L’Oreal Rue de Montmartre with Nailz Craze stamping

This is one of the manis I’ve done lately that’s gotten the most compliments. I’m pretty chuffed with it myself!

 

I started with a base of L’Oreal Rue de Montmartre:

Two coats. Delicious! This is a lovely deep blue creme. As usual, L’Oreal’s brush made application easy and awesome.

 

Stamping with Nailz Craze plates. Isn’t this just adorable!? Winter sweater nails Granted, I did these when it was over 40 degrees here but I think I was just channelling colder weather. Our air conditioning has been broken for six weeks now and I’m a little over it.

 

Do you like the winter sweater nails?

Em

Color Club Cloud Nine

It’s not often that I open with a photo. But look, just look!!!!
Color Club have really raised the bar in regards to holo polishes. This is Cloud Nine from their 2012 Halo Hues collection. I can’t believe it took me so long to get this polish. It is just so pretty and so, so holo.
Two coats and the formula was perfect. I even wore a top coat with no issues.
WINNER!

What’s your favourite holo at the moment?

Em

Girly Bits Mother May I?

This was one of the first indies I acquired. I got it in a grab bag, I think. I really wanted to like it. I really, really did.

 

See? What’s not to like?! A lovely pale purple jelly base with all different shapes and sizes of red and blue glitter. This is three coats on top of a PVA base.

I don’t know, I just don’t like it on me. It didn’t wow me.

 

Do you have it? What do you think?

Em

Chanel Blue Boy

This is one of my favouritest (yes, great English but I’m excited!!) polishes EVER. My lovely partner was good enough to get me my most lustest after polish collection for Christmas: the Chanel Les Jeans Collection.

I was just so excited to wear them and I knew just which one I’d wear first.


Blue Boy. A perfect dusty denim blue. This is two coats and I just love it. I wore this to Adelaide and it lasted with only minor tip wear for over five days. Kudos, Chanel.

I did some funky nail stamping to complete the look:

Pretty, right? This image plate was from Cheeky Beauty and it is so fun!

Do you have any Chanels?
Em

Rimmel Night Before

A few months ago I was in Adelaide with the lovely Kristy from The Polish Haven, Sarah Claire from Shatter Me Claire and their other nail-a-holic friend, Margie. We popped into Gloss Cosmetics and Kristy convinced me to try this baby. Oh, I’m so glad she did!

 

Rimmel Night Before. Two coats. This was very nearly a one coater but as I can never bring myself to do just one coat, I did two.

This is such a stunning deep purple with a lighter purple/pink shimmer. It it a real stunner and I wish I could have captured its true beauty.

 

Good job, Rimmel!!

Em

OPI Steady as She Rose

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

p2 Barbados Punch

I have another p2 polish to show you all today. This is Barbados Punch, from the “Mission Summer Look!” collection. I got this in a swap probably about a year ago and it took me so long to get around to wearing it!

 

It’s a lovely pink, but nothing special really. I have a few pinks just like this. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still pretty! This only took two coats to be opaque.

To jazz it up I decided to do some multi coloured stamping.

 

What do you think?
Em