GMU Friday: Icing - Signature Runway

Sorry this is late again, I ran out of time to edit photos after I got home last night. Icing  - Signature Runway 3 coats Signature Runway has small square red glitter in a black base. I thought I could get away with only two coats but I noticed some bald patches so I used three coats. Icing is a brand that I wish was available here in Australia! I bought this polish from a blog sale. Visit these blogs for MOAR GLITTAH! Shaina...

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China Glaze - Midnight Ride

China Glaze - Midnight Ride 2 coats Midnight Ride is from the Rodeo Diva collection from 2008. This is a deep eggplant base with a purple shimmer that's only visible in bright light. Most of the time this looks almost black. Not sure whats going on with m hand, major lobster fingers! I only just realised that I own three polishes from this collection, and all of them were bought at different...

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Artsy Wednesday: Ombre

The theme for Artsy Wednesday this week is Ombre! An Ombre manicure is shading from nail to nail using five nail polishes from the same colour family. I left out my thumb from this manicure. Here's the colours that I used: Index: Essie - Lilacism Middle: Ulta3 - Violet Rumble Ring: Ulta3 - Royal Fever Pinky: Ulta3 - Gooseberry See what the other Artsy Wednesday girls did this week: Michelle - Lab Muffin Holly - Hooked! Maria...

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O.P.I - Sea? I Told You!

O.P.I - Sea? I Told You! 3 coats Sea? I Told You! is from the Sunbelievable collection from 2009. It's a blue shimmer with metallic blue micro flakes. There is also a very subtle purple/pink flash. I wore this on a cloudy day so maybe it's more visible in sunlight. I noticed it in the bottle under artificial light. You can see a little bit of purple on the edge of my index finger. I've been told this is now discontinued...

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VOV - Blue Night

VOV - Blue Night 3 coats Blue Night is a gorgeous blue and purple duo-chrome glass fleck shimmer. As with most duo-chrome polishes most of the duo-chrome doesn't show up on the nail. LabMuffin recently layer a polish over black which brought out the duo-chrome so I thought I'd try it but unfortunately it didn't help this polish. I found this polish whilst holidaying in Bali. VOV is a Korean Brand, I tried to navigate their...

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GMU Friday: Wet n Wild - Night Prowl

Wet n Wild - Night Prowl 2 coats Night Prowl has pink glitter in a black jelly base. The formula was really nice, perfect in two coats. I'm not sure how old this polish is or what collection it was from because I bought it from a blog sale. I had the day off today and was able to make a significant dent in my latest project; swatching all my polishes on swatch sticks. I had them all swatched on wheels but was never a fan of the system...

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Born Pretty Store Stamping Plate M66

Born Pretty Store Stamping Plate m66 Born Pretty Store Stamping Plate m66 is a dupe of Konad plate m66. The scratches on the plate are from me, I forgot to take a photo of it before using it. The plate comes with clear plastic covering the front and no backing paper. I didn't realise there was plastic over the front of the plate at first. The plastic is so thin that you can easily feel the designs underneath. It was only when...

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Artsy Wednesday: Inspired By Nature

The theme for Artsy Wednesday this week is Inspired By Nature! The nature that inspired me was a tree in our backyard that I assumed was just a plain tree. When winter hit Sydney it started flowering like crazy! Colours used: Pretty Serious - Morning Java China Glaze - Holly-day Ulta3 - Lily White Stamping Plates used: Bundle Monster BM05 Bundle Monster BM14 I started with a base of Morning Java then stamped the leaf design...

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Liang QiEr - L-014

Liang QiEr - L-014 2 coats I was impressed by the Liang QiEr magnetic polish I reviewed last time so I wanted to try another one. This time I chose a green shimmer. It's formula was easy to control but the smell was a bit strong. The magnet worked well, I held it next to my nail for about 20 seconds. I was actually able to do a wear test because I haven't had time to do my nails lately. I wore this polish for three...

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May/June Haul

I didn't do a May haul so this is May and June combined. I don't plan on buying any more polishes this month (hopefully). I picked up these polishes from Kaz's Blog Sale. I might have gone a little crazy, but in my defence they were cheap, pretty and some shaped like ice cream! unknown - unnamed blue shimmer unknown - unnamed green shimmer Wet N Wild - Night Prowl L.A. Girl - Dark Purple O.P.I - See?...

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Revlon - Royal

Revlon - Royal 2 coats Royal is gorgeous blue jelly polish. It's a popular base for Max Factor - Fantasy Fire and that's actually the reason I bought this (also it was on sale). The formula was fine except it had a weird smell to it. After being around nail polish for a while I've become used to the way both the 3-free and pre-3-free formulas smell but I've never smelt one like this before. It smelled like the polish had gone off or something,...

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GMU Friday: China Glaze - Emerald Sparkle

Yeah I know, it's Saturday but I still wanted to post this. China Glaze - Emerald Sparkle 2 coats Emerald Sparkle is from the Wizard of Ooh Ahz collection from 2001 Edit: Sorry guys, I got my info mixed up with this one. This is actually from the Love You Snow Much collection from 2009. It has small emerald green glitter in a deep green jelly base. This had great coverage.  Visit these blogs for MOAR GLITTAH! Shaina...

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Artsy Wednesday: 3D

The theme for Artsy Wednesday this week is 3D! The 3D theme just meant sticking stuff on your nails and for some reason this was the first thing that came to mind. I had this manicure planned for a while now, so I was excited for this week to finally come. I painted one nail at a time with top coat and then dipped it in a bowl of sand. I didn't put any top coat over the top and it dried like sand paper. Think glitter x 10. I think...

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Ulta3 - Magnetic Collection

A while ago (might have been last year) I had a dream that I went to my local chemist and found Ulta3 magnetic polishes! I was so disappointed when I woke up and realised it was only a dream. Then last month Ulta3 announced their new magnetic polishes. It was a dream come true haha! I found the collection last Thursday but didn't realise that there were five different magnet designs so I only picked up three. Also...

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