Rudolph Nail Art featuring B Squared Lacquer

I've been so busy lately, but I had to make some time to do some more Christmas nail art before the season is over. I have lots of ideas and lots of Christmastime polishes to use so I have to get a wriggle on!

Today I have a very quick & easy Christmas manicure to share with you, also featuring a new indie polish.

On all the nails except my ring finger, the base colour is Rimmel's Acid House which is one of the new-ish Kate Moss shades. It's a beautiful shimmery dark green.

Over the Rimmel shade I've used B Squared Lacquer's Glitzy which is a beautiful gold glitter! It has a whole bunch of different sizes and shapes of holographic gold glitter including stars. {I actually used one of the stars in this for the tree in my Christmas Cuties nail art.} I have more polishes from B Squared Lacquer to share with you very soon so keep your eye out for that! :D

For my little Rudolph, I used Rubi Taupe, Essence Red Ahead, China Glaze Winter Berry and Ulta3 Black Satin.

Let me know if you might be interested in a quick video tutorial for my Rudolph buddy. :) It's super easy but maybe somebody would like it.

I hope to show you the rest of the Christmas & New Years polishes from B Squared Lacquer before the end of this week! :) Stay tuned for that.

Fat Lacquers - Dollar Menu Collection {Swatches & Review}

Hi friends! I have a new indie brand to show you today. Fat Lacquers is a US brand that just released for pre-order. I have swatches of their 4 piece Dollar Menu collection for you.

This collection is inspired by fast food; so unique! The labels are adorable, and check out these Nutrition Facts labels on the back! So cute!

30oz Sweet Tea is a very shimmery golden brown.
I found the formula on this one was quite thick, so I did add a couple of drops of polish thinner to it before I swatched it, as it was just a tad too thick for my taste.
2 coats {no top coat}.

Daddy Chicken Patty is a clear base with gold, copper, brown, white, black and green glitters.
This one also has a thick formula.
1 coat over 30oz Sweet Tea.

Soft Serve is a shimmery bright white.
This one had pretty much the same formula as 30oz Sweet Tea, so I also added polish thinner to it.
2 coats {no top coat}.

Two All Beef Patties is a clear base with brown, gold, black, copper, green, lime green and red glitters.
Again, another thick polish but that does help a bit to give a good coverage of glitter.
1 coat over Soft Serve.

By the way, when I say that these polishes have a thick formula; don't get me wrong. It's not an awful thick formula, they aren't gloopy and unusable. But for my taste they are a tad too thick and would benefit from a couple drops of thinner.

This collection is now available for pre-order, from Fat Lacquers' BigCartel store.

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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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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)

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Pretty Pots {Swatches & Review - Part 2}

I have the second part of my Pretty Pots swatches to share with you today! :) You can check out part one {here} if you'd like to see the rest.

(Also, please excuse the weird lighting in some of these photos. :( The lighting & my camera were not cooperating! I don't quite know what happened, though... The photos looked fine when I was editing them but as soon as I uploaded them, they looked strange.)

Pretty Pots Midnight Millions

Midnight Millions is a sheer blue jelly base with blue and silver small glitters, and larger gold glitters. This polish is suuuper packed with glitter! It's really dense and full coverage in just 2 coats. I used 2 coats of Midnight Millions + top coat.

Pretty Pots Pink Spring

Pink Spring is a pastel pink shimmery base with small green and purple glitters, as well as slightly larger yellow glitters, and blue butterfly glitters. This polish applied super easily. It'd be perfect for spring time as the name would suggest, too. :) It's really girly. I used 2 coats of Pink Spring with no top coat - it dried fast and shiny on its own. :)

Pretty Pots Poker Queen of Hearts

Poker Queen of Hearts is a sheer brown base with brown, gold, black and red small glitters, and gold and red hearts. This one kind of reminds me of Christmas actually. Like a Reindeer or something, haha! This was ok to apply, but the hearts got a little clumpy sometimes. I used 2 coats of Poker Queen of Hearts + top coat.

Pretty Pots Rosepepper in Sorbet

Rosepepper in Sorbet is a shimmery yellow base with rosy pink small glitters. Another one that is super effortless to apply, it just glides on so nicely and has awesome coverage for a yellow! I used 2 coats of Rosepepper in Sorbet with no top coat because it dried fast and shiny on its own. :)

Pretty Pots Velvet & Rubies

Velvet & Rubies is a burgundy-leaning red jelly base with gold, red and blue micro glitters, as well as some larger glitters in there. This one would be gorgeous in autumn I think! (Or any time of the year if you don't follow the seasons!) Again, very easy to apply and opaque in two coats. I used 2 coats of Velvet & Rubies + top coat.

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#bestietwinnails with Marie!

Hey guys!

Marie from Marie's Manicure Madhouse (or @m1ssmar1e on Instagram, and she's also the mind behind Loony Lacquer) and I decided to do a #bestietwinnails mani! :D This was my first time doing a bestie twin mani! I'd wanted to do one for a while but didn't have anyone to do it with, haha. I believe this 'tag' sort of thing, was created by MrsLochness on Instagram and her friend. :)

We decided our mani would be a skittlette, and feature pink and brown with animal print stamping.
Today we revealed our manis to each other and it was so funny because they looked almost exactly the same. LOL!

So here's what went into creating my mani...

I started doing mine and then realised that it was so similar to a mani I saw a while back by, you guessed it, Marta from ChitChat Nails! Here's that mani. :) So I decided to just go all out and do mine almost totally inspired by her. :P

The pink creme (it actually has a subtle shimmer) I used is Ulta3's Pale Dahlia from the pastel collection from 2012.

I stamped over that using Ulta3's Cocoa with plate W101 from Winstonia. I also filled in some of the leopard spots with OPI's Goldeneye. :)

On the ring finger I used Essence Sneezy from the Snow White collection. It's a super nice chocolate brown with a little bit of silver microglitter in it. Before I stamped on the mani, this totally reminded me of strawberry & chocolate ice cream! Haha!

And lastly on the pinky I used 3 coats of OPI Goldeneye, my favourite gold of all time. :)

On my thumb I also stamped a little kitty over Ulta3 Pale Dahlia from plate W115 also from Winstonia, with Ulta3 Cocoa (pictured right).

It was really fun doing these twin nails with Marie! :) Make sure you check out her blog & follow her on Instagram! :D

I will definitely be doing more twin nails, it was awesome! :)

Hope you have a great weekend, everyone! ♥

A Neutral Skitlette

Hey guys! Sorry I had a little unplanned hiatus here for a few days haha. I hadn't done a full mani for an entire week, I was swatching polishes all week but I can't show you them for a few more days so I had nothing else to share! Haha. I did a quick mani yesterday so I'd have something to share today. :)

The other day, Marta from ChitChat Nails posted a how-to post on her famous Skitlette manis! I always adore her skitlettes and her choices are always really awesome so I was inspired to do a skitlette too. :) I'm not sure how well I chose my polishes but I hope you like it anyway, haha.

For my skitlette, I chose 3 polishes I wanted to use. Marta likes to think of it as 'dressing your nails'. Your "shirt" is a design/stamp/pattern, your "pants" are a creme shade, and your "accessories" are a glitter or texture! Instead of doing a design, however I used a glitter. I don't think it looks too over the top, though.

 On my thumb and pointer (my "pants"), I've used Essie's Chinchilly. A really nice taupe shade! I don't often wear shades like this but I adore this one! Next to the other brown colours in this mani it looks quite grey but in person it definitely looks more brown toned.

 The glitter on my middle and ring fingers (my "shirt" lol) is Femme Fatale Lacquer's (not to be confused with Aussie indie Femme Fatale Cosmetics) Lacey's Pumpkin Spice Latte. I wanted this polish for ages! It's named after Lacey from Lace & Lacquers. :) It's a nude crelly (I can't tell if it's more creamy or more jelly...) base with large brown hex glitters and small orange ones. The larger ones flash orange/bronze too, it's really pretty! I definitely really like this colour. It's neutral but the glitters make it fun.

And lastly on my pinky we have OPI's What Wizardry Is This from the Oz collection. This is my "accessories". :P I've used this polish a few times now and I adore it. This photo was taken after I'd had the polish on for about 20 minutes, so it wasn't 100% dry yet but you can see the texture.

So, I hope you all enjoyed this post! :) and have a great rest of your weekend!

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