Gosh Nails Haul

Whilst browsing Superdrug I recently came across the GOSH clearance stand! I've never been lucky enough to drop on the stand before but this year I hit jackpot! 

I Love Gosh and have used it for years now. I love their liquid foundation! 

They have all polishes £2 in the clearance stand so I couldn't resist! Some of the bottles have remains of stickers on them but that doesn't really matter too much to me... will come of with a good old wipe.

Soooo, inspired by the latest stint of good weather I thought I'd go for some bright colours for once! So I went for this citrusy three and I love them! They are just perfect for hot sunny days with a nice tan! (Real or fake :p)

 I may go back to purchase a bright blue I saw too...

I do have a few more polish purchases to haul but I thought I'd kick off with these as I'm feeling summery.

I've been going nail mad lately!

I'm also feeling a gorgeous nail of the day coming up with a concoction of these three when I've soaked my pale bod in some fake browness so watch out for that coming up very soon!

I'd love to see if any of you girls have been lucky with the GOSH stands this year?

Back With a Bargain: Simply Pure.

As you may have noticed, I have not been posting for quite a few months now. I made a brief return in August, then had to rush about finding a new apartment to move in to as my university didn't have room in halls for me and only let me know a matter of two weeks before the semester started. So now I live alone and haven't had chance to set the Internet up yet. After Christmas I'll have sorted it and for now I am visiting my boyfriends and Mum & Dads so I can blog till my heart's content. I've been itching to blog and finally! Here I am.

So yesterday whilst visiting my boyfriend I went into Burnley Superdrug. Casually browsing I came across the Simply Pure skin care set. I've been looking for it in my Superdrug for a while now, yesterday it was reduced to £1.49. For one individual product in the Simply Pure range it is £2.59 I believe. So you can either buy one product for that or buy the set right now for £1.49, which comes with a smoothing face scrub, light moisturiser and a cleansing mask. Specially formulated for sensitive skin, Superdrug promise that ''Simply Pure has our 100% Own Brand Happiness Guarantee. If you're not 100% happy with this product, we'll give you a full refund & 25% off your next own brand purchase.''

I've been looking for a moisturiser for a while now, every one seems to break me out so badly yet after just one application of the mask and the moisturiser, today I really can tell a difference. My skin is no longer oily and I was quite worried as the moisturiser isn't specifically for oily skin and can already feel my breakout disappearing. I wish I had bought more now. However I did order 80 pounds worth of Liz Earle before I tried this out, so that's something I am looking forward to big time, as I've heared so much about it but never found the guts to process the order of that much until my recent bout of terrible skin problems, so I took the plunge and it has been dispatched today, I can not wait!

Anyway, have you tried the simply pure range? It is a great stocking filler for £1.49. A true bargain. After I have trialed it for a longer period of time I shall be blogging again, but so far so good. I would like to try the sensitive eye make up remover next as that is something I struggle with. I usually feel like my eyes have been run through a cheese grater after taking my mascara off. Nightmare.

It's good to be back.

Superdrug Beauty Card.

Just a quicky to share this with you!!

I totally forgot about it coming out, its basically a boots advantage card just for super drug!!

Amazing since my foundation is only available in super drug and I loveeeeeeee GOSH cosmetics.

You can pick up a card in store then just register it online. There is quite an incentive to shop online with them too since they offer ten points to every pound but only one to a pound in store...

Enjoy! x

The God of Le French Mani!

A do it yourself manicure can be somewhat (in my experience) stressful, fiddly and time consuming, so personally I think it's vital for a home mani product to be easy to use and of course ultra pretty!
For me, I don't know about you, but there is no cleaner 'look' than a nice neat and tidy french manicure?

I don't have a steady hand and I really do not like the guide strips though as I think they make a fiddly job even fiddlier. I also find they end up making me smudge my white line anyway then I end up getting in a mass strop throwing the set back in the box and reaching for the nearest colour to me for a quickie do and having done with it, yes even if it doesn't match what I'm wearing!! : o
 So the first thing I do is rip open the box and chuck the little buggers in the bin!

Now the product I am going to share with you today made all my home French Manicure dreams (not nightmares) come true!

Sally Hansen, I LOVE YOU!

I've had two sets from Sally Hansen my first was from superdrug approx £4 ish? I can't remember as this was a while ago now. My second from Boots for £5.30 I do believe there are three sets but two colours to chose from in the top coat. (The pinky colour)

I have the Sheerly Opal set and I love it, I have had it a while but never get fed up of it, even though I'm known for being terrible for changing my nail colours! One week I love brights the next I love nudes the next I'm loving pastels. This sheerly opal though is a staple for me and my ever growing nail obsessive collection so I thought I would share it and hopefully if any of you buy it you will love it just as much.
Now it is extremly hard to capture the absolute beauty of the pink in a picture just over the nail its self so I've taken a picture over a bright pink in an attempt to show the glimmer colour but as I said its nearly impossible. With words I would describe it as a two toned clear if that makes any sense. To the naked it it appears clear then as the light catches it the beautiful opal shimmer appears.

Swatch:

















Now onto the brushes, the first set I had was just normal standard brushes but the second set was a little different. The Opal Brush was your normal brush however the white tipping brush was very fine, as fine as the brushes you find on nail art brushes.

At first I found this annoying as it goes on your nails quite fine but in the long run I realized It's much neater and easier to work with especially if you don't have such a steady hand.
Even though it can be time consuming the final outcome is great, so to any of you I would not recommend treating your self to a french mani if you have somewhere to be. It's something I treat myself to after a long week, along with a face mask and a cuppa. But if I do find myself in a rush, I line the smile line off with the fine sally brush then fill the rest in with a chunkier brushed white polish and off I go!






I also have the Elegant Touch kit from boots, this kit is £6.54 and doesn't come even a tad close to SH for me. You don't get the beautiful shimmer and I find it's even more of a time drainer as you have to ad a clear top coat over the natural also and with the SH kit you don't need to and it still lasted longer so that's an extra bonus! I also like the Maybelline Forever Strong Professional french manicure top coat as its +Iron and is quite hard wearing same as the Sally Hansen but for the top coat alone you are looking at £4.09 in boots & Superdrug and for just over a pound extra you can buy one of the lovely Sally Hansen kits!
I think I'm going to treat myself to the Sally Hansen 'Hard as Nails' FM kit when I have a few extra pennies, that or it's going on my list to Easter bunny. (I'm allergic to chocolate and all things dairy so my family have always gotten me gifts rather than chocolate so I don't get Ill. Easter is the only time it really benefits me haha! I wake up thinking mmmmmmmm cosmetics rather than mmmmmm choclate.)

Quite a Long post for a French Manicure but still I hope you've enjoyed reading or at least found it useful as I highly recommend!

:)

Katie
xxx