Ok, so this is the mani I am currently rocking and I am loving it. It's gotten me a lot of comments from total strangers in the last few days and it's quite interesting to me because it's not a bright colour or a complicated pattern. I think it has more to do with the contrast of colour then anything else.

Ski Teal We Drop was released as part of OPIs Switzerland collection and while I didn't pick this one up first time round, I ended up buying it when I was killing time at the airport before we flew out to Thailand. I have no idea why I didn't get it initially. It's an AMAZING colour.

It's a dark teal creme that is good to go in two coats. As for dupes, it's very close to RBL Teal, but it's slightly lighter. I find it to be a really flattering shade that doesn't seem out of place in a corporate environment for some reason (not that that has ever stopped me before!)

I'll try post my new giveaway this weekend. I am giving away 2 Bloom polishes and 2 Bloom mineral shadows in the coolest shades of emerald and turquoise, so stay tuned.

To all you fabulous people who leave comments on my blog - I love you! I do read them and want to reply, but Blogger is crap and won't let me log in to do it. Very annoying. Might just be time to get my own domain sorted. Any recs from Aussies for some good people who build websites? I'm gonna need to get some professional help to get this up and running. And by help I mean, pay someone to do it for me.

That's it from me today.

Be awesome to each other.

This is one of my favourite manis I have ever done. The blue is OPI Blue My Mind which makes me cringe because the name is so lame. I mean, I know that nail polish names are not literary masterpieces, but I swear every polish company has a shade of blue with this name.

This is two coats and then one coat of China Glaze OMG stamped over the top with Konad plate m65.

I love the way this looks. The holo is very subtle and not all the noticeable indoors. It looks like a pale silver and doesn't detract from the blue polish, however when you get outside, it is amazing. The colours in the holo just pop and the blue really stands up well against it. It's not really a colour combo I had really thought about in that I don't wear a lot of bright blue polishes, but it just seemed right.

Have you ever had a polish combo that was so awesome it just "blue you away"? (hahahaha, now I'm lame too!)

That's it from me today.

Be awesome to each other.

I've been really slack lately remembering to take photos of my nails and makeup. When I've thought about it (i.e. at work, waiting for the train), I've taken a few photos of designs on my nails with the camera on my phone. So here are a couple.

Ozotic 505

OPI DS Original

OPI DS Original

OPI DS Original

OPI An Affair in Red Square

 I actually found that this is the only photo I have of Ozotic 505 that shows the true colour shift. It won't play nice with my expensive camera for some reason but it loves to show off for my iPhone. Weird huh? Maybe I need to photograph all my duo and multichromes with my phone to actually show you what they can do.

Anyway, that's it from me today.

Be awesome to each other.



This is one of my favourite OPI DS shades I own. It's Reflection and it's bottled awesomesauce.

Reflection is a hot pinkish-coral holo polish that then ups the awesome ante with an added bonus of what looks like a gold duo chrome. A stunning, stunning polish and one I think is a must own. I have over 400 polishes and I have never seen ANYTHING like it before. Good in one coat, but I gave it two cause I'm a little OCD.

These are photos taken with the crappy camera from the archives. I am still learning to drive my new fancy schmancy one, it's very different and has so many different buttons! Will re-capture in all its awesome glory when I get some sunshine, patience and the know-how.

I purdied it up after a couple of days with some Konad since I just didn't want to take it off, and it didn't seem to be chipping to badly. I'm pretty sure if you click the photos, they will go nice and big!

I used the M36 plate and stamped the middle design repeatedly on the nail with China Glaze Midnight Kiss which is a fabulous stamping polish. I was super happy with the end result and was quite sad to remove it.

Your thoughts?

Also, something else I want your thoughts on - are you guys interested in seeing the new BYS colour changing polishes (similar to the Claires Mood Polishes) and potentially winning a full set? I'm just trying to see if they are worth my getting.

That's it from me today.

Be awesome to each other.

Sorry about being MIA on Friday, but I was crazy busy. I still am actually. I started my new blog last week, and I have been spending a fair bit of time on that. I am actually a qualified journalist in my real life and I didn't realise how much I missed writing about topics that weren't pure fluff like I do on here, so it's nice to have an outlet for that again. 

The winners for the polish giveaway will be announced tomorrow, so stay tuned for that. 

Today I have Nubar Earth for you, done two ways. The first is with some simple tips stamped on them. I used the M56 plate (which is from WowSoCool) and Konad Sci Fi (which are leaves, just in case you can't tell). I really need some more CG chrome like polishes for stamping. If anyone has any they want to offload, please let me know. 

For the second looks (ie - other hand because I got lazy) I used a holographic top coat. It's CoverGirl City Lights. I picked this one up for $1 (actually I got 5 bottles) at the local discount cosmetics place. Bargain!!!

I have some really cool polishes coming up that I got in recent swaps, including the very awesome Nubar Peacock Feathers which I am rocking today!

That's it from me today.

Be awesome to each other.  

**Konad Stamping Plate was sent to me for review**

So it's Monday (again) and we all know how sucky Mondays can be. I thought I might be able to cheer you up a little with a pretty, pretty polish.

This is Ciate Paint Pots in Cupcake Queen. It's a amazing fuchsia colour and then you turn your nail and you get a crazy flash of blue! It's super awesome. The blue flash is much more apparent in the bottle, when the polish in on my nails, the flash is very subtle, but you can tell it is there. It lends a very cool tone to the polish which makes it different to other colours I have that are a similar shade (sans blue flash).

The formula on this one is spot on. I could have gotten away with one coat but because I am a little OCD, I did two. Perfect coverage. The bottle is super cute with it's little bow, but it is obvious that a lot of thought has gone into in beyond how it should look. It has a nice long handle, which is great for me with my freakishly long fingers, other then Orly brushes and now this one, it is usually hard for me to control the brush overly well because I find them just little bit too small for my hands. (I have some upcoming swatches done with some Orly minis - hilarious!)

The brush itself is a work of art as far as I am concerned. Comparable to the OPI pro wide brush, it applies just the right amount of polish with minimal effort. Added together with the length of the handle, Ciate is the hands down winner for me.

You can pick up Ciate polish online from their site http://www.ciate.co.uk/online-store.html if you are international or from selected retailers if you are based in the UK, a whole listing can be found on their site.

I decided to jazz it up a little with a bit of Konad. I used plate M36 for the ring finger and M31 for the rest of the fingers. You guys know how much I love Konad stuff. It makes me happy. You can pick up everything you could possibly ever need that is Konad related from http://www.wowsocool.com/. The customer service there is phenomenal and nothing is ever too much for them to help the customer out. I get all my stuff from there. I am pretty sure they also offer to match competitors coupons (**you should double check that, I'm not 100% sure**). If you are overseas, their shipping rates easily beat any others I have come across which is important when you live down under like I do.

I've been thinking that I'd love to be able to do a post featuring reader nail art. If you want to participate, send me though an email, I'd love to see what skills you guys have.

My Wonderland and Cracking polish giveaway is open. Please enter here if you haven't already.

That's it from me today.

Be awesome to each other.

**This polish and Konad plate m36 were sent to me for review**

Ok, this is a special post. This one is one I want you to take notice of. Pretty please. OPI has just released their 2010 Pink of Hearts polish. Here's what OPI has to say about it.

During the month of October, OPI joins the pink parade to raising funds to find a cure for cancer with the exclusive production of the limited edition Pink of Hearts 2010 nail lacquer where 100% of profits will be donated to the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

With the aim of raising another $25,000, OPI is proud to be a Silver Sponsor of the National Breast Cancer Foundation and assist in their funding of research programs into the prevention and cure of breast cancer, which affects 1 in 9 Australian women by the age of 85

This year’s Pink of Hearts lacquer shade is feminine soft pale shimmery pink, similar to fairy dust. Wearing this year’s Pink of Hearts will make you feel like a princess.

Over the last few years, International Beauty Supplies, Australian distributors of OPI and our consumers have helped to raise over $75,000 for breast cancer research. In our own special way, OPI aims to support those with the disease and honour those affected by it; and give all women the power to help make a difference.

I believe in leading by example, so I went out and tracked this one down. It's a very feminine colour, not what I would usually choose for myself, but I find myself really liking it.

The polish is a dream to apply and has a pretty special shimmer to it. It makes me feel like a princess when I wear it. It's def a keeper.

This is two coats.

This is two coats with some Konad. I used plate M56 for the stamping and Konad black special polish. It kind of reminds me of the jackets the Pink Ladies wore in Grease. Man I love that movie.

As mentioned before the profits from this polish goes to the National Breast Cancer Foundation. This is an issue close to home for me as we have a family history of breast cancer, so I strongly urge everyone to get behind this campaign. A great polish for a great cause.

You can find this polish a David Jones for the month on October. It is a limited edition polish, so make sure you snap up your bottle quickly. I am unsure if this is just an Australian release or not, can any of my US readers help me? Has this polish been released over there? If there was ever anything that could convince you to pay $20 for a bottle of polish, I really think this should be it.

I'll be back later to announce the winner of my MAC giveaway. I also added a second prize because there were so many entries.

Be awesome to each other.

Just a quick post today.

This was my mani a couple of days ago.

I used China Glaze Black Diamond, a gunmetal grey with strong shimmer, totally not black. I don't think this polish gets enough love, I quite like it and would wear it more except that for some reason it is always really messy to apply. You have to layer this one over another black polish otherwise it seems to get a faded look. I do love the blue/ green/ purple shimmer. It's very subtle, and I have never managed to photograph it well until now.

I used Color Club Wham! Pow! as an accent nail on each hand because I thought the colour might be too much on its own, although I think that since I stamped over the top it became more wearable and not too in your face.

What are your thoughts? A whole mani using Wham! Pow! Or is the colour just too bright on it's own?

Make sure you're entered in my MAC Giveaway. If you aren't you can enter here.

That's it from me. Be awesome to each other.

I thought that since I showed you my swatches of the Poptastic Collection yesterday, it was fitting that I show you what you can do once you have that collection.

I think this may be my favourite mani I have ever done. I was inspired for this one by a version of this that I saw on a another blog, but for the life of me can not remember which one. (**Edit - It was over at Polish and Konad. That blog is amazing and the nail art will knock your socks off!**)

I used Almost Famous, Poptastic, Pucci-Licious and Twiggie for this one and then stamped over the top of the stripes with Konad template M78 and Konad Black Special Polish.

I love how it turned out. It's unlike anything else I have done and I can't stop staring at my hands.

Don't forget to enter my huge MAC giveaway here.

That's it for now.

Be awesome to each other.

Hi Guys!

I have a wedding to go to this weekend and will be getting boring French Tips done for that, so I won't get a chance to do a cool mani like I normally do. So to make up for that, I thought I might post some photos of some manis I have done in the last few weeks.
I should warn you now that the photo quality is not fantastic. The pics were taken with my phone primarily to show one of my friends what I had done. The lighting is also not so awesome as most of them were taken at my desk at work. But anyway, here then come, in all their dodgy glory.


Ok, so this is what I am currently rocking, although it is somewhat chipped. However I have gotten about 5 days wear out of this one.
I love it, it reminds me a little of snake skin to tell you the truth.
The colour is 3 coats of China Glaze Paper Chasing with Konad Black and the use of templates m57 for the pattern and m19 for the tips.
I do realise it is upside down, but for once my right hand turned out better then my left. Go figure.
Also, the lighting for this makes the green look much darker than it actually is. I will have to swatch this one in better lighting. Actually, I will do that for all these as the lighting is just atrocious on these.



This one was Zoya Reece with Konad White and template m24. This lighting really does not do this polish justice. It is a stunning pink with a very strong gold shimmer to it. It looked fabulous.



This was Zoya Isla which is one of my current favourite colours, however that changes pretty often. Again with Konad Black on templates m57 and m19. This mani had a very predatory feel to it. I loved it.



This one was my first venture into the world of Konad, which I will detail more in later posts. I tried to do tips, as you can see from the thumb and second finger and failed miserably, so I gave up and put the design on different parts and actually loved the effect in the end.
This is one of my oldest nail polishes, so old that you can barely see the label on the bottle. Its Revlon Super Top Speed Chrome in 311, whatever that means. Then I put some Konad White over top using template m44. Not to shabby for a first foray, even if I do say so myself.

So that's all I have for you today. Maybe I'll post my wedding toenails for you. I will be using the fabulous Zoya Yasmeen and of course some Konad to liven things up. I'm not sure if you can tell I'm a Konad addict just yet.
Anyway, until next time, have a fabulously awesome day!