Is it worth it?

My post today comes hand in hand with a question I'm intrigued to know the answer to - 

What do you deem too much to pay for a nail varnish?

Normally when I buy nail varnish, they come at a price between £1 and £4. I don't think I have ever paid anything more than that, except for when I bought an OPI limited edition colour. 

Yesterday, whilst browsing Fenwicks in York, I came across Peridot by Chanel. 

I was instantly drawn to the unusual shade, something I've never really seen before. I fell in love. Then I saw the price tag. 

I know that prices can sometimes be justified if it's a high end brand but what about the type of product you're looking at? Is £17.50 just too much for a nail polish? 

What do you guys think? 

Are there any good dupes for this polish out there to save my bank from going into a state of shock?

NOTD: Blues

I have a huge (to me at least) collection of nail polishes and decided recently it was about time I started to use them all at least once.

This week for my manicure I couldn't decide which new one to wear so I just chose a variety of random blues. I was initially thinking of doing a gradient manicure but at the last minute decided to go for a random pattern instead. 

From left to right:

Beauty UK - Jade (No. 52)

Barry M - Cobalt Blue (291)

17 Lasting Fix - SeaBreeze

Missguided - Misstique

Collection 2000 - Button Moon (33)

Avon Nail Experts Liquid Freeze Spray

E.L.F. Clear Polish

Barry M Crackle in Blue (315) 

The finished look! I quite like it! I chose to only do the crackle on the ring finger as a sort of accent nail. Do excuse the poor picture and the state of my fingers! I am a nervous biter and was rushing to take pictures before I went to work :( 

Magazine Freebies

Just thought I'd write a quick post on this months cosmopolitan magazine. It has Rihanna on the cover (awesome woman!) and comes with a free Missguided nail polish. 

My first HDR picture! 

There are three colours to choose from - a gorgeous blue, a red and a pink (possibly, I can't remember!) 

I chose to get the blue polish as it's quite a unique colour and not one I seem to have in my collection. 

In this picture it looks sort of like a slightly darker Tiffany blue due to the flash. I think it's really cool that they decided not to play it so safe with their colour choices too, usually you find that magazines only give away neutral-ish colours.

I will put swatches and a review up sometime within the next week!

A New Project

As I haven't really done enough to talk about in this week's 'midweek ramble' post - apart from X factor auditions, which I will post about as soon as I get the pictures I took from my boyfriend and his sisters phones. I decided instead to use this post to introduce a new project I intend to start working on some time in the next two weeks. 


This is a picture of my nail polish collection: 

This was actually taken on the 22nd April and I'm almost certain I bought some new bottles of polish since then. I think there were 80-something bottles in this picture (?!).


Note: the "almost certain" in that sentence is the entire reason I'm starting this project!


I have decided that I'm going to start doing a new manicure every Sunday, in an attempt to use every single nail polish I own at least once. This can be any type of manicure, from a single colour on every nail to something a bit more fancy and artistic. 


This project won't be started until after I have finished doing a review on some Sally Hansen Salon Effects polish strips as these are said to last for around 10 days and if they work as I hope, I really don't want to have to take them off! 




Any bets on how long it'll take me to use them all?