ASOS - Sale and My Haul

ASOS have a sale at the moment and I took full advantage of this at the weekend. I spent wayyyy too much, but it was for colours and makes I could not otherwise justify buying. For example the Illamasqua which retails at £12.50 - sale £5 to £6.50, OPI £9.95 - sale £4-£6. I bought a few, and hope to swatch some in the near future. I also bought some ASOS Paints by Ciaté, A Barry M, Models Own and some Eyeko. Naughty me :o) But I have a chest infection, bad cough and cold so this retail therapy really made me happy (not my purse strings though).

I ordered Saturday and they came today. I must say their packing was not the best. All bottles were in a bag padded by the big plastic bubble wrap and that's it! One bottle of my OPI has a chip in it, but other than the rest were ok. Overall I am happy.

LA Girl Flare, Flushed

Here is the first manicure saved and ready to share with you all. A beautiful summery bright orange shade by LA Girl, Flare Collection, called Flushed, and boy is it show stopping. I loved this colour on in the summer when I had a healthy glowing colour to me. This is on Nails that I cut down a week earlier, but it still looked pretty on my shorter nails.

OPI - Purple with a Purpose

This is OPI - Purple with a Purpose. A gorgeous colour and I love it, shame my camera did not capture the colour correctly??Taken with my Pentax Optio camera, that I use for my nail photography, the colour does not come out as is?? What do I have to change on settings to make it right?These two photo's were taken with my mini-corder and the colour is as true to life as can be.

OPI - Vampire State Building & Nail Growth

I am going to try to catch up with manicures worn this past month. You will find two posts per day so that I can catch up!

This first manicure was worn way back on 10th September....

"I decided to wear an "oldie" today. I have not worn this colour in ages and wanted a dark colour and chose this one. I have had it several years and it is still in very good condition, but you can tell that the OPI formula has changed. This was three coats and I still had bald patches. I may have been too impatient applying but I couldn't be bothered to put on another coat and had to be happy with it as is. None the less, I still like this colour. And look at how much my nails have grown in just a month. Yaaayyy! :o)"

Nail Length and Condition

Hello all, sorry for being away for so long, but you know kids and work commitments do sometimes get in the way of my blogging. I hope to be on top of it now. Have some saved manicures to share with you all in the next few days and after that I hope to post my weekly manicures as I do them!

This post is about my nails and the length and condition of them. I have to say that they have been very good this past few months, and have managed to cut them back quite a few times now. They seem to have been growing quite nicely and at quite some pace and am very pleased with them.

These photo's are of them as at 12 August 2010. Not a bad length and the condition is good. There is not much discolouration as I have not worn dark colours so they look quite white?

Then I thought, right start again, and cut them back, and this is the length I end up with.Not a bad length, and I am sure they will grow back.