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Blog Round-up

A few of us, inspired by Stacie at KawaiiNailArt, have decided to start a "Blog Round-up", collating our favourite posts from the week :) Here is our collective post! -

Julie was inspired bythe spring and showed us this beautiful butterfly design

Jen showed us how touse our Konad plates in a more inventive way with this manicure

Stacie was in anangelic mood this week with her angel wing manicure

To celebrate herstarting a blog Claire is having an OPI Giveaway

Shella was inspired byfurry creatures and this lovely little bear manicure was the result

Linda had fluffy bunnies and baby chicks on her fingers this week

My favourite Manicure that I have seen in the whole Blog-iverse this week is For Your Nails Only's Spring Flowers

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Artform Revolutionary Range #502 Red Gold

I toyed with the idea of doing an April fools post, but unless your the first in with it, there isn't much point (you got me Kaz!)

Today I'm showing you Artform Revolutionary Range #502 Red Gold, which is a dupe of Ozotic Pro #502 which may be close to a dupe of Sally Hansen Prism Ruby Opal (see Splurge vs Save).  But before swatches I just want to mention a couple of things that annoyed me about my latest order from Artform nails.

1. I noticed on my credit card a week after placing my order that what I was charged was less that what I had ordered. I sent two emails to them asking why my order was costing less, unfortunately I never received a reply. It was only when my box arrived that there was a hand written note on the invoice that said some polishes were out of stock and they didn’t charge me for them. As their shipping is rather expensive, I really wish they had contacted me and advised if and when they were getting the polishes that were out of stock back in. I would happily have waited to receive them and ship them all together, whereas now, I would have to place another order (including the full shipping price) if I want to get the out of stock items.
2. My other gripe is that a number of these bottles were not full. The green holographic one, and a few of the multichromes have a good 5mm missing at the top of the bottle. What’s with that!!

Despite these two issues, I am really happy with the polishes I have got.

#502 is another multichrome with colours shifting through from a burgundy crimson through to gold.  This is three coats over a black base.

This one was the first I swatched, and I didn't capture it as well as I have the others.  There is a real knack to photographing duochrome polishes and I certainly got better the more I took.

Dare To Wear Bling It On

I love LeChat Dare to Wear collections.  They have some very interesting colors and glitters.  Well they have a  new collection Bling It On
As it says you can wear bling bling on your fingers too!

This collection will be available 4/1/11 Check out their website http://www.lechatnails.com

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Until next time please have a great nail polish day. (✿◠‿◠)

Urban Decay Sale at Hautelook!

The Sale is on! Urban Decay Sale at Hautelook!

There's not a ton of selection- but it's on SALE!!! lol There are some eyeshadows, pocket rocket glosses, a few body powders, nail polish set, and a few other things.

Check out the Urban Decay sale at Hautelook!

Nuclear Waste

Goood Afternoon everyone! Firstly, my Tatty Devine inspired Manicure has been featured on the front page of their website! They've also written an article on me and my silly little blog which has made it a very exciting day! I rang my Mum and everything! Waaaah! Exclamation Mark!

On to today's nails - I did not get on with this polish AT ALL, it was a gloopy, horrible mess and painted on like a gross, blobby creature. It was so minging to the point where I actually think I have a defective bottle. I tweeted this at Collection 2000, and they suggested I buy a polish thinner. Cheers, Collection 2000, I will go out and spend money I don't have, on products I wouldn't need, if you quality controlled your stock properly....ya douchebags. Maybe I'll try and take it back to Superdrug, but I doubt I'll be successful.

Collection 2000's "Spangle" from the "Hot Looks" collection is a bright, lime green, and "fast drying". It turned into a stringy mess after about ten seconds, and left me with no option but to schloop it on in big, thick, gloopy layers (which, I might add, still didn't reduce the amount of coats I need to eliminate VNL). This resulted in HORRIFIC bubbling - to the point where it looked like Toxic Waste, which did inspire the Nail Art. Maybe I should be thanking Collection 2000? You can make up your own minds!

From the Giveaway feedback, a lot of you are asking to see some plain swatches, but I also know that a lot of you tune in for the Art, so I thought I'd balance it out by showing a swatch of the base colours that I use before launching into the Art Part.

Here is the bubbly mess that is Collection 2000 Spangle (a shame because I LOVE the colour):-

Bubbly Jubbly.

I also added a Claire's Shimmer Topcoat to my left hand, just to see if it made a passable dupe for Illamasqua's Radium:-

Hmmm. I'm not so sure, but if anyone asks me if I'm wearing Illamasqua, I have no problem lying shamelessly and saying "Yes. Yes I am, and it cost me £13.50."

As I mentioned, the ugly bubbliness inspired "Toxic Waste" Nail Art:-

Anyone recognise Blinky, the three-eyed nuclear fish from "The Simpsons?!"

I've got a Drum of Nuclear Waste on the ring finger, and Blinky the three-eyed mutant fish from The Simpsons on my thumb. HE IS THE CUTEST THING EVAAAR - I really didn't want to remove this manicure purely for that thumb haha.

urgh bubbly wubbly

I used Claire's black and white Nail Art Pens for the accents, as well as a toothpick for filling in the orange highlights and light grey highlights and yellow circle. The Neon Orange is Barbara Daley for Tesco in "Salsa", and the yellow is Miss Sporty "Taxi!". The dark and light grey are Barry M Grey and Sparkle and Fade Light Grey.

On a final note, this polish also stained pretty badly, despite two layers of base coat  - very unamused. It's such a shame as I love the colour, and now I feel like all I've done throughout this post is bitch and whine! Get it right, Collection 2000, and we won't have any beef! Has anyone else had this problem with any of their polishes?

BYE EVERYONE!

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Cracked Concrete Nailart

Good Morning,

I loved my shimmery silver nails so much I wasn't ready to remove it.  Layering is so much fun you can change a look with so many different finishes.  I choose China Glaze's Cracked Concrete.  I know many of you don't like crackle polish but, to me it's like adding on nailart without all the fuss.  It's so easy just brush on boom, boom and your done.  I applied it with a criss cross motion and then applied topcoat that's it!

Have you jumped on the crack wagon?

Until next time please have a great nail polish day. (✿◠‿◠)

Artform Revolutonary Range #505 Green Purple

Hang on a minute; didn't I just do a post on this polish yesterday? Well yes and no. This is one of the Artform Revolutionary Range polishes - #505 Green Purple, that I got in my haul last week. 

Let me just start by saying this is an exact dupe for yesterday's polish, Sally Hansen Turquoise Opal. The very last photo shows a comparison swatch. The other interesting thing is that I’m sure this is also an exact dupe of Ozotic Pro #505.

Recently when I wrote about ordering these polishes, Kira from over at Kira and Lydia's Makeup, said she was keen to see these as she didn’t want to double up on her Ozotic Pro colours. Well Kira, right you are!

What I find very interesting is that not only do they appear to be the exact same multichromatic polish, but they also have the exact same number! And even more evidence that these are probably from the same Australian manufacturer, is that it’s not just this one polish. I ordered six multichrome polishes (#502, #503, #504, #505, #506 and #508) from Artform Nails. From looking at other people’s swatches and reading the colour descriptions of Ozotics #502, #504, #505, #506, all four of these polishes are exactly the same number and colour as the Artform ones.

So the cool part is that I read a comment from Kaz over at Pretty Random saying that Ozotic Pro #503 and #508 are discontinued. So how cool is it that after looking at the Ozotic Pro colour chart, I have probably located exact dupes of #503 and #508.

Just remember that these actually cost a little more than the Ozotic pro ($10.95 v $8.50). But if you want to get #503 and #508, it’s probably worth the extra few bucks.

Anyway, onto the swatches of Artform #505.  These were all three coats over a black base.

I really wanted to photo the comparison between Sally Hansen Turquoise Opal and #505 in the sun, but the clouds came over and I had to do it under then bathroom lights instead.  As you can see even in this indoor flash picture, both Sally Hansen Turquoise Opal and Artform/Ozotic Pro #505 are dupes.

I'll be bring you more of these duochromes in coming posts.  If your a green lover, just wait until you see the discontinued #503. Ah-maze-zing.

Zoya Nail Polish Top Ten List Video!

Super cute video from a super cute Zoya fan and YouTube beauty expert chatting up her Zoya Nail Polish Top Ten list.

Thanks Warm Vanilla Sugar!

Tatty Devine Inspired

I was cruising through Tatty Devine's website, and their new collection inspired a manicure! Tatty Devine are a Jewellery company in London that handmake FIERCE pieces of bling that should really be considered art! Their new collection is called "Astral Haze" and is described as embodying "light, legend and luxury", drawing inspiration from the Ancient Pyramids. It's fantastically colourful and geometric, so I thought it would be fun, and translate well onto the nails :-

 

I used A TON of different polishes for this look, too many to list here, your eyes would be tired, but if you want to know what a particular shade is, just pop it in the comments and I'll reply! I used Scotch Tape and a Striping Brush/Nail Art Pen to create most of the effects seen here :).

Head to the website to see the pieces of jewellery that inspired this manicure (I can't save the pics off the website - it's all fancy and I can't work it haahah)

I've had a really positive response to the Giveaway so far, it's very exciting! Tell your mates! The feedback section is also useful and suprising, I'm loving hearing what you all have to say! Thank You!

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Celeb City with Pro 10

Good Morning,

I have an exciting combo to show you!  SH Xtreme Wear Celeb City is a gorgeous metallic silver foil that glistens with shimmer. I used 2 coats.  I'm sure it would sparkled even more if taken out in the sun.  I'm sorry my pictures are dark I'm using a different camera haven't figured out the setting/lighting yet. 

                         Celeb City

Then I applied one coat of 10 Professional Nail Lacquer 415 Pinky Promise (Can still be purchased at CVS) it gave it a whole new look a light grey with sparkles of gold.  Where did the gold come from?? Pinky Promise is a sheer pink.   I can't wait to see what it looks like out in the sun. Lots of pictures I hope you don't mind.

You really can see the gold in this picture

It goes to show you don't always have to layer with shimmers or glitters to achieve a different look.  Experimenting with colors is fun.  Could this be a new meaning for frankening without mixing in a bottle? 

So what do you think?  Would you give this look a try?

Until next time please have a great nail polish day. (✿◠‿◠)

Teeez - Cool

A couple of weeks ago the lovely Miranda showed swatches of some Teeez nail polishes. I was immediately intrigued! I don't know what it is with me and prismatic polishes... *sigh* So, I went searching for Teeez. About the brand:

"TEEEZ trendy cosmetics is a Dutch-based hip and fashionable cosmetics company.

TEEEZ trendy cosmetics offers makeup for eyes, lips, nails and body.

Have Fun, Get Noticed, Be TEEEZED... "  

 Yay! It's Dutch. :) When I was looking for places where I could buy their products it turned out a shop right around the corner of my house sells them without me knowing it. How is that for a surprise! But onto one of the polishes I bought, this is Teeez - Cool 02.

And it's certainly pretty cool, I would describe it as an azure coloured polish with a scattered prismatic effect. Blue + prismatic glitter = a total win in my book! The only thing I don't like about the polish are the flowery stickers on the bottle, it looks a bit cheap, but the polish itself is really awesome. The application was good, I used three thin coats, but you could get away with two thicker coats. The brush is somewhat flat, nice to work with. 

Teeez polishes cost €4,50 (10 ml), but they were 50% off, lucky me. :O

Now I'm off to the kitchen, today is bake day! Thanks for watching.