Latest purchases

I bought three of the Barry M Silks the other day, wasn't expecting to like them much but I really do!

I picked up a few of the Barry M silks from Tesco.

Gonna try them once I've worked my way through the OPI Beach Sandies, which are brilliant so far :-)

I found Maybelline Color Show in Purple Gem for £1.50 in the Boots clearance sale. I also somehow managed to get SEVENTEEN Deconstructed Suede free as I bought a shampoo as well and it came up as 3 for 2.   

Well for someone with no money, I've managed to acquire 11 polishes and 1 topcoat this week, 4 from Rainbow Connection, 4 Barry M's from Tescos on Tuesday, and 2 from Poundland and 2 from Asda yesterday    And I'm off to see if I can snaffle some Barry M Aquariums tonight.
I got an HK Girl topcoat, a Pahlish (Crimson, Eleven, Delight, Petrichor), a FUN Holo (Decentber) and a Wingdust (Ocean Tears) from RC, then I got the new Barry M Gelly Sugar Apple, the Silk Effect in Blossom, Guava Gelly and Blue Moon, 2 Rimmel Sweetie Crush ones Blueberry Whizz & Violet Swizzle, and Sinful Colors Why Not (turquoise) and a Sally Hansen Magnetic Polar Purple.

Barry M Aquarium Pacific on Thursday afternoon, decided not to bother with the rest as the glitters are too chunky, 2 of the others are identical to 2 of the Revlon Chroma Chameleons I already have (Caspian & Arabian-Topaz & Pink Quartz) and I wasn't over struck on the last one (Mediterranean)
And 4 more for the collection yesterday, Barry M Gelly Blue Grape, and Barry M Grey, and 2 £1 shop bargains, Sinful Colors Fig and a long term lemming, China Glaze Crackle Crushed Candy. I have been looking for that everywhere, but couldn't find it for less than £5-6 so for £1 I was overjoyed  

V. annoyed today. I ordered an Etude House polish ([You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]) three weeks ago from an ebay seller in Korea. It was marked as dispatched the next day and today she's sent me an email saying it's out of stock   

And now it's not available from any of the other ebay sellers    

Anyone know if there are any Etude House stockists in the UK?

I've had a TNBL order come through last week but forgot to post about it. I got OPI Have A Herring Problem and Amaz-on Amaz-off, and Zoya Dillon & Monet from the Awaken collection. The Monet topper is gorgeous, can't wait to try that out.

I bought a few payday treats from Magpies last night   

Got more of the Sally Hansen Sugar Coats from Poundworld, the second set. And picked up a few Sinful Colors from Poundland. Also managed to get the 4 OPI Sheer Tints   

Laura wrote:I bought a few payday treats from Magpies last night   

Would you care to elaborate on what you class as "a few"? What did you get?

I finally managed to order the MO Speckled polishes from Superdrug. Got a couple of extras to give my sisters for easter.

I managed to bag Dollish Walker Bait on FB earlier this week, which arrived today :-) And yesterday I got a lovely green Smitten custom colour :-) And Loola has a bottle of OPI Unripened for me too-all in all a good polish week :-)

I have bought polish - first since Jan. Wing Dust steel town girl (disappointed by the bottle, looks more blue than grey) and black cat poison apple - my first thermal

Went onto Magpies and have decided I wanted Manglaze Nausome Sauce but its sold out. I think I've picked up Sue's liking for Greens. You getting any more Manglaze in Sal?

ninjablossom wrote:I have bought polish - first since Jan. Wing Dust steel town girl (disappointed by the bottle, looks more blue than grey) and black cat poison apple - my first thermal

Went onto Magpies and have decided I wanted Manglaze Nausome Sauce but its sold out. I think I've picked up Sue's liking for Greens. You getting any more Manglaze in Sal?

You can't go wrong with a good green Poison Apple is fab,and it has a nice smell too

TK Maxx and Poundland seem to have some great stuff in at the moment - TK Maxx have "mirror effect" polishes for £2.99 amonst other things, which I've reviewed here:

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...and Poundland have Revlon double ended neon and white polishes, Sinful Colours, Filthy Gorgeous (premium brand, used to be sold in Fenwick for £7-£9).

Latest purchase4s for me are rather boring I'm afraid. Bagged a couple of the Barry M Aquariam nails collection and was rather chuffed to get an Essie Base coat and Matte top coat for £2.99 each in TK Maxx. They had a few Nails Inc in as well but none of the colours floated my boat. Oh and I got a Sally Hansen and a Filthy Gorgeous magentic both from Poundland

Well, this month's "no buy" is going [insert sarcasm here] excellently...  So far I have bought quite a few   including 3 from Rainbow Connection yesterday and several Barry M's (2x Silks, 2x Aquariums, several Gellys, Superdrug 50th Anniversary one etc.) and a few £1 shop cheapies-appropriately enough, I found a Jess one called Disco Diva  

I managed to get DV8 for a decent price, been after it for ages and ages. Hopefully I can get some sun up here and wear it.

I picked up Ciaté Heirloom, Jewellery Box, Pinkalilly and Strictly Legal recently.   

OPI Sheer Tints... hmmmmm

Small haul of 3 Barry M's on Thursday, a back up of the Superdrug LE, Blueberry Gelly and one of the new summer Gelly ones, Elderberry. The small local branch I went to didn't have the whole collection of the new summer Gellys-which annoyed me, they only had Coconut (which I didn't want anyway), Pink Punch (which I didn't get as I thought it was too neon) and Elderberry that I did get.

4 different top coats! I'm planning experimentation.

HanSpan wrote:4 different top coats!  I'm planning experimentation.

What did you get Han? What's the experiment?

starrystarry wrote:

HanSpan wrote:4 different top coats!  I'm planning experimentation.

What did you get Han? What's the experiment?

I've now got (in addition to the Seche, HK girl and Poshe I already have) CND, Essie, Orly & Nubar quick dry stuff.
I'm always looking for the perfect thing so I guess the experiment is which dries fastest, is shiniest and shrinks least!

Oooh I'll be very interested to hear the verdict when you've tried them. I'm an Insta Dri girl myself but always on the lookout for alternatives.

starrystarry wrote:Oooh I'll be very interested to hear the verdict when you've tried them.  I'm an Insta Dri girl myself but always on the lookout for alternatives.

I have tried that but it really didn't work for me. Nor the OPI rapid dry. Neither were very instant or rapid!