Sation - Oh My Oceania + Glitter Accent Nail

Hi everyone! Tonight I am going to a party at a club and the theme is "Dressed To The Nines". I have my whole outfit planned out (A gorgeous black dress) and I needed nails to pop against the black so I chose Sation's - Oh My Oceania, a stunning aqua/teal polish with really subtle blue micro shimmers that dries to a satin-matte finish. I love that sort of finish but I did use 1 coat of Cult Nails - Wicked Fast to seal it. I used 2 coats of OMO, followed by 2 coats of Jordana - Blue Bash on my ring fingers, followed by 1 coat of Cult Nails - Wicked Fast. I love doing glitter accents, have you noticed :-P
Here are photos!

I hope you like this colour, I am LOVING Sation, it is a great brand and the formula/brush/bottle is great! Thanks for reading and have a great night!

Artsy Wednesday - Dotting Tools Only

It's Artsy Wednesday again and I am super excited for today's theme! Dotting tools ONLY! (excluding painting on a base colour) This manicure was inspired by Katy @ Nailed It! Check out this tutorial here. The colours I used are:

OPI - Black Onyx (base colour)
OPI - Fiercely Fiona (off pastel yellow)
OPI - What's With The Cattitude (pastel blue)
Zoya - Caitlin (purple/grey creme)
Zoya - Layla (pink satin)

I alternated the colours on each nail. If you check out the above link for the tutorial I used you'll see how easy it is to do! I'm going to wear this mani for a good solid couple of days! Or until I get a more exciting idea in my head lol.

Here are the pics!

Don't forget to check out the other lovely ladies who are doing today's theme!

Michelle - Lab Muffin

Alanna - Pretty Purple Polish

Holly - Hooked!

Maria - Maria's Nail Art

Tif - Polished Genius

Lyndsey - Nails by Ms. Lizard
KaKa - KAKA Beauty Blog 

Catrine - Unnaked Nails

Jessica - Beauty Gnome

 

Thanks for reading and have a great day/night!

 

 

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Jordana Glitter Collection Swatches

Hey everyone! You may have seen in an earlier post I showed my Jordana Glitter Haul from beautyjoint.com (view it here). In that post I showed you Jordana - Carnival and Jordana - Sequins. I will be showing you the rest of the haul I bought in this post. Each photo being shown is just a look at each glitter on their own with 1 coat applied (unless otherwise stated). These would most probably look more interesting made into jelly sandwiches or with more layers used, but they are seriously amazing and I think everyone needs some in their collection! (and they are super cheap too!).

Celestial - a stunning aqua/green/turqouise glitter packed with heaps of microglitter and circle glitters suspended in a clear base.

This is 2 coats

Magenta Magic - The exact same solution/suspension and glitter shapes & sizes as Celestial but with magenta glitter in a clear base.

Cosmic - blue micro glitter packed full of blue, green and silver hex glitters in a clear suspension.

Galaxy - gun metal silver microglitter with large hexagonal gun metal silver glitters suspended in a clear base.

My Superstar - gold microglitter with red, blue and gold hex glitter suspended in a clear base

LA City Nights - purple and blue microglitters packed densely with a clear base

Gemstones - microglitter in red, blue, pink, green and silver with large hexagonal glitters in the same colours, in a clear base.

Bronze Fest - burnt bronze and gold microglitter with larger hex glitters in bronze and gold in a clear solution.

Copper Blaze - copper microglitter with larger hex glitters suspended in a sheer copper base.

Outer Space - light blue microglitter with gold and magenta hex glitter suspended in a clear base.

Blue Bash - Blue microglitter with blue hex glitters packed densely in a clear suspension.

Sorry some of those photos aren't very good, but I hope you get a good idea of what they all look like! Thanks for reading and I hope you found these useful!

Ikat Nail Art

Hi all! Today I saw a great video by the lovely MissJenFabulous on IKAT Nails, which is originally a dying technique used to pattern textiles. To see the full tutorial on how-to do IKAT nails, check out Jen's websit linked above!

Source: Pattern People

The colour I used as a base was Orly's - Beach Cruiser, followed by a standard White Striping Pen, followed by Revlon - Metallic, followed by a standard Black Striping Pen. All topped off with 1 coat of Cult Nails - Wicked Fast. It wasn't too bad for a first go, I managed to get better on my second hand. I need to work on my black feathered stripes to accentuate the IKAT print more.

What do you think of the colours used? I hope you like this cool and easy nail art!

Thanks for reading!

Jordana Glitter and Jelly Sandwich

Hi guys! Today I received my huuuuuuugeee and extremely amazing order from beauty joint! I bought a whole lot of Jordana glitters and they are seriously amazing! I can't wait to make so many jelly sandwiches with them! The problem I have with receiving a huge haul is picking which colour/s to use first! I decided to use Jordana Carnival; a black base packed full of silver, green and blue glitters which dries to a semi-satin finish. I used 3 coats on each nail except the thumbs. On my thumbs I painted 1 thin coat of OPI - Don't Touch My Tutu followed by 1 coat of Jordana Sequins; a clear base packed with heaps of magenta micro glitters and blue, silver and pink circle glitters. I then applied 1 thin coat of DTMT for the jelly sandwich finish look.

Did you buy any of the Jordana Glitters? They are seriously amazing! Can't wait to use them all :-)

Thanks for reading! Have a great day!

Zoya - Caitlin & Layla

Hey guys! Today I have for you two amazing colours by Zoya! Caitlin is a stunning purple based medium grey creme and the formula is so good! I only previously owned 1 Zoya before I received these two. . and they are such good formulas!!! I can't wait to try more! Layla is a hot magenta pink creme that dries to a lovely satin-matte finish. This colour is so gorgeous! I used 2 coats for each of these and they dried really quickly!

Check these out!

Do you own any of these colours? I love them both! Can't wait to use both in a mani and try some contrasting dotting! Watch this space!

Thanks for reading! Have a lovely weekend!

 

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Essie New Winter Collection 2012

Hey everyone! Today I have for you 3 colours from the latest winter collection by Essie. School of Hard Rocks; a stunning malachite green creme, Bobbing For Baubles; a dark blue sapphire creme and Bangle Jangle; a soft lavender amethyst creme. These colours all applied excellently and required 2 coats for each. I love these colours, but Bangle Jangle is too similar to many colours I have in my collection. Nonetheless, still gorgeous and a definite must have for winter! I am currently wearing Bobbing For Baubles and I loooove it! Here are some photos :-)

Bangle Jangle

Bangle Jangle

Bangle Jangle

School of Hard Rocks

School of Hard Rocks

Bobbing For Baubles

Bobbing For Baubles

Bobbing For Baubles

What do you think of these colours? Did you buy any from this collection! Let me know below :-) Thanks for reading!

 

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