Artsy Wednesday - Glitter Sandwich

Glitter sandwhich manis are really easy! Probably easier than a real sandwich. All you need is a jelly polish and a glitter polish. The jelly polish is the bread and the glitter polish is the filling. 

               NAIL ART INFO 

Polish Used:
Revlon - Royal
Australis - Fairy Bread

You start with a coat or two of the jelly polish then add the glitter on to of that. Then finish it off with one coat of the jelly polish again and you're done!

Visit the other Artsy Wednesday blogs for more glitter sandwich manicures:

Michelle - Lab Muffin

Maria - Maria's Nail Art

Catrine - Unnaked Nails

Melanie - Nail & Polish

Jessica - Beauty Gnome

Kamen - KAKA Beauty Blog

Emily  - An Accent Nail

Ameerah - Valiantly Varnished

Jean - Lacquered Lunatic

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August Haul

So I think I went a bit crazy this month after No Buy July. It didn't help that there was the piCture pOlish Blog Fest late last month, a Llarowe restock, Floam came back in stock on Ninja Polish and the new Pretty Serious collection was released! Most of this stuff I got in the last few days. Here's what I hauled this month:

Aussie indie brands Peita's Polish and Gloss n' Sparkle

From left to right: Mermaid Tetris, Zebration, Purpetual Darkness, Pyjamarama, Unicorn Droppings, They Did The Monster Mash, Bruise

My pick from the piCture pOlish Blog Fest polishes plus two others (Sparkle and Electric Blue).

 Ulta3's Spring/Summer collection - Pretty Pastels

Pretty Serious launched it's second collection - In The Night 

From left to right: Nightopia, Into Dreams, Claris, VT100 (Hello World collection)

Dollish Polish Super Mario Bros. Collection (from Llarowe)

Nail-Venturous - Floam (new bottle style) (from Ninja Polish), 

Pretty & Polished - Hearts & Daggers, Pretty & Polished - Jawbreaker (from Llarowe)

Some polishes I've picked up while out shopping.
Australis - Manic Panic, Australis - Fairy Bread, Sally Hansen - Jumpin' Jade,
Sally Hansen - Night Flight, Ulta3 - Earl Grey

If there are any polishes in this haul that you want to see swatched let me know and I'll move them up in my swatch queue. You can also request anything from my collection.

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The Great Aussie Polish Challenge Day 4: Australis - White Crackle

Don't forget to enter my Blogiversary Giveaway and Nail Art Competition! There's three Born Pretty Store gift vouchers to be won. Entries close 5th August 2012.

Australis - White Crackle

(over Ulta3 - Strawberry Sundae)

Australis White Crackle is a white crackle cream. The formula was really nice and smooth and it cracked fast. I won this from Australis in a Twitter giveaway. Australis has giveaways on Twitter all the time. Follow Australis on Twitter so you can enter their giveaways.

When I chose the base colour I didn't realise it matched the bottle, also that it was another Australian brand polish. Two happy coincidences.

The Epitome Of Superficiality

Kelly's Kolors

Shatter Me Claire

All Things Charmed

Lab Muffin

Polished Peripherals

The Polish Haven

Osiri and Loki Paint Their Nails

Lacquer Dreams

Jas's Blingtastic Nail Blog

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Australis - Satine

Australis - Satine

3 coats

Satine is a milky beige jelly. I assume this is meant to be worn sheer but it was too streaky for me.    This would probably work well for French tips. I haven't done French tips for a very long time now. That was all I would really wear before my obsession. Either French, pink or purple of course.

I went away down the coast on the weekend and have come back to 97 unread posts on BlogLovin'. It's going to take me a while to catch up! If you don't already follow me on BlogLovin' you can find me here.

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50 Follower Giveaway!!!

I never though that 50 people would ever read my blog. I remember getting so excited when someone from France looked at one of my blog posts because it was the first time someone from the Internet who didn't know me had visited my blog. I am very thankful for all my followers, especially those of you that were here before this post! You aren't here because of a giveaway, you're here because you genuinely want to read my blog. So if you were a follower before this post then you get an extra entry!

I'm giving away Australian brand nail polishes. Most of these are also made in Australia! 
I couldn't think of a better day to announce my Australian nail polish Giveaway than Australia Day!

Prizes: 

1 x Australis - Speck-tacular (Flakie)
1 x Ozotic Pro 505
1 x piCture pOlish - Denim
1 x BYS - Diamond Glitter Amethyst 
1 x Ulta3 - Purple Pumps
1 x Ulta3 - Blue Heaven

I haven't linked to all of them because my swatches are horrible and I don't actually own Diamond Amethyst. The Ozotic Pro - 505 that the winner will receive will be in the new square bottle. I've ordered it but it hasn't arrived yet. I just used my bottle for the picture. Purple Pumps is very hard to photograph colour accurately. It a darker neon purple. More like the purple you see in the Ozotic bottle above.

Rules:
This Giveaway is open internationally.
You must be over 18 years or have your parents permission to enter.
Giveaway ends Tuesday 9th February 2012 12:01am Eastern Standard Time (NOT Australian Eastern Standard Time - Raffecopter only has one time zone)
The winner will be chosen at random via Rafflecopter.
The winner will have 48 hours to respond to my email otherwise a new winner will be chosen.


Click the read more button to enter via the Rafflecopter widget below, you might need to wait for it to load. Good luck everyone and thanks for your support!

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Australis - Speck-tacular VS piCture pOlish - Festival

I'm starting to collect a few flakie polishes now and wanted to compare two that looked like they contained the same colours. Here's Australis - Speck-tacular VS piCture pOlish - Festival:

This is two coats of each over KleanColor - Neon sapphire from yesterday's post. They both look the same, the colours range from blue, green, orange and yellow. They seem to have the same amount of flakies for two coats. I'd say they are pretty good dupes. You probably don't need both. The Australis one is cheaper at $8.95.

I was asked what Speck-tacular looks like on a natural nail. But I warn you, my natural nails aren't pretty. They are stained. Occupational hazard of being a nail blogger. So women and small children turn away now!

As you can see the flakie effect isn't as strong as it is over a dark colour. I don't know why exactly but I bet Lab Muffin knows how it works! She did a really great post on how holographic nail polishes work.

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Australis - Speck-tacular

I was in Priceline the other day and as always wandered into to cosmetics aisle just to have a look and I spotted a little nail polish stand in the Australis section. I've never noticed this polish before so I have no idea when it was released. I can't find anything on their website.

 Australis - Speck-tacular

2 Coats over black

Poshe Top Coat

Speck-tacular is a multicoloured flakie polish. The colours range from blue, green, orange and yellow. This wasn't particularly opaque but I was happy with the coverage of two coats. You might notice some tip wear in the photos, I had been wearing it for 24 hours already. I will compare this to the other flakies I own soon. Has anyone else spotted this in stores? I wonder if any of the other brands that are cheap and easily available in Australia will release flakies. I got this from Priceline for $8.95.

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