6months

HelloBeauties,

I have written a thank you post before so sorry if it's a bit boring for you all however, my blog turned 6 months old on the 29th of march, in that short space of time I have gained an amazing 98 followers.

In all honesty I can not believe it, and I am so grateful everyday for the time you take

to read, comment and follow, thank you so much, here's to the next 6!!

thank you kindly,

Love,

Belle.x

Nice Stems

Hello Lovelies,

Today I have an OPI review for you all, from the minis collection called 'Nice Stems'

'Nice Stems' comes aptly packaged in faux flower pot cardboard packaging, 

 it is such a cute touch and would make a brilliant gift for someone.Housed inside this faux flower pot are four mini polishes perfect for spring.

I love absolutely every single polish in this set and love the fact that they are minis

I never actually finish a whole nail polish, do you?

Each polish has a suitable name and a slight glimmer.

Although I am not usually a fan of frost or shimmer in nail polishes I surprisingly enjoyed all four. 

When the sun hits them you have summer at your fingertips!

'I Lilly Love You' 

This sparkly pink has large iridescent foil glitter and small iridescent glitter particles in it.

It catches the sunlight beautifully and looks great over any colour nail polish, 

especially pink. My only problem is that the larger glitter particles are sometimes too large.

 

'Be a Dahlia Won't You'

Has to be my favourite out of all four, it is a beautiful fuchsia pink with definite blue glitter particles.

It has such a dashing blue undertone, it would be such a perfect lip colour.

It looks great with or without a tan and would be great at winter as well as summer.

The pictures do not do this justice, I will be buying the full size version, I urge you to swatch this :)

 

'Come to Poppy'

Has to be my now go to coral shade, it is a warm coral with golden shimmer particles.

It looks great in the sunshine and really does brighten up my day. 

At first glance it seemed quite Granny-ish and I'm sure alot of people would agree with this,

although paired well with jewellery and clothing turns into a lovely shade!

'Play the Peonies'

Has to be my least favourite shade out of all four, it is an iridescent light milky pink almost white shade, considering my own skin without a tan is near this description it does not look so good on me!

Although after recently swatching the Kim Kardashian shades for OPI 

- I have found it to be rather similar although not as opaque.

I have found alot of people enjoying this shade during the spring, so once I have applied a tad of St.Moritz I shall test it out!

Over all I found all four shades to apply nicely, streak free and quick drying.

The coral and the pink shades were opaque after 2 coats

The white and the glitter opaque after 3 coats.

Unfortunately with all glitter/shimmer polishes they are rather difficult to remove.

Although I promise these are worth it!

You can purchase the minis set from here for £9.99 which is a bargain 

- considering the full size bottles are £13.50 each!

Have you tired the 'Nice Stems' collection or own any from the range?

Love,

Belle.x

Pink on the Lips of your Lover

Hello Beautiful Beauties, I hope you're all Blooming well.

Today I have got a beautiful new collection to share with you.

No.7 for Boots have launched a lovely spring collection to get you in the mood for the warmer months to come. They have named it 'Vital Brights'.

Very apt if you ask me, bright colours are really what I am after to ready me for spring and summer.

The packaging of the whole range is beautiful and has 'Vital Brights' written all over it, the flowers which adorn the paper and plastic packaging are just so pretty and so spring!

The colours chosen for the pretty flowers are perfect for spring 

(not too coral and not too pink, for me that would border more on a summer collection)

 

The box has a handy little sticker on the top lid with the name of the product with it's colour co-ordinating background. Very handy for if you wanted to store it in it's box standing side by side like alot of people do with their beauty products.

 

 The product that draw me in the most was one of the two lipsticks in this collection, 

springly named 'Blooming Pink'

I love the packaging of the lipstick, a sturdy white squared plastic casing.

It stands out so well in my handbag, makeup bag and storage box amongst my other lipsticks.

 

To me the gold casing that is revealed when removal of the lid makes it classy,

and the white outer casing makes it feel timeless.

The lipstick itself is a stong mid pink. 

It leans lilac in bullet form and has a clear blue undertone.

I feel that the lipstick translates more as a gloss on the lips rather than a lipstick,

however you can build it up to an opaque finish with two or three swipes if you wish to have a bolder shade appearance.

Blooming Pink once applied leaves a sheer pink gloss to the lips and has a slight vanilla scent which is almost undecetable once applied.

Here I am sporting 'Blooming Pink' on a lovely warm spring day yesterday :)

you can purchase this beautiful shade along with the second shade 'Blossoming Pink' and the rest of the spring range at a Boots store or online at Boots. 

(unfortunatley online they have the shades mixed up?!)

The lipstick retails at £10, at the moment there are lots of £5 off vouchers floating around for No.7 so if you have one of those this lipstick will be a mere £5!

Love,

Belle.x