BYS Orchid Ice

It’s been a while since I’ve bought a BYS polish. I picked up this beauty and a few others from the same collection a few months ago from Gloss Cosmetics.

 

This is Orchid Ice, two coats. What a gorgeous, glowy magenta foil. Simply stunning!

 

I bought another purple and a blue from this same collection and I can’t wait to try them.

 

Em

Blog Sale!

Hey everyone!

It’s that time again! It’s blog sale time!

 

I’m culling my stash because I just have way too many polishes … it’s getting ridiculous! So take a look and see if there’s anything you’d like.

 

Postage will be quoted depending on how much you buy. I CAN ship internationally but only under 500g.

Please leave a comment on which polishes you’d like and it will be on a first come, first serve basis. Leave your name and email address and I’ll email you an invoice through PayPal. I will be in Adelaide until Tuesday so probably won’t be able to check this until Tuesday evening. Happy buying!

 

Em

 

B (salon brand) – 2 different pinks (unnamed) – $1 each. Ulta3 Strawberry Sundae – $1. Rimmel Tangerine Queen – $1, Milani Photo Flash – $2.

 

 

BYS Anyone for Tennis, Steal the Limelight, Pink in a Blink, Ladies that Lunch, Goldfinger – $2 each.

 

 

BYS Baby Pink, French White, Pink Manicure, Matte Grey – $2 each.

 

 

BYS Hollywood Hills, Pretty Pastel Peppermint, Sunshine, Colour Change Blue Glitter – $2 each.

 

 

Cherimoya 2012 Crackles – Apocalypse, Typhoon – $2 each.

 

Kleancolor Disco Ball, Purple Sparkle, Holiday Jingle, Firework – $1 each.

 

 

essence The Dawn is Broken – $2, essie Real Simple – $5, Zoya Angella – $5, Zoya Lisa – $5

 

NYC Colors Lemon – $0.50c, Ulta3 Lemon Tart – $0.50c

 

 

Bloom – Maui, Copenhagen – $2 each, Nicole – $5 (used for approx. 3 manis).

 

 

Miki minis – red w/ gold shimmer – $1 each, blue-green – $1. Chemistry 618 – $5, 609 – $5 each.

 

 

piCture pOlish Nude & Violet Femme – $6 each.

 

 

Modelista Sao Paulo – $3. duri Devil Wears duri – $5, k.k. unnamed gold & blue-green – $1 each.

 

 

rokk96 Silver Screen & I’ll Be Frank – $5 each. Color Club Foiled collection Antiquated & Lumin-icescent – $4 each.

 

 

Mode Cosmetics – Trendsetter, Blingin’, Style Magnet, Midas Touch – $1 each.

 

Revlon Ocean Breeze (scented), Blueberry Burst, Apricot Freeze, Pina Colada Pop – $3 each.

 

The Face Shop PK105 (Pink with purple flash) – $5 & RD301 (Orangey red scattered holo)- NEVER USED – $8 (RRP $14.95).

BYS–Drop in the Ocean

Wow, BYS have really done it this time. This relatively newish polish is absolutely STUNNING.

Take a look:

WOW. This photo does not do it justice even a little bit. This is a gorgeous medium teal colour but my camera refuses to pick up its true colour and Photoshop refuses to come to the party and let me adjust the colour accordingly (or I’m just not doing it properly ).

 

The formula is amazing and it almost covered in one coat. I did two just to be safe. The wear was fabulous! I had a little bit of chipping on the third day but that’s because I was doing hot stone massages for half the day and kept dragging my nails along the stones (which I loathe. It’s like fingernails down a blackboard to me).

 

I did some pretty nail stamping with my trusty Red Angel image plates:

I used Konad Special Polish in Pastel Blue. I really love these Red Angel plates. They have amazing images and they are fantastic quality for such a low price. I think you can only get them on Amazon!

 

What do you think? Do you love this colour as much as I do?

Em

Adelaide Christmas Haul!

I picked up some awesome polishes while in Adelaide over Christmas and New Years. Some were presents, some were ones I bought for myself. Are you ready? Here we go!

BYS

A Drop in the Ocean. I’ve been wanting this blue for ages and finally picked it up. It looks like a gorgeous, gorgeous vibrant blue.

Essence
I have been lusting after Essence glitters ever since I saw them on quite a few Aussie blogs. I picked up the two that appealed to me most:

Blue Addicted and Time for Romance. Jam packed full of glitter. I’m in lurv!

I also got some from the Vampire’s Love collection because they had some pretty unique colours which jumped out at me. Excuse the shocking photo.

The Dawn is Broken, Gold Old Buffy, Into the Dark and True Love. I cannot wait to try Into the Dark, which is a beautiful blue with a silver glitter through it.

Mimco
Do you know, I didn’t even know Mimco made polishes?! B’s mum got these for me as a Chrissie present and I love them.

Russian Red and Nude. I’ve tried the Russian Red on my toes already and it is stunning. It’s a one coater (which stains the cuticle like crazy, mind you!!). I can’t wait to try Nude.

Inglot

203 (flakies, eeee!) and XL7.
I’m a bit mad at myself because I wanted the blue flakie. I picked it up and gave it to the shop assistant and she said they had run out… she showed me XL7 quickly and said “it’s pretty much the same but it’s the same price for a bigger bottle”. I should have clicked that there was no way they were going to be selling the same polish in a bigger bottle for the same price!! XL7 is gorgeous, but it’s definitely not a flakie. Grr. So now my hankering for the blue flakie still remains.

Revlon
$4.95 for a Revlon polish when they are up to $17 in pharmacies – can’t go wrong!


I picked up these three Glimmer Glosses because they looked so perdy. This is Blueberry Burst, Apricot Freeze and Pina Colada Pop. Can’t wait to layer these babies!

Sportsgirl
My sister got these for me for Christmas. I’ve never tried the Sportsgirl polishes before but they look like gorgeous colours!


?? and Lucky Star. I can’t actually see the name of the beautiful dark teal polish because it’s rubbed off the label. Can anyone help me out here?

Ulta3
Ulta3 have released yet another gorgeous collection, their Gelati Collection.
These have to be my absolute favourite Ulta3 colours yet. They are perfect for summer!


Violet Rumble, Kiwi Kaos and Lemon Tart.


Blue Heaven, Strawberry Sundae and Mango Mayhem.
These are all gorgeous colours, what I’d call bright pastels. I can definitely see a skittle mani in the future!

NYC Color
I picked these three polishes up in a service station on our way out of Adelaide on New Years Day. For any non-Aussies, a service station is a gas station/petrol station.
They were 3 for $6 so I jumped at them!


Gold Coin, Bronzed and Copper Penny. So perdy. B picked them out for me and I can’t wait to do some tape manis with these.

How do you like my haul? That will be all the hauling I’ll do for a while now. I have so many polishes to try!!

Em

BYS Matte Royal Blue with OPI Last Friday Night

I was stumped as to how to paint my nails today. I chopped them all down so they were even length and eventually settled on BYS Matte Royal Blue.


Two coats. This was a great formula. Quite sheer, but covered pretty well in two coats. I would have done three if I haven’t layered something else on top of it. It’s such a pretty colour. I think I’m going to have to wear this one on its own some time, with a top coat, of course. BYS’ Matte formula is different to the matte velvets like what OPI and Zoya make. It reminds me of the Illamasqua rubbery finish.

I was originally going to do some nail stamping in white, but then a certain pretty I’d been lusting after for a long time caught my eye: OPI’s Last Friday Night from the Katy Perry collection.
This is one of the first OPIs that caught my eye back when I only had a few nail polishes. Way back before I started reading blogs and before I became obsessed with all things nails.

I layered two coats on top of Matte Royal Blue:

So, so pretty. I couldn’t believe how much glitter came out onto the nail in just one coat. I did another one just for extra bling
I really love this combo. I have Teenage Dream from the Katy Perry collection and I’m definitely going to be layering that one sometime soon, possibly over a dark pink.

I love glittery nubbins

Em

BYS Hunter Green & OPI Not Like the Movies

I’ve got a double whammy for you guys today! I wanted to try one of my new OPIs and I chose Not Like the Movies from the Katy Perry collection. I’ve heard there are two versions of this: one that is duochrome and one that is not. I’m happy to report that I definitely got the duochrome one

 

First, I painted on two coats of BYS Hunter Green. This is a super dark green and it’s almost black.

The formula was great and I loved how glossy this was even without a top coat.

 

Then I did two coats of Not Like the Movies:

Gorgeous, huh? Let’s see some more of that gorgeous green and purple duochrome:

 

 

 

So, so pretty! I truly love this polish. I know I’m a bit late on the bandwagon with it but I’m so glad Kate got this in the US for me. I’m getting more and more addicted to duochromes and multichromes!

 

Do you love a good duochrome?

Em

BYS Fool’s Paradise with Double Dotties

I fiiiinnally filed my nails down to squovals. I’ve had them round for so long and I was getting really bored. I wasn’t sure about how good squoval looked on me until I saw the photos, but I actually love them!

 

Here’s BYS Fool’s Paradise:

Such a lovely, bright teal. I was most impressed with the formula because it just went on beautifully in two coats and it wore amazingly well.

 

I decided to liven it up a bit with some dotties:

I’m not sure if you can see but these are double dotties. I did the large dots with BYS French White and then slightly smaller dots inside the white dots with essie Borrowed & Blue. I should have picked more contrasting colours but it was more noticeable in real life! My osteopath said these nails reminded her of Easter! I must keep that in mind for next year!

 

This polish reminds me a lot of piCture pOlish Marine. What do you think?

Hmmm, on second thought, it doesn’t. It’s totally different. Marine is much brighter and bluer than Fool’s Paradise. How funny that you think they’re the same in your head until you see them side by side!

 

Happy weekend!!
Em

BYS Colour Change–Glitter Blue

I totally forgot about this BYS Colour Change polish in my untrieds drawer. I got this way back in Cat’s birthday giveaway.

This is the Glitter Blue colour change:

It’s sheer, really sheer. This is three coats and I still have visible nail line. It’s a super pretty and glittery pale blue, but my hands must be HOT all the time because it always stayed this colour.

I ran some cold water over my nails and they slowly turned dark blue on the tips. I quickly ran back to my study/nail room to take a photo and did just in time. Don’t mind the water droplets!

 

If only it stayed this way all the time.

 

Do you have any colour change polishes?

Em

Water Marbling using BYS Reign Supreme and Matte Black

My second water marble, woo hoo! This attempt turned out so much better than the first, and I did it for my good friend Alicia. She wanted it matched to her Halloween costume, a purple and black witch costume. We both agreed that these nails were perfect:

 

This is her right hand. I really, really like the white. That’s the great thing about doing a white base nail colour, it goes with everything! My favourite is actually the little finger. It’s black and then has a wavy line of purple and then white. It looks awesome!

 

This is her left hand. Alicia’s favourite was her ring finger and mine was her middle. Look at that cool white line through the purple on the middle finger!!!

 

I used two coats of Nailene French White for the base. It’s a great white to use as a base because it goes on smoothly and is opaque in two coats. Then we used lanolin to protect her fingers and used BYS Matte Black and BYS Reign Supreme for the marbling. Love it!

 

What do you think?
Em

BYS Reign Supreme with Revlon Galaxy

I haven’t worn a BYS polish in a while (two weeks, maybe, that’s a while ) so I thought I’d try one of their new ones, Reign Supreme:


This is two coats. A pretty, pretty colour, but it wasn’t really anything special. The formula was amazing, possibly one of the best I’ve used.

I’ve developed an aversion to wearing polish with nothing on top (apart from holos, of course!) so I added some Revlon Galaxy as feature nails:

There is so much going on in Galaxy. I tried to capture the sparkle, I truly did, but my camera kind of freaked out and refused to cooperate. But you can see in the bottle there are fine holo glitter particles as well as bigger silver hexes. I originally thought the hexes were circles, but they have very small sides to them.

I’m just not feeling glitter at the moment. Has anyone else “gone off” glitter?

Em

BYS Urban Jungle with Konad

What a lovely, lovely colour this is. This is another of the BYS colours I chose in Cat from The Khromazone’s big birthday giveaway.

Urban Jungle:

Gorgeous Amazing formula, this is two coats. It could have easily been one but I’m pedantic like that. Unfortunately it didn’t have much staying power and I chipped my little finger the day after I applied it. But even so, gorgeous and well worth adding to your collection.

I bought some cheap cheap image plates off eBay and received them yesterday (they got here so fast)! So I tried a couple of images out:

 

A cute flower (Konad Princess Special Polish in Deep Purple and Jungle Green) and butterfly (in Red). Quite cute

These image plates I got are pretty good for the price. I’ve already noticed a couple of images which don’t work too well, but you get what you pay for!

 

I think the best thing about Urban Jungle is that there are so many options for multi coloured Konad-ing. Just about any colour looks good stamped onto it (except maybe hot pink, but you never know, it might work!!)

 

What’s your favourite colour to stamp on top of?

 

Em