Glitter Me Up Friday

Hello :)

This is the first Glitter Me Up Friday post, so I decided to keep it simple. I just did a Leana Cosmetics glitter as the base coat, it has no name. And I used Kiss Nail Art Polish for the lines. I couldn't help myself doing a design. I dont really have much to say about this mani, so just look below for photos. I did pink glitter ombre nails on Monday, but I didn't take any photos and I used all the glitter so I couldn't do them again.

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Sally Hansen Base Coat
Leana Cosmetics White Glitter
Kiss Hot Pink Nail Art Brush 

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Most of my nails broke *tear tear*

It was a pretty simple mani, in the end I couldn't even come up with an idea.

The other lovely ladies doing Glitter Me Up Friday

Alanna from Pretty Purple Polish

Kaz from Parisian Blue Sky

Rebecca from Polish Peripherals

Mam Glam from GlamOnTheCheap

xoxo,

Shaina

P.S. Girls, you can do designs on your nails with glitter too. I forgot to mention that :)

Nail Art Practice Template

Hi Everyone (:

I was looking on google for a practice template for some nail designs. I couldn't find any so I made one. You can find it under the 'Downloads' button on the navigation bar. Please tell me what you think and if you like you can request some different shapes! What's there is sort of squoval, I can do all shapes, just let me know which one you want :)

xoxo,
~Shaina

Water Marbling

Hii! :)

Today I tried water marbling. Oh what a disaster. I didn't take any pictures, because it was so terrible.. It was my first time and with the help of my sister, it was decent, but stupidly thinking I could do better I cleaned my nails without taking photos. Ever since then I haven't been able to do them that well again.

I personally don't like this technique, its time consuming and messy. I used vaseline so I could easily clear the excess polish, but it was still really annoying to clean the dotting tools I used to make the design. I tried all the brands I own and Ulta 3 and OPI seem to work the best. NYC is ok too. I think I would rather do dry marbling, it's less messy and I like what I've seen. I also think it will be less time consuming.

I spent roughly 3 hours with all of my 3 attempts, about an hour each.

What was your experience with water marbling? Was it a good one? Send me your pics and comments! :)

xoxo,
Shaina

Glitter Me Up Friday (:

Hello!

I noticed a few little blogs have some days where they do something special, I know of 'Artsy Wednesday' which I found on Pretty Purple Polish (http://www.prettypurplepolish.com/) so I decided to make up my own day. Here's how it came about...

I was thinking of things that I have a lot of and really like and I came up with GLITTER. I asked my mum what day suits glitter and she said Friday. I guess that came from where we live, Friday is kinda a party night here, where a lot of people wear glitter and get really dressed up. So from now on, I will be posting glitter nails on Fridays! If you want to join it comment on this post, use the pic on this post and link to all the blogs you know of that are doing it (including me) Easy!! (: You'll be able to find the links of the blogs also joining in, in my next post.

xoxo,
Shaina (:

Gumleaf Mafia

Hey Everyone (:

I applied to be on the Gumleaf Mafia site and I got an email back saying yes!!! :D You may have noticed the cute little Koala on the sidebar click that and it will take you there. This is just a quick update post (:

xoxo,
Shaina (:

http://gumleaf-mafia.com/

Leana Cosmetics

Helloo!!

Recently I've been on the search for new colors brands ect. to get out there. I found a really cute little brand at my local "Prices Plus" Store that usually only stocks BYS that I've completely bought out. I asked my mum to get me some paddle pop sticks from there 2 days ago, and she quickly phoned me to tell me there was a new stand of nail polish. I went in and found this colorful array of a new brand called Leana Cosmetics. I bought 16 and 4 new storage containers for only $50!! What a bargain!!! Have a look below for photos...

^^ All 16 polishes ^^

^^ The worst brush, not that bad really, easy enough to use and the color looks great! ^^

^^ The fabulous crackle colors I picked up ^^

I really like the crackle, and the glitter is all really fabulous, I made a really vintage type of mani the other day, it just the glitter polish. It looks really nice and I was really happy with it.

I also did a quick google search on this polish and I couldnt find it anywhere, so I just assume its new or no-one has checked it out yet.

Have you ever seen Leana Cosmetics? Send me a comment with your thoughts.

xoxo,

Shaina

March/April Haul

Hello!!!!!!

Today I'm gonna share some pics of my March/April(ish) haul. I got some Ulta 3, and some coool stuff off eBay. Pics below.

xoxo,

Shaina ;))

Dotting Tools are here!!!

Hello Everybody!!


Guess what just got here??? Okay, so the title kinda gives it away, MY DOTTING TOOLS!! I ordered these off eBay last week and they got here this morning (Pretty quick seeing as they were from Tasmania).  I did a cute little Flower mani as soon as I got them. They were really easy to use, but I found my right hand was better because I was more used to it. I also did a mattte finish top coat, which looks fabo ;D The only thing I dont like is the white on the mani is a bit sheer D:  Look below for pics :)

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xoxo,

Shaina (:

China Glaze- Matte Magic Review

Hello :)

Something really exciting is happening in this post today, I'm using my own swatches!!! These are photos I've taken myself, so forgive me if they suck, they do show the main point though-- the matte.

Today I'm reviewing my first ever bottle of Chine Glaze, the first bottle I ever purchased of China Glaze. I had high expectations of this matte polish, and boy were they fulfilled. Read below for my most exciting review yet.

First up the Positives. I LOVE this matte polish. It's amazing, I could go ON AND ON using words to describe this AMAZING nail polish. I bought this item off eBay and it got to me over night, how fabo. I got to try it straight away, so I did some Easter nails. I fell in love. Then I did my current mani. This polish is great, I don't have to but matte polishes to get this affect, just add the matte magic top coat. The bottle was $9 with postage which was a bargain. It also lasts a long time, and seems to protect my nails better than my Sally Hansen top coat. I did some swatches on my swatch cardboard and painted half of the color matte and you can really see the different and fell it too. I don't love glossy top coats all the time, when I feel them, they seem 'sticky' like your finger gets caught, soft but it gets caught-- if you know what I mean. This matte polish when I feel it, it's like soft sand paper heaven. I just wanna keep touching my nails, which makes me look just the slightest bit weird in public. Everything about this polish I love. The formula is great, it's just amazing, nice and thin, but not yucky and runny.

Now for the negatives. For me, there are NONE!!! Ok, so there is just one. I want a bigger bottle of this stuff!!! I only have a cute 9.6ml bottle, so if any of you know where I can get a bigger bottle in Australia, let me know ;)

Here are the photos I took of my nails (: Sorry they aren't that good, it was my first time.

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Sorry for the messy nails, I didn't have time to clean them.

xoxo,

Shaina (:

Another Giveaway!!

Hi Guys,

Checking out some other giveaways, I found this one~~  http://glam-polish.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/1300-follower-giveaway-china-glaze.html  I LOVE China Glaze and I'm sure a lot of you guys do to, so enter!! :)

xoxo,
Shaina

My Love Hate Relationship With Metallic Polish

Hi Everyone :)

I decided to do a quick post about metallic. For some reason, my family keep buying me metallic nail polish. Most of it I love, but then there is pink and purple..... Some shades of these two just don't suit metallic and for me, they seem dodgy. I remember my first bottle of nail polish was hot pink metallic, at first I loved it, but then I really started to hate it. There was something about the color that really annoyed me. The color was something like this-

There is something about it, I just didn't like it. Like I said, I find the pinks daggy, I would never wear them by themselves. That said, I LOVE some of the pink out there, it's mainly the hot pinks I don't like. Then the purples, there are some of those that I really love too, but some are just disgusting.  Like I said, love hate relationship. I love some and hate others.

What do you guys think of metallics, are there certain colors you just don't like?

I love blues in metallic, they are magic for me <3

Please leave me a comment with your opinion :)


xoxo,
Shaina :)                                                                                                                                                                  

School Holidays

Hi :)

Today I'm going to do a post about what I plan to do these school holidays! :) Well really all I have planned is painting my nails (lol) so I was looking for some nail inspiration to test out with my new products from eBay that are on their way to me <3 These are some nail designs I wanna try and see how they go.

It's meant to be autumn here, but I really like the summer designs. I also want to try a matte french manicure, fingers crossed it looks OK. 

As for my eBay stuff, I had an update. I got internet banking!! :D I was suuuper excited about this because I can now pay instantly and it will only take 24 hours to get into the other person's account. I really want to get some more brands into my collection, so if any of you could comment me some links (Australia Only) for Essie or any other brand you really like. Must be BUY IT NOW and Australia only :) I prefer to buy in bulk :)

xoxo,

Shaina