ANM: Stripes theme

Hello.. Quick post for y'all- Melbourne has been soo very hot recently, I'm simply going to add some pics and a description of polish that I used at the end..

Stamping:

(outside)

(inside)

(inside)

Base polish: Revlon- royal, color club- harp on it, max factor- fantasy fire (thumb)
Stamping polish: color club- harp on it, Revlon- royal
Image plate: CH6
tips- same as base polishes.
striping tape removal (thumb)
seche vite topcoat

Striping tape:

(shade)

(sun- sparkly holo glitters :)

(outside- thumb is featured again!!)

Base polish: Butter London- yummy mummy
holo silver striping tape (gift)
top colour:Bourjois- 19 (pink holo glitter)
seche vite topcoat

Members:
Elissa - Lissa’s Polish Addiction
Bec - Nail Gun XS
Marie - Marie’s Manicure Madhouse
Sarah - Shatter Me Claire
Chantelle - A Polished Prance
Teneil -Shades of Phoenix
Nicole - The Epitome of Superficiality
Bec - Lacquer Dreams
Naomi - NananaisNails
Eboni - Enamoured With Enamel
Adelle - Adelle1985 (Instagram)
Kelly - Kelly's Kolors
Rebecca - Polished Peripherals
Rosemarie - Every Little Polish
Melissa - Mel My Issta
Natalie - Walk In My Eyeshadow
Jennifer - JennLojko (Instagram)
Erin - Erinzi’s Nails
Astrid - Lovessweetas (Instagram)
Jasmyn - Jas’ Blingtastic Nails
Kate - Mckfresh (Instagram)
Jessica - Maedaynails (instagram)
Elizabeth - Lili_Bete (Instagram)
Cassandra - The Reluctant Femme
Tammy - Jibber Jabber
Julia - Messy Mansion
Ann - Nailovelogy
Ronda
Theresa It's All About The Polish
Katie - Pretty Polish Please
Melissa - polished_off (Instagram)
Jennifer - jennersx (Instagram)
Rachael - thepolishedclaw (Instagram)
Julz - Julzperrinails
Caylah
Tash
Jane - Nails In Oz
Jasmine - Nailed By Jasmine
Sylvia - lilyandjinks (Instagram)Genna - Eternal Dreamer
Tammy - http://ohmygoshpolish.blogspot.com.au/

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My weather prediction for Aussie Monday

Hello.. welcome to another ANM..

ulta3- spring shower (2 coats) Gloss n Sparkle- mirage (2 coats)

 

I love the holo-ness of the chunky glitter in the mirage polish.

 

As this weeks theme is weather I added some stamping.. 

 

Base polish: ulta3- spring showers, Gloss'n'Sparkle- mirage
Stamping polish: BarryM- silver foil
Image plate: CH36 (sun/clouds)

 

The pics are a bit shocking, but I love the polish and still had to show you..

Links to the lovely ladies from Aussie Nails:
Elissa - Lissa's Polish Addiction
Bec - Nail Gun XS
Marie - Marie's Manicure Madhouse
Courtney - Tales from the Makeup Bag
Sarah - Shatter me Claire
Chantelle - A Polished Prance
Teneil - Tee Bee's Nails
Nicole - the epitome of superficiality
Bec - Lacquer Dreams
Naomi - NananaisNails
Eboni - Enamoured With Enamel
Katie - Pretty Polish Please
Adelle - adelle1985
Rosemarie - Every Little Polish
Rebecca - Polished Peripherals
Debbie - All Things Charmed
Melissa - Mel my issta
Natalie - Walk In My Eye Shadow
Jennifer - JennLojko

Kristy - The Polish Haven
Em - Nails in the Desert
Erin - Erinzi
Brie - Strawbrie

 

See you next Monday for a theme I'm yet to try, but very popular :)

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Birthday- Aussie Nails Monday

Hello..  Welcome to The inaugural theme to celebrate the Aussie Nails Monday (ANM) challenge, undertaken by a fab group of ladies who love ploish and reside in Australia.

My nails depict all that I love about birthdays. Cake, yum! And taking photos so we can look back on the memories and laugh.

 

Base polish: Sally Hansen insta dri- rushing rubies
Stamping polish: konad- pastel pink (hearts), konad- black (frames), BarryM- silver foil & Avon- cozy brown (cupcake)
Image plate: BM317, BM320, BM307

Candle: Hex glitter- silver holo, Essence- silver striper. 

Tips- Barry M- silver foil. 

Elissa - Lissa's Polish Addiction
Bec - Nail Gun XS
Marie - Marie's Manicure Madhouse
Courtney - Tales from the Makeup Bag
Sarah - Shatter me Claire
Chantelle - A Polished Prance
Teneil - Tee Bee's Nails
Nicole - the epitome of superficiality
Bec - Lacquer Dreams
Naomi - NananaisNails
Eboni - Enamoured With Enamel
Katie - Pretty Polish Please
Adelle - adelle1985
Rosemarie - Every Little Polish 
Rebecca - Polished Peripherals
Debbie - All Things Charmed
Melissa - Mel my issta
Natalie - Walk In My Eye Shadow
Jennifer - JennLojko

Kristy - The Polish Haven
Em - Nails in the Desert
Erin - Erinzi
Brie - Strawbrie

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25- Inspired by fashion. [30 day challenge/ untrieds]

Hello.. I'm glad you can't see what I'm wearing while I type this.. it's nothing bad, just washing day limits the choices.
Onto today's mani for day 25- wow, nearly the end of the [30 day challenge/ untrieds].

My inspiration comes from the design in my favourite party dress. See pic below :)

Base polish: franken of Bourjois base smoother
Stamping polish: ulta3- orchid
Models own- sterling silver
Black nail flowers
Image plate: BM306

Take a look at others who have found fashion inspiration..

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14- flowers. [30 day challenge/ untrieds]

Hello.. I've got a late mani for you today, busy week :)
Great ideas that everyone has had for the same topic each day on the [30 day challenge/ untrieds].

Base polish: essence- movie star + savvy- purple viking
Stamping polish:  essence- passion for fashion + TBN- pewter
holo flat nail jewels
Image plate: BM320 (Giant flower)

I had sooo much trouble getting good pics to put put up, it loooked all shiny and colourful in person, but the camera wouldn't capture it for me :)

 

Super blurry pic, but I can clearly see the flower on the side of my pinky.

Last pic, shows the nice flower on my pointer.

 

 

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Pole-ish or pol-ish: My week in nails

Hello.. the past week has been so cold, and with the London Olympics- the Australian team need my support my showing you all my colourful recent manis ..

I rummaged to find my Aussie brands of polish in our colours of green and gold.

The easiest mani I could think of, I couldn't find any stamping that was sporty or Australian themed.

Also I did this mani, with the plain yellow accent nail. I love the depth of colour in the green polish.
I bought it from Sportsgirl.

The green and gold had done its job, Australia finally won some gold medals. After all the Bronze and silver we'd won I chose to wear them plain for a few days each.

3rd place: BRONZE--  Face of Australia- Bronze
2nd place: SILVER-- nails inc. for Cleo- Cleopatra's kiss
1st place: GOLD-- Face of Australia- Gold

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2011 Nail designs retrospective.. PART 3..

I was stalking the forums looking for ideas for nail designs when I came across the wonderful vogue forums, with a thread dedicated to ulta3 nail polish.

I went to the Warehouse Sale in April 2011 and purchased other beauty stuff, but my faves are the Ulta3 nail polishes I stocked up on.

18 nail polishes all up- 1 ulta3 was for free with voucher, 1 covergirl brand, 2 silver nail art, 2 pink nail art.
so in total 13 ulta3 polishes.
the colours were a bit, blah, but cause they were discontinued or left over stock I thought I should grab them while they were still available.

The week later I also went to my local Terry White chemist to stock up on these snazzy looking ulta3 polishes-- bargain price of $2 each..

 

you want to see a nail design using the ulta polish?
Here it goes..

Base polish: ulta3 twilight fever

Stamping polish: TBN silver

image plate: BM20 (ferny design)

-- with the top coat, it was so hard for me to capture the true beautiful shimmer colours in the base polish.

Base polish: ulta3 blossom fever

Stamping polish: konad pastel blue

image plate: BM16 (zebra print)

-- I loved the base polish, it also had a beautiful shimmer to it (red), but the nail design reminded me of blue vein cheese- I also think I had it stamped on upside down?

The blossom fever is much the same colour as the ulta3 i also have in baby pink.

The slight differences are the shimmers, with blossom fever having the red and baby pink having a whitish pearl shimmer.

Both lovely and both different :)

This is of ulta3 twilight fever again. bad camera- sorry you can barely tell.

Base polish: ulta3 twilight fever

Stamping polish: konad white

image plate:BM05 (thumb), BM18 (tips)

-- This is a bit of a dodgy job on the tips- still practising?- but i love the thumb design.
* credit for this design is from someone who popped up in google images..

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2011 Nail designs retrospective.. PART 1..

These are the konad stamping polishes I purchased from wowsocool.com in Jan 2011.
Konad: White- Black- Light Blue- Pink- Pearl Purple- White Pearl- Red- Clear Top Coat.

I purchased the Bundle Monster nail stamping image plates because they were so cheap and had great reviews on the net.

The first nail stamping design was because of valentines day (Feb 2011).

Base polish: TBN silver
tips: SH pink
stamping polish: konad pink, red
image plates:BM02 (lips), BM09 (LOVE)

I only have 1 konad image plate- M79.
I purchased it off eBay, after accidentally putting $99 in the biding box instead of $0.99- anyway i ended up paying about $7 for it, way much more that i wanted to..

Here's some nail designs I used it for:

Base polish: old avon in pink
stamping polish: konad white
image plate: M79 (lace on a diagonal)
-- A valentines contest on facebook for OC nail art where you had to do designs on a hand and a foot.

Base polish: BYS In da club (n197- neon Blue)
Stamping polish: konad white
image plate: M79 (clouds)
-- This was for the school sports day (March 2011)- Blue house- we won !!


Next post will have all the fantastic Bundle Monster designs..

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