First Impressions: Birthday presents!

It was my 22nd birthday last Saturday and I had a great day and got lots of good pressies, the main one being a Microsoft Surface which I am currently typing this blog post on. I also got a few little things including a Butter London nail polish in Dahling which is the perfect plummy pinky shade especially because I'm loving everything plum at the moment (is that wrong since it's summer here?).

The second thing is the Apivita lip care with Chamomile, beeswax and olive oil. This is a pretty quality chapstick much softer then the others that I've tried. I usually find chapsticks to be too waxy and too hard to apply but this one glides on easily. It's SPF 15 so it's great to just through in your bag to have on hand during the day but if you have really dry lips, like me, your probably need to have a more nourishing treatment at home. Even so I was very happy to welcome this Greek chapstick to my very extensive collection of lip care products.

Have you tried either of these to products?
Hope you're having a great day!

<3
Catherine

butter LONDON Macbeth

Now I'm no manicure expert, in fact I've only started wearing nail polish on a sort-of-regular basis recently. We weren't allowed to wear it at school and I was too lazy on the weekends to bother with it. This coupled with the fact that my fine motor skills are a bit average means that I am basically hopeless at applying it. Despite this, I thought I'd do a quick and probably a tad uninformed review of a fairly recent purchase: Butter London's Macbeth nail polish.

This nail polish appears to be a lovely dark pink when you look at it in the bottle but I was a little disappointed to find that it appears much redder when applied on the nails. In fact you can really only tell that it is actually pink not red on very close inspection. It's still a pretty colour though and I love wearing it.

The brush is fairly large and the formula is good making it quick drying and easy to apply. This lasts a few days on me without any major chipping. It took me two coats to make it opaque on my nails although you could almost get away with one if you're clever.