Catherine Arley ~ 666 - with fail dots!

Catherine Arley ~ 666

Dusty berry coloured holo

Here’s another one of the Catherine Arley polishes from my sweet friend Aylin from Posh Nail Art.

I was quite thrilled with the first one, so when the sun came out for just a little while, I was eager to try another one! I just used my regular base coat and the polish just glided on. No problems with dragging or anything, not even on coat number two! The coverage is really good, and this was almost a one coater. I applied two anyway, just because I wanted to.

Here’s what that looks like in the sun:

And from a slightly different angle:

I really like the look of this in the sun. The holo isn’t hugely prominent but is enough to make a difference, if you know what I mean.

I took a picture in the shadow too, so you can see how this polish looks under those conditions: 

 

 As you can see, it turns out quite dusty! That’s why I had to do some nail art on it. I tried a dotticure, but I failed :/ I’m going to post it anyway, to make this a learning experience. I saw something like this on another blog, I can’t remember which one, and thought it would be cool. But either I’m not good enough at it, or my nails are too small to even make the attempt. I go for the latter :D  I used Nail Pop “Glamrock”, shade 14. It’s a deep magenta glitter in a blackened base. I bought it when I was in London over Easter. I topped it with a layer of Catrice “Quick Dry & High Shine” topcoat.

Enough with the talking. Here’s one picture of my failed mani.

It looks as if I attempted to do nail art while being drunk, LOL! I can assure you that it isn’t the case, just please bear with me, okay? :D

Opacity: 8/10
Colour, prettiness: 8/10
Durability: 8/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 8.5/10
Buy again: Yes

London haul

I spent a week in London recently, and I enjoyed every minute of it. I visited a lot of different sights, saw a lot of things and did also get time to do a bit of shopping. I was asked to show my London haul, but it has taken a bit of time to get the polishes I bought sorted out, since I also bought polishes for swaps and for a couple of friends. 

But - here's the haul that I think I'm going to keep: 

The haul

There's a lot, isn't there?! Let me show you a bunch of them up close.

First there's four Fashionista polishes. It's a brand that's new to me, and I loved these four colours:

Fashionista: Ruby Slippers, Laila, Jet Set & Mystical Dragon

Invogue is another brand I haven't tried before. This is a series of suedes, and I've seen beautiful swatches of these on other blogs.

Invogue: Hot Gossip, Sophisticated & Emerald Dust

Kiko! These five are from their collection of mirror-polishes. They're highly pigmented and no less than perfect for stamping.

Kiko Mirrors: 616, 618, 621, 622 & 625

Kiko Sugar Matt! I bought all the shimmery ones except for the pink one. I regret now that I didn't buy that as well! :/

Kiko Sugar Mat: 643, 644, 645, 646

And three more Kikos. These three are from their Celebration LE series. Again, these are the shimmery ones from the collection.

Kiko Celebration: 621, 623, 624

Nail Pop. I have never even heard of this brand before, but look at how pretty they are! There's a blue and a orange/green flakie on top of the row, and the other four are glitters.

Nail Pop: Top row: Pearl Effect, Sequin Effect
Bottom row: Catsuit, Dazzle, Glamrock, Dorothy

Two holos from Topshop and a green flakie from Inglot. I already have holos in pink and blue, but can a girl really have too many holos? I think not!

Topshop: Wistful & Moondance. Inglot: 203

The last miscellaneous polishes. Two from No7, which is a brand I haven't tried before, but I've heard that it should be good, so I couldn't leave the purple and the burgundy shimmer alone. And three polishes from Miss Sporty - two glitters and a metallic-ish polish.

Misc No7 and Miss Sporty

That's the polishes that I decided to give you a closer look at. Do you see anything you like? Do you think it's a nice haul? :)

Have a great Sunday, everybody! ♥