Bridal Nail Polish Picks.

(Alright I totally messed up Love Month. I decided that the schedule was way too much for me to keep up with - I should've known that - so I decided to stop Love Month here.)

I have been posting some bridal nail art ideas recently, but I figured that a lot of brides out there would be more likely to wear a more subtle manicure for their big day.

Here are my top nail polish picks for brides.

If you want something traditional, subtle, feminine, you can go for a classic sheer pink or white. Some of my favourites are all from OPI, including Don't Burst My Bubble, I Theodora You and Don't Touch My Tutu. Or for a more opaque finish, you can go for a rosy nude like My Very First Knockwurst.

If you're on a tight budget, Cotton Candy or Sweet as Candy by Essence are also a nice choice.

If you'd like to add a little bit of sparkle to your mani, some of my favourite glitters are OPI Crown Me Already, which will give you an opaque bling-bling finish, Twinkle Toes from Ulta3 (another great budget buy) is pretty over any colour, or for a glitter gradient, and China Glaze Glistening Snow which would work for an opaque look or glitter gradient.

If you're looking for your something blue I have two recommendations. Essie's Borrowed and Blue is an opaque almost-white baby blue, and obviously perfect for a wedding. Or perhaps you need a colour to go with your Tiffany's ring, if you happen to be so lucky. ;) You can't go past For Audrey from China Glaze. These colours would also make a cute wedding pedicure!

Last but not least, I have a few indie polishes that would make a great wedding day mani.

Pretty Serious Bloody Bride is a unique and different pick, but so incredibly beautiful and would be pretty on anyone.

If you're looking for a little bit of subtle sparkle to go over any colour you choose, you can't go past Fairy Lights by Love Thy Polish.

Another adorable romantic glitter topper that features super cute hearts is Gloss n Sparkle's Hearts Aflutter. This would look very cute as an accent nail over a subtle pink polish.

You may notice that I also showed some of these polishes in my Valentine's Day Polish Picks post a couple weeks ago. They're just perfect romantic shades so that's why! :)

What polish would you (or did you) choose for your wedding? I would love to know some of your recommendations!

Love Month. Day 3: V-Day Polish Picks.

Hi guys! For the third day of Love Month, I thought I'd share my favourite polishes for Valentine's Day with you. I have quite a few to share, so I'll get right into it!
Pink and red are obviously the most popular colours for Valentine's Day, and I think OPI does pinks and reds the best.

Three of my favourite light pinks from OPI are Mod About You - a very pale, opaque baby pink, Pink Friday - a classic lighter Barbie pink, and Chic From Ears to Tail - another pastel pink, but with a subtle silver shimmer (I only have a mini - I need the full size!).

If you're into a more sheer pink, my favourite is I Theodora You, also from OPI.

If you're into textured polishes, OPI's Liquid Sand in Magazine Cover Mouse is a pretty red with a gold shimmer.
A classic hot pink that I love is Kiss Me On My Tulips. Or if you're more of a lavender girl, you can't go past Lucky Lucky Lavender.

Another beautiful hot pink, with a purple undertone is Flirt by piCture pOlish (appropriate name for V-Day! ;)). This one also has a flawless formula. You can get away with just one coat!

February is summer time here in Aussieland, so I had to include a nice neon pink. My favourite is Bottoms Up by China Glaze. The formula on this one is less than perfect, so it will take a bit of patience, but the end result is awesome.

A classic bright red option is Ever Reddy by Covergirl, from the Outlast Stay Brilliant line. This one is available pretty much everywhere. It has a jelly-ish sort of finish.

For the glitter gals! Ulta3 Disco Fever is a great red glitter that's pretty easy to find, and only $2! It would look cute over any of the light pink polishes I mentioned above, or a red.

Haley Good Lookin' is a pretty rosy pink glitter from Nicole by OPI. NOPI is now available at most Target and Woolworths stores here in Australia, so it's fairly easy to get your hands on, if you come across a well stocked stand! This would go well over any colour, really. It has great coverage with just one coat, also.

If you prefer a purple look, China Glaze's Put a Bow On It from the 2013 Holiday collection is a nice full coverage glitter.

Last but not least, some indie glitter options!
Hearts Aflutter is a cute glitter mix that Gloss n Sparkle released for Valentine's Day last year. It's an assortment of pink, lilac and silver glitters in a clear base. It includes cute shapes like hearts and butterflies also. Ruby Soho by Emily de Molly is a nice red glitter in different sizes that would look pretty over a baby pink. And for the hot pink lovers, Blossom by Love Thy Polish is a great mix of hot pink holographic glitters.
I hope this post helped you decide what polish you might wear for Valentine's Day, or just gave you some new polishes to add to your wish list. ;)
What are your favourites for V-Day?! Let me know in a comment. :)

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}

Love Thy Polish

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Other Love Thy Polish stockists:

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

*Product(s) in this post were provided to me by the company or PR for my 100% honest review. For more info please read my Disclosure Policy*

Love Thy Polish - A Beautiful Mistake

Hi ladies!
I have a new polish from Love Thy Polish to show you today. I am so excited to show you this because it's gorgeous. This post is gonna be a bit pic heavy but this polish is so beautiful I had to. ;)

This beauty will be released on the 21st of September along with the Halloween duo! :)

Love Thy Polish A Beautiful Mistake

A Beautiful Mistake is a freaking amazing blurple (more purple than blue) holographic. Even indoors or in the shade, this baby looks so beautiful!

The formula on this polish was fantastic and it dried scarily fast! My camera couldn't quite photograph this properly, it's a tad more on the purple side in person.

I used 2 super easy coats (no top coat).

Love Thy Polish stockists:

Online Store (AU only - contact for international shipping)

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

*Product(s) in this post were provided to me by the company or PR for my 100% honest review. For more info please read my Disclosure Policy*

Love Thy Polish Halloween Duo

Hi ladies!
I have two polishes by Love Thy Polish to share with you today. This is their new Halloween duo, which will release on the 21st of September. I'm excited to see Halloween polishes start to be released and previewed! Halloween isn't a big thing here, but the polishes that come out around this time are always really fun and exciting. :)

Love Thy Polish Swamp Monster

Swamp Monster is a clear base with electric lime green large glitters, as well as micro glitters in the same colour, and black small glitters. This polish would look good over almost any colour!
The glitters in this one were also a tad hard to get out, they tended to slip off the brush.
I layered 1 coat over Picture Polish Flirt + a coat of top coat.

Love Thy Polish Zombie Brains

Zombie Brains is a grey jelly base with hot pink circle glitters as well as smaller ones, small white glitters and micro black glitters. I love this polish because it's Halloween-y, but the pink glitters make it girly! :) I absolutely love pink and grey together.
I stored the bottle upside down for a while before I used this because the larger glitters were a little hard to get out but not impossible.
I used 2 coats + a coat of top coat.

Love Thy Polish stockists:

Online Store (AU only - contact for international shipping)

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

*Product(s) in this post were provided to me by the company or PR for my 100% honest review. For more info please read my Disclosure Policy*

Love Thy Polish Swatches

Hi guys! I have some new polishes from Love Thy Polish to share with you today! :) There are 3 holographic polishes, a duochrome, a glitter topper and a jelly glitter! :D Something for everyone in this post.

This post is a bit pic heavy so click 'Read More' to see the swatches! :)

Love Thy Polish Swatches

Helloooo there! I have some polishes to show you from Love Thy Polish today! :) These are a mix of polishes from her new collection, some from her previous (but still quite new) collection, and one of her permanent colours. :) I'll start with the newest polishes.

Blossom is a clear base that is packed with lots of holographic hot pink hex glitters! This is from the Animation Celebration collection and is inspired by Blossom from Powerpuff Girls! I loved Powerpuff Girls when I was little, haha!
For some reason these look like a different holographic sort of glitter than I'm used to seeing... I can't quite explain it but oh my gosh, beautiful. ♥ The base is totally packed with glitter! The larger glitters clumped together a little on the nail but a little nudge around with the brush fixed that. :)
I layered 1 coat of Blossom over OPI Chic From Ears to Tail.

East Australian Current is a deep (like the sea ;)) blue jelly with teeny tiny blue glitters. This one is also from the Animation Celebration collection, and this one's inspired by Finding Nemo and the journey they take along the East Australian Current! Again, Finding Nemo was another movie I loved when I was younger. I kinda saw it so many times I wore it out, though... Haha. I also can't wait to see Finding DORY! Eep. I love Ellen DeGeneres too.
Anyway, back to the polish. It has so much depth and it's unbelievably sparkly and squishy!! I used 3 coats + top coat.

I also re-swatched How Do You Spell FBI? which came in the What's In-die Box?. This one is also part of the Animation Celebration collection. I wasn't happy with my first swatch, because I did it when the sun was almost down, so I thought I'd re-swatch it. You can see my review here. My camera kinda freaked out at how shiny and sparkly this was in the sun! Haha. I used 2 coats here with top coat.

Shangri-La is a rosy gold (kind of peachy looking too) linear holographic. :D I'm soo into holos recently for some reason, and it's winter. o_O I totally love this, though. The colour is really unique for a holo in my collection, I don't own a ton of holos but I also don't own one this colour! This polish applied beautifully, no streaky-ness, no bald patches. It was a little bit sheer but it built up nicely in 2 coats! :) If you have longer nails than me, you might need a thin 3rd coat though. I didn't add top coat for my swatch because it did dry so fast and dried shiny. :)
Shangri-La is from the Dreams collection which is inspired by Stevie Nicks. (Not gonna lie - when I hear 'dreams' I always think of this part in the Yogi Bear movie... I have seen that way too many times).

With flash

Last but not least, Royalty is an amazing deep purple jelly with vibrant purple micro glitters throughout. So so so beautiful. I'm not even a huge dark purple lover but I adore this. This one is another that is really super sparkly and squishy. I looove these jellies.
I used 2 coats + top coat for my swatch. In the shade and indoors it looked fine but in the sun it looked a little patchy so I could have used a thin 3rd coat.

These polishes were all lovely, as are all of the Love Thy Polish shades I've tried. :) They're so gorgeous and I definitely recommend them to anyone who wants to add some more indies to their collection!

You can grab Love Thy Polish on her store if you're in Australia, as well as Femme Fatale Cosmetics. For you international ladies, Love Thy Polish is available at Mei Mei's Signatures! :)

*Product(s) in this post were provided to me by the company or PR for my 100% honest review. For more info please read my Disclosure Policy*