Essie Still $4 on Trans Design?!

I ordered some Essie on Trans Design last week and I just received a refund from them with the note "Essie discount." I then checked my invoice and the Essie nail polishes were listed at $4! On the Trans Design website they are listed as $8. So I'm not sure if the $4 Essie sale is still on and they just aren't advertising it for some reason? So if you order any Essie from Trans Design you might get the refund too!

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Ozotic - 509

Ozotic - 509

3 Coats

Top coat: Amour

509 is a silver, fine particle holographic nail polish. This is also very holographic in the sunlight. 2 coats still showed a little bit of visible nail line so I used 3. It's holographic in the shade but you can only really tell when you move you hands around. Unfortunately this does not kill my lemming for one of those amazing silver holographic nail polishes like China Glaze - OMG or GOSH - Holographic.

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Ozotic - 515

Ozotic - 515

3 Coats

Top Coat: Amour

515 is a light blue, fine particle, holographic polish. It is opaque in 2 coats but I had been wearing this for 1 day already and it had slight tip wear so I put a fresh coat on for the photo. This is amazingly holographic in direct sunlight. The sun picture above doesn't show how holographic it really was. You can also tell that's it's holographic indoors, it's not very noticeable in the shade photo above but you notice it when you move your hands around. This had a good formula and there was no dragging when I applied the second coat. I've read on other blogs that some holographic nail polishes drag the first coat off when applying the second coat.

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Picture Polish & Ozotic Haul

Last week I ordered from piCture pOlish with their mystery deal. If you missed it here's my post about the mystery deal, it's still on until the 4th December! This deal was pretty good timing, I had been thinking about ordering from piCture pOlish for a while. This is what I got:

Ozotic - 515

Ozotic - 509

Ozotic Pro - Mosaic White

piCture pOlish - Razzle Dazzle

piCture pOlish - Denim

piCture pOlish - Bombshell

piCture pOlish - Watermelon

piCture pOlish - Wisteria

piCture pOlish - Jade

The postage was very quick! I ordered on Tuesday afternoon and they arrived first thing Friday morning. The sun finally came out over the weekend after an entire week of rain so I'll have a new swatch every day this week and continuing to next week, hope you enjoy them!

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Piggy Paint 25% Off

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Orly - Bubbly Bombshell

Orly - Bubbly Bombshell

3 Coats

Bubbly Bombshell is from the Pin Up Collection - Summer 2011. It is a large purple hex glitter with small purple and silver glitter in a clear base. This also needs a few coats of top coat to smooth it out. It looks kind of duo-chrome in the bottle but I didn't notice it on the nail. Both Bubbly Bombshell and Here Comes Trouble came from Mardi from TheArtisticCorner. 

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Orly - Here Comes Trouble

Orly - Here Comes Trouble

3 coats

Here Comes Trouble is from the Pin Up Collection - Summer 2011. It is a large green hex glitter with smaller round green glitter in a yellowy green base. I'm not sure what the red speck in the close up shot below is. Your going to need a few coats of top coat with this to smooth it out. It wasn't any harder than normal glitter to remove. 

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Chi Chi - Scene Queen

 Chi Chi - Scene Queen

2 Coats

Top Coat: Poshe

I got Scene Queen from the lovely Mardi from TheArtisticCorner for my birthday last month. It's an aqua creme with silver shimmer. The shimmer is only slight so most of the time it just looks like a creme polish. The formula was fine, I didn't have any problems applying it. I've seen Chi Chi nail polish in Target and Myer. I'm sure it's available in other stores but their website isn't up yet so I can't check. I thought it looked very similar to China Glaze - For Audrey so I've compared them below:

For Audrey is slightly darker than Scene Queen and doesn't have any shimmer but they still look like pretty close matches.

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Ulta3 - Midnight Fever

Ulta3 - Midnight Fever

2 Coats

Top Coat: Poshe

Midnight Fever is from the Blossom Fever Collection - Autumn/Winter 2011. This is an almost black, blue jelly with dark blue shimmer. When I was taking a photo of it in the sun I thought I saw some purple in the bottle, but I can't see it in the photo above. In the shade this just looks like a dark navy blue but in the sun it it much more interesting.

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Ulta3 - Royal Fever

Ulta3 - Royal Fever

2 Coats

Top Coat: Poshe

Royal Fever is from the Floral Fever Collection - Autumn/Winter 2011. This is a dark purple creme colour.Great for if you like purple but don't like wearing bright colours on your nails. I however like all shades of purple. I chose to wear this one again after swatching the collection.

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piCture pOlish

If you aren't already on the piCture pOlish mailing list what are you waiting for?? They have an awesome mystery deal on at the moment but only for mailing list members in Australia. I think you have to create an account to join the mailing list or maybe just send them an email, they have excellent customer service. Sorry, I can't remember how I was added to the mailing list.


So what's the awesome mystery deal? Buy any 6 nail polishes and get 2 piCture pOlish shades of your choice free, and free shipping, and if your one of the first 35 to order you get a free Ozotic Mosaic (crackle) Top Coat! But...you need the code for this to work so sign up to the mailing list, I'm not sure if they will give you a code now if you sign up after the deal was announced but you can always ask them. If not you will be one of the first to hear about their next deal!


I put my order in yesterday, this is what I got:
Ozotic Pro - 509
Ozotic Pro - 515
piCture pOlish - Jade
piCture pOlish - Watermelon
piCture pOlish - Wisteria
piCture pOlish - Denim
piCture pOlish - Razzle Dazzle (FREE!)
piCture pOlish - Bombshell (FREE!)


Because I was one of the first 35 to order I got the free Ozotic Mosaic Crackle too! So all up I got 3 free nail polishes and saved $34.80!


Thank you piCture pOlish!!

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Ulta3 - Twilight Fever

Ulta3 - Twilight Fever

2 Coats

Top Coat: Poshe

Twilight Fever is from the Floral Fever Collection - Autumn/Winter 2011. This is a mushroom brown with purple shimmer. The shimmer is most visible in the sun. I loved this colour as soon as I saw it, I put in on my thumb just after buying it when I was out shopping.

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Butter London 30% Off Everything Sale

This arrived in my inbox this morning, go to Butter London's website to redeem this offer. Unfortunately they do not ship to Australia.

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Ulta3 - Blossom Fever

Ulta3 - Blossom Fever

3 Coats

Top Coat: Poshe

Blossom Fever is from the Floral Fever collection - Autumn/Winter 2011. It is a light peach colour with dark pink shimmer. You can see the shimmer in the sunlight very easily but not so much in the shade. I normally wouldn't wear a light pink like this but the shimmer makes it more interesting.

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Ulta3 - Gold Rush Fever

Ulta3 - Gold Rush Fever

2 Coats

Topcoat: Poshe

Gold Rush Fever is from the Floral Fever Collection - Autumn/Winter 2011. It is a gold foil colour. You have to be careful with brush strokes with this one because they will still be slightly visible after it dries. I thought I could see some holographic glitter in the sun but it was hard to tell because it was very blinding to look at. I actually used 3 coats on my middle finger because I had a bald spot.

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Ulta3 - Pacific Fever

Ulta3 - Pacific Fever

2 Coats

Top Coat: Poshe

Pacific Fever is from the Floral Fever Collection - Autumn/Winter 2011. It is a glass fleck aqua colour with blue and green shimmer. My fingers look really shiny in the sun picture because I had just put some hand cream on. I really like this colour, I'll have to wear it again soon. I also have an exciting package from The Heat Group arriving this week!

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Ulta3 - Floral Fever Collection Autumn/Winter

I recently discovered that there are a few Ulta3 nail polish collections. I've decided to try and swatch all the Ulta3 colours because they are cheap and I can eventually afford to buy them all. Ulta3 nail polishes are good quality, most are very opaque and you only need 1-2 coats.

The first collection I have for you is Floral Fever, the Autumn/Winter 2011 collection. It has 6 shades. I have already swatched 3 of these colours but those pictures suck, my nails were all different shapes and lengths so I'm swatching them again.

Pacific Fever

Gold Rush Fever

Blossom Fever

Twilight Fever

Royal Fever

Midnight Fever

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O.P.I - Nicki Minaj Collection

O.P.I

The shades include:

Pink Friday

Did It On 'Em

Fly

Metallic 4 Life

Save Me

Super Bass Shatter

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Butter London - The Holiday 2011 Collection

The Black Night is so pretty! Butter London does not ship to Australia however HoneyHoney does. They cost $19.80 each! So they are WAY out of my price range.

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Nail Art Tape

China Glaze - Cowgirl Up

Seche - Vite Top Coat

This is the nail art I did using nail art tape. It's very simple to do. The only thing I would recommend is not putting the end on the tape on the tip of your nail, put it on the side or just before the tip. The tape on mine kept lifting up from the edge where the top coat hadn't quite covered it.

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L'Oreal Paris Resist and Shine Titanium - Deep Black - 7 Day Test

I got a L'Oreal Paris Resist and Shine Titanium nail polish that said on the bottle "Up to 7 days". I don't know what the name of this nail polish is because it wasn't on the bottle, I've looked on the L'Oreal Paris website and I think it's Deep Black. I decided to test out how long it lasted and what it looked like after 7 days. This was very hard for me because I usually change my nail polish every 2-3 days.

Application

The formula was fine to apply but I noticed it was bubbling as it dried. It was a hot night when I applied it so that could have caused the bubbling. The picture above is right after I had applied it, this was 2 coats. It dried fairly quick and I didn't use a top coat because I wanted to test the wear of Deep Black not the top coat. After the 7 days I re-applied it on a much cooler day to see if that made any difference. You can see the picture of that last. For the next 7 days I've put the pictures first and written about the wear below.

Day 1

I woke up with sheet marks which was annoying because I thought it was dry when I went to bed. Now I had both bubbling and sheet marks and 6 days to go until I could change it. My left hand had a bit of tip wear and my thumb had chipped. My right hand also had some tip wear.

Day 2

My left hand had more tip wear and the chip on my thumb got bigger. There was also more tip wear on my right hand. I'm typing this on the train to work listening to music on my iPhone and the song Titanium by David Guetta just came on! I also notice a cut on my thumb that I don't remember getting and didn't notice before I edited these pictures.

Day 3

Major tip wear on my left hand, and thumb chipped. Not as bad tip wear on my right hand but my middle finger is now chipped. Usually I would change my nail polish as soon as I get a chip because otherwise my nails always end up breaking where the chip is. I was dying to change my nail polish and it was only day 3!

Day 4

Left hand had the same tip wear now with a chip on my pointer finger and thumb. Right hand had some major damage today. My middle finger broke where the chip from yesterday was and the other corner chipped also my pointer finger got a big chip.

Day 5

Left hand now has big chip on my pointer finger, a chip on my middle finger and a small chip on my pinky finger. My thumb is chipped and has tip wear. My right hand has tip wear except for my middle finger which is now just chipped right across the tip and also the other corner broke where the chip was. Also the same big chip on my pointer finger as yesterday.

Day 6

The chip on my left hand pointer finger is bigger and it is now also chipped on the other side, my middle finger has the same chip and tip wear as yesterday, also my thumb is now chipped on both sides. My right hand pointer finger now has a chip in the middle of my nail and has the same chips and tip wear as yesterday.

Day 7

Both hands are the same as yesterday. I couldn't take it any more I had to change my nail polish so I took it off about 6 hours before the full 7 days was up. I'm sure there would have been a few more chips in that time.

L'Oreal Paris - Resist and Shine Titanium (Unknown Name)

2 coats

Seche - Vite Top Coat

This time I applied it in cool weather but I still noticed 1 or 2 bubbles. It may just be the formula is prone to bubbling especially in the heat. I don't own any other L'Oreal polishes so I don't know if it's just this bottle or all of their polishes.

I have another nail polish to test the wear on but I am going to wait a while because the next one is a 10 day test and I have so many new colours I want to wear first.

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