Professional Beauty London 2015 Haul

I am a beauty show-aholic. I go to Olympia Beauty in October every year, and this year was my first time at Professional Beauty London. The difference between both shows is huge, to be honest I do prefer Olympia, but it was a great experience at PBL. I love being a nail technician, and these shows are just a little perk of being a professional as all of the products are discounted and I love seeing all of the newest nail polish collections, trends and equipment. So today I have a haul for you, as I bought quite a few polishes!

First up, I bought half of the China Glaze Road Trip 2015 Collection. There are 12 polishes in total, at the China Glaze stand they were selling packs of 6, so I picked the lighter colours as I think they suit my style better although the other 6 shades were lovely too. We use China Glaze in the salon I work in, but I hadn't purchased any for personal use before, these are my first ones so I can't wait to try them out, perfect for Spring. Boho Blues is a peri-winkle creme blue, Pinking Out The Window is a coralish pink creme, I Brake For Colour is a bright coral creme, Wanderlust is a pale lavender with a golden shimmer, Dashboard Dreamer is a light blue with pink and orange shimmer, and Pack Lightly is a peach shade with a golden shimmer. They are all beautiful shades that I can see myself using over and over again.

As always it was a must to go to the Essie stand. Essie are my favourite nail polish brand, and they weren't showing at Olympia last year so they were one of the main reasons I travelled to PBL this year. I picked 6 shades, and I am in love with them all! There were a couple that I wanted that I couldn't get my hands on, but I got a couple of colours I hadn't seen before, including Swing Velvet which is a deep luxurious shimmery red. Pink Diamond caught my eye especially for summer, it's a frosty baby pink pearl shade. I have been wanted a new true baby blue polish for a while so when I saw Borrowed & Blue I put it in my basket straight away. Topless & Barefoot which is a rosy beige neutral in colour, not one of those nudes that washes you out, it had a lovely tone. Tea & Crumpets is a shimmery pinky/peachy neutral I don't have anything like this in my collection I think I would look lovely over Topless & Barefoot. Lastly from Essie (My favourite buy!) Aruba Blue. I saw this shade an just fell in love it's absolutely stunning. It's a frosty shimmery sapphire blue.

I only bought one polish from the OPI stand, to be honest I was pretty disappointed with the stand itself. It was tiny, the selection of polishes was really small and I queued for 20 minutes to get into the stand, wheres at Olympia the stand is huge and there are tons of polishes. Anyway, I still managed to get an amazing shade, from the new Hawaii collection by OPI and seriously my pictures do not do this polish justice, it is absolutely beautiful. It's called This Color's Making Waves. It's a bright turquoise/electric blue duo chrome with gold and pink flecks of shimmer. It looks just like the sun reflecting off of the sea. 

Did you go to Professional Beauty London this year? If so what did you think of it / what did you buy?