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,
 

Eyeko... dangerously close to being in my bad books....

Hi everyone!

Some good news - looks like i'll be temping again for the next couple of weeks! Yay!

Anyway - on to the polish.

Now, this was the one I was looking forward to the most... a bright electric purple...

While mucking around on polyvore (while wearing the Vintage - I was inspired by Nihrida's polyvores!) I made a set to encompass the purpley awesome I was expecting...

Ahhh... yummy purple, maybe set off with some black and white....

Unfortunately I got THIS....

What... the... heck? It actually CHANGED COLOUR from what was in the bottle... I managed to scrape one last use out of my dying bottle of Seche so I know it wasn't that... I'm also at a loss to explain the weird bubbly texture thats going on (if you can't see, click the above pic to figure out what I'm on about)

Just to make my point absurdly clear, look at the above photo. The purple on the left is the bottle of polish. On the right, my nail covered 3 coats of that exact polish.

Application on this was way better than the Vintage polish, but not worth it for a boring berry shimmery creme. Blech. And yet the bottle colour was so awesome!

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,

Manglaze love!

Hi everyone!

This is what I wore for most of last week - yes in a corporate office - no one seemed to care so I went with it! I had a package in the mail from the VERY amazing Tiffani. This is - of course - Manglaze Fuggen Ugly. It is DIVINE.

Mattified shimmery goodness! *drool*

Go outside I hear you say? Okay!

Application on this was awesome - I've never worked with matte polishes before but I always crap up matte topcoats, need to get used to the fast drying idea! But just look... look... now I have a secret to tell you... come closer... closer...

*whispers* I didn't do cleanup on this...

Not that you could tell from it being all jacked up around my cuticles... blargh... but yes... manglaze is a dream... I'm off to buy more! Ta ta!
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,

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,

After Hours and Matte - 50 FOLLOWERS WHOOO!

Hay all!

Another from "The Haul" (I still have 3 more to swatch! And I'm out of cotton balls!) - this one's Colour Club's After Hours! I topped it with Seche Vite. Yum yum.

I wanted to see how it looked matte - I've learned from experience only to do this to shimmers! This will keep me happy for AGES as a go-to polish for clubbing.
Frikking love it. It's not quite Manglaze awesome but looks wicked. Looooove it.

I don't think it's quite shimmery enough to be a manglaze dupe. Being from Australia means unless I can get a whole lot of people together to get the real thing it's out of reach for me. :(

On another note I see I've just hit the big 5-0. I was hoping to have a giveaway at 50 but we'll see how my finances go this week! :)

Love,