Getting Back Into Stamping.

I've been wanting to get back into doing more nail art recently, but I'm not very good at coming up with ideas; hence why I'm always doing 'inspired' manicures.
Well, today's nail art is inspired by something - but it's not somebody else's nail art.

I started by creating a gradient with Essie A Crewed Interest, Revlon Buttercup and Essie Mint Candy Apple. My gradient was inspired by this picture from Pinterest. :)

{ I have a gradient tutorial video here if you are interested in seeing how I did this. }

I have been wanting to work on my stamping skills also, and I felt the gradient was too plain.
I stamped over the gradient using the flip flop images from Bundle Monster plate BM-309. I used this black polish from Born Pretty to stamp with. I kind of wish I hadn't stamped over the gradient - it looked prettier on its own. Oh well. *sigh*

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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. :)

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.

Pretty Pots

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Born Pretty Store Spongebob Squarepants Water Decals Review

Hi my lovelies! I have another great product to show you from Born Pretty Store today! :)
These are the Spongebob Squarepants Water Decals. I reviewed some other nail decals yesterday with a full nail design. You can see that post here. The water decals I'll show you today aren't full nail decals.

**Please excuse the unsightly dreaded shrinkage that my top coat gave me in the cuticle area!! :( I contemplated re-doing these nails because of it but I really liked how they came out otherwise!**

For my base colour I've used 2 coats of Orly's Lemonade, my favourite yellow nail polish.
I found these water decals soo simple to apply. I started by applying 2 coats of my favourite yellow nail polish, Lemonade by Orly and I waited for it to dry. I then cut out one of the decals with scissors and peeled off the clear film. Then hold it with tweezers and dip it into a bowl of water for 20-30 seconds. Very carefully slide the decal off the cardboard backing and place onto your nail. Then wait a few minutes (I probably waited about 10 minutes but you don't need to wait quite that long I don't think) and apply a top coat, and you're done! :)

I found these much easier to apply than the full nail decals, although they were fairly easy too. And I absolutely adore this Spongebob design! So cute! :)
I definitely love water decals now! Super quick and easy way to get adorable nail art.

These decals are only $2.86 and you get 20 little Spongebob face decals. :) Super cheap!

You can get 10% off your Born Pretty Store order with the code CAL91. They also have free worldwide shipping  and a TON more super affordable nail art supplies, polishes, jewellery, phone cases & more!

Thanks for visiting! ♥

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Glam Polish Madness & Mayhem Collection

Hi guys! Guess what?! Glam Polish has cranked out another amazing collection and I'm unbelievably excited to show these to you!!
Today I'll be showing you the Madness & Mayhem collection, inspired by Despicable Me (two). I was excited from the second I saw the sneak peek photo that Rachel posted on Instagram. I'm a big fan of animated movies and I loved Despicable Me (the first one, and the new one too)! The movies are so adorable and funny, and these polishes are just as adorable, and so beautiful.

There's loooads of photos for this post so please click 'Read More' to see the rest! :D They're adorable, you'll definitely want to see them!

Glam Polish Sunshine & Lollipops

Hellooo there! I have one lone shade from Glam Polish to share with you today! This swatch is on my right hand. :O Sorry if the hand "poses" are awkward. LOL. I don't think I'll be doing any more right hand swatches. ;)

Sunshine & Lollipops is a pastel yellow jelly base with green, yellow, white (I think.. they kinda look a tad purple to me!) and pink glitters! So bright! I seriously can't get enough of the butterfly glitters. They are sooo cute. :D
I used 3 coats + top coat for my swatch. And I only have sunlight photos of this! Weird because usually it's the opposite. Haha.

This will be available soon from Glam Polish so make sure you follow them on Instagram / Twitter / Facebook for updates. :)

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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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Glam Polish Dee-Light and Brite

Hey guys! Today I have a couple of polishes from Glam Polish to show you. :) When I placed my order a couple weeks ago, Rachel so kindly put in a couple of extra minis for me to swatch! Thank you Rachel ♥

The first polish I'll be showing you is Dee-Light. A bright bubblegum pink base with blue, white and pink glitters in various sizes. Some are hexes and there's also some diamond shaped glitters which are cool.

This did feel a bit lumpy on my nail since some of the glitters are larger but if I had placed them on the nail better that wouldn't have happened. I think next time I would layer this over a similar pink and do only one or two coats of the glitter on top, as it did get a little thick once I applied my top coat.

A super adorable colour however. :) This one will be perfect in summer!
Sorry I don't have any sunlight photos of this one. :( It's nearly winter so the sun isn't out too much.

3 coats with 2 coats of top coat. (Please excuse the HORRIBLE top coat shrinkage)

And here's the second polish I have to show you. This is Brite. It's a yellow base, with multicoloured circle glitters! I love circles! :D

Unfortunately I had a problem with the circle glitters in this sinking a bit but I gave it a good shake before using it and it was fine. (It didn't bubble from shaking the bottle, either.)
Yellow polishes aren't too flattering on me, in my opinion, but this one is really cute colour!
2 coats with 1 coat of top coat.

I adore all the Glam Polish pretties that I've tried so far! :) I have some more to show you soon!
You can pick them up on the Glam Polish BigCartel store for Aussie girls, but soon they'll be available on Mei Mei's Signatures for all you international girls! :D Woo!

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Movie - ANMonday

Hello there! :) I hope you had a great weekend. Happy Mother's Day for yesterday to all the mums out there! ♥

Today for ANMonday the theme is Movies! I love doing movie inspired nail art.
Today a bunch of us have done minions from Despicable Me! There's a new Despicable Me movie coming out this year which I'm particularly excited to see - they are so cute!

This is actually my second time doing minions on my nails! I think I did them about 6 months ago or so and I think my second go is definitely an improvement.

This definitely took me longer than I usually like to spend on nail art however, even though it's pretty easy to do. I used a lot of different sized brushes and dotting tools for this.

Polishes used:

Face of Australia Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy

Ulta3 Calypso Blue

Essie Off the Shoulder

Black and white acrylic paint

Seche Vite top coat

Sorry I only had one photo to show you. :( lol.

There's some other awesome movies coming out this year so I hope to do lots of movie inspired nail looks! :D Even for movies that aren't new, just ones I love.

Let me know if you have any requests, and tell me what movie you're most excited to see this year! ♥ I could name at least 5 that I'm looking forward to but then I'd give away all the nail art I hope to do. ;)

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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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