Tanya Burr Cosmetics - 12 Days Of Christmas Beauty Calendar

Hi everyone! I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and are looking forward to the New Year! I know I'm a bit behind with my blog posts but I've not been feeling very well and I've just been busy trying to get organised in the run up to Christmas! 

Ciaté Mini Mani Manor 2014 Christmas Advent Calendar

Hey! I came across Ciaté's 2014 Christmas advent calendar on their website and it was on sale from £49 to only £14.70!! I couldn't resist such a good deal! Not too long a go I managed to get myself either the calendar from 2012 or 2013 from TKMaxx for only £20 so I didn't bother buying this one as I thought I would end up with lots of the same shades but since it was only £14.70 it was too good to not get it....and! I only got I think 2 shades that I already have so it was totally worth it :D.

Ciaté London Baby

I am in love with this nail polish! I got this in the Nail Taxi collection a long with two other gorgeous colours. As it's almost Christmas I wanted to paint my nails with something with a bit of sparkle so thought this was perfect! 

It's got black in it with silver glitter but I applied this on top of BarryM's Matte Espresso as I wasn't sure how well it was going to come out on my nails. 

It's so so pretty! The glitter comes out actually really well however I'm not sure if it shows the black as well on a bare nail as I haven't tried this. Black isn't really a Christmassy colour but for now until then it's okay isn't it?

Do you have a favourite nail polish you wear every Christmas? 

 

Do you have a "go to" nail polish every Christmas?

Have a lovely Christmas!

Easy Christmas Nails

I wanted to share with you my favourite Christmassy nails I like to do every year and is very quick and easy to do. You don't need any nail art pens or anything like that, all you need is a red nail polish and a gold glitter polish.

This year I've chosen to go with 'Mistress' by Ciaté and 'Hair Band' by Orly. You can choose which ever brands you like and whether you prefer a bright red or a dark red is entirely up to you. You don't even have to go with red you can choose another Christmassy colour such as a dark green and maybe a silver glitter.

So all you need to do is paint your nails with the colour that you've chosen for your base and apply as many coats as needed. Once dry, apply you glitter nail polish on top. I like to make them quite glittery so applied quite a lot. And that's it....haha! Easy peasy lemon squeezy! 

I just think they look absolutely gorgeous for this time of year and I always get compliments on them so that's why I wanted to share them with you lovely people!

To finish off I would spray Primark's Nail Polish Fast Dry Spray onto them to give them some shine and of course to help them dry quicker.

If you attempt these I would love to see you pictures! You can tag me on instagram if you upload them there...my user name is @bambigemgem.

More TK Maxx Bargains

Whenever I come across a TK Maxx now, I can't help myself and go in to see if I can snap up any more bargains which I certainly did this time. I go straight to the beauty section and look specifically for any good nail polishes I can get my hands on for a great price.

I came across the Ciaté Haute House collection and the Nail Taxi collection also from Ciaté. I love nail polishes from this brand and have managed to build up my collection quite a bit in the past few months down to finding them cheap in TK Maxx.

I also found either the 2012/2013 advent calendar a while back but never got round to doing a blog post about it.

The Haute House contained 5 mini nail polishes in gorgeous metallic colours which are perfect for this time of year. From left to right we have:

• Can Can
• For The Frill Of It
• Sass Pot
• Kness Highs
• Tickly My Fancy

It was reduced from £22.00 to just £7.99! Amazing!

The Nail Taxi collection contained 3 full sized nail polishes which are:

• Chinchilla
• Mistress
• London Baby

This was reduced from £20 to £7.99. Again, amazing!

My Nail Polish Collection Part 2

Primark

      

      

50 Years Of Superdrug

                      

Hey! Another nail polish post I'm sorry but I couldn't resist showing you what I got! Superdrug are celebrating 50 years of being open and have some limited edition products for it....one being a new nail polish from BarryM! I saw this on someones blog and had to get it as it's so gorgeous! It's pink and has bits of glitter in it! I've already tried this and feel it's going to go gloopy quite quickly as do any of the other glitter ones from BarryM but hey ho. I went to get this but of course...I can't go to the BarryM counter and only get 1 nail polish, especially when they've got the 3 for 2 deal on....it's just too hard to resist! I have a problem I know! 

OMG THUNDER!!!....Sorry about that I hate thunder :(

Back to the post....So yeah I couldn't decide which other 2 to go for so picked up the other 2 polishes from the Silk collection which I didn't get, so now my collection is complete :D 

             

                          Truffle           Meadow            Birthday Superdrug

If you're planning on getting the Birthday one then I'd get it now as I can see this selling out as it's soooooo pretty! If you're interested in the other colours in the Silk collection then just click the link :). If you've tried any of these colours I'd love to know what you think! xoxo

Essie Wish List

I looooooove Essie nail polishes but still think they are on the expensive side for a nail polish. I own two from this brand and love them! I love the size of their brushes and how quickly they dry. I do hope to own more in the future and hopefully find them cheaper some where :P These are my faves at the moment and hope to add them to my collection :) xoxo

Get The Look - Olivia Wilde

This post is a bit earlier than usual as I'm going away to Edinburgh for the weekend soon so thought I'd post it now so I don't forget later :) This Get The Look is Olivia Wilde with her cute baby bump in the this gorgeous green sparkly dress which she wore at this years Golden Globe awards. I think she looks stunning! Who stood out for you this year? xoxo

Butter London Wish List

Butter London is one of the few brands of nail polishes that I reallllllly want but can't justify the prices of them! They range from £10-£15.00 I think. These are a few of the colours that I really want so who knows....maybe one day I'll purchase 1 or 2 :P I'm not gonna bore you with me explaining details of the colours as they speak for themselves really :) xoxo

Nail Polish Haul

Happy Monday everyone! Hope everyone's first day back at work was fine if you were working :P. I've been meaning to do this post for a while now but with it being Xmas and New Year I just couldn't find the time to prepare for it but as I had some spare time tonight I thought I best crack on with it and also I apologise for the bad quality of the pictures. So as you can probably guess by the title of this post that this is going to be a nail polish haul and just to let you know that no I did not buy these all at once although I don't really see why that would be a problem :P We always feel like we have to put a little disclaimer out there which I think is quite sad :( Anyways let's crack on!                    

       

Magazine Bargain Of The Month #2

Hey everyone, hope you're all having a good week so far! I most certainly am as I am off work today and off to see the amazing Diversity tonight in Glasgow woohoo!! Anyway that's not what this post is about! I have decided to do a "Magazine Bargain Of The Month" post every month as I think these are so fun to do and everyone loves getting a bargain don't you? So if you haven't seen my last post about the bargains I got in last months then you can click here if you'd like to see that. So what I'll be doing is looking at the magazines every month to see what beauty products you can get for cheap prices! 

This months is the January edition which is weird cause I didn't know magazines do a month in advance? So this is the Cosmopolitan magazine with the lovely Ellie Golden on the front page and this month you actually get the same nail polish you could've got in the December edition so I'm quite chuffed as I put it back last time and got Glamour magazine instead. For a full size Orly nail polish it retails at about £10.00 which is so expensive in my opinion but this a mini sized one which costs normally about £5.00 and the magazine cost me £3.60. It's called "Hair Band" which is a gorgeous gold glitter which is perfect for the Christmas period! There's 4 colours to choose from but I liked this one the most! 

What do you think about me doing these posts? Do you like seeing what's on offer every month in magazines? Let me know :) xoxo