Butter London Double Take (the red version)

Butter London released a bunch of sets for Christmas this year. Two of these sets were the Double Take sets. One is Blue and the other Red, both with matching flakie topcoats.  I found these sets at Macy's while I was on Holiday in Hawaii for US$24 (when they sold Butter London in New Zealand we paid NZ$30 (US$24) a polish!)

Butter London Rebel Fox - Sunshine

Butter London Rebel Fox - Shade

Rebel Fox is a burgundy shimmer that looks a lot darker and browner in the bottle.  There is also very visible gold shimmer in the bottle that doesn't translate onto the nail.  This is three coats, and it has quite a thin consistency.  I think it could have almost used another coat, once you get it in the sun it appears a bit patchy, and I wasn't happy with it.

Butter London Brass Monkey over Rebel Fox - Sunshine

Butter London Brass Monkey over Rebel Fox - Shade

This is two coats of Brass Monkey over Rebel Fox.  It is red/orange iridescent flakies in a clear base.  This one had a better consistency but I think it could have had more flakies in it so that only one coat is needed.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Butter London Dosh

Well daylight savings kicked in here over the weekend, so now its pretty much dark all the time I am not at work. The cold has also kicked in and that means new boot season, which also means sore feet.

Farmers in New Zealand was selling off all their Butter London stock at the start of the year. Yay because they were all only $20. Boo because this means we are most likely not going to get Butter London easily in New Zealand now.

Dosh was one of the polishes I picked up on clearance.

Butter London Dosh - sunshine

This is three coats. Coverage could have been better, as you can still see the nail line underneath here.  It is a shimmery lime/grass green.  I do not love this colour as it makes my hands look red and even though it is green, it will unfortunately be going into my swap pile.

Lots of Love

Lisa

New 2013 Polish collections

Here is a little round up of the commercial brand polish collections that have recently been released or are about to be released.

Zoya Pixie Dust - out now

Color Club Fiesta - out now in America

China Glaze Texture - Expected release March 2012

China Glaze Hologlam - Expected release March 2013

Models Own Ice Neon - out now

Butter London Sweetie Shop - out now

OPI OZ soft shades collection - Expected release March 2013

China Glaze Neons - Expected release April 2013

OPI Euro Centrale - Out now

Ruby Wing Spring Garden - out now

Orly Hope & Freedom Collection - out now

Zoya Lovely Collection - out now

Nicole by OPI Selena Gomez Collection - out now

Nicole by OPI Modern Family Collection - out now

I haven't seen any of these collections in New Zealand yet. OPI Euro Centrale was supposed to be released this week, but I haven't spotted it yet.  

Lots of Love

Lisa

Butter London Sparkle, Sparkle Holiday Lacquer Collection

I know this post is a little late, considering this was a holiday collection, but late has got to be better than never right?  I bought this Butter London set while in America (I cant actually remember anymore exactly where, but I think it might have been at Macy's in Vegas) for US$36. Rumours are that it is now selling for about half that price on clearance.

The back of the box says:

SPARKLE, SPARKLE!

This season is all about making a glittering statement. 

Turn up the fashion on your holiday wardrobe

with these gorgeous gems

Butter London Jack the Lad - sunshine

This is three coats. It is a dark green shimmery glitter that occasionally flashes lighter green and golden. 

Butter London Scuppered - Sunshine

This is also three coats, but this polish had a thin consistency.  It is a copper base, with fine copper and copper/pinky coloured shimmer and sporadic bits of slightly bigger green glitter.

Butter London Shambolic - Shade

I thought this polish would be my favourite of the set, but it turned out not to be (that honour went to Jack the Lad).  This is three coats.  There is little purple and pink glitter in a funny grey tinted base, with slightly bigger pink and lighter pink hexagon glitter.  The base colour is the thing that put me off this polish.

All up these are not my favourite Butter Londons, but I subcumbed to the glitter and sparkle in this set, and when in Vegas.....(also the fact that I got three for the price we pay for one Butter London polish here in New Zealand I cant complain).

Lots of Love

Lisa

Butter London Dodgy Barnett

Yay! After the weather man promising sun for the last three days, we finally had some, and I managed to finish work on time and get home before sunset to capture these pictures of Butter London's Dodgy Barnett.

Dodgy Barnett is from the 2012 Butter London Autumn/Winter collection.  To be honest I am not quite sure why you would include Holographic polishes in a winter collection.  Its spring here at the moment an we barely get any sun, so I cant imagine winter in London having much sun.

Butter London Dodgy Barnett - sunshine

Close up of Butter London Dodgy Barnett

This is three coats. This one as not a one or two coater like a lot of other holographic polishes are these days.  Its quite thin so could actually be used as a holographic top coat over other polishes.  However it does have a significant amount of holo-ness so is totally worth getting.

I haven't spotted this one in New Zealand yet. There are very very few holographic polishes available in New Zealand, so if this one is spotted in Farmers, it may be worth paying the ridiculous retail price of $35 for one of these.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Butter London The Black Knight

Butter London  The Black Knight - sunshine

This polish became sort after, especially in the US as it was hard to find in stores over there.  I think it was a demand issue. Anyhoo it was easy enough to find in New Zealand because here these polishes are an insane NZ$30.95!  Luckily I had a gift voucher because to me, no matter how gorgeous it is, no polish is worth that much.

This is three coats. It is a gorgeous combination of fuchsia and blue glitter in a black base. Luckily the black doesn't drown out the glitter in this one. Here I am wearing a top coat, and this one really does need a top coat as it is quite gritty from all the little glitter.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Spotted in NZ: Butter London Lippy

 

From the Butter London Website:

Introducing LIPPY by butter LONDON. LIPPY is a range of long-wearing, lacquer-like lip glosses in shades to match our famous nail lacquers. Like the butter LONDON nail lacquers, LIPPY colours are rich and heavily pigmented for a look that is deliberate, high fashion, and luxe. LIPPY does not contain parabens, petroleum, phthalates, sulphates, or bismuth. If you’re being LIPPY, look the part.

I found these in Farmers today. 

Not surprisingly an untouched full display. The Lippy's are NZ$35.95 each and the polishes (as always) are NZ$34.95. I snapped a photo of the price to show you. (for those interested NZ$35 is US$28.50, so a full set of Lippy and Polish would set you back US$58.  This is why I shop online!)

In better news Farmers has Orly in sale for buy one get one free. And OPI is buy 2 get one free.
Also check out the Warehouse for three OPI Shatter polishes for $30, two for $24 and one for $15.  They have all current colours available and massive displays in store of them.

I am hoping to be back to regular blogging with in the next few weeks. I have so much to show you all.
Lots of Love
Lisa

NZ Beauty Expo Part 2

Beauty Expo Part 2 continues from the Color Club booth


Here Color Club were debuting their Fractured collection which is due to arrive on the ship from America at the end of the month. They were also selling their new summer collection Wicked Sweet, which is the fruity scented polishes, their Untamed Luxury winter collection in the 7 piece packs, as well as all the polishes from their large standard colour range.

I picked up the rest of the Wicked Sweet polishes I was missing from my collection, as well as some older polishes from the Femme Fatal and Catwalk Queen collections.

Unfortunately I didn't get any of the Fractured polishes, but Steph got Tattered in Gold and you can check out her post on that here.

There was a couple of blokes selling Jessica polishes along with their salon supplies. They seemed like a hard case, and were completely unsure about selling these polishes. I picked up a dark blue shimmer called Midnight Moonlight and a pearl shimmer called Chic. I have never seen Jessica polishes in New Zealand before. If you are interested in getting any of these send me an email and I can pass it on to the suppliers.

That was about it in the way of Nail Polishes. Lots of companies were selling gel polishes and were aiming these at salon owners.

What was notably missing from this expo was Global Beauty who are the New Zealand distributors of OPI. To be honest this doesn't stand the company in good steed in my opinion. I think they should have been there. Especially as the expo is aimed at beauty salon owners, who may stock OPI. It just seems a little arrogant to me.

Also missing from the expo but available in New Zealand was Orly, Essie and Butter London.

All in all I had a great time. I loved meeting Steph and her mum, as well as the great people (you know who you are!) at the Color Club booth, who I ended up helping out on the second day while I waited for my flight back home.

I cant wait for the next expo.

Lots of Love
Lisa

P.S. I burnt my hand really bad on some steam whilst helping my mum cook dinner today, so I am typing this one handed and an in a tonne of pain. It is also the finger tips of my left hand so there will be no swatches (maybe even posts) for a while, while I recover from blisters and huge amounts of pain. Ive had ice on it for 2 hours already and it still hurts heaps!!!!

H&M Envy Me

The wonderful Jill sent me three H&M polishes from Europe in the parcel I got from here. We don't have H&M in New Zealand. The closest I have ever gotten to an H&M store is the H&M expansion pack I have for the Sims 2 computer game.

But I think I need to get some more of these. I love them!

This is my favourite green ever! It is gorgeous!!!!!

H&M Envy Me - sunshine

This is a dark pigmented smooth polish which only needs two coats. I love this colour so much. Its a dark dark green teal shimmer.

Envy Me is almost identical looking to Butter London's Thames in the bottle, but on the nail Envy me is 1 million times better. Thames looks great in the bottle but is flat and unexciting on the nail.

Butter London Thames - sunshine
Read my previous post about this here.

The only let down with these H&M polishes is the awkward shaped handle that takes a bit of getting used to. But its sooooo worth it.

Do you have and H&M in your country? do you like their polishes?

Have a good weekend

Lots of Love
Lisa

Butter London Thames & Henley Regatta

Farmers started selling Butter London polishes in store almost a month ago. They are selling for $29.90 each. (ouch) so I waited till a Farmers sale that had 15% off and paid $50 for two polishes.

The two polishes I got were Henley Regatta and Thames.

I was really excited about Thames because it looks awesome in the bottle. An aqua shimmer that changes from blue to green and all shimmer colours in between.

But alas it does not look so cool on the nail. It appears flat and just more one colour. It doesnt convert well too the nail.

Butter London Thames - sunshine

This was the best pic I could get of it. 3 coats. It applied ok and dried ok but does not wow me at all like I expect a polish this expensive to do. It only looks good in the sun and inside looks flat and boring.

Butter London Henley Regatta over Thames - sunshine

So then I added a coat of Henley Regatta over the top. This helped make the polish better but I am still not excited by it.

Henley Regatta by itself is a lot better than Thames.

Butter London Henley Regatta - sunshine

This is 3 coats. The glitter in this is really really tiny. The first coat is sparse and provides a surface for the next coats to stick too. The third coat is needed to make this opaque. The glitter is has a few different shades of glitter in it and sparkles really nicely in the sun.

Henley Regatta redeemed this brand in my eyes, but over all I do not think I will be going out of my way to buy anymore of these polishes. NZ$30 is way too expensive (this is $23 American) for polish. Most of their colours don't seem too unique for me, and I am sure I can find very similar colours in cheaper brands.

What do you think of Butter London? Would you pay that much for a polish?

Don't forget to enter my giveaway! (There is not many of my original followers entering - and this giveaway was for you folks who followed me from the start!!!)

Lots of Love
Lisa

Spotted in NZ: Butter London

Spotted at Farmers today in New Zealand: Butter London.


Butter London is 3 free meaning No Formaldehyde, No toluene, and No DBP (Phthales).

They have some great looking colours and I am definitely looking forward to trying out Thames - a great looking shimmer green.

Check out the Butter London website here.

Here is a sample of some of their colours:


Picture from http://bagatellesandco.blogspot.com/

Butter London is reportedly selling for $30 a polish in New Zealand.

Lots of Love
Lisa