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Lucky Dip Pink Meebox

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Hi Guys, Sorry I've been quiet I've had a bad back and been unable to swatch but I'm back now and I have several blogposts planned for this week. A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to win a giveaway on Instagram which was run but Meebox and @devinenails30 and my prize was a Meebox and some of Devinenails hand painted false nails. My Meebox arrived yesterday and I absolutely love it, if you haven't heard of them they are a monthly nail subscription box and each month come with themed polishes and nail goodies (I will leave links below) The box I won was a Lucky Dip Pink Box which was created for breast cancer awareness and 10% of the sales were going towards the Look Good Feel Better charity. So here is my box - As you can see I got 3 polishes plus some dotting tools, pink ribbon nail vinyls from Nail-Mail, a cnd nail file and some swatch sticks and its all came beautifully wrapped in the most gorgeous tissue paper. The Polishes So the 1st on I

Birchbox October

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Happy Monday Everyone. So I'm going in a different direction today with this post and it's not nails! For the last few months I have been subscribing to Birchbox, for those of you who don't know this is a monthly beauty subscription box with samples of hair, make up and other beauty products. So far I have been really impressed with all of my boxes so I thought I'd share this one with you. This month subscribers could choose between 2 Guest Editor Boxes and I chose the Stylist Birchbox created by Stylists Associate Beauty Editor Joanna McGarry. So here is the box and its contents - 1st up is a Birchbox Exclusive this full size Fruit Pigmented Lip Glaze from 100% Pure. I love this little bullet its so sleek and stylish, The Glaze glides on beautifully its not sticky and didn't leave my lips feeling dry. I also loved the colour as it is very wearable. This is now a handbag must have for me. Travelmate Sheet Mask from When.I have very sensitive skin and

Happy 2nd Birthday Rainbow Connection

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Hello Nail Addicts. I am giving Indie brand of the week a rest this week as I have an extra special post to share with you. My favourite online nail polish shop Rainbow Connection is celebrating it's 2nd birthday. The lovely Annette is celebrating 2 years running RC and it is my go to shop for indie polish. Annette brings us so many lovely indie brands from all over the world and regularly has store exclusives just for us RC girls and guys. In the past few months new brands have also been added to give us even more choice to feed our addiction. To celebrate RCs 2 years some of the stocked brands created exclusive anniversary polishes and I have a few to share with you. I picked the exclusives from 3 of my favourite brands although there are a few more which I need - It's never want when it comes to polish from Annette its NEED!!! So 1st up from Lilypad Lacquer Is Stay Beautiful. Nicole created a gorgeous pale pink holo with larger pink/red glitter flakes. Its a su

Breast Cancer Awareness Manicure

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Happy Sunday Fellow Nail Addicts. Well we're into October and that means pink nails for Breast Cancer Awareness. Some of you may not know that I am a qualified nail technician and for the whole of October I will be donating £1 from all the treatments I perform to Future Dreams a Breast Cancer Awareness Charity. So to start the month of right I decided to Paint in Pink...and yes I put and extra £1 in my collection. So here's how I created my mani.  These are the products I used (I will leave all the links below) The polishes are both CBLs - Fast Girls from Rainbow Connection and Courage, Brains and Heart which I won, my Messy Mansion stamper head in a cheap ebay holder, Moyou White stamping polish, Born Pretty Plate BP26, Some chevron vinyls from She Sells Seashells, Pink Glitter and my Glisten and Glow HK girl topcoat from RC I started by painting my nails with 2 coats of colour, I used CBH on my ring fingers and I left it to dry. Then did one coat of topcoat on a

Paint the Rainbow - Box 2

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Evening Lovelies. I was so excited by the arrival of my 2nd Paint the Rainbow Box that I had to swatch and blog straight away. This is the UK Indie box that the lovely Annette fro Rainbow Connection is putting together and this 2nd box is going to take some beating in my eyes...it is AMAZING!! So this months themes was Children's Books - The 5 polish makers have outdone themselves in my opinion, the polishes are all stunning - each one I swatched became my new favourite I loved them all. The 5 brands featured this month are UK indie Freckles Polish, the 2 permanent contributors US Indies Bear Pawlish and CBL and Aussie Indie Grace-Full Polish and Hong Kong Indie Too Fancy Lacquer - All brands I already know and Love. Somehow this box ended up being a Blue Affair and any of you that know me well know I am a sucker for a blue polish so I was bound to love this box but even I'm surprised by just how much I love them all. So lets get showing these stunners!! An