Purple Perfection NOTD

Currently watching: The Apprentice :-)

Good evening ladies!

I tried my new purple Primark polish and I love it so without further ado, here are the pictures:

Bye for now,
Laura

Beauty UK NOTD

Good morning!

I passed my exam on Monday! What a relief.

Now on to my NOTD, which features Soft Lilac No.42 by Beauty UK. Here's how this shade fits in to my purple collection:

The shade is captured perfectly in that photo but I had a really difficult time capturing the colour on my nails so the pictures you're about to see do not do this colour justice at all. In reality it is an almost perfect pastel shade.

(fairly accurate representation)

If you live in the UK and want a good pastel purple then I would recommend this one. It's from Superdrug and costs about £1.99 for 9ml. I didn't use a topcoat and experienced only one small chip during 24 hours. Today's going to be my second day of wear so we'll see what it looks like at the end of the day but I have to say I do like this.

Bye for now,
Laura

PS My Tea Rose Polish and Twinkle combination lasted for less than a day before it all started to peel off. This always happens to me when I wear glitter polishes, especially pink glitter polishes! Does this happen to anyone else??

Purple Comparison

Currently listening to: Broken by Lifehouse

Earlier this week I was in Boots and got tempted by the Barry M 2 for £5 offer on nail polish. One of the colours I got was Pure Turquoise (yesterday's NOTD) and the second one I chose was Berry Ice Cream. I knew I had a similar shade at home (pictured below on the right) but the application is terrible so I was happy to get a higher quality dupe. However, I also thought it was a similar shade to Eyeko's Lilac Polish (again, bad application) but after today's swatching session, I now see how wrong I was.

Left to right: Milo, Barry M, Eyeko

Left to right: Eyeko, Barry M, Milo

Left to right: Milo, Barry M, Eyeko

As you can see, the Milo and Barry M shades are really similar (and even more similar in reality than in these photos I have to say) so I'm pleased about that. However, I was surprised to discover that the Eyeko shade is a lot darker and more purple than I had pictured it in my head. I'm actually quite pleased about that too because, despite the poor application, I still think it looks great on my nails so I will definitely be using this more in the near future :-)

Bye for now,
Laura