Spring/Summer Nails

Hey all you Vibrant people and HAPPY Friday!!! I hope you all had a brilliant half-term, unfortunately, I had to spend it revising :'-[ (Boo). Luckily, I did manage to take some time out to do my nails in this gorgeous shade, Rimmel London 60 Seconds in Green With Envy.

 I stuck some little stars on my thumb, on my left hand and my ring finder has green with envy layered over black polish (you can use any). I know the flash makes the black look very obvious, but I pinkie-swear to you that on my nails it looks just like an actual nail polish shade.
 (The stars come in the Pink Tease Nail Sequin set, however you can find them in any drugstore, nail art/art supply store or even a pound/dollar store. They are usually very cheap and I know Clair's does them as well.)

On my right hand, on the thumb, I stuck on some  more of the sequins from the Pink Tease set and used my Cien Nail Polish in Sugar Rose (read my review on it here) . On my ring finger, I just made some simple stripes from a nail art pen/brush set that I bought from Argos (I'll link it below).



And that's it. Let me know what you think of this design and have a great weekend.  :-D

xxx Vee xxx



Nail Art Pens from Argos

NEW! Cien Nail Polish: Review

     
Hey guys,
 the weather is England at the moment is so lovely! It's sunny all the time and makes me feel like painting my nails a bright neon or coral shade. So when I heard that Lidl, a cheap food store in England that is often looked down one, has released a new makeup range for only £1.99 a product, I practically ran to buy three of their, on trend, S/S nail polishes.

The first one that I have here is Neon Coral.

 For some strange reason this came up as a hot, bubblegum pink on camera, but in reality it is actually a bright orange with red-ish, coral undertones. I really like this on my toes with some blue polka dot on it. However, this stained my nails through a thick layer of basecoat so BEWARE.














Next I bought Berry Cocktail.



This is a beautiful holiday red, that has purple and pink undertones. It dries very glossy and looks very gel-like. But don't be confused, the formula is anything but gel. This shade looks great with a tan and is a bit more of a night-time, cocktail (duh!) party shade. It's also an exact dupe for Ciate's Dangerous Affair.













Lastly, possibly my favourite of them all, is Sugar Rose

True to its name, Sugar Rose reminds me of white sugar and light pink rose petals as it is rose pink with small shimmer. Its got a very candy like colour, but is not quite pastel. It's my favourite of them all and I'm more than glad I got it. Out of the three, this is the only colour that requires 2 coats.















Here I tested out this colour for 3 days:

2 coats of Sugar Rose, with only a basecoat underneath.

No chipping, what-so-ever, no loss in finish either.

 Slight chipping around the side of my pointing finger (is that what it's called?), but not enough that I would get worried about being seen in public. No other differences really.











Cien has really outdone themselves with these polishes. They are very long-lasting (3/4 days) and that is without a top coat. I liked their medium- to thin sized brush and their formula is perfect, not too runny of too gloopy. It was extremely quick drying (60 to 90 seconds), even though the bottle did not say any such thing. The only down side was that Neon Coral stained my nail and that their colour range is limited to about 7-ish shades (one being clear) and the colours are not that unique. Though, for £1.99, I'm hardly going to complain.

 As much as I hate to admit it, this nail polish is much better than many other drugstore brands like Beauty UK, which is around the same price range. I'm also tempted to say that it beats Barry M in quality, but not in colour range.

 Have you tried any of these polishes? What do you think of them?


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xxx Vee xxx


 Cien nail polish- £1.99 available in Lidl stores

*UPDATE!!! I still love the colour of these polishes but after the first use, I didn't use them again until about a week. When I applied them (without shaking and with shaking), the formula was completely ruined and it had around a billion (so I exaggerated) air bubbles in it. I don't know what happened as I did close the bottles properly, I guess the quality just isn't as good. So disappointed! I really though I had found the perfect polishes  :`-(

YR 11 Muck Up Day 2013

So I don't normally do posts related to school, but today was the Year 11's Muck Up Day, which is basically their last day, when they are allowed to do WHATEVER they want. (I know! Totes genius(!)) Unfortunately (totes predictably...), some of them went a bit overboard and yesterday , after school , they covered the entire basement in foam string! The basement is also where are lockers are so they were pretty dirty this morning. Also, they taped several lockers and, this morning many Year 7s were pretty freaked out. Now, some genius decided to bring something called Poo in a Can, which is basically exactly what the name says and this was sprayed outside the canteen (I repeat, CANTEEN, where people eat!) so that it pretty much stank of sh*t . Not to mention that is was on carpet, you know, the type that gets stained. Alongside all of this, they also scattered Bibles in areas of the school that are unreachable without ladders (like, what?!?) and they totally messed up the assembly hall by moving loads of furniture around. They stole clocks and filled my form room with plants (just don't ask...).

And that's not all, oh no, they used old pictures of teachers and edited them to write offensive comments (some were humourous...) AND, possibly worst of all, all the teachers in my were persuaded to hang a "What Mrs/Mr (insert name here) is reading right now?" sign outside their classroom. So the year 11s decided to merrily go and make fun of the teachers by changing these, one of them being changed into Fifty Shades of Grey, need I say anymore.

So at the end of the day, all the teachers were upset and so were all the Year 11s because they had to clean it all up, even the ones who were not responsible. Luckily, the Year 11 leaving trip that was planned that cheered them up, especially because the people responsible for the mess were left out from it.

Alls well that ends well. (They better wait till next year. When its OUR turn.)

Please follow if you want to hear what I do next year. And comment below and tell me of the crazy things that go on in your school. :-]



xxx Vee xxx

Rimmel London Apocalips: Nude Eclipse

Hey, beauties!
I bought this quite a while ago but didn't get time to post about it as I was busy studying for my exams, but I'm back now, for the time being, and I have here the shade 600 Nude Eclipse. This is the nude-est  of them all (no surprise there, then). I love the packaging of the product. It just feels and looks very nice and luxurious, but not in the glamorous movie star way. It's more of a rebellious style. It's also very sturdy so, unlike with many others, the top part (?) of the gloss bottle does not crack or smash in my bag causing the gloss to leak all over my phone and other essentials.

The colour show is very great, though this particular colour only lasted about 4 hours on my lips if I applied around 2-3 layers and don't eat or drink anything. It comes out as very dark below, but on my lips it is very light and looks best teamed with a smokey eye.

My favourite part of this was probably the brush. I think I've finally found my dream brush as this one brushes on the colour in just one stroke and is so easy to control. Even around my cupid's bow!!!!

Overall, I would so purchase another colour (maybe a pink) as the darker colours are more pigmented.
Have you tried any of these colours? If so which one? Please comment below so I have an idea as to which one I should purchase next.
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xxx Vee xxx


Rimmel London Apocalips can be purchased at Superdrug or Boots for £5.99