Ek, where does the time go?

I have had these photos ready to share - sorry!



Face of Australia - Cotton Candy

This was three coats and as you can see it was blotchy, I should have tried another coat over it and next time I will. I think the colour suits me pretty nicely. After a few days of this I then tried out the BYS cracked nail polish:



I was pretty messy with the application but man it got some attention! Will be using this again - I should have gotten more colours - so it's just black for now.

And what better to end the year on, then with my ugliest mani for the year:



Face of Australia - Lemon Sorbet
Lippmann - Happy Birthday
OPI - Mad as a Hatter

It truely was an ugly but bright mani. However because I was impatient and just piled the glitter on without waiting between coats I smooshed it pretty badly - oh well LOL.

I was thinking I might post about shoes and my clothes sewing on here. I'm dying to show you the new shoes I ordered - they have a terrible tale of woe.

Christmas Eve already?

Last time I went into Big W they were having a sale on Rimmel (they seem to do this pretty often) so I stocked up. I also saw some awesome colours from Face of Australia and they were already pretty cheap (approx $6) so I thought what the hey!!!

I’m using one of the Face of Australia polishes for my Christmas mani. It’s a sweet vintage looking pastel mint green and needed three coats – the drying time was pretty good. The only downer (for some) was that it had a pretty strong smell – I don’t mind the smell of enamel so it didn’t really bother me. I grew up basically playing with paint in my dad’s shed – I loved using the airgun.

I used the holly stamp for the BM plates in Forest green and dotted the holly berries on. Then I added a little bling with glitter. Last Christmas (or maybe the one before) my mum gave me a set of Miki polishes that have a little glitter bottle attached on top. I hope I get some nail polish this year too!

Top and base coat: Rimmel - 740 Clear
Nail Colour: Face of Australia LUXE – Minty Mojito
Holly Leaves: Rimmel – 28 Forest
Holly Berries: Rimmel – 39 Ruby Me
Glitter – Miki nail polish

Last attempt

I decided a little while ago to try out the last L'oreal Resist & Shine Titanium nail polish in my stash. This one I hoped was going to be awesome. I have to say that on the whole it was: two easy coats, long lasting as it was on there about a week all up. But the colour disappointed me again. On the nail it looked black whereas in the bottle it had a lovely teal shimmer. I'm going to see if it konads well as black.

2 coats of L'oreal Resist & Shine Titanium - 736:



After a while I got bored of the plain black and put on two coats of Lippman Happy Birthday. A pretty awesome mani.

I feel so lucky!

Yesterday one of my lemmings arrived.

I try to be pretty frugal about my nail polish budget - hence the whole less than five bucks! But I decided that life was too short not to buy really pretty nail polishes that will make me happy.

So I went looking for Mad as a Hatter and found an Ebay store that sells a heap of OPI ranges including the Alice in Wonderland collection. So I bought 2 bottles at $15.90 each. To me that's a lot of money for some glitter in a varnish but oh well, it sure beats the up-to-$30 I was looking to paying for it on Ebay only a month ago.

I decided to compare it with Adoree Hamilton Blue just because.



They are obviously not dupes :)



Mad as a Hatter has larger sized glitter in purple magenta (mostly) aqua, salmon and possibly some other colours but I can't work out right now because the bling hurts my eyes.

Hamilton Blue is aqua, light red, gold or silver once again - bling hurts my eyes. Hamilton Blue however isn't as sparkly as Mad as a Hatter possibly because of the size of the glitter.

Both of these are two coats - using the dab method.

I am very happy to have both in my collection because I am a bit of a glitterati. Bring on the next lemming,,, Happy Birthday!

This week I had this on my nails:



BYS - n238 - Matte Mint Green

It was a two coater and a really lovely colour. It got a lot of complements. This was actually my first matte and it didn't really live up to my expectations, as it had a dull shine and wasn't truly matte. Maybe I expect too much. I top coated it glossy.

Easy to apply and it lasted for 5 days before it chipped. Value to money I think.

C*m Shot:

My friend doesn't know her nail polishes

Last night I finally put some colour on my nails. I regretted it because the polish was a streaky sticky pearly mess, although I like the colour. It also smells bad.

A friend gave me this, so I thought I would try it out. I put two coats on gave up despite the vnl. Then promptly covered it in gold glitter. The glitter saved it, but I still haven't done a clean up lol.

Nail - Bia 13
Glitter - Adoree 152 Golden Star



Soemthing I learnt last night; don't use nail polishes that friends give you unless they love nail polish too.

I can't think of a pun.

You get three photos - you lucky things you.

I went purple for today. It totally matched my aqua shirt and rainbow bright socks. I felt that I would need it. I knew that today would be pretty frustrating as I had an online conference and because everything IT I touch lately goes kaboom - it went as planned - KABOOM!

Nail colour: Mode - 10643 - Glitterati




I've been sporting this colour on my toes for a little while now and liking it.

It is a jelly with a bit of red to purple micro glitter. I needed three coats all up. Unfortunately I went to bed early last night - I'm talking 8:30 - which wasn't a long enough time for my nails to dry. I did get a lovely woven pattern across my right nails.

I do my right hand last even though I always mean to start there. Oh well.





These last photos serve no real purpose do they?

Bling my nails

Second polish for the week is:

Adoree 220 Hamilton Blue

I like this one a lot.

It took at least 4 coats to get it opaque - I lost count - but it dries super fast so I didn't care. It does have a scaly finish so I top-coated it twice but I don't mind a little texture, it makes me wanting to rub my finders over it; sensory deprived childhood?

I always worry that glitter will chip - but 24 hours later it is all good. I took this photo yesterday afternoon after a really busy day at school - a nail punishing sports day basically.

Anyways - I luff this polish - the glitter is a mix of tiny green, gold, light blue, red and maybe silver flecks with a gray clear to hold it altogether. I will need to get a backup bottle of this one for sure; I say that about a lot of polishes -_-,

Now be prepared for some ugly cuticles - they have been really awful lately and in the photo I had just oiled them:




You were warned!