wouldn't stay on your nail bed. Try to even the lumps and bumps, you'll end with big patches of blank. This polish messes up with your mind and at this point, you're wondering whether to carry on or give up, as there is NO way on earth, you would happily carry on with the application of a normal polish after a first coat like that. Second coat is no better but you start seeing glimpses of the holographic drama peeking through. Still, it's lumps, bumps and patches of blank galore and it's just hideous, no really. If this polish had been a microphone, you'd be tapping on it at this stage to see if it's really working.


Third coat and you're telling yourself that this had better improve or you're really give up on it. After more huff and puffing, eye rolling, your prayers are answered. Lumps and bumps disappear (after consciously stopping looking at it for a minute that is)And oh my gosh, this is it. The rain stops raining, the sea divides itself in 2, breads starts multiplying and a holographic rainbow stars shining*


The effect is mind blowing: it's bright, it's bling 3D holographic foiled looking drama flashing at you and it's on your nails.








It's been one heck of a messy application, probably the messiest nail application I've ever known but it's in the past now. Fan or the 'holographic bling' effect or not, it's a nail polish you need to try at least once in your life, just for the 'messing with your senses' and bumpy ride really.





My friend told me to expect the polish to chip after 24 hours, so off I go to apply my poshest top coat. Outside world, are you ready to see my 'divine intervention' holo nails? I am :)


 

























*I am not under the influence of any drugs or alcohol. I just need to get out more :)


Oh and my friends Loulou and Drew have also been holo’ed today. You’d think we all plotted to post our holographic experience today, but we haven’t. Click to here see Loulou’s holo and here for Debbie/drew’s holo.  I want to see yours too if you’ve got one so please feel free to insert your link  in the comments (or any link to a gosh polish for that matter hehe)

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