Monday, 18 April 2016

Muted Flower Nails




Hello! I hope that you had a good weekend. Here is a flower mani using muted colours from mainly Nails Inc. colours

The main colours used are - Base Colour - 'Markham Square' Beige - 'Great Pultney Street', Blue 'Primrose Hill' and Green Essie 'Navigate Her'.














Wednesday, 13 April 2016

Grace from piCture pOlish with MoYou White Knight & UberChic stamping



Howdee! Today I have a mani using one of my favourite colours 'Grace' from piCture pOlish. What a beautiful beautiful colour it is, I just love the dusky pink colour which much like the previous post 'Cosmos' has a scatter holo that dries smooth on the nail and is enhanced by a generous application of top coat. It is described on the official website as "Inspired by a beautiful princess" which I can totally relate to, I can be a bit girly given the chance and pink and sparkly is me to a tee. 

Here I have stamped on my ring finger with MoYou 'White Knight' using one of my lovely UberChic plates and added crystals on the other fingers. Looking back I wish I had applied another coat over the white stamp to mute it down a little but I still love it just as it is. 

Monday, 11 April 2016

piCture pOlish 'Cosmos'




Today I have piCture pOlish 'Cosmos& the gorgeous Esmaltes Da Kelly 'Laguna' holo polish, stamped using the Betina plate B-13.


I believe this polish has been around since about 2012 and was made as part of the Collaboration series with Camille of Pshiiit, it is made by the fantastic company piCture pOlish, I love love love their products, they are in fact the manufacturers of one of my all time favourite polishes 'Grace' which I'll show you in my next post. 



A n y w a y . . . I was going off track there a little. 'Cosmos' is is wonderfully 5 free and reminds me of a starry starry night. It is a Navy blue jelly with an awesome scatter of holo that glides on perfectly and dries flat for a flawless finish. I have used two coats here. 



For a list of piCture pOlish stockists if you are not in Australia - click here.



This is one of a number of Betina plates I own and I love it. You can purchase from here



I bought the stunning Esmaltes Da Kelly 'Laguna' holo polish from Rainbow Connection and is one of many amazing ultra holos available. I urge you to go and check them out if you haven't done so already! 

Have a good week.



Friday, 8 April 2016

I see you wear OPI

Today I have a quick swatch of an O.P.I colour named 'I see you wear OPI' to share with you. It is a shimmery cobolt blue from last years 'Brights' collection.

The formula and brush were really easy to work with, as with all O.P.I's it has a flat wide brush which helps with application and the polish was quite thin meaning it was easy to apply, however that meant it needed three coats in order to make it opaque.

In the bottle the polish appears to have a flash of purple going through it but once it was applied to the nails it was unfortunately difficult to see. That said the blue colour glistens like water and reminded me of an inviting cool swimming pool on a hot summers day. Overall, it isn't the sort of colour I'd personally wear regularly but it is a beautiful polish. I haven't tried it, but I'm pretty sure that one coat over a navy blue would also look pretty awesome.

Have a great weekend!


Thursday, 31 March 2016

Femme Fatale 'Glass Coffin'

Today I am excited to share ‘Glass Coffin’ by Femme Fatale, it is an amazing shimmering thermal polish which transitions between a soft pale blue/green when warm and a gorgeous lilac/purple when cold. If you have been a reader of my blog for long enough you would have realised how much I love a matte finish and this dries to a gorgeous matte. Application was easy & dried very quickly. I used two coats without a topcoat - I did topcoat one nail originally and realised that it was a mistake, it looks fab without. I then stamped using stamping plate Uber Chic 2-01 with Models Own ‘Chrome Pearl’ polish. Unfortunately the photo doesn’t do it justice here.



Wednesday, 23 March 2016

Red Swirl Nails


Hey Everyone! For todays post I have a manicure I did a while ago now but haven't got around to posting. It's been so long that I have forgotten what products I used - I know, rubbish aren't I! but I wanted to show it anyway as I love how it turned out. I hope that you like it too.




Monday, 21 March 2016

Steampunk Nails

Not practical, but a bit of fun on my own nails. I used Fair Maiden Polish 'Snake Charmer' as my base colour, then stamped using Models Own 'Chrome Rose' with Steampunk plate 01. I then added the 3D elements, but they didn't stay on for long. 
Have a good week all x