NOTD: Peach Melba

The sun is finally peaking out, it's a massive 22C so I needed a nail to match. Barry M's 'Peach Melba' is such a lovely shade. The peach tones really make my hands looked tanned.

 It's a beautiful colour but the formula for this polish is pants. It needs two coats as a minimum, it's very thick and gloopy but still manages to dry streaky as you can see in the photo below. I only put two coats on due to the thickness as this polish take forever to dry and even a day after applying it you can press on the nail and you are left with an indent. It doesn't chip per se, it more peels off in one swoop.

But I will continue to put up with this terrible formula just to get an hour or two wear out of this! Maybe it is just my bottle and if it runs out I may purchase another and hopefully that will be fine or Barry M might have changed the formula since?

If you know of a polish this colour that has a great formula please let me know!!!

Budget Daytime Smokey Eye

I've very recently hit pan on an eyeshadow which made me realise just how much I use it!
It comes from the below MUA Heaven and Earth palette that I bought about a year ago. I've hit pan on the top right shade which is a orange gold shimmer.

It's perfect to use with the darker brown shade below it to create a light daytime appropriate smokey eye.

I take the top gold shade and put that all over the lid, you can do this quite sheerly or pack it on for a bold colour. I then take the darker brown, and put that in the crease and outer V and blend away. Add some mascara and you have a quick and easy (and purse friendly) eye.

The palette costs about £4.00 from Superdrug, but I think I got mine half price in some sort of offer which Superdrug tend to have on all the time. The shadows aren't the best quality out there but they are highly pigmented, wear all day on me without creasing and I have no complaints. They do a few palettes, some neutral and some more colourful, so if you're on a budget they are definitely worth you checking out!

MUA Eyeshadow Palette in 'Heaven and Earth'