July's Nail Polish Haul

I'm so rubbish at blogging at the moment, I just haven't got the time or the energy to do what I'd like to do, so I've been a bit poor at posting any swatches. But I'm still collecting polish and my stash is still growing, and haul photos are something that don't take too much time so at least I can keep up with my monthly haul posts.

This month started off slowly, I was on late shifts so didn't get to the shops much, but the second half of the month included visits to TX Maxx and pound shops, and I got a few bits from ebay.

Exciting finds this month included a sexy red vintage Revlon with flakies in it, some vintage Maybellines, my first essence polishes (my local Wilkinsons has now started stocking them), and my very first Chanel.

Right let's show you what I got then. :-)

OPI - AWoman Prague-ative, Miss Piggy's Big Number, Muppets World Tour, Kermit Me To Speak

Revlon - Heartthrob Red, Typhoon, Pounce, Berry, Fierce

Vintage Vault - My Rimmel Collection

There are three brands that dominate my polish collection, Revlon, Sally Hansen, and Rimmel. Rimmel was the first brand that I really connected with as a teenager, I remember going into Boots and buying my first Rimmel nail polishes. I wasn't into make-up but when I saw the bottles of Mania and Zeitgeist it was love at first sight, and then years later it was the act of trying to replace my gunky bottles that led to my current obsession and huge stash of polish. So I have a bit of a soft spot for the brand, and I do love those super cute rounded bottles.

Anyway, over the last few years I've collected quite a few old Rimmels and thanks to the pound shops I've got a ton of new ones too. I'm not really a fan of Rimmels core colours, to be frank they're soooo boring, but lately they've been issuing some funky limited edition collections so that makes up for it.

Anyways, that's enough yapping, lets get onto the polish porn shall we?....

Utopia, Arabia, Earth Star, Venus, Amazon

Embankment, Life Force, Millennium, Mania, Kinetic

Vintage Vault - My Cutex Collection

Today I thought I'd post some vintage bottle spam.

Last year I was so lucky to find a load of old Cutex polishes in pound shops and charity shops, even though alot of them weren't the type of colours I'd wear I still had to grab as many as I could as I just loved the bottle shapes, and the collector in me just couldn't leave them alone.

I'm not sure when these are from but judging from the colours, formula, and bottle designs, they're probably from the 90's or early 2000's, if you know please get in touch as I'd love to be able to date them properly.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the bottle spam, there's a mix of Color Quick and Strong Nail polishes for you to ogle...

L-R Slime, Mischief, Gold Stripes, Burgundy Blaze

L-R Blushing Rose, Cool Crimson, Carmel Creme, Maple Sugar

My Revlon Zing Collection

Happy Birthday to me, today I'm celebrating being another year older, I plan to play pinball in a localish pub, if the pinball machine is still there. I really love pinball and would love to have my own one day, but for now I'll be happy with any old pinball fix. :-)

As it's my birthday I thought I'd feature my favorite nail polish brand Revlon with one of their most amazing collections, the Color Zing Collection from 2000. When I started getting into polish the Zings went straight to the top of my wishlist, duochromes are my favorite polishes so it was no surprise that I fell head over heels for them. I wouldn't have known about them if it wasn't for Kaz and her posts about them on her Pretty Random blog (see her wonderful swatches here), if you love vintage polish you really should check out her blog, but be warned your wishlist will get bigger. :-)

There is two Zing collections, the black capped ones which are from the US, and the gold capped ones from the UK and EU. Below are the photos of the ones in my collection.

KiwiZing, VioletZing, TangyZing, CitrusZing, RoseZing

November's Nail Polish Haul. :-)

Today we're going to have some bottle spam as I'm feeling lazy, and it's getting hard to do swatches as the light in my house is so bad now it's getting dark really early.

I sold a few old things on ebay last month so I treated myself, my lovely boyfriend got me a couple of things too, isn't he a sweetie. I hadn't got much polish for a few months, so I think I went a little crazy. :-)

Here's pics of my haul, be warned there's a lot!
 

Revlon Jaded, Nordic Sky & Blush Chrome

Revlon Punk, OPI The Living Daylights, Maybelline Aqua, Purple Rage

Vintage polish from my past - Part 1

I've seen a few bloggers talk about their old makeup and I really enjoy those types of posts so I thought I might do a couple of my own, I hope you don't mind looking at manky old make up though!

What I love about posts that talk about vintage makeup is getting to look at how the packaging has changed, and what colours were being made. I also think it's a kind of snapshot of who a person was, I'm going to show you my oldest nail polish that I got when I was around 18 or so in the late 90's and you can tell I liked my bright colours! I hung around with Goths, but I was a cross between an Indie kid and Pop kid, which was a weird mix, so I always stuck out like a sore thumb, but I loved my bright colours, they reflected who I was and how I saw the world.

Anyway, I bet you want to see the old polish right? Let's get to it....

90's Rimmel - Banana Scented, Strawberry Scented, Mania & Zeitgeist

7 Shades Of Blue Round-up

As I did a round up post when I did seven days of green I thought I'd do the same with the blue polishes, it's amazing that after swatching all of these I never got smurf fingers!

You'll have to ignore that my hand looks a different colour in some of the photos, those were taken with a different light source so for some reason my hands look like red. Anyway, enjoy the polish spam....

Day 1 - Maybelline Express Finish - Ocean Blue

Day 2 - Sally Hansen Laquer Shine - Flash

Nail Mail - Vintage Rimmel Haul

Today's a nail mail post, my amazing boyfriend treated me to some polish, I got a load of stuff that I just had to share with you. This post is going to feature the vintage Rimmels I got.

Please be warned this post is picture heavy!

Now as I've mentioned previously I love Revlons, but I also have quite a soft spot for Rimmel as it was one of the first brands of make up I ever bought. There are a couple of oldies that I'm hunting for, but I'd quite like to get all the old ones, they have made some great polishes over the years (although they're pretty dull right now).

I spotted a job lot of 14 Rimmels on ebay, I hadn't seen some of the names before, but  I could see from the photo there were a few nice colours so I thought I'd take a chance on them. There was a bit of a bidding war, but I managed to get them all for £10 including P&P, not bad for 14 polishes!

Enough talking about them, here's some photos for you.

L-R Rimmel 580 Chill Out, 611 Offshoot, 602 Mirror, 592 Industrial

L-R Rimmel 590 Atlantic, 898 Fanatic, 838 Extravaganza, 521 Toffee

Seven Shades of Green Round Up

Here's a swatch from each of the seven days of green, I thought it'd be nice to see all the polishes together in one post. :-)

Day 1 - Maybelline Colorama - Park Green

Day 2 - Sally Hansen Laquer Shine - Glow

Where To Find Cheap Nail Polish

Hi guys,

Whoops, I haven't got round to blogging for ages, I'm back now though. :-)

Today I wanted to talk about the nail polish you can get cheap in the UK if you know where to look.

I'm on a budget as I'm still paying off what I spent on my Masters degree and I'm unemployed, it sucks being skint, but I'm selling stuff on ebay so I can treat myself every now and then.

Now I love seeing all those high end polishes on other peoples blogs, and I'd love to own some one day, but I get my kicks by bargain hunting instead, so instead of £20 for one bottle of Chanel I can get up to twenty bottles instead, just by knowing where to go.

So, where do I go to get my polish fix I hear you ask, well it's a case of finding all the pound (or 99p) shops in your area and checking them out. I have got some great polish from pound shops and it seems most are polishes that are disscountinued. The brands I've found are Me,Me,Me, Rimmel, Maybelline, Revlon and Sally Hansen, Astor, and many more.

Bargain Nail Polish Haul

I went shopping today and I got some nice cheap polish, so I thought I'd share my haul with you.

I always go into pound shops and forget to pick up a basket, it's a pain when you find they've got a lot of good stuff, I'm standing there with all these polishes in my hands and I get to the point where I need to decide which ones to get but I don't want to put them down in case someone else nabs them! Baskets are very handy as I found out today, only problem was that I ended up buying all of the polish in my basket, naughty me!

I got two Maybellines from the market, and from the pound shops I got some more Rimmels for my collection, a random brand I've never seen before, a really old 90's Boots 17, my first Astors, and best of all some Sally Hansen HD's.

I do love being able to get polish that was never released here, it always feels like I've found something special.

Here's a few photos of my bargains, let me know if there's any you'd like me to review.

L-R Sally Hansen - Opal Truth, Collection 2000 - Hot Purple, Boots 17 - Heavenly, Collection 2000 - Shameless, Maybelline - Icy Pink, Maybelline - Missing Label, Active Cosmetics - Pixie

Nail Mail & Market Finds

Happy Valentines, I hope you're all having a lovely day, and if you don't have someone special in your life, that you're treating yourself anyway.

I got some lovely goodies in the mail today and thought I'd share.

Maybelline Colorama Topcoats including two flakies

Look at the flakie goodness!!!

I love flakies, my first flakie polish was Gosh's Rainbow, and I think these are going to look the same over dark colours, but I don't mind, I'm just happy to have some flakies in reserve for when I can't get any in the future. The only problem I have is that I don't want to open the packet!

My Nail Polish Collection

Today I thought I'd post a few photos of my nail polish collection, so this will be a bit of a photo spammy post. Amazingly before Christmas I only had half the amount I have now, but my Dad gave me money for Christmas and I spent it all on nail polish, he thought I was mad, but it's one of the best presents I've ever had, and I had so much fun hunting on ebay for polishes I wanted. My amazing boyfriend also treated me to a few really special polishes, he got me my first O.P.I (Rainbow Connection) and my first Nfu-Oh (#39) I love them both so much and they will always have a special place in my heart.

I kinda split my collection into Revlon, Sally Hansen, Rimmel and odds and sods, so I'll show you my collection like that.

Here are all my Revlons, would you believe that before June last year I only had two Revlons, now I'm obsessed with them and want to try to hunt all the old ones down. I'm also one of the few people that love the bottle shape, I really hope they don't ever change it.

Old Style Revlons including Chromes and Zings