Models Own Beetlejuice Collection: Pinky Brown

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Today I put on Models Own Pinky Brown, for the Beetlejuice collection.

This is a really beautiful polish, in some lights it’s an olive gold, in others a burnished orange, then a dusty pink and a deep purple. In this photo you can see the olive gold  on the right of my middle finger, the orange near the cuticle and the purple/pink near the tip.

Here’s a shot with flash that I think really shows the purple flash and just how much this polish really sparkles.

Now, a few more pics!

Today I decided to add two close ups since this polish looks so different in different lights.  First a flash shot:

Next, in natural light!

I rally loved this polish, and I just hope that my pictures did it justice.

Thanks for reading,

Jen xx

Models Own Beetlejuice Collection: Golden Green

Today I decided to wear Models Own Beetlejuice Collection: Golden Green. I applied 3 coats which all dried quickly, and then topped it off with Models Own Top Coat.

Golden Green Beetle is a chartreuse green which flashes either a golden olive green or a bluey green.

In this photo you can see both colours.

The golden flash is really quite strong

The Bluey green is slightly less strong but is still relatively easily visible.

Here’s a weird angle to show it better

I really, really like this colour it’s very beautiful and I can’t stop twisting my nails and looking at it!

So far I am really impressed with this collection and I’m very happy that I got them! Are any of you getting any of these colours?

Hope you enjoyed this post, thanks for reading,

Jen xx

Models Own Beetlejuice Collection Preview.

Today I recieved the Models Own Beetlejuice Collection so here’s a preview of the colours.

It’s got to be said, I am so happy that I got these, they’re lovely.

First up is Pinky Brown Beetle. Looking at the bottle I can see red, pink, orange and an olive green.

Aqua Violet Beetle. The main colours in this are aqua and violet (weird right?)But there seems to be a little pink flash in there too.

Purple Blue Beetle. This is the one I’m currently wearing and it’s really nice. The overall base is a grey colour, but it flashes a rich purple, a fuchsia or a minty blue. It’s truly gorgeous!

Golden Green Beetle. This is a chartreuse green colour that flashes Emerald green and gold.

Emerald Black Beetle. It seems black but it flashes dark blue and green.

This is an awesome collection and all of the colours except Pinky Brown can be found at: http://www.modelsownit.com/

Thanks for reading, and I really hope you enjoyed this post.

Swatches of Purple Blue will be up later!

Jen xx

Rimmel Hard Edged

Today I have Rimmel Hard Edged to show you. I was in poundland the other day when I spotted some nail varnish that was new, so I popped over to take a look. I ended up choosing 2 colours, one was a  dark blackened blue which I’ll show later, but the other was Rimmel Hard Edged, as soon as I picked it up I knew I had to have it did I just see duochrome prettyness?! I took my purchases home and immediately whipped out Hard Edged to try it. Once it was on my nails I realised that I had been right:

Her in the bottle, you can see it’s a gorgeous shimmery red-purple colour, but in some places it’s a bronzey green.

Here it is on my nails.

This was so glowy on my nails, and I couldn’t stop looking at it!

At this angle, you can see and olive-greenish colour:

Thanks for reading, hope you liked it,

Jen xx

Nail Fail

Now, this is more of a top coat  fail than me not liking how it turned out. I started out with two coats of Revlon Lunar, an opaque black creme:

Now, there’s a makeup shop where I live (aptly called, The Makeup Shop) which sells these cool looking polishes by a brand called True Lover.  The other week I found this one in there :

It is a lime green, with a peachy pink shimmer/pearl

It has no name, just a number, 50. I tried wearing this on it’s own, but it is ridiculously sheer and it made my nails look weird. However, I have wanted to try it over black, and see if the pink shimmer came out so I added a coat over the black.

On top of the black it really came to life. In some lights it has a greenish-gold sheen. Whilst in others, you can really see the pink:

Now, after all of this is when I got some problems. My topcoat had gotten old and a bit gloopy but I hadn’t gotten a new yet. I added the top coat and it looked lovely, and shiny, but then after about 10 minutes I glanced down and it honestly looked like my nails had gotten some kind of horrible rash they were full of lumpy bubbles. It looked horrible so I immediately removed it and did something else which I’ll post either later or tomorrow.

Alligator Print

To start with I applied two coats of 2True Fast Dry Shade 4 Which is a lovely bright pea soup colour, with a very fine silvery shimmer. It is slightly greener in real life than it is showing here:

After that, I stamped the alligator print from Bundle monster plate Bm 224 using Calvin Klein Emerald Green:

Emerald Green is gorgeous, and in real life it has an emerald green shimmer which shows up in the stamping, but I couldn’t capture it in pictures.

Hope you enjoyed this, and thanks for reading!

Jen xx

GOSH Ocean

Today I have GOSH Ocean to show you. It’s a gorgeous seafoam green colour. It has a foil finish and so it does slightly show brush strokes but once it’s dried they aren’t that noticeable. Here it is with two coats:

What I really love about this colour is that is slightly duochrome. In sunlight flashes of bright electric blue show up:

Whenever I wear this I can’t stop looking at my nails.

Hope you liked it,

Jen xx

Calvin Klein Emerald Green

The other day I fancied wearing green. I checked out all of my greens ( there really aren’t that many,which I’m sad about) and finally decided to wear  Emerald Green by Calvin Klein. Its a gorgeous Emerald Green Shimmer

After putting it on I decided I wanted to add an accent ring finger, but wasn’t sure what to add to it. I then remembered some random nail varnish that my Mam had bought me somewhere for 50p.

This is by Technic and is a sheer golden tinted polish with glitter in it. Some of the glitter is pale gold and some is pale green which is why I thought it would look good on top of Emerald Green.

Here they are together, and I was really happy with how they turned out:

It’s slightly blurry as it shows the green glitter on the ring finger better.

I love getting nail varnish as present, I love the surprise of trying new ones and not knowing what they’ll be like. I purchased Emerald Green from Fragrance Direct but sadly it’s not on there any more.

Jen xx

Rainbow Leopard print

At the beginning of June me and my boyfriend went to a folk festival for the weekend with a friend. It was AWESOME! Real ale, sun and live music!

Anyway I wanted to wear something funky that would hopefully last the weekend so I wore this:

From cuticle to tip the colours I used are:

A random Colour Works purple

Sally Hansen Glow

Revlon Strawberry Electric

Sally Hansen Flash

NYX Girls Banana Boat

Then a top coat, I use Revlons top coat. Then I stamped the leopard print with Konad Black and M57, and my Koonad top coat so it wouldn’t smear.

I knew I wanted to add some sparkle since I was expecting some sun so I added two coats of Pourjois Paillettes disco which is an awesome holographic glitter. Another top coat to smooth everything out and dry it quicker and I was done.

I got loads of compliments wearing this and it was surprisingly easy to do. What do you guys think?

Jen xx