Gelicious - Lavender Cupcake

So pretty! Made even more so a week into the mani with a bit of glitter. Although I'm not a fan on stars because their points catch on everything even though I put a layer of gel coat over it.

I've been trailing Gelicious soak and scratch wraps. They are pretty easy to use, probably prefer them to alfoil but the black printing rubs off into my fingers. Plus they are pretty expensive - lucky I bought them on sale.

Base - Gelicious - Lavender Cupcake
Glitter - Candy Lacquer - Starlight

Don't forget my give away finishes on Tuesday.

Gelicious - Mintium - GIVEAWAY

Slowly slowly getting through my Gelicious haul.

This one is Mintium from their Precious Metal collection. And to be honest I wasn't sold on the colour when I first put it on,  it also was more of a shimmer (frost?) then a metal. I guess I wanted a different colour then what I got - but it was similar to the picture on the bottle so I was really kidding myself.

By the end of the two weeks I thought differently - it wasn't as 'in your face' as some of my other greeny polishes which was nice and a few people commented on it.

I only did two coats of this - so you can see in my photo that it was a little patchy - I'm finding most Gelicious need three coats, but it's so easy to set each coat that it doesn't take up much time.

Now to my give away... My first ever! (NZ and Aus only - Sorry!)

A brand new never been used before bottle of Gelicious Mintium and Adoree Hamilton Blue. 

 I bought the Mintium in my last haul thinking that mint would be pretty popular colour - if I like it then others would too,,, right? Pity I didn't think to get the top coat as well - sorry!

I've been keeping the Hamilton Blue aside for a while now for a give away - it seriously doesn't look that yellow in real life.  I can't seem to find the Adoree seller on eBay anymore but you can see more here: Esther's Nail Center.

If you would like to enter, please leave a comment and some way for me to get in touch with you.

 I'll random draw from the comments on the 30th of July, 2013.

WINNER!!! mel j

Thank you for commenting! 

Gelicious - After Glow

The picture on the bottle looks golden but the polish is silver just like on the website.

I liked this one - can silver be considered a neutral? Because I thought that people would notice a bit of bling on my fingers but they didn't really - there wasn't an OMG moment.

It took three coats and it lasted a fortnight before it chipped.

It took for ages to get rid of all the shimmery bits. I really dread removing polish at the best of times so I was pretty shirty and gave up before I could remove all the polish.

Next colour is going to be... Mintium.

Gelicious haul

The problem with a Gelicious haul is that all the bottles look the same.

Gelicious - Fake Tan

Two coats of Fake Tan. I don't really think the name matches the colour. In my nails it looked like a bronzy puce colour.

Longevity was good - exactly 2 weeks and it started chipping, although I did have some tip wear.

I was pretty hard on them too - canoes, climbing, high ropes challenges, camping. Basically I was on school camp for a bit of it.

What I was really worried about was the removal. I didn't want to worsen my nails. I bought some new acetone based remover - 80% I double checked - and tried again. It worked pretty well so it really must have been that other bottle.

This is good news because I bought a whole heap more from Buy Invite - I think each bottle was $15. So hopefully I'll have a huge haul to show you soon.

From Gelicious to Gold

So I wore the Aztec Blue from Gelicious for a week - no problems - but realized that I had a ball to go to and then a week of school camp so I really needed to sort my nails out.

I had bought a new bottle of acetone from the chemist - it cost me $15 which seems a lot even if you consider I live in the middle of no where.

Then I soaked my nails for 10 mins and it didn't work, then I tried the alfoil trick for another 10 or so. Unfortunately, I had to really scrap if off and damaged my nails.

I'm not blaming Gelicious but the acetone.

To go to the ball I put on Pretty Serious's Mummy Mush.

Very pretty, two coats. I only wanted to wear it for the night so didn't bother with a top coat.

Happy birthday!

Look at the glitter!

Don't you love it?

Nail colour - Gelicious - Aztec Blue
Glitter - Pretty Serious - Daphne's Birthday Party

The sparkle makes my heart sing - maybe even sing 'Happy Birthday'.

 

I had read that if you use a normal polish on top of the gel you can use acetone free remover to remove the polish but keep the gel - I'm going to see how it goes.