Hello again!!!

Hi everyone!

Sooooooo my job has officially taken over my life - BUT - I am still painting my nails like ever and thought I would share!

By the way - yes I took these with my phone, it's been so long I have NO IDEA where my camera charger is! Sorry!!

I used a franken pinky-nude as the base - this was actually my first failed attempt at frankening my own mannequin colour - and Konad special polish in black with the lace design from plate m65.
Because my talons are verging on velociraptor the image did not cover my entire nail I freehanded black french tips with Diamond Cosmetics - Starry Night.

I would really love to hear what you think - I know my technique has dropped since I stopped blogging and I welcome all critique! My cuticles need a LOT of help I know...

Talk to me my darlings - I missed you all so much!!!


Love,
 

MAN ON MAN ACTION!

Hi everyone!

OH.. MY... SWEET... GOD...
Could this be any more lush?

Okay how I did this one was apply Manglaze - Fuggen Ugly all over the nails (as you saw yesterday)

Then I took some of those french tip stickers, the flat ones not the curved ones (I think they're for toenails?) and cut them in half. 

I then stuck them onto the other half at a 90 degree angle while still on the backing paper, peeled the whole thing off and stuck it down on my nails, then applied Manglaze - Hot Mess over the tips.

Look pretty awesome I reckon!

Because I had two different finishes to work with here I thought it would be a good chance to do a matte top coat comparison. Here's what I ended up with!

Love,

Gumleaf Mafia

Hello Ladies!

First off I would love to give a HUUGE shout-out to all the ladies of the Gumleaf mafia! It's great to see that even though we can be a bit limited, there are some Aussies (and Kiwis!) with AWESOME polish skills.
I've popped them in my sidebar - if you haven't seen their stuff yet - check them out!

Secondly, I have no new nails to post today because I'm loving my half moon mani a little bit too much!
It is monday morning after all...

So until we resume you to your usual polishing madness, have some cuteness.

And here are some pictures of me looking pretty. Yaaay. (Psuedo make-up post?) (Clickable!)

Wait a second... whats that on my hands in the last pic?

I managed to get a pic of some nail polish in here after all!

That one was Stargazer's "Gothic French Manicure" set.

Is it sad that 8 months on I remember that?

Love,

A bit of class...

Hello ladies!

I know i'm a bit later than usual with my posts - I am trying to get my sleeping pattern back to normal!

After my last manicure I felt so damned gaudy... I felt like I had to step it up a bit.
This usually happens - after wearing black I tend to go for something totally different, then that ends up feeling like it was way too overkill so I usually go back to black.

But somehow I don't think that me having every other post with black nails will quite cut it, will it now?

So I went for something a bit different.
I still wanted something vampy, but something warm, something with class.
Originally I was going to go with a red but I found this in my little box of tricks and couldn't stop staring at the bottle! I made it a bit different by doing a half moon manicure with it.

I did this last night before going to sleep so excuse the sheet marks! Ack!

But isn't this colour just DIVINE?!
It's a burgundy purply elixir.

This one is "High Mantenance" by ChiChi - an Aussie brand.
Find out about them here:
http://www.chichicosmetics.com/story.htm

I love ChiChi - the names are amazing - Mortisha, Mermaid, Jitterbug - too cute! Also, most of them go for the sort of names like -"Plain Jane" "Movie Star" "Soapie Addict" "Paparazzi Princess" "High Heeled Housewife" "Corporate Femme".
Not to mention it applies like a DREAM.
This is two coats but it would have been fine with one - Except I'm a total doofus and bumped one of my fingers.

The moons are the "natural" colour from a french manicure kit by Sally Hansen - this one is "Sheer Romance".
But seriously, Sally Hansen? Natural? I'm a half british goth and that is in no way natural on ANY LIVING PERSON.
Also - it applies HORRIBLY.
It streaks and its sheer in a way that you end up with gross patchy globs.
Originally I just wanted a wash of colour but it just wouldn't work for me.
So I ended up just applying until it was opaque.
I lost count at 6 coats. SIX!!!!
Has anyone else tried these?

So what do you think?
I can't stop looking at my nails because of how much this colour ROCKS.

Love,