Nail Mail!

Hi ladies! I'm still here! Sorry I haven't been posting ANYTHING lately, I've been so busy with working and other things. The weather has also been miserable on my days off, or when I do get home from work, it's starting to get dull. I will try and get some done tomorrow, but don't hold it against me if I don't!
In the meantime, I thought I would show you some of the nail mail I have received over the last week, although the majority of these were delivered today/yesterday! Let's jump straight into it shall we?

Nails Inc polishes - Princes Arcade, Jubilee, Colville Mews & The Icons mini set.

Nails Inc 'Lucky Dip' order

Harlow & Co order!

Catrice polishes from my swap with the lovely Karine from Nailderella!

Unfortunately, one didn't survive the journey! :(

Some samples I received from Polish + Plus - full review/swatches & details coming soon!

My Dandy Nails order!

My Giveaway win from The Holographic Hussy!!!

I looove all my new pretties! & I can't wait to show you some swatches, sorry again for the short post, but with all those gorgeous polishes, who wants to read words?!

Nail Mail!

Hi ladies, I haven't got any swatches for you today, but I do have a little Nail Mail post all of which I have bought/received over the past couple of days. Let's take a look shall we?

MUA, NYC, BarryM, BeautyUK, Miss Sporty & Barbara Daly.

First of all we have this beautiful array of drugstore nail polish! This is probably one of the most excessive 'polish spree' I have ever been on, but they're all for an upcoming post about UK drugstore polishes, which should be posted at the beginning of next week, if not sooner! So keep a look out for that!

515, Sparkling Waters & 533

Next up we have an order I placed through Kim, from Harlow & Co. As some of you may have heard, Ozotic are discontinuing all of their '500' line, which contains their Holographic, Elytra & Duochrome polishes, due to a ingredient shortage. Since I had been wanting some Ozotic holos for a while, I thought now is a good a time as any to purchase a couple before the prices skyrocket on eBay! I also picked up one of Harlow & Co's own polishes in Sparkling Waters!

Naughty But Nice, Peppermint Dream & Tickle Your Fancy*

I was kindly sent these eye CANDY polishes by the company for my upcoming post! If you've been reading my blog lately, you'd have seen some eye CANDY polishes featured already. These are shaping up to be one of my favourite brands, their formula rivals that of some of the top polish brands! The best thing? eye CANDY polishes retail between £5-£10.

Lesbihonest, Frantic Romantic & Knackered

The lovely Marnie offered to swap me for these beauties. She was originally holding Frantic Romantic for me but as shipping sometimes isn't worth it for one polish, we agreed to swap for Lesbihonest & Knackered too! I've been wanting to try ManGlaze for a while now, ever since they blew up in the blogging community and what better way to start than with Lesbihonest!

MY FIRST LYNNDERELLA! Now I've never really been on the Lynnderella hype, but I have wanted to give at least one polish a try before I made judgement. I wasn't, however, going to pay the extortionate prices on eBay for one! So when Leah Ann announced she was listing her extra Lynn's on Llarowe, I knew I had to get one at their retail price! I wish I had picked another polish, but with the mad panic I bought the first one I clicked on.

So that concludes my little Nail mail post! I'm currently in the process of writing/scheduling some posts for the next week or so, so you'll all be seeing some new polishes/content on my blog soon! Take care!!

Nail Mail!

Hi ladies! Just a super quick post to show you what I picked up when I was in town this weekend! I'd also like to apologise for the lack of swatch posts lately, I do have the content for you, just every time I go to write the post, I draw up a blank! But I promise I will be back on track asap! Anyways, lets get to the haul shall we?!

Models Own; Blooming Pink & Purple Imperial, Collection 2000; Go Retro & Electric Dreams

China Glaze; Loft-y Ambitions, Spontaneous, Tempest, Stella & Concrete Catwalk

Nails Inc for InStyle Magazine; Bluebelle

So there you have my super quick Nail Mail post! The Models Own polishes are currently on offer in Boots for 2 for £8 (saving of £2) as well as the Collection 2000 polishes being 2 for £3 (saving 58p). The Collection 2000 polishes are also on 3 for 2 at Superdrug, along with all of their cosmetics range! The China Glaze I picked up from my local Sallys as they're currently on 3 for 2, so why did you get 5? I hear you ask! Well, they also have buy one get one free on the Metro collection! The Nails Inc polish I got in InStyle magazine, as for the month of June they are giving 3 colours, specifically made for the magazine and priced at £3.80 for the magazine AND the Nails Inc polish, you'd be silly to pass it up!

Nail Mail: Wednesday

Hi ladies! So I was originally going to do a monthly 'haul' post to show you what I've been getting, but trying to remember EVERYTHING from the past month proved to be a lot harder than I thought. Instead, I will be doing haul posts when I have at least 10 polishes to show you.
Today I got an awesome Nail Mail package on my doorstep from the lovely Gina from My Dirty Little Obsessions. A while back she posted a photo featuring multiple China Glaze polishes from the Tronica collection which she'd found in a salon and being a huge China Glaze lover I asked if she'd be willing to swap one of each she had to which she kindly said yes! Wanna see what was in the package?

China Glaze and Candies? Who wouldn't be happy with this?!

From L - R; Hologram, Cyberspace, Mega Bite, Digital Dawn & Laser Lime

Techno Teal, High Def, Virtual Violet, Gamer Glam & Electra Magenta

Yummy Candies from the US! 

How amazing is my Nail Mail?! If you don't know already the Tronica polishes all have scattered holo in them! Who doesn't love a good holo right? I only need two more to complete the collection; Hyper Haute & 3D Fantasy - if anyone is able to get those for me send me an e-mail (polishedcriminails@gmail.com) and we'll discuss possible swap/purchase.

Nail Mail: April & Polish Count

Hi ladies, it's been a while! Before I start with the Nail Mail post I'd like to apologise for my lack of posting this last week. The weather in the UK has been horrendous, it's pretty much rained constantly for the past week so I haven't been able to get any swatching done! Fortunately, the weather is beautiful today so I have been 'catching up' on my swatching which I will be posting over the next week. Anyway, enough excuses - let's get into my Nail Mail for April!

BarryM; Black Multi Glitter, Silvery Lilac, Denim & Teal

Models Own; Ibiza Mix, Collection 2000; Hoola Hoop, Button Moon, Wham & BMX Bandit, GOSH; Splish Splash

China Glaze; City Siren & Traffic Jam

I picked up these polishes at the beginning of the month during my trip into town. I knew that BarryM had released new colours, so I wanted to see if my Boots/Superdrug had them in. Unfortunately they didn't have Copper at the time so I was only able to pick up the four you see, from Superdrug. Whilst in Superdrug I spotted GOSHs new Spring/Summer releases but to be honest, the other colours didn't really tickle my fancy so I only picked up Splish Splash. I then headed over to Boots in search of the always sold out Ibiza Mix from Models Own, to my surprise there was one left on the display! Needless to say I grabbed it. I also picked up a couple of Collection 2000 polishes, just because they were 2 for £3. Then just as I was leaving town I decided to quickly head over to Sallys to see if they had any of the new China Glaze/OPI collections, which they didn't, but it was buy one get one free on China Glaze Metro Collection! I only picked up two colours since I'd already spent most of my money in town >.<

China Glaze; Smoke & Ashes, Sinful Colors; Let Me Go

I got these from a mini swap I did with Traci @ The Trace Face Philes. I'd seen swatches of China Glaze - Smoke & Ashes around the interwebs and thought it looked interesting, so I asked her to pick it up for me. She was kind enough to throw in Sinful Colors - Let Me Go as a bonus!

GOSH; Rainbow, Silky Mint, Holographic, Rainbow & Sweet Rose

I've been on a little bit of a GOSH hype lately, ever since the discounted bin arrived in my Superdrug. Unfortunately, the two polishes I was hoping I would find in there were nowhere to be found. So I took to eBay to fish out Rainbow & Holographic and to my surprise I managed to find them both for a reasonable price! I picked up an extra Rainbow for my 1000 follower giveaway (only 12 people away!)

Dollish Polish; Dark Passenger & TEAM Salvatore

Now, if you know me in real life, you'll know that I am a HUGE Dexter & The Vampire Diaries fan! I've read all the books for both TV shows and have watched every season religiously. As soon as I saw that there were Nail Polishes named after characters in my two favourite shows, I had to have them! As you're probably aware, Dollish Polish is a pretty popular Indie brand that sells out literally seconds after she opens the shop and being in the UK I always missed out on the opening due to time zones. BUT I was determined to get my hands on them this time, so I specifically stayed awake until she opened. I snagged Dark Passenger straight away, but TEAM Salvatore kept jumping out of my cart, so after constantly refreshing and clicking I was able to get it.

Models Own; Peaches & Cream, Edamame & Naked Shimmer

Diego Dalla Palma

These polishes were kindly sent to me for review by the companies PR. Being a Models Own junkie, I was surprised that I didn't actually have the polishes already! You can see the swatches I did of those here. I've never heard of Diego Dalla Palma but I'm pretty impressed with their formula! I'll have a swatch post uploaded soon.

OPI; Pirouette My Whistle

This was also kindly sent to me by OPI's UK PR company. This was the only polish which stood out to me from the NYC Ballet collection, mainly because I'm not a fan of sheer polishes.

Wet N Wild; Grays Anatomy & Spoiled; Paying With Platinum

Catrice; Iron Mermaiden

You may remember a while ago I posted a picture on my Facebook page of Deborah Lippmann - Wicked Game, OPI - Not Like The Movies & BarryM - Silvery Lilac, well I have been asking around for dupes and the lovely Amanda from Mandy's Polish kindly offered to pick up the Wet N Wild & Spoiled polishes for me. I was then contacted by a lovely follower Daria saying she had the Catrice polish for me so we organised a mini swap for it! I will be doing the post sometime in May, so keep an eye out for that!

I apologise at how much I've rambled on in this post, clearly the lack of posting has affected my blogging ability. The main point of the post is the photos so you'll have to forgive me. Seeing as it's officially the end of April today, I thought I would tag on my Polish Count for the month. So without further ado, the grand total of polishes I now own is;

Polish Count (April 30th); 357

That's a total of 42 new polishes! The best news is that I now have a HelmerIKEA so I didn't have to pay the expensive shipping fees to have it delivered! I'll try and do an updated storage post soon to show you guys!

Nail Mail: EPIC Day (Pic Heavy)

Hi ladies! So I have an epically awesome Nail Mail post for you today. Originally this post was going to be an average Nail Mail day, but as I was taking the photos ANOTHER package was delivered! I won't bore you with a stupidly long intro, so let's get started!

My first package is from a lovely lady called Emily in my Facebook group, she posted that she was selling a couple things and one of them really caught my eye. But instead of purchasing them, we did a little swap as she was wanting a couple of the Max Factor minis! We wanted it to be a fair swap, so to make up the price of the mini's she threw in 3 extra polishes! Wanna see what I got? Click the jump to start!!

Nail Mail: Secret Bunny!

Hi ladies, so yesterday I posted a teaser pic on my Facebook page of a cute little package I received in the mail. I originally planned to write this post yesterday, but I ended up going to the cinema to see 21 Jump Street and when I came home we had a house full of people, so I didn't really want to sit and write the post. Anyway, I organised a little Secret Bunny swap in the Facebook group I'm in at the beginning of last month with a couple other bloggers/nail junkies and I finally received mine yesterday from the lovely Barbara from Betty Nails! I absolutely love this chick, if you haven't checked out her blog, then go do so! As it's Easter weekend, I wasn't expecting any mail this weekend, so imagine my surprise when I saw two packages on the kitchen table! One of the packages was a 30 bottle acrylic nail polish display, but I didn't include photos of that as we all know what they look like! Let's get into what Barbara sent me shall we!

The amazingly cute package I was greeted with when I opened the box!

Oooh what could be inside these? The note titled 'Richie' was a note to my boyfriend telling him to not eat all my candies!

Holy frickin' nail mail!

The polishes! I've been wanting to try Risque for a while now!

Some Nail Art goodies! I forgot to include the Nail Wheels here!

I'd like to thank Barbara aka Betty for my AMAZING Easter package! It definitely brightened up my weekend that's for sure! Like I said, if you haven't seen Betty's blog yet, click this link to be taken to her page. I hope you enjoyed the post and I will hopefully have an amazing nail mail post coming to you later this week from my swap with Nicole so keep an eye out for that! I hope you're all having a lovely Easter weekend and have eaten your body weight in tasty chocolate treats! HAPPY EASTER LADIES!

Nail Mail: Thursday

Hi ladies, I have a little bit of nail mail to show you today! There's two things I received in the mail today, one I got last week and then one I got as a present from the boyfriend. So lets get cracking shall we?

The first things that arrived in the mail today were these pretties from A England. They were having a sale on last week to celebrate Tristam (Adina's (the creator) cat) first year of life! If you're familiar with A England, you'll know Tristam is also the name of two A England polishes. Unfortunately, my payday was after the sale ended, so the lovely Benedicte from I'm Anaa offered to pick these up for me (as well as the next lot of polishes you will see below) How amazing is she?! If you haven't come across her blog yet, I suggest you go check it out! The two polishes you see here are Bridal Veil & Ascalon! Such pretty holos :')
A England are available directly from their website for £9 each! They have free worldwide shipping too!

The next lot of pretties to arrive courtesy of Benedicte, were these three Dandy Nails polishes created by Sandy from Dandy Nails. The polishes I picked out were Funhouse, Inside The Fire & You Set My Soul Alight (Who doesn't love Muse?) You can purchase Dandy Nails from her Etsy shop for between $7.50 & $8!

These two were presents from my AMAZING boyfriend! He picked up Models Own Indian Ocean, from their new Beetlejuice releases and Disco Heaven from their new HedKandi line. You can purchase Models Own directly from their website for £5 or if you're in the UK you can find them in most Boots stores too!

The final polish is one I ordered from eBay a while back, which arrived last week. As some of you may know I have been on the hunt for all the polishes in the OPI Suede collection and I have now completed that mission. Unfortunately I only have 5 of the 7 with me as two are taking a little holiday over in the US at Nicel's house, but they will be with me soon. This polish is Here Today...Aragon Tomorrow for those of you wondering. I think this cost me around £8, which is £3 less than retail for OPI. This is apparently hard to find now too, so I think I got myself a bargain there.

All My Suedes (Minus Russian Navy & You Don't Know Jacques); We'll Always Have Paris, OPI Ink, Lincoln Park After Dark, Here Today...Aragon Tomorrow & Suzi Skis In The Pyranees.

So there you have my little haul for the week! I'm doing pretty well up to now on my no-buy month! Yes I'm aware we're only 5 days in, luckily I have a swap box and some smaller swap packages on the way so those will be able to keep me entertained for the time being! If you haven't already, check out my blog sale every little helps towards paying off my bills! *sad face* I'm open to some offers on them, so just send me an e-mail and we'll discuss prices :)

Nail Mail: & A Mini Haul

Hi ladies! So I did a little bit of shopping today and I also received a package from the lovely Emily in my Facebook group! The shopping I did was mainly for a swap I am doing with Nicole from Let Me See Ur Peacock but I did pick up a couple of polishes I have been lemming and also a couple polishes for some friends.

So the photo to the left is an overlook on everything I got in the mail/bought today. If you care to take a scroll down, I will show you which polishes are actually mine!

Sinful Colors - Nail Junkie, Butter London - The Black Knight & Sinful Colors - I Miss You

The first things I have to show you are the AMAZING polishes I received in the mail today from Emily! I posted in a group I'm in about how much I wanted Butter London - The Black Knight and Emily said she'd just ordered it and she would swap with me for it. I then saw an earlier post from her saying how she'd like to get her hands on GOSH - Ocean & Gasoline, so I offered to trade her those for The Black Knight! She was also kind enough to throw in two Sinful Colors polishes! I wish I'd had taken a photo of the packaging! It was SO cute. Thanks again Emily for your kindness and willingness to help a polish addict in need!

Max Factor - Meteorite, Moon Dust, Odyssey Blue & Graffiti

I didn't actually get these today, I ordered them about a week and a half ago from Superdrug.com but have yet to feature them in a haul post. Since getting my hands on Fantasy Fire, I wanted to try out some of the other colours that were launched along side it. They're so pretty! The only downside is the size of them, they're SO small *sadface*

GOSH - Deep Purple, Metallic Blue & Attitude

Last but not least, from my trip into town, I picked up these GOSH polishes from the clearance bin! I love finding new things in there, and these I definitely hadn't seen before in the clearance, so I snatched them up for £2 each!

I was feeling pretty accomplished after my little shopping spree and wanted to celebrate (not as glamorous as it sounds) so as the sun is shining today and it is RIDICULOUSLY hot outside, I thought I would take my doggy for a walk in the fields behind our house.

How beautiful is that view? Proper English countryside.

My doggy and my boyfriend! How cute is this photo? :')

So there you have it! My day in a nutshell. I hope you enjoyed the post and have a few new lemmings you want to add to your wish list! Now I think I will enjoy the rest of the sunshine (even if it is starting to get a bit chilly) out in my garden! Enjoy the rest of your Monday!

Nail Mail: My Swap Polishes from Marisa!

 Hi ladies! I have an exciting post for you today, in the form of a Swap Haul I received this morning from Marisa @ Polish Obsession! We've had the swap in the mix for months and now it's finally here! I loved everything she sent me, especially the polishes from my wish list! She's yet to receive hers, but keep checking her blog if you're interested in what I sent ^.^. So without further ado, lets get straight into everything!

The first polishes she sent me were some OPI and Essie from my wish list! From L-R we have OPI - Lincoln Park After Dark, Essie - Carry On, Essie - Sew Psyched, Essie - Mink Muffs and OPI - Russian Navy. I'm so excited to have more Essie! I only had one up to now and it was looking a little lonely, so now it has some friends to cheer it up! Lincoln Park After Dark has been a long time lemming of mine, so I'm finally glad I can add it to my collection and Russian Navy is just down right beautiful.

The next lot of polishes she sent me from L-R are; China Glaze - Sea Spray, Finger Paints - It's An Original, Finger Paints - Laugh My Art Off, Finger Paints - Red Brandt, Finger Paints - Flashy (yes another FP flakie!) and China Glaze - Pool Party. LOOOVE Pool Party! I've been wanting it for so long but it was always out of stock or super expensive here in the UK :( but I can now say it's finally mine!!

Last but not least for the polishes are some Spoiled. I've been seeing these all over the blogesphere and I have been wanting to try some of them, especially the glitters just because they look gorgeous! From L-R we have Ants In My Pants, Cougar Attack, Deeper Dive, My Saturn Broke Down and Papa-paparazzi. These are sooo pretty! I'm yet to swatch everything on my wheels yet, so I'm looking forward to that! And yes, My Saturn Broke Down is a dupe for OPI - Last Friday Night!

And finally a picture of the candies/chocolates and the note she sent me! My boyfriend enjoyed tucking into the sweets whilst I was busy unwrapping my polishes, bless. He gets a little enjoyment whenever I get a swap package with the candies and chocolates that are inside.

So that is all the goodies I received in my swap package with Marisa! How amazing is she?! Thanks again Marisa for being an absolute angel!! If you haven't checked out her blog yet, you should click this link and go check her out! Now all I need to do is make some room in my already overflowing storage boxes to put these beauties away! I will eventually buy myself a Helmer!