A classic - (in verse)

There's a polish I saw on the net
That I never thought that I'd get
I guess it's a classic
But I was boracic
And I haven't figured out a fifth line.....yet

CG Classic Camel. 2/3 coats. Quite thick but not horrendously so. Another fugly. I must show you my beloved fuglies some day. From Raven Cosmetics on a BOGOF. I got 3 CG and an OPI for £13.48 including P&P.

Any guesses as to which OPI? Clue: it's a green.

Jenni

Ya wanna see my boudoir?

My mini Vivienne Westwood Boudoir. How much do I love this? Way more than Vince Disneur loved Jim (Apprentice reference). So that's quite a lot. I have 4!

Really, I shouldn't have posed it against a backdrop of IKEA filing-cabinet. It deserves something far more exotic but hey ho.

Mandarin, tobacco flower, vanilla are just a few of the constituents.

I succumbed to Lemony Flutter. The sales staff in LUSH are so persuasive though. I spent £20 on random stuff that I didn't intend to.

Now, who is working on smello-vision? Because beauty blogging NEEDS it. Imagine that I could transmit the odeur of Boudoir and LF to you as you read this nonsense riveting stuff. How powerful a sales weapon would that be???? Coz these two babies are strong. The fragrance force is strong within them. They shall not be denied.

Can someone explain why smello-vision does not/CANNOT be perfected?

Jenni

2true Crystal Lip Gloss 3

I don't even like lipgloss but Superdrug had 3 2true items for £4.99 plus any lipgloss FREE so I had to have one....

It's quite funky for a lipgloss (which, did I mention, is a product I've no time for).
Sticky? Yes.
Sweet, sickly smell? Yes.
But I kinda like it.

When I say I like it I don't mean on ME but I like it conceptually. As it's sparkly.

What products do absolutely nothing for you but you know everyone else raves about them/it?

Jenni

Leighton Denny Diamond Diva

Not too shabby.

Jenni

Bourjois Rose Corset

 

• It isn't rose.Well, roses can be this kinda shade but when we say 'rose' we don't think of this colour, do we?
• It has nothing whatever to do with corsets that I can think of.
• 2 or 3 coats
• Great Bourjois thick quality
• Love the Bourjois brush
• It's one of the shades du jour

Jenni
Is Bourjois too expensive? Discuss. Sorry to be so bossy.

Leighton Denny Diamond Ivory - almost same as yesterday but not...

The Sally Hansen Gel Cuticle Remover I bought really does remove cuticles but it also dries skin quite a bit. Has to be expected, I suppose, on the omelette-broken-egg principle.

The yellow nail is where I tried to introduce a little opacity with some gold polish but it didn't work. Or I just lost interest. I love this LD nevertheless and, if you have nice skin and nails, it would make you look very polished and professional. Now that's not at all how I see myself 99% of the time but you have to buck the trend (even your own trend) occasionally.

It was so sheer that I GOSH Rainbowed it and mattified. But the polish is still swoon-worthy.

Jenni

Leighton Denny Diamond Rose

 

A tweet by Cali of Polishtopia (http://polishtopia.blogspot.com/) alerted me to the presence of LD on sale at TK Maxx. I've always wanted to try his stuff so this was my chance and I love it.

Diamond Ivory and Diamond Rose for £9.99. Above is Rose with GOSH Rainbow and mattified. OK, OK, it's sheer as a Hamburg whore's camisole (and I've BEEN to the Reeperbahn so I know this) and my dodgy, yellowed nails just can't tolerate that kind of exposure but it's just.....unutterably glorious polish. After 4 coats I had to add something to it but I love it. Everything. Finish, formula, bottle, handle, brush.

Hurrah for discount shops.

What's on your wish list for a product you may just try one day. Not something crazy like that Rodial Snake Serum at £125 but realistic.

Jenni

My Lena-style rant...

Lena is so good at this. I'll give it my best shot but I don't think I have the vitriol a teenager naturally possesses. My vitriol gave out a while ago. Sad but true.

Promo pix

• That's what gets my goat. Promo pix. How many times the last 2 days have I seen the new China Glaze crackle metals on my dashboard? Too damned many.
• Is it just me or do other people find these pix bore them rigid?
• I'd love to see some swatches. Show me some swatches. Actually I lie. China Glaze bring out some more crackles? I could get more excited about a re-run of the Royal Wedding with subtitles in Dutch. I might learn something.
• In general though I do like to see swatches of new collections. Because polish when applied to the nail looks different in different contexts - light, skin colour, number of coats etc etc. So swatches are worth a thorough examination.
• But a teeny picture of a bottle of nail polish just doesn't do it for me. And 6 teeny pictures is 6 times WORSE! Maybe this means I'm not as much of a nail fan as I thought....

Go on then. Play devil's advocate and argue in favour of promo pix. IF YOU CAN! Ha! You can't, can you. Ha!

Jenni

PS
This is how a professional teenager rants.
http://thestudentsguidetonailpolish.blogspot.com/2011/05/epic-rant-social-networking.html

TOWIE

The only way is ETHICS (not what you were thinking huh?). OK, here's my ethical dilemma.

http://www.just-nice-things.co.uk/2010/04/15/gosh-holographic/

This is a photo of it on Helen's lovely nails. If you have this polish you should read her post because I didn't find this an easy polish to work with (impossible actually) and Helen tells you how to avoid the pitfalls. Thanks, Helen, for permission to use your pic.)

Yesterday I found 2 bottles of GOSH Holographic in Superdrug. Looks like they've been storing them in the dirty laundry basket since Methuselah was a lad but unused bottles they are nonetheless. I think they may have a supply that they dripfeed slowly onto the display.

So my plan is/was this - ebay them, hope to exceed the fiver I spent on each of them, spend the resulting profit on something I want. I tweeted my delight at finding them because I know they are fetching above RRP on ebay but my pleasure was short-lived. Why?

Well,  I realised that there a lot of polish enthusiasts out there who didn't manage to get this polish when it was readily available and can't now easily afford or justify the prices these are commanding on ebay. Many (no, MOST) readers and bloggers are a lot younger than I and consequently less well-off and I began to feel rather guilty.

On the one hand I don't want to rip people off (but nobody forces you to buy polish and it's not quite like elevating grain prices in the developing world) but on the other hand there is a market for this and I'd like some more cash to splash as I'm having to be particularly careful at the moment because of my mother's nursing home fees (but is it OK for me to capitalise on my credit card to drive speculation?).

Plus I have another of these I only used once...

What do you think are the rights and wrong in this?

Jenni

2true 28

Juicy jelly finish. 2/3 coats. My first little 2true pot as opposed to slimline cylinder. Yet another great polish. Subtle glass fleck/microglitter what-have-you.

I have raved about this brand so much that eyebrows have been raised and suspicions aroused (glad it wasn't aroused eyebrows) that I am showing (perhaps) unwarranted enthusiasm for 2true. I'd like to say that I am not now nor have ever been a FIFA executive and am consequently uncorrupted.

Not that I haven't tweeted the odd hint to 2true and beautyuk and GOSH that they might just like to send me some stuff. But, not entirely unsurprisingly, no packages have winged their way to me.

I actually like buying my own stuff. Independent type, me.

How much of what you feature do you buy with your own hard-earned?

Jenni