You can't polish a turd....

Hello my darklings!

Sorry for my absence of late, I've been ridiculously busy lately, what with working and... working. Haha!

Another reason I've been away is I had a bit of a problem. As you may have known I had a tear in my right thumbnail below the quick, I'd been using pieces of tea bag as a silk wrap replacement, but the inevitable happened, I didn't buff it down quite as much as I thought I had and I snagged it, tearing across.

I hate having my nails mis-matched lengths. So I've been reduced to this...

I'm just kidding!

I really hope all of you can tell the difference between bitten and cut nails!

Okay back on topic... sort of... 

Here's what they REALLY look like!

My sad little thumb... :( 

You can see how stuffed up it is... 

No more pics of this until it grows out more!

My inpiration for this was partly all the cute pastels I kept seeing around easter, as well as having Nubar - Milk Chocolate Creme turn up. I'm not sure about using it for day-to-day polish, but boy, I'll use this guy for nail art for sure!

What I used:

Thumb and pinkies: Eyeko  - Lilac Polish(The only Eyeko so far that agreed with me! Yay!)

Forefinger: Franken

Middle: BYS - White

Ring: Eyeko - Vintage

Chocolate: Nubar - Milk Chocolate Creme

Rhinestones: Konad Nail Art Stones

Yay!

Oh and the title of this post is from me worried that chocolate would look more like... well... you get the picture.

My photography lecturer in Uni used to used the phrase "turd polishing" a lot. It means when you start with a piece of crap, you can spend ours and hours polishing and refining it, but in the end, it's still a piece of crap.

One day he was looking at what I was working on, shook his head and for the billionth time...

"You can't polish a turd"

Not missing a beat I looking him in the eye with a manic grin and said

"Maybe... but you can roll it in glitter!"

He was HORRIFIED.

Love,

Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend.

Hi guys!
The quote above is from Lucy Liu - it cracked me up the first time I saw it!

Anyhow! Here is a little something that arrived in my mailbox on friday...
Eyeko's Vintage Polish!

NB: I am desperately running out of Seche Vite, meaning until the new bottles get here you're gonna have to deal with ugly bubbly top coat again. *sigh*

The colour in the above pics is pretty true to life, except its a teensy bit more green. It looks kinda blue here. My camera went funked up at the idea of photographing this one. :(

I really didn't enjoy this, I left it on for a couple of days purely to make it worthwhile... application was pretty damn awful, though apparently it's better than the old formula, which must have been a total nightmare. The colour is pretty as hell, but it was quite sheer, and with my long nails and the tiny bottles, doing three coats used up about a third of a bottle!! Mostly this is because it won't let you do a thin coat as it was so goopy.
But the colour is hella pretty, although next time I think I'll franken my The Face Shop mint green to make it a bit darker and more blue, the application of it was better and considering price and availability, I probably wouldn't buy it again.

Love,

Dream Catcher... is orange?

Hi everyone!
My posts are a bit all over the place right now as I'm trying to get my sleeping pattern back to normal.
I woke up at 9.30am today (compared to 6pm that's pretty good!) but I feel rotten like I just want to sleep for a week. Bleh.

Oh well, on to the nails!

This is "Dream Catcher" from Nicole by OPI, another from "The Haul" - and yes I'm nearly done swatching these!

I noticed something strange when I was swatching this, normally I'll google the nail polish before I swatch (or as I do it) to see what other people's opinions on he polish are and what it looks like on them, with this one I found something very weird... look here...

As you can see this is COMPLETELY different to the bottle i have, which looks like this... (also, have you seen the Nicole by OPI bottles? What the HECK is going on with the mad shape?)

Does anyone know what the crazy is going on here?

Anyway...here's what THIS version of Dream Catcher looks like on me...

This was 3 coats.

I really like this, I used to have a colour that was almost exactly the same as this years ago, but I have no idea where it went! Or what it was called, or who by. Blech. I just remember it had a shiny red metal handle on the brush and you can get them in Priceline here in Aus... Oh well! I have this now!

Love,

New for me... pastel green.

Hello ladies!

This is one of the colours I picked up in my little haul on Wednesday.
I've been inspired by all the pastels I've seen on everyone and didn't really think too much when I grabbed it.

Sorry for my horrible application on this one! 

I'm really not sure if I like this one... it did really strange things to my skin tone.

Oh well if nothing else I can probably franken it.

Love,