Ok, so look outside, I know technically now it is probably more like Winter but its a bit of a tradition to share with you my favourite nail colours from the season! You know how much I love nail polish and so here are my top picks for Autumn/winter 2013 - Usually when I do these posts I stick to my top 10 but I thought hey, its only 4 weeks until christmas so a little early present for you! I am treating you to my Top 18 polishes instead! (Be warned I am hopeless at describing polishes)

 This has been one of my newest additions to my collection and is part of the Fall duo which Essie currently has on offer. I think it was around £12.99. I really love this colour. It is a beautiful dark raspberry purple colour! Great for Winter!

 This colour is absolutely GORGEOUS! It is the perfect colour for the party season. The best way to describe it is probably a rose gold colour. It catches the light beautifully.

 This is the other shade available in the Essie Fall Duo - This is a gorgeous grey/brown colour which I absolutely love.

 This is one I picked up when I was subscribed to Glossy box. It isnt a shade I reach for very often but I love teaming it with other colours, like over the top of a darker red at this time of year to glitter it up a bit. I think if memory serves me correctly these polishes are around the £14 mark which I wouldnt pay as the bottle is quite small and when you consider other high end brands such as OPI are not that much I am sure you could find a similar colour in another brand.

 This is one of my go to glitter polishes and has been a firm favourite of mine for a long time. Its name 'disco ball' serves it perfectly as that is exactly what it looks like when it is on your finger. It has small flecks of Blue and Purple as well as silver which means it goes perfectly with lots of different colours.

 To me this is the perfect red colour. When you think of double decker bus or phone box in London red, its like Rimmel has bottled that in a this bottle. This is just the perfect red shade without being too far on the orange or pinky part of the spectrum.

 Small chucks of gold goodness packed into a beautiful polish - Barry M sure now how to do a good glitter polish and this one is no exception! I love Barry M polishes and when you think of the quality and the price - you really cant go wrong! This one is perfect for teaming over the top of your favourite colour for a quick flash of sparkle.

 You cant do christmas without a bit of gold polish and if you have read my blog a while you will know that this is my all time favourite gold nail polish! To me this really is like gold in a bottle! It does take a few coats to get completely opaque but it is definately worth it when you do.

Again this one has had a lot of press on my blog over the years. This is my favourite all time glitter polish! I think this is probably one of the few polishes that I have had to repurchase! It is perfect for christmas time because it is just so darn glittery!! If you are looking for some serious glitter to bling up your nails over the festive period then this is defiantly the one to go for!

This is a shade I picked up in this months Glamour magazine (which I assume is still on sale) - £2 for a nails inc polish - certainly cant complain. Again with the gold - silver is another must have polish for the festive season. I always think silver (and gold) seem to be quite hard to get right in a nail polish but nails inc seem to have nailed it here (haha see what i did there)

Another favourite from Barry M. I know this is a well loved Autumn winter shade across the blogging community (as you can see my bottle is a little worn). This shade always gets me compliments when I wear it on my nails. It is the perfect raspberry colour which is brilliant for the cold months!

Not a colour you usually see knocking around at Christmas time but I wanted to include this blue polish from OPI because there seems to be a lot of Navy party wear knocking about on the high street at the moment and this would go perfectly with a little navy dress. The swatch here is one coat but it goes darker if you add another coat.

This is my most recent nail polish purchase that I picked up from TK Max (seriously in love with that place for beauty bargains) I swatched this and wanted to include it because the colour is gorgeous for christmas time when there always seems to be a lot of purple knocking around. The liquid sand effect makes the polish a bit grainy - as I havent worn it on my fingers yet I cant really pass comment but I love the colour!

This along with the Rimmel one is my favourite red - this being my slightly darker more glittery favourite. The picture really does do this one justice as it has a really gorgeous ever so slight glittery shimmer in it without being glittery - if that makes sense.

The swatch of this actually does not do anything for this at all. This is more of a dusky pink colour rather than the brighter colour it looks here. Perfect for wearing with those autumn nudes and pinks.

And that sums up my top colours for Autumn/Winter 2013. Which of these are your favourites? Any you will be rushing out to pick up??

Ive finally got around to editing the video I made ages ago - pre hair cut short again, pre contacts when the sun was shining.


Head on over to my youtube channel - @unlovedbutton to check it out :)

I know I have probably posted this NOTD on here before. I know I did a tutorial back in the day on it.. Anyway I mixed it up with the colours I used today.

• Barry M Gelly Polish in Greenberry
• Models Own Black Nail Art Pen
• Models Own light pink (the name escapes me right now) 
• OPI Im all ears from the Minnie Mouse Collection. 

I am loving this Greenberry colour! Its perfect for spring and summer! The Barry M Gelly polishes are fab - if you havent checked them out then have a look :)

As I mentioned on yesterdays post I have an interview on Wednesday for a new job and as it is a job for a teacher I thought it was probably not best to turn up sporting my usual garish nails. I spotted this online when I saw someone was posting about the new Gelly colours that were coming out and I liked it the minute I saw it so when I spotted it in Boots on Saturday I knew it had to come how with me.
Lychee is a really light beige nudey colour. This photo doesnt really do this shade justice. It is such a nice neutral shade. I decided to top it with the new top coat from L'Oreal - Diamond Lurex.

Have you tried the Barry M Gelly Shades? Do you love or hate?

Naughty Naughty Boots! I popped into town today and I picked up a few things that I had my eyes on - new releases that I had seen around the blogesphere over the last couple of weeks. Quite a few of them were nail polishes which as you know is my complete weakness!

I love my current eye liner that I am using but I don't think its got much life left in it so I decided to pick this one up as I love this type of liner. I picked it up in intense black. I will keep you update on what I think of this one.

On going past the Bourjois stand I noticed they had the new Rouge lipsticks with £2 off making them £5.99. I recently started to get into lip products since companies started to make them more moisturising.3 of the shades drew me in, shade number 4 - Rose tweed, shade number 7 -Fuchsia Graffiti and shade number 18 - Voline Strass

 I love these. I tried a couple of them this afternoon. They feel very soft on your lips and the colour stays around for ages which I definately love in a lipstick as there is nothing worse if you have to keep applying it every 5 minutes. The packaging also looks swish and expensive and I love the ends where you can see the colour without having to open it :)

Lastly I nipped into Argos and picked up a set of curling irons. If you follow me on instagram you will have seen the picture of my hair when I went out with the girls from work.
To achieve this I used a my curling wand which I have had a couple of years now and makes an appearance every now and again. However I find it really fiddly to do myself and my mum always ends up doing it for me. I was really happy with now my hair looked last night and want to start doing my hair like this more often and I figured it would be easier to using curling irons that a wand. The wand I picked up was the Essentials professional ceramic hair tong which i got for £14.99 from Argos. I will keep you updated as to how much I loving these.

As you may have seen from my blog post the other day, Models Own are currently running an amazing offer on their website - 50% off when you spend £25 (which is SO easy to do). They started the sale in conjunction with gaining 100k likes on their facebook page. I picked up a few bits, some I had been lusting over at the Models Own stand in my local Boots for a while and some that I liked the look of.
Here is what I ordered:




Have you ordered anything from the Models Own Sale?? Which products are you loving??

So I was thinking about how I could do my nails on saturday when I went out and I had seen quite a few images online about graduated glitter nails. I know that Louise at Sprinkle of glitter did this video about graduated nails with a few examples on a colour wheel and it got me having a bit of a think about it and I came up with this....

• Barry M Shade 303 - Purple
• Models Own Juicy Jules 
• Rimmel 239 - Your Majesty
  
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