Sally Hansen Spring Colours 2015

Hi guys! Today I have 5 new colours for Spring from Sally Hansen to share with you from their Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Collection. They are all beautiful pastel/sorbet colours, perfect for the upcoming warmer months! I had a few issues with some of the colours, with the formula being really liquid-y, sheer and unevenness. All swatches show 2 coats and no topcoat. These polishes retail for $6.95 and are available from Priceline, Target, Kmart and selected pharmacies nationally. Here's a look at them all.

Tickled Pink - A very light pale pink. This is super feminine and really lovely but I struggled with the formula the most on this one.

Bare All  - A medium toned beige/skintone colour. 

Giant Peach - One of my favourites from the five colours, a beautiful pink peach. The colour in the bottle translates a bit darker on the nails.

All Bright - My favourite from the collection, a stunning raspberry pink. It's very bright in person!

Babe Blue - This periwinkle blue with subtle blue shimmers reminds me so much of Essie's Bikini So Teeny. It's gorgeous though!

Which one is your favourite? Thanks for reading and see you all next time!

Model Co X Tony Bianco Nail Polish Collection

Hi guys! Today I have 6 nail polishes to show you from the ModelCo X Tony Bianco collaboration. This collection is super gorgeous and perfect for spring/summer in Australia. There are 4 pastels, 1 metallic shimmer and a matte black. These polishes are available on the ModelCo website here and retail for $15.00. Each picture shows 2 coats and no topcoat. The formula on these were perfect and brush is nice and wide which makes it super easy to apply. Let's have a look at this beautiful collection!

First Up is Baby Cakes - A perfect cotton candy pink creme

Coachella Nights - A plain black creme - that surprised me when it dried matte!

Hot To Trot Apricot - Love the name and the colour. A flesh toned peach creme.

Oh My Goodness Greycious - A light blue/grey creme

Shimmer Me Timbers - A rose gold shimmery metallic polish. This one is seriously gorgeous on tan skin - perfect for the warmer months!

You & Me Are Mint To Be - A gorgeous green-y mint creme. 

I am really loving this collection and makes me want to do some pretty girly nail art with it! So stay tuned for that in the next week or so! Which colour is your favourite from the collection? Thanks for reading and have a Happy Halloween and great weekend! xx

Laura Mercier - New Attitude Colour Collection

Hey guys! Today I will be showing you a new nail polish from the latest Laura Mercier - New Attitude Colour Collection. 

The polish called Attitude is a gorgeous very pale pastel blue creme polish and has such an amazing formula. I've never tried Laura Mercier polishes before but now I am hooked - this applied so effortlessly in 2 coats. Laura Mercier nail polishes retail for $18 and are available for purchase from David Jones.

ELES Cosmetics - Sweet Sundae Collection

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Hello everyone! Today I have a few colours from the ELES - Sweet Sundae Collection* to show you today! This collection is a gorgeous mix of pastels and dreamy glitters reminiscent of sweets and lollies! Application on all of them were very easy and smooth except the glitters which needed to be dabbed on! Here are 5 out of 8 of the colours from this collection.

Pistachio Dream* - A light pastel blue creme (leans more tiffany blue than pistachio green). 2 coats here.

Hundreds & Thousands* - Is an awesome party mix of multi coloured large and small hexes suspended in a clear base. This is so fun! This was 1 coat dabbed on.

Peach Melba* - is a lovely peachy/rose colour creme. This is a gorgeous colour and I used 2 coats for swatches.

Caramel Crunch* - I love the name of this! It's a gorgeous tan colour with yellow/pink undertones. Really flattering skin tone colour. This is 2 coats.

Sugar Sprinkle* - A clear glitter topper filled with holographic micro glitters and larger hex glitters. I did 1 coat of dabbed application here.

This collection is really cute and I love caramel crunch and peach melba the best! What do you think? Thanks for reading and have a lovely day!

Emily DeMolly - Simplicity

Hello! I have Emily DeMolly's - Simplicity to show you today. I'm really loving EDM shades, they are so unique and just generally so lovely. Simplicity is a gorgeous pastel light purple/lilac creme with small and large white hexes. It gives a great jelly sandwich look and I love it! I used 2 coats followed by 1 coat of Wicked Fast. I had no problems applying this polish and overall this polish lasted for about 5 days straight without chipping!

Artsy Wednesday - Pastels

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Today's theme for AW is pastels! It feels odd wearing pastels in Autumn but I know for those Northern hemisphere peeps you will love this delicate mani!! Today's look is a dotticure! It is super easy to do and all you need is a dotting tool, bobby pin or any pen to recreate dots!

I painted all but my thumb and ring finger with 2 coats of Revlon - Metallic (my favourite metallic silver colour), I painted my thumb with a base of 2 coats of Lime Crime - Once In A Blue Mousse and I painted my ring finger with 2 coats of Lime Crime - Parfait Days. I used all the same colours for the dots, except the pastel purple is OPI - You're Such A Buda-Pest (which I used as the base colour on my ring finger for my right hand). I set it all with 1 coat of Wicked Fast over the top. Super easy & super striking mani which I loved wearing! Do you like this combo? Don't forget to check out the other AW girls look today!

Michelle - Lab Muffin
Melanie - Nail & Polish 
Maria - Marias Nail Polish Blog
Jessica - Beauty Gnome 
Emily - An Accent Nail
Catrine - Unnakednails
Ameerah - Valiantly Varnished Wendy - M.A.S.P.O.O.A.S.E.

Lime Crime Gradient

Hey lovelies! Sorry it's been so long since I last posted, i've been finishing off a big report due on Tuesday, but after that posts should be a bit more regular! Today's look was inspired by Cristina's gradient look featuring the lime crime polishes (check it out here). I didn't know which look to create, but I decided to do the blue and purple gradient. I started off with all nails painted with Milky Ways, followed by Once In A Blue Mousse and Lavendairy sponged on. It's soo pretty and i'm so happy with the results! Close up you can see imperfections, but from afar it looks really great! I topped it off with Wicked Fast, it really helps to blend in the sponging.

That's all from me today! Have a great weekend everyone!

Lime Crime - Les Desserts D'Antoinette Collection

Hi guys! I'm sure most of you now would have seen the amazing collection by Lime Crime on various blogs! I recently received the entire collection (through the help of Jasmine @ ColourCoated, thank you!!!) and I'm so excited to show you guys! The collection contains 7 gorgeous pastel shades, perfect for spring here in Australia :-) All photos are shown with 2 coats, no top coat. The formula on all of these were so breezy and the brushes are really great!

Crema Di Lemon - a vibrant slightly off yellow pastel

Lavendairy - a gorgeous light lilac/lavendar pastel

 Milky Ways - A really interesting white with slight peach hues

Once In A Blue Mousse - a gorgeous tiffany blue pastel

Parfait Day - a classic barbie-like pink pastel

Pastelchio - an amazingggg pistachio looking pastel (I LOVE this colour)

Peaches <3 Cream - an absolutely stunning pastel orange/peach, this is my FAVOURITE from the collection!

These colours are so much gorgeous in person, my photos do them no justice! Last time I visited the limecrime website they didn't ship internationally, but they do now, YAY! Happy shopping :)

Barielle - Mint Ice Cream + Ocean Breeze Nail Art

Hi guys! I can start blogging again. . yay! Today I am showing you two Barielle colours I purchased from trans-design (which arrived yesterday with a nice haul :)) The Barielle colours I bought are; Mint Ice Cream, a very light pastel mint green creme and Ocean Breeze; a lovely light grey-blue pastel creme. For this look I painted all my nails with 2 coats of Mint Ice Cream and applied Wicked Fast by Cult Nails over the top to seal it.Then on my ring finger i used some ordinary sticky tape to make a triangle on the top of my nail and painted on Ocean Breeze. I also used a green rhinestone at the tip of the triangle to add a little bit extra followed by another coat of Wicked Fast. This is the first time i've used Barielle. The brush on Mint Ice Cream was uneven and jagged and made application hard, whereas Ocean Breeze's brush was fine. The formula was quite thicker than i'm used to and I found it hard to apply. Other than that, the colours are brilliant and the polishes are pretty cheap to buy so i'm not too fussed. Here are some pics.

 Thanks for reading and I hope you like this! What do you think of Barielle?

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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Artsy Wednesday - Ombre Nails

Hello everyone! Today's Artsy Wednesday is Ombre, so I decided to choose within the blue and green family! The colours I used (from the thumb to the pinkie are as follows):

OPI - Fly
OPI - Jade Is The New Black
OPI - Mermaid's Tears
OPI - I Have A Herring Problem
OPI - What's With The Cattitude

I realised that I didn't have a colour in between Mermaid's Tears and What's With The Cattitude so I Have A Herring Problem was the closest, sorry it looks a bit funny! I applied 1 coat of Jordana's Calcium Boost Basecoat followed by 2 coats of each colour, then followed by Jordana's Fast Dry Top coat, which pulls the polish if it isn't completely dry, but does dry in a very quick time!

Here are the photos :)

Don't forget to check out the other lovely ladies who have participated in today's Artsy Wednesday 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

 

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