Maybelline 'Sea-quins' & Essence 'Miss Universe' NOTD

If you like anything that sparkles and/or the colour teal, then this manicure is for you. Essence's 'Miss Universe' is a black based polish with teal shimmer to make you swoon. Sea-quins which is part of Maybelline's Sequins range is a stunning teal glitter. Together I thought these polishes looked stunning and I add that I am really happy that I only used Sea-quins as an accent because it was a super tricky glitter to remove (silly me forgot the peel-off base coat). 

Sea-quins is a great glitter polish. Over 'Miss Universe' I only needed two coats to get complete density of the glitter and I think you would get pretty much the same result if you didn't have anything under it. A very dense glitter, no doubt about it! 

That's it for now, have a great day :)

Black Matte Glitter Accent Nail - Ulta3 Outasight

I'm not a huge glitter lover, I'll be honest, probably because it can be annoying to remove and I find it wrecks my nails...but now and then I come across a glitter I cannot say no to. I have a special place in my heart for matte glitter so a few months ago when I heard that ulta3 had released a few matte glitters I knew I needed them. So for most of the year I have been searching high and low for these polishes...finally on the weekend I found them =) YAY!!!

Anyway, I'll stop rambling and introduce you to 'Outasight' by Ulta3 which I layered over a coat of Sinful Color's 'Feeling Great'.

'Outasight' is a matte black glitter combo comprised of small circular glitters  and larger hexagonal shaped glitters. It's not a very dense glitter so you do need a minimum of two coats and I found that within each coat I had to do multiple brushes, as well as wiping the brush against the side of the bottle to try to leave as much of the clear base at possible on the side of the bottle...well worth the result though!

Overall  I am pretty pleased with 'Outasight' although I do wish it was a little more dense. I think it will look great layered over a multitude of different polishes and I'm kinda kicking myself for not getting a second bottle since it took me all year to find this one...silly me :p Also, as a side note, I want to mention that these photographs show the polish with a layer of clear quick-dry top coat, because I was inpatient and wanted to get photos before the good lighting disappeared.

Cheers :)

NOTD: Revlon Girly Accent Nail

Hi guys :) Hope you are all having a relaxing Sunday afternoon. Since I seem to be wasting time today and being unproductive I thought I might as well write a blog post. I'm going to show you my NOTD from yesterday. A couple of weeks ago Revlon released Girly in Australia and I brought it immediately. However it sat in my drawer for awhile because I knew it was going to be sheer and I don't like sheer polishes and I don't go all crazy over glitters (usually). Yesterday I finally decided to pull it out (yes, I know, it took me awhile!) and use it over Sally Hansen's 'Plums The Word' which is a deep brownish plum colour. Really lovely for the winter. 

Girly, as I expected was a sheer polish but over Plums The Word it looked great, although it did lighten Plums The Word a little, but that's okay in my book. Application was super easy and no glitter placement was needed at all which was great. Although not a super dense glitter you got plenty of glitter in one coat. I was really surprised at how easy the glitter was to apply. I did two coats of Girly and found that the glitters all dried flat. I did put a coat of topcoat over all of my nails. 

Overall I'm really pleased with how this turned out and think I will be wearing Girly again soon :) 

Cheers and thanks for reading. 

Autumn Dotticure

I've been thinking about it and I have decided autumn is my favourite season. Admittedly, this autumn has been amazing with days hovering around 25 degrees still as well as the chillier weather that I don't mind in moderation.

I used 'Plums The Word' by Sally Hansen which is a lovely colour for autumn/winter and then I did some dots using 'Toffee' by Maybelline. I picked these colours randomly but now looking at it on my nails it looks very autumn-y and I absolutely love the combo <3

In some lights this nail-art isn't very noticeable but then sometimes you go WOAH look at that beauty :) This next photo I took quickly with my mobile when I was out and about because the lighting was really good. Yep, I'm a crazy nail blogger...

Thanks for reading :)

Boogie Wonderland Accent Nail

Hi guys,
Face of Australia has recently released their Glitterati limited edition collection of polishes. The collection consists of 4 clear-based glitters and 3 milky glitters reminiscent of indie polishes. I'm not a huge glitter lover but I don't mind an accent nail! And if you apply a peel-off base coat removal is super easy and fun too!!!!! Remember when you were a kid and you were put PVA glue over your fingers and peel it off?

Anyway, today I have for  you a manicure using Rimmel London's Grey Matter and the accent nail is Boogie Wonderland. Boogie Wonderland is amazing, I love it to bits!!!!! Maybe this is the glitter that will turn me into a glitter lover?!!!

 In a milky white base you have medium sized blue, fuchsia and orange hexagon shaped glitters as well blue and green bar glitters.

You need a couple of layers however the glitter applies relatively easy - you don't need to place the hexagon glitters however the longer bar glitters can be a little troublesome. They don't all sit perfectly flat and a couple curl up. I had one that was sticking up out of the polish but I pulled it out and it didn't mess the manicure up or anything....easy solution!

Overall I am super impressed by Boogie Wonderland. They normally retail for $4.75 at K-Mart and Priceline however I believe K-mart has $4 off all FOA products making these only 75 cents? I read this somewhere so I don't know if its right but I assume so....

Thanks for reading,
cheers