Christmas Beetle Nails [Image Heavy Post]

I am in love with these nails.
I never want to change them EVER.
Okay, I will but I have a feeling I'll keep coming back to this!
Need more flakies!

My nails remind me of these little guys!

Read about them here.

This is the same as my last post, one coat of Orly Ridge Filler (also, notice this has removed the bubbles from my polish lately? It's another from "The Haul" - definitely a winner!) with 2 coats of Colour Club - After Hours, 1 coat of Seche Vite, One coat of Essie - Matte About You, with 2 coats of Inglot - 203, 1 coat of Seche Vite, Finally one coat of Essie - Matte About You in the last couple of photos. Phew!

Also, sorry about the picture quality, the sun ran away and had to shoot indoors and I have VERY shaky hands!

With flash

No flash, showing the colours of the flakes

With flash

No flash

Trying to show the blurpley colour

Mattified... whoa!

I loved this!!

For those of you in Aus (I'm not 100% sure about anywhere else) I saw Inglot was having a nail polish sale on friday - polishes for $5!!! Not sure if that includes the flakes (I didn't go in, was broke and knew I'd go mental) but run! Now!

Love,

Toxin's First Flakie! Plus Xtreme wear day 2.

Hello Ladies!
I love blogging. Apart from the chance to meet and share my love of all things polish related with people all over the world, I get to see things I never would have known about before!
If you had asked me last year how many flakie polishes I owned, my response would have been "What's a flakie?"
So thank you ladies.
Thank you!

I went to a friend's house a couple of weekends back (we've both been lurking on polish blogs for ages - she does a cocktail blog - SidecarBeastie - its in my blogroll!) and we were chatting about polishes, how we both love how all these different brands look but find it so hard to find them here in Australia.

Then she said "Oh wait - I had something to show you!" and pulled out a flakie. I nearly squealed.
"Where did you get THAT?!"
Then I saw the label.

Inglot.

Inglot is AMAZING. It's a standalone counter at Highpoint (for those Aussies that are curious!) which is fifteen minutes near my house. I went down there on thursday. They were doing a Valentines Day deal - a polish and a lipgloss for fifteen dollars.

Of course I walked straight to the flakies - they had different ones, red, orange blue and green.
I originally wanted the blue flakie but it didn't have a sticker on it - meaning it wan't available for the Vday deal.
I picked up the green with the blue/purple duochrome.

I thought it would look awesome over the pink... so here you go!

Check it out! Blue AND purple duochrome on green.

With flash.

Without flash

Sunlight

Shade

Inglot has over 200 eyeshadow colours and over 200 NAIL POLISHES. They have "02M" a "breathable" nail polish. All their polishes are big 3 free - if you're into that.
Check out the Inglot website here.

Also for today - day two of Jai's Xtreme Wear test:

No visible scuffs, chips or scratches. (And yes this is day 2. I was going to put up extra pics for day 1 last night but there was no difference!)

Love,

Makeup post!

Hello lovies!

My first make up post!

I was inspired by how bright pink my nails are! I picked my fave hot hot pink lippie and did some glittery smokey eyes to go with!

(My new Inglot lipgloss over the lipstick!)

Sorry I couldn't do a full face shot - my hair is misbehaving and I look super tired! :(

Also there is a HUGE storm raging right now! Scary!

What do you think?

Love,

It's... PAY DAY!

Hello my lovelies!
Sorry for my absence, real life got in the way a little bit there!
I went shopping today and snagged some new polish - so keep your eyes peeled cos there's more polish posts coming your way!

First off I bought some water decals. They were french patchwork hearts and in a word? DISASTROUS.
They weren't long enough to cover the ends of my nails BY FAR, felt horrible, were far too fiddly and just a waste of time and money. they were so bad I didn't take any pictures - just took them off straight away.

I decided to use one of my new polishes to cheer me up.

So I needed a happy colour... I chose this.

THE HAPPIEST COLOUR IN THE WORLD.

Its BYS - N85 - "Pink Panic." I got it from Cotton On Body.
It's so bright! With the colour and the texture it reminds me of hot pink PVC. I wonder if its bright enough to be UV reactive?

I also snagged a bargain from Inglot - they're having a Valentine's Day special where if you buy one of their nail polishes (only certain ones - but there are MASSES of awesome ones to choose from) you get a lipgloss too for $15!
The lipgloss colours are fairly natural shades - I chose the brightest most glittery one of the lot.
I love it!

Its not "gritty" or sticky, it smells like cherry lollies (but not the ones that smell like medicine) and it has a hint of sweetness. The smell is very subtle - a soft sweetness with an afterthought of cherries. I hate when some lipglosses smell so strong they overpower your perfume and drive you nuts - I mean - it's right under your nose! They don't need to smell strong!!

Yay! I'm so happy now and can't wait to swatch my new babies! You're gonna LOVE them!

Love,