Hi guys! I've got another installment of the ABC Challenge for you. B is for...blue nails using my fave blue polish. If you want to join in on this challenge please feel free, there is no strict schedule but I'm personally trying to get one post done a week. The inlinkz is below...blah blah blah.
'Endless Blue' from Sinful Colors is an amazing blue polish and I absolutely love it! It's a one-coater, dries quickly and applies effortlessly. And because it was Friday afternoon and because, well I just felt like it...I added some holographic glitter on top! This was only one coat of 'Diamond Glitter Crystal' from BYS and boy is it sparkly!!! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It was kind of ridiculous how many photographs I took of this NOTD. Generally you would think that the better the lighting the better the photgraph...yeah? But I found, after lots of frustration, it nearly turned out better when I was in darker room. What the heck? So I want to assure you this was seriously sparkly ( and therefore, awesome) but my camera fails to show you how it really looks :( Any tips for photographing holographic glitter?
And to finish on a happy note here is a picture of my dog looking at me while I was photographing my nails...she probably thinks "humans" do really weird things. Hahaha
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Hi guys,
this week I am playing 'catch-up' for the Nerd Challenge. I was really looking forward to doing this challenge because it is right up my alley. The first prompt was 'math' but I haven't done that yet! I have an awesome idea but it's going to take ages so I will come back to it. I'm so naughty....I know!!!
Anyway the second prompt was 'space' and I immediately thought of spaceships, galaxy nails and aliens. I decided to go with my first idea of spaceships. What do spaceships look like you ask? Well being a huge Dr Who fan I have to say on the outside they look like blue polices boxes <3 and on the inside, I always think of really white gleaming faces with lots of silver and sleek lines. Not sure where that schema has come from but oh well.
Anyway, for this manicure I used a silver polish called Icy Princess from Essence and one of my all time favourite glitters - stardust from ModelsPrefer. I wish I had a back-up of this but when I went looking for it on the weekend it was sold out everywhere :(
I have a new lighting set-up and obviously it needs a lot more work because looking at these photographs they don't look the best :s but hopefully you can get the drift!
Hi guys! I am so sorry this is two days late!!!! University is crazy at the moment and I have five major assignments due this month so I'm worked off my feet. Unfortunately that means that I don't have time to do my nails very often and when I do....it's nothing superb. Although I did find a beautiful polish in my collection that I had totally forgotten I had! The polish in question is 'Lion Around' by Essie. It is a beautiful pale pink with a pretty shimmer in it.
So the prompt for the Girly Girl challenge was "delicate and elegant" so I decided to do some stamping over Lion Around using my favourite stamper. I know, I know!!!! I am boring and this stamp features way too often on my blog but I love it! Anyway, I used 'Lilac Love' by BYS for the stamping. If you live in Australia you should definitely check out the BYS polishes. They are $4 and can be found in K-Mart and Gloss (and probably other places too!). They are great polishes, especially for the price :)
Hope you have all had a fantastic weekend,
Take Care
Hi guys! For the Battle Nail Challenge the prompt for today was cream vs. shimmer. I honestly like both finishes equally and they are my favourite finishes so I decided to show you a polish that is the best from both worlds. Kinda cheating...I know!
This is 'Spanish Moss' by Revlon which is a gorgeous dusty green that applies and looks like a cream finish but there is a very subtle shimmer in it that shows itself in sunlight. I really adore this polish as it is sophisticated yet a little different.
Apologies for the photos, the sun was in hiding today which was annoying as I couldn't get the very subtle shimmer to show up in the photos, GAH! Still a pretty polish though :)
Hi guys! Today for the Girly Girl Challenge I have to show ya' some BLING!!!! I love a little bit of bling, especially on my nails. And as I just picked up another holographic polish from Make Up Store I figured this was the perfect opportunity.......
Meet Britta, a stunningly vibrant pink holographic polish:
This is three coats over their special base coat for holographic polishes called 'aqua fix'. This polish applies like a dream and has a very strong holographic polish.....these photos really don't do it justice! Even inside without a direct light near my nails I could see the holo effect :) Love!!!!
Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy your weekend,
Okay so continuing on with The Battle Nail Challenge today I have for you the battle between holographic polishes and matte nail polishes. I think both holo and matte polishes can look fantastic however I find that both don't tend to last long on my nails :( Holographic polishes are definitely my favourite although I think this love comes more from swatches rather than actually wearing it on my nails - weird I know!
I decided to do a "matte" manicure for this post but if you want to see a holographic post click here to see fishwife by butter london or siw by make up store.
For this manicure I used the following polishes:
1 coat of 'Jungle Gem' an indigo teal by Sally Hansen
2-3 coats of Speck-tacular a flakie top coat by Australis
1 coat of 'Matte Top Coat' by Chi Chi
I love how flakie top coats look when covered with a matte top coat and same goes for glitters. They still sparkle and have that "light-shift" property but it looks more mysterious.
I promise I didn't forget about this challenge but somehow ended up starting other challenges and sadly haven't done this for a long time! Bad me!!!! Hopefully I will be able to get back on track now.
Hi guys, for the final day of the 31 day challenge we had to recreate somebody else's manicure.
After seeing Anna's manicure using magnetic polish I decided that I needed some magnetic polish too :p Well maybe not needed but I didn't have any and I wanted it :D
So I present to you my first ever magnetic polish manicure. I'm still learning how to use the magnet, hahaha, I kept bumping the magnet on my nails so you might see a couple of smudges!
This is a polish from BYS called 'Magnetic Mars'. I L.O.V.E this colour and love how the magnetic effect gives the polish a super intriguing depth.
I am so happy that I have completed the 31 day challenge. Think I missed one or two days but that doesn't matter! I can always (and am planning to) go back and do them when I get a spare five minutes!
A big congratulations to everyone who participated, all of your manicures were astoundingly good!
Today I wanted to bring to your attention the awesomeness of Scrangie, who has the most amazing swatches ever! If you haven't checked out her blog you seriously should click here and pay her a visit! Amazing, I tell you!
So in honour of Scrangie's consistently awesome swatches I decided to have a go at doing a perfect swatch (using my new camera which I'm still figuring out how to use ). I used two coats of Sinful Color's 'Endless Blue'. This polish applies brilliantly, dries quickly and has a lovely shiny and creamy finish. All Sinful Colors polishes are 3-free which I love!
Hi guys, playing catch-up here because I missed a couple of days for the 31 day challenge. So this was my design for "inspired by nature". Initially I was thinking green hills, green leaves, trees and flowers but I wanted to be a bit more interesting than that so I went with the nights' sky :)
I used "A date in the moonlight" by Essence and "Part Popper" by ModelsPrefer. "A date in the moonlight" is a beautiful navy polish with shimmer and "Party Popper" is a mixture of holo bar glitter and silver glitter in a clear base.
I used the nights' sky as my inspiration and really love how this turned out. The first time I wore Party Popper I was kind of disapointed with it, but it has redeemed itself here I think. What do you think?
I just got a new camera, yay!!!! So these are the first photos I took with the new camera. It's great, really it is, BUT, the only problem is that it is too good! Well you see the problem is that even though my cuticles look nice in real-life, the camera highlights all of the details of my fingers making my good cuticles look yuck. I don't want to think about what photos are going to look like when my cuticles are bad!
I have a couple of different favourite colours for different things. I love black, teal, coral and red clothing. For make-up and lipsticks I'm into nudes and brownish tones and my bedroom is fitted out with latte walls with black furniture and red accessories. On the other hands, I find yellow cars very "sexy" but then when it comes to nail polish I don't really like wearing black nail polish and nude polish is only worn when I'm either lazy, have an important meeting or have super short gross nails! So anyway, this summer I have been loving corals so I decided to do coral nails for today. I chose a neon coral because I was feeling quite cheerful but in winter I go for the more subdued corals out there (Sally Hansen's 'So Much Fawn' is lovely).
This colour 'pops' a lot more in 'real-life'. These photos really don't do this polish justice :(
Can you believe the challenge is nearly over? I can't and whats more.... I am still participating. Last time I attempted this challenge I bombed out quickly because my nails were not healthy enough and I didn't have enough polish! I think I might have missed four or five days of this challenge but hopefully I will be able to get those challenges up before the end of the month.....fingers crossed!
Please check out what the other guys have done for today's challenge and take care :)
Hi guys!!! Today the prompt for the 31 day challenge was "inspired by you". Now I don't particularly like skittle mani's and crackle polish isn't my favourite type of polish but this manicure which is suppose to represent me includes both! Weird huh?
Anyway who am I? I am a student studying to be a clinical neuropsychologist, I love nail polish, handbags, shoes, books, interior decorating and I am a TV junkie. I consider myself to be a bit quirky, a bit unique, very conscientiousness, fun ....and a bit random! And perhaps most importantly, I don't care what people think, I am who I am :) I don't believe in following trends and having to think what everybody else thinks!
Oh and did I mention I was indecisive? I couldn't even decide what type of mani I wanted to do today!!!! I ended up doing a skittle with the following colours (and then adding OPI's 'silver shatter' ontop): Unamed polish by Solace, Timbleberry by Sinful Colors, Endless Blue by Sinful Colors and Be Happy by Sinful Colors.
These photographs are of my rarely seen right hand so apologies for the weird photos. I find it so difficult to hold the camera in my left hand!
I am really in love with how this crackle turned out. Crackle, I find, can be quite unpredictable but this crackle turned out quite awesome I think.
Thanks for reading, take care :)
P.S --> sorry for the wonky formatting on this post. My computer just won't behave! GAH!!!!
G'day mate......Happy Australia Day!!!! I hope everybody has a wonderful day and enjoys the long weekend, whatever you are doing. Two of my best friends are coming over for bubbles and some nibbles before we head into the city for some dinner. Fingers crossed we get a table and its not too chaotic :)
For the 26th day of the 31 day challenge which coincidently (I assume) falls on Australia Day the prompt is very fitting as it is 'Inspired by your country'. I have super-short nails at the moment :( so I feel quite limited in terms of nail art. Plus, I'm ashamed to feature these short nails on the blog, they are so yuck!
I know I have a missed a couple of days for this challenge but I will definitely go back and complete them before the end of the challenge.
I went for a burnt orange polish with gold speckles in by Essence called 'Gorgeous Bling Bling'. I'm thinking this could represent the outback. I've never been to the outback although I would love to go. I have however been to the 'bush' and, especially when we were in drought, it was very dry. I also did a gold accent nail using Essence's 'A Piece of Forever' because according to our national anthem we have "golden soil". I guess our colours our green and gold and a green and gold skittle would have looked cool but with short yucky nails I'm just not brave enough. I did however stamp a kangaroo onto my accent nail using 'Gorgeous Bling Bling' and consequently discovered that that polish is definitely not good for stamping. But oh well, you can't win them all!
So if you're not a fan of Australia I guess you should stop reading now (bye) but I thought I would write a little about Australia :) First up, our anthem. We use to sing this every Monday morning at assembly in Primary School, while raising the Aussie flag up the flagpole.
Here is a video of 'Advance Australia Fair' the name of our anthem:
I also though that for the long weekend I would showcase some more of Australia, do some more Aussie nails and maybe some more videos from youtube. I have to laugh, when I was searching for videos, I found a video, '10 reasons not to come to Australia' :)
Today for the 31 day challenge we had to do a manicure inspired by fabric. I pretty much knew straight away what my favourite fabric was but wasn't sure how to "translate" it into a nail design. I'm not the most artistic person in the world so drawing each individual flower was out of the question. I finally settled on just using the colours of the fabric to do a bit of a dotticure - yep I'm still in love with dotticures :) After just discovering how to do them without proper dotting tools I keep wanting to do them, hopefully i'm not too boring :s
The fabric is from one of my most worn pieces of clothing - an amazing maxi dress that is ever so flattering and super easy to wear! I might even go as far as saying it is my favourite piece of clothing! And the ironic thing is I'm a jeans and t-shirt person!!!!
