OPI Kiss Me I'm Brazillian & Love.Angel.Music.Baby

Hi again! 

I have been quite obsessed with the new OPI Brazil Collection that recently came out. The colours work together so well and they are all my cup of tea haha. I decided I was going to limit myself to buying 3 polishes.. and then since it is my 21st birthday in 2 days, my boyfriend bought me 3 more from the collection haha. I received my package from eBay a couple days ago and couldn't wait to try them :S I also picked up OPI Love.Angel.Music.Baby from the new Gwen Stefani Collection.

This is OPI Kiss Me I'm Brazillian. I'm a sucker for a pink, and when I saw swatches I really liked it. Then I received it in the mail and the bottle was a bit darker then I expected, then on the nail even darker! I was quite suprised, I'm not so into this tone (I much prefer baby pink) but it is really pretty and I will definitely be wearing it again. It is quite a bright medium pink. The formula was a little tricky I found, a bit gloopy and I ended up smudging it a couple times (arghhhh!) haha. Topped with Seche Vite.
OPI Love.Angel.Music.Baby is a really cool champagne gold that dries to a satin finish. I didn't put top coat on because I didn't want to ruin the finish which is quite different.
This mani is 2 coats of each polish.

I know the next polish from the Brazil Collection I'll be wearing and I am quite excited to show you :D

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China Glaze Tart-y for the Party

Hey :D It has been weirdly cold in Adelaide as of recent and this has made me once again put away the neons and crave wearing polishes a bit darker. I have so many untried darker toned polishes :S

This polish however is not dark, buuut it is my favourite purple polish and I reach for it quite a bit haha.

Tarty-y for the Party is a darker pastel lavender colour. I really love this tone of purple. This is 2 thickish coats and is pretty easy to work with.
On my accent nail is China Glaze All Wrapped Up. I have been wanting to try this polish out since I got it a couple months ago. The swatches I saw online looked amazing! I did two coats over 1 coat of the base colour. It's a beautiful very dense indigo micro glitter. Could easily be worn without a base in 3 coats. Gorgeoussss!
I also wanted to jazz the mani up a bit with some nail studs I bought off of the Born Pretty Store for only a couple of $$$.
Topped with OPI Top Coat.

I've also been trying different places to take my photos so I get a decent shot haha. I am going to enquire about the Nikon P520 camera this weekend, and hopefully find a good deal!

Thanks for visiting :)

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Cookies & Cream Jelly Sandwich

Hey everyone :D

I saw Chalkboard Nails do this mani a while ago (here is her awesome post!) and have always wanted to try it. I have only done jelly sandwiches a couple of times and am not a huge fan. But... this mani looked so yummy :D I love how it looks just like cookies and cream on your nails. So creamy.. makes me hungry :P

I basically followed Chalkboard Nails method keeping in mind that she said using two coats of base made this get very thick.

-I started with OPI Skull & Glossbones, a very light grey, as a base doing only one coat and that covered quite well.

- I then added a coat of Ulta3 Stop the Press. I picked this up for $2 at the chemist because I have been wanting a black and white glitter in a clear base  for so long. I had to use it that very day haha.

-Next was a thin coat of Essie Marshmallow, a sheer white to lightly cover and tone down the glitter.

- I added another coat of Stop the Press, and to top it off, a good coat of Seche Vite.

My one peeve about this mani was how long Stop the Press took to dry (arghhh). I had to wait atleast 10-15 minutes before it no longer felt sticky on the nails, hence how many smear marks you see. Trust me, it was worse before I touched it all up haha. And because I had to layer more, it got quite thick but nothing terrible.

I hope I got just a little close to how Chalkboard Nails mani was, hers was great! I'm really keen to try this black and white glitter over other colours, just wish it took less time to dry D:

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OPI Peace & Love & OPI

Hiii! Been a bit M.I.A for a little while, I have a very annoying cold that does not want to leave. I also did Valentines Day nails and that didn't turn out how I wanted so I decided not to put them on the blog haha.
How was everyone's Valentines Days? Mine was nice, went and saw Alex Williamson Live, who's a very funny Australian comedian on YouTube.
Let me start by saying I could not properly catch the colour of this polish in any photos! I take my photos using my phone and have wanted a nice camera for a while and thought since I am turning 21 next week, I might buy myself a present (what a good excuse)! I'm looking at a Nikon P520, if anyone knows anything about this camera please message me because I really don't know much about cameras :S
On to the polish....

This is Peace & Love & OPI from the 2013 San Francisco Fall (or Autumn as we say in Australia) Collection.

What a beautiful colour! Very different from what I usually wear actually, I'm not one for darker tones but I'm trying to venture out of my polish comfort zone haha! This is an awesome duochrome that changes from teal to a purple and maybe a little pink? I'm not a very huge duochrome person but I love this! 

Formula I had a bit of an issue with, wasn't too streaky but it was a bit thick and took a while to dry. Otherwise, it was fineeee :D

Hope this last photo shows the true colour! Thanks for visiting!

xxx

China Glaze Neon & On & On

Hi everyone. I am wearing my first real official neon polish of the summer and isn't it amazing! I literally cannot stop staring at these, they are super bright and gorgeous. Colours like this is why I love China Glaze, and even though the Summer 2013 Sunsational Collection got so much hate, I just couldn't ignore the neons! 

Now onto the polish :D (p.s. this post is a little pic heavy)

Lighting was perfect when I took these photos and this polish is amazing so I had to take lots of pictures (sorry). This is three coats of Neon & On & On. Now the bad part. The formula. I had soo much dragging and patchiness it wasn't funny. The first coat was a mess, so I wanted to neaten with the second and add a thicker layer. That did not even it out and seemed to make more patches. I then tried for a third very careful coat and managed to get rid of most imperfections. I guess being a neon it dries very fast before you even finish the current coat you're applying, thus taking it off with it. Wahhh why does such an amazing neon have such issues!
I think we need to talk about this colour too... OMG. Pure pink/ ltiny bit peachy neon. I love this sort of shade so much, reminds me a bit of Essie Van d' Go but the neon version. It's not completely pink but has that peach sorta tone added in which you can't really tell from pictures. I don't know.. it might just be me hahah.
Coated with Seche Vite.

I'm not sure how long I will wear this, I might use it as a base for my Valentines day mani. Depends how well it wears. So whats everyone's plans for Valentines day? I'm going to see a stand up comedian from Youtube with my boyfriend and I can't wait ;)

xx