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.

Giveaway!!

Hey! As I've reached 200 followers (yey!) which is amazing to me, I want to thank you all and give a wee something back to you. So as you can probably guess by the title of this post, this is a giveaway!! I'm gonna be giving 1 lucky winner two of my favourite nail polishes from BarryM's gelly line.

        

The two are Pomegranate and Greenberry. These are sooooo nice and look great with a few coats.

Rules:

1. This is for residents of the UK only. I'm sorry to anyone who is not from the UK :(
2. If you are under 18 please get permission from your parents.
3. You must be a follower of my blog on bloglovin - not my profile (well you can do both if you like :P)
4. Leave a comment telling me what your all time fave nail polish is.
5. The winner will be selected at random by Rafflecopter and will have 48 hours to reply or it will go to someone else who will also be selected at random.

Any other entries are a bonus so follow me on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook for extra chances to win!

Good luck lovelies! xoxo

a Rafflecopter giveaway

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

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

New Schedule!

Hey lovelies! I have created a new schedule for my blog as I feel it's a bit messy. Instead of blogging random posts on random days of the week I wanted to be more organised and have a schedule of what posts I'm going to write on what days. So, starting from tomorrow (Monday 13th) I am going to post everyday except Saturdays. Posting everyday sounds quite a lot but I'm looking forward to doing it and hopefully you lovely people will look forward to see what's coming. Let me know if you think it's too much though! Here is roughly what my schedule will consist of:

• Monday - An inspirational quote for the week - to help me get through those Monday blues :P
• Tuesday - A wish list - so anything I might have seen and want but can't afford
• Wednesday - A random post - so this could be a haul, nails of the week, my glossy box post, magazine bargain of the month, a review of a product or just a general chat really. 
• Thursday - A get the look post
• Friday - An outfit of the day (ootd) - a nice simple one for a friday as it's my day off work and is the only time I wear actual nice clothes as I basically live in my work clothes or jammies haha
• Saturday - This will be my day off from blogging as this is when my boyfriend is home so I want to spend it with him and not sitting on a laptop I hope you understand <3
• Sunday - My week in pictures

What do you think of this plan? If there are any other posts you think I should give a go then please feel free to let me know in the comments. Oh! Also, I've now got a facebook page which is https://www.facebook.com/gemstrends so would love it if you could "like" my page as I will be putting updates on there about posts and also because......no one likes it yet :( haha! 

Thanks for reading dolls! xoxo

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

November Glossy Box 2013

Hey everyone! If you saw my October Glossy Box post then you will no how disappointed I was with that box! It was so rubbish....for me anyway. However this months is brilliant! So without me rambling on I'm just gonna get straight into it. 

November Glossy Box