UK/US Beauty Swap with Her Late Night Cravings

Hey Everyone!! H|ow are you all doing? Great I hope! Haven't we been lucky with the weather here the last few days in the UK, I hope that you are all getting a chance to enjoy the sunshine.

Enough about the weather, on to today's post.  I have been lucky enough to take part in a beauty swap with the beautiful ladies, Jayme & Mendi over at Her Late Night Cravings.

Now these two girls are amazing!! Their videos and blog posts always brighten up my day, and it was them that made me brave enough to take the YouTube plunge a year ago.

So a couple of months ago, we started emailing and chatting about doing a beauty swap, like the girls, I cant remember how it came up, but I am so so pleased it did. I have loved the whole process of chatting, getting to know the ladies, shopping for them and finally sending and receiving parcels.

Our boxes arrived last week ( I was so excited when I came home to it on Thursday!!) We both decided to film unboxing videos, it was seriously like Christmas. I was so lucky, the girls picked out beautiful items for me that we can not get here in the UK, and if you watch my video, you will see, I was more than a little excited!!lol.

I really can not say thank you enough to you both, I am so lucky to of made friends with you beautiful ladies and had the chance to do this with you :)

Please if you are not already subscribed ( Im sure you are!!) check out Jayme and Mendi's YouTube Channel Here. Seriously, you will love them!!

Also If you would like to see what I picked out for them, please follow the link below....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPIcMztPox0

Happy Hump day everyone!!!

Mwah 

Fiji confetti NOTD............

So I finally caved and picked up the L'Oreal Confetti top coat. At first I really wasn't sure this was a polish for me, that's why I have held off so long.

If you follow me on Instagram then you will of seen my NOTD featuring Essie Fiji as a base with a glitter accent nail in Barry Ms Pink Glitter all topped off with the L'Oreal confetti.

And I have to admit, I love it.

Is the confetti rage something that you have been enjoying?

Mwah

MAC & NARS glitter Party Makeup look.............

Happy Tuesday everyone!!!

Hope that you are all well and getting excited for Santa!!!

Today I have a tutorial of the makeup that I wore to my Christmas Party a few weeks ago. I instagramed a picture at the time and a couple of people said that they would like a tutorial...

So here is the totorial and a full list of products that I used...

FACE

Revlon Foundation Primer

Makeup Forever HD Foundation

Milani Bronzer

MAC MSF in Gold Deposit and Soft and Gentle

MAC Marine Life Powder ( As blush)

EYES

Maybelline Instant Dark circle Concealer

MUA Shadow primer

MAC Blackground Paint Pot

MAC Antiques Reflects Pigment

MAC Naked Pigment

NARS Galapagos

MAC Black track Fluid line

Lancome Hypnose Mascara

LIPS

Sleek Red Sky at Night Eau La La Liner

MAC Stone liner

MAC Angel Lipstick

I really hope that you enjoyed the video and it has given you a few ideas for your partys!!!

Mwah

Blackened Plum glitter Eye look........

Happy Hump day everyone!!! hehehe, hope your week is going fab so far!!! 

I recently recorded a tutorial for a blackened plum eye look and wanted to share it with you today..

This look had so many of my favorite things, dark smokey shades, black liner and glitter being among them.

Products Mentioned...

Maybelline Color Tattoo in Pomegranate Punk

MUA Shadow Primer

YSL Ombre Solo No 1

MUA Artiste Collection ( The white, mid brown and highlight shade used)

Loreal Carbon Gloss liquid liner

Collection Glitter liner in Shake it Up

MUA Volume Mascara

YSL Rouge Volupte NO 9

To see how I achieved the look, see the video below. 

What do you think of glitter liners? Are you a fan like me???

Let me know what you think of the look and if you try something yourself!!!

Mwah

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My top Glitter Polishes 2012......

in my latest video I wanted to show you my favorite Glitter polishes of the moment.

Now I'm not going to lie to you, these may will and probably will change over the next few months.

One thing I can whole heatedly promise is that my love of Glitter polish will never change. I'm a glitter girl and that's that!!! lol.

The polishes I mention are.....

Top to Bottom, Left to Right

OPI Crown Me Already, You Glitter Be Good To Me, Sparke De Triomphe and The living Daylights.

Essie A Cut Above

China Glaze Ruby Pumps

Deborah Lippmann Happy Birthday

Barry M Yellow Topaz Glitter

Top To Bottom, L To R

Models Own Northern Lights, Blizzaerd and Pink Fizz

TopShop Adrenalin and Ice Crush.

Mwah

MAC Glamour Daze Superb and Everything That Glitters.........

Every year MAC launches a fabulous Christmas collection with everything our heart could desire. And this year The Glamour daze Collection delivers big time.

I had promised myself that I wasn't going to go mad and buy too much from the collection as I have asked for a few bits for Christmas and also, I want to show the makeup I have a little love.

There were just two things that I knew I wanted to get when the collection launched online.
1 was the Extra Dimension Skin finish in Superb that I missed out on earlier in the year, and the other was Everything That Glitters Nail polish. This is my first polish from MAC and what a way to start, a glitter fest in a bottle!!

Superb is a beautiful Rose gold tone highlight. I am not disappointed with this at all, I am so pleased to have this as part of my kit. It looks beautiful on a range of skin tones and adds beautiful light to the skin without being super sparkly or shiny looking.

Next is Everything that glitters, a sheer black based polish with micro glitter in magenta, teal blue, silver and gold.

Its just beautiful and opaque in two coats. The glitter is nice and dense and gives fantastic and even coverage. As I mentioned this is my first MAC polish, I hope I haven't started another obession here!!! lol.

I am really pleased with my two purchases from the collection and super excited to use them over the festive season.

Are there any items you will picking up before Christmas?

Mwah

My top Polish picks for Fall 2012.....

Hi Everyone, 

Today's post is about my favorite Fall polishes for 2012.

As you may know, I'm not really a dark polish fan, this year however I have surprised myself and found true love with a fair few darker polishes.

So you may or may not be surprised with my picks!!

Deborah Lippmann- Razzle Dazzle

Revlon- Facets Of Fuchsia

Barry M- Raspberry

Barry M- Racing Green

OPI- Lincoln Park After Dark

Essie- Midnight Cami

Essie- Chinchilly

Sephora by OPI- Traffic Stopper Copper

China Glaze- Avalanche

China Glaze I herd That

China Glaze- Glitter Goblin

What are your favorite polishes this Autumn?


Mwah

OPI And Breast Cancer Awareness Month............

In October we see the offerings from many of the household brands that we use on a daily basis in support of Breast Cancer Awareness month. 

It is a sad reality that all to many of us will be affected by the disease at some time in our lives, whether it be a loved one or ourselves. We are very lucky that medical advances are making this illness more beatable everyday.

So if buying something as simple as a a box of spread ( I cant believe its not butter is all pinked up in ASDA for Tickled Pink!!!), a Chocolate cake ( Mcvities) or a OPI Nail polish to make donation to a fab cause, then I am there.

Every little helps, and as someone who walked 26.2 miles in the London Moonwalk I have seen the goodness that can come from donations.

So let me introduce you to one of the items I have picked up this month in support.....

OPI Have two polishes on offer this year, You Glitter Be Good To Me was the one that grabbed me. 

A beautiful pale pink micro glitter with larger cerise hex glitter that will look super pretty both layered and alone, I can not wait to wear this polish.

What do you think of the latest support Polish from OPI? Will you be picking it up?

So lets have a fabulous Pink month, and remember to check your breasts regularly!!!!

Mwah

Models Own Mirror Ball Collection......

Now as you all know, I love Glitter and sparkle, I also love Nail polish, so when Models Own announced and previewed the Mirror Ball collection, I knew it was one that I would like to add to my collection.

The collection has a total of 5 polishes, all named after 70 dance tunes.

Super cool, hehehe.

I got the polishes from Models Own website Link here....

There was an offer to get all 5 polishes, plus a 3 in 1 clear base, top coat all for the price of £20!! I couldnt resist and placed my order.

Models own always have fantastic offers on, so definitely check them out!!!

I have shown you Hot stuff on both my Instagram (MariaSparkle19) and my YouTube, I have posted the video with a over view of all the polishes below. I will be doing NOTD with all of the beautiful polishes over the next few weeks!!!!!

Have you got these yet?What do you think?

Mwah

The Nail Polish Tag........

Today's post is a tag post.

I saw this on You tube earlier in the year, there were several at the time ( I'm thinking march time ish...) so I forget who actually started it. 

The questions are

1.Whats your favorite nail polish company?

2.Glitter or no glitter?

3.OPI, China Glaze or Essie

4.When do you change your polish?

5.Whats your favorite colour on your nails?

6.Dark's or Brights?

7.What are you wearing on your nails right now?

8.Matte nails, Do or Don't?

9.French Manicure?

10.Favorite winter colour?

Anyway I recorded and posted the video for you all to check out.

I wanted to share with you some Nail of the days posts featuring some of the polishes that I mentioned in the video so that you can get a better video of colour's and shades.....

So here we are, Polishes that I mentioned in the video.....

GLITTERS

Deborah Lippmann Happy Birthday

Deborah Lippmann Some Enchanted Evening

Topshop Icecrush

Topshop Adrenalin

Revlon Starry Pink

Revlon Galaxy

Essie A Cut Above

Barry M Silver Multi Glitter

OPI Spark De Triomph

OPI Servin Up Sparkle

PINKS

Essie Fiji

OPI Mod About You

Essie Lights

OPI Your Web Or Mine?

Essie Super Bossa Nova

China Glaze Pink Voltage

China Glaze Purple Panic

FAVORITE WINTER COLOUR

OPI A Oui Bit Of Red

Let me know what your favorites and answers are!!!!!

Mwah

Essie NOTD Tart Deco and A Cut Above.............

If you have been following my blog for a while, you will know that my favorite polish brand is Essie, so today I have a NOTD featuring two of my tops picks from the brand to share with you.

As a lover of all things sparkly and glittery, I simply love A Cut Above from Essie. Its a beautiful glitter polish that is very nearly fully opaque with two coats.

Tart Deco is a beautiful color for summer ( You know, those 3 days a year we get where the sun shine?!!? lol)

I normally would never pair these polishes, I am so so pleased that I did, I think they work really well together, I love the contrast of the pink and orange....


What color combinations are you enjoying at the moment?


Mwah

OPI Teenage Dream vs Topshop Adrenalin, a dupe, what do you think??.........

I picked up a new Topshop polish today (Click here for the post) and wanted to share a swatch with you as in the shop it really reminded me of the OPI Katy Perry polish in Teenage Dream. 

So here we are the two polishes side by side....

L To R

Teenage Dream and Adrenalin 

When I got them together I saw straight away that Teenage Dream has more of a pale pink tone to it. The Halo glitter is also larger and more dense in the Adrenalin.

With Flash

Natural Light

As you can see from the swatches, although they are very similar they are also quite different.

The swatches are 3 coats of each. The Topshop polish is much more opaque, the glitter much more dense, there is also more halo in the Adrenalin. I think this is what gives it almost a slightly more lilac tone to the polish.

Dare I say I think I actually prefer the Adrenalin, and that is a bold statement for me to make as Teenage dream has been a favourite for me since it launched last year. I think this is what I wanted it to look like.

What do you think???

Very nearly a dupe???

Mwah

Some Topshop Goodies.............

Having read a lot of very good things about Topshops range of cosmetics, especially there lipsticks.

Because of this I picked up a couple of there Lip products and a nail polish today

How could I resist this bottle of sparkly heaven?? Its called Adrenalin. Its a clear base with micro pinky lilac, holographic micro glitter and large holo hex. Gorgeous.

Next up I chose Ohh La La a matte finish tangerine lipstick, it feels lovely and creamy, I cant wait to try this one out.

And lastly I picked up one of there Lip Sticks, a jumbo Lip pencil. I will use this as a lippy and as a liner. Again the texture is soft and glides on. These pencils are super pigmented and after I swatched them in store, proved to have great staying power on my hand :)

L To R

Ohh La La and Clueless

What colours do you recommend from Topshop??

Think I have found a new addiction lol.

Mwah

China Glaze Prismatic Rad-Diant NOTD.............

If you follow me on Twitter you will of seen a picture I tweeted a couple of days ago. I want to share with you the sparklicious polish that is Ray-Diant

These pictures really don't do this polish the service it deserves. But with the bad weather these pics were the best I could get :( I didn't think I would be saying this but of the 3 Prismatic polishes I have (see them here) this is by far my favourite. Its a beautiful gold shade with a subtle hint of green.

There is a very subtle hint of halo about this on your nails too. 

I needed 2 layers of top coat to finish this baby off and make it feel nice and smooth.

What do you think of this collection?? I think it has hidden gems.

Mwah 

Nicki Minaj For OPI Fly NOTD..............

I felt this cold weather called for something a little cheerful on my Nails. 

So for today's NOTD  post we have Fly with a Bling finger nail in Save Me both by OPI from the Nicki Minaj collection.

I really like this colour. Fly is a beautiful bright turquoise blue that makes me long for the summer. The formula is smooth an applies beautifully. The above photos are with 2 coats, you can still see my natural nail line but I think that 3 coats would remedy this. 

You can see the beautiful bar glitter in Save Me. As I said this was an impulse buy for me, so far its been a good purchase. Its just pure fun in a bottle.

Have you tried this collection from OPI?

What colours are you loving???

Mwah