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 highlighting powder ($5.35 – mine …
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 all the girls got grabby …
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 selection of nail art staples …
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 stamping: Unfortunately a few of …
This week’s challenge was incredibly difficult for me. The theme is favourite polish brand, and I was paralysed by choice – do I go with the always well-formulated OPI? Or the super covetable shades from China Glaze, makers of OMG? The smaller but excellent Nubar? Or maybe even an indie glitterbomb maker? In the end, I went with ulta3. Why? …
Today’s Artsy Wednesday theme is Matte and Glossy Combined. This is what I did: The base is Ciate Paparazzi, another English polish that ilexica sent me. On its own it’s a deliciously vampy blood red translucent creme that looks like a blood bag, but when I matted it with Rimmel Lycra Pro Mattifying Topcoat, it looked like chocolate… yum! I …
I’ve been on a Low Buy July – I was going to do a No Buy July, but failed spectacularly when I bumped into Revlon Grape Fizz on sale at Myer on July 1st. Glass flecked grape scented nails? Sign me up please! Other than that, I’ve been doing quite well. So far I’ve only bought 6 bottles of polish… …
The theme this week was ruffian nails. These are mine: I was wearing China Glaze Glittering Garland at the time and I wasn’t quite sick of it yet, so I stamped a BM design on top in ulta3 Gold Rush Fever (PRC). I then used an eyeliner brush to paint on a bit more gold to make the stamping a …