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Essence Metal Glam collection – swatches and review

March 4, 2014 By Michelle 12 Comments

Essence Metal Glam collection – swatches and review

Essence’s Metal Glam trend collection has finally reached Australian shores! It will be appearing in stores in March. Here’s some of the offerings: First, what always gets me excited in the Trend collections – the makeup! Naturally, the makeup in this collection is super shimmery and metallic. From left to right, I’ve swatched Gold Digger…

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Messy Mansion MM21, MM22 and MM13 review

September 29, 2013 By Michelle 10 Comments

Messy Mansion MM21, MM22 and MM13 review

Have you heard of Messy Mansion? It’s an Australia-based nail art and stamping plate store that’s particularly well known for their own in-house designed plates, some of which I have to show you today. Julia, the owner, gave these to me to review at the National (well, East Coast) Aussie Nails Meetup last week, and…

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Artsy Wednesday: Leafy autumn nail art

March 6, 2013 By Michelle 25 Comments

Artsy Wednesday: Leafy autumn nail art

The theme this week for our Artsy Wednesday nail art challenge is leaves, which is convenient since autumn (or for you Americans, “fall” :P) has just started – I did a gradient of autumny colour across my nails, then stamped over it using BM-205.  I’ve been really into cremes recently, and ulta3 has a solid…

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Born Pretty to-02 plate review

October 20, 2012 By Michelle 3 Comments

Born Pretty to-02 plate review

I recently received this plate to-02 from the online nail supply store Born Pretty in the mail. I’m not usually a fan of small designs, but a few of these are really cute! I’ve circled the designs I used: I used ulta3 Black Satin to stamp the designs on ulta3 Earl Grey. Forgive my dodgy…

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Hi! I'm Michelle, chemistry PhD and science educator, and I'm here to help you figure out which beauty products are worth buying, and which ones aren't using science!

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