ELF Purple Dream Nails

A proper party polish from ELF. It can be bought here for £1.50.

Purple Dream is full of colour and very eye catching, I can see this being wore a lot over the Christmas period. It goes on quite nicely indeed, as I've found with nearly all polishes from ELF and the packaging is lovely!  I don't find their polishes to be the most long wearing of polishes, but then I only tend to wear them for a day and then take them off so it's no odds to me, although I rarely use a base coat so I wonder what it would be like if I did?

Because this dries to quite a high shine and is so rich in colour I thought it would look lovely matte so decided to do my ring finger with my George Matte polish, but in all honesty I don't think it makes a massive amount of difference.

ASDA George Faux Lash Mascara.

George really have stepped up their game haven't they? I really don't know why they're not pushing their make up range harder, it's really pretty decent, especially for the price. I'd love to see more testers out as well, there are none at my local supermarkets.


They have offers on every week so I always accidentally walk down the make up aisle every week, this week they had this new mascara. It's currently on a promotional price of £2.50 and is brand new.


Falsh lash effect mascaras are the new in thing and each one is always promising to do it all, volumise, lengthen and give us those amazing lashes we all wish for, so does this? No. It is still a pretty decent mascara and I will carry on using this but only for a day mascara.

If this was marketed as a lengthening and separating mascara then it would be brilliant.

The wand is so-so. It's very good at getting into the lashes, and is curved like Maybellene Falsies. It's a very long wand and found it very easy to use when I was doing my right eye, once I had to move over to my other eye it all went pear shaped, I ended up making a right mess, I'm not sure if it was down to the length of the wand or the amount of curve in the brush.

I had a little clumping but nothing that would put me off. You do have to be quick if you're building it up because it dries pretty quick and is very hard to add more once it dries. You have to be careful replacing the wand back in the tube as well because you end up with mascara all over the place.

I couldn't get a decent picture at all to show how long this actually made my lashes look, I tried in loads of different lights and everything, but pah, it didn't work but here are the best of a bad bunch.

No mascara.

 

Left: One coat. Right: Two coats

 

Left: One coat. Right: Two coats

 

 

 

George Sunset Orange

I'm  a big fan of George polishes, and for a quid they're in a perfect bargain price range.

I needed some new summery colours because I seem to have collected a rather lot of blues, purples and other dark colours so was pretty chuffed to find this nice orange colour that's not too in your face but lovely and summery (and it matches a top I have as though it's been made for it!)

  Unfortunately the colour, in the bottle, was the only thing I liked about it. It's a crème polish, the application was messy and didn't seem to go on well for me at all and was difficult to swipe along my nail so ended up with loads of clean up to do around my cuticles; however it only took 2 coats to be opaque. The colour once it was on my nails was almost neon, and certainly got peoples attention, I did have a lot of people comment on it, but it was too bright for me and didn't compliment my skin tone at all. I can't completely comment on the wear because I removed it before the day was up, but I did notice some slight tip wear.

I do have a lot of George polishes and this is the only one I haven't liked so I've done well there. I'm not going to completely write it off, I think I'll use it for franking or using it for nail art because I think it will be pretty decent for using to marble my nails or to do splatter nails with, will have to give it a try.

George Nail polish

 I don't like ending on a bad point, so seeing as I hated my last product, I'll post one that I love.

I think I'm a bit late on the band wagon with these but I love them! They keep falling in my trolley when I'm doing my ASDA shop (pesky polishes!) and while there on offer for £1 each then they're my kinda price although for the colour range they do, I'd be more than happy to pay more than that.

I've only managed to get a couple so far, but they never seem to have great stock at my local one, bad times :(.

L-R: Be Mine, Streamer, Magical, Deceit, Blue Lagoon, Starry Eyed.

  OK, they don't have the most amazing sticking power, but for a quid and a gorgeous colour, who cares! So long as it lasts the day then I'm happy because I tend to change my nail polish every day, I've found though when testing they start to chip during day 2 but do show slight wear on the tips sooner. The range is great, when they have them of course, they do loads of different shades of each colour and some look like they should be so expensive. The matte shades are on my to-do list, but I've heard these chip really easily so I think I might invest in a matte top coat first.

Deceit

Baring the pastels (why are pastel polishes so hard to get right?!) the formula on them is great, just the right consistency and only ever need 2 coats. The brush is decent for the price, I've had the occasional stray bristle but nothing major.

Starry Eyed over W7 Black Cherry

Has anyone else got their hands on any of these yet? What's your fave colour?