I was actually going to wear this to my afterprom, but time constraints (I spent too long watching Question Time and therefore had no time left over to repaint my nails) meant that I didn't use it then. I applied it the day afterwards expecting a nightmare (application wise) but I was actually pleasantly surprised!



 First, I went for this because I was looking for a good, cheap nail polish and since I'd had a good experience with 'Slate' by BeautyUK, I hoped the rest of the line would be up to scratch. I'd call it a true, neutral yellow. I have no idea why it's more eyecatching than the other yellow offerings different brands had to offer :/ Something about it that I can't put my finger on...maybe the fact that it has a *touch* more green in it?



Yeah, my nails look fabulous here. But they're fake. I wish my real nails looked this good.



Application wasn't that bad, surprisingly - the formula didn't feel thick or chalky (and believe me, just from looking at the bottle I was convinced that it'd be chalkier than a cliff in Dover) and it was fine in two coats, both the opacity and the levelness (not a word?) of the polish. Impressed!
I wore Yellow Peril again, on my (disgusting) natural nails, and it lasted with minimal chips for three days which is pretty damn decent considering the state of my nails at the moment. Peel City. Yuck.



I've noticed that they've raised the price of these recently - this cost me £1.99, as opposed to £1.79 last year. An increase of 20p isn't too excessive, though, so I'm not crying over it.

The camera is so forgiving. I assure you, this franken is hideous.

So I started out all optimistic, wanting to make a pale yellow franken out of the Miss Sporty Clubbing Colours yellow and this white 17 basecoat thing I had.
Do you see the yuck? Do you see it? This polish was a streaky mofo to apply, just like it's parent yellow, which I expected to be honest. I chucked a ball bearing in and that didn't seem to help much. Undeterred, I painted two coats on my nail. Ewwwwww.
Major visible nail line going on. In real life, it's practically fluorescent. You know what it looks like? It looks like a much paler version of that Piggy Paints Neon Yellow thing.
Photo from the lovely Rhea at The Chain Nail (Check out her blog here.), one of the few people that can pull this colour off. The franken looks so awful on me I immediately removed it, screaming in pain. My eyes! My eyes!

I'll let you guys know when I've found a way to get rid of this travesty once and for all.

Love,

September Lena

xx

What. A. Fail.

Words fail me when I'm trying to describe this disgusting, streaky mess. Urgh. This is the second colour that I bought from Superdrugs and the second one in their Clubbing Colours line that I'm reviewing. After the great things I had to say about Metal Shine I thought this would be similar. Just no.
It seems the trick to these is to do one or two thin-ish coats before a final huge dollop of polish and hope for the best. I painted a thin coat and waited sixty seconds, as promised, for it to dry. What a lie that was. I ran my thumb over it lightly and immediately ruined my manicure. It was tacky on the surface up to ten/fifteen minutes after first application. Clearly their definition of dry is, "sort of feels dry if you run your finger over it really quickly using next to no pressure."
The debate finished at 10 o clock and I went to bed at about twenty to twelve. When I woke up in the morning, there were crease marks on my nails. These were the nails that I painted at 8:30 in the evening. EIGHT. THIRTY.

Oh, and if you wear this without a base coat? Smokers hands. They will be stained the most hideous shade of yellow you have ever seen. I learnt this the hard way.

If this wasn't the only yellow I owned I would have stamped on the bottle in frustration. I should have bought the Barry M one when I had the chance. Grr.

OK. First, the warning -
If you guys remember my post showing my entry for the Lali Amora nail art contest, you'll know that I had Miss Sporty Clubbing Colours Yellow on my thumb. This was a total pain to apply and I got so frustrated that I removed it all and reapplied it - without a basecoat. NEVER do this. My thumb looks like I'm a smoker...not good :P It's stained very, very badly yellow. So DO NOT ever wear Miss Sporty nail polishes without a basecoat. Ever.

haha, warning over. Giveaway time!

Over at Nani's Nails, she's doing a giveaway for SmART nails. It's ending today though, so hurry!
http://nanisnails.blogspot.com/2010/03/smartnails-review-giveaway.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FayMk+%28Nani%27s+Nails%29

Design NO19  looks great!

There's a giveaway here at Emily Loves:
http://emsloves.blogspot.com/2010/04/thank-you-giveaway.html
At Katrina's Nail Blog, she's giving away China Glaze and Art Deco:
http://katrinasnailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/first-giveaway.html

A seriously generous giveaway at Lauren's Dressing Room:
http://laurensdressingroom.blogspot.com/2010/03/100-followers-gigantic-giveaway-worth.html

At Polished Lyrics, there is Colour Club up for grabs:
http://jesserka.blogspot.com/2010/03/150-followers-giveaway.html

Win an ELF gift card over at Gaby's Beauty Blog!
http://gabysbeautyblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/2nd-giveaway-win-25-elf-gift-card.html

At Street Light Eyes, there are some gorgeous, highly pigmented eyeshadows to be won!
http://streetlight-eyes.blogspot.com/2010/04/my-mini-giveaway.html

At Awful Beautiful Disarray, there is a LOAD of NYX stuff to be had.
http://awfulbeautifuldisarray.blogspot.com/2010/04/giveaway-giveaway-giveaway-d.html

At Obsessively Opposed to the Typical (great name!) you can win around 28 make up goodies!
http://vendettaxx.blogspot.com/2010/04/i-decided-to-do-giveaway.html?showComment=1270454846459_AIe9_BGDnRvQzuo3-e8ot42XPAWs8knDzc8KMF5ckFb-MPwaLkuVOZaUCxlhL8kuwiI4R-ByjnijoArhYoqO6_QHCo9Ds-b1kNVomOLULAEEmRHVJKPh3170HHgrEa20XmgYgZJHpA70NTTN7VvgLUVqLpH8G6XoSHVpvgtYGtTt_uDw_QBDGXdgiW8x_Gta6nd_-xy1tA7RjTtR2qPVVyg-NV_1vUmWphOAur-G03l85BXpK7hCUw4#c563488899361481526

Eliza - Make Up Junkie has a great giveaway going on!
http://eliza-mclellan.blogspot.com/2010/03/following-freebies-100-followers-give.html?showComment=1270521023398_AIe9_BF1VceEiI6uOKLSmHCUh4FtMliHYhnztcb_N_qqCufJUz7fmjmU1JOunmCnm7LNmOgjQ3FvTAB89rJ-_Ei9677NhTFAcvnkWH0NryN-3fZpzf8CaQez4zxhgS2pLklk7cFWyq3XjlFXNmB3aQKvXtkEL_DfLmIjoKXYTFnFI5QbrDiaN6vjTV5ULerV7nl_DbaBXSnYZykWjH_9tng7dryqOJZb6m6gaXnMGjT9S5yt1rpdUCfS-P_IJlCOb4tfRW2po1jw#c3573445303351895970

Over at Bella Sugar Cosmetics, you can win free eyeshadow! Just say your favourite colours and enter! Hurry though - ends on Friday!
http://bellasugarcosmetics.blogspot.com/2010/04/free-eyeshadow.html

At Claire's Nail art, she's also doing a giveaway! Ends 24th of April so you have plenty of time.
http://claireruffin.blogspot.com/2010/04/50-followers-giveaway.html

And at Red Lipstick and Black Liner, you can win a Sleek pallette! Ends 30th of April.
http://redlipstickblackliner.blogspot.com/2010/04/50-follower-giveaway.htmlThat's all so far folks! I'll be back with Miss Sporty Metal Shine swatches in my next post!

Oh wow. So today, (Good Friday) I went to Superdrug, which is a good relatively cheap UK drugstore, similar to Boots (and it's basically the HOME of Barry M, haha). I wanted to get some new polish colours and I knew exactly what I had in mind - Barry M. Headed straight for the cosmetics aisle and scoured the shelves...there it was! All sorts of Barry M goodness. However, the polishes were £2.95 and Miss Sporty were doing a sale on their own colours - (three for two) so instead of getting the Barry M yellow, I bought the Miss Sporty yellow (they looked fairly similar, not dupes but close) and got Barry M Mint Green instead. I was in polish heaven :P The choice was truly mind boggling - there was almost every nail paint there apart from the very new Ice Cream ones for summer! Even the glitters were there! Also, there was all sorts of Rimmel, Maybelline and GOSH. I did look interestedly at the GOSH having seen it featured in some other nail polish blogs - a gorgeous holo silver - but quickly backed away when I saw it was £5. Wtf? I'm a student! Why pay £5 for a limited range of colours when I could get two or even three nice ones for that type of money?

They look so pretty all lined up!


The Miss Sporty brands claim to dry in 60 seconds. I'll have to test that claim.
The black claims to last for up to 7 days. For a cheap nail polish that's really quite good but again, I'll have to see for myself.
 My gorgeous Barry M :)
I have waited so long to own thee.

I've had bad experiences with the Miss Sporty Black in the past - one completely thickened up beyond belief and seized manically after about three years or so. I had to throw the whole bottle away. Still, they've changed the bottle design since then and if the formula has changed to allow it to stay on for 7 days...there's hope. I think it feels better knowing that your colours were cheapass. Bye for now.