Showing posts with label nails. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nails. Show all posts

Tuesday, 5 August 2014

Maybelline Color Show Nail Disaster

So this product immediately caught my eye when I first saw it. Its the most beautiful turquoise I have ever seen and I just had to have it on my nails at that very moment

In all fairness this product apply's nicely and smoothly with no bumps or clumpy bits. Its very much true to colour and looks great on the nails when its been freshly applied. So for a while I had absolutely no problem with this product. It's staying power was nice with little to no chipping after its first week of being applied to the nails. It was when it came to taking off the nail varnish with my regular nail varnish remover, that the problems began. 

As you can see below the nail varnish completely stained my nails with the colour making them go a vile greeny/ yellow color that I have yet to figure out how to remove.

 
I have decided to hide my nails from the population from further notice by applying a nail varnish over the top to hide all that stain. I also noticed after a while that the polish had not only stained my nails but it had also made them extremely dry and weak. I cannot review this product more poorly.

I have been a fan of Maybelline's products and I'm extremely disappointed in this situation I'm in. I will be thinking twice about purchasing any products from this brand again and be staying away from their nail varnishes entirely! 


Please comment telling me if you have had the same situation occur to you or anything similar so I can find out if its the products line or just a faulty defected product I obtained. Thank you for reading! 

Thursday, 24 July 2014

Summer Beauty Favourites 2014


Summer Beauty Favourites 




 Skin Top Picks for this summer 



Benefits Hoola Bronzer - Because of the extra sun and extra tanning time available my skin colour has darkened by a large margin. For me personally, I have to use a darker bronzer to contour effectively and this Benefit bronzer fits the bill due to the fact its one of the more darker bronzers on the market. I usually can't use this product in the colder months of the year as I find it WAY too dark that my face looks slightly strange and unnatural. However in the summer months I'm able to break it out and this summer I haven't been able to go out without it. You can see how much I've used it by the mucky cover I'm not too proud of.


 Benefit Porefessional - This base is one of my favourites as I have a tendency to forget to put my foundation in my bag and later realise my makeup is sliding off due to the summer heat. It tightens my pores and allows for my skin to appear almost flawless. With this base my makeup tends to stay on most of the day which is extremely helpful in the long hot summer days.

Garner BB Cream Skin Perfecter - BB Creams are a must for summer as they are lightweight, easy to use and adaptable to your skin colour as it changes in the sun. This BB cream in particular is super easy to apply and feels as though you aren't even wearing makeup! I've used this product so much this season I'm going to have to re purchase quickly. This product is so easily found in stores it seems to be a staple basic for a new teen getting into makeup who doesn't want to cake it on!

Lip Pick for this summer


Revlon ColourBurst Matte Balm in 210 - Unapologetic 

Matte Lipsticks have become very in season recently due to the massive trend of matte everything! So in coherence to everyones love of matte nails, matte cars, matte clothing.. etc everyone has fallen in love with the trend of matte lipsticks. Matte lipsticks usually begin to feel drying once the product has been on the lips for an extended period of time and may even cause them to crack slightly. This can be extremely annoying on long nights out when a lip balm isn't at hand. This product helps the drying factor and at the start of wearing the product felt quiet moisturising and only became slightly drying towards the end of the night. Because this lip product is more of a lipstain balm its perfect for long, sweaty nights when the need to re-apply isn't the main priority. My only slight problem with these lipstains is that they aren't true to colour as the packaging suggests making for choosing the right shade a guessing game.

Cheek Top Pick for this summer 

Benefit's famous Benetint - After only having a small sample size as you can see since last week I am definitely going to make a repurchase. This product allows for a slight flush of the cheeks and again feels as though you aren't even wearing makeup because its in a liquid form. Its so simple and easy to build up you can choose the deepness of blush you want simply.




Nail Top Pick for this summer

O.P.I Nail Lacquer  in Ate Berries In The Canaries 

I love OPI Nail Varnishes they have the cutest names and have bigger brushes than usual making it speedier to apply. The colours in the summer collections are always fun and vibrate especially this one. Its a classic pink/ purple that looks pink in the day time and a lot more of a dark purple at night when there is no natural light. I was very intrigued with this nail polish due to this and it has become my most worn of the summer. 




Eye Top Pick for this summer 



The Urban Decay Naked 3 Pallet 

This pallet has the nicest shades for the summer due to the light, bright and sparkly nature of the pallet. My favourite shades for this season have been these five. They all work well together and make for a pretty eye colour. Limit makes for a good base eyeshadow with Liar and Buzz as the crease and lid colour respectively. Trick makes for a brilliant inner corner colour and really manages to brighten the eye.

Sunday, 9 February 2014



Mariah Carey Liquid Sand Nail Polish Review 


This christmas I received, as a stocking filler, the mariah carey liquid sand collection. The name first threw me, as I couldn't understand why I could possibly want my nails to feel like sand.



When I first tried on the colour Baby please come home, the more silver glittery one of the three I was pleasantly surprised. The colour made my nails stand out from my skin tone. Then as it dried I realised what the company meant by "liquid sand'. My nails felt rough but not uncomfortably. On the first day I was especially impressed and boasted how much I liked the product.

As the next two days passed I changed in opinion  completely.The photo to the left shows how
much the polish had gone from my nails and I'm usually not prone to chipping. The sand feeling on my nails left over night and it felt like the polish was simply disintegrating  from my nails. And the colour was no longer as shiny and sparkly as it once was. Over all I have to give the product a 3/10 it could have scored a lot higher if it was better formulated .