piCture pOlish - Ruby Blou

Ruby Blou is one of the new glitter polishes that piCture pOlish released recently. Ruby Blou has a mix of small and large hex glitters in red, blue and silver. Each time I see this colour coronation I am reminded of the colours of the American flag even though the Australian flag uses the same colours. 

I wasn't sure what colour I wanted to layer this over so I got my boyfriend to choose. I'm glad he chose purple, I really like this combination.

Edit: I forgot to mention that the purple I used for the base is piCture pOlish - Wisteria.

               NAIL POLISH INFO 

Brand: piCture pOlish
Name: Ruby Blou
Coats: 1 (over purple)
Year: 2012
Colour: Blue, Red, Silver
Finish: Glitter
Formula: Big 3 Free
Made In: Australia
Price: $12 (AUD)
Where To Buy: 
piCture pOlish - $9.50
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piCture pOlish - Orbit

piCture pOlish - Orbit 

Not really sure what happened to this post. I thought I'd scheduled it for last night.

I'm pretty sure this is silver glitter in a blue jelly base. I really love Orbit. Its pretty and opaque. Almost a one coater but I like to use two for depth. If your still deciding which new piCture pOlishes to get add this one to your list, you won't regret it!


                                                                                                     
                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                     
                                                                                                     
                                                                                                     
                                                                                                     
                                                                                                     
                                                                                                     
                                                                                                     
                                                                                                     
                                   

               NAIL POLISH INFO 

Brand: piCture pOlish

Name: Orbit
Coats For Opacity: 2
Collection: Mesh Shades
Year: 2012
Colour: Blue
Finish: Glitter

Formula: Big 3 Free, contains Formaldehyde Resin

Made In: Australia

Volume: 11ml

Price: $9.50 (AUD)

Where To Buy: 

piCture pOlish - $9.50
piCture pOlish Network Members

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piCture pOlish - Pshiiit

piCture pOlish - Pshiiit 

I'm sick so this post is short and sweet. 

Pshiit was created in collaboration with Camille from Pshiiit Boutique. I used three coats because I still had a tiny bit of visible nail line after two. 

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               NAIL POLISH INFO 

Brand: piCture pOlish

Name: Pshiiit

Coats For Opacity: 2

Collection: Collaboration

Year: 2012

Colour: Green

Finish: Shimmer/Flakie

Formula: Big 3 Free, contains Formaldehyde Resin

Made In: Australia

Volume: 11ml

Price: $11.50 - $16.37 (AUD)

Where To Buy: 

piCture pOlish - $11.50
Pshiiit Boutique - 13,00 €

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piCture pOlish Blog Fest 2012

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.

Today is an exciting day for polish lovers! Today myself and about 80 other bloggers will be showing you swatches of new piCture pOlish shades! piCture pOlish is one of my favourite brands and I'm proud to say that they are Australian owned and made! I think the Blog Fest is a great way to show off piCture pOlish shades by flooding the nail blogging world with swatches.

I love piCture pOlish bottles! Rectangular bottles with round lids are the way to go. They line up perfectly and fit neatly in my Alex storage unit. The two shades I was given to review are Amethyst and Tease.

piCture pOlish - Tease

2 coats

Tease is a new Mesh shade. It's silver glitter in a pink jelly base. The formula was really nice. I don't normally choose pinks but I really liked how this looked on me. This is a little gritty so you'll need top coat. I used to foil method for removal.

Tease is now available for purchase from piCture pOlish on-line and all the piCture pOlish Network Members.

piCture pOlish - Amethyst

3 coats

Amethyst is gorgeous, there's so much going on in this bottle! It has a purple jelly base, with blue shimmer and translucent flakes. It's like a purple version of Denim which I also love! The formula was a little thick but was easy to apply.

Amethyst is part of the new Collaboration collection and was jointly created by Susan from Star Trinkets. She's the piCture pOlish Network Member for Singapore. Amethyst is exclusive to piCture pOlish on-line and Star Trinkets.

Each piCture pOlish shade now comes with a QR label on the bottle. You can scan the label and it will take you straight to piCture pOlish on-line or a piCture pOlish Network Member depending on where the shade was purchased.

Both Amethyst and Tease are available for purchase today along with all the other Blog Fest shades, I've already got a list of the ones I want to buy. I'm really liking Orbit, Warning and Kryptonite. Keep an eye on the piCture pOlish Blog Fest Pinterest board for more swatches.

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The products in this post were provided for review.

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GMU Friday: piCture pOlish - Mask-a-rade

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.

piCture pOlish - Mask-a-rade

2 coats (layered over a black base)

Mask-a-rade is from the Opulence range that was released earlier this year. Mask-a-rade has multichrome hex glitters in a clear base. The colour shift goes yellow, orange, red, pink, green, blue then purple. The multichrome glitters look the same as the ones in the Ozotic Elytra collection. It's like all the Elytra polishes in one bottle.

This polish is now a limited edition but there are still bottles available for purchase on piCture pOlish on-line so if you like this one get it while you still can.

Visit these blogs for MOAR GLITTAH!

Shaina - SG Nails

Rebecca - Polished Peripherals

Kelly - Kelly's Kolors

Kaz - Parisian Blue Sky

Mam Glam  - GlamOnTheCheap

piCture pOlish polishes are available from:

• piCture pOlish
• piCture pOlish International Network Members

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GMU Friday: piCture pOlish - Peacock

Yay Friday! I'm always excited for Friday but today more than most because my best friend came back from a 6 week Europe trip today! :)

piCture pOlish - Peacock

3 coats

Peacock is from the Opulence collection that was released earlier this year. It has small green hex glitter and very short green bar glitter with green shimmer in a purple base. Most of the swatches I saw of this were layered over a dark purple but it does build up on it's own.

Visit these blogs for MOAR GLITTAH!

Shaina - SG Nails

Rebecca - Polished Peripherals

Kelly - Kelly's Kolors

Kaz - Parisian Blue Sky

Mam Glam  - GlamOnTheCheap

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piCture pOlish - Aphrodisiac

piCture pOlish - Aphrodisiac

2 coats

Aphrodisiac is a dark purple shimmer. It's got some fine silver shimmer in it when you look closely. It looks dark indoors but you can see the shimmer on the light. The formula was great. I bought this from piCture pOlish.

Also have you heard the saying bad luck comes in threes? Well that happened to me recently. First was smashing my iPhone screen, second was my computer monitor breaking and third was losing my fought-nightly train ticket. I actually asked my boyfriend to break something of mine after my monitor broke so I didn't have to wait for the third bad thing to happen. Luckily I could get a replacement monitor but I hope it's a while before i'm hit with three bad things again.

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piCture pOlish - Hypnotic

Because of the boring posts over the last few days I decided to give you two interesting posts in the same day to try to make up for it. If you didn't see my other post for today I'll link to it here after I wake up because I'm not sure if I can link to a scheduled post before it's posted.

Shade 

Sun

Lightbox

piCture pOlish - Hypnotic

2 coats over black 

Poshe top coat 

Hypnotic is on of the three new piCture pOlish flakie covers. Hypnotic is a Green/Blue/Red flakie polish in a milky base. I wish this one was more pigmented too but at least it doesn't put the cloudy haze over the base as bad as Splendour does.The saying on the bottle is "flake out it's a state of mind!". I think I may have flaked out when I got these in the mail yesterday.

Shade

So now that you've seen all three of the piCture polish flakie covers you might be wondering what it looks like if you combine them:

Shade

Sun

Lightbox

piCture pOlish - Festival + Splendour + Hypnotic

1 coat of each over black

Poshe top coat

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piCture pOlish - Splendour

Shade

Sun

Lightbox

piCture pOlish - Splendour

2 coats over black

Poshe top coat

Splendour is one of the 3 flakie covers recently released by piCture pOlish. I didn't think we would see Splendour and Hypnotic until next year but they are available now. Splendour is a yellow/orange/red/green flakie polish. The little saying on the bottle is "magnificent, brilliant flakie finery" and I have to agree but just like Festival I wish these were a little more pigmented. Two coats is just enough coverage for me but it starts to put a cloudy haze over the base colour.

Splendour looked similar to Nubar - 2010 so I've compared the two below:

Shade

Sun

Lightbox

I used one coat of Nubar and two coats of Splendour for the picture above so you can see how much more pigmented 2010 is. Splendour has more irregular shaped flakes than 2010. Other than that they seem to be almost identical.

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piCture pOlish - Festival

I managed to get home early from work after the Christmas party so I had time to swatch Festival. There was barely any sun left in my backyard and it kept disappearing behind the clouds so some photos aren't in the best light. Please excuse the state of my nails, two of them are broken and I need to grow them out so I can shape them properly.

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Festival over Black

2 Coats

Festival is a multicoloured flakie polish. It has orange, yellow, green and blue flakes. This is gorgeous! I used two coats because one coat wasn't enough. The formula was thick but I think that's because it's a suspension nail polish base. If your going to wear top coat over this either make sure it's dry, or wipe off your brush after each nail, otherwise you will get some stray flakes in your top coat.  The black I'm wearing is just a no name $2 shop black nail polish, the brand is "e". This is still available from piCture pOlish, I got mine during the pre-sale.  piCture pOlish is bringing out more flakies next year! You can see previews on their website. Here's the  macro shot:

Here's Festival over other colours, you can see the sun light slowly decreasing in each photo. I ran out of sunlight while doing Denim but I included it anyway.

Festival over piCture pOlish - Bombshell

Festival over piCture pOlish - Wisteria

Festival over Sally Hansen - Pronto Purple

Festival over piCture pOlish - Watermelon

Festival over piCture pOlish  - Denim

So what do you think of piCture pOlish's first flakie? I love it! I can't wait for the others. One looks like it's a blue/aqua/red flakie and the other looks similar to Nubar 2010 a red/orange/green flakie.

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