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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Hibiscus Nail Design with Essie Navigate Her and Essie Play Date

Good morning, I came across these two colours in my drawers and knew I wanted to do a design with them together. I started out with plans to do a tape mani but once the white was dry I decided to try a hibiscus again. I did do one over a year ago and wasn't sure if it would work ok so this time there is no tutorial but I will do a pictorial tutorial soon. I used Essie Play Date for the bright lilac and Essie Navigate Her for the green. I free handed the hibiscus and used the usual decals for the chevron. I love the colours together, it may be autumn here but it's still fun to wear bright colours.

Have a fabulous day, Tx.

Friday, May 16, 2014

Cate Ruby - Prissie Lou and British Blue daisies

I love jewel colours! I received these polishes for Mother's day and just had to do a look with them together. I guess I've followed the age old phrase, blue and green should never be seen without a colour in-between and while I love this look it's not a rule I agree with. I love blue and green together :). I used a white base on my pinkie and middle finger, then taped the stripes and used a coat of Prissie Lou to make the stripes. The daisies were made with my dotting tool.

Happy Friday, a huge yay for the weekend it seems to have been a long week Tx.

Saturday, March 1, 2014

Sea Siren skittlette - Motion of the Ocean and Bronzed Siren

I love mint green so much but hate that it turns my hands into red lobster hands :(. Still I love it enough to keep wearing it and enjoying it. Today's look uses Sea Siren Motion of the Ocean and Sea Siren Bronzed Siren. I used striping tape for the lines and a med small dotting tool for the flowers. Apart from having reddish hands I really loved this look.

Review and swatches of Motion of the Ocean and Bronzed Siren coming up next.

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Dotted Flowers - Rose Gold and Green nails

I'm always in love with Zoya and green so this polish is no exception :). This is Alexa and it's such a pretty shade, unlike any other greens I own and I own quite a few lol. It was a delight to apply and I chose to pair it with the pretty Rose Gold Penny Talk from the Essie Chrome range. I then did simple flowers based on a design on IG by falguni_nails. I do adore that green and really like the end result. I wish my pinkie nail would grow! I have some wonderful polishes to swatch for you soon.

Hope you're avoiding the heat wave if you're in Australia, I'm over it already!! Tx

Friday, October 11, 2013

Wave of Polish - Dotting Tool Flowers

I love dotting tool flowers, they don't always turn out perfect but they look so nice. The pretty blue is China Glaze - Electric Beat, the soft pearl like pink is a England - Iseult and flowers are OPI - Mod About You, OPI - Sparrow me the Drama, Cate Ruby - Sky, Zoya - Trixie and Electric Beat again.

Wave of Polish auctions are still going great and it's a privilege to be involved in a community such as the nail art community who are so generous. Don't forget this next Tuesday is Pregnancy and Infant Loss awareness day and we'd love you to do pink and blue nails for the day to expand our Wave of Polish around the world.

Take care, Tx

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Hibiscus mani

This look was based on a design by http://lusterlacquer.blogspot.com.au/. I wanted to try to paint Hibiscus, they are far from perfect but I'm pleased how they turned out. I use Zoya Dove on my Index and pinkie nails and piCture pOlish Peaches n'cream for the zigzag/chevron and Hibiscus petals. The darker orange is butter London Trout Pout. I free handed the flowers and used decals as guides for painting the chevron.

Hope you're enjoying your weekend, Tx

Monday, September 23, 2013

AN Monday - Inspired by a Blogger

Today's theme is a mani inspired by another blogger. I chose this on http://pshiiit.com/2013/04/03/nail-art-fleuri-avec-bourjois-et-essie/ by Pshiiit. I adore everything she does and would love the have just half the skill she does.

For my base I used butter London Blagger - a gorgeous royal blue creme that applied like a dream. The flowers are five dots with white and the ring finger and middle of the flowers are Essie Beyond Cozy. I love little dot flowers and this is a great look for spring time.

Hope you had a great weekend and that you all saw yesterday's post. Follow one of the links and join in!!

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Aussie Nails Monday Spring

I'm a day behind but I still wanted to do a spring mani. I followed a tutorial by Nailed it that you can find here. This month my blog turns one and I've decided to do a few then and now manis. This look I used in October 2012, a couple of months after I started my nail addiction and it's interesting to see the difference. This time I used Essie Bobbin for Baubles as a background and China Glaze Flip Flop Fantasy, Essie The More the Merrier and OPI No Room for the Blues for the flowers. I really like it and think it's a fun spring look. I also popped a matte top coat on and I just love it matte as well.

Hope this week is going well for you, Tx

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Monday, April 22, 2013

Aussie Nails Monday - Flowers Zoya Paloma

This look is based on a look by Oliveview Fashion, I just loved it and loved the 3d effect of the design. I don't think mine shows the depth as well, but for next time I know to do more flowers and overlap them more. It was a little painful to do, lots of time waiting for jelly to dry or dots to dry.

So I began with one coat of a jelly Zoya'a Paloma, I did two flowers with OPI Mod About You and waited for them to dry. Next stage I did the same thing but with only one flower, this is where I should have done more. I continued until I had the above design. I think it's 5 coats, so lots of waiting though the wait time on the jelly was less than I thought it would be.

In the end I still really like the look and know how to improve next time :)