Dior Summer 2012 La Croisette Swatches and Review

I recently had the opportunity to try the Dior Summer collection, this year called 'La Croisette.' Like the Spring 'Garden Party' collection, there are two nail varnishes, with with I did this accent nail manicure:-

Accent nail: Shade 231 Bikini

Other nails: Shade 401 St. Tropez

Wow, these colours literally scream summer! Bikini is a hot coral colour and St Tropez is a robin's egg turquoise colour. Both varnishes have no shimmer, but are super saturated in pigment making them really bold on the nails. The brush on these is the usual Dior flat brush that applies colour to the nail in one stroke. The application on these was smooth- no dragging, pooling or gathering around my cuticles. I only had to use two coats to reach maximum opacity, which is always a good thing.

I absolutely love these two colours! St Tropez is especially pretty, as it is so close to being a perfect robin's egg blue colour. There is also a matching eyeliner in this shade in the La Croisette collection that may just have to be purchased at a later date!

Have you tried any of the La Croisette collection?



Jubilation Celebrations

Hey everyone!

Well, unless you were living under a rock, you will know that it was the Queen's Diamond jubilee last week. The UK was awash with jubilee limited editions of virtually everything. Vaseline lip therapy, M&Ms, Clarins Hand Lotion.... the list goes on (and on.)

Anyways, the one limited edition product that struck my eye was the gorgeous, glittering Nails Inc Jubilee top coat. Observe:-

I took pics of Jubilee in various different lights so you guys can see just how beautiful it is! Jubilee is a red, blue and silver glitter in a clear varnish. I layered it over some blue, red and white nail paints to achieve a full on, patriotic look! These varnishes are: Rimmel I <3 Lasting Finish in Azure (blue), Nails Inc Milan (red) and Barry M Nail Paint in Matt White. I particularly love how Jubilee looks layered on top of the Matt White, as it really makes the colours of the glitter 'pop'.

And of course, the jubilee celebrations wouldn't have been complete without cake! I recently received a Jubilee special edition of Cake Decorating magazine, which had these beautiful cupcake wrappers and flags, and Sainsburys had the blue, red and white non-pareils on special offer! Here are my home made Jubilee cupcakes:-

So I'd like to know, how did you celebrate her Maj's jubilee?

Another 99p manicure!

Remember the star spangled manicure that I did here? Well, I was in my local branch of discount bookstore The Works and was rummaging around the crafts section when I find these:-

Wiggle eyes! Or Goggly Eyes, which is what I know them as1 I used to make silly greetings cards with these stuck on them when I was in primary school! Fast forward 21 years and I still have a use for these little suckers...

My Monster Mani!

Here are the varnishes that I used: Pinky finger - No 7 Stay Perfect Poolside Blue, Ring finger- OPI Did It On 'Em, Middle finger- Rimmel 60 Seconds Blue My Mind, Index finger- Ciate Paint Pot Jelly Bean.

I don't know why my pinky looks so solemn! 

Monsters Inc was the inspiration behing my ring finger.





What'ya lookin' at?

Needless to say, this was the easiest mani to do! A lick of paint, and then a tiny bit of nail glue to fix the eyes down! I used the Models Own nail art pens to add the details. Simples!

There was also a pack of wiggle eyes with eyelashes available at The Works so keep your googly eyes on my page to see them soon!