Nail art #11 - Water marbling

I'm not sure I quite like how my water marbling turned out; I really have had better. Somehow the red on white polish gives my nails a rather bloody look. Polishes used: Maybelline Colorama Candy Apple Ulta3 Lily White I don't like the positioning on my first finger ,and the frustrating thing is that I had quite a nice pattern for it too. I got over-anxious, I suppose :/. Topcoat (Ulta3...

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Nail art #10 - Overflow of silver

Normally when I put in the effort to do nail art, I try to keep my nails as so for at least two days; after all, I did spend a large amount of time on it. Too bad I kept picking at the rhinestones on my previous mani, one popped off this morning and that was enough of an excuse to start from scratch again :P. Nothing intricate, but I love this mani loads. Hopefully I'll keep this for at least two...

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Nail art #9

I felt like some warmer colours today and after much thought decided on OPI's You don't know Jacques. YDKJ is a surprisingly darker shade to what I've seen around, but I love it all the same. I love my dark polishes to bits, I do :). I spiced up my manicure with some nail art; not exactly what I had in mind initially, but I like it all the same. Two coats of YDKJ and three coats of Color Club's...

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Meet me on the star ferry please~

When I heard that OPI had a Hong Kong collection, I was terribly excited. Unfortunately, none of the polishes from this collections appealed to me besides on - OPI Meet me on the star ferry. It looked like such a gorgeous polish from the swatches I had seen and immediately placed an order for it. I was quite disappointed with this polish in that I had expected a lovely purple shade with shimmer....

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A day filled with hauls!

I went out shopping without the intention of buying any polishes, but as always I ended up with a few bottles back home :P. First off, I discovered Sinful Color polishes in The Reject Shop for only 50 cents a bottle!! Of course I had to buy some, even though the colour range was pretty small. It's my first time spotting Sinful Color polishes here in Australia and so I just had to purchase some despite...

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Nail art #8 - Brainy polish?

The first thing that came to mind when I spotted Rimmel's Grey Matter was grey matter = component of brain. No joke. I'm a little surprised that I actually remember stuff from Year 11/12 biology class! But moving on from that. I had stated some posts back that I had been lemming for some grey polishes for awhile, preferably a crème polish. And to my joy, I discovered Grey Matter when...

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To be an upperclassman...

I've been a bad, bad blogger :(. I'm a bit behind on a couple of NOTDs and I just came back with a haul today, so there'll be more posts about them shortly! So, how to become a part of the upper class? First ladies, you need to be sporting Color Club's High Society. Ok, kidding aside, this polish is such a delight to apply and an even greater delight to wear. I just can't believe I didn't wear...

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China Glaze - IDK

Woohoo, it's finally time to relax! I'm officially on two weeks of break from Uni, so that's pretty awesome :). Hopefully, this means more time for nail art, which I'll great around to by the next post. Today however, I decided to wear some holo polish to complement my bright and chipper mood. Two coats of China Glaze's IDK with topcoat. Gorgeous, as with my previous two holo polish experiences,...

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Nail art #7 - Yummy yummy, for my tummy

Cupcake nails! Kind of fitting, since it's my birthday today :). Polishes used: Base - Ulta3 Waterlily Cupcake base - OPI Here today...Aragon tomorrow Icing - Ulta3 Lily white Sprinkles - China Glaze Light as air, Ulta3 Spring shower & Spring fling Cherry - An unknown red polish and China Glaze Re-Freshmint These nails were extremely easy to do; possibly a fail-safe nail art design! I had...

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Jade, you are indeed the new black!

My goodness, I can't believe how amazing this polish is! I never really understood what all the rave was about over OPI's Jade is the new black, but now that I'm the (proud!) owner of it, I totally get it. It. is. Fabulous. Indoors, with flash. Shown is two coats of JITNB with a top coat. Just look at this glorious polish! Application-wise, it was only ok for me. I guess I'm just not used to OPI's...

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Color Club - Fashion Addict

Obviously I had to try out my new polishes asap, so I immediately stripped my nails as soon as I got home from work XD. I had a hard time deciding which polish to try first from my haul, but finally chose Color Club's Fashion Addict. I just couldn't resist the holo-ness of this polish. The polish is a gorgeous light purple, almost pink holo. Shown above is two coats and a top coat. It is so. much....

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My order arrived!

I'm so terribly excited right now, it's probably a little embarrassing, lol. The postman just visited and dropped me a lovely early birthday present! Shipping took just under two weeks - 12 days - which isn't bad for international post I guess, but considering I had been reading around on the Vogue forums and other Australian polishers were saying it took them only a week, I had been getting worried...

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Nail art #6

Lamest title ever, but I really didn't know what to call this post :/. I tried my hand at some nail art over the weekend and am pretty satisfied with the end result :). The design was inspired by this photo, but I decided to choose a lighter colour since I've been wearing some rather pigmented polishes lately. Polishes used: Sportsgirl - Baby Elephant Glossyblossom Two-way nail art - #S08 (white)...

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Nail art #5 - Second attempt at stamping

I tried some stamping again today, to see if my skills had improved from my previous (faily) attempt. And I'm proud to say that yes, it has! :D Stamped with Rimmel's Your majesty. Out of ten nails, only one nail (right fourth finger) came out smudged. Now that I seem to have acquired the basics to stamping, I'll have to work on position and transferring the whole image from the stamper to the...

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China Glaze - Lasso my heart

I really didn't like my nails lol, so I decided to change them. I was at Uni today and kept on hoping people wouldn't notice my nails...not exactly the kind of response we polish lovers want from others, eh? ^^ And so I present to you, CG's Lasso my heart. What a gorgeous, gorgeous polish! *___* Normally, I avoid red/pink toned polish shades because I'm just not into them, but boy am I glad...

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