Eyeko love!

Hi everyone!

Eyeko. I want to love them so much...

I have been a little disappointed in some of their polishes (remember this one) but they have adorable packaging and sweet ideas. I went off and got myself a haul - eyeliners, lip products, the lot!

I am in love with their Soho lip gloss -

the right amount of sticky, shiny and colour, a sweet smell and not overpowering. Watch this space as I have man y more makeup looks coming your way!

Love,

You can't polish a turd....

Hello my darklings!

Sorry for my absence of late, I've been ridiculously busy lately, what with working and... working. Haha!

Another reason I've been away is I had a bit of a problem. As you may have known I had a tear in my right thumbnail below the quick, I'd been using pieces of tea bag as a silk wrap replacement, but the inevitable happened, I didn't buff it down quite as much as I thought I had and I snagged it, tearing across.

I hate having my nails mis-matched lengths. So I've been reduced to this...

I'm just kidding!

I really hope all of you can tell the difference between bitten and cut nails!

Okay back on topic... sort of... 

Here's what they REALLY look like!

My sad little thumb... :( 

You can see how stuffed up it is... 

No more pics of this until it grows out more!

My inpiration for this was partly all the cute pastels I kept seeing around easter, as well as having Nubar - Milk Chocolate Creme turn up. I'm not sure about using it for day-to-day polish, but boy, I'll use this guy for nail art for sure!

What I used:

Thumb and pinkies: Eyeko  - Lilac Polish(The only Eyeko so far that agreed with me! Yay!)

Forefinger: Franken

Middle: BYS - White

Ring: Eyeko - Vintage

Chocolate: Nubar - Milk Chocolate Creme

Rhinestones: Konad Nail Art Stones

Yay!

Oh and the title of this post is from me worried that chocolate would look more like... well... you get the picture.

My photography lecturer in Uni used to used the phrase "turd polishing" a lot. It means when you start with a piece of crap, you can spend ours and hours polishing and refining it, but in the end, it's still a piece of crap.

One day he was looking at what I was working on, shook his head and for the billionth time...

"You can't polish a turd"

Not missing a beat I looking him in the eye with a manic grin and said

"Maybe... but you can roll it in glitter!"

He was HORRIFIED.

Love,

Eyeko... dangerously close to being in my bad books....

Hi everyone!

Some good news - looks like i'll be temping again for the next couple of weeks! Yay!

Anyway - on to the polish.

Now, this was the one I was looking forward to the most... a bright electric purple...

While mucking around on polyvore (while wearing the Vintage - I was inspired by Nihrida's polyvores!) I made a set to encompass the purpley awesome I was expecting...

Ahhh... yummy purple, maybe set off with some black and white....

Unfortunately I got THIS....

What... the... heck? It actually CHANGED COLOUR from what was in the bottle... I managed to scrape one last use out of my dying bottle of Seche so I know it wasn't that... I'm also at a loss to explain the weird bubbly texture thats going on (if you can't see, click the above pic to figure out what I'm on about)

Just to make my point absurdly clear, look at the above photo. The purple on the left is the bottle of polish. On the right, my nail covered 3 coats of that exact polish.

Application on this was way better than the Vintage polish, but not worth it for a boring berry shimmery creme. Blech. And yet the bottle colour was so awesome!

Love,

Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend.

Hi guys!
The quote above is from Lucy Liu - it cracked me up the first time I saw it!

Anyhow! Here is a little something that arrived in my mailbox on friday...
Eyeko's Vintage Polish!

NB: I am desperately running out of Seche Vite, meaning until the new bottles get here you're gonna have to deal with ugly bubbly top coat again. *sigh*

The colour in the above pics is pretty true to life, except its a teensy bit more green. It looks kinda blue here. My camera went funked up at the idea of photographing this one. :(

I really didn't enjoy this, I left it on for a couple of days purely to make it worthwhile... application was pretty damn awful, though apparently it's better than the old formula, which must have been a total nightmare. The colour is pretty as hell, but it was quite sheer, and with my long nails and the tiny bottles, doing three coats used up about a third of a bottle!! Mostly this is because it won't let you do a thin coat as it was so goopy.
But the colour is hella pretty, although next time I think I'll franken my The Face Shop mint green to make it a bit darker and more blue, the application of it was better and considering price and availability, I probably wouldn't buy it again.

Love,