Hello Kitty!

Hi everyone!
Everything's been a little mad here so yet again I didn't get to the shops, sorry!
You'll have to settle for a vault post where I went... insane....

Yes, that is a little hello kitty. On a toenail. A big toe-nail. A man big toe-nail.
There's a story behind this which i'm not going to go into.

The base for this one is Orly's Enchanted Forest with Fauxnad Hello Kitty using Colour Club's After Hours as stamping polish, the face is Stargazer White (from the "Gothic French" kit) the nose is The face Shop GLI11 and the bow is Stargazer nail Art Pen in UV Pink.

And yes, this is waaay sloppy, you all know I normally wouldn't post things this bad but for a Hello Kitty man-pedicure I had to make an exception!

My nail art needs a little work but mostly this is due to me trying to finish up and slap some seche on before Jai could complain. :)

Love,

Bored now.

Hello ladies!

Ugh. I am sick of swatching plain colours. I want to do some nail art so I can get better at it!

Unfortunately... er... I need to get better at it!

Blargh! Unhappy!

So to make me happy I swatched a plain colour. o.O
This is Urban Decay's "Bruise"
I frikking LOVE this colour.
As you can see it is a dark purply burgundy with green shimmer.

Also - Xtreme wear - day 4.

Um... fail.

Now for the yak yak part of my post today. If anyone has noticed me being bitchy, snarky, or generally emotionally absent lately (HA!) it's because I went to do doc yesterday as I've been having three days of pleuritic chest pain. Not good. The doctors are a little stumped as I do not have the normal symptoms of pleurisy, just the pain. So it could be a number of things for which I may need to go to hospital. Bleargh. I just want it to hurry up and be pay day already... I know exactly what will cheer me up... >:D

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,

Guest Blogger and Model!

Hello ladies!

Remember when I said I picked up two polishes at the supermarket?
Well they were both Sally Hansen Xtreme wear polishes, one was "Wild Life" that I showed you yesterday. Here is the other - #24 - "Black Out"
I wasn't expecting to love the pink quite as much as I did, I thought it would be a shame to take it off straight away, so for the other I brought in a guest model, My Boy, Jai!

This is two coats.

"Real Men don't do clean up!"

Now for his review on this polish:

"I'm thinking it could have been thicker, it seemed so wet, if that makes sense, like I'm used to wet meaning thin and patchy and crap... but this was okay. Anyhow it has hardly chipped yet but that won't take long. This was okay but I really want the black matte one. I also want to paint my truck in it."

So the verdict is: These are thin. I used 4 coats of the pink to achieve full coverage and Jai used two coats but its still a little patchy. Also, Jai wants 60,000,000 bottles of Manglaze "Matte is Murder".

Because I can - I'm going to let you know how these wear using Jai as my tester. They advertise as "Xtreme" wear - lets see how extreme they are when Jai is elbow deep in an engine. Because it's black - any chips will show up very clearly.

So what did you think of my guest this evening ladies? Should I let Jai occasionally join in my polishing madness, should I let him go back to computer games and engine bits, or should I be worried about the competition?

Love,

Happy Valentine's Day!

Here in Australia we're a little ahead of most of the world.
It's already Valentine's here!

So this post goes out to my gorgeous Adonis, Jai.

He is my muse, the odd little things he does inspire me everyday.

The first time I saw Jai was in a calendar for "Men of the Melbourne Goth Forum" *swoons*
Clickable to check out the hawtness!

Check out the nails!

These two were shot and edited by me. 

He had just woken up and I started harassing him with my camera!

I love you baby.

Now, for what you came for!
Now at first glance this manicure may not seem very romantic - but on my 21st birthday Jai got me a lovely ring, with topaz (my birthstone) and diamonds set in gold.
Normally I wear a lot of silver and black, my bridge piercing is surgical steel and I hate clashing metals in my jewellery.
But I'll make an exception for him. :)

So this manicure is one of the new colours I picked up in order to go with my ring. :) I have one more new colour to show you but you'll have to be patient!

The inspiration

Close up to show sparkles and shimmer

It's a very pale gold with super fine shimmer in it. The shimmer occasionally shows flashes of colour - as in the picture above.

Sorry for the bubbles again - it has to be the humidity here, as this is without base or top coat after cleaning my nails with acetone.

Love,

Zombie Foots

Hello my lovelies!

I bought some craft sponges from a hardware store to do some gradients!

I've seen this idea on another blog  - (unfortunately I can't seem to find it again - if its you, let me know and you will get credit where it's due!) and thought it was just too awesome not to try!

Unfortunately I've run out of nail polish remover so I still have my black and white konad on so while my boyfriend was playing Fallout 3 I painted his toenails!

I was originally going to try something different but wanted to keep it GothBoy friendly so zombie it is!

Here's some pics I took pre cleanup:

Can you see the dark green shimmer in the blackish polish? The green glows under UV - it's still dark green but it definitely has a slight glow - how strange!

And after cleanup (Well, a shower):

What do you think?  I would have LOVED to have had some Matte TC to put over the top - but OH WELL...

Please be kind - it's my first shot at using sponges and i'm still trying to work out how much polish to load them with.

How do you do it?

I just painted it on the sponge but when that wasn't enough i put it over the mouth of the nail polish bottle and gave it a shake!

That turned out to be a little too much.

Next time i might just put a blob on, say, an empty ice cream container lid, then pick some up with the sponge.

Do they make you think of zombies? Or something else? All i can say is the Boy is content with his zombie polish. :)

Love,