Picture Polish Teal Gradient

Hello! Today I have a simple but pretty gradient design with two Picture Polish collab shades:

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As you can see, the gradient is with Dragonfly and Tail Feather. These are both lovely shimmery polishes, with PP's signature "bijou holo" going on. This only took two sponged coats to look opaque, although I did three to make sure the pics looked perfect.

The fimo flowers are from some canes I got ages ago from Born Pretty Store. And of course, it's topped with Seche Vite.

Anybody else getting a Twilight-book-cover vibe from this?

These polishes are fab! And both are still available on the Picture Polish website, although Tail Feather is being discontinued soon, so grab it while you can--it's discounted!

Thanks for reading today. See you next time! xoxo

Born Pretty Store Review | Shell Sheet Sticker

Hiya! I have another Christmas manicure for you today :D This one features a previously-untried polish from Picture Polish, as well as some pretty holographic "shell paper" from Born Pretty Store!

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Born Pretty Store Review | Holographic Snowflake Foil!

Hello lovely people! Look at this gorgeous foil from Born Pretty Store. It has holographic silver snowflakes on it!

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You guys know that holo is my favourite colour, right? :D Click to see more!

Chic Matte Red Tips

Hello my dears :) Happy Thanksgiving to those of you in the US!

I have been a bit under the weather and felt like a sort of palette-cleanser for my nails. I decided on this simple, sophisticated, matte French-tip look:

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This one's quite easy to describe :) I used my usual base coat (Seche Retain, by the way, which is discontinued and I am struggling to replace it! Why are there always a thousand things I don't need, and the one I do gets axed??) and then two coats of OPI Lost on Lombard for the French tips. I like this deep, muted sort of red. It reminds me of autumn... and wine.

The matte topcoat I added over it all is Picture Polish G'Day Matte.

This is one of those rare times when both hands match, and I've been wearing it for quite a few days now. It feels very clean... but I think next time I'll do something dazzling and sparkly. Stay tuned for that! xoxo

Halloween 2015 | Kitty Skulls & Glitter!

Happy Halloween!

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Aurora Leaves

Hello! Sorry I've been so epically lazy lately! I've been doing my nails, but just not had the motivation to get the photos edited and posted. After three years I guess I needed a little bit of a break :)

Back now though and happy to show you the first design I did upon my return to lovely Australia--and what better to celebrate than with an Aussie brand?

Sheer Tints & Glitter Gradient

Hello! Wow, another busy week. I've barely had any time to do my nails at all--but I have prepared one mani for you today, as well as two scheduled to go out while I'm away in Perth :) I can't wait to watch my beautiful friend get married, and to do nails for her and her bridesmaids. I'll have pics when I return!

About a month ago, I saw something at my local OPI supplier that I've been waiting on for a year--the Sheer Tints! They finally made their way to Australia. I immediately snatched them up, and this is the first design I did with them!

Super Stylish Icicles

Hello there! Welcome to all my new readers--I see I have lots of new followers this week, yay! :)

The heat is approaching brutal levels here in Queensland! I'm sitting directly in front of the air-conditioning vent as I type this. But I know it's winter for a lot of you, and I wanted to think cool thoughts myself. Plus, it's been too long since I did a holo-polish mani! So I've created a kind of icicle-half-moon look for you today.

"Hope"ful Daisies

Hallo :)

Happy birthday to my mother! (Now I'll know if you read my blog or not... muahahaha.)
I've been saving this mani for a little while, as I actually did it before I started my Christmas designs. I feel like these pretty wintery-looking flowers fit in well with the kind of weather she's having back in the northern hemisphere. Plus, it's always good to start the new year with some hope, right? ;)

Holiday Water Marble

Hi hi! Wow, Christmas is coming up fast! I suppose it's the hot weather here, but it still doesn't feel like Christmas to me. Maybe that's why I find myself running out of time! I'll have to post every day for the next few days to get all my holiday manicures up in time :)

Today I have a festive water marble topped with a very special seasonal polish from piCture pOlish called Holiday!

Christmas Bows Feat. Dragonfly

Hiya! I'm super tired, so let's get right to it :) I have another Christmas mani for you, featuring another of my new piCture pOlish shades--Dragonfly by Lucy's Stash!

Outdoors in sun

Freya's Cats' (Toys)

Good day, lovely! Let the Christmas manis continue :D

I've done some baubles/garland over another one of my newest piCture pOlishes--Freya's Cats!

(And, if you've ever had cats, you know that pretty hanging Christmas decorations are there to be played with and destroyed, hence the title of this post!)

Onwards!

Peacock Tail Feather Nails

Hullo! It's December! And for the first time in my life, I'm experiencing a hot holiday season. It feels so weird to me! But December means I start doing Christmas manis, and if you think I'm going to let some 40C weather stop me from painting snowflakes all over my nails, you should think again! ;)

I'm working on my first Christmas mani as we speak, but first I have to show you one I wore last week using another of my new piCture pOlish shades: Tail Feather!

Gilded Imperial Nails

Hello my lovelies :)

It's been an exciting week over here! We're almost finished with the paperwork needed for me to have permanent residency in Australia *yay* and on Wednesday I went to the piCture pOlish HQ and met Jules East, the company's founder!! It was really awesome to see where the magic happens :D and she (and the rest of the Girls) are so nice! It was also really awesome to buy lots of polishes and not have to pay for shipping ;) Check out my Facebook post if you want to see pics from the PP Headquarters :D

Obviously, I had to have an appropriate manicure for the visit... so I pulled out their Imperial again, and gave it the royal treatment it deserves :)

 

#31DC2014 - Day 11 - DOTS

Hullo darlings!

Today's design came out differently than I expected... a bit more subtle... but I like it! I'm calling it Blueberry Fizz.

Outdoors in sun

The base is Revlon Cobalt, from their Chroma Chameleon line of colour-shifters. I then created dots with piCture pOlish Aurora, a shimmery multichrome that also has shifting glitters. I made larger dots near the cuticle and got smaller as I moved towards the tip. I thought it would show up a bit more prominently than it did, but I still think it looks like blueberry soda :D

Outdoors in shade

Outdoors in sun

I didn't topcoat, because I wanted to preserve the bubbly, textured look. It isn't the usual "polka-dotted" look, but I'm digging it!

See you tomorrow! xoxo

Woven Gravity

Well, I don't think I will ever do nails cooler than the last ones, so I didn't even try, and opted for something simple today. Simple but pretty!

piCture pOlish Multichrome Swatchfest, Part 3: Gravity

Hiya! Sorry I'm late with part 3 of my piCture pOlish LE Swatchfest! It was gloomy and rainy yesterday, and that's no weather for photographing holographic, multichromatic polishes. I got loads of photos today, so let's get to it! (Parts 1 and 2 can be seen here and here.)

The last polish I have to show you is Gravity. It is primarily a dusky midnight blue, but shifts to cerulean, teal, purple, pink, and at some angles even a dusty mauve. And of course, it sports those lovely PP scattered holo flecks!

piCture pOlish Multichrome Swatchfest, Part 2: Solar Flare

Hello!

Time for part 2 of what I started yesterday--let's keep it rollin'!

piCture pOlish Multichrome Swatchfest, Part 1: Aurora

Good morning!

Today's post will be one of a three-part set of posts featuring three of the latest Limited Edition collection by piCture pOlish!

Swatches of these gorgeous shades have been floating around here and there since February, I believe, but I am not one of those lucky bloggers who gets sneak previews (yet? *bats eyes at my favourite brands*), so I had to wait just like the rest of you. I never saw Aurora's partner Borealis in stock, and I decided to pass on Illusionist and Altered State (also gorgeous, but similar enough to these that I could get away without them) to focus on the three most unique.

These are all multichromatic shimmers with PP's signature scattered holo flakes, and they're amazing! I call them "galaxy manicure in a bottle", and I think you will see why. So over the next three days, I'll post about a million photos :D prepare for pic-heaviness, and let's get this party started!

First up is, in my opinion, the star of the collection: Aurora!

This One's Not Fussy...

Hola, lacquer lovers!

Today I have another stunning purple piCture pOlish to show you. I hinted at which one it is in my last post... and now I'm happy to show you Hussy!