Sinful Colors Unicorn with Stamping and Glitter

Hey guys! You know how when you think you do a good job of your mani's and then you take some pics and ugh, what a hot mess! Today's post is a little bit messy. It's not terrible but it ain't my best work either. The other day I picked up Sinful Colors Unicorn at Target for $2 and so popped it on. I am not sure Sinful Colors and I work so well as I have some crappy edges, but I think I'll persist and see what happens. Anyways, Unicorn is a sunny pastel yellow that I applied and then stamped a few nails with holo gold using Dance Legend New Messiah and an accent nail of glitter gradient used CrowsToes Maxxed Out.

This was still a happy mani even though it wasn't perfect. I loved the happy yellow color,the happy gold holo and the happy holo gold glitter. It doesn't take too much to make me happy, lol! Stamping always makes me pretty happy. What do you think of Sinful Colors..yay or nay? I really want to love them, but I am not sure I do..

Layla Gold Idol with Lilypad Lacquer Zombee

Hi guys! Hope you are having a great day. Today I have for you Layla Gold Idol with Lilypad Lacquer Zombee in a holographic mash up mani. You might have seen the swatches of Gold Idol I posted a little bit ago, and the next step for me was to see if the mani could evolve a bit further and I wanted to see how well Lilypad Lacquer Zombee went with Gold Idol. For this look I did a gradient with all my fingers with Gold Idol and Zombee and on my middle finger I stamped with Lilypad Lacquer Zombee. The look that came out was like I had dipped my finger is fluro yellow and the stamping was subtle but lovely :) I really loved it. 

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 Truly lovely rainbows!

Completely love how these two polishes work together, different enough to see the gradient but they do blend nicely. The Layla Gold Idol is a strong linear holo and you can see the lovely holo in Zombee as well but it has a touch more pigment than holo. I love that Zombee stamps nicely. I can't get the Layla holo polishes to stamp, so I do love that the Lilypad ones do :) What do you think of this look? Love or hate? Let me know!

Layla Gold Idol

Hey Guys! Here is an oldie but a goodie when it comes to sunny and holo polishes. Today I have for you Gold Idol from Layla. This is a strong linear holo polish that is meant to be gold, but to me, leans more towards yellow on the nail. This doesn't detract from how lovely it is, but if you wanted to do a skittle with gold polish, it might not match exactly. For this swatch I used 2 coats of Layla Gold Idol with no base coat and Seche top coat. 

For the Layla holographic polishes, you do need to make sure you use the buffer that comes with it so your nail are nice and smooth and you can't see any ridges or that will show up in the polish. I did use Nfu Oh Aqua Base which also helps with the holographic finish and the holo was not dulled by a top coat :) There are some awesome holo polishes out there but I still have a special place in my heart for the Layla ones :) Hope you are having a great day..I am still on holidays so this is scheduled from the past for the future...ooer!

Steampunk Nails- Twinsie Nails

 Hi guys, today I have for you a challenge that I did during the week with @cats_n_nails from Instagram. Natalia has been doing Twinsie nail manicure all week with different nail art chicks and I popped my hand up to try a bit of a challenge :)  Natalia was keen to re create/re-interpret a manicure by @mrslochness involving Steampunk, bling and cog stamping. Since I love the idea of steampunk and had some nail art watch bits, I was completely up for the challenge! LOL. As an aside, it's hideously hot here so stamping is a complete pain in the rear end..Essie Good as Gold is my go to stamping polish, but she was having none of it in the weather!  Anyways, here is the end result!

Base coat- Essie Good as Gold and Five Stars Bron-zite. Stamping with China Glaze Passion, Swarovski studs and Nail art Watch pieces from Cherry Poppins.

Here is a side by side of my nails and Natalia's nails :)

I love how these watch pieces look :)

 Gorgeous gold flecks in Five Stars Bron-zite! :)

 Gah, not the best stamping effort..but the heat I tell you!

Super pleased with how these came out. I love the bronze gold flecked polish and the watch bits was really fun..and completely impractical. I would have top coated my little finger and hoped for the best if I had faith I wouldn't knock the nail art off. Since I am super clumsy I took the larger gold piece and the sharper bit on the bottom of my pinky off. The stamping was so difficult in regards to I was unable to pick up the polish from the design, stoopid heat. Anyways, it was worth the persistence. You can check out me on instagram if you like, I am @jasmsb or Natalia- @cats_n_nails :)

Essense Fame Fatale with Leopard Print

Ah, the weekend, why you no longer? Feeling a bit tired after a busy weekend, could do with another day off to be honest! Today I have for you nails that I wore last night that matched my dress. It was a friends birthday and we went to a fancy restaurant. So of course I had to do the matchy matchy nails. For this particular look I used a base of Essence Fame Fatale on all my nails except the ring finger where I used China Glaze I'm not a Lion. I stamped leopard print on my ring finger with black and then tried a half stamping of flowers in gold with accent glittery bits. It was a different look for me and I quite enjoyed it!

2 coats of Fame Fatale and I'm Not a Lion with topcoat

 Completely love the holo glitter!

I probably should have filled in some of the "prints" in the Leopard print?

This matched my dress which was leopard and floral..sounds weird but isn't! Promise! I don't really want to take it off, but needs must with work tomorrow. Ah well..have a great week people :)

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.

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!

China Glaze FYI with P!NK dotticure and stamping

Today I have for you guys something I wore when I went to the Pink concert here in Melbourne last week :) Yes, she was amazing and I had a great time! For the manicure, I started off with China Glaze FYI as it came under the heading of "work appropriate" and then for the Pink concert I wanted to add some pink colored nail art. I went with a simple dotticure and stamping as that's what I felt like doing :) I have been a little bit nail art/polish de-inspired as I am on a no buy this month for my holiday next month. I am also doing a bit of organizing which is taking up some time for the holiday, including a holiday blog ..so my attentions have been split. This was the end result.

This is 2 coats of China Glaze FYI with dotticure using Ulta3 Pink Peony, China Glaze Something Sweet and Lilypad Lacquer Juicy Lips. Stamping with Ulta3 Pink Peony.

China Glaze FYI, 2 coats, no with topcoat- Lightbox and flash

 The holo is not super strong, but very pretty still :)

 FYI is a lovely gold/beige. The various pinks contrast well :)

Since the sun is hard to get here in Melbourne, and as I work when it's usually sunny, I managed to snap these pictures whilst at an Occupational Health and Safety refresher course. I am sure some people thought I was nuts running out on my lunch break with my polish bottle and camera..but a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do! FYI truly comes alive in the sun and it's a dark horse favorite for me. It applies well and just looks great with my skin tone. The Ulta3 Pink Peony is so pretty as dots, I am going to make sure I do a full manicure look with it!

OPI Honey Ryder Gold and Red Manicure

Hi guys, just a quick post of a mani I did the other day but I wasn't completely happy with my cuticles..but I loved the look I created so please ignore the crappy winter cuticles and focus on the lovely polish :) I wanted to create a bling but more than just texture that you get with the OPI Liquid Sand, so I used a combination of OPI Honey Ryder and Essie As Good as Gold with some stamping with my new Bundle Monster Holiday Plates to complete the look.

LEssie As Good As Gold x 2 coats with China Glaze Heli-Yum stamping on first 2 fingers, 2 coats of OPI Honey Ryder on last 2 fingers.

 With flash to show the brightness of the gold in Honey Ryder..so pretty!

Closer look at the Bundle Monster stamping using the holiday plates with 'Chinese New Year' images.

I really really loved how this looked in real life. I do hope it translates to you. OPI Honey Ryder was easy to apply and is such an interesting polish that you can't help looking and touching the finish. Essie As Good As Good was also easy to apply and relatively new-to-me Bundle Monster Holiday stamped easily and had quite a range of images in Chinese New Year Catagory :)
I have my work Xmas in July Christmas party tomorrow and I am looking forwards to having some fun and a few beverages. I'll post the look I went for on Sunday though so never fear. What did you think of the gold polish, yay or nay?

Love Thy Polish Wildheart with Stamping

Good evening, it's a bit late on this side of the world and I'm typing this post as the rain pours down, with my cat sitting with me and watching the cricket. Tonight is a quick post, a follow on from the other day when I swatched Love Thy Polish's Wildheart. This was such a pretty polish that I couldn't resist adding some stamping with my new Bundle Monster Holiday Plates to see what cute designs they had! Also just to see that even though they are called Holiday Plates you can use them everyday :)

This is Essie Good as Gold stamped over LTP Wildheart.

 I stamped my thumb with the "Valentines/Love" plate..so cute!

 The love birds are from the "Love" plate, the hanging bows from the "Baby Shower" designed plate and the little finger "Irish/St Patricks" plate

 The shimmer and glitter of Love Thy Polish Wildheart really makes this a standout polish and a great background for stamping. This was so glittery and blingy that I didn't want to take it off. But alas my work sucks dogs balls about wearing polish. I do truly consider quitting daily because I feel so stifled and depressed. Nude is a great color, just not for the majority of my life! Argggggggggggh! Anyways..hope you're having a great weekend guys. I'm off to paint my nails a color that is not nude, LOL.