NOTD - OPI Coronation (Designer Series)

I picked up this little bobby dazzler in London yesterday. I couldn't wait to apply it. In fact I applied it over the nail varnish I was wearing already - Illamasqua's Muse, and it totally Christmassified it (thats a real word), with a holographic sheen... Its really pretty on its own though...

Really though, for the price I forked out - an eye watering £16 - (its truly amazing what the word "Limited Edition" do to me... they turn me into a stoopid eejit), I *should* have just waited and ebayed, but I was gripped by that whole fear that I might never see it again.

Its such a beautiful holographic silver shade - here is a close up; 

 

Thanks ever so much to the Mister for taking these pics for me - my crap camera didn't have a hope in hell of capturing the beauty of this shade. As demonstrated by myself and fellow blogger Get Lippie yesterday, this is also on top of other shades (she painted it over the gold beige she was wearing).

 

Please though - if you like this shade, EBay it - don't allow the counter at Selfridges to "violate" you like I did...

NOTD - OPI, My Private Jet

Whenever I get to go to Londonceistershire (my lil nickname for London), I like to take advantage of the shopping opportunities which are available there and get a few bits I can't get near me. One of my firm faves is the OPI counter at Selfridges in the vast mecca known as the beauty hall...

While I was milling about having a wonder and avoiding sales pitches from over enthusiastic counter staff (an exhausting job in itself...) I bumped into the lovely sirvinya (real name Becky!) and Oxford Jasmine (real name erm... Jasmine lol), who were also headed that way...

Becky got very excited when she saw this polish, and so did I when I took a closer look... Initially you see, this polish doesn't look like much in the bottle, a plummy brown colour with a bit of sparkle... except when you look closer the glitter is minute, and there is like billions of bits of it in the bottle...

This gives the polish an amazing holographic effect, which my camera fails completely to capture...

Here is a further attempt to capture the colour in an "extreme close up" (Anyone remember Bill and Ted - those were the days when Keanu Reeves accepted himself for what he was, and didn't try to do "proper acting...)

Once again, Total FAIL at capturing the prettiness...

This nail varnish is dark and vampy, it cant quite decide whether it wants to a be a brown, a plum, or a grey, so it does all three. Then we have the teeny weeny shimmery bits which reflect gold, green, pink, purple... its lovely!

If you would like to see some better pics then I highly recommend that you go and have a look at this post on the Helen and Sheenies fab blog...

I really really want to try more Holo polishes, and I need recommendations please?

MizzWorthy xxx

PS - I met a certain BritishBeautyBlogger for lunch and showed her this one - she went and bought it straight away!

NOTD - Barry M, Pink Flamingo...

Having seen this on a few other blogs I was very happy to be given a sample to try when I was in London last week - while I may have issues with some of the lip-paints they make in terms of formula and colour (101 is as dry as the sahara and my sister actually uses it as a concealer - she loves it for that and that alone!), I have to say I have long been a fan of the nail paints - the only one I wasn't a huge fan off is the black (because it is actually not black - its navy, and you need to apply a lot of coats to get decent colour density...)

Good Gawd, this is a bright one, but in a very very good way! I applied two coats and got "bottle colour", and its definitely a winning summer colour - great for both toes and fingers. Nice and creamy in consistency and well pigmented - it dried well with the help of seche vite!

This is available now on the Barry M Website - keep an eye out for this in the shops (from Aug 5th) too, as there are usually decent offers on Bazza products in both Boots and Superdrug...

MizzWorthy x