Pampered and Polished Nail polish and beauty product reviews

Here are some pics of the lovliest Minx design! It was used at the Gareth Pugh S/S 2012 show in Paris and it is right up my alley… fabulous monochrome stripes – just gorgeous! Legendary nail stylist Marian Newman created a unique nail shape for the custom Minx and worked ... Read More »

I love Heidi Klum, I really do ( a wee bit sad yes, you’re right)… and as regular readers may have gathered over the months I love a celebrity fragrance as well, so imagine my excitement when the beautiful Ms Klum tweeted this pic of herself holding a giant bottle ... Read More »

Oooh here are some lovely looking bath goodies from Philosophy – it’s their new Philosophy Fruit Collection foaming bath and shower gel and they’re exclusive to Boots pharmacies and boots.com, so good news for the ladies in the UK, but crap for those of us out of the UK! There ... Read More »

Hot on the heels of the Nails Inc Magnetic nail polish, Superdrug is stocking FashionistA and The Saturdays magnetic nail polish… There are 5 FashionistA and The Saturdays magnetic nail polishes, sensibly enough one for each of the members… First up here is a pic of Frankie and Mollies magnetic ... Read More »

Now these are some cool, over-the-top Minx nail wraps… for the Fred Butler London Fashion Week show. Minx and Marian Newman created these awesome sea-creature inspired Minx nails. They decided to use MinxLusion, but they also wanted to add something extra to complement the unusual, whimsical muses featured in the ... Read More »

Spring is definitely in the air here in New Zealand and if the weather reports are to be believed the UK should be expecting a wee bit of a late summer heatwave, so today’s nail polish is suitably springy! It’s gorgeous Miki pale mint green nail polish (the Miki polishes ... Read More »

Wowsers the name of that post sounds super spammy! It’s not I promise – I got an email from halfprice perfumes and they are doing an insane deal on Almay intense i-color eye shadow palettes – just £2.49 each and you get a free eyeliner! The idea behind all of ... Read More »

I’ll just get straight to it… this is the best smelling hand cream I have ever tried! I love my hand creams, I always have a few on the go, but I was sent this Kio Kio Frangipani & Puriri hand and nail cream to try and it has definitely ... Read More »

So being inspired by Kaley Cuoco’s two-toned Emmys manicure I decided to give it a try myself… while Kaley went for a fairly subtle two-tone manicure with OPI Over the Taupe matched with OPI Big Apple Red, I’ve decided something a bit brighter is more up my alley. I chose ... Read More »

Minx have definitely become a fashion week favourite around the world and I really love these custom Minx nails that were used on the models at the David Koma Spring/Summer 2012 show. Marian Newman (who is a famous UK nail stylist) worked with Minx to create some really stunning almost ... Read More »