Kalidoscope

Okay so I remember the gorgeous Stiletto asking how it is that cars have so many GORGEOUS chameleons and multichromes and yet we're stuck with boring duochromes!
I picked this up at my local random dusty polish place for AU$3!

It's from US #1 Beauty (Anyone heard of these guys? I haven't!) and apprently this one is toluene and formadehyde free (if you're into that...)

I COULD NOT capture the amazing multichrome in this, it keeps showing up as a green/purple duo instead of the blue/purple/green/yellow magnificence that it should be!

I'm considering getting a heap of these for a giveaway! Anyone interested?

Love,
 

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,

Random makeup post!

Hi Everyone!
I've been playing with my makeup lately - I ran out and bought MAC's Painterly so I am able to do eye looks without creasing and with better blending! Yay! I really need to buy myself a proper set of makeup brushes (I have 4 brushes... ugh) but I'm creating some fun looks so far!

I got these samples with my new foundation from Pure Cosmetics.
I love this! I have totally been converted to mineral powder for a while now, but I think Pure Cosmetics are the best I've tried!
If you buy a pot of their mineral foundation they send you FIVE colour samples of your choosing so you can get your absolute perfect colour!

They offer two kinds, "Classic" and "Ultimate" - Ultimate is the same but jam packed with nutrients. That's the one I got.
I went with colour "Porcelain Mist" and it matches my very pale, very cool toned skin perfectly! Because I had already bought samples not realising they came free with the foundation, I got some mineral eyeshadows instead.
I got three "travelling" eyeshadows - they look white but reflect a different colour, as well as two mineral eyeliner colours, a black and a metallic pewter.
These are the eyeshadows I got:

And here's what they look like; (I already had a full size of Pluto from them- it's part of the set so I swatched it too) These have all been swatched wet:

   

And here's a look I did using only Uranus and the pewter eyeliner (around the crease, used dry not as an eyeliner) that I wore to the supermarket!

It was far brighter in real life and it looks amazing how it changes under different lighting!

Before using an eye primer my eye makeup used to crease up in a matter of minutes - not anymore! I am learning new makeup tips on youtube - if you have any tutorials you think I should watch or and looks you want me to try, please let me know in a comment!

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,

Vault 101: Milani - Key Lime Shine

Hi everyone!
I get paid tomorrow so I can splash out and get more goodies! (As well as cotton balls to remove the beetle nails!)
So for now have something from my archive - now name Vault 101!

So here's ANOTHER from "The Haul" Milani's - Key Lime Shine

I still need ideas for some more EOTDs - help!

Love,

Beetle Eyes

Hey everyone!
sorry for the late post - I had such a lazy day an was trying to figure out what the heck to post as I still have no cotton balls and beetle nails, so I did a matching eye look with the shadows I got from Lisa Kate!

Sorry for the application and pics - makeup is definitely not my forte as yet but now that I have so many pretty colours I want to play with them and show you the results!

This looks much brither and more amazing in real life - pictures can't convey just how amazing these colours are!

I used:

Aromaleigh - Cricket (acid green - inner corner)

Barry M - Aqua Gold (teal with gold shimmer)

Hi Fi - Don't Fear The Nobodies (bright blue)

Fyrinnae  Hypercool (black with blue shimmer)

I think it turned out quite cool looking!

If you want to see more makeup looks let me know, likewise if you think I should keep them to myself.

Also if you have any suggestions for colour combos or links for designs etc you want to see me try - I'm still learning and would love some help!

The colours I have are here.

Love,

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,