Revlon Copper Penny

Hi guys, today I have a swatch of Revlon's Copper Penny for you. This is an absolutely stunning polish and I can definitely see myself reaching for it repeatedly. Perfect for any situation, mood and season! I am in L.O.V.E. I really wanted to write an in-depth review on this polish because it is superb but life got in the way and now I can't remember all the precise details. GAH!!! I should have written down some notes :/

What I do remember is this:

• Amazing formula, applies effortlessly in one coat, yep, one coat! 
• No streaks. 
• Amazing metallic finish, very reflective. 
• Lasted well, didn't chip and tip-wear only appeared after a couple of days (and I'm rough on my hands).

There was not a single thing about this polish that I didn't love. It's such a beautiful colour and in real-life appears a lot more metallic than it does in the pictures. Guess my camera couldn't handle it's awesomeness! I love metallic polishes and especially bronze's, coppers...etc. They are so easy to wear and look great in any situation. And obviously, the fact that this polish is super-duper easy to apply, in one coat, and dries quickly. 

Thanks for reading, 

cheers

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 :)

Studio 54 Face of Australia

Hi guys, today I am going to show you the glitter polish that changed my mind about glitter. I have admitted before that I'm not a huge glitter lover. Probably because glitter polish always looks better in the bottle than on the nail!!! But I have found a truly beautiful combo that made me love this glitter polish. You can probably tell how much I love this polish by the excessive number of photos below.....

This is Face of Australia's limited edition 'Studio 54' layered over Maybelline's 'Toffee'. It's a pretty dense glitter that applies pretty easily and dries reasonably quickly too......

I wore this on my 21st birthday when I went out for dinner with my family and I loved it! It wasn't super out-there nail art but it felt special and when the night was over I peeled it off because I used eseence's peel-off base coat which I L.O.V.E! It's so much peeling of your glitter polish, hahaha.

I want to write more about this polish and how awesome this combo looks but I don't think it is required. Just look at the pretty pictures :)

Thanks for reading and enjoy your weekend,
cheers.

31 day challenge day #6 - favourite colour family

Day 6 of the 31 day challenge, we are 19.4% of the way there! Today's theme is 'your favourite colour family' and unlike most people I couldn't instantly think of my favourite colour....weird? I definitely have favourite colours for different things (clothes, my bedroom, notebooks...etc) and a few years ago I would have said black black black but this last year or two I have emerged from my gothic phase and have become quite friendly with colour. I love coral, teal, purple is obviously another liked colour (especially for nail polish) but yeah....finally, I decided........my favourite colour is teal. See, I told you!!! I am indecisive :)

 So I picked out two of my favourite teal polishes. For summer, Face of Australia's 'Lets go scuba diving' is a magnificient teal polish that blows me away. It is a shimmer that just glows from the inside and the shimmer gives this polish amazing depth.Also, this is a very vibrant teal colour. The only down-side is that the polish is a little difficult to work with - you have to have only a tiny bit on your brush and because it is sheer you need 3-4 coats. But once it's on, it is simply amazing and well worth it!

 

 My favourite teal polish for the winter time is more of a petrol teal called 'in style' by essence. I decided to use 'in style' for an accent nail but I kind of regret it. Don't get me wrong..... 'in style' is a fab polish and so is 'lets go scuba divinng' but they look best when worn on their own.

 What is your favourite colour?

31 day challenge day #4 - pink

Hi guys, here is the next instalment of the 31 day challenge. Today's theme is pink and as it is a stinker of a day here (predicted to be over 40 degrees Celsius)  I went simple and used my new favourite pink polish: Dancing Nails by Sinful Colors. The colour, formula and wear-time are all 10/10 for this polish and at the moment this is, without a doubt, my favourite polish my collection!

Dancing Nails is a rosy pink metallic polish. 

You can easily wear it for 3 days (no top coat) without getting chips although you might get a tiny bit of tip-wear.....depending on if you type on the computer a lot. 

Quickly popped outside to take photos but it was too sunny so the photos don't do this polish justice....I'll try and swatch it properly for you one day soon :) Yep I know, I always say my photos are terrible (and they are) but I am planning on buying a new camera soon so don't fret.....improvement is coming soon :) yay!!!!

Please don't forget to check out all of the other awesome bloggers participating in this challenge!
Cheers and take care,

The NEW 31 day challenge - day#2

Day 2 of the new 31 day challenge is here already and the prompt for today is 'silver'. So this is the perfect opportunity to show you the most spectacular silver polish I have ever laid my eyes on! I would like to introduce to you: 'Metallic Silver' by BYS which featured in their platinum range and wow this is one wicked polish!!! An extremely reflective, metallic silver polish that dries in an instant, requires 3 thin quick coats and looks divine. Whenever I am wearing this polish I feel very 'bling bling' :)

Tomorrow the prompt is 'gold' and I am looking forward to doing some royalty-inspired nail art. Cheers and thanks for reading!

Aussie Christmas Nail Challenge - Christmas Tree

The theme for today's challenge is 'Christmas Tree' and I decided to do a manicure inspired by my own Christmas tree. Every year we decorate our tree with silver tinsel (correction, LOTS of tinsel) and silver and blue baubles. Therefore this manicure is silver based.

If only polishes looked as good on nails as they did in bottles!

This is the first time I have worn or swatches this polish and whilst I'm not thrilled with the density of the glitter in the clear base I think I am always going to be one of those glitter-haters. If anybody knows of any good glitters that are DENSE please let me know :) Cheers. 

Anyway 'Party Popper' is by Models Prefer and contains silver/holo??? bar glitters and small glitter particles in a clear base. I layered it over Sally Hansen's 'Pedal to the Metal' and I think the result is quite nice - it's a delicate manicure that it isn't too showy but you still get a nice surprise when you step into the sunshine. Next time I will probably use more coats of 'Pedal to the Metal' though.

Cheers, 

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Christmas Mani - Getting into the spirit

Wow, I can't believe it's the 15th of December already!!! Well actually, I can't believe is it already DECEMBER!!! Can somebody please tell me where the year went? Since I'm still coming into terms with it being Christmas and all I have only just started trying to get into the 'spirit' of the season. Because we are currently renovating and our house is upside down we decided to skip getting a "real" tree which is a shame because I think having a tree is my favourite part of the season and we are making do with a small fake tree from IKEA. Pretty good for the price though..... It is smothered with tinsel and lights and navy blue and silver decorations. Since the tree went up yesterday I thought I would do a Christmas Mani. But I couldn't decide what nail polish to use, so I used them all :) Hahahaha that's evidence of my indecisiveness right there :)

So today I bring to you:

• Butter London's 'Pillar Box Red' 
• Revlon's 'Emerald'
• Essence's Breaking Dawn Part Two ' A Piece of Forever' 

All are very Christmas-y polishes and one-coaters too!!! Yay :)

Pillar Box Red and Emerald are glossy creams and A Piece of Forever is a metallic (non-streaky) however because of the overcast skies and rain the photos don't show how awesome these polishes are although they have both featured on my blog because....AND I ran out of nail polish remover before I finished my clean-up so please accept my apologies. Not a great start to the day (did these straight away this morning) and I planned to do heaps of swatching today but now I'm not so sure with the weather and all. 

While typing this post I decided that the photos didn't really show how funky this multi-coloured mani looks in real life. In particular, the colours are wayyyy more vivid. But anyway, holding the camera under my chin I attempted a 'both hands' mani. Ummm.... please feel free to laugh :) 

Thanks for reading, I would love to hear from you so feel free to comment or vote in the poll below. Cheers. 

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Essence - Princess Prunella

Today I have Essence's 'Princess Prunella' to show you :) I like to think of this polish as a polish with an identity crisis - hahahaha - because sometimes in different lights it changes colour. I would describe 'Princess Prunella' as a beautiful purple plum colour which I have occasionally seen a glimpse of brown in.

Natural sunlight - this polish is PURPLE not brown. Stupid camera!

I really love this polish. It really intrigued me when I found it in the shop because I thought it could be a duochrome. I don't think it quite classifies as a duochrome but I don't care because it is a fabulous colour.

Unfortunately, this is probably a hard one to find now because I grabbed it when Essence was bringing in their new polish bottles and the Essence stands were all empty and messy.

Artificial light

Out of all the 'old' essence polishes I think this polish had the best formula, the formula of this polish was incredibly easy to use. The dry-time of this polish was quick and only two coats were required. I wore this for a full day with no topcoat and only got minimal tip-wear and no chips which I thought was pretty good considering I had used my hands a lot during the day, typing on the computer as well as random manual labour.

I really want to bang my head against a wall because in the pictures the polish looks brown but this polish is PURPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry for the stupid colour inaccurate photos, I will try to get better photos tomorrow :)
Cheers,

sheer polish test post #2 of 3

Quickly recapping, because of a lack of time this is a scheduled post. I grabbed three random polishes from my collection and have decided to test how sheer they are. I'm hoping no more than 2 coats are required.

I accidently smudged my nail so sadly you can't how lovely and metallic this polish is, but make no mistake. This polish is AWESOME!

For this post I have a Maybelline Mini Colorama polish in 'Toffee' which is a beautiful metallic copper colour. After one coat it is pretty much opaque but I applied two coats as it strengthened the shade of the copper. I would say that it a brown-based copper rather than a red-based copper. I really love this colour and think it is a great polish. It applied easily however I did smudge it {so maybe it was a bit slow to dry? not sure what happened to be honest}. 

All photographs were taken inside under artificial light because it rained for the entire day! Therefore the photos are not 100% colour accurate.

So a quick summary for you: definitely not a sheer polish. A beautiful polish and requires no more than two coats. 

Thanks for reading, I will be back soon! And I have lots of exciting posts coming up :)

31 day challenge - inspired by artwork

I wasn't sure what to do for this, I didn't have much time and couldn't be bothered trying a water marble {if I did I would have try to recreate 'The Scream'} so I was looking at some of my new polishes {haul post coming soon} and thought that Sally Hansen's 'Pedal to the Metal' reminded me of a pearl which then reminded me of an awesome book I read and the painting 'The Girl With A Pearl Earring' by Johannes Vermeer.  So here you are, This is 'Pedal to the metal' by Sally Hansen. 

This was my first time using this product. Apparently it is all 5 steps of a manicure in one bottle, therefore no base or top coat should be required. Whilst it didn't chip as easily as some other polishes I would still recommend a top coat and probably a base coat too. 

Because of the finish of this polish I found it was quite streaky and difficult to apply. Although it could be user-error so I will let you know when I wear the other colour I got from this series. You need to apply this polish carefully as you will see streaks and you can't just 'fix-up' a particular area with a dab. 

In the bottle I could swear it was a pale purple, on my nails it looked more like silver. I could not decide what was going on! Was it a duochrome? or just a chrome/metallic polish? I'm still a bit undecided, but it is probably just a silver metallic polish with purple undertones (or vice versa dependent on the light, I  guess). 

Overall, I really like this colour and if I can apply it more neatly I will definitely be wearing it more in the future!

Overall score: 8/10