What's In My Stash #1

Hi Everyone,

Today I thought I would introduce a new feature called What's In My Stash! 

I generally store my nail polish in my Helmer, or at least I intend to... I have the majority of my nail polishes in there, but I more than often have about 50 others laying around in other places like my living room, kitchen, on my dressing table. So the ones that are laying around are the ones I usually end up wearing because they catch my eye easier. 

Sometimes, however, I have a particular polish I want to wear, so I have to go into my Helmer. Every time I go in there I'm shocked at how many beauties I have in there, some that I haven't even worn!

So my first What's In My Stash polish is a real winner. It is Ozotic 532 and I bought this around July last year from Llarowe after it was announced that Ozotic was discontinuing a load of their range, including all of the Mish Mash polishes. I bought this one and 531... When they arrived they got lost in my house somewhere for ages, and then I found them after we moved and put them in my Helmer. Then one night about a week and a half ago I started panicking I'd lost them and had to go and find them immediately!

Ozotic 532 is a teal/blue/purple multichrome with a lot of holoness thrown it. It's beautiful, which is why I had to have it!

Onto the pictures. I used my lightbox for one of these photos and one lamp for the others. I would have loved to get sunlight pictures of this but the weather was terrible when I did these and it was about 1am!

I layered two coats of Ozotic 532 over Models Own Beth's Blue. It looks amazing over black but I wanted to try something different!

Look at that! Like liquid magic!

Lamp Light - Bright artificial light brings out the purple

Flash in Lightbox - The flash brings out the gorgeous teal!

I love this so much, I can't believe it was left unworn in my collection for so long!

What do you think of Ozotic 532? Do you have any of the now discontinued Ozotics?

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!