GlossyBox nail varnishes. O.P.I and Ciate.

So in June and July's Glossybox I received some nail varnishes.
In July's box I got Ciate in Kitten Heels and in June's box I got O.P.I in Coronation.


Now the Ciate is full size and the O.P.I was a mini.
Now I have never used Ciate before but I was very impressed.
I am not normally a red nail varnish kind of girl but what I liked about Ciate was the coverage.
Two coats was all I needed and it dried quickly too.

Plus it had a flat, wide brush which made applying Ciate a doddle.

The kitten heels shade also had a gold shimmer running through it, which for me made the colour more likeable.

Now I have used O.P.I for years and love the brand. So I was very excited to get a glitter nail varnish. YAY GLITTER.
Now Coronation on it's own is very beautiful, but because the silver base is not very transparent it just doesn't work over other nail varnish.
This is a huge shame because it had some many gorgeous types of glitter in. Something you don't get to see very often in glitter nail varnish.
However. It's coverage was great and it looks fantastic even on it's own.


This is what the varnishes looked like on my nails.
O.P.I on my index.
Ciate on my middle and both on my ring finger.
(Sorry about my stubs. I have had a few nail breakages recently.)

I definitely think that I will be purchasing some new Ciate nail varnishes in the near future.
Not only is the brand good but did you see the cute little bow on the bottle. Divine. :)
But with O.P.I I may just stick with the more jazzy colours.

You can get O.P.I from www.opi.com/ and you can get Ciate from www.ciate.co.uk/

Yes this post contains actually glitter.

So after a small time away from the blog.

I'm back.

Hopefully better then ever.

*Crosses fingers*

So you might of noticed I have tinkered a little bit with the blog design.

I have decided to go for something a little bit simpler.

So I hope you like the new look.

I'm still tweaking parts of it has we speak but let me know if you like the new design.

So back to the post in hand.

On Thursday I went to Manchester for a visit and I ended up buying what may be the most me product I have ever found.

The NYX Glitterati cream pallet.

21 glitter gels in one beautiful palette.

Now every one knows anything glitter wise is very me.

And this I couldn't resist.

Now has you can see, it has most colours of glitter in here. So no worrying about if my glitter will clash with my outfit or make up.

Now it is a glitter gel.

So it doesn't dry quickly so it's can be hard to layer and get full coverage of glitter.

So if your looking for that I wouldn't bother with this.

But for just a hint of glitter. To highlight key areas it's amazing.

You can use on your face, body and even your hair.

Here is how a few colours look.

Now you can see the lack of coverage but because the glitter is mixed with a gel. You can easily put more glitter on top without having to put more adhesive (Aka vaseline or moisturizer) on.

However when you spread the glitter gel thinly it dries really well. Making it a great body glitter.

For me.

The glitter palette is going to be one of those products I get out again and again because it is so useful.

For highlighting and for jazzing up make up.

For price and the use I'm going to get out of it.

It is well worth it.

But if you want to try the glitter out. You can buy a small palette with five colours in.

Available from Urban outfitters.

http://www.urbanoutfitters.co.uk/nyx-glitter-palette/invt/5763429300005/&bklist=icat,5,shop,womens,womensaccessories,wmakeup

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The Kesha look.

Hey Bloggers

Hope you have had a great day.

As anyone who reads or follows the blog knows, Today I had to dress up has Kesha for work.

I know quite a few people were eager to see the results.

Now I changed my make up idea at the last minute.

Mainly so I could get on the bus to work without fear of being completely ridiculed.

So eye make up.

I used my Urban decay palette for this goth/rocker look.

I used Uzi (white on all the lid and then added Loaded (Dark green) and put the beautiful psychedelic sister (Deep dairy milk purple) on top of that to help build up the layers and give a more grunge feel to the eyes.

I then finished off the look with Urban Decay eyeliner in Ransom under the eyes.

Barry M liquid eyeliner and some pencil eyeliner on the waterline.

Plus some Avon supershock mascara for dramatic lashes.

For the nails I decided to clash the purple of my eyes with a emerald green nail varnish.

I used Barry M number 284.

I love this colour and this time I remembered a base coat. :)

This is what I looked like when I got on the bus this morning.

It took a lots of backcombing to get my fringe that high.

I take my hat off to Jedward doing that everyday.

So full of costume jewellery and more rips and tears to my clothes then you can shake a stick at.

I toddled off to work.

This last part of my make up had to be done there.

(Yes I have just realised that you can see my torso of the week of Jenson Button in the background. A fit fail there)

Now I know in this photo there is two things which make me look bad.

One: The light in the bathroom at work does make me look green.

and two: This is the most serious pose I have ever done. I also look a bit deranged. But it's the best photo to show the whole look.

I just added some blue eyeshadow to my lips to finish off the Kesha make up look.

I hopefully looked OK.

Fingers crossed.

Just one word of warning.

If you do try this look at home.

You will need a long bath to wash off all the glitter.

And you will need to use a hair mask on your hair.

Because this will have to be tamed.