Another OPI for you ladies today! This is Mermaid Tears from the Pirates of the Carribean collection:
Two coats. Perfect. I can’t rave enough about these Pirates polishes. They are my all time favourite OPIs. Love!
This is an unnamed Chi Chi polish I got in a set at Christmas time last year:
This is a lovely purple creme. Two coats. The whole set of polishes (I believe there were 8) is gorgeous. Such a good buy for $19.95!
Em
This is everyone’s favourite OPI, I think. I’ve seen a lot of blog posts about it and I have to admit, it is beautiful.
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Absolutely Alice, three coats. This is packed with blue and gold glitters of different shades. It applies really well for such a glitter bomb. I used it over a PVA base coat and I really wanted to keep the peeled off bits of Absolutely Alice. Haha, does that make me sad? I’m okay with that 
Do you have AA?
Em
I got this beauty in a grab bag from the lovely Carli of Vintage Musings of a Modern Pinup.
OPI Jade is the New Black, two coats. Gorgeous! I love, love, love this! I’ve really been into greens lately and this is a good one! This wore amazingly, too. Good job, OPI!
And of course, a little stamping for good measure. I use a plate I got from Aliexpress and the Konad pastel purple special stamping polish.
Do you think Jade is the New Black? I’m starting to think so 
Em
The OPI Pirates of the Carribean collection would have to be my favourite collection out of any polish brand ever. I know, big call right?
But check out this beauty:
This is two coats of Steady as she Rose. It had a lovely, buttery formula and just looked divine on the nail.
I can’t fault any of the polishes in this collection. They are all such lovely creamy, dusty pastel shades that I am always drawn to. Well done, OPI!!
Do you love these as much as me!?
Em
I have a bit of a built up of photos happening since I’ve been slack with blogging. I’m not sure of an exact number but it would be well over 100 polishes to blog about 
Whoops!!!
So here are a few of my favourite OPIs.
The first is a fairly hard to find polish from the Shrek collection. It’s one of my favourites!
What’s With the Cat-itude is a beautiful eggshell blue. Two coats, a creamy formula which was easy to apply. This colour really flattered my skin tone.
DS Signature is one of my favourites too. A beautiful medium pink linear holo. Two coats, such an easy formula for a holo. *Drools*. What’s not to like about this?!
Stranger Tides from the Pirates of the Carribean collection is one of my favourite neutrals. This is a bit of a strange colour but it is just so flattering. It’s a green toned neutral.
I layered Peita’s Polish Sky’s The Limit over my ring fingers and thumbs. This Peita’s Polish is a custom made just for me which I got from Peita when she was my Secret Santa in the Aussie Nails Facebook group last year. I love this gorgeous mint green and white glitter combo.
Hope you enjoyed!
Em
Evening, ladies!
Hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New Years. I sure did! I got plenty of polishes as well as a new light box, other beauty goodies and other things. I was thoroughly spoilt!
Today I have some Catrice spam for you. These are from a swap I did with a girl in The Netherlands. Without further ado:
ACid/DC:
This was a stunning lime green shimmer that I loved. Two coats was all I needed for full coverage and the shimmer was just so pretty and vibrant.
Sold Out For Ever:
Another pretty green. This was such a lovely pistachio green creme which really flattered my skin tone. Two coats, awesome formula.
Hip Queens Wear Blue Jeans:
I was actually a little disappointed in this colour. The bottle showed a stunning electric blue shimmer but it just didn’t translate onto the nail which made me sad 
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Anyway, this was a one-coater polish but I did two coats to be on the safe side. Looking back at this photo makes me want to chop my nails down to nubs again.
I added a coat of OPI Pirouette My Whistle to jazz it up a bit. The colours go together quite well, don’t you think?
I neeeed to get some more Catrices!
Em
I’ve been loving Cult Nails lately. The creator of Cult Nails, Maria, has done such a fantastic job at producing unique and wonderful colours.
I was feeling creative so I applied two coats of Cult Nails Untamed:
This is a gorgeous Barbie pink with a lovely micro-shimmer throughout. Two coats gave me great coverage and it wasn’t uneven or patchy at all.
I then blinged it up:
I lightly painted some OPI Teenage Dream on the tips in a gradient pattern and stuck rhinestones in a half moon design on my thumbs. I loved it! I felt so, so girly.
Next up is Time Traveller:
Such a lovely deep midnight blue creme. Unfortunately the formula was a tad thick and gloopy, but I get the feeling my bottle could have done with some thinner.
I couldn’t leave this alone so I added a few things:
With one coat of China Glaze White Cap a gorgeous gold shimmer top coat. Lovely! I stamped some stars from the Cheeky plates on in Konad Yellow.
What do you think? Are you as much of a Cultie as I am?
Em
Oh how I love this polish. But I also loathe it so much I had to get rid of it.
This is OPI Swimsuit…Nailed It! From the Miss Universe collection:
Stunning? Right? This is two coats of the possibly one of the most stunning polishes I’ve seen.
What’s the problem then, you ask? It stains like a MOFO, Honestly, I had it on for less than six hours because I made the mistake of layering blue flakies on top and it just didn’t work. I took it off and promptly got a bad case of the Smurfies. Blue fingers, blue cuticles, blue nails. RARRRR! It took some vigorous buffing and a long time in the shower scrubbing the rest off my skin and picking rogue blue bits off my skin to get my hands clean.
Such a shame. I Googled this polish and it’s a common problem. Why, OPI, Why!?!
Did you get a bad case of the Smurf Hands when you used this polish?
Em
Here’s another one of the polishes I grabbed from my friend’s moving sale. This was part of a Vodka Cruisers range (for the non-Aussies, Vodka Cruisers are pre-mixed Vodka drinks). This one doesn’t have a name, so here it is:
Beautiful blurple creme. I had such trouble capturing this one on camera! It is a bit more purple than this in real life.
Formula was excellent and wear time was a little average but I think this was a pretty cheap polish so I wasn’t too fussed.
I added some OPI Red Shatter over it for something different:
The red goes quite a nice shade of deep blood red over this colour. I liked it 
What do you think? Have you seen these polishes before?
Em
I’m almost through all my OPI NYC Ballet Collection polishes. Ah, what a good collection. This is the pale purple of the collection, even though both in photos and on the nail it looks pink!?
This is Care to Danse? Three coats. The formula wasn’t as great as the others I’ve tried but still not too bad and evened out with three coats. I did some Konad stamping over the top in silver which was so pretty and girly, I loved it 
You can’t go wrong with these polishes, do you agree?
Em
Why did I wait so long to get the OPI Miss Universe collection!? What a stunning collection of polishes! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, OPI are awesome at their smaller, 4-6 polish, collections. I think their 12 polish collections are a bit overkill and a bit greedy. I generally only ever want a few polishes out of the larger collections but I tend to want most of the smaller collections.
Anyway, enough babble and onto the pretty polishes!
Congeniality Is My Middle Name (two coats) and Crown Me Already! (two coats). This photo doesn’t do Congeniality Is My Middle Name justice. It’s a pretty, deep magenta with a lovely shimmer. Formula was not too bad but it stained the hell out of my cuticles which made for a long clean up time.
Crown Me Already! is beautiful! It’s a super chunky silver glitter with fine and large glitter and large hexes. Again, the photo doesn’t do it justice. I don’t usually like chunky glitters but this one is a real exception.
Do you have this collection?
Em
Hello there!
Wow, it feels like a long time since I blogged! I’ve been painting my nails a lot lately but I just haven’t really been inspired to blog. Not sure why, I just haven’t ‘felt’ it!
Anywhoo, let’s start this off with a beautiful OPI DS polish I picked up on Catch of the Day, an Aussie deals website, a few months ago.
This is DS Extravagance:
Two coats. Beautiful! This had a great formula and awesome staying power. I just love these polishes. I’m not quite sure what to call this finish though? It’s kind of glitter but not … the only appropriate term I feel that I can use is ‘diamond dust’, which is how OPI market these polishes (as containing diamond dust).
I still have a few DS’ left to try, but as I’ve said before I tend to keep them for occasions when I’m feeling down and need a little cheering up. Hey, everyone has their ways of cheering themselves up, right!?
Em
When I want a pretty, delicate looking mani which will ‘cleanse’ my nails of all the crazy colours I’ve been painting them lately, I reach for one of my trusty OPI NYC Ballet Collection polishes.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. I love these polishes. I love them to the point where I can see myself running out of some of the colours. This is almost unheard of in my world! Perhaps I should get backups? 
Anywhoo, this is the white from the collection, Don’t Touch My Tutu:
So, so pretty. Three coats. This was probably the worst formula out of the ones I’ve used but it still wasn’t bad. It was a tiny bit troublesome in that I had a couple of bald spots when I went over the same area but that was a minor inconvenience which I sorted out pretty quickly. If this is the worst formula, I’m in love!
I freakin’ love this polish. It is so pure and pretty and is such a nice, clean slate to work with. Am I mental for being so in love with a collection of polishes?!
Anyway, as pretty as it was on its own, I really wanted to try some more of my Fab UR Nails metallic stamping polishes.
This time I tried the metallic blue:
Freakin’ AWESOME!!! This time I didn’t have any trouble with the design drying quicker than normal on the stamper. The Metallic Blue worked perfectly and I absolutely love the colour.
This is a Bundle Monster design which I’ve been wanting to use for a while. I got so many comments on these nails!
The only thing about these Fab Ur Nails stamping polishes … they stink like Kleancolors! So they’re definitely not 3-free. But for someone like me, that doesn’t matter!
Have you been rockin’ the NYC Ballet Collection polishes like me? 
Em
Today I have another polish from my beloved OPI NYC Ballet Collection 
This is You Callin’ Me a Lyre?
This is the darker pink of the collection. There are two pinks! This is so, so pretty and dainty, I love it!
Three coats, which seems to be the norm with this collection. But the formula was beautiful and once again, you can build up the opacity to your liking and it doesn’t streak or get bald spots.
I tried out my new Fab Ur Nails Metallic Pink stamping polish with one of my Konad Plates:
So pretty and vintage This Fab Ur Nails stamping polish is pretty dang good! It’s not quite as easy to use as the Konad Special Polish but you just have to adjust your technique a little. I scraped a little softer and stamped a little quicker because I found the polish dried quicker than the Konad polish. Gorgeous colour, though! I got the whole set of polishes which includes Gold, Metallic Turquoise, Silver and a couple of others!
Have you tried any of the Fab Ur Nails stuff?
Em
I’ve been using my OPI DS polishes sparingly lately. I like to bring them out on a special occasion, like when I’m feeling a little blue and need cheering up.
This stunner is enough to brighten up anyone’s day!
This is OPI DS Magic:
Oh, and it truly is magic. A beautiful glittery, shimmery blue/purple duochrome. I found it really hard to get the purple to pop in the photo but you can see it a little in the bottle. It is a real stunner. It’s very bling bling without being over the top.
I think this is my favourite out of all the DS’ I have 
Which is your favourite?
Em
I was so looking forward to the OPI NYC Ballet Collection. As soon as I saw Scrangie’s swatches I knew I had to have ALL of them! I’ve been searching for the perfect french polishes for so long and I had a feeling these were it! I was actually a little scared that the collection wouldn’t live up to my expectations.
Well, I needn’t have worried. This collection is AMAZING!!!!
This is My Pointe Exactly:
A gorgeous light grey milk jelly. Can you say perfect?! I am so in love.
This was three coats. The awesome thing about the polishes in this collection is that you can build them up to the opacity you want. One coat adds a pretty shine and polished look to your nails, two coats adds more colour and three gives you the beautiful squishy jelly look above.
Of course, I had to try out Pirouette My Whistle, the lone glitter of the bunch:
Ahhhhhhhh! I love you, Pirouette My Whistle! So beautiful! Silver microglitter with tiny little silver hexes. I actually thought they were circles at first but upon closer inspection they are very subtle hexes.
Stay tuned for more of this collection because I can’t seem to stop wearing them 
Em
I’ve been a bad blogger again! Sometimes life just gets in the way and polish falls down the list of priorities. Gasp, I know! It’s hard to believe I used to have to paint my nails every night or at LEAST every second night and now I’m lucky if I get a chance to do it three times a week. My evenings, which used to be my polish time, have been filled with massages lately.
Anyway, this is the polish I wore on my birthday this year:
Gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. A new favourite. This is just BEAUTIFUL. I could not stop gawking at my nails. Perfection in a bottle 
This was two coats of OPI It’s My Year. I’ve been eyeing this off for a long time and finally borrowed it off my good friend Kate. I am definitely going to have to buy this one. How can you resist this?
Gorgeous formula, pretty decent wear time too! Winner all round
Em
My friend Kate came over the other day to meet my new kitten Max, and she mentioned that she was looking for the perfect red polish.
I had just the thing for her! So we sat down and I gave her a mani:
Mimco Russian Red, two coats, and OPI DS Bold as accent nails on the thumb and ring fingers, also two coats.
Russian Red is THE perfect red. You will never find another red as nice as this one. I know that’s a huge, sweeping statement but it’s true!
Unfortunately Mimco only sell this in a duo pack with another colour, “Nude”, but you’re lucky because that is a gorgeous colour too!
Kate loved her nails and, two days later, reports no chips in Russian Red and just one in DS Bold 
Em
These OPI DS’ are gooorgeous. There’s just something about them which really does scream quality. I love normal OPI polishes too but these just seem worth the extra money.
Here is OPI DS Classic:
Pretty holo goodness! This is such a lovely, classy colour. I got so many “WOW, look at your nail polish!” comments when I wore it outside.
This is two coats, fantastic formula and awesome durability. You don’t see many scattered holos in this colour … in fact, I don’t think I’ve seen any others.
I’ve still got quite a few DS’ to get through. The hardest part is which to chose next!?
Em
Wow, this is one seriously bling-y polish.
I’m not sure what else to say, so I’ll let the picture do the talking:
This is OPI DS Temptation. Gorgeous purple glitter polish with blue and silver glitter.
Insanely crappy formula due to the insane amount of glitter, but totally worth it. This was so shiny and sparkly, I had loads of compliments. My clean up was less than average because of the stubborn glitter which stuck to my fingers, but it still looks awesome 
Do you like the bling?
Em
