Models Own Hyper Gel nails review and swatches! :)

I'd hear loads of good things about Models Own's new collection of nail varnishes called 'Hyper Gel's, so when they did a 50% off sale on the website to launch the products, I knew I needed to get my hands on a few of them! They're only £5 to begin with, so to get them for £2.50 each was a total bargain. I only bought my favourite 4 out of the 10 to choose from, but I went for the four I thought I would use the most. I bought a couple of other Model's Own goodies, but for now I'll leave those until another day!

I'm really happy with how the nail polish came out. The gel shine finish really does give off the professional look of a salon finish. All these colours are literally after only two coats and they are so thick. Perfect for if you're in a rush and only have a small amount of time to throw on some nail varnish.

 Models Own Hyper Gel in shade 'Red Lustre' - £5.00

I decided to go for a red shade as you literally can never have too many red nail polishes! I love having red lips and nails at the same time and I feel like it literally will go with any hair colour! It's a really glamorous pin-up style red and I can't wait to wear it out :)

Models Own Hyper Gel in shade 'Pink Veneer' - £5.00

I've recently dyed my hair blonder and it's made me realise I love pink again (oh dear!) but I thought I may as well treat myself to a girly pink shade of nail polish. I love the bubblegum/pastel pink colour of this nail varnish and I'm sure I will be getting lots of use out of it!

Models Own Hyper Gel in shade 'Naked Glow' - £5.00

I absolutely love this nude shade! I don't really own many natural coloured nail varnishes and I think this will look lovely with a simplistic monochrome outfit. It's a really lovely shade for Spring too actually and I'm sure I will get loads of use of it too!

Models Own Hyper Gel in shade 'White Light' - £5.00

I'd been after a white nail varnish for a while now so I was really happy that there was a bright white shade in the Hyper Gels range. I know to some people it'll look like I've just put tippex on my nails, but I really like that look! The white shade is actually the only one that I've had the chance to wear out yet, and I must admit that it did start to chip the next day BUT I do study a fashion course which requires me to be hands-on all day everyday... AND I didn't use a base coat or a top coat, so I'm definitely willing to give them another go as they're such gorgeous colours! :)

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Which is your favourite shade out of the four I bought?

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Love Dani :)

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Nails Of The Day - MUA Nail Constellations 'Libra' review :)

So recently during my absolutely massive haul, I picked up an MUA Nails Constellations pot from Superdrug. I was so happy to see it in store, as every other time I've gone to look for one, there haven't been any. I was really unsure which one to get, but I picked up 'Libra', which is a mixed of mostly black, and a few mint green balls.

My lovely new products to try out :)

Firstly, I painted my nails mint green, using MUA Nail Varnish Shade 5. I was suprised by how thin it came out, because when I used Shade 5 in my previous 'Nails of the Day' post, the colour was very thick! This is my nails after one coat of the nail varnish.

After two coats...

After 3 coats...

Finally after four coats, I felt that the colour was right.

I knew that I would need some sort of bowl to catch the excess balls in, so I just used the lid of a tin in my bedroom. I painted on an extra layer of nail varnish onto my 'accent nail' and took the lid off the constellations pot.

I poured the balls onto the wet nail, I had to pour for a little while to get balls in all the wet sections of the paint and the rest were caught in the tin lid.

You can take the whole nib of the constellation pot off to use as a funnel for pouring all the excess beads back into the pot.

I absolutely love how it looks and would definitely use MUA constellations again, but I don't know how I feel about these colours together. I think I should maybe have painted the background of the accent nail black so that the only mint on that nail was the mint green balls? What do you think? 

I knew I wanted to paint a top coat onto the nails, so I thought I may aswell just try using my new Barry M nail varnish. I thought it might blend the colours together a bit more, but I kinda regret doing it now! For some reason the balls went pink... not really sure what happened?!

I did these nails yesterday, and today the constellations are still staying strong and I have them all left on my nails :). Next time I'm gonna try just a plain top coat, and I'm gonna try them with an all black nail varnish too!

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What do you think of the MUA constellations?

Have you ever tried them before?

Which is your favourite set?

Love Dani

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Nails of the day: Models Own 'Ibiza Mix' dupe :)

I went on a minature haul yesterday with my uni friends as we all got our student loans in and had a half day at uni. I wasn't expecting to find anything at all, as I'm soon to be on my 100 days no spending ban, and I did actually just not look in any clothes in the clothes shops, but I haven't officially started yet so a few goodies at the start of the month won't harm anyone!

Anyways, so I went to Superdrug and came away with two new nail varnishes :). I'm not gonna lie, I did try the MUA one sneakily on one of my nails and I was so surprised at how good it is! For a bargain of only £1, I was shocked at how matte and nice the colour is! So I added that to my basket instantly and continued to browse.

The second counter I was looking at was the 'Beauty UK' counter which I haven't come across before, but as I was looking I came across this glittery nail polish and I had to have a tester of this too! Surprisingly, it looked just like the Models Own - Ibiza Mix nail varnish that alot of bloggers have been raving about, which is only £5 anyways, but for £3.49 this one is an absolute steal!

MUA Nail Varnish Shade 21 / Posh Polish Beauty UK No. 12 Intergalactic

This is the MUA nail varnish on it's own after two coats. I did this last night at about 2am so I had to use the flash and it kinda overpowered the colour, but it's actually such a gorgeous dark pink colour that I would definitely use on it's own! The bottle seems to have shades of orange in it, but once shaken it all mixes together and is fine :)

At first I was considering just painting a statement nail of the glittered nail polish, but after seeing how nice it looked on, I couldn't help myself painting it on all the others too :)

So here are my final nails, and this was my first ever 'nails of the day' post :)

Below is the photo of my nails I took for instagram and I think this shows the colours as they actually are in real life.

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What do you think of the Ibiza Mix dupe?
Would you buy it or would you rather pay the extra £1.50?

Love Dani

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