Erhmagawd!

Where have I been? I was in the midst of the Halloween challenge a few weeks ago..then things got hard. Hard at work, hard at home and just hard in general. So quick catch up and then onto things that are polish. Things are still hard at work..I am the kind of person that will be very loyal, and I've just had that thrown back in my face with disrespect and rudeness. It's pretty crushing to the spirit..so as a result..well, just lets say I'll be keeping to my own and keeping my eyes out for opportunities. Home, well..lets not go there and in general..I just broke a frikkin nail SO bad it's bleeding. Crap on a cracker. I've just had to do a teabag/glue repair to stop half my nail falling off in a painful bloody mess..and filing it down as we speak to give the horrid break time to grow out. I broke it on my car steering wheel for freaks sake! Grrr.

Sucks to be me a the moment!

Polish wise.. I have some pretties coming in the mail..here is a photo exhibit of things to cheer me up and to look forward to :)

Girly Bits Smurf Dance!

Dollish Heart of Glass (pic courtesy of nailpolishanon.blogspot.com.au)

Enchanted Polish Hey Jude

Hare Bury the Hatchetfish

Hare King of Carat Flowers

Another exciting thing is the introduction of Essence Breaking Dawn Part 2 collection..am I looking forward to the movie? Hmm..I will probably go see it as I have seen the rest but am not super hyped. The Essence collection on the other hand is exciting!

 I picked up the 2 lip glosses, the polishes and the blush/shimmer power today. Not going anywhere near the loose eyeshadow, the gold shimmer lipstick was okay but it's a top coat  and when I tried the glitter eyeliners the glitter was a bit sparse and not very pigmented for my liking! I am not a beauty blogger, so will be showing you the polish only.

There are 4 polishes and I picked up all 4 today..or so I thought..I actually have 2 of the dark blue polish and none of the purple one that I wanted. GRRRRR. So I will call up tomorrow and see if the store will hold the purple polish for me to exchange after work tomorrow. See, I told you..sucks to be me today. So off I go to file down all my nails..and have a piece of coconut/almond slice with cream and a coffee. I am sure that will take the edge off my mood..LOL.

This is Halloween Nail Art Challenge- Zombies!

Zombies, Zombies, Zombies..I love Zombies...The Walking Dead, 28 Weeks Later (hmm, Jeremy Renner!) and Resident Evil (Milla Jovovich kicks butt!).. my only issue with Zombies is that they don't have glam nails. Since my post is a day late, I had a look at all the other awesome Zombie nails. Can I just say, I LOVE the zombiefied gross nail looks..but wanted to interpret my mani into something I could wear for a few days without people looking at me strangely. So..this is what I ended up with :)

Not very scary Zombie nails!

I used China Glaze I'm With the Lifeguard as a base and was hanging to use All That Glitters Horror Business!

 Bar Glitter in green gooey base, so awesome!

How cute is the Zombie girl?

 Purple blood drips as well :)

This is a pretty simple mani but I do love it. The colors are just me and I love the Zombie girl. I stamped with with a Fauxnad plate and it took me 8 goes to get the image just right! Not sure Fauxnad plates are worth the hassle really. Really going to try and get my next challenge in on time..and please do check out everyone elses awesome art!

Here are the other challengers, add your link if you are joining in!

1. RantingBlogger	2. Nai's Nails - Zombies	3. Walking Dead - Plisherrific	4. A Polished Prance
5. Lissa's Polish Addiction	6. Zombie nails by Marie's mani madhouse	7. Nail-to-Nail Interpretations	8. Nail Gun XS
9. LacquerDreams	10. The Silverinator	11. osiris and loki paint their nails	12. Lacquer Or Leave Her!
13. Lacquer Or Leave Her! V2.0	14. Never Mind Suzi	15. More Nail Polish	16. Polish Rainbow - Zombies
17. Glitter Me This	18. Shatter me Claire	19. Pretty Purple Polish - Zombies	20. Pink and Polished Nails
21. Baroque fool	22. Overpolished	23. Delainie	24. Dema Pixie
25. Ehmkay Nails	26. Manicura de fantasía	27. a girl and her chicken named betty	28. Nikki NeverWithoutPolish
29. Follow the Yellow Polish Road	30. Amoki's Corner	31. melmyissta	32. Tes Did It Nails
33. Not Too Polished	34. Kelly's Kolors! - Zombies!	35. Juliana at Nail Polish Addiction	36. Nailified: Zombies
37. play polish :)	38. Miss Holly Berries	39. PRIS Nails	40. The Polished Mommy
41. Life, Times and Lacquers of Lilmoon	42. NonLacquerDaisical	43. LacquerNinja Halloween Zombies	44. Hand-y Feats and Other Treats
45. Zombie Nails - Jibber Jabber	46. Polish & Pandas	47. Jas's Blingtastic Nails	48. Lovin Nailz
49. MauiMami	50. Phoenix Nails	51. Fe's Nails

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This is Halloween Jack-O-Lanterns

I'm a day late for this challenge..oops..but here it is. For this weeks challenge we had Jack-O-Lanterns...otherwise known as carved pumpkin. I was a little bit stumped at trying not to do the traditional pumpkin type nails and in the end I decided my pumpkins were going to be on a white background, not black..and being surrounded by pumpkin colored rain. For this look I used Essie Miss Matched as a base, stamped with Kleancolor Metallic Orange and Daring Digits Copperline glitter rain :)

 Cute pumpkins! Hmm..they should be scary shouldn't they?

I actually really love this look! The Kleancolor Metallic Orange is such an awesome color and stamps really well. Daring Digits Copperline matches perfectly and is gorgeously reflectively orange! It felt like there was a Pumpkin Party on my fingers :) Not so scary but so cute.

Here are the other challengers, add your link if you are joining in!

1.	Nail Gun XS - Jack-O-Lanterns	22.	Kelly's Kolors! - Ghosts	43.	Follow the Yellow Polish Road	64.	Delainie
2.	Nail Gun XS - Ghosts	23.	Juliana at Nail Polish Addiction	44.	NonLacquerDaisical	65.	Delainie
3.	A Polished Prance	24.	Polish Rainbow - Ghosts	45.	Lacquer Dreams - Ghosts!	66.	Polish Rainbow - Jack-O-Lanterns
4.	osiris and loki paint their nails	25.	Michelle at Ehmkay Nails	46.	Melmyissta- ghosts	67.	Never Mind Suzi - Jack-o-lantern
5.	Plisherrific	26.	Pink and Polished Nails	47.	The Girlie Tomboy	68.	play polish :)
6.	Nai's Nails - Ghosts	27.	LacquerNinja Halloween Ghosts!	48.	Tes Did It Nails	69.	Ehmkay Nails: Jack O Lanterns!
7.	Jaztee - Ghosts	28.	Amoki's Corner	49.	Just Another Polish Addiction	70.	a girl and her chicken named betty
8.	Ghost nails - Jibber Jabber	29.	The Life, Times and Lacquers of Lilmoon	50.	datyorkLOVES	71.	LacquerNinja Halloween Jack'o'Lanterns!
9.	Ghosts set1- mani madhouse	30.	Nikki NeverWithoutPolish	51.	Jack O Lanterns - Jibber Jabber	72.	Overpolished - Jack O'Lanterns
10.	Nail-to-Nail-Interpretations	31.	a girl and her chicken named betty	52.	It's Just a Hobby! - Jack O'Lanterns	73.	Amoki's Corner
11.	The Silverinator	32.	Glitter Me This	53.	Shatter me Claire	74.	Juliana at Nail Polish Addiction
12.	Hand-y Feats and Other Treats	33.	Sophie	54.	melmyissta- Jack-o-lanterns	75.	Nail-to-Nail Interpretations
13.	Patricia. Manicura de Fantasía	34.	Baroque fool	55.	Lissa's Polish Addiction - Jack o Lanterns	76.	Nikki NeverWithoutPolish
14.	Lacquer Or Leave Her!	35.	Sonoma Nail Art	56.	PRIS Nails	77.	LTandL of Lilmoon - Jack-O-Lanterns
15.	More Nail Polish - Ghosts	36.	Nailified	57.	Pretty Purple Polish - Jack-O-Lanterns	78.	Just Another Polish Addiction
16.	Never Mind Suzi - Ghosts	37.	Dema Pixie	58.	More Nail Polish - Jack-o-lanterns	79.	Nailified Jack-o-lanterns
17.	Pretty Purple Polish - Ghosts	38.	Not Too Polished	59.	Lacquer Or Leave Her!	80.	The Daily Lacquerista
18.	Jas's Blingtastic Nails	39.	Tales from the Makeup Bag - Ghosts	60.	Hand-y Feats and Other Treats	81.	A Polished Prance
19.	Carrie	40.	It's Just a Hobby - Ghosts	61.	Baroque fool - jack o lanterns	82.	Jas's Blingtastic Nails
20.	Overpolished - Ghosts	41.	PRIS Nails	62.	Pink and polished nails jack-o-lanterns	83.	Miss Holly Berries
21.	RantingBlogger	42.	Within-My-Eyes- Ghosts	63.	Carrie- Sassy Nails

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This is Halloween Nail Art Challenge- Ghosts!

For todays This is Halloween Nair Art Challenge I have for you Ghosts! Now Ghosts..it's one of those challengers that are easier said than done to do nail art things when you think about it. I was going to do a haunted house with a ghost trailing across 3 fingers..but it just didn't looks right. So instead for you I have a Ghost family out for a walk, at twilight :)

Did I mention that I am completely non artistic?? You are lucky these are not stick figure ghosts, LOL. Anyways..for the base I used 2 coats of Essie Mademoiselle topped with Lynderella Bride of Franken. I clearly freehanded the ghosts with Kleancolor White, and stamped the Haunted house with BM plate 305. I then sprinkled some of China Glazes CG in the City around the edges. Of course my fav finger is the one with the Haunted house..Bride of Franken really shines through here giving it a great effect. Out of the ghosts, I think the girl ghost is my fav..I like the bow :)

Here are the other challengers, add your link if you are joining in!

1.	Nail Gun XS - Jack-O-Lanterns	22.	Kelly's Kolors! - Ghosts	43.	Follow the Yellow Polish Road	64.	Delainie
2.	Nail Gun XS - Ghosts	23.	Juliana at Nail Polish Addiction	44.	NonLacquerDaisical	65.	Delainie
3.	A Polished Prance	24.	Polish Rainbow - Ghosts	45.	Lacquer Dreams - Ghosts!	66.	Polish Rainbow - Jack-O-Lanterns
4.	osiris and loki paint their nails	25.	Michelle at Ehmkay Nails	46.	Melmyissta- ghosts	67.	Never Mind Suzi - Jack-o-lantern
5.	Plisherrific	26.	Pink and Polished Nails	47.	The Girlie Tomboy	68.	play polish :)
6.	Nai's Nails - Ghosts	27.	LacquerNinja Halloween Ghosts!	48.	Tes Did It Nails	69.	Ehmkay Nails: Jack O Lanterns!
7.	Jaztee - Ghosts	28.	Amoki's Corner	49.	Just Another Polish Addiction	70.	a girl and her chicken named betty
8.	Ghost nails - Jibber Jabber	29.	The Life, Times and Lacquers of Lilmoon	50.	datyorkLOVES	71.	LacquerNinja Halloween Jack'o'Lanterns!
9.	Ghosts set1- mani madhouse	30.	Nikki NeverWithoutPolish	51.	Jack O Lanterns - Jibber Jabber	72.	Overpolished - Jack O'Lanterns
10.	Nail-to-Nail-Interpretations	31.	a girl and her chicken named betty	52.	It's Just a Hobby! - Jack O'Lanterns	73.	Amoki's Corner
11.	The Silverinator	32.	Glitter Me This	53.	Shatter me Claire	74.	Juliana at Nail Polish Addiction
12.	Hand-y Feats and Other Treats	33.	Sophie	54.	melmyissta- Jack-o-lanterns	75.	Nail-to-Nail Interpretations
13.	Patricia. Manicura de Fantasía	34.	Baroque fool	55.	Lissa's Polish Addiction - Jack o Lanterns	76.	Nikki NeverWithoutPolish
14.	Lacquer Or Leave Her!	35.	Sonoma Nail Art	56.	PRIS Nails	77.	LTandL of Lilmoon - Jack-O-Lanterns
15.	More Nail Polish - Ghosts	36.	Nailified	57.	Pretty Purple Polish - Jack-O-Lanterns	78.	Just Another Polish Addiction
16.	Never Mind Suzi - Ghosts	37.	Dema Pixie	58.	More Nail Polish - Jack-o-lanterns	79.	Nailified Jack-o-lanterns
17.	Pretty Purple Polish - Ghosts	38.	Not Too Polished	59.	Lacquer Or Leave Her!	80.	The Daily Lacquerista
18.	Jas's Blingtastic Nails	39.	Tales from the Makeup Bag - Ghosts	60.	Hand-y Feats and Other Treats	81.	A Polished Prance
19.	Carrie	40.	It's Just a Hobby - Ghosts	61.	Baroque fool - jack o lanterns	82.	Jas's Blingtastic Nails
20.	Overpolished - Ghosts	41.	PRIS Nails	62.	Pink and polished nails jack-o-lanterns	83.	Miss Holly Berries
21.	RantingBlogger	42.	Within-My-Eyes- Ghosts	63.	Carrie- Sassy Nails

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Make sure you take a look at all the other lovely Halloween nail art!

KB Shimmer Elle

Evening all, how was your weekend? I worked on Saturday then tried to get all my weekend activities done today..the list included a walk with a g/f, lunch, cleaned my car inside and out, food shopping, cooking, vacuuming and descaling the coffee machine...sounds fun huh? I have been a bit more sporadic with my posts as I am trying to get my lifestyle a little bit healthier and more time has been devoted to altering my diet, cooking and exercise. I am not a natural born cook so it takes a bit of time! Little bit less time for nails :(

On the nail front I am hanging for the Skyfall collection which should be in the mail as we speak and I am keeping up with the This is Halloween challenge. Today I have for you what I put on for today.. KB Shimmer Elle!

 KB Shimmer Elle- holo macro goodness!

 This is one coat of Elle over China Glaze Recycle

I love the mix of pink and grey and holo glitter!

 Up Close and personal

 One last pic cos I love it!

KB Shimmer Elle went really lovely over one coat of China Glaze Recycle..almost the perfect "undies" :) My friend that I had lunch with today said she liked it but didn't love my polish, but as I said to her, I wasn't afraid to wear the interesting polishes as well as the pretty ones! LOL. I love it, its the non girly way to wear pink and a very non boring polish which I love.

I am going to do my Ghost nail art challenge tomorrow night..catch you then!

This is Halloween Nail Art Challenge: Water Marbling

Hey all, today I have for you my Halloween Water Marbling attempt..I have water marbled with some success before, but the waters of marbling..she be finicky and unpredictable, just like the ocean. So I do have a halloweeny type water marble for you today..but it isn't the best in the world as I had ALL sorts of trouble with making patterns in the polish..it all just wanted to lift out in one piece whilst making the design..argh.

The colors I chose for the Halloween theme to water marble were, Kleancolor White as a base and China Glaze Liquid Leather, Kleancolor Metallic Purple, Butter London Slapper and China Glaze Japanese Koi and here is the (dubious?) results.

I quite like how the ring finger turned out!

 The thumb water marble swirls are pretty good too! :)

Not a complete nail art fail..but it was a struggle to get to this stage..I usually have a bit more patience but it wasn't in play today.

Here are the other challengers, add your link if you are joining in!

1. LacquerNinja Halloween Water Marble	2. Northern Star Polish	3. Tara C	4. Nail Gun XS
5. Jaztee	6. LacquerDreams	7. Nai's Nails	8. Jibber jabber
9. Horror Movie - More Nail Polish	10. Lissa's Polish Addiction	11. Plisherrific	12. Juliana at Nail Polish Addiction
13. Jas's Blingtastic Nails	14. Shatter me Claire	15. Horror Movie - Tales From The Makup Bag	16. NonLacquerDaisical
17. LacquerNinja Halloween Challenge	18. Lacquer Or Leave Her!	19. A Polished Prance	20. The Silverinator
21. Hand-y Feats and Other Treats	22. Lovin Nailz	23. Never Mind Suzi	24. Horror Movie - Pretty Purple Polish
25. Nicole LaRussa	26. Polish & Pandas	27. PinkandPolishedNails	28. Horror Movie - Kellyskolors
29. Carrie	30. melmyissta	31. Dani	32. Bénédicte @ I'm Anaa!
33. Overpolished	34. Mandy's Polish	35. Football and Fingernails	36. Baroque fool
37. Follow the Yellow Polish Road	38. RantingBlogger	39. Sonoma Nail Art	40. Kara
41. Delainie	42. Nikki NeverWithoutPolish	43. Manicurity	44. Nail art and Sims
45. Amoki's Corner	46. The Girlie Tomboy	47. Fe's Nails	48. Dema Pixie
49. Katie Mary of Lacquered Love	50. Within-My-Eyes	51. Plastered Polish	52. MauiMami
53. Patricia	54. Not Too Polished	55. Tough As Nails Lacquer	56. Nail-to-Nail Interpretations
57. PRIS Nails	58. Hello There, Blondie	59. It's Just a Hobby	60. Tes Did It Nails
61. thenailaholic	62. Miss Holly Berries	63. Marie's Mani Madhouse	64. Phoenix Nails
65. London	66. Nailified	67. Watermarbling - Jibber Jabber	68. A Polished Prance
69. a girl and her chicken named betty	70. Watermarble2 by Mani Madhouse	71. Watermarble by Mani Madhouse	72. Lacquer Or Leave Her!
73. Nail Gun XS - Water MArble	74. The Silverinator	75. Baroque fool	76. Watermarble - More Nail Polish
77. Hand-y Feats and Other Treats	78. Kristine @ Pink and polished nails	79. Watermarbling - Tales from the Makeup Bag	80. Pretty Purple Polish - Water Marble
81. Jas's Blingtastic Nails	82. Kelly's Kolors! - Water Marble	83. Dema Pixie	84. Carrie
85. NonLacquerDaisical	86. Sonoma Nail Art	87. Nikki NeverWithoutPolish	88. It's Just a Hobby! - Water Marble Day
89. a girl and her chicken named betty	90. Nailified Water Marble	91. Amoki's Corner	92. Lovin Nailz
93. Juliana at Nail Polish Addiction	94. Never Mind Suzi	95. Kara	96. The Girlie Tomboy
97. Hello There, Blondie	98. Not Too Polished	99. Mandy's Polish	100. Nail-to-Nail-Interpretations
101. Plisherrific	102. Lollipop Polish	103. Glitter Me This-Nicole LaRussa	104. Follow the Yellow Polish Road
105. Lissa's Polish Addiction - Water Marble	106. The Life, Times and Lacquers of Lilmoon	107. The Daily Lacquerista	108. PRIS Nails
109. Delainie	110. watermarble- melmyissta	111. MauiMami	112. Francine (The Polished Mommy)
113. RantingBlogger	114. Emma @ Manicurity	115. All Hail, London's Nails	116. Within-My-Eyes
117. play polish :)	118. play polish :)	119. Just Another Polish Addiction	120. Just Another Polish Addiction
121. 13moonsago	122. Fe's Nails	123. Fe's Nails	124. Overpolished - Watermarble
125. Fe's Nails

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This is Halloween Nail Art Challenge- Horror Movies

I love Halloween and the thought of all the spooky things and things that go bump in the night, but alas, Australian's are not really into that sort of thing with Halloween. So when Lacquer Dreams came up with a Halloween challenge on the Aussie Nails Facebook Group, how could I resist. My only problem is that I can't freehand..I can barely draw a stick figure in a normal picture, so my artistic talent is naught in general. To be honest I didn't give artistic-ness a crack this particular mani and I guess that will be minus a few points for lack of effort but I do love what I did. It's Horror Movies with glam-ness!

The October 1 mani is 'Horror Movies" and I chose to do an abstract version of A Nightmare on Elm Street as I have always loved Freddy and the nightmare concept. I like scary movies, I just don't like the music and tend to cheat and fast forward a bit so the music doesn't creep me out! LOL. I thought for ages about what movie and what I could do, but alot of nail art I could create just wasn't "me"...so this is what I went with.

For this mani I used China Glaze Sydney Sand as a base and I stamped using Konad Q1 stamping plate in Zoya Sooki. I then dotted some red glitter with China Glaze Ruby Pumps. To me it kinda looks like the razor claws that Freddy uses ..scratched across each nail. I think the middle nail is my favorite as it has that just swiped off centre look :)