Showing posts with label Sinful Colors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sinful Colors. Show all posts

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Christmas Cuties ❅ {Nail Art}

I'm finding myself super busy lately, leaving me little time to do my nails at all, let alone do any nail art. But I recently made some time to crank out some cute Christmas nail art.


I've included lots of standard Christmas things in this manicure. Santa Claus, a snowman {although it doesn't snow here and I have never seen snow!}, a Christmas tree, a pudding and a Christmas jumper pattern!

My nail art skills are kind of rusty, so I made each nail pretty simple. {It may not look that simple to some, but I promise you, it really was. The whole manicure only took me about an hour to do. A normal one-colour-manicure usually takes me about 30 minutes for reference.}


Polishes used in this manicure:
  • Sinful Colors Rich In Heart
  • Ulta3 Lily White
  • OPI My Very First Knockwurst
  • China Glaze Winter Berry
  • OPI Big Apple Red
  • Ulta3 Black Satin
  • Essie Fear or Desire
  • Revlon Jaded Night
  • OPI My Favourite Ornament
  • China Glaze Be Merry, Be Bright {'ornaments' on Christmas tree nail}
  • Rubi Shoes Taupe
  • Rimmel Acid House
  • B Squared Lacquer Glitzy {one star glitter used on Christmas tree nail}
Sooo, as you can see, I used a darn lot of polishes in this manicure. LOL.

Oh, and the weird red & green lines on the tip of the Snowman nail? That's supposed to be a scarf, k? ;)


On my thumb nail, I stamped over Sinful Colors Rich in Heart with Nailz Craze plate NC 03*, with Ulta3 Lily White polish. Despite Lily White not being completely opaque, it stamped pretty well!
I have had my eye on this stamping plate for a while because of this adorable Christmas jumper pattern image! A few stamping companies have similar images now but I think Nailz Craze was definitely one of the first to do it.
I used this squishy XL stamper from Winstonia to stamp with, by the way.
I have some more Nailz Craze plates to share with you soon {I cannot wait!}, and I'll probably use this one again in a full manicure because I love it so much. :)


Thanks for visiting, my lovelies. :D I hope I have some time to do more Christmas nail art before Christmas is here but I'm not sure if I will. I have a lot of posts planned & a whooooole lotta swatching to do!

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Saturday, October 26, 2013

Birthday Cupcake Manicure ♥

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

Yesterday it was my awesome friend, Danni's, birthday! :) We had a surprise party for her and I did some nail art especially for it.

This manicure was totally copied from just1nail from Instagram. {I know that a lot of lovely ladies all did similar manicures like this to celebrate a birthday, but I first saw it on just1nail.} If you don't follow her already, by the way, her nails are so cute and she does amazing designs!!

The polishes I used in this manicure are:
OPI Pink Friday
OPI You're Such a Budapest
OPI Kiss Me On My Tulips
OPI Princesses Rule
Essie Mint Candy Apple
Essie Bikini So Teeny
Sinful Colors Snow Me White
Essence Make It Golden

I have a tutorial {here} for the chevron/zig zag design if you are interested in how to do that. But that's not actually the technique I used this time, as I hadn't prepared any decals beforehand. This time, I did this:

1) painted my base colours & let them dry totally.
2) cut up some little strips of sticky tape with my pinking shear scissors into the zig zag shapes {the same way I did in the tutorial}.
3) applied the tape to my nail and made sure I stuck it down really, really well.
4) painted over the tape with white polish.
5) quickly peeled up the tape to reveal my zig zag design! :)

Hopefully that little faux-torial was easy to follow. Haha. If you'd like to see a quick video tutorial I would be happy to do that for you some time soon!

Thanks for visiting! ♥

Friday, October 25, 2013

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 ♥

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Top 10 Nail Polishes For Spring '13

Hi guys! I've never done anything like today's post before, so I hope you like it. :) I'm going to be talking about nail polish trends and some polishes I love for the spring season! It's just about spring here now. Well, technically it started over in September but the weather here in Adelaide was cool and miserable for the majority of the month. :(

Typical nail polish colours for spring are probably my favourite colours to wear all year, honestly. Pastels are my love. ♥ I don't really wear any shimmery polishes in spring, I love creme finishes mainly. :) Of course I love wearing my indies & glitters all year round, but I won't be mentioning any of those in this post, because I could pick like fifty!

Remember, these aren't 'rules' for what colours you can wear in spring. You can wear whatever colours you like! I usually go for whatever I feel like at the time or what I saw on someone else, but I know that a lot of people like to match their nails to the season!


Essie Bikini So Teeny
Bikini So Teeny was a favourite among nail polish lovers last year when they released this in their summer collection. I won a mini bottle in a giveaway sort of thing a bit over a year ago, and I used it all up very quickly. I only just recently purchased a full size bottle and I am so excited to rock some Bikini So Teeny on my nails. :D The formula on this defintiely leaves something to be desired, but I cannot get over how pretty this amazing periwinkle blue is.
{You should be able to pick up this polish at Priceline if yours stocks Essie! They only recently started stocking them so if they aren't already, it might be worth asking if they will be at your Priceline! I didn't think that they would stock this amazing colour but they do! Better be quick before they sell out. ;)}

Essie Mint Candy Apple
I love a good mint polish in the spring time! My favourite is definitely Mint Candy Apple! I love pairing mint with a silver accent nail, I think it looks stunning. Not the best formula, Essie isn't really known for a great formula on lighter colours, though. The colour is just so nice I can't help but love it.
{This is another one that you can find at Priceline!}


OPI Mod About You
I have to have a pretty pastel pink in spring. One that I love is Mod About You by OPI. It's very very very very light, and more of a blue toned pink. It definitely makes your skin look more tanned, if that's something you like. ;) It's very pretty for a pedicure, too.


OPI Kiss Me On My Tulips
You have to have a hot pink, right?! :) Kiss Me On My Tulips is one of my all time favourite hot pinks. It's got a great formula and is just the right tone of pink for my taste. I believe OPI has now put this in their permanent line, but I could be wrong so don't quote me on that.

Sinful Colors Unicorn
Unicorn is one of my favourite pastel yellows! I don't tend to wear yellow often, but when I do, it's definitely going to be this pretty buttery yellow. The formula is pretty good for a yellow, and Sinful Colors is a pretty affordable brand.
{In Australia you can pick up Sinful Colors at Target, Kmart & some Pricelines.}


OPI You're Such a Budapest
This has been a very popular colour this year. You're Such a Budapest is a beautiful periwinkle that leans a little more on the purple side of periwinkle. It's just beautiful. The formula isn't the best, it's a little thin and watery but the colour totally makes up for it.


Ulta3 Fruit Tingle
Towards the end of spring when it's starting to get hot, I love to wear neon colours. Fruit Tingle by Ulta3 is a great super bright pink. It has a jelly formula so you can either layer it over a white base, or you can wear it alone with 3 coats. For $2 it's a great polish.
{Check out Ulta3's Stockist Locator to see where you can pick up some of their polishes.}

Covergirl Lav-endure
Another pastel purple. I can't get enough. Lav-endure is a really great colour. It's very pale, and it has an amazing formula. These Covergirl polishes are pretty affordable too. You can even get them on sale sometimes. This colour is a tad more blue toned that Ulta3's Lilac Bloom {which I also love}, and it's a tad more pale too.

China Glaze For Audrey
A classic China Glaze colour. This is one of my faves all year round, but especially in spring. For Audrey is the perfect Tiffany blue colour. It's another one that looks amazing with a silver glitter accent nail. :D This is a tad darker than Mint Candy Apple from Essie.

OPI Do You Lilac It
Well, you can tell this polish is well loved! ;) This was my first ever OPI polish and this polish started my obsession. Do You Lilac It is just that, a creme lilac. It's not exactly a pastel to me, it's closer to a mid-tone purple but it's not dark, if that make sense. I was obsessed with this when I first bought it, which would explain why it's half empty! I don't wear it that often now, mainly because it's kind of hard to get the brush down into the depths of the polish haha but I think I will be pulling this pretty out this spring. :)

So, those are my favourite polishes for spring! I hope you enjoyed this post. If you'd like me to do this type of post for every season, let me know because I'll be happy to do that.
Let me know what your favourite polishes for spring are! :)

Also - if you got to the end of the post! I would love if you'd check out my new 'personal' blog, Lissa's Loves! I launched it yesterday and posted about my 'engagement photos'. Please check it out & follow if you'd like. :)

Thanks for visiting! ♥

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Watercolour Flowers {Inspired By @hannvjk}

Hi guys! Sorry I have had a whole lot of reviews on my blog lately, and not a whole lot of NOTDs or informational posts which I really enjoy putting together, I just haven't had a lot of time for that. I still have a lot of awesome stuff to show you which I'm really excited about. :D But for today I have some nail art I did just for fun to share with you. :)

Lately I've been finding a lot of new girls to follow on Instagram and I've found some absolute gems! :) One of them is @hannvjk! I love many of her nail designs, but I especially fell in love with this gorgeous watercolour flower design and thought I would try to recreate it because she did a tutorial for it! :D You can check out her tutorial here.


Polishes I used:
Sinful Colors White On White (white base)
Ulta3 Fruit Tingle (pink)
Ulta3 Tahiti (neon red)
Ulta3 Atomic OJ (orangey yellow)
Ulta3 Acapulco Bliss (dark magenta)
Rubi Violets Are Blue (purple)
BC Co. Shade 16 (green - not that you can see it in my photos lol)
Milani Jewel FX Gold (gold glitter)

So, her design turned out like 28429348x better than mine so don't hate. ;) I wish I'd had a brighter purple to use! I realised I don't own any bright/neon purple polishes. I must change that, huh?! ;P

Also, please excuse the redness around my cuticle area in my photos. That always seems to happen when my hands are cold. o_O


This design was pretty easy to do! :) Definitely check out @hannvjk on Instagram and follow her because her designs are so pretty. I give her all the credit for this design, I could never come up with such a cute mani on my own haha!

Thanks for visiting ♥

Monday, August 5, 2013

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! ♥

Friday, June 7, 2013

Mint with Chevrons

Hi guys! I was inspired by It's All About The Polish aka Theresa a while back when she posted this pretty mint mani! And I decided I wanted to do something similar! :)

Although I'm not the type of girl who strictly wears dark colours in winter and bright colours in summer, I do usually gravitate toward the darker colours in winter (though in all honesty I'm not the biggest dark polish fan anyway). So yes even though it's now officially winter and already freezing cold, I don't mind rocking the pastel nails. :D
I used my favourite mint green creme, China Glaze Re-fresh Mint with Femme Fatale Shimmering Snowcap on the middle finger.
I used Sinful Colors Snow Me White for the chevron stripes, and some zig zag scissors (aka pinking shears haha). I wasn't super happy with how my how my chevron stripes turned out. I don't think I spaced them out right. It would've looked much better on long nails like Theresa's haha. I had to use 2 coats of top coat on that nail to smooth out the stripes but it still felt pretty bumpy lol. Not really sure how to fix that next time. :(
Hope you like this mani... because I LOVE the chevrons (even though they turned out bumpy) and want to do more! And if you have any idea how I can make my chevron accent nail smooth without having to do 293749237 layers of top coat. :/

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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Serum No5 Poppy Fields Review

Hey guys! Today I have a polish by Serum No5 to show you.
I received this polish for review, from Femme Fatale Cosmetics. Femme Fatale Cosmetics is an Aussie indie polish brand, but they also stock other Aussie and international brands on the site! Serum No5 is one of them. :)
This is Poppy Fields by Serum No5. It's a sheer red (leaning a bit pink) base with lots of red glitters throughout. It has hex glitters, circles, some small flakes, and a few gold circles and black small glitters mixed in as well.
Some of the hex glitters in this have a reflective curl, but although they look like they might be bumpy or stand up on the nail, they feel smooth once you add a top coat. I think glitters with a reflective curl actually look interesting.
I layered 2 coats of Poppy Fields over Sinful Colors Cross My Heart.
This isn't a polish I'd usually choose for myself but I love being able to try out new brands. The formula on this was nice so I'd definitely like to try some more Serum No.5 polishes.
I think this polish would be a good one to wear on Remembrance Day.

Here is a more colour accurate photo taken on my iPhone (go figure, right?!).
Serum No.5 can be found on Femme Fatale Cosmetics for Aussie residents! You can also find a wide range of other Australian and international indie brands on there. They restock often too and the prices are really great, so be sure to check it out :)

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