Dorothy Perkins sale

Today I had one of those moments where you think 'oh I'll just have a look in there to kill time' and end up buying something, oops!
Before christmas, I was in Dorothy Perkins and saw a couple of things a really liked and thought about buying, I had already spent a bit too much last month as I started my new job at Next, meaning staff discount, and bought a load of stuff from there, as well as all my christmas shopping, so couldn't really justify spending anymore. Anyway, fortunately for me and unfortunately for my bank account they just so happened to have the two things I had my eye on in their sale. The first one, a black japanese-style kimono type thing with some lovely pink flowers on it, was £24.00, reduced to £5.00! I think my jaw literally dropped when I saw it. I then spotted a purple dress I really like that was £30.00 down to £10.00 and after a very short trip to the changing rooms (didn't need much time to decide) I bought them both! :D So i'm now a very happy bunny and the proud owner of two lovely new items of clothing, here they are...

The Kimono:

Ignore the snake print top!

Bit of a close up

The dress:

Sorry about the pile of clothes!

Not my mess I promise!

So yeah, you all need to pop down to your nearest dorothy perkins and grab some bargains yourselves!
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Nina Ultra Pro - Luminous Lavender

Luminous Lavender is a very sheer polish. It's a bluey/white with a pink duochrome and is very shimmery. This is such a pretty colour, I can't stop looking at it!
The pictures below capture the base colour quite well but not the pink duochrome, although you can sort of get the idea of it in the last two pictures, and you can't really see the shimmer either :(
The application was pretty much what you would expect from such a sheer polish, took god knows how many coats to get to the opaqueness in the pictures and there is still some very obvious VNL, ugh. I usually hate sheer polishes as I really don't like the VNL but this one i'm actually quite keen on :)
This was all without my lovely Seche Vite, took so much willpower not to put it on!

Glimpse of the shimmery pink in the
bottle

Stupid short middle finger!

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Nina Ultra Pro - Rasberri Sparkle

I only just recently discovered this brand when I spotted a few bottles in the bargain bucket at Sally's, this was one of them but I've recently been back and bought more at full price since I really like them and now have 7. I'd like to do a swatch of each of them so for the next 6 days that's what you'll be getting!
This particular one is called Rasberri Sparkle and is a lovely deep pink with a very subtle shimmer that looks fabulous in the sun!

I love the application of this, it's lovely and smooth and is so opaque it only needs one coat so it dries fairly quickly too. The close up picture sort of gives you an idea of the shimmer in it, it's got some light shimmery pinks that really show in the sun and some lovely dark pinks also. I thought I'd show you one of my cushions that reminds me of it, the polish is actually a little darker but the light shimmers in it are a very similar colour.

And this, so far is my collection of Nina Ultra Pro polishes, hopefully will be growing soon! L-R: Luminous Lavender* (you can hardly see this one), Purple-Xing, Royal Purple, Purple Pizzaz, Last Call, Rasberri Sparkle* and Caramel Cream*.

*I think these may be discontinued as they were the ones I found in the bargain bucket, they haven't gone off so that's the only other reason I can think that they may have wanted to get rid of them.

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Excited!

I just this minute paid the Barry M website a visit to find out the name of one of their nail polishes and on the homepage I saw this....

They've brought out more colours!! So excited about this, I knew they would! My black crackle was getting lonely, It's a shame they haven't been as quick as the likes of China Glaze and OPI with the other colours, and it's still only four colours in total but I don't care, I've been waiting for these!! I deliberately didn't buy any other brands just incase and i'm so glad my patience wore off!! They're supposedly available already but I'm sure it'll be a while before any of my local stores has them in stock :/ ah well, I can't wait!! Hehe :D

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