Essie Baby Duo Launch

With recent Royal baby fever and the likes of Butter London releasing their baby themed polishes, Essie have launched their very own adorable Baby Duo Collection in Blue for a boy and Pink for a girl.
A great gift for mums-to-be and newbie mums out there!



It makes such a more refreshing and unique gift than the usual nappy stacks and stretch mark oil and either way the 2 new shades are beautiful to wear anytime.
The Blue shade is named 'Lapiz of Luxury'
the pink shade is named 'Muchi Muchi'

The duos are available for £12.99 from www.boots.com

Ciate Corrupted Neon Collection

Contributing to the huge neon trend this summer, Ciate will be launching their Corrupted Neon Kit. the kit will also include Neon Caviar pearls, which together with the popping neons it will be sure to make your nails stand out this summer!

 

The collection will launch in June and will be available at http://www.selfridges.com/ for £25.

Dior Bird of Paradise Collection

 

I love the sound of this collection! It just shouts exotic, luxurious, classy, summer nails.To add even more excitement the collection is divided into 2 looks: 'Glowy Exotic', the daytime look and 'Wild Feather', the night time look.

Both collections have 2 nail polishes to complement your look divided into duos 'Samba' and 'Bahia'

The co-ordinated shades are:
'Samba' - Peacock Green & Sea Blue.
'Bahia' - Hibiscus Pink & Petroleum Blue.
Each duo comes in 7ml bottles available for £18 from http://www.escentual.com/

Royal Baby fever hits polish!

With a Royal baby on the way and in honour of the recent Queen Jubilee and Royal Wedding, Butter London have launched a Limited Edition Royal Collection just in time for celebrating Kate and William's new baby!

The shades in the collection are:

• 'Pitter Patter' - An opaque shimmer aubergine.
• 'No More Waity, Katie' - Sheer lilac..
• 'Lillibet's Jubilee' - opaque silver/lavender metallic foil.

All Butter London's lacquers are 3-Free and can be purchased for £13 from http://www.butterlondon.com/
Hopefully they will be sending Kate the lacquer too!

Sally Hansen Complete Manicure Review

So I came across this whilst out on a nail haul a few weeks ago and thought that I would give it a try. It claims to have '5 steps of a manicure in 1 bottle' :

• Base Coat.
• Strengthener.
• Growth Treatment.
• Colour.
• Top Coat.

It also boasts to be chip-resistant for up to 10 days and the formula has Patented Micro-Encapsulated time-release Technology.

The shade I applied is named 'Barely Blue Bell', a deep mint shade.
I was actually pleasantly surprised by this polish! I know that it boasts to be a good manicure polish, but having tried so many top branded 'chip-free long lasting' polishes and having them all fail, I must admit I didn't have high hopes for poor Sally.
The application was ultra-smooth and I only needed one coat!! It gave great full coverage and I was amazed at how quickly it dried! The finish gave me a strong, glossy manicure.
Now the reason that I turned to this polish was because I was facing a very busy week and knew that I wouldn't have time to do my nails. I have a business to run, a house to clean and a very active 1 year old to see to, so the wear and tear on my nails is usually quite harsh (washing, cleaning ,baby, shopping etc). The Sally Hansen Manicure definitely passed the test!! Most of my manicures only last a day or two, but Sally came through for me!



After 8 days of wear ( I had to take it off to do a nail tutorial) my nails were still going strong and looked shiney. I had a couple of barely noticeable chips ( from hedge trimming!) but that was it.
The only disadvantage I found was that when I  came to remove the polish one of my nails was slightly stained a green mint colour in the corner, which came off after more remover.
I would give Sally Hansen Complete Manicure 8/10 and will definitely be buying more!
Available from http://www.boots.com/en/Sally-Hansen-Complete-Salon-Manicure-Nail-Colour_1317168/ for £6.99