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QVC Spring/Summer 2014 Press Event

Hey everyone! The other day I went to London, to work on something awesome for Clothes Show Live TV, and I thought whilst I was there I may as well pop along to the QVC Spring/Summer 2014 Press Event, and I'm so glad I did. There was so many beautiful things, and I got a gorgeous hand massage from Gatineau. I also got to eat some amazing cakes, and I may have had a few sneaky Thorntons fudges. I definitely feel that it would have been worth going even if I hadn't already been in London for the day. Unfortunately I completely forgot to bring my camera, so all the photos I have are from my phone, hopefully it wont be too noticeable! 



The event was set out in a gorgeous house in central London. From what I overheard it isn't actually someone's house, but nevertheless it was still gorgeous. I did of course head straight for the nail varnish/beauty area (after first going the wrong direction and ending up with the gardening equipment!)


There was an amazing selection of handbags and clothes upstairs alongside the beauty products, and just to the left of this was where I got my fabulous hand massage from Gatineau (this was definitely the best floor)



There was also a fab selection of home decorations, which I may well get my hands on for my new flat next year!


Look how beautiful the venue was! I definitely wish I had that window



There was also an amazing selection of cakes and biscuits. By this point in the day I hadn't eaten for over 8 hours, so I may have scoffed one of the cakes ... or two ... and some fudge. So worth it!





At the end of the event we were given an incredibly generous goody bag (which unfortunately I didn't manage to get a very good shot of before I devoured the marshmallows!), and I couldn't wait to unpack it. I got some very odd looks in Pizza Express emptying a bag of cosmetics onto the seat beside me, no regrets.

Do you see anything that catches your eye? There's definitely a few nail varnishes I have my eye on, just in case I 'need' some more.

Don't forget to enter my giveaway if you haven't already!
Alice

Askruk46

Witch Owls

Hey everyone! As halloween is starting to creep up on us a bit (see what I did there?) I thought it was time to start bringing the halloween nails around. I have 5 designs for you this year, 4 of which are tutorials so I'll be doing tutorial tuesday and tutorial thursday this week, hopefully you wont mind too much. So I'm starting my halloween nails off with these cute witch owls. These were meant to be a tutorial but they ended up a bit too long-winded so I thought I'd just keep them as a simple nail design. I got this idea from Little Miss Nail Polish, you can see her design here.


To do these I started with a base coat of OPI - Nail Envy*, followed by 2 coats of OPI - Purple-iscious*, then I painted a circle of Layla - Marshmallow Twinkle using a small brush. Once that was dry I used Alessandro - Midnight Black and a small nail brush to paint on the hat, hair and broom, and then I used MASH - White for the eyes, to finish the design off I used a bit more of Marshmallow Twinkle on the broom, and I topped the design off with a coat of my trusty Seche Vite.


Here's a shot of the gorgeous Purple-iscious alone, I absolutely love this colour. It's so unique and there's so much going on that is just impossible to capture on camera. It shows up a lot more on the bottle in the pictures than it does on the nails unfortunately. The duo of Purple-iscious and Nail Envy has been specially designed for QVC to celebrate their 20th Anniversary this year and I think they chose an awesome colour to celebrate with, don't you?


What do you think? Let me know in the comments!
Alice

Askruk46

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