I love my nails, but they go through phases. Sometimes they are very strong, long and indestructible. Sometimes they are quite brittle and struggling to get length.
Tag Archives: Essie
Nails of the week: lots of lilac
A very simple but super cute and fit-for-spring manicure this week: shades of lilac, one of each finger. Continue reading
Nails of the week: grey leopard print
During Vogue’s Fashion Night out, I was invited by the fabulous team behind Essie to have an even more fabulous manicure inside a Mini Cooper. Yes. A mani in a mini.
Review: Essie Quick-e Fast Dry Nail Drops
Watching (nail) paint dry is painful. And dangerous (as I am prone to “accidents”), so Essie’s Quick-e Fast Dry Nail Drops were a very welcome addition to my manicure bag.
Nails of the week: Essie’s “On a Silver Platter”
I must admit I am a glitter avoider. I love glitter to bits, but on my nails, the pain of removing it really takes away the pleasure of having it on. However, I could not resist to the prettiness of “On a Silver Platter”, part of Essie’s Encrusted Treasures Collection
Nails of the week: teal and glitter
One thing I cannot say not to: glitter. Although it is a pain to remove, every now and then I have to sparkle my nails – and these little Nailene Glitter FX puffers are just perfect for that.
Nails of the week: Essie “For the Twill of it”
This polish was picked up at Olympia Beauty 2013 (that’s how slow I am getting through stuff – so much!) – no surprise I was attracted to it, given my undying love of duo chrome nail polishes.
“For the Twill of it” is a beautiful metallic olive green which shifts to metallic mauve. Sometimes, it can look a bit gunmetal grey.
Application was great – funnily enough, this is my first Essie polish (weird, I know, just realised it when applying it!). The brush is a good size, the polish applies well and there are no brush strokes. it also dries quickly.
Durability is also great, went through my usual seven days with looking fantastic.
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Olympia Beauty 2013
This was my second time at Olympia Beauty. Just the idea of over 520 beauty exhibitors under one roof is enough to make me forget how much I have walking around in crowds!
The show is free for professionals and I registered as press. On the day tickets for the general public can be bought on the day for £15.
This year the show didn’t disappoint. I was particularly impressed with their Press and Social Media Hubs – much bigger and better than last year’s, with more brands showcasing products – OPI, Dermalogica, Elemis, Lash Perfect/Hi Brow, Sienna X amongst others and a spacious area with refreshments (including cute Marc Jacobs Diet Coke bottles!)
The stands were fantastic! This year, a lot of gel manicures again, but also for domestic use and teeth whitening I think were the bigger presence for consumer products. Lashes and brows were also quite predominant!
Overview
The view from the mezzanine
So many things to see!
More stands!
Elemis launchs
Elemis launchs
Elemis launchs
Elemis best sellers
Lovely wax
Dermalogica new range
Dermalogica new range
Sothys
Sothys
Sothys
Nail, nails!
Hi Brow
OPI’s Xmas collection!
OPI’s Xmas collection!
Marc Jacobs Diet COke
Inglot
Teeth whitening on the spot!
The Pro Makeup shop amazing hygiene products!
Pros showing how it’s done!!!
Body painting
Body painting
Body painting
Body painting
Amazing jewelled make-up
Nailympics
Nailympics
Nailympics
Jazz nail polish
Jazz nail polish
Jazz nail polish
Massager! Great product!
Amy Childs
Amy Childs
Exhibitors were great – from huge brands for consumer (OPI, Elemis, Dermalogica, Ardell, Color Club, Essie, Fake Bake, Minx nail foils, NYX and many others!) offering discounted products to salon equipment and therapies machines to the professionals, and lots of and sample therapies going on.
I was very happy to se a bit more make up – Inglot and Illamasqua making an appearance. Although I was disappointed with Illamasqua – they were not selling products!
As usual, they held competitions – Nailympics – the international nail competition, The Art of Make-up and The Art of Body Painting.
The educational part of the show was even bigger too and was divided in “Business of Beauty”, “The Creativity of Nails”, “The Art of Make-up”, Make-up Artist Guest Stage” and “Aesthetic Beauty”, covering an amazing amount of topics around beauty and therapies.
As a blogger, it is great to get direct contact with brands. As a consumer, it is fantastic to pick up lots of great products at a very good price. As a beauty lover, and amazing opportunity to see what is going on in the market. It’s an overall win!
Needless to say, I came home with bunch of products that will soon be gracing the blog – fun times!!!Always a pleasure to go, and I will for sure be there in 2014!
So Many Lovely Things 