Nail of the day (Notd) - Kiko Vermillion Red and Blueberry Glitter

Hey LPM lovelies, hope you've had a lovely weekend so far....

Mr LPM was away this weekend, so what did that mean?...it meant a girly weekend vegging out, walking around with scary white facemasks, watching catch up drop dead diva and eating haagen daz cookies and cream ice cream...yummm .....hmmm must get back onto those salads this week.

Continuing on from my last post about Kiko, I thought I would get painting so you guys could see what the colours look like . 

The first one is like a deep hot pink with A LOT of Glitter, which unfortunately is why I'm not so keen on it. It looked lovely in the bottle but just has way too much glitter for me. It's called Blueberry Glitter (I know, I know, it should have been a dead give away with the name) and is number 277. The second one is such a lovely red shade called Vermillion Red and is number 239. I love this shade, it's much brighter than it looks in the picture and is so pretty on.
The colours went on very easily and I got my desired look with just a couple of coats. Now wait for it, they retail for only £2.50!! talk about a bargain.....

p.s  this is my first attempt at taking pictures ....hope they are  ok :-) 
p.s.s does anyone know how I can get rid of these annoying spaces in my text on blogger?!!!

Blueberry Glitter

Vermillion Red

xoxo

Purple Rain, Purple Rain

So as the days get shorter and winter approaches (brrrr i'm shivering just thinking about it) I find myself being drawn to all the darker hues of nail varnishes. I’m still yet to find the perfect black but right now i’m loving the berry shades which are a key trend for autumn winter (as seen in various shows from Gucci to Dior). I recently tried out a Nail’s Inc polish called Piccadilly Circus – they describe it as being a dark cerise – but on me it definitely came out quite purpley… anyway, debates on colours aside, I really liked it. The only annoying thing is you definitely need two coats as well as a top coat if you want it to last at least a week. When I first tried it out, I was in a bit of a rush and just whacked one coat on, and within a couple of days it was quite chipped. Second time round it only started chipping after about 6 days – either way though, I love my purple rain.

#2 I heart Coral and Playing Footsie

The heat is on and there is just something about summer time that makes me embrace my love of all things coral! Not that I need much encouragement, I have been known to beam and run towards anything coral – be it clothes, makeup or nail varnish, then need to be reminded about the number of coral items I already have! What can I say there is just something so pretty about it and there is always a shade to suit most tones.

Anyway today I'm loving the following two nail varnishes. Rimmel’s 60 Seconds Coralicious (aptly named) is just the right shade of pinkish red. It doesn’t quite dry in 60 seconds but it does dry very quickly and has a nice intense colour. It retails at £2.99.

Boots No 7 Speed Dry in Peach Glaze is again aptly named and it’s more of a pinkish orange shade – peach to be precise. Dries quickly and leaves you with a nice shine and tiny gold glitter when you look closely. It retails at £6.10. The best thing about both colours is they lasted for quite a few days and retained their shine – just the perfect thing for brightening up my summer look.

Now speaking of the sun –it’s been rather hot recently and my feet have finally crawled out of all covered shoes and looked like they could do with a bit of TLC, so I finally decided to dig out JML’s Ped Egg. I bought it a little while ago on the advice of a friend who said her feet were so soft post use that she nearly slipped in the shower.
Now I say finally as although I have had it for a while now, I have been slightly nervous about using it due to its strong resemblance to a cheese grater!

So with a bit of trepidation I set to work and a little while later opened the pod and noticed with great satisfaction all the little shavings – hmmm now I wonder if this is some kind of subliminal message to get me to think it works? But no, after using the exfoliation pads to smooth everything out and washing my feet – I’m impressed they are actually really soft on a scale usually achieved at the salon with a professional pedicure.
On the downside though, I have a slight sensitive patch where I got overly keen (they do warn you) and you also need to keep your feet pointed downwards otherwise the shavings start falling out (I kept swinging mine over my knee as I couldn’t see what I was doing properly otherwise). Apart from that it was great and I'm taking my new soft feet and going off to play footsie with Mr Lotions and Potions.

p.s it retails at £9.99 and is available from Boots.

Xoxo