Collection Work The Colour ~ Fairy Dust

Hello!

This is the second nail polish I received for my birthday (thanks mam and dad)! It's called Fairy Dust and it's by Collection, which I keep wanting to call Collection 2000 because I'm old school ;-)

Fairy Dust is a sheer polish. It's blue with a gorgeous iridescence to it which gives your nails the look of fairy wings. For my manicure I painted one quick coat of a lilac shade followed by two coats of Fairy Dust to fully show it off. Here it is:

It is magical. I know some people don't like sheers (definitely for me they have to be something special); if you can put up with them, this is a great buy, especially since it's £1.99. And I've just thought that it'd be a great base for butterfly nail art.

In Lisa news I'm having a really bad time with life and depression right now. I've been painting my nails less often but I'm hoping to regain some momentum, starting with a stamping plate review then hopefully carrying on with some new manicures!

Hugs,

Lisa xx

Lisa's Happy-Face First Payday Post

Hello and welcome to the Happy-Face post!

Well, after three weeks of settling in and being very happy at my new job, I received my first paycheque on Thursday! I am so proud; I keep thinking about how far I've come and how much I've struggled to get to this point. I am still working very hard to stay mentally well and am trying to improve my life in tiny little steps; fingers crossed!

Mostly I need my wages to get me out of my scarily big overdraft, but I have allowed myself some treats! I ordered some water decals from YR Nails which I cannot wait to receive, and today I bought 5 lovely nail polishes. Superdrug has a 3 for 2 sale on all cosmetics right now (the cashier told me and I was like, *backs away from till and dashes to the make-up section*!), so I bought Barry M's Blackberry, Accessorize's Ladybird and Collection's Love Jewel. Then on my fave market stall I found two promising Sally Hansens for £1.99 each - Spectrum looks like a green-blue mermaid shimmer with a flash of purple, and Crinoline looks like Lavender Cloud except with a pink tint instead. I cannot wait to try them out but Ladybird might be first on my list!

Also with my wages I bought an alumnus membership to my university library (£20 for a year, so good!) so I can do the reading I couldn't do at uni when I was depressed. Language truly is my passion and I definitely want to learn more.

Aaaaaaand, I got some new clothes for an incredible price from Primark! I may show you them in another post, highlights are a loose pink knitted cardi and a navy blue polka-dotted dress that I feel really pretty in ^_^

Oh, and finally I got some jewellery from the site I work for that I have yet to pick up. I will definitely be showing you those as I'm very proud to associated with such nice jewellery!!!

I hope you enjoyed my happy-face post and hope also that it made up for the sad-face one!

Hugs,

Lisa xx