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Babafette wrote:

HanSpan wrote:

mayMeow wrote:Totes I love finding fun things at the pounds shop! Although I'm the crazy lady that insists on rifling through ALL the makeup (including asking for a stool to stand on because I'm so short!)- the staff have stood and stared on occasion!

LOL at the stool - the staff in Wbhitby wouldn't let me climb on a stool so some poor assistant was made to stand up it and pass me all the varnish down! & I lurve the ghoulish green too.

PMSL!! I'm like a woman possessed sifting through the polishes in Poundland.

Me too. I get great pleasure embarrassing my children, especially when I bend over and flash the top of my pants

LoolaBeanbag wrote:

Babafette wrote:PMSL!! I'm like a woman possessed sifting through the polishes in Poundland.

Me too. I get great pleasure embarrassing my children, especially when I bend over and flash the top of my pants

Ha, ha, OH usually gets embarrassed and leaves me to it. Welcome home Loola!

Why thank you for the welcome back Baba! Here's the haul.......
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Here's a few close ups of some of the more interesting ones:
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Annys. I'm wearing Crazy Shot today, it was a sod to put on but I love it.

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Cheap'n cheerful Hemas. These were between 2.50 and 3.75 Euros depending on whether they were Chameleon, Holo (very faint) glitter, crème etc.

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Da. These were 2 Euros and are really good value. The deep pinky one on the end was a nice surprise when I swatched it - it's actually a black polish with loads of tiny magenta glitters.

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Heromes. These are usually 6.50 Euros each, but I scoured the bargain tub and these were 5 Euros for all three. They are Frankreich, Marseilles and Toulouse. The two on the right are sparkletastic, the goldy one (Marseilles) has loads of gold, bronze and blue microglitter.

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Some more Hemas.

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Now this one you can get from Magpies It's Essence Space Queen (I think it's called).

These were waiting for me when I got home:
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Illamasquas in Séance and Omen (the Paranormal UV ones), and a H&M blue.

Impressive haul! The Hema glitters look nice!

omg loola u bought a looot :O

Babafette wrote:

LoolaBeanbag wrote:

Babafette wrote:PMSL!! I'm like a woman possessed sifting through the polishes in Poundland.

Me too. I get great pleasure embarrassing my children, especially when I bend over and flash the top of my pants

Ha, ha, OH usually gets embarrassed and leaves me to it. Welcome home Loola!

Haha My OH is such a shop snob. He dislikes TKMaxx, refuses to go in Primark and is mortified when I insist on doing poundland. I can't resist going in just to get him going;)

LoolaBeanbag wrote:Why thank you for the welcome back Baba! Here's the haul.......
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Ooooh. Pretty!

Very impressive loolabeanbag

Wow well done Loola, now that's what I call a good haul!! Some of those look fab.

I'm very very jealous!

Oooh some interesting brands there loola.

Thanks ladies, My favourites are the Annys, Da pink/black sparkly, WIC Marseilles and the Hema Blue Glitter. I'm starting to have major storage issues now though

Got OH to do a pic of my deliveries from the past week or so:

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I'm pleased to see your Etude House Mint Choco Chip turned up Hanspan. I can't wait to get my hands on one of those!

HanSpan wrote:Got OH to do a pic of my deliveries from the past week or so:

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Wowsers Hanspan! Love this little lot,that sugar mat's sparkly!
Let us know how you go with the Vinylux, I couldn't get it to last more than two days but I still like the formula so will stick with them, am going to have a go at stamping them.
That ice cream is damn cute too..........

I've got the Kiko Sugar Mat in the sparkily orange ... it's a beauty ...

Babafette wrote:I'm pleased to see your Etude House Mint Choco Chip turned up Hanspan. I can't wait to get my hands on one of those!

Have you got it on order? It was jolly hard to find that colour in stock anywhere unless I wanted the set of 4.

LoolaBeanbag wrote:

Let us know how you go with the Vinylux, I couldn't get it to last more than two days but I still like the formula so will stick with them, am going to have a go at stamping them.

How long do things normally last on you? I've had the Vinylux top coat on over this crazy pattern of sugar mattes since late Fruday night and it seems fine, very little tip wear on my left index from doing somehting daft last night so I put a little more topcoat on but the rest is fine.
But mine usually lasts 4 days with seche vite and normal polish anyway.

I can usually only get three days tops out of a mani, dark colours seem to show tipwear within hours even with tips wrapped in Seche. I also tried the Vinlyux on my sister and she also managed two days but she was seriously abusing her nails - cleaning tack, gardening etc.

Go on, what was the daftness?!!

Wow - nice hauls Loola and Han

LoolaBeanbag wrote:I can usually only get three days tops out of a mani, dark colours seem to show tipwear within hours even with tips wrapped in Seche. I also tried the Vinlyux on my sister and she also managed two days but she was seriously abusing her nails - cleaning tack, gardening etc.

Go on, what was the daftness?!!

Trying to pick the remnants of polish off my toes with my fingernails. Innefective on the toes but made the end of my index finger wear off! Fortunately no chipping so my tip wear cure worked - I just file my nails back a little so the tips are hidden again! I find tip wrapping makes mine last much less becuase I hate the feeling and keep rubbing them so I end up taking chips off.

i bought these today (since its past midnight...tecnically yesterday but whatever)


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they also have the china glaze's sunsational (both creme and jellies) do u recommend them? im a big china glaze fan (not to brag or anything but i have like 80 china glazes or something) and the colours seems to similars to those i already have.. so idk... should i buy them? or at least the jellies? what do u think girls?

nice haul

The neons are hit and miss - patchy to apply, Isle see you later is a complete waste of a polish.

I found a fab blog review, but can't find it again - that compared the sunsationals to previous CG's polishes that they had just added some neon too and make the formula rubbish.

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My opinion is your'll find better neons elsewhere and my opinion is completely tainted and impared by CG's shocking customer service. So you might want to listen to someone else as well

I'm with Ninjajane on the CG Jellies annita, barely tinted and you'd need a stupid number of coats (my guess would be 6 - to get anywhere near the colour in the bottle. They're watery and fairly useless. The crèmes are OK, but nothing special. They don't come close to turned up turquoise (my favourite neon ever!) in terms of finish, brightness or coverage so I'd buy a bottle of that instead!

Lovely haul there annita, what are the sparklies on the right?

HanSpan wrote:

LoolaBeanbag wrote:I can usually only get three days tops out of a mani, dark colours seem to show tipwear within hours even with tips wrapped in Seche. I also tried the Vinlyux on my sister and she also managed two days but she was seriously abusing her nails - cleaning tack, gardening etc.

Go on, what was the daftness?!!

Trying to pick the remnants of polish off my toes with my fingernails. Innefective on the toes but made the end of my index finger wear off! Fortunately no chipping so my tip wear cure worked - I just file my nails back a little so the tips are hidden again! I find tip wrapping makes mine last much less becuase I hate the feeling and keep rubbing them so I end up taking chips off.

OK, not the most sensible of ways to look after your mani (says the woman who put her nails in the toaster to see the effect of the colour change polish...........)