Dance Legend Fruity Milk Collection

Blueberry Mousse has a mix of small blue glitter, blue hexes, silver holographic hexes and a subtle shimmer in a purple creme base. Purple is my favourite colour closely followed by blue so obviously I love this! The holographic effect of the silver hexes doesn't really show through the creme base so only the hexes in the top layer are holographic. 

               NAIL POLISH INFO 

Brand: Dance Legend

Name: Blueberry Mousse
Number: 945
Coats For Opacity: 3
Collection: Fruity Milk
Colour: Purple
Finish: Glitter
Formula: Big 3 Free
Volume: 15ml | 0.5 Fl.Oz.
Price: $9.00
Where To Buy: 
Dance Legend

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Sugar Glaze has a mix of red and blue hex glitter of different sizes in a milky white base. The base builds up after 3-4 coats. I used four coats because I still had a little visible nail line after three, If you have short nails three coats will be fine.

               NAIL POLISH INFO 

Brand: Dance Legend

Name: Sugar Glaze
Number: 946
Coats For Opacity: 4
Collection: Fruity Milk
Colour: White
Finish: Glitter
Formula: Big 3 Free
Volume: 15ml | 0.5 Fl.Oz.
Price: $9.00
Where To Buy: 
Dance Legend 

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Blue Hawaii has a mix of blue and rose pink hex glitter in a light blue base. The glitter seemed more sparse in this one compared to the others but it's still pretty.

               NAIL POLISH INFO 

Brand: Dance Legend

Name: Blue Hawaii
Number: 947
Coats For Opacity: 3
Collection: Fruity Milk
Colour: Blue
Finish: Glitter
Formula: Big 3 Free
Volume: 15ml | 0.5 Fl.Oz.
Price: $9.00
Where To Buy: 
Dance Legend 

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Pink Marshmallow has a mix of red, green, blue, gold and silver hex glitter and a subtle silver shimmer in a pink base. I think this one is my second favourite of the collection, I'm not usually a pink lover but this one looks so fun! 

               NAIL POLISH INFO 

Brand: Dance Legend

Name: Pink Marshmallow
Number: 948
Coats For Opacity: 3
Collection: Fruity Milk
Colour: Pink
Finish: Glitter
Formula: Big 3 Free
Volume: 15ml | 0.5 Fl.Oz.
Price: $9.00
Where To Buy: 
Dance Legend 

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Kiwi Smoothie has a mix of green, silver and gold hex glitter in a pale green base. I really like the colour combination of this one, I thought it was unique and interesting.

               NAIL POLISH INFO 

Brand: Dance Legend

Name: Kiwi Smoothie
Number: 949
Coats For Opacity: 3
Collection: Fruity Milk
Colour: Green
Finish: Glitter
Formula: Big 3 Free
Volume: 15ml | 0.5 Fl.Oz.
Price: $9.00
Where To Buy: 
Dance Legend 

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Cream Brulee has a mix of gold, silver and green hex glitter in a light brown base.

               NAIL POLISH INFO 

Brand: Dance Legend

Name: Cream Brulee
Number: 950
Coats For Opacity: 3
Collection: Fruity Milk
Colour: 
Finish: Glitter
Formula: Big 3 Free
Volume: 15ml | 0.5 Fl.Oz.
Price: $9.00
Where To Buy: 
Dance Legend 

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Dance Legend ships internationally and the shipping rate is very affordable! The flat rate is $10 or if you buy 10 or more bottles the shipping is free! Dance Legend is a Russian brand and the postage time can be slow. It took about a month for my package to arrive.


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Shimmer - Eva, Trisha & Mary

Eva has a mix of silver and red micro glitter in a red jelly base. This builds up easily on it's own in three coats. You could use one layer over another colour but probably only over reds as the red base is quite pigmented. 

I really like the name Eva and I really like this polish too!

               NAIL POLISH INFO 

Brand: Shimmer
Name: Eva
Coats For Opacity: 3
Finish: Glitter
Made In: USA
Volume: 15ml | .5fl oz
Price: $12 USD ($11.78AUD)
Where To Buy: 
Shimmer Polish 

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Trisha has a mix of orange, red, pink, purple, gold, blue and silver glitter of different shapes and sizes in a clear base. The overall colour of this polish is orange, it's not until you take  a closer look that you can see all the other colours.

I used four coats to build up the opacity in the swatch above.

               NAIL POLISH INFO 

Brand: Shimmer
Name: Trisha
Coats For Opacity: 4
Finish: Glitter
Made In: USA
Volume: 15ml | .5fl oz
Price: $12 USD ($11.78AUD)
Where To Buy: 
Shimmer Polish 

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Mary has a mix of red, black, pink and silver glitter of different shapes and sizes in a red jelly base. This builds up on it's own in three coats. You could use one layer over another colour but probably only over reds as the red base is quite pigmented. 

               NAIL POLISH INFO 

Brand: Shimmer
Name: Mary
Coats For Opacity: 3
Finish: Glitter
Made In: USA
Volume: 15ml | .5fl oz
Price: $12 USD ($11.78AUD)
Where To Buy: 
Shimmer Polish 

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Pretty Serious - Daphne's Birthday Party

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAPHNE!! *throws confetti* Today marks one year since the launch of Pretty Serious and they've released a glitter packed polish to celebrate  Everyone who bought a bottle of Daphne's Birthday Party has been invited to help celebrate her birthday today by sharing swatches all over the interwebz! Everyone who joins in gets a 20% off code for their next order - best party bag ever! Also one lucky person will win all the polishes that Pretty Serious release until Daphne turns 2! 

So you might be wondering who this girl Daphne is. She's the Pretty Serious mascot and you'll find her on the Pretty Serious polish boxes painting her nails. She even dresses up for Halloween and Christmas! 

Daphne's Birthday Party has a mix of gold, red, blue, green and fuchsia coloured hex glitter in a clear base. This polish builds up after three coats and can be worn on it's own. The glitter is also sparse enough that you can use one coat over a base colour for a different look. 

               NAIL POLISH INFO 

Brand: Pretty Serious
Name: Daphne's Birthday Party
Coats For Opacity: 3
Collection: Seriously Random
Year: 2013
Finish: Glitter
Formula: Big 3 Free, Cruelty Free and Vegan.
Made In: Australia
Volume: 11ml | 0.37 fl oz
Price: ~$9.95 - $10.88(AUD)
Where To Buy: 
Pretty Serious $9.95 (AUD)
Makeup Express $9.95 (AUD)
Llarowe $12.00 (USD)
Pshiiit 11,50 (EUR)
Mei Mei's Signatures $16.00 (SGD)
Norway Nails 109.00 (NOK)

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April Haul 2013

Nfu-Oh - #51
Nfu-Oh - #52
Nfu-Oh - #53
Nfu-Oh - #56

I got these through a group buy from Crush Cosmetics. These have been discontinued so if you want them you better be quick. There are still some available on Crush Cosmetics.

Joss - Go For Broke
Joss - Exotic
Lokis Lacquer - a custom navy blue holo
Pretty Serious - Daphne's Birthday Party

I got the Joss polishes from Beauty World after seeing swatches on More Nail Polish. I swapped a polish with Tara at an Aussie Nails meetup for the Loki's Lacquer. She made it as a custom but it fell through. The holo doesn't show in my light box though. The Pretty Serious polish is from Pretty Serious. There's a birthday competition on at the moment. If you buy Daphne's Birthday Party you'll receive a 20% discount code to use on your next order and you'll go into the draw to win EVERY PRETTY SERIOUS POLISH FOR A YEAR! Full details here. 

 BYS - Steel A Kiss
BYS - Rebel Red

BYS - Ultra Violet

I won these BYS Glitter Dust kits in a competition BYS held on Instagram. I was only expecting one and was very surprised to open a package of three!

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Dead Set Babes - Vintage Glamour, Emerald City & Whatshername

Vintage Glamour has a mix of purple hexes and smaller gold hexes in a black jelly base. The formula was fine to apply. The black base still shows a slight visible nail line after three coats but that didn't really bother me. 

This one is easily my favourite of the three I recieved. I love the depth of the base and glitters on the nail. So pretty! 

               NAIL POLISH INFO 

Brand: Dead Set Babes

Name: Vintage Glamour
Coats For Opacity: 3
Colour: Black/Gold/Purple
Finish: Glitter
Formula: Vegan, Big 3 Free 
Made In: Australia
Volume: 12ml
Price: $9.00 (AUD)
Where To Buy: 
Dead Set Babes

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Emerald City has a mix of different coloured micro glitter in a green jelly base. I think I can see silver, blue, red and gold but they are so tiny it's hard to tell. The combination reminds me of grass, I like it! 

The formula was fine to apply. The green base is sheer so I used 4 coats in the swatch above. 

               NAIL POLISH INFO 

Brand: Dead Set Babes
Name: Emerald City
Coats For Opacity: 4
Colour: Green
Finish: Glitter
Formula: Vegan, Big 3 Free 
Made In: Australia
Volume: 12ml
Price: $9.00 (AUD)
Where To Buy: 
Dead Set Babes

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Whatshername has a mix of different sized gold hexes and squares in a lime green jelly base. The large gold hexes have a slight reflective curl, but they will still lie flat  on the nail. 

The base is sheer so I didn't think it would build up on it's own. I wore one coat over Emerald City in the swatch above, I really liked the combination.

               NAIL POLISH INFO 

Brand: Dead Set Babes
Name: Whatshername
Coats: 1 (over Emerald City) 
Colour: Green/Gold
Finish: Glitter
Formula: Vegan, Big 3 Free 
Made In: Australia
Volume: 12ml
Price: $9.00 (AUD)
Where To Buy: 
Dead Set Babes

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Dead Set Babes is an Aussie indie brand and a portion of all sales is given to the RSPCA which I think is great as I'm an animal lover myself.

I don't normally comment on shipping packaging but I thought I should mention that these were not individually wrapped, they were just placed together in a bubble mailer. I thought was a bit risky given how fragile polish bottles are especially if the package is not handled carefully during transit. Also these bottles were not labelled with the names of each polish.

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Shimmer - Karen, Lucie & Nichole

Karen has a mix of pink, purple  blue and silver holo glitter in different shapes and sizes in a clear base.

I used three coats for the swatch above but you can easily use one coat over a base colour for a different look.

I wore this to the most recent Aussie Nails meetup and got lots of compliments. I really liked this too, it's my favourite of the three in this post.

               NAIL POLISH INFO 

Brand: Shimmer
Name: Karen
Coats For Opacity: 3
Finish: Glitter
Made In: USA
Volume: 15ml | .5fl oz
Price: $12 USD ($11.78AUD)
Where To Buy: 
Shimmer Polish 

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Lucie has a mix of silver, red and blue colour shifting glitter in different shapes and sizes in a clear base.
I used three coats for the swatch above but you can easily use one coat over a base colour for a different look.

               NAIL POLISH INFO 

Brand: Shimmer
Name: Lucie
Coats For Opacity: 3
Finish: Glitter
Made In: USA
Volume: 15ml | .5fl oz
Price: $12 USD ($11.78AUD)
Where To Buy: 
Shimmer Polish 

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Nichole has a mix of blue, red and silver holographic glitter in all different shapes and sizes in a clear base.
I used three coats for the swatch above but you can easily use one coat over a base colour for a different look.

               NAIL POLISH INFO 

Brand: Shimmer
Name: Nichole
Coats For Opacity: 3
Finish: Glitter
Made In: USA
Volume: 15ml | .5fl oz
Price: $12 USD ($11.78AUD)
Where To Buy: 
Shimmer Polish 

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