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Al-lure Me in

Oh, I am so in on this set.  Allure magazine has teamed up with butter LONDON to create the limited edition Arm Candy Nail Lacquer Set.  There are four shades in it:

• So Major! - A loden green shimmer
• The Sweet Spot - An opaque dusty pink créme
• Violet's Revenge - An opaque blue purple créme
• Front Row - An opaque wine créme

All of them are SO pretty.  I seriously am coveting every single one of them and that almost never happens.  The set is $30 and seems easiest to find online, although it does say that there are only a few left, so I would get on that if you don't want to miss it.  Let it al-lure you in!  (Sorry, I had to).  

So Knackered Out

So ULTA had their one day sale on Butter London nail polishes (half price!) and even though I need more nail polish less than anything, I was unable to resist the lure of $9 Butter London shades and found myself drawn there almost against my will.  (Seriously, there should be a twelve step program for beauty addicts).  But in the end, I'm glad I did because I'd somehow missed the shade Knackered in all my previous Butter London shopping and oh my God, I am OBSESSED.  It's so, so pretty.  It's described as "a sheer, twinkling oyster shade flecked with micro glitter particles" and that pretty much sums it up.  It's this gorgeous blue with sparkles, but it's also a duochrome, so the finish on it is so different and unique.  I definitely don't have any shades that are at all similar, which in a stash of my size is something of a miracle.  I've had it on all week and I've seriously lost track of the amount of people who've asked me about it.  Everyone wants to buy it!  I should seriously get a PR fee for my work on their behalf this week.  If anyone at Butter London's reading this, feel free to hook me up! 

Lucy In The Sky

 

Butter London's new Boho Rock Collection is pretty damn great, but my absolute favorite is Lucy in the Sky.  Love, love, love this one.  It's described as a sheer, iridescent, gold and silver glitter suspended in a rosy pink base and it's just gorgeous.  I'm wearing it now and I can't stop staring at my nails.  It's super glittery and sparkly and reflects light like crazy.  So damn pretty.  It looks great on my fingers but it's also going to look amazing on my toes the next time I'm at the salon.  If you like glitters, don't let this one pass you by!

Hear The Pitter Patter

Okay, I admit it, I'm kinda into this royal baby thing.  It's so ridiculous, but the girly side of me just can't stop squeeing a little whenever I read about them in People (which is often, because they're on the cover EVERY OTHER WEEK. Even as into them as I am, I'm like, "Guys, find someone else to write about.  Just don't make it any of the Kardashians.")  They're just so adorable and Kate has such perfect hair and it's such a fabulous love story because he's a damn prince and she's a commoner (a commoner worth millions of dollars, but still.  Details!)  I guess I just love the fairytale aspect of it way more than I expected, especially because she looks like the world's most perfect pregnant person.  She barely looks like anything's changed!  As someone who will probably become huge and sweaty and spend the entire nine months in sweatpants and a t-shirt, I am seriously jealous of that.  Which is why I must have Butter London's new Pitter Patter nail polish.  It's a really pretty opaque aubergine shimmer that they created as a tribute for the royal baby-to-be.  (I mean, that's the life, right?  To have a nail polish named for you before you're even born?)  It's only available in America (sorry, Brits!) and it's a limited-edition, so snatch it up quickly before it vanishes forever.  (And maybe grab No More Waity, Katie too, which is also gorgeous and deserves to be paired with Pitter Patter.  It's Kate Middleton's life in nail polish!)  Now, on to the more important question... do we think it's a boy or a girl?   

Bring on Spring!

Hhhm.  I do love Butter London, but I don't know if I'm feeling all the shades in the new Spring 2013 collection.  I'm not a huge lover of pastel shades anyway and I'm still kind of loving dark winter shades at the moment, so maybe I just have to give it a few weeks and I'll feel differently.  But if you do love and/or are ready to put some spring shades on, here are the six colors you'll find:

• Cuppa - Opaque tan crème
• Fiver - Opaque icy mint crème
• Fruit Machine - Opaque punchy carnation crème
• Jasper - Opaque bright pastel yellow crème
• Kerfuffle - Opaque pink coral crème
• Molly Coddled - Opaque lavender orchid crème

Also, apparently they raised their prices too because now each bottle costs $15.  For some reason, this kinda bums me out.  I know it's only a dollar, but $14 somehow seems more afforable than $15 when I say it out loud (something about being closer to $10 than halfway to $20...).  Well, maybe this'll help me stick to my 2013 goal to use the nail polishes I already have before buying more.  (I know.  I laughed even typing it).  We'll see...   

Butter London For The Holidays

Butter London's new holiday shades are super sparkly and fun, so take advantage of this coupon to grab them all.  Starting today, just enter the code HOLIDAY2012 when checking out on butterlondon.com to get 30% off your entire order.  Stock up! 

Gobsmacked!

Okay, I'm finally back from my unplanned blogging hiatus, which believe it or not happened when I had a crazy allergic reaction to a lash tint and ended up with bright red, bloodshot eyes that swelled shut and were incredibly painful.  I looked like an extra from "The Walking Dead" and felt like one too.  It was not pleasant.  Eyes are kinda important, you know?  I don't want to say where I got them done because it's a really nice place and I've had them done there about five times before with no problem, so I think this was just kind of a freak thing, but just be careful if you're getting your lashes tinted because before this, I had no idea it could ever go as wrong as it did.  But my eyes are finally back to normal again, thanks to my doctor, and I will now learn to live with my tint-less lashes because there is no way that is ever happening again.  Think of all the time and money I'll save!

Anyway, back to more of the fun stuff!  Have you guys seen Butter LONDON's new Autumn/Winter shades yet?  Because they are gorgeous.  All of them.  But if I had to pick just one to buy, it would definitely be Gobsmacked.  I love it so, so much.  It's a dark charcoal grey glitter that has a slightly textured finish.  I mean, it's perfection in a bottle.  I'm so into the dark shades lately for both fingers and toes and I also can't get enough of glitter polishes, so this just combines both obsessions into one fabulous bottle.  I feel like I need to pick up a backup of it because I know I'm going to want it when this one runs out.  Look at me, planning for the future.  I feel so grown up!   

Note:  A sample of this product was sent to me by a PR representative working with Butter LONDON

Medal in Metallics

Uch, why am I not at the Queen's Jubilee celebration in London right now?  It's my favorite place in the world (as I've said here many, many times) and all the news coverage of the concerts and the parties looks like so much fun.  And don't even get me started on how upset I am that I can't go for the Olympics either.  How fun would that be?  I would even agree not to bitch about the ridiculously long flight it would take to get there from Los Angeles (and that would require a lot of restraint on my part because that flight SUCKS).  Since I can't go, I'm consoling myself with Butter London's new Heavy Medal Trio.  It's a limited-edition set in honor of the Olympics with three metallic polishes in shades of gold, silver and bronze.  (They're shades you can buy individually too - the set contains The Old Bill, The Full Monty and Diamond Geezer.  All awesome names, right?)  I guess if I can't hop a flight to the UK, I'll have to content myself with playing around with these. Sigh...  

Definitely No More Waity, Katie

In honor of William and Kate's first anniversary, which I know is cheesy but also inescapable when you read as many magazines as I do, I pulled out Butter London's No More Waity, Katie polish again.  I hadn't used it since the time I first wore it when I bought it last year, but I got curious if it was as pretty as I remembered it and yep, it really, really is.  Coming from someone who isn't a huge fan of purple nail polish, I still think this is one of the prettiest, most unique shades I own.  Butter London describes it as "A soft, elegant greige lacquer with a splash of lilac glitter" and as you can see from the photo, that's pretty much dead on.  It's a twist on more classic shades because of the glitter, but it's still surprisingly subdued.  I'll be wearing it again this weekend at my next mani/pedi.  So now that I've bought and worn the shade, where's my prince?!  No More Waity, Stacey has a nice ring to it too!

Love From London

I love London more than any other place in the world, so I was probably predisposed to love Butter London's products, but even so, I really, really love their new lipglosses.  There are five new shades total, but my favorite by far is Primrose Hill Picnic.  It's a bright fuchsia, which fits in perfectly with this season's trend of bold lips, and it's also just an all around fun color.  It's really pigmented, which makes me happy because for $17, dammit, I want color!  I can buy a sheer Chapstick for $2 at CVS, so it drives me insane when glosses that look colorful in the tube end up barely showing up on my lips.  But luckily, that isn't the case here, so no need to worry.  I also love that I can pair it with the matching polish if I want.  I probably won't because that's a little too matchy-matchy for me, but I love the shade so much I'll definitely be using it on my toes at one of my next pedicures.  Now I kind of want them to make more lipglosses so all my favorite polish colors can come in two different forms.  Are you listening, Butter London?   

Note:  A sample of the above was sent to me by a PR representative working with Butter London