Island Girl Hula Girl

Hey guys, how was your Christmas? Mine was full of too much to eat and lots of family get togethers :) It was busy but fun. The joys of shift work have meant I am already back at work and working the weekend and New Years eve..yay for me! Anyways to cheer myself up I chose a neon eye searing color I brought back from Hawaii. The brand is Island Girl and the color is Hula Girl. It's an orange pink neon that, like most neons is hard to photograph...this is 3 coats with top coat. In real life there is a bit of a visible nail line but it wasn't too bad!

Island Girl Hula Girl

I do love a good neon and I had no problems with the formula, in the full sun the neon pink sheen can be seen and inside the orange was more prominent. I am going to sit down and think of some nail art to do with this...and try not to work too hard over the New Year period..hope you have some fun plans for New Years..what's going to be on your nails??

Christmas Red and Gold Bling Manicure

Merry Christmas! Today is Christmas Day and here is what I wore today for Christmas with my family and is for tomorrow for celebrations with my husbands family tomorrow. I started with the base of Dance Legend New Messiah I already had and blinged things up with gold and red to match my dress.
So here it is

First finger is a dotticure with Essence Fame Fatale and OPI You Only Live Twice, Middle finger has stamping with OPI You Only Live Twice, Ring finger has Candeo Colors Old Gold and the Pinkie has OPI Honey Ryder.

 My thumb had stamping with OPI You Only Live Twice :)

 Christmas Bling!

 Gah! Too many photos but it was so pretty and shiny! Anyways..the blingy made me happy and I had a great Christmas day but ate far too much of course. I could have done with a nanna nap! Anyways, Christmas continues for me tomorrow and then back to work on Friday ..nawhh.

Dance Legend New Messiah

Twas the day of the day before Christmas and what have I got on my nails? Well, I have on the gorgeous Dance Legend New Messiah :) Who doesn't love a holographic gold? New Messiah is a light champagne gold with a lovely linear holo. I am going to do some art this for Christmas day..nothing terribly elaborate I don't think but festive non the less. Anyways today I managed to catch a little bit of sun on an otherwise dreary day and took a few pics of New Messiah.

This is 2 coats of New Messiah with W7 Diamond Top coat

I could take a million photos of this polish.. I am always enthralled by a holographic polish :) This one applied wonderfully and wasn't affected by the top coat I applied. Now to find me a matching gold glitter and some inspiration to stamp festive on it.

I am last minute Christmas shopping tomorrow..wish me luck!

It's Christmas! Christmas Skittles mani :)

Okay, so it finally feels like Christmas for me! I have had my Christmas nails on, have watched one of my first Christmas movies that I always watch at Christmas..Terry Pratchett's The Hogfather and I am finally getting around to wrapping presents, well the 4 presents out of like 20 I only have :) 
We have been doing some home improvements..air conditioning, curtains, sheers, window tints to try and get ready for a hot summer....and today is raining but hot..nice summer weather where are you? Christmas day is always hot and sunny in Australia, and I am sure it will pull through this year.

So, here is my Christmas skittle nails I did...a little bit of Christmas on each finger. The first finger is Essence L.O.L with Bundle monster stamping in Essence The Green and the Grunge. The middle finger is KBShimmer Strung Out, Ring finger is Layla Soft Touch Marshmallow Twinkle with dotting in various different colors and the little finger is Essence Fame Fatale with Bundle Monster stamping. My thumb had a green sweater stamping look using Essence The Green and the Grunge with bundle Monster stamping which you can see on my left hand later!

Here is my left hand which used the same skittles colors but my first finger with the Essence  and Bundle Monster stamping.

 Left hand- first finger has Essence The green and the grunge with Bundle monster stamping in Essence Icy Princess. Yay! Another nice stamping silver. Love how this tree came out :)

Now I had no sun to take these photos in, but I still think these look pretty and christmassy. People commented on the lime green nail with the tree and the sweater look dark green nail. My personal fav is the red Santa hat nail and the KBShimmer Strung Out! LOL.

Hope you are having a great weekend and not too must last minute Xmas shopping like I have to do!  

A England Order of the Garter with Nerd Lacquer Shiny

I know it's christmas, but I haven't felt really christmassy yet! I bought my first present yesterday, yeah..not doing so well. Today has been super busy with air conditioning being install at our house, in a timely fashion of course, considering it hit 40 degrees celsius. I don't know how tradies do the early hours..6.45am, ugh! After running around like crazy I finally crashed around 5pm and had to have a nanna nap, my brain just wouldn't function! Before I had my snooze I took some pics of what I wore for the last few days.

I started with a base of A England Order of the Garter, except for an accent nail of Nerd Lacquer Shiny on my ring finger. I then stamped my new Bundle Monster plates on my first finger using China Glaze Millennium and Bahamian Escape on my middle finger. I did a kinda gradient on my little finger with sponging OPI DS Magic and on my thumb a gradient of China Glaze Glistening snow at the cuticle end and Techno further down. 

I love me some holo bling!

 Oh the blue shimmer in A England Order of the Garter :)

 You can see the OPI DS Magic shimmer on the little finger here :)

 Here is a quick pic of my right hand, gah! Holo awesomeness and I love the Nerd Lacquer Shiny :)

 I've been doing the mix n match mani on the left and right hands a fair bit atm. I use 5 different nail designs or looks but switch up which nails I put them on on each hand. Although I tend to leave the ring finger as a glitter accent. I might try switching that up next time too! Next post will be a Christmas mani, I swear! :)

KBShimmer Rolling with the Chromies

Hi all, today I have for you what I wore on the weekend. I am not feeling particularly chritmassy so this is my version of it at the moment. I picked up a few of the KBShimmer Christmas collection and Rolling with the Chromies is one of them. This is a purple/blue/pink chrome polish with micro holographic glitter in it :) For our Christmas Barefoot Bowling I wore this with China Glaze Passion. I also did an accent nail of Girly Bits Ornamental My Dear Watson. All the pics are in the full sun except for the last one, because the sun makes this polish pop! So here it is :)

KBShimmer Rolling with the Chromies

 I swear I can see pink, purple and blue color shifts here!

KBShimmer Rolling with the Chromies stamped in the shade

So yeah, I took too many pics..but I really loved this polish and the stamping and glitter and the stamping was kinda christmassy. Hmm..that's all I got for tonight. Hope you liked it :)

Black, Gold and Silver striping manicure

Hey hey, I was feeling productive today, but that's waning off. Was meant to have to carpets steam cleaned but that didn't go off as planned. But that's okay, got a quote on air conditioning for our upstairs bedroom and caught the gardener to come an fix our dismal back yard (erm, outta control weeds anyone!). So I am feeling slightly happier that I am getting stuff done.
 Today I have an idea taken from the Aussie Nails Monday chicks..which was a mani with gold, silver, white or black using Aussie Indie polishes. I do have quite a few Aussie Indi Polishes but it was late in the day so I just used the theme with any old polishes I could easily put my hands on! Here is the end result.

 For this look I painted a coat of MUD Dark Room, waited for it to dry and applied striping tape in patterns. I then sponged over the top in gold with OPI Goldeneye and Bond, James Bond and silver colors of China Glaze Cosmic Dust and Savvy Starburst.

This look was particularly sparkly but difficult to catch all the different characteristics of each polish. There was holographic, sparkly, large glass flecks all thrown in there. I am sure I could have randomized my striping a bit more but I just can't help myself, I like them to look the same! 
It's hot here today I might put on a holo and catch a some sun and rainbows..see you soon!

Ulta3 Blue Heaven with Holographic Stamping

Hi all! Well, it finally happened. I got my stamping nail art mojo back. Has taken forever since I have felt I have had inspiration to do some nail art, and then actually getting it right :) My inspiration was this lovely Ulta3 Blue Heaven that I stumbled across the other day..so pretty. I teamed it up OPI Call me Gwen-Ever which I found at a bargain price. Can I say, it's a very orange, orange? Anyways, to complete the look I had in mind I did some gradient nails with Gwen-Ever and Pretty Serious Generally Hazardous. I double stamped over Blue Heaven with China Glaze Sci Fly By and Take a Trek with Mash 43 plate. 

Right Hand- Blue Heaven with Call me Gwen-Ever Accent

Left Hand, Call Me Gwen-Ever with Blue Heaven accent

 Side by side comparison. Which do you like best?

 Up close pic of stamping holo goodness :)

I loved how this came together overall.. I did have run outside like an idiot to catch the transient sun for these pics. Who says it's almost summer here?? Will see it when I believe it! Anyways, this was so fun and I enjoyed wearing this alot. Hope you liked it!

Dance Legend Harbor

Hellooooo.. I have another swatch today for you . I don't seem to be having my nail art mojo going on. I'll work on that, shall I? LOL. Today I have another of the Russian brand Dance Legend. They just have awesome polishes, this one is one of the Sahara Sand collection, a liquid sand glitter :) Now I am usually a die hard top coat fanatic, so it was hard to not but I really do like how the polish look dried and it's slight gritty feel. Not overly insanely lumpy which was great. It also wore really well as these pics are after 2 days of work and housework. Winning!

2 coats of Dance Legend Harbor, no top coat

 Slightly sparkly, the glitter is more obvious in the bottle!

You can see the slight glitter shimmer here :)

 These picture are in the full sun and I think the polish leans a little bit more towards peach in real life. The glitter in the bottle is super obvious, on the nail it gives the polish a slightly shimmery look which brings dimension to the color without being a full on glitter bomb polish! I found myself playing with my nails a fair bit to feel the texture and I was amazed at how strong my nails felt. Like a mixture of cement and polish! LOL. I bought my Dance Legends directly from the russian website, but you can purchase Dance Legend from Ninjapolish and Llarowe :)

Lacura Apple

Hi guys! It's been a crazy week. TBH I really could have done without most of the week. Work makes me question why I get out of bed everyday and devote 10 hours a day to the shit that goes on sometimes. Some people I work with are Asshats, no seriously *sigh* To add onto that I some how missed my alarm to go to the Osteopath this morning, so my back..she no good. Ah well! I have Man of Steel to watch tonight with girl friends, I am sure that will perk me up.

 So here in Australia we have Aldi, a bulk buy german company that sell groceries and random stuff cheaply..and I quite like it. They have had awesome tweezers with and led light that are pretty darned good for $6. Since I dropped my old one (*cough* repeatedly! *cough*) and the light broke, I went to get a new one and they had $2.99 polishes of their brand Lacura there as well. I restrained myself and only bought three. So today I have for you Lacura Apple, a granny smith kinda green which I love!

 Lacure Apple, 2 coats with top coat

Love this limey green color :)

Well, I was pretty impressed with application and coverage for a $3 polish and I loved the color! It's a cross between granny smith green and lime and a bit brighter on the nail than in the bottle. I did do some nail art with this color but it was rubbish! Smudged it with the top coat. I will see if there are any pics that aren't a complete disaster, LOL.

Hope you are having a better week than I am..and thank goodness its the weekend!

Dance Legend Fantastic Trip

Howdy! It's time. Time for what you say? Time to get back to business.. the business of blogging :) I had a holiday, it was a great holiday..I had an AWESOME time. I came home and really hit the bottom with post holiday depression. I am only feeling like myself the last few days, that's nearly a month of being out of it. ALSO I broke a nail September the 9th in New York, trust me I remembered it since it was a horrid break. It's taken nearly 2 months to grow out. 
 Whelp, today I am back with a swatch of Dance Legend Fantastic Trip. Yeah, its isn't that new, yeah it's a neutral color..but its a color so many people have complemented me on..and its so holo-ey I want to die! LOL. 

Dance Legend Fantastic Trip

Dance Legend Fantastic Trip- Peachy and Orange holo :)

Such a strong linear holo..love!

My Fave pic of the holo!

How can anyone not love this color? Fantastic Trip is described as a orange peach holographic polish. I would definitely say this accurately describes what I see. In the shade this color is peach toned with the orange coming out to play in the sunlight. I did a regular old base coat and 2 coats of Fantastic Trip with a top coat not dulling the finish. I love the vibrancy of the Dance Legend polishes as well as their strong holographic quality but also work appropriate when inside!

I have some exciting polishes, so wont be a stranger for such a long time again :)