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NOTD: Formidable!

I’m afraid I’ve been super lazy again… I did my nails last night but only just took photos today, oops, please forgive me and excuse the tip wear!  I do have a good excuse though, I painted them half an hour or so before I had to leave, so definitely no time for photos!

Here I am wearing MAC Formidable! (not CF) which is from the Venomous Villain’s Collection.  They had some really nice polishes with that collection, I have also got another one, Bad Fairy, which is a coppery pink sort of duochrome.  Formidable!, although it looks purple in the bottle, is a chocolatey brown colour with turquoise shimmer in it.  I do wish it was more purple rather than brown but never mind!  I have found the application of this to be rather tricky, it becomes patchy really easily, and as you can see there is a lot of tip wear after quite a short length of time.  I might try applying this over black to see what that looks like - if you don’t see a post on that in the near future then it looks ugly!  In the photos I have used 2 coats.

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NOTD: Models Own Combo:

Boooo it’s exam time, don’t think I’ve ever been as stressed out as I was on Thursday, but it’s gone the other way and now I am too laid back…  My first exam is on Tuesday and I don’t think it’ll go very well but I’m feeling more positive about the others so fingers crossed!

Here I am wearing Models Own Tropical Sun with Ibiza Mix as an accent.

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Models Own: Mystic Mauve and Ibiza Mix

Finally I layered one coat of Mystic Mauve and one coat of Ibiza mix.  I probably wouldn’t wear this but I was having a fun and just curious!  It gives you an idea of how it would look over another colour.

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Models Own: Ibiza Mix

Then Ibiza Mix from the Hed Kandi collection.  This is a multi-coloured and multi-sized glitter polish in a clear base.  On the left is just one coat then the other one is about 2/3 coats… I tried to build it up but I got bored.  There’s not a chance in hell of this one being opaque!  I found the consistency to be much thinner than I expected and the glitter is very sparse.  I would only use it on top of other colours so this isn’t really a problem but I would have preferred for there to be slightly more glitter and less clear nail varnish!

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Look What I’ve Bought!

I was in Boots the yesterday so I thought I would look and see if Models Own had the full Hed Kandi collection available which they did!  It was also 2 for £8 so obviously I had to buy two, duhh!  I didn’t really fancy any of the other Hed Kandi ones as I have some similar, so I just bought Ibiza Mix and then Mystic Mauve from their normal range.

I also got the Starter Set from Real Techniques.  I’ve been saving up my Boots points for ages and I finally had enough to buy this, so pleased that I basically got them for free!  I have the Core Collection and Stippling Brush which I got when they first came out and really liked them, love that they are synthetic!

The main reason for getting this set was that I really want to find a synthetic version of the MAC 217 brush and Sam tweeted me saying that the Base Shadow brush (second on the left) is quite similar so I will need to do a wee comparison and see if it is!

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