UK Floam dupe!!?? (sort of)

Most of you are probably familiar with Floam by Nail-venturous / Ninja Polish, but if you're not it is an Indie polish that resembles this stuff:

And here is the nail polish:

It has a mix of yellow, green and blue matte glitter and I would definitelly say it grows on you. The first time I saw it I thought it was ugly and strange but then I came to realise thats why it works. The trouble is, it can be a pain to get hold of, it sells out fast when it is restocked and it has a price tag of £9 ish including shipping from USA. For many people, that is a bit pricey for a bottle of nail polish. Fear not, I have found an alternative, and you can get it for as little as £1.95!!

W7  Cosmic Green.

I know, its not a perfect match, there are many differences. Cosmic Green is metallic and Floam is matte neon. That said, the similarities are there and shouldn't be overlooked, and it should keep that lemming at bay for a while. I am surprised nobody else has picked up on this yet but I suspect that is because all eyes have been on the other W7 polishes lately (namely Mosaic, Lava Flow, Salt n Pepper).

Let's take a closer look:

They are not a million miles away from each other are they? So far, we have only looked at bottle shots though. How do they compare on the nail?

I applied a coat of Rimmel Pro Matte Top Coat on top of Cosmic Green to see if that would make any difference.

Conclusion: They bear more than a passing resemblance and it is my opinion that W7 may have been inspired by Floam somewhat. It is not what I would call a dupe but if you are on a budget and can't be done with waiting for Floam to be restocked, W7 Cosmic Green is for you!

Which one would you choose?

DISCLAIMER: Both of the products in this post were paid for by me, not that it changes my opinion anyway!

Models Own Mirrorball Collection - Metallic flakies!?

Models Own is quickly becoming my favourite nail polish brand of all time. They have had some beautiful releases and now they have come up with something even better. Earlier on today they posted an exciting announcement on their Facebook page, so exciting that I had to post about it as soon as I got home and back on my laptop.
 I present to you, Models Own Mirrorball Collection:

"NEW! The MIRRORBALL Collection, a completely unique glide-on glitter that will revitalise your entire polish collection! Wear alone or over your favourite colour polish to give a frosting finish, taking nails from boring to BLING! Each polish contains five different chunky colours of hand-cut glitter that are guaranteed to get the party started: Disco Inferno, a glittery gold disco bomb; Hot Stuff, an intoxicating mix of pink and gold sparkles; Freak Out, a crystal shimmer mi
x of bold blue and purple; Dancing Queen, fabulous flecks of emerald, blue and gold; Boogie Nights, a multicoloured mix of intriguing purple, pink and blue! The Mirrorball Collection launches (with LIMITED EDITION metallic coloured caps!) exclusively at the Models Own Bottleshop on Thursday, September 6th, on the Models Own website from Monday, September 10th and in Boots stores nationwide from Wednesday, October 3rd. x Which is your favourite? Hit the comments to let us know!"

My first thought = WOW, metal flecks/flakies/shards , whatever you wanna call them!  Then I though ohh I have to wait til September, thats ages away, before realising that its only 2 weeks away or 2 & 1/2 until the website launch! Woooooooo!

P.S I saw Xmas gifts being stocked in Superdrug today. Eeeee!

St Patrick's Day NOTD (+ easy how-to)

Sorry that its a day late, I needed to get a tripod for my camera in order to photograph an awkward hand pose. Here is my version of a manicure inspired by St Patrick's Day.

The gold represents a pot of gold, the multi coloured glitter is supposed to resemble a rainbow and the green is *cue awkward hand pose*...

A lucky shamrock!

Here is what I used:

L.A Colors Energy Source, L.A Colors Atomic, SNB Gold 06, Saffron Gold Speckle, Technic Carnival and L.A Colors Voltage.

If you would like to recreate this look, here is how to do it:

Step 1. Paint all nails with a white base coat.
Step 2. Paint nails 1 & 3 with a green nail polish. I used 2 coats.
Step 3. Paint nails 2 & 5 with a gold colour, followed by a gold glitter.
Step 4. Paint nail 4 with a multicoloured glitter. I used about 8 coats to get it opaque.
Step 5. Finish with a clear top coat.

Please note: each coat of polish should be completely dry before doing the next coat.

Did you do a Paddy's Day mani? I would love to see your take on it.

Haul Unboxing

I had a delivery today nice and early this morning, I was expecting one package to come yesterday as I already arranged with Royal Mail for them to deliver on that day. I waited in all day and they didn't turn up. They didn't even let me know so I was a bit annoyed by that. It finally turned up today though so all is forgiven (almost). Mini rant over, phew! 

I had 3 lovely packages today, you may notice in the photo above I kinda cheated and opened the box, I wasn't gonna include that in this post but I changed my mind.

This is a set of 4 eyebrow stencils, they were 99p including delivery from eBay.

Here they are, I know the picture is bad as the stencils are clear but they have the markings on them so you can match them up easily with the angle of your natural brows.

This is what was in the box, its loads of magnets to use with magnetic nail polish. I actually sell these on but I thought you might like to see the different styles available:

They work with any magnetic nail polish so its nice to be able to do different patterns now.

Next is the package that should of arrived yesterday..

It was very well wrapped in lots of bubble wrap.

*in Aussie accent* Can you tell what it is yet?

Ta-da! L.A Colors haul!

Left to right: 

Energy Source NP402

Atomic NP420

Exotic Pink NP434

Lightning NP422

Nuclear Energy NP417

Left to right:

Electrified NP408

Live NP409

Tropical Storm NP439

Goddess NP442

Left to right:

Treasure Island NP444

Aqua Crystals NP448

Glistening Purple NP445

Left to right:

Voltage NP401 (clear)

Sparkling Diamonds NP446

Star Light NP443

Jewel Tone NP447

Sassy Sparkle NP441 

I also got Saffron Speckle in Gold and Silver (these were the closest things to the Milani Jewel FX I could find in the UK) It will be interesting to see if they perform.

Look at the shape of the bottles though, is it just me that thinks they are a bit weird different?

This is the one I am most excited about , Technic - Carnival!

The nail polishes were from http://www.themakeupbagonline.co.uk

For all 20 nail polishes & delivery, they cost me £26.40. Not bad! 

Oh , I forgot to mention, they also threw in a free gift in the shape of 5 make-up bags:

I love the way these were packaged - a bag in a bag in a bag in a bag in a bag!

That is everything that I got so as always, I would love to hear what you think of them!

DISCLAIMER: Everything included in this post was bought and paid for by myself. Except for the bags which were a free gift for spending over £20!

Another Haul!

I have been spending again! Pictures are worth a thousand words, so on to the good stuff!

Superdrug Colour Effects 8:1 Cool Blonde, £1.29 each. This acts as a toner for my bleach blonde hair, it removes yellow tones. Quick tip: There are loads of products available specifically for blonde hair, but if you want it to remove yellow or brassy tones (making it whiter), it HAS to be a dark purple colour. This applies to toners, shampoo, conditioner, hair mousse, anything you put on your hair basically. I have used blonde shampoo and toners in the past that have been honey coloured and they have made my hair look MORE yellow, so it is important to check.

As you can see, this toner is a very dark purple colour, this is going to counteract the yellow tones in my hair.

Finally! I got some MUA eye palettes! They had a pound knocked off them so they were an amazing £3 each.

MUA Glitter Ball Palette 

MUA Heaven & Earth Palette

These are very popular amongst bloggers so there are already tonnes of reviews and swatches out there.

MUA nail polishes £1 each. Shade 17 (clear) and 9 (blue). There was a black one aswell but sadly it didn't make it home, it got smashed on the floor of the car park while loading the car. *sob sob*

Superdrug 2 in 1 Top Coat & Hardener  and Conditioning Cuticle Oil Pen. These were on offer, 2 for £5.

Sally Hansen Maximum Growth Daily Nail Treatment £4.50 from Tesco. My nails are looking rather used and abused and this promises to show results in just 1 week. Hmmm..

Tesco Exfoliating Face Scrub. It was on offer for £1. I have no idea how good it is but for a pound I don't mind taking a gamble.

Herbal Essences Hello Hydration Shampoo and Conditioner. These were from Tesco and were £1.66 each for 400ml. Never used it before but it was a good price and it smells of yummy coconut.

I bought these sets of 12 glitter in glass bottles off eBay they were under £2 each including postage. I have strands, powder and hearts here and am waiting on some stars and hexagons.

 They are really pretty so I thought they deserved a second picture.

Thats everything I got today, hope you liked it!

Asda Mini Haul

I had to go to Asda today to pick up a copy of The Sun newspaper as the tokens for 2 free Alton Towers tickets started today. I do enjoy Alton Towers but adult tickets are now £42 each! I don't think its worth that much.
While I was there I browsed the beauty section which is rather poor at my local store unfortunately so its not often I buy from there. I did pick up these though:

Rimmel London Soft Kohl Eyeliner in 07 Pure White - £2.48

Rimmel London Lasting Finish Nail Polish in 500 Disco Ball - £2.98 ( I have wanted this one for a while!) It has holographic and silver glitter and then a bit of chunkier blue glitter in too. Very pretty!

And the most interesting of all is this by George (Asda's own brand) False Lash Effect Mascara in Intense Black and Eye Primer. It only cost £3.50 for both and I have never tried any George make-up before so it will be interesting to see what these are like!

I also got myself some Brother's Strawberry Cider, but didn't take a photo of that lol, yum yum!

Mighty Rockstar Glittery Liquid Eyeliner

5 posts on 5 days in a row? Well aren't I being a good girl? I would also like to say a quick welcome to my new followers, I will be stalking  checking out your lovely blogs and responding to comments I have not yet replied to in due course.

I have another review for you today, on a collection of glitter liquid eyeliners. These are Mighty Rockstar Glittery Liquid Eyeliner from Fraulein 3°8 (it took me ages to find the symbol for degrees haha!) Anyway.. there are 8 in the collection each containing 5g of product.

8 bottles of shiny-ness

A view of the packaging

Firstly, the packaging is cute and the product isn't bad either:

Swatches!

We have black, pink, white, purple, silver, bronze, gold and green. The eyeliner contains metallic pigment along with glitter and dries to a smooth metallic glitter finish unlike other glitter eyeliners I have used in the past. I couldn't quite capture the glitter properly on camera but it is there I promise! It stays on really well and the brush is nice and thin and didn't shed any hairs. There is no smell to the product either.

Wait, there's more! The BEST thing about this is... the price!
It costs  €10.99 which at the time of writing is £9.33.. thats for all 8 of them! Thats £1.16 per eyeliner! What a steal! You can purchase these eyeliners here.


DISCLAIMER: I got a 50% discount on this product but that does not affect my opinion in any way & I did not recieve any kind of further reward for writing this post.