New Year Giveaway - NARS Zulu

EDIT: THE GIVEAWAY HAS NOW CLOSED! WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY :D

To celebrate the coming New Year, I have decided to hold another giveaway!

This time I am giving away one brand new bottle of the highly coveted NARS Zulu. 

This is a bottle of the new release Zulu that came out earlier in 2010.

I haven't had the chance to do swatches of this polish yet, but you can check out some awesome pics of this hot lacquer here and here.

The Rules are simple:

1. Be a follower.

2. Leave a comment with your follower name and email.

3. Following me on Twitter gives you one extra entry (you gotta tell me your twitter name!)

4. Blogging about the giveaway gives you one extra entry (please leave a link!)

5. Giveaway closes on 20th January 2011. 

6. The giveaway is open internationally.

Please include all info in one comment only.

2011 is set to be a massive year for me so I'm super excited for it to arrive! I hope the New Year brings you happiness, success and love! 

Carina x

RBL Catherine H Giveaway Winner!

I'm such a scatterbrain! I completely forgot to draw the winner for my RBL Catherine H Giveaway before Christmas!

Cutting straight to the chase, the winner of the giveaway is.......

Congratulations Zara (bookworm396 at gmail dot com)!!!!

I will send you an email now!

Essie Winter 2010 Part 1

Hey Everyone!

I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas! Mine was a little hectic as we had to visit three lots of family, but all in all I had a lovely Christmas. I was also a very lucky girl and was given a new camera! Say hello to my new Canon DSLR! 

This means no more crappy swatch photos! However, it also means I am going to have to look after my cuticles better (as you will see from the photos below!). Apologies in advance for the horrible cuticles! :s Please also excuse the nubbins. I had a killer break on my middle finger a couple of days ago so I had to file them all down *cries*.

Today I have swatches of three of the new colours from Essie's Winter 2010 collection. The collection consists of 6 chic and elegant wintery colours. Even though it is summer here in Oz, the colours are so gorgeous, I will definitely be wearing them!

Check out the pics after the jump!

NARS Mash

And the naughty blogger award goes to......... ME!

This time thankfully I haven't been away from my blogging duties due to bad stuff! I was actually devoting all my time to wedding dress shopping! And I found one! Yay! I purchased my dress on Sunday and I am over the moon. I wish I could put a photo up to show you all but my fiancee checks out my blog sometimes (not that he would admit it!) so I don't want to risk him seeing it!

Since Christmas is almost upon us, I decided to rock a green nail polish the other day to get into the spirit of the season. For this I went with NARS Mash.

Mash is a mossy green with a gold shimmer. This polish is a gorgeous colour but it is also a total PITA to apply. Despite my best efforts I got nasty brush strokes! With that said it wore really well and after about 4 days I only had minimal tip wear. 

As you can see, I only have one photo. My camera is on its last legs! But hopefully Santa is of the opinion that I have been a good girl this year and a pretty Canon DSLR will be waiting under the tree for me on Christmas morning (hint hint Micheal or Mum and Dad! :P). Fingers crossed! x

China Glaze Moody Blue

Two posts in two days! I'm on fire!

Today I am wearing Moody Blue, which is another HTF colour from China Glaze.

Moody Blue is a big hot streaky mess! But it looks worse in the photos than it does on my nails. 

It took three coats to get it to a stage where I was willing to wear it out in public :P However, I did get some compliments on the colour from people when I was out (and even one from my sister, who thinks every nail polish I wear is disgusting!) so it mustn't be that bad!

I have read that the the new Chanel colour, Riva, is basically the same colour but with a very subtle micro shimmer. I wonder whether it applies better than MB? If it does, I may be tempted to buy it :P

China Glaze Channelesque

Due to my absence from the blogging community the past month, I'm really out of the loop when it comes to new nail polish collections. So I thought until I get my groove back (which will hopefully be this week!) I'd show you some of my fave colours from my collection over the next few posts.

And to kick it off, I have China Glaze's Channelesque for you.

Channelesque is a stunning dusty grayish purple creme. Sadly, it is a long discontinued colour but it is hands down one of my favourite nail polishes. 

I honestly have no complaints about this polish! It applied smoothly in two coats, didn't bubble or streak and lasted for days without a chipping!

The obvious downside is that it isn't 3free. But I have to be honest, I'm not too worried about wearing this colour every now and then, even though it has some not so great chemicals in it, because it is such a stunning colour!

The fantastic news is that supposedly Below Deck from the upcoming China Glaze Anchors Away collection is a dead on dupe for Channelesque! Mary from Body & Soul did a pretty convincing comparison between the two!

x

Lippmann Giveaway Winner ....... (Finally!!! :P)

Life has a funny way of doing whatever it wants, regardless of your plans!

I had the best intentions to blog every day after my sister's wedding, and then my own wedding planning went into overdrive unexpectedly, and then my mum had to go to hospital to have an operation last week and I have been looking after her ever since! I'm so tired!

I want to say that I will be blogging every day again but I said that last time and it didn't work out, so I'll just say that I'll do my best to blog as frequently as possible! :)

Anyway, enough sad stories from me :P

I FINALLY HAVE THE WINNER OF THE LIPPMANN HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY!

Yes I know what you are all thinking - about freakin time Carina!!!

The winner is........

Congratualtions maRyya from Konad Addict!

I will send you an email shortly! Please get back to me as soon as possible so I can post out your polishes straight away! Hopefully it will get to you before Christmas!

Thank you to everyone who participated in the giveaway! Without sounding like a broken record, I really appreciate all your help with the honeymoon competition! It meant so much to me! 

I promise I'll try and be back with more posts asap. Keep your eyes peeled for my upcoming Christmas giveaway! x

NARS Pokerface

I'M BACKKKK! 

Hey everyone! I'm finally back to blogging after a very hectic couple of weeks! My sister's wedding was last Sunday and it was beautiful! I can't believe my little sister is a married woman now! She looked absolutely stunning, and despite some mega bridezilla moments on her behalf, the day went really smoothly! I don't have any photos yet, but as soon as I do, I'll put a couple up.... :)

I was so busy with wedding preparations and then spending time with family after the wedding that I barely changed my nail polish. I wore OPI's Dulce de Leche with a coat of Coney Island Cotton Candy for the wedding and kept that on until yesterday! The horror! :P

Today, however, I am wearing Pokerface which is one of the colours released with NARS' Holiday 2010 collection.

Pokerface is a medium lilac with silvery lilac shimmer. Application was a little difficult. I found it to be on the thicker side and so it went on a little gluggy, but a second coat and then one coat of Poshe seemed to smooth it out fairly well.

Pokerface isn't particularly unique, but the shimmer gives it a little special something. It's a really feminine lilac and I personally love the way it looks on me.

In other news, my Rescue Beauty Lounge Giveaway has now closed. I will be drawing the winner for that as well as my Lippmann Giveaway tomorrow. Thank you to everyone who entered! x

I'm a terrible blogger!

Hey everyone, I'm sorry I have been MIA :(

My sister is getting married on Sunday and this week has been crazy busy with last minute preparations! I also am in the middle of moving floors at my work so I broke two of my swatching nails and I had to file them all down... I now have nubbins... *cries*

I promise I'll be back as soon as I can and I have the following posts coming up for everyone:

* Lippmann Holiday Giveaway Winner

* More Models Own swatches

* Nfu Oh swatches

* Spa Ritual Imagine collection

* Blogger Awards

* NARS Zulu

* More Deborah Lippmann

Thank you again for everyone who helped me win the honeymoon! I am still on a high from winning it :D And thank you to everyone who commented with well wishes for Micheal and I.. You guys are amazing! <3

THANK YOU!!!!

 

Thank you so, so, so much to everyone that voted for me in the Villa Botanica honeymoon competition! I still can't believe it, but Micheal and I won the honeymoon!!!!!

I honestly thought another couple had us beat, but yesterday afternoon they announced it and we were the winners!!!! Micheal and I have never won anything before (I haven't even won a nail blog giveaway! haha!) so we are over the moon! 

I am so grateful for all the support I received from my followers and the nail blogging community! You guys are amazing, and I simply cannot thank you enough....

On the same vein, I reached 300 Followers today! That is amazing! I absolutely love blogging about nails and having your support makes it even more enjoyable! Thank you for your continuing support! x

HELP! The competition closes in 10 hours!

I'm totally freaking out. The Villa Botanica competition closes earlier than I thought........ *faints*

It closes in approximately 10 hours! If anyone else could pleassssssse help Micheal and I out by voting, it would mean the world to me.

How can you say no to these eyes! :P

If would like to help simply go to the Villa Botanica facebook page "LIKE" the page and then write "Micheal & Carina 26/8/11". Dont forget that if you do this, pop a comment on my Lippmann Giveaway so that you have a chance of winning those gorgeous polishes as well!

Thank you so much to those that have already voted!

Wish us luck!



Deborah Lippmann - Daytripper

No chit chat tonight. I am having such long days at work at the moment and I'm exhausted :( I'm sorry if I haven't replied to some comments yet! I promise I will get to that in the next couple of days... :)

Deborah Lippmann Daytripper is a bright coral creme. This colour is so pretty! I felt really girly when I was wearing it :P 

As with the other Lippmann polishes I have tried, application was wonderful. I only needed two coats for an opaque, even finish.

Don't forget there's only a few days left to get your name down for the Lippmann Giveaway! x

50 Follower Giveaway Winner & Swap with Konad-licious!

Hey everyone! 

I finally have the two winners of my 50 Follower Giveaway! 

I am so excited because the first prize winner is a fellow Aussie nail polish blogger - Sharon from Polish Infatuated! 

And the second prize winner is Jo!

I will send you both emails now! :D Please make sure you get back to me asap so that I can post out your prizes straight away!

Thank you to everyone that participated in the giveaway! I am totally blown away by all your support and by all the new followers I have! <3

In other exciting news, I received a package from the lovely Carli (Konad-licious) today with these amazing goodies!

Carli, you are ridiculously generous! I will be sending you a return package with the polish I promised you, plus more, and there are to be no arguments! :P

I am so excited to try Borghese Stellar Notte and William Tell Me About OPI! I have been lemming WTMAO for agesssssss! It looks like what I've always wanted Lincoln Park After Dark to be!

That's all for tonight! Please don't forget to get your name down for my Lippmann Giveaway! There's only a few days left! x

Nail Blogging Community - I really need your help!!!!

Hey everyone, I really, really need your help!

There are less than 83 hours left for voting in the Villa Botanica Competition to win our honeymoon. At the moment another couple are really giving us a flogging, so I am begging for all your help! ;(

I'm sorry if you think it's tacky of me to ask this, but it would mean the world to us if we won this honeymoon....

If you haven't already voted, it would be greatly appreciated if you could head over to the Villa Botanica facebook page, "LIKE" the page and then write "Micheal & Carina 26/8/11" on the wall (you can only do this ONCE).

If you do vote, please don't forget to leave a comment on my Lippmann Giveaway post so that it counts as an extra 5 entries for that Giveaway! (Or email me at gildednails@hotmail.com to tell me your follower name and FB name).

If you have already voted and put your name down for my Lippmann Giveaway, thank you so much for your help! You guys are great!!! <3

Zoya Flame

Hi all! Sorry for the lack of posts over the weekend. I've had a lot going on, but I won't bore you with the details! I also realise I haven't posted the winner of my 50 Follower Giveaway yet! I'm sorry guys! I promise I will do that in the next day or two :D

Today I have some more colours from the Zoya Flame collection. All were three coaters, except for Valerie which only needed two coats. Despite the need for the extra coats, all these polishes applied really well.

Gloria - Rosy pink with gold, pink and red shimmer. Not a colour I would usually go for, but I did like the way this looked on my nails. Some people have suggested this is a dupe for MAC's Bad Fairy. I gifted my bottle of Bad Fairy to Jacie at You've Got Nail, so I can't compare the two, but from what I can remember, Bad Fairy had a far more distinct duochrome effect that Gloria. Gloria has a metallic/shimmery finish. So I'd say they aren't dupes...

Valerie - Dark purple with pink, red and gold sparkle. This one has a distinct duochrome effect in the bottle, but it is lost a little on the nail. However, that doesn't make this polish any less spectacular. This is definitely my favourite from the collection!

Tiffany - Pink/peach with golden foil flakes. This colour is spectacular in the bottle, but a total fail with my skin colour - it looked really dated... Like something my grandmother would wear... :P

And to round off the post, I included another photo of Crystal....  Second time wearing Crystal and I still don't love this polish! haha!

I think I will probably give Crystal, Gloria and Tiffany away in a swap or should I do another giveaway?! Or should I keep them? What do you think? x

Deborah Lippmann - Waking Up In Vegas and My First Award!

Hey everyone! Today I have photos of one of Deborah Lippmann's Spring 2010 polishes, Waking Up In Vegas.

I had umm'd and ahhh'd about this colour for ages, but when I saw it on Lady Gaga on the cover of Vanity Fair, I went crazy for this polish..... (I have a slightly unhealthy obsession with Lady Gaga and Kim Kardashian as well :P But that story is for another day!) 

Lippmann isn't sold in Australia, but luckily I found it at KissandMakeupNY.com so I snapped it up straight away!

WUIV is freakin awesomeness! It applied beautifully, only needed two coats and dried quickly.  The colour is creamy beige-grey goodness! My nails were really long in these photos, but WUIV made them look even longer! I won't lie, Lippmann is pricey, but if you have the opportunity to get some of her colours, try this one out. You wont be disappointed.

Click to check out my first blogger award after the jump! :D

Zoya - Crystal

No chatter tonight! Super tired.... 

Zoya Crystal is from their recent Flame collection. Zoya describe it as "a light, silvered shiny blue metallic foil with sparks of brilliant yellow gold".. I really can't do better than that :P

It's not my cup of tea, but the polish itself is gorgeous! Zoya have been pumping out some fantastic colours in their recent collections! Keep up the good work Zoya! :P 

Edit: Forgot to mention what application was like! In all honesty, it was fab! I used three thin coats. It looks streaky on my pointer in the photo for some reason, but I promise that was just the photo. It was really smooth and even on my nails. x

Models Own - Coral Reef, Purple Grey, Champagne and Top Turquoise

Tonight I finally(!!!) have some Models Own swatches for you! I will try and get the rest of the swatches up this week :)

Thank you to everyone that has voted for my fiancee and I in the competition to win our honeymoon! You are all so generous and wonderful! Please keep the votes coming as we need all the help we can get :)

Coral Reef - Super bright coral that leans orange. I just couldn't capture this gorgeous polish when I took the photos and it came out really red. I'll have to try again.

Purple Grey - Exactly what the name says, a gorgeous dusty purple grey. This polish is meant to be a dupe for the base colour of Chanel's Paradoxal. It doesn't have the shimmer that Paradoxal has, but I think it is equally as beautiful.

Top Turquoise - One of the BEST turquoise polishes I have ever seen! I should have put top coat on for the photo, but regardless it is bright and creamy and fantastic! 

Champagne - Gold and silver metallic. This colour is really quite unusual. It definitely looks gold in my photo, but on certain angles, it looks like a silver metallic! I'd love to try a matte top coat on this one.

All these colours applied well and required only two coats. My only gripe was that they were a little too runny for my liking. Apart from that, I was quite happy with these!

Don't forget to get your names down for my Rescue Beauty Lounge Giveaway and my Deborah Lippmann Giveaway! x

Lippmann Holiday Giveaway!

EDIT: Giveaway is now closed! Thank you to everyone who entered! Winner will be announced soon!

Hey everyone!

I just wanted to say that I am blown away by the response I had to my 50 Follower giveaway! I am extremely grateful for all your support and encouragement over the past couple of months! You guys are amazing! <3

I will put all the entries together over the next few days and announce the winner by the end of the week :)

Now, because you have been so kind to me, I think it is time for another giveaway ! :D

What are the prizes you ask?! One brand new bottle of Deborah Lippmann's Today Was A Fairytale and a brand new bottle of Boom Boom Pow.

Now, I am going to be a little cheeky here.......... All the normal entry rules apply (see below), but I was hoping that you might be able to also help me win that honeymoon that I posted about the other day. Soooooo, if you are willing to help me and post a comment on the facebook page for Villa Botanica (you can only vote once on the page), I will give you 5 extra entries in the giveaway :D I have included info below on how to vote for me and then have your vote counted as extra entries for this giveaway :)

Thank you all again for your support and good luck!

Rules for entry:

1. Be a follower.

2. Leave a comment with your follower name and email.

3. This step is completely OPTIONAL but very much appreciated!! :) For an extra 5 entries, go to the Villa Botanica facebook page, "LIKE" the page and then write "Micheal & Carina 26/8/11" on the wall (you can only do this ONCE). I can understand that you may not want to put a comment here telling the whole world your facebook name, so if you choose to help us out and you want the extra entries, send me an email with your facebook name and follower name to gildednails@hotmail.com so I can verify your vote :D Once the giveaway is over I will delete the emails with the names.

4. Following me on Twitter gives you one extra entry (you gotta tell me your twitter name!)

5. Blogging about the giveaway gives you one extra entry (please leave a link!)

6. The giveaway is open internationally.

7. Giveaway closes on 13th November 2010.

Please include all info in one comment only.

Good luck!



Once again, I bought these babies with my own moolah! I wish I got stuff for free, but I dont :P

China Glaze - 'Tis the Season to be Naughty & Nice

Hey everyone! Once again apologies for not posting as regularly as I should be. I promise this week I will be back on track! :) My camera is only half working at the moment, so bear with me. I will have to buy a new one soon I think. 

I was going to show you a stack of Models Own swatches today, however yesterday when I went to the post office, something was waiting there for me - the polishes I had ordered from China Glaze's Tis the Season collection! So of course I had to show you these first! I only got six of them because I felt that I had similar stuff to the other colours already, but I am so impressed with the ones I chose!

Check out all the holiday goodness after the jump!

Help me win my honeymoon!

Hey everyone! I wouldn't normally do something like this but it's such a massive opportunity I had to ask for your help!

The venue where my fiance & I are getting married are having an absolutely crazy competition on their facebook page where one of the couples that are booked in for a wedding can win a 5 night honeymoon in Bali at Villa Raja. 

In order for us to be in with a chance to win, people need to go to the Villa Botanica facebook page, "LIKE" the page, and then write on the wall of the page "Carina & Micheal 26/8/11"...... You can only do it once though....

As I said before, I wouldn't normally do something like this, and I still feel a little weird asking everyone... I hope I haven't overstepped the mark here and done something distasteful... :( If I have, please let me know and I will take the post down straight away..

But if you think you would be willing to help us out, then thank you soooooo sooooooo much.... We are eternally grateful for your help!

Edit: Thought I'd post a pic of me and my boy that we took while we were visiting the south coast of NSW a couple months back <3

Edit: I just realized that I somehow linked this post to a photo of me and my sister on her hens night instead of the Villa Botanica website! Haha! I'm so sorry to anyone that had to witness that messiness! :p It should be fixed now :D

Models Own - Lilac Dream

I'm baaaaaack! :D Sorry for not posting over the past few days.. I have been flat out!

Anyway, as I promised, I sat down tonight to do swatches of all the Models Own colours I bought at their 50% off sale.... I put the first colour on, and started snapping away and then...... my battery died.... *cries* ..........and for some reason it wont charge!!!! So I only have pics of one of the colours tonight, Lilac Dream.

First thing tomorrow I'm going to the shops to get a new battery (or maybe a new camera!!! :P)...

Lilac Dream is exactly as the name describes it - a dreamy lilac cream that glides on effortlessly! I used two thin coats and a coat of Poshe.

(Note: This photo is not actually this pink.. I swear! But every time I add it to the page, Blogger makes it darker and redder! What the hell Blogger?!?!?!)

This last photo was without flash but I feel like it gives a more true indication of the colour of this polish.

I really love this colour and if it wasn't for the fact that I am dying to try the rest of the colours I got, I would probably be happy wearing this for days! 

Just a quick reminder that there is only a couple of days left to get your name down for my 50 Follower Giveaway! Thank you to everyone for all your encouragement and thank you to all my new followers! I really appreciate it and promise I will repay your generosity with giveaways well into the New Year! x

I'm still here!

Sorry for being MIA everyone! I had a very big weekend doing wedding planning stuff for my sister and going to her hens party. I also had to do some final assessments for college :( 

I'll be back on Tuesday with a stack of Models Own swatches! Hope everyone had a fab weekend! x

Giveaway! Rescue Beauty Lounge - Catherine H

EDIT: THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED! THANKS TO EVERYONE THAT ENTERED! :D

I have another giveaway for everyone! I know... CRAZY! 

This was meant to be a "birthday giveaway", but the stuff didn't arrive in time, so now it's an "end of October, beginning of November giveaway"... Awesome name right? :P 

Enough dribble, on to the good stuff!

Everyone has been losing their minds over the Rescue Beauty Lounge Housewives of Tudor collection, so I thought I'd give away a brand new bottle of my fave colour, Catherine H. You can check out a swatch here!

EDIT: I have extended the deadline to 25th November 2010!

The Rules are simple:

1. Be a follower.

2. Leave a comment with your follower name and email.

3. The giveaway is open internationally.

4. Following me on Twitter gives you one extra entry (you gotta tell me your twitter name!)

5. Blogging about the giveaway gives you one extra entry (please leave a link!)

6. Giveaway closes midnight on 25th November 2010. 

Please include all info in one comment only.

Good luck!

And no, this giveaway hasn't been sponsored by the company!  I paid for the bottle with my hard earned pesos!

Eyeko - Punk Polish and Chi Chi Polish

Today I have the other two Eyeko polishes that Carli from Konad-licious sent me in our swap :D

Punk Polish - A super neon pink. This was a little thick, and dried to a satin finish like most neons do. The finished product was quite spectacular though! One of the brightest neon pinks I have seen!

Chi Chi Polish - Rosy pink glitter in a soft baby pink base. This is a really gorgeous glitter, but it definitely needs to be worn over something. This was two coats.

I thought I'd try Chi Chi over Punk to see how it looked but sadly I wasn't a fan :S I think I'd probably like it more if it was layered over a lighter pink polish....

That's all for today! I haven't been sleeping a lot lately so I'm pretty exhausted tonight. Need a good night's sleep x

Eyeko - Rain Polish (And a swap with Konad-licious!)

Last week I organised to do a swap with the lovely Carli from Konad-licious for three of the new Eyeko polishes that I had been lemming for ages! I was so stoked simply about the fact that she was sending them to me! So, you can imagine how excited I was when I opened the box and found not only the three Eyekos, but all these other amazing goodies as well!!!!

There are so many gorgeous polishes I wanted to try (Milani holo! *drool*) but I was instantly drawn to Eyeko's Rain Polish, so that is what I'm wearing now.

Rain Polish is a light blue grey creme with a subtle shimmer. The shimmer almost disappears on the nail but it provides just enough dimension to the polish that you don't feel like it is just another flat creme. 

Application was a dream. Two thins coats was plenty and it dried in a flash! Not a bad word to be said about this polish!

You may have also noticed that I shortened my nails and changed the shape. I wasn't feeling the super square look anymore, so I went with the trusty squoval shape. What do you think?

Hope you are all having a fab day! Be sure to check out Konad-licious!  x

Deborah Lippmann - Across the Universe

Today I went back to work after having two weeks off for my exams and sitting on my desk were some packages! I ripped them open and was glad to see that it was my long lost orders from KissandMakeupNY that I placed at the beginning of September!!!!  :S

I was pretty happy to be getting my goodies after all this time, but the thing that got me the most excited was that my Deborah Lippmann polishes were in there! 

Lippmann's Across the Universe was my second biggest lemming after Fortune Teller and now that I have both, I have to say, Across the Universe is the clear winner. 

Across the Universe has a dark blue jelly base and is packed with green and blue hex glitter and blue regular glitter. Its fabulous!!! 

Considering that it is a glitter, it applied really well and dried quite quickly with a coat of Poshe top coat. I waited a couple of minutes between coats of ATU so that the glitter didn't move around too much. This is my first experience with Lippmann polishes and now I can understand why everyone raves about them! I got a few other Lippmanns as well, so I will be sure to show them to you over the next couple of days :D

Check out the pic spam of Across the Universe after the jump!

MAC - Venomous Villains

Today I have swatches of the three nail polishes from MAC's Venomous Villains collection. 

Bad Fairy - MAC describes this as a red with multi-changing red pearl, however there are definitely flashes of gold and pink. It has a distinct foil like finish on the nails as well. This was the only unique colour out of the three. As you are probably all aware, the other two are dupes for two of Orly's Cosmic FX colours.

Check out Formidable! and Mean & Green after the jump!

Rescue Beauty Lounge - Housewives of Tudor England

Hey everyone! Yesterday I finished my exams! After we were done, my friends and I went to a local bar and ended up staying there a little too long.... :( So I was like a bear with a sore head today! Even though I wasn't feeling 100%, it was sooooo good to be able to spend the day resting and watching TV instead of studying!

Today I have the most recent collection from Rescue Beauty Lounge, Housewives of Tudor England. The collection consists of four colours named after some of the wives of King Henry VIII. 

Check out swatches after the jump!