Christmas party looks- part 1

I have quite a few parties to go to this Christmas which has given me a good excuse to be creative and come up with lots of different party looks.

This look was done out of Sunday boredom and I wanted to come up with something a little different to the normal golds and silvers.  Plus, I hadn’t even swatched my new Sleek Sparkle palette so I was dying for a play.

I’ve seen a lot of beautiful purple party dresses so I thought I’d do a purple/pink look to match them.

I used the new Sparkle palette by Sleek

and picked out the silver, the pink and the 2 dark purples.

I also added some sliver glitter liner to the top lash line, and black to my waterline.

I really like the Sparkle palette, but there’s a real lack of lid colours.  This was the only look I could do, using just the palette. I’m definitely going to use the others as crease colours though.

Look out for more Christmas party looks throughout December

Friday featured product-holiday nails

Hurrah! It’s Friday again and time for another Friday Featured Product.

This week I’ve been loving Party Hearty by China Glaze

The most special, Christmassy, glittery nail polish ever.

I checked out quite a few swatch pictures of this over different colours and decided white was my favourite.

Here’s my current nails using Model’s Own Snow White (how appropriate!) with a layer of Party Hearty over the top.

Dolly’s Christmas message

It’s the 1st of December, my brain will allow me to start getting really festive so I thought I’d do my annual Christmas post.

This year I will be spending Christmas with my boyfriend and our families and it’s the first Christmas in my own home so I’m extra excited.

This month on Miss Dolly Gal, I’ve got more holiday nail looks, holiday party make up and outfit ideas and for the first time- Casa de Dolly decor (including a Christmas tree in my bathroom!)

China Glaze virgin

That’s right, until Thursday, I had never used a China Glaze polish. After seeing the promo pics for their Holiday collection I knew I had to have Party Hearty. On Ebay, I found the Party Hearty set, for £13 inc P&P and knew I had to have it. 3 polishes for £13 (full sized) was such a good deal (they’re normally about £6 each I believe.)

I managed to resist slapping on Party Hearty immediately (it’s not even December yet!) and cracked out Jolly Holly- a beautiful green instead.

It reminds me of Christmas baubles, rather than holly though.

Formula was lovely, really speedy drying time and only 2 coats. I’ve lost my China Glaze virginity and I can feel we’re heading for a long term love affair.

Holiday polishes

Look at what was waiting for me in my post box




So excited!

Halloween Costume

This year’s Halloween night out was rubbish! We found out on Friday that the night we were planning to go to had sold out however my best friend managed to score two tickets so her and I could go. Went to the club dressed up and found our tickets were not on the door so we couldn’t get in. Gutted!

Luckily I’d recycled my costume from 2 years ago- a zombie playboy bunny. G actually has a zombie Hugh Hefner costume to match but he’s never managed to wear his.

I used Revlon Colourstay as a base and then whitened my face using white face paint. I “deadened” my under eye with MAC Blackground paint pot and a mix of greens, blacks and purple shadows from my 120 palette. Contoured my cheeks using MAC Scene shadow and wacked Barry M 101 on my lips(knew I’d need that corpse look at some point in my life!) For my bunny eyes, I lined the top with C2000 Fast stroke liquid liner and applied some massive human hair lashes from Eladora.

Then I slapped on LOTS of fake blood. Add one bunny costume bought online and a very fake looking wig and voila! Zombie Bunnygirl.

Sorry for the blurry pic. It’s the only full length one I got, as I was hoping to get more at the club.

Oh well, always next year!

Halloween at Casa de Dolly

As this is my very first Halloween in my own home, I wanted to put up a few decorations. Nothing too spooktacular but just a little something to scare up the place.

First of all, my very own Jack O lantern! I’ve never done one before, neither had G so we went for a traditional face. He drew and carved the face free hand

I bought some inexpensive paper garlands from a local fancy dress shop and hung them on my ceilings

Pumpkins in the hallway

Spiders in my living room.

I also made halloween punch last night- Woo woo cocktails!

We have a table full of Halloween snacks too

The light up ghost and paper plates were from Poundland, the punch bowl was from Wilkinson.

I love Halloween

Holiday nails- Halloween 2

My second attempt at Halloween nails. I was sent 17 Fast finish in gemstone and I thought it was a perfect nail colour for a Halloween look

Bit of an odd colour, a blend of black, red and purple. Has some nice purple/red shimmer running though it which you can see on the bottle. I added a cobweb with my nail art polish and a spider on my other hand. He’s too hard to picture without daylight though.

Formula was ok, opaque in 2 and nice and quick drying. Can’t complain at £2.99 and it looks like they’re in the 17 3 for 2 promotion at the moment.

Holiday nails- Halloween

Now it’s two weeks to Halloween, I’m going to be adding my contribution to Halloween nails, including what I’ll be wearing on my Halloween night out.

Today’s nails were actually my boyfriend’s request and the perfect ones to start with.

I’ve wanted Barry M Tangerine since I saw it on a blog last year but I’ve been waiting until October because it’s my perfect pumpkin colour.  My boyfriend requested I drew some pumpkin faces and I did this with liquid eyeliner for ease.

You may notice that the shape of my nails is a little different too.  I’ve been cheering myself up with looking at Japanese hair, make up and nails this week and was inspired by the pointed shape that Japanese girls use.  I filed down some long falsies after clipping off the square corners.  They’re very different but def growing on me.

New years eve look

Although I stayed in last night for the first year in my adult life, I didn’t miss the opportunity to create a look.  I also had 4 new eyeshadow brushes from E.L.F that I wanted to play with (post on those coming up later)

Here’s the look I came up with

 

I’ve used a mix of purples on the lid and blended through turquoise in the crease.  I then took my small smudge brush from E.L.F and drew a purple line across the top of my crease.

I also curled my hair, just using GHDs to create a messy curl as my hair’s short.

All eyeshadows were from a 120 pro pan palette
mascara is Covergirl lash blast
Foundation is Collection 2000 lasting perfection foundation
Blush is MAC Sheertone in Pink Swoon

XOXO

Happy New Year

 

I just wanted to say Happy New Year to all my readers.  This has certainly been a great year for me.  I started blogging and it’s seriously changed my life.  I now have a hobby and an outlet for being creative, which has made me such a happier person.

I’ve met some amazing people through my blog, and have been given some lovely opportunities, so I like to express how grateful I am.

Have a fun New Year everyone, and I look forward to continuing my blog into 2010.

 

Lots of love,

Miss Dollygal

XOXOXO

Christmas OOTD

I thought I’d post the outfit I wore on Christmas day this year.

Dress- £2 from Primark.  I got this on sale in Summer 08 and have never worn it.  The colour really compliments my new hair colour

Shoes-£25 from New Look.  I got these Spring 08 and again, had never worn them.  I got them for Las Vegas- the straps are pure gold glitter and the heel is a gold cone shape.  They are so uncomfortable, which is why I’ve never worn them!

This is the only proper pic I have of my face.  I was wearing GA lashes in Cheryl (you can see a close up here) and just some gold shadow.  We weren’t allowed presents until we got dressed so I didn’t want to waste much time applying lots of make up.

Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas

XOXO

Holiday nails

It's the big one, nails for christmas day! I wanted to go all out this year so I've gone for falses nails too. So here we have it- my Christmas candy cane nails



I've used short square nails by kiss, opi alpine snow in matte and a red sparkle nail art polish by la colours. It's so amazingly tacky. I painted each nail in White and then freehand drew 3 diagonal lines across each nail in red.

What do you think?
Xoxo
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Holiday nails

Here's the second look in my holiday nail series. This is blue glitter by Barry M. Again, this is just 2 coats.


I bought some nail gems from poundland so I popped a few stars on the tips.
Here's a close up



Xoxo

Holiday nails

I've had some ideas for holiday nails so I thought I'd do a series.
This is red glitter by Barry M



This polish is insane. It's so glittery. I applied just two coats and it's completely opaque. The fomula was lovely and dried really quickly. Totally worth the pain it will be to remove.

Here's a better close up of the colour


I have a glitter green, snowflake and candy cane nails coming up soon

Xoxo
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Christmas

I've just settled down under my snuggie to watch the original Miracle on 34th street so I thought I'd post a blog concerning Christmas.



I love Christmas and I think I've always strived but never achieved the perfect christmas. I don't know what it is but my family never get as excited as I do. This year we're doing things a bit differently and G and I are spending Christmas day with our best friends.
We've started planning and we're going to have champagne breakfast, special Christmas dresses and an amazing Christmas dinner. I am so excited! My family aren't too happy but I think it's time I thought about what I want to do for a change.
Are you guys doing anything different for the holidays?




Xoxo