OPI My Very First Knockwurst

Hello hello! Work is having another crackdown on wearing polish so I'm going to get back on the nudes bandwagon and start wearing them again. I was so enjoying colours :( especially when I think that summer is going to be over kinda soon and I haven't worn a single neon! There's always the weekend I guess..

Apart from that sad story, I have a very pretty nude that I have worn before but never did a post about, so I thought I would try it again. This is OPI My Very First Knockwurst from the Germany Collection 2012.

I loveeee a good nude! This leans much more pink, I guess you could say a very pale rose creme because it has a very dusty look to it too. My Very First Knockwurst is seriously gorgeous what can I say. Went on perfectly in two coats, I had no issues. The accent is Essie A Cut Above, which is a really pretty pink glitter in a clear base (I also love an accent nail haha). All topped with Seche Vite.

Now I need to start planning for my Valentines day mani! :)

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China Glaze High Hopes

Hi everyone. I have been wanting to go through my untried polishes for a while now so I can see what polishes I might want to get rid of.. to make room for more ofcourse ;) I have been looking at this colour for a while, and because reds are not my colour I have put it off. The question being, why did I buy it in the first place? I thought China Glaze High Hopes was a darker orange, but after wearing it, it is definitely darker then I expected. Opinions please :D

 High Hopes is much more a red-orange then I expected. And even though I do not like wearing reds, this colour is actually very beautiful. It's very bright too and doesn't look terrible with my skin tone YAY! I had a couple compliments today on this polish, and people could not describe the colour because in some darker lights, it looks as if it leans a bit pink?

This was a dream to apply, 2 thick coats and dry time was quite fast. And I didn't smudge it either hooray :D Coated with Seche Vite.

I might just keep this polish :S

I am falling back in love with my China Glaze's after a hiatus of using other brands. I am also getting very excited for their City Flourish Spring Collection, which has some great colours right up my alley. Now I have my eye on a gorgeous green on my shelf that I will be swatching tomorrow for sure!

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China Glaze Unrefined

Happy Saturday :D I see that the China Glaze Sea Goddess collection has appeared on eBay so i'm pretty excited about it. Sadly, I have never ever seen a China Glaze sold here in Australia except a nail polish supply store that only had really old ones :( As some may know, I love a textured polish (too much!). Before I go ahead and order some of those polishes, I wanted to try a China Glaze texture I've had for a while but never tried to see how that formula was and what I could expect. This is China Glaze Unrefined from the Texture collection 2013.

Before I purchased this, the swatches I saw were a much lighter pink. This turned out quite a lot darker then I expected, more of a medium bright pink. 

The formula was hard to work with, and I always make the mistake of trying not to use too much polish on the brush so as not to extend drying time more and smudging easier haha. This however needed quite a bit of polish as it was very patchy on the first coat. I then tried to use more on the second and that seemed to cover most mistakes, but also make sure you wait for the first coat to dry because this dragged.

I don't mind the finish at the end, I know it's been referred to as 'popcorn ceiling' but sometimes it's a nice change to have a simple texture not packed with glitters etc. 

I like this polish and the colour. I'm hoping i'll be better next time with applying because I also have Itty, Bitty, Gritty from the collection too that I am excited to try. Now I just need to decide what polishes from the Sea Goddess collection i'm going to 'need desperately' haha

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China Glaze Happy Go Lucky

Hellooo :) quick post today everyone! Can I just say how excited I was for the O.P.I Brazil collection to come out! I was waiting to go on eBay today when I got home so I could see if anyone was selling them yet and they were! I have 3 of the polishes sitting in my cart as we speak haha, and one from the Gwen Stefani collection that I am contemplating. Can't spare too much money right now so I wont buy as many as I wanted.. yet. Got a bit sidetracked.. by the way this is China Glaze Happy Go Lucky, a bright yellow creme with an accent nail of Maybelline Gold's Night Out.

Not an easy formula to work with sadly, very streaky but what I have found with China Glaze is you need to use a lot of polish on the nail otherwise the polish drags. I wasn't so careful this time because I was in a hurry so my nails look dreadful (sorry!) Thanks for stopping by :)

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Leopard Print!

Hey! Let me just say I was inspired to do this mani by a photo I saw on Instagram and I have completely forgotten who's picture it was (sorry!). I loved how the leopard print worked so well with the colours and glitter accent.

For the leopard print I used China Glaze Aquadelic,Sweet Hook and Liquid Leather for the black. On the pinky I did a couple coats of Sweet Hook before I decided I wanted to try out Glistening Snow haha, so I added two coats of that over the top. I also received a package from Born Pretty Store which sells really cool nail decals. I ordered some studs a while ago and had to try them out straight away.

I did a coat of Seche Vite over the painted nail then while it was drying I added the stud. After an hour one fell off :( so then I put a spot of top coat on and stuck the stud on that way.

Hope you liked this mani, it was nice to do something a bit different and I always love doing a leopard print :)

xxx