Glam Polish Pixie Hollow Collection {Swatches & Review}

Hi guys!

I have a new collection from Glam Polish to show you today! I haven't shown you any new polishes by Glam Polish for a while so I am super duper excited about this.

This new collection is called the Pixie Hollow collection! This collection includes 9 polishes. 7 neons and 2 glitter/shimmer toppers.
This is a pretty different collection from what we're used to seeing from Glam Polish but just as awesome.

This post is going to be pic heavy so please click the 'continue reading' button below. :)

Halloween Sprinkles Nail Art!

REMINDER: My blog sale is still live! I just added some new polishes to it yesterday, and reduced the prices on almost everything on there! There's still about 80 polishes available in the sale. :)

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After recreating jauntyjuli's Halloween Cupcake manicure the other day, I really wanted to do some more Halloween nail art. I'm not into anything gory or creepy though, so I still wanted to keep it cutesy.

I find it quite hard to come up with my own designs for nail art and usually end up doing recreations of other manicures I've seen online, but this design I didn't recreate! I came up with it on my own. :D I was quite proud of that, even though it's a fairly basic design haha.

I've seen sprinkle/icecream manicures many times before - but never a Halloween icecream/sprinkle manicure! :D

For this design I used:
Sinful Colors Black on Black
Essie Fear or Desire
Born Pretty Store Glow in the Dark polish #03 {layered over 1 coat of white}
Essie Play Date
Femme Fatale Cosmetics Tricky Treat {discontinued - sorry!}

On my right hand I used the same colours, but mixed up the design.
On the black nails I did a polka dot design, kept the glitter on the ring finger the same, and stamped on my pointer and middle finger with Winstonia plate W116. I haven't stamped in a while so it's pretty rusty but it'll do, hehe.

This is by far the craziest nails I have worn... maybe ever! Yes, I did leave the house wearing these nails. :| Most of the time when I do nail art that's not subtle, it's just for fun and I don't actually wear it as a manicure. Buuuut, these I did.

Hope you enjoyed. Thanks for visiting ♥

Halloween Cupcakes {Inspired by jauntyjuli}

It's almost Halloween and I haven't done any nail art in forever, so I decided I'd do some Halloween nail art!

We don't really celebrate Halloween here, as I've said before; but I still wanted to do some festive nail art.
Halloween is becoming more and more popular here every year, though. Mainly for children who want an excuse to get chocolate & dress up, and teenagers {and probably some adults as well} who probably want to have a party & dress up too. LOL.
I've never actually celebrated Halloween myself. Some of the food and decorations that come out in the shops are pretty cute, though! :D

I saw {this freakin' adorable design} by JauntyJuli on YouTube and I knew right away I had to recreate it because it's the cutest Halloween nail art I have seen by far! Halloween Cupcakes! My version is nowhere near as good as her's but I still think it is so cute. ♥

I used so many polishes for this design so I won't list them here, but if you do want to know what a certain colour is, just leave a comment.

Thanks for visiting ♥ If you have any {easy} nail art requests, please leave me a comment! I'm not good at coming up with designs. I get inspired by a lot of things I see, but don't know how to execute it on my nails. So suggestions/requests would be lovely. :)

What's In-die Box? {October - Little Box of Horrors} Swatches & Review

Hello lovelies! Today I have swatches of the October What's In-die Box to share with you! I showed you the July What's In-die Box a few months back, which you can check out {here}. That post contains an explanation of what exactly this box is, but it's basically a monthly box containing 5 Australian indie nail polishes, all based around a theme!

October's theme for the In-die Box is Little Box of Horrors. So all the polishes are Halloween themed which is really cool, since I actually only own one or two Halloween appropriate nail polishes!

{ If you don't want to see swatches because you're waiting for your box to come - DON'T READ ANY FURTHER! }

Please click the 'continue reading' button to see the rest of the post. :) It's pic heavy!

Born Pretty Texture Minis (Set #15)

Hi guys! I recently made an order from Born Pretty Store entirely using my BPS points I've accumulated over {a long} time! To get BPS points, all you have to do is write reviews on the site for items you've previously purchased and upload photos of the items you've purchased. It takes a while to build up enough points to make an order but once you have enough, you can get a big discount off your order or even get your whole order FREE. This is so awesome for people who order a lot from there! I've been ordering from them for about 2 years now so I had quite a few points saved up. :D

In my order I got a mini set of textured polishes. I chose set #15 which includes four 6mL textures in pink, orange, purple, and blue. I decided to swatch these for you guys in a little skittle sort of mani, since I don't think I've seen any other swatches of them around.

pink
This is a rosy red-y pink (I kinda can't decide whether to call it red or pink) jelly filled with silver glitters, with a textured finish.
orange
The orange texture has more of a shimmery base rather than jelly {which the other polishes in this set have}. It also has some golden orange micro glitter/shimmers.
blue
Blue jelly with silver glitters, with a textured finish. Absolutely gorgeous and probably the most sparkly out of the set.
purple
Purple jelly base with silver glitters, with a textured finish. A little thicker in formula than the rest.

These all had a very nice formula. Not too thick, not too thin and all were opaque in two coats. I think the blue had the best formula of them all, however. The purple was the thickest but not too bad that you can't work with it. They didn't take too long to dry which was very nice. They're so sparkly and beautiful in the sun, but still beautiful in the shade.

I thought I should mention that these four polishes do resemble some of the colours from the Zoya Summer 2013 PixieDust collection and that is the main reason why I purchased them. I would love to be able to get my hands on the Zoyas but they're just not accessible here at all and cost a fortune online, so these are the next best thing! :D I was super happy that these Born Pretty polishes dried fairly quickly as well.

After posting a little swatch video on my Instagram, some lovely people told me that these are basically identical to the Zoya colours. BOOYAH! ;)

Thanks for visiting! ♥

Peita's Polish Sweet Treats Collection

Hi guys! I have a new collection from Peita's Polish to show you! I've only tried one Peita's Polish before from the What's In-die Box a couple months back and I really really liked it so I'm very excited to show you her new Sweet Treats collection! :)
This collection contains 6 polishes which are made up of all small matte glitters! This type of polish has been known as the 'Floam' type of polish to most people.
They all had the same formula pretty much so I will talk about that at the end of the post. :)

Peita's Polish Fizzilicious

Fizzilicious is a mix of pink, yellow and white small matte glitters. It kind of gives an overall orange look in the bottle. I love this! It totally reminds me of Wizz Fizz or something! Haha.
For this swatch, I layered 2 coats of Fizzilicious over Revlon Buttercup on all nails except my ring finger, where I used 3 coats of Fizzilicious alone.

Glam Polish Fun & Games Collection {Part 2}

Hi guys! Today I have the 2nd part of my Glam Polish Fun & Games collection swatches to share with you. If you missed the first part, you can check that out {here}.

Glam Polish Leap Frog

Leap Frog is a blue-y green base with neon green, yellow and pink glitters. I absolutely love this mix of glitters together. This is definitely one of my faves from this collection. :)
I used 2 coats + top coat.

 

Glam Polish Fun & Games Collection {Part 1}

Hi guys! I have the first part of Glam Polish's new Fun & Games collection to share with you today! Today I'll be showing you the first three today and then I'll have the other four to show you tomorrow. :)

These polishes also feature Glam Polish's new bottle/brush shape! They're now square bottles that match most of the other Australian indie brands. The brush handle is much wider now as well and I really like it! (Not that the old brush was bad, haha)

I believe this is not the entire collection that I have to show you. Check the Glam Polish store when they launch {Aug 24} to check the rest out. :)

Glam Polish Eeny Meeny Miny Moe!

Eeny Meeny Miny Moe! is a blue toned pink base with white, pink and turquoise glitters. There's a sprinkling of turquoise stars in there too. :) I left this bottle upside down overnight before I used it and it made the star glitters SOOO easy to get out! As you can see, I got lots of stars on the nails. :)
I used 2 coats + top coat.

New Glam Polish Swatches! Part 2

Hey guys! As promised, I have my 4 other Glam Polish swatches to share with you today. :) Click here to see the first 4 polishes. Again, these polishes will all release on the 22nd of June.
Sorry that the lighting in some of these pictures is bad or there's a glare on the polishes. :( The weather totally sucks right now, it was rainy and cold all last week. I was only able to get sun shots of the last 2 polishes unfortunately!

Kirby

Kirby is a hot pink jelly base with blue and white glitters. ♥ I adore this, eep!!
This colour is soo fun, and super easy and nice to apply.
I used 2 coats of Kirby plus top coat. My coats were slightly thick however, so if you prefer to do thin coats you might need 3 coats.

Margarita ville

Margarita ville is an orange creamy-jelly base with yellow, pink and purple glitters.
This was soooo easy to apply and had to do absolutely no fishing for the glitters! It's totally packed with glitters. :)
I used 2 easy coats plus top coat.

** Please excuse my sad nubbin ring finger nail in the next 2 swatches. :( **

Starstrukk

Starstrukk is a yellow jelly base with turquoise, pink and yellow glitters. There's pink and turquoise stars too! :D ♥ You know I love my shape glitters! ;)
Again, pretty easy to apply. The stars did need a little bit of fishing to get them out but it wasn't bad. :) I usually don't really like yellow polishes but this is adorable!!
I used 2 coats plus 2 of top coat. (Just to smooth the stars out. It's to be expected that the stars might stick up a little lol.)
Please excuse how short my ring finger nail is here. :( I filed it way too short.

Twilight Sparkle

Twilight Sparkle is a purple creamy base with light purple dots, turquoise dots, purple stars and pink & turquoise micro glitters. :)

This one's another that's easy to apply. Pretty opaque too. I had a pretty hard time getting the stars out of this one though, so my only suggestion is... More stars please Rachel! :D haha! (I'm just a star freak.) Also I felt like the base was a little bit too creamy and it covered the glitters up a bit more than I'd like. But it's still a really pretty polish. It dried a little dull too but I'm sure most people who would buy these polishes would be using a top coat anyway which makes it shiny anyway. :)

I used 2 coats of Twilight Sparkle & 2 coats of top coat.

Hope you enjoyed these swatches. I loved all of these polishes so much! ♥

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I'm on Kelcie Talk!

Hey guys!
Today I'm guest posting for the lovely Kelcie, over on her blog Kelcie Talk! She blogs about fashion mostly, with some nail and life posts mixed in there. :) I absolutely love her style and the outfits she puts together, they're adorable. I first actually found Kelcie through her vlogs with her fiance on their YouTube channel which I love watching! And Kelcie also has a beauty channel which I love.

Here's a sneak peek of what I'm sharing over on her blog. Head over to her blog to see more of this mani. :)

Kelcie's also guest blogging for me this week so keep an eye out for that! :D I can't wait.

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My Favourite Orange, Peach and Yellow Nail Polishes

Hey guys! The other day I uploaded the next video in my Favourite Nail Polish series. :)

This is the Orange, Peach and Yellow favourites!

POLISHES MENTIONED:

Essie - Fear or Desire

Essence - Doc

Femme Fatale - Tricky Treat
Face of Australia - Would You Like Some Orange Sherbet (long name lol)

Essie - Van d Go

BYS - Pretty as a Peach
Revlon - Buttercup

Sinful Colors - Unicorn

**Please excuse the fact that I keep looking around LOL. People were walking past!**

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Guest Post: Shades Of Phoenix!

Hi guys! Today's guest post-er is the lovely Teneil from Shades Of Phoenix! She's the owner of the Shades Of Phoenix indie polish line. :) Teneil is a great girl and I'd consider her one of the best friends I've made while blogging & since starting my polish obsession :) You should definitely check out her blog & shop!

I'm also guest posting on Teneil's blog today! So be sure to head over & check out my post!

Without further ado, here is the lovely Teneil. :)

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Hi everyone! Seeing as though Easter is almost here I thought I’d get out the pastels for an Easter inspired pastel-fest tutorial all about the cutest part of Easter…. BUNNIES! I don’t usually do much for Easter (other than have an excuse to eat my own weight in chocolate) but I do love the memories from when I was a kid. Unfortunately when you become an adult egg-hunts and Easter bonnet making is no longer acceptable, so I’m going for the next best thing, nail art!

Step 1: First apply your base coat and a simply darker shade pastel polish. I've gone with Face Of Australia – Castle On A Cloud.

Step 2: Choose 5 other pastel colours that you wish to use and on each finger use a separate colour to paint a dome or half circle on the tip on the nail.

Step 3: With a dotting tool, create two ears on each half circle in the matching colour. 

Step 4: Using a white polish and the dotting tool again, create the white parts in the middle of each ear. This could alternatively be done with a white striper as well.

Step 5: Using the same technique as step 5 but with black polish, create sleeping bunny eyes on each of the half circles. 

Step 6: Last step, is of course the most important – apply your top coat! And you’re done. Fie sleeping pastel Easter bunnies.

The polishes I used were: 

Face Of Australia – Castle On A Cloud (Grey)

Face Of Australia – After Dinner Mint (Green)

Face Of Australia – Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy (Yellow)

Face Of Australia – Would You Like Some Orange Sherbet? (Orange)

Face Of Australia – Have Your Cupcake & Eat It Too (Pink)

Face Of Australia – Boys ‘n’ Berries (Blue)

Sinful Colors – Snow Me White (White)

Ulta3 – Black Satin (Black)

This mani is super easy and really does not take that much time so can be done just in time for that Easter lunch with the family to show off. And trust me the younger members of the family will think you’re a genius! I know my little sister will love this when I show her over Skype. I hope you all have a lovely and chocolate filled Easter, I know I will be busy packing to move house! So have some chocolate for me ;)

Teneil xxx

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I absolutely LOVE Teneil's adorable little bunnies! They are sooo cute! I'm definitely going to try this design some time, maybe even for Easter. Can't get over how cute it is ^_^

You should definitely check out Teneil's blog & Instagram and check out her polishes on Etsy.

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