Couture by Nails Inc

A few weeks ago in the middle of February I went to have my nails done in Nails Inc and tried one of their 3D glitter nail varnishes which I hadn't even heard of before, the review of which can be found here.

I noticed some time after that how Nails Inc did this AMAZING service where you can customise your own bottle with a choice of caps and various nail shades and then give it it's own name.

I showed this to M and we spent AGES making up different combinations, easily entertained haha.

And then low and behold look what she got me for my birthday!!!

My very own customised bottle!

I am in LOVE with the cap, leather and studs look amazing together and it looks awesome!

I can't stop staring at it and want to play with it all the time haha.

She chose the glitter that I had previously had put on my nails at my manicure which is called Sloane Square....however it now has a completely different name woohoo!

I don't know about you but having my very own personal Nails Inc nail varnish with its own customised cap and name makes me feel like a superstar!

I love this service, think its amazing! It's so easy to choose what you want, the colour range is so vast and the ability to choose your own cap and name for the bottle is such a cool present that you could give to so many people!

I was super pleased with it, thank you M ;)

What do you girlies think of this idea? I can think of so many people I'd buy this for!

L xxx

Birthday Goodies!

I was SO excited this time last week, my birthday was last Monday but I decided to go out for it last Saturday.

Me and M both went to Mac to have our make up done for the night out.
It was UNBELIEVABLY the first time M had ever been to Mac, which is SHOCKING in my opinion ;)

Hehe!

So we turned up massively excited wanting similar looks (we always go for smokey eyes, it was time for a change so we went for bright lips and glowing skin instead!)

The end result looked like this!



A lot of effort all week with applying tan, few hours in Mac, a few hours curling hair and an amazing night out!

We had quite a lot to drink, including some of these amazing flaming cocktails which will be coming up in a Cocktail Hour post soon!

We both spent a small fortune in Mac, this is what I bought:

Pro Longwear foundation (I'm NW25), Pressed Powder in Medium, False eyelashes (No3 if I remember!) and 2 lip sticks, Russian Red and Creme Cup.

I've always used Studio Fix compact before but I found it was quite heavy, so this time I bought the pressed powder. I often need a powder to fix my make up and again in the afternoon, so a compact is necessary for on the go!

These are my new beauties!! I've never bought a Mac lipstick before, so I went all out and bought two haha

I wore Russian Red for the night out, was a perfect red colour for me, made my teeth look whiter and looked amazing! (if i say so myself ha!)

Also Creme Cup is raved about by everyone, I've been looking for a nude as always and this one was irresistible!

On my actual birthday I received these beautiful flowers from my auntie which have brightened up my room a treat! Roses are my favourite and pink ones even better ;)

Some of the presents I had included the Birthday Girl set from Philosophy which smells amazing and a lot of money to go shopping with! Looking forward to going shopping with my mum next week :)

I also had an amazing present from M which deserves a post of its own so that will be coming up over the next week :)

Hope you've enjoyed the post, I had such a good time on the night out and even though I was in Uni allllllllll day for my actual birthday (and had a cold! booooo :( ) it was an awesome day!

L xxx

Cocktail Hour!

Another new addition to our menu is the Flirtini!

Neither of us had even heard of this before but we were excited to try it as usual!

As the photo from the menu below shows, it contains vodka, cointreau and pineapple juice shaken together with ice and topped up with champagne, ooh err!

I absolutely love the presentation of cocktails like this!

They look so elegant.

This cocktail maybe had a little too much champagne in as it overpowered the other ingredients which is hard to do considering they included cointreau and pineapple juice!

We probably wouldn't have this one again in a hurry, unless we had more control over the amount of champagne. No one can resist a champagne cocktail but this was a little much.

At some point we'd like to try it without the champagne...but then I suppose it wouldn't be a Flirtini!

What do you think of champagne? Do you like it in cocktails?

L xxx

NOTD - Max Factor Intense Plum

I mentioned in a previous post (here) that I bought a few Max Factor products and got a free gift box which had a few goodies in.

This is the second nail varnish that was in the gift box - Intense Plum.

This was hard to photograph because without a flash it looks like the above photo, and looks a plum colour.

But in reality the colour is much more like the photo below, brighter and bluer than the reddy plum above!

I like the colour quite a bit and think its very wearable.

It did take a few coats to get it opaque, would probably need 3 maybe 4 which is disappointing as most normally need 2, meaning you'll use up the bottle twice as fast!

This was definitely a good choice of a colour for a freebie and I was really pleased with it!

It came with a black eyeliner and black mini mascara which are all useable items, sometimes you can get some pretty horrific colours or useless products for free, and this was a definite winner for me!

What do you think of the colour? Would you be happy with this as a freebie?

L xxx