ANMonday - Metallic {Indie Month}

Hi friends! Happy Monday. Hope your weekend was awesome. :)

To finish up ANMonday's Indie Month, the theme is Gold / Silver / Black / White or another metallic colour. I only have one or two silver indie polishes and not many black / white ones, so I went with gold! :)

I went with a combo that I have worn before {and posted on Lissa's Polish Addiction} but loved it. The base colour I used is OPI Just Spotted the Lizard, which is my fiance's favourite polish of mine! I topped that with one coat of Eventide by Femme Fatale Cosmetics.

Eventide is a clear base with looooads of gold glitters in different sizes and shapes. There's also some pink glitters in there.

I absolutely love this combination. It's so blingy and perfect. :D

Thanks for visiting. ♥

ANMonday - Red/Orange/Yellow {Indie Month}

Today's ANMonday theme, continuing on with the Aussie Indie polishes is Red, Orange or Yellow.

I felt a bit 'eh' about this theme because red, orange and yellow are not my favourite colours to wear on my nails, and I don't own many indie polishes in those colours.
But, I was going to an early Christmas picnic for my church yesterday, and thought it would be perfect to pull out a Christmas-y red polish! :)

The red polish I chose to use is Santa's Sunburn by Pretty Serious Cosmetics, from the Christmas Without Snow collection from 2012, which is a beautiful glow-y red foil. This beauty is almost opaque in one coat! I used two of course. ;) This is THE perfect Christmas red! If you don't have it, you need it.

I paired this with Alanna Renee's Golden Snitch from the Magical World collection, because for some reason I can't wear a polish alone. Too boring for me. ;)
I've done a swatch of Golden Snitch alone a few months back, which you can see {here}.

Thanks for visiting! :)

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. ♥

ANMonday - Blue/Green {Indie Month}

Two posts in one day, aren't you lucky?! ;)

I'm back with ANMonday! :D I hadn't participated since August so it's been a fair while! Haha.

As you may know, I was the 'creator' of ANMonday, I suppose you could say, and I was running it for close to a year, but recently found I had no time to run it anymore. I had very little time to blog, let alone run the group which was disappointing but it's okay. I handed the reins over to Theresa from It's All About the Polish and she is doing a great job running it! :)

For the month of November, the theme for ANMonday is Aussie Indie Polishes! It's so cool to have a monthly theme, I really like that idea a lot. So each Monday will be a different colour to use.
I pushed myself to do my best to join in this month because I have a lot of untried Aussie indie polishes, and I also have been severely neglecting them in the past couple months!

For the 4th of November {yes, I know that was yesterday lol. In my defence I had a busy weekend and a busy day yesterday!}, the theme was Blue or Green.

I was a bit lazy for this week's theme but I promise next week I will try and incorporate some nail art into it! For some reason I'm not too good at pairing nail art with indie polishes. Probably because ones like the one I used are already so busy on their own, nail art would ruin it.

Nightsong Grotto by Femme Fatale Cosmetics is a gorgeous teal base that is absolutely packed with glitters including green, blue, teal and pink. It's very dense on its own so I didn't use a base colour.
Just 2 coats of Nightsong Grotto {plus two coats of top coat to smooth it out}.

I also uploaded a swatch in motion to my YouTube channel!

Thanks for visiting! ♥

ANMonday: Pets

Hi there! Hope you all had a nice and relaxing or fun weekend, depending on what you like to get up to haha. :)
Today's ANMonday theme is Pets! :) I have only had one pet in my life, a cat named Sooty, so I decided to do a cat mani! :D (More about my cat later in the post for those interested!)

The base colour I have used is OPI's Can't Find My Czechbook. A really pretty blue creme from OPI's Spring '13 collection. I used 2 coats but it was a little streaky, not sure if it's visible in my photos at all. I think that may have had to do with the brush from the mini bottle, however.
For the nail art I used black & white polish, as well as OPI's Red Lights Ahead, Where? for the heart, and OPI's Pink Friday for the kitty noses. For the grey part on the kitty's ears I mixed some black and white polish.

I'm actually quite proud of this nail art! Although it's quite simple, it was all free-hand and I'm not very good at freehand nail art haha.

I don't often share much personal stuff on my blog but I thought it would be nice to show you a few photos of my kitty, Sooty. :) I have had him for almost 12 years now! He was a teeny little scared kitten when I got him, and he didn't really like me or my family for a while LOL. Only in the last two years or so has he actually let me pat him! And now he likes to sit next to me while I'm on the computer and have his head scratched. If I stop scratching his head, he'll put his front paws up on my chair or leg and then jump up on the desk so I'll scratch his head some more, LOL. ♥ :)

Here is Sooty up on my desk. :D

^ This one's an older photo but eep his face. So cute. ^_^

Hope you enjoyed those bonus kitty photos haha. :) I love my Sooty. I also love dogs, though, so someday I want one too! I only like smaller dogs, though. I've always been scared of big dogs haha.

Do you have any pets?! :) Please tell me about them! I think it's so fun to discuss everyone's pets! :D

Thanks for visiting as usual! ♥

ANMonday: Disney ♥

Hi guys! Happy Monday! I hope you had a great weekend. I'm so happy to be doing another ANMonday finally! I don't think I've participated in about a month!

Today's theme is Disney. I decided to do each nail inspired by some of my all-time-fave Disney movies!

On my pointer we have Mike Wazowski from Monsters Inc. / Monsters University! I just love love love those movies. Adorable. :) - Please excuse the way the green polish stained my cuticle lol. Ick.
For Mike I used: Sinful Colors Innocent, Sinful Colors Snow Me White, a BYS black striper and Ulta3 Pro Sky Blue.

My middle finger is meant to represent Andy's bedroom walls in Toy Story. Of all the Toy Story movies, though, I'd have to say the 2nd and 3rd ones are my favourites.
For this nail I used: Ulta3 Pro Sky Blue and Sinful Colors Snow Me White.

My ring finger is to represent 101 Dalmatians! This was definitely one of my favourite movies when I was little. :)
For this nail I used Sinful Colors Snow Me White, a black nail art pen, OPI Big Apple Red and a gold nail art pen.

My pinky was a bit of a fail unfortunately. :( And that's sad because this finger was supposed to represent The Princess Diaries, which is easily one of my favourite movies in general of all time, not just one of my fave Disney movies. I have easily seen it 100 times. No exaggeration. I tried using a BundleMonster stamp of a crown for this nail but it just did NOT want to work... so I tried to freehand it. :| I don't think it even looks like a crown lol. Ah well...
For this nail I used Ulta3 Soft Hydrangea and a white nail art pen, with a little rhinestone.

And on my thumb, I've tried to do a Mickey Mouse nail... :P It looks funny, don't judge.
I used OPI Big Apple Red, a black nail art pen and Sinful Colors Snow Me White for my Mickey nail.

I had a lot of fun creating this design! :D I hope you guys like it too. Thanks for visiting! ♥

ANMonday - Sci Fi

Hi guys! I hope you had a lovely weekend! I had a pretty good one despite getting sick halfway through! My family has had a yucky cold recently and I've just caught it too. :(

So for this theme I actually had to look up what was classified as sci fi. LOL. A little embarrassing but whatever. IMDB told me that superhero movies are considered sci fi. And superhero movies are my favourite movies sooo it's no surprise that that's what I did! Actually, a lot of movies that I would've considered to be more 'action' movies are supposedly 'sci fi', so that's interesting.

Last week the Man of Steel movie came out and I am soooo excited to see it! I'll probably see it this weekend. :) So of course for today's ANMonday I did Superman nails!



I did a gradient of Pretty Serious Santa's Sunburn (the most incredible red shimmer EVER!) and Pretty Serious BSOD for the base, and then stamped with plate FUN2 and a silver stamping polish. I got the plate and polish from My Online Shop. The stamping is definitely NOT perfect, LOL, but I'm sick and wanted to get the mani finished before the sun went down sooo that's my excuse.

Excuse any sparkles you may see around my skin. The gradient was sooo hard to clean up!

Have you seen/are you excited to see Man of Steel?! I heard that it's quite long... but I hope I still like it. :) I've heard it's great otherwise! And what is your favourite sci fi movie?

ANMonday - Winter

Hi guys. I hope you had a nice weekend. :)

Today is another ANMonday! The theme is Winter, because it's winter right now here in Australia! It's been absolutely freezing. I always miss winter when it's super hot in summer, but then when winter actually comes I wouldn't mind the warm weather back, hehe. I think my favourite season would be autumn or spring.

For some reason it took me forever to come up with an idea for my winter mani but I ended up doing another mani inspired by Marta from ChitChat Nails! This is inspired by her Solitaire Chevron mani.

The only colour I had in mind for this mani was OPI's Solitaire, because it looks very winter-like to me! Kind of snow-like. I've never seen snow but I'd like to! I love this polish, I can't believe I haven't bought a full size bottle yet because it's a perfect accent nail colour. I used 2 coats.

The other colour I've used is Essie Borrowed & Blue. This colour to me, has an icy/cold feel to it. I love this colour for all seasons, though. :) The PERFECT baby blue.
The formula on this colour isn't great. When I first got it I had to thin it out quite a bit because it was SO thick. It's pretty good now but still a little thick. It's not too streaky though which is nice. It levels out in 2 coats.
On my middle finger over Borrowed & Blue I did some zig zag stripes (yes I've been told these are not in fact 'chevrons' :P). If you'd like to know how I did this, let me know and I'll see if I can do a little tutorial. :)

I'm actually surprised I was able to get pictures in the sun of this, haha. It's freezing, though.

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AN Monday - Pink ♥

Hey guys! :) I hope you had a nice weekend (or are still having a nice weekend, if you're here in Aus and have a long weekend hehe).

Today for AN Monday, the theme is pink! :D

I didn't have a whole lot of time to put something together so I just went with an easy glitter gradient and holo accent nail. :) I used all polishes from my untrieds basket too! ;) (Ok I have multiple boxes to hold my untrieds. Don't judge)

My base colours are Savvy by DB's Strawberry Punch and Color Club's Miss Bliss.

Strawberry Punch is a gorgeous strawberry pink creme. Great formula for such a cheap polish too! :) I'm sure you all have heard about Color Club's Miss Bliss, which is a pink holographic. I LOVE this so much. ♥

For my glitter gradient, I used a MUD polish (MUD is a polish/makeup brand you can find in Woolworths in Aus - super cheap, I think the same people who own Ulta3, own this brand too) called Pixie Dust. I didn't realise until I actually started using it, that this polish has a SLIGHTLY tinted base... I'm guessing maybe the glitters bleed a bit? It's not that noticeable really, but if I looked closely I could tell that the base is slightly tinted. Anyway, it's a dark rose pink glitter. And it's quite a sparse glitter so it's not the best for a gradient.

I have a glitter gradient tutorial HERE on my YouTube channel if you're interested in seeing how I did the gradient. :)

Have a great day/morning/afternoon/evening. :) ♥

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ANMonday - Heart

Hey ladies!

Today I'm back with another AN Monday post. Today's theme is heart.

I'm gonna be honest. The reason I chose "heart" as the theme for today is because it was my 6 year anniversary with my boyfriend on Saturday and I was going to incorporate a heart into my mani for Saturday anyway so I knew I'd be able to use that mani for AN Monday! ;) lol!

By the way, I'm so sorry but I only have iPhone photos of this mani to show you. :( We went out all day and by the time we got home it was dark outside so I couldn't take any 'real' photos. Also, my cuticles may look a bit dry in some of the photos because I snapped them as I was running out the door. Sorry! :(

On my thumb, pointer and pinky I've used Shades of Phoenix Aphrodite which is a gorgeous deep pink with holographic square glitters and a ton of holographic shimmer/glitter too. Sooooo beautiful and sparkly.

On my middle finger I've used Sally Hansen Celeb City as my base colour and then the heart is Zoya Blaze which I think goes with the SoP polish sooo well.

Lastly on my ring finger I've used OPI Stay the Night. I love using textures in mix and match/skittlette manicures!

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