Nail Polish Collection: Breakdown Part 1

Happy Saturday! I hope everybody is enjoying the weekend so far, I'm just back from eating out for lunch, was yummy and a perfect way to spend a Saturday afternoon!

Today marks the first in a series of new posts - a more detailed look at my nail varnish collection. Every Saturday for the next few weeks I will put up a post of my nail varnish collection. Some weeks it will be an entire brand, other weeks like today, it is just going to be a collection of random polishes, that I might only have one or two from the same brand. 

If you are interested it my collection overview, you can see it here and if you click the tab at the top of the page entitled 'Nail Polish Collection', you will find a list of all the nail polish and links to any that I already have individual posts on.

The first line-up

The ones I'm showing you today are all singles and duos from any given brand.

Duos: L-R Kiss No Name Pink and No Name White, 17 Miami and Nightshade, Ciaté Wait Until Dark and Mistress, Bourjois Bleu Délave and Violet Laqué.

Singles: L-R W7 Marine Crackle, Nails Inc. Basil Street, Isa Dora Subway Green, Barbara Daly Panache, Claires No Name Purple, Sephora by OPI Metro Chic and Sephora Wanna be a Star.

That's it for this Saturday's nail polish collection breakdown, next one will be posted next Saturday:)

IsaDora Graffiti

I was aware that Barry M used to/still do a crackle/shatter coat, as well as OPI and China Glazes upcoming collection but when I saw these 'Graffiti' ones by IsaDora, in all different colours, I just had to buy one!

There wasn't too many left in the pharmacy where I bought them, so I had the choice between green, yellow and white. I went with the green, called Subway Green, simply because I liked it more. They also had some base coats for sale in a decent variety of colours including a very pretty powder blue.

It said on the label that came with the graffiti topcoat, to use it over one of their base coats but I took a chance that it would work over any nail varnish and purchased it on it's own.

I decided to apply it over OPI's Alpine Snow, just to help it stand out. And I love the way they work together. The application was okay. I've never used a crackle/shatter/graffiti topcoat before so maybe I was applying it wrong but it took me two coats to get this effect. The first coat didn't shatter too well and pretty much just left swipe marks. Possibly the alpine snow wasn't dry enough?

Overall though I loved it. I didn't mind having to put on the two coats of it and what I love is that it comes in different colours compared to the black shatter by OPI, which is obviously just black.

If you want a shatter topcoat that's a bit livelier, definitely check the Graffiti topcoats out! (Even my cat likes it!)

Make up Haul

This may not be considered a huge haul to a lot of people but it is to me! I bought all of this last week, after finishing my college exams:-)

I'll start with the stuff I got from MAC.


I got the chromgraphic multi-purpose pencil in NC15/NW20 from the Cham Pale collection. I'll probably mostly use it on the waterline but I think it could be used as a highlight and on the inner corners as well.

I got a mineralised skin finish natural, mostly because I had heard so so much about how amazing it is supposed to be. I got it in Light Medium and it really does help to give that flawless and finished look over your foundation.

I bought the 239 brush as well. I already have the 217 and 219 so I felt this should be the next one to add to my collection. It's good for use on the lid.

The main items that I wanted to buy were some eyeshadows. After looking through a lot of blogs and specktra etc. I decided that the easiest way to keep eyeshadows is in palette form. I already have 6 MAC eyeshadows but I depotted them for the palette. (I broke my beautiful Club on my first attempt at it but I managed to repair it thanks to YouTube!).
So I bought an empty 15 pan palette and 4 eyeshadows in Shimmermoss, Humid, Sumptuous Olive and Antiqued.
All so pretty!

From top to bottom - Sumptuous Olive, Humid, Shimmermoss and Antiqued.

Next is what I got from NARS. Just 2 items, both 'cult' buys I believe




Bronzer in Laguna


Lipgloss in Turkish Delight.

Some other beauty items I got included Sally Hansen Gel Cuticle (no picture) and a deadly IsaDora nail varnish thats part of their 'Graffiti' Collection. Its the same idea as the OPI Shattercoat I believe but it comes in a variety of colours, I bought it in 'Subway Green'. I'll do a review on it when I try it out:-)


So that's my haul, there probably won't be another one for quite a while but this should keep me going!:-)