New York 2013 Nail Polish Haul

It's been a week since I left New York. After recovering from jet lag and a cold, I finally got up in time to catch the sun and take some pictures of the polish I brought back with me! Even as I type this, the sun has completely disappeared, so I was pretty lucky to get up when I did! I tried to be really selective about what I purchased since I won't be able to resell them from the UK. So, this first group of polishes are ones that I've left at my parent's house (either because they are pink - I don't really like pink - or because they were similar to ones I already have) and the second group are polishes that I brought back with me.

Polishes in NY

I don't have the names of these because

I took the pictures and didn't write the names down

From my friend, Tina

Rimmel (from Tina), OPI (from Gina) and I purchased the Maybelline

From Tina

From Tina

From my sister, Michelle

From my sister, Michelle

Polishes that I brought back with me

Muztagh Ata (from Sheila), Mount Cangyan (from Ashley), 

Azure Caverns, Epidote, Darkest Storm

Uva and Pizarra (from SH Tan)

Magnum Opus and Mink (from Michelle)

Gothiqua, Boudicca (from Tina), Swarm (from Tina) and Dedicate

A Little Fishy Told Me and Vampires Suck

Passion Shift and Flibberti-Gibbet

Blood of the Mountain, Olea Europaea and Harlequin Doll

Petra and Minuit (which was my first purchase at Duty Free)

Tank Tops & Flip Flops (from Tina), enJOYmint and Forget You Not

Embellished Blues, If You've Got It Haunt It, 

Lots of Lux (from Gary) and Purple Confetti (from Tina)

Lucciole and Reveillon

Color Club Art Club polishes

Wicked Trio!!!

All of Time and Space (from Gina)

 And my first polish purchase back in the UK

Zodiac and Blackheart

I've used several of these already and so far, I've loved them all! 

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Superficially Colorful Lacquer Daring

Wow! A blog post? What's going on?? Well, I took pictures of this amazing polish and I couldn't just pick one to put on my Facebook page (where I post a lot more often). This is the amazing thermal polish called Daring from Superficially Colorful Lacquer! First up, here are the two main colors of the polish:

*all pictures taken with flash!*

When applied, it's orange but with the heat of your 

fingers, it turns yellow.

Put your fingers under some cold water, and the 

polish turns orange!

Beautiful sparkely polish!

Now, the thing that I love most about this polish is the way it looks when it's both yellow AND orange! It's truly amazing. I took lots of pictures of this part!

SO BEAUTIFUL! Obviously, the same effect will happen when you go out in the cold then come back into a warm building but since it's not that cold here yet, I just had to run my nails under cold water. Although, even as I'm typing this, there is some orange right on the tip of my nails, so it won't be long until it's cold enough to see more drastic changes without cold water. I have a few more of these and I can't wait to try them!

These aren't for sale at the moment but check out (and like!) the Superficially Color's Facebook page to see if she ever changes her mind!

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Check out my guest post for Smashley Sparkles, that's gone up today! It's Koh Jewel!

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Go check out my guest post over at My Nail Polish Obsession. It's a brown holographic comparison between Enchanted Polish Hot Chocolate, Layla Coffee Love, OPI DS Illuminate and Cirque Never Nude! Go like her page over on Facebook, as well!

What's In My Bag? Radley Grosvenor in Purple

Last year, I made my first big (for me) handbag purchase. I bought the Radley Grosvenor Medium Satchel bag in purple. It was love at first site. I've LOVED it and I've been so happy that I got it! It's a beautiful purple (which is my favorite color) and everyone has said it's a very ME color bag! Here's a picture of the bag when I got it last year:

Awwww, look at the puppies! I had to take the puppies off the bag because they kept falling off the leather straps and I didn't want to lose them. The bag has very little sign of wear in the year that I've had it. The stitching has come a little undone on the handle but nothing that would mean it'd come apart or anything like that. The picture above is probably more color accurate than the pictures I took today.

 

Yeah, it's pretty jam packed! I usually have my phone and tissues in the front pockets, just so I can have easy access to them (the tissues, especially, since it's allergy season for me!)

I usually have some lip products and perfume in my bag...

 Little compact mirror, mini manicure set (in white) and various hair clips...

My three year old Samsung Jet with scratches on screen protector...

 I usually have my camera with me...

Little Gorjuss bag...

Generic Zyrtec, mini glass file, nail clipper, pain meds for headaches,

mini lotion and mini L'Occitane Cherry Blossom solid perfume...

Animal sunglasses and Strawberry Tic Tacs...

Tissues, FAB lotion (fragrance free!) and my Fossil wallet....

Lots of places for cards! And that picture of Ethan has been in

my various wallets for 7 years!

Another reason I love this wallet is because there's lots of room

for coins, which is a must in the UK as there are no £1 notes/bills

and they (and £2) come in coins and build up really quickly...

Overall, I love the bag. However, I don't tend to carry it with me when I know I'll be out and walking around all day because it does tend to slip off my shoulder quite a lot (I'm guessing because it's an all leather strap?) and because there's not THAT much room in the bag. The only thing that's not in any of these pictures are my keys because I don't tend to have them in my bag unless I'm going out! 

What's in YOUR bag?

NOTD on Facebook.

On Sunday, I started a new feature over on my Facebook page with just a simple Nail of the Day post. My blog has 15 followers and I have 148 likes on my FB page. So, in order to reach more people, I thought that maybe a NOTD post would be easier for me to do than a full blog post a couple of times a week, which I wasn't really doing anyway.

This week, I've shared 6 manicures. They have been: Illamasqua Stance with Lynnderella Garden of Even, Illamasqua Omen and then Illamasqua Omen with Illamasqua Poke dots the following day, Cirque Alter Ego, NerdLacquer Event Horizon and today I posted Dior Diablotine.

I've also been showing pictures of my tortoise, Fluffy, trying out some new foods. Go check Fluffy out and let me know what you think of this new feature! Thanks!