Illamasqua Rampage

Today I have for you Illamasqua Rampage.

Rampage is an amazing dark forest green jelly polish, application was great and opaque in 2 coats.  I absolutely loved this colour in the bottle, but loved it so much more once I had it on.

Here is 1 coat of the Knight, 2 of the polish and 1 of the Shield.

I love this on it own but I actually tried the below mani on my friend Fi and liked it so much I had to do it on me too.

This is Rampage with 1 coat of Nails Inc Privileged from the Blair Gossip Girl collection over it.

Here is 1 coat of the Knight, 2 of Rampage, 1 of Privileged and 1 of the Shield.

Due to the green base colour of Rampage, the green flakie in Privileged was most prominent but at certain angles the blue flash was amazing.

Just before you all go, I thought I should let you know I am going to get a minor op on my right hand tomorrow so may not be able to paint my nails or write new posts for a couple of weeks.  Not to worry though, I spent yesterday swatching and will spend today scheduling posts so you still have new ones to look at but I may not be able reply to comments/tweets/facebook messages for a while.  I hope you all understand and I will be back as soon as I can.

Thank you for looking <3 xx

The products in the post were sent to me for review.

Illamasqua Faux Pas and Nails Inc Privileged

Now here is the other polish from the Illamasqua Theatre of the Nameless collection that Fi had bought, Faux Pas.

I love this one, it is such a rich purple colour and again has the rubber or wax like finish.

Coverage on this one was wearable with 1 coat but was even better with 2, so here is 1 coat of the Knight, and 2 of Faux Pas and no top coat.

After really liking Vice with the 2010, I thought I would try the same with Faux Pas, but with Privileged (from the Nails Inc Blair Gossip Girl duo) on top instead.

Here is the above mani with 1 coat of Privileged and 1 coat of Kleancolor Madly Matte.

Over Faux Pas, Privileged shows mostly blue flashes but small hints of green.

Thanks for looking and thanks to Fi for letting me use both of her polishes <3 <3

Nails Inc Gossip Girl - Blair

Nails Inc have recently released 3 sets of polishes in collaboration with Gossip Girl.

I have for you today Blair from this collection.  The others are Lily and Serena.  I was so happy to get Blair as I must admit I do watch Gossip Girl (hey a girl is allowed some guilty pleasures :p) and Blair is my favourite, not just in the programme but I do really like Leighton Meester who plays her.  Anyway, I digress, back to polish......

This collection has 2 polishes in it, as do the other sets, I don't think I have ever shown a picture of packaging, but since this set came in a special box I thought I would now.

Firstly I will show you the coloured polish alone, which is blackened teal called Blair.  I love almost black colours so this was a welcome addition to my collection.

This is 1 coat of the Knight, 2 of the polish (although it is very pigmented so 1 would have sufficed) and no top coat.

Blair is a beautiful creme polish but is by no means the star of this collection, the Overglaze top coat, which in this set is a blue green one called Privileged, is simply amazing.  The effect is not unique, it is flakes of duochrome glitter (think Nubar 2010) but I love the different colours in this one.

This is the above mani with 1 coat of Overglaze and 1 of the Shield.

Ok, in case all the pictures didn't say it for me, I am absolutely in love with this top coat, I am already thinking about what polish to try it over next and I cannot wait to get the other 2 sets of these polishes.  I have already added them to my December present list already (I refuse to admit how close to Christmas we actually are so am trying not to use the word)

These sets can be bought for £20 (or £18 if you are a Reward Scheme Member) directly from the Nails Inc Website.  Here is a link to the Blair Collection... Nails Inc Gossip Girl - Blair

This product was sent to me for review