2true Shade 51

Hi Everyone,

Just a quick post from me tonight, I need an early night! I'm taking my son to a baby group in the morning that starts at 9.30am! Yikes... I'm normally only getting up then!

I have a 2true polish to show you today. I bought this for my guest post at Island Girl Insights, which you can see here! Shade 51 is a really pretty blue polish with glass flecks.

These photos show two coats of Shade 51 with no topcoat.

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Sun

This is such a nice polish, and 2true actually have a few like this in different colours in their range, which I'm definitely interested in! This retails for £1.99 but there's always a 2 for 1 deal on. I'd definitely recommend this colour, it's the kind that looks great on all skin tones!

Sorry for the quick post, I've got something really pretty lined up for next time!

Nail Mail and haul!

Hi everyone,

I've had such a busy day... That's all I ever seem to say these days! My Mum rang me at 9.30 to ask if I wanted to go to the gym so I did that, did a bit of shopping, came home and did some washing, then went for a walk with my Mum and her dogs, then finally at 7pm I had my first meal of the day! Then I planned a guest post for another blog and took half the photos I need... The life of a single (while the bf is away) mother and nail blogger is a very busy one! Now I'm going to sit and watch some TV and eat chocolate brownies, only a couple I promise!

The polishes I bought today evened out at about £1 each which is amazing in my opinion!!! I'm sure my boyfriend will agree too if he's reading this! Most of these are for my upcoming guest posts over at Island Girl Insights but a couple are because I NEEDED them!

Revlon, MUA, 2true and NYC Colors goodies!

The MUA polishes are always £1, which I think is really good, they're small bottles but it means that you can get lots and mix and match. I got the 2true polishes in a 2 for one, and I saved money on the NYC ones because I bought two (one was to add to my giveaway). On my way out of town I thought I'd stop in Poundland. I'm always checking in there for nail polish, mostly because I always hear Americans saying they find great old discontinued shades in dollar stores. Anyway, I found these Revlon polishes in there! The green on the left is a matte finish, and I'm sure it's an old bottle because it had leaked all over the place and was sooo gloopy!!! The other four are amazing though, great formula and great shimmery glass fleck appearance.

When I was feeling stressed this afternoon trying to tidy up, the post lady arrived at my door with some nail mail! I got my two Ozotic polishes from the Llarowe birthday sale and my first order from Nail Polish Direct. They sell China Glaze, OPI etc for more reasonable prices than other sites. I bought one of the China Glaze Prismatic colours as well as Barry M Hologram Hexograms, it was cheaper there than on the Barry M site with free delivery, and I've wanted it for ages so I thought I might as well buy it! 

Here they are!

Pretties!

I haven't done a haul post like this in ages so I thought today was the right time! See you back here tomorrow for a normal post!

Jubilee Manicure!

Hi guys,

It's a bit of a late post from me tonight, I went out for a lovely meal with my boyfriend. His parents looked after our son and it was lovely to have a bit of time off. If you're from the UK you'll know today is the first day of a four day weekend, and if you're not British, you might have heard something about the Jubilee, or you might not! Today is the first day of the celebration of the Queen being on the throne for 60 years! We get a four day weekend this weekend, so everybody is in the party mood.

I'm not really a Royalist, but I'm all for celebrating, so I thought I'd plan a subtle nod to the Queen. I'm not great at nail art, so I couldn't do anything too elaborate. I settled on a Union Jack accent nail!

The polishes I used for this were: China Glaze Sea Spray (it's the closest thing to white I have with me!) and 2true shades 1 and 2 for the blue and red. I painted on one coat of Sea Spray, then did the red cross and diagonal lines, then put a little bit of blue in the corners. 

I'll have full reviews of the 2true shades probably next week. They're both highly pigmented shimmer polishes that have a glass fleck effect. They're so pretty and cover perfectly in two coats.

Here's the outcome of my manicure:

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Flash

Macro, look at that shimmer!

I was so pleased with how this turned out, despite my lack of nail art skills! Hope you like it too!

2true Shade 3

Hi Everyone!

I'm feeling so happy today! The weather has been so nice and we've had a nice day out. My boyfriend had a day off work so we went to a Roman fort site nearby. Don't get me wrong, I'm really not a history nerd, I just love the field and the view is amazing. I used to spend a lot of time there as a child so to take my own child there as an adult was really strange! We had a lovely day in the sun so I've really enjoyed myself! 

Another good thing that has happened is that I managed to retrieve my photos! If you've read my blog over the past two days you'll know that my photos for the last few weeks all vanished from my SD card... I downloaded a free program called TestDisk that let me do an unlimited scan and retrieve. The program isn't for people who want anything fancy, it has no graphical user interface, so it's just white words on a black background (in Terminal for Mac users such as myself) but it worked perfectly, and so I have everything back!

Anyway, enough of that an onto the polish. Today I have one of the 2true polishes I showed you last night in my haul post. This is from a set of three (I assume it's three, that's all I could find) limited edition shades from the 2true Crystal Nail Polish collection. 

Shade 3 (very imaginative, I know) is a teal glitter polish. This was really easy to apply and went on easily in two coats. When I wear this again I'll probably use three coats.

The photos below show two coats with topcoat. I used Seche Vite and even that seemed to soak in! I think in future two coats of Seche Vite would be better. 

Natural light

Sunlight

Flash

I really like this polish but I don't love it. In the shop I thought it had a slight duochrome to the shimmer but it didn't show up in real life! 

You can buy this at Superdrug for £1.99 (7ml bottle). They also do a 3 for 2 on this brand too, I picked up all three LE shades for £2.98! I'll have the other two shades from this collection coming up over the next week or so!