Vault 101: Ruby pumps + nail foil!

Hello lovelies!
Okay so this one is pretty self explanatory!
I've used the infamous Ruby Pumps as a base coat and then tried the lace foil over the top!
I LOVE this!

Blurred to show the ruby pumps amazingness!

Sorry for the quick post - I'm so tired after work now!

But hey, I'm posting!

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,

I'm back...ish

Hi everyone, sorry I haven't posted in ages, work has kept me very busy, with that and fixing my mad sleeping pattern I haven't had much time to myself! I'll set up blogger to do a couple of posts this week so my blog isn't being ignored!

So here's the polish I was wearing for pretty much all of this week!
You've all seen it a billion times by now, but I just love it!
China Glaze - Ruby Pumps
I won this in Tiffani's (Yardsticks 4 Lunatics) giveaway!

Ew, working with paper all day is wreaking freaking havok with my hands... they're disgusting.

Oh and excuse the wear on the above pics, these were taking on day 4! *blush blush*
Hopefully I'll have this working/blogging thing sorted very soon.

I love you all and miss you so much!

Love,

Nail art... ...abstract impressionism is art, right?

Hello everyone.

Before you see these, I'm sorry.
I really, truly am.

I should only show you beautiful, gorgeously manicured nails.
I shouldn't show you this.

I shouldn't be laughing.

But seriously, if these guys had legs, i'd be telling them to RUN not walk to crazy town.

First off I'll let you know how this came about. I got three polishes from China Glaze's Ink collection. Being a MANIAC for purple I've known for ages that I had to get Flying Dragon. I also picked up Japanese Koi and Blue Sparrow.

Next, I wanted to do some nail art with these guys. Initially wanting to do something tattoo themed, the idea crumbled as I created these monstrosities...

     

Why on earth did I attempt something so ambitious? 

Because I wanted to. 

And I hoped it would have one of two results:

a) something AMAZING

b) something HILARIOUS.

Which do you think it was?

NB:
The first one is a BIRD.
Those are clouds.

The second one is a FISH.
Those are flowers in the water.
FLOWERS CAN FLOAT!

What I used:
BIRD:
Chi Chi - Mermaid
China Glaze - Blue Sparrow
Stargazer UV Nail Art Pen - UV Yellow
The Face Shop - BK901
Stargazer - White

FISH;
China Glaze - Blue Sparrow
China Glaze - Flying Dragon
China Glaze - Japanese Koi

Stargazer UV Nail Art Pen - UV Yellow

The Face Shop - BK901

Stargazer - White

Don't forget to enter my Giveaway!


Love,

That was fast, plus another half moon!

Hi guys!

As you all can see Toxic Lipstick is getting a brand new look! I'm still tweaking some minor details but comments seem to be back up and running, as I was using an external commenting system, since that came into play all comments were saved.

On another note, I'm noticing a heck of a lot of people not following basic direction when it comes to my contest.
Is it really that hard to find one thing you'd change about my blog? On the other hand, some of you have really cut loose and are pointing the finger at any little thing! I mean, I know I brought it on myself, but for new followers to enter and use it as a chance to be hurtful? Geez...
It goes without saying anyone that can NOT follow direction will be disqualified immediately.
I get the feeling they probably won't read this in any event, haha!


Okay now what most of you are here for, some pretty! This is a bit of a humungous post, so please excuse me! Think of it as me making up for being lazy these past couple of days!

This is three coats of Sally Hansen - Sheer Romance and 2 coats Cheri - Candy Apple.

Then I spiced it up a bit more! This is Maybelline Express Finish. Not sure the name of the colour as there's no label but it's a red jelly with very fine red glitter through it.

Then I added even more to it! This is Orly Prisma Gloss Gold.

Whew! I have something very special for you, I'll probably get impatient and do another little post in a couple of hours to show you!

Don't forget to enter my Giveaway!


Love,

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,

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,

Awesome giveaways and valentines nails!

http://www.kraseybeauty.com/2010/01/giveaway-time-krasey-beautys-one-year.html
$1000 worth of AWESOME. Check this OUT!!!

Now for your main event of this morning (evening?)

First off we have me trying the technique to remove glitter nail polish from my Goobie Goober post using nail polish remover, cotton pads and foil. Except I didn't have any foil so I used cling-wrap! It didn't work as well because it was really hard to get the cling wrap to stick to itself because it was wet. Bleh.

Here's what I got, before:

during:

Yay! Tape!

and after:

Hahahaha wrinkly!

Not too bad - though it would have worked much better with foil, it was still much less of a nightmare than usual! The remaining glitters came off really easily and felt kind of "melty" and floppy.

Now for my latest manicure - I wanted to give the Konad another go. Unfortunately I only have one plate so it's going to look a bit familiar.

I added some red diamantes and little diamante hearts to my thumbs.

Then I decided this was altogether way too boring and not valentines inspired at all.
So I kept going...

Much nicer! the girl at the shop yesterday almost had a tiny conniption when she saw them!
What do you think?

Love,