A new addition to the family

This week has been an exciting and sad week all in one. One of my best friends has decided to emigrate to Australia with her other half, which is great for her, but desperately sad for me. Why can't life be like Corrie or Eastenders where you grow old with people on your 'street' rather than not knowing who your neighbours are, or worse still, detesting your neighbours. It is so sad when a friend moves away, but at least now I have a great excuse to head to the land down under for a holiday.

Anyhoo, to the good part. Seeing as I am going to be abandoned by my friend, at least she has left me a parting gift. Her very gorgeous, very cute and adorable Springer Spaniel.

See here, our newest addition to the family, Teal!



And in honour of Teal, I found a gorgeous nail polish in a trip to Superdrug that I just had to have. the colour is, wait for it....Teal, and the shade is a very nostalgically named 'Button Moon'. It cost £1.95, and is a Collection 2000 polish. The picture has made it look like a baby blue, but in reality it has a nice mermaidy green undertone (and anything that reminds me of mermaids gives me a warm fuzzy).

Now, despite it looking a gorgeous colour, I really wasn't impressed with the formulation. For some reason, it just seems to me that lighter shades of polish tend to be a bit 'gloopier'. I had to paint on at least 3 thick coats to get the coverage I wanted and for the colour to look even and without streaks.



Let me know if you know of any good cheap brands that don't have this problem. A dark polish girl I shall remain. My little sister however looks quite cute with this shade on, so this shall be a hand-me-down that isn't exactly worthy of the vintage phrase seeing as I only had it a day! :o)