piCture pOlish Shocked

Hi guys! Just a quick post today to show you a polish I wore last week. :)

Shocked by piCture pOlish is a hot pink jelly with their signature scattered holographic shimmer. {Or at least the shimmer is something they're very known for!} 
It's a little sheer so I used 3 coats + 1 coat of top coat for the manicure. 
Shocked is a collaboration shade with fellow South Aussie girl, Sarah Claire from Shatter Me Claire! :)

Glam Polish Dreamy Days Collection {Swatches & Review}

Hi guys! Happy weekend. :D Hope you have a great one.

I have some new polishes from Glam Polish to show you today. These are from the Dream Days collection which is available now.
So without further ado, here are four polishes from the collection.

Another Galaxy is a minty green base with indigo and aqua glitters, including stars and big circles.
Very nice formula on this one! Awesome glitter payoff and it was so easy to apply. The glitters just glide on the nail, very little dabbing required! I'm partial to any polish that has stars in it. :D
2 coats + 1 coat of top coat.

Cloud Atlas is a white base with pastel blue, pink and green circle glitters and blue micro glitters.

This one was a little tricky to work with but not awful. Just requires some dabbing of the glitters to get them where you want and to avoid them clumping together.
2 coats + 1 coat of top coat.

Day Dreamer is a clear base with purple, yellow and mint-y blue circle glitters as well as small glitters.

This required some dabbing of the glitters and moving them around, as circle glitters tend to want to clump together but overall it was pretty easy to apply.
I layered 1 coat over 2 coats of OPI Don't Burst My Bubble.

Sweet Escape is a blue-leaning pink base with purple and blue glitters, including big circles.
This one was a dream to apply, very smooth and VERY little dabbing required for the glitters! It also dried fairly fast which is nice for glitters like this because if you don't wait for them to dry before applying a second coat, you can drag the first layer.
2 coats + 1 coat of top coat.

The Dream Days collection is now available from Glam Polish's BigCartel store. There are 5 other polishes in the collection apart from the ones I have shown, and they all look gorgeous! :)

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KBShimmer 'Myth You Lots'

KBShimmer is a brand I'd never really been that interested in until recently. I'd seen their polishes around many times but none of them really called my name; and I had no idea where I could buy them from anyway.

Recently I started seeing their newest collection popping up everywhere. And I was suddenly like 'ok, I gotta get me some of these'. I saw their Winter collections swatched by Marta @ ChitChat Nails and immediately had to buy a couple. KBShimmer doesn't ship internationally so I grabbed them from Harlow & Co, polish distributor based in Canada that ships internationally. A lot of the polishes from the Multi-chrome and Multi-chrome Holo collections were sold out but I was able to grab two that caught my eye. These collections are ultra shifty multichrome / holographic amazingness. I bought one from either collection. I'll be showing you the Holo one today. :)

These are also the first nail photos I've taken on my new camera! They're not the best, so bear with me while I get used to my camera. :)

Myth You Lots is a multichrome holo that shifts from a purple-y blue to a burnt orange/gold, with perhaps a smidge of gold in there, with a linear holo sparkle.

I never used to be into duo/multichromes. About a year ago I probably would not have even looked twice at this polish but it's weird how your tastes change. I really like multichromes now, if they're a nice colour combination! I couldn't stop staring at my nails when wearing this colour! It looked like a totally different polish under every different lighting situation I was in! Sooooo cool.

I wore this polish for 48 hours. :o That rarely happens! It started to chip about halfway throughout the second day, though. So please excuse any chips you see in the photos!

Thanks for visiting. :)

Love Thy Polish: A Very Snowy Trio {Swatches & Review}

Hi everyone!
Well, I am living up to my blog name right now. My nails are nubs. Just when I got them to the perfect shape and length, I went on a crazy filing spree. I had a job trial, and I'd most likely be working with my hands a bit so I decided to file my nails as short as I could go. I then shaped my nails round again - do not even ask me why I keep doing that, knowing that I don't like it - then I decided the next day that I didn't like it and went back square. I didn't have much nail to work with either, so now my nails are insanely short... Woops! So please just excuse the nubbies. Anyway, enough about that.

I have the A Very Snowy Trio from Love Thy Polish to show you today! This is Emma's Christmas trio for this year. :) This trio is based on snow, as you may have guessed. I don't know a lot about snow because, well, I've never seen snow. Haha. Anywho. Let's get into the swatches, shall we. :)

Plowed is a holographic dark grey {with a blue sort of undertone to it}. I love Emma's holos. :D
The formula on this was lovely, and quite opaque. I always find that Emma's holos dry quite fast {in a good way!} and this one was no exception. :) In my light box the holo wasn't very visible at all, but in the sun it was a little more visible. It definitely does look more holo in the bottle, though.
I used 2 coats + 1 coat of top coat for my swatch.

Sitting Pretty is a very dark chocolate brown jelly base with small white glitters and a subtle holographic shimmer. This one was a little sheer but easy to apply. It was pretty much opaque in 2 coats but I decided to do 3. :) This was suuuuper sparkly in the sun but I couldn't capture it. :(
I used 3 coats + 1 coat of top coat for my swatch.

Snowflakes Falling has small silver holographic & blue square glitters in a clear base. Great glitter payoff in just one coat!
I used 1 coat of Snowflakes Falling layered over black + 1 coat of top coat. :)

These 3 colours are very unique for a Christmas collection! I really like it. All 3 polishes could be worn any time of the year which is great because sometimes it can seem a little pointless to have polishes that you would ONLY wear one day / time of the year.

The A Very Snowy Trio will be available this Saturday, the 30th of November {at 10am South Australia time}.

The prices will be:
$6.50 for an 8mL mini {holos $8.50}
$9.50 for 12mL full size {holos $12}

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Femme Fatale Cosmetics (AU only)
Mei Mei Signatures (international shipping available)
(also available in 2 salons in SA - see here for more info)

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ANMonday - Pink/Purple {Indie Month}

I'm back with ANMonday! :) Hope you had an awesome weekend!

Sorry I only had two posts up last week, guys. I had a pretty busy week with our engagement party on Friday night and some other busyness! I did paint my nails a few times but just didn't have time to blog them.

Make sure you follow me on Instagram if you don't already, to keep up with me and see every manicure I wear.

As I've said before, posts will probably be less frequent than I used to do for a while {or maybe even indefinitely - which makes be a bit sad} because life is very busy at the moment and will be for the next 5-6 months, but I promise I will be around at least once a week because I do love you guys & I love blogging!

Anyway, today's ANMonday theme is Pink or Purple, and if you missed last week's post, this entire month for ANMonday we are using Aussie indie polishes!

For this manicure I used Pink Posy by Celestial Cosmetics for the base colour on every nail. I reviewed Pink Posy and some other Celestial Cosmetics polishes {here} if you're interested in seeing that. It's a beautiful pink with a subtle linear holographic effect.

I wanted to add a little nail art to this week's ANMonday, because I never pair nail art with indie polishes. Because they're usually so busy on their own that it doesn't need any nail art. But this week I added some small white polka dots. I think it looks cute. :)

On my ring finger I added 2 coats of Hearts Aflutter by Gloss n Sparkle. I feel like I have not worn a Gloss n Sparkle polish in forever, and Gloss n Sparkle was actually the first indie brand I ever tried!

Hearts Aflutter is a clear base, with lots of different shades of pink glitter, as well as some lavender, silver and white. It has shapes in stars, hearts and butterflies but unfortunately I didn't get any hearts on the nail. :(

This polish was originally released for Valentine's Day this year but I believe she re-released it a while back. Anyway, it's unfortunately not available anymore {at least not when I am writing this}, but it seems to be in stock at Femme Fatale Cosmetics if you are interested!

I took a little video for Instagram to show the sparkly holographicness of this mani. :D You can see it {here} if you like! :) So sparkalayyyy.

Thanks for visiting. ♥

Emily de Molly Seeing Red

Hi guys! Happy weekend, hope it's a great one :)

Last week the sun was showing itself a bit more and the weather warmed up a little, so I decided to swatch the only holo that was in my untrieds basket! I honestly don't really have many holos in my collection. I used to, but I went off them for a while, and sold most, because I got annoyed with the fact that most of them look ugly in the shade LOL. But I'm in love with them lately because they're just too pretty to resist. :)

This is Seeing Red by Emily de Molly. It's a red with a strong linear holographic sparkle. It sort of has a pink undertone also. This beauty was almost opaque in just one coat, but I did two of course, because I always do. Haha. I added top coat and it didn't dull the holo sparkle either, which is nice. :) I love that this one doesn't have a grey look in the shade, which many holographic polishes do. It just looks like a shimmery red in the shade.
Trust me that this polish is much more holo in person, my camera just sucks at picking it up. :(

This is the only holo I own by Emily de Molly and she has them in almost every colour you can think of. I definitely need some more of these in my life!

I can't wait to wear more holos in the summer time. :D
What are your favourite holographic polishes?! I would love to know.

Thanks for visiting ♥