ANM: black and white and AN Melb meetup

Hello.. Today is the Australia Day public holiday.. long weekend. yay!
[My previous blogged about black and white mani in September 2012.]

I'm using Aussie brand ulta3 for my mani today.

Base polish: ulta3- lily white
Stamping polish: ulta3- black satin
stamping plate: CH31
essie- 3 way glaze

---------------------- [mani for lunch with ladies from Aussie Nails] ----------------------

 

Base polish: models own- jade stone, chi chi- booty-licious, Gloss 'n' Sparkle- spectraflair topcoat
Stamping polish: ulta3- orchid, color club- cherbic
Image plate: CH40, CH14
poshe- topcoat

[We got the cutest group pic.. but I haven't sought permission to use it, yet.]

newly acquired:

Shades of Phoenix- Dionysus

 

rainbow honey- frozen flame.

Sportsgirl. Nail it!- northern lights

 

stamping plate- B68

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My green Aussie Christmas nails

Hello.. I've got my green mani to show you, as part of the Aussie Christmas Challenge.

Have you been having fun creating, taking part in this challenge? This theme today is a simple colour, and for me it represents the start of summer as the grass is lush and having picnics in the park.
After January our front lawn gets really dry and prickly.

Onto the mani, me reminiscing to childhood Christmases past in Australia, playing outside and having fun with other kids from the neighbourhood all day during the summer holidays.

 

Base polish: essence (seasons of extreme 4)- just the nude of us
Stamping polish: color club- angel kiss
Image plate: BM312
essie 3 way glaze topcoat

Pic taken outside, in shade

 

bonus pic: My first take on green nails- a hot mess jelly sandwich of

BYS- flashdance and ulta3- luck of the irish

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Aussie Christmas: 6 white things

Hello.. I did my mani a day earlier, and as I was putting the post together realised that what I thought was appropriate for today's theme, was so so so wrong..

 

 

Base polish: Sally Hansen insta-dri- Jumpin'jade
Stamping polish: konad- white, Barry M- silver foil, konad pastel blue
Image plate: BM214, BM213
Poshe topcoat

Check out the other fabulous participants.
Hope they realised that boomers are kangaroos and not flying deers like I did :)

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A mani christmas: Aussie style

Hello.. I had planned to do a month of manis, mostly nail art with a Christmas theme gathered from pinterest.

But then the awesome Elissa from Lissa's polish addiction  created a themed Aussie Christmas.

With postings every 2 days-- it's much more than you have seen of me recently, but I'm excited to do these as they have an Aussie twist on the traditional Christmas-y, red/white/green mani- especially as we have no snow here when it's Christmas.

The Red theme mani uses my favourite red polish at the moment.

Today I went to a breakfast, it was for a Women's group Christmas break up. I had done the following mani- black and silver, as well as a gingerbread man..

Then later in the day I splashed the red polish over the black, keeping the gingerbread accent nail, and headed out to the Melbourne Zoo for twilight Carols with 89.9 light FM

 

Base polish: ulta3- midnight fever, chi chi- my bad, bys- down the rabbit hole
Stamping polish: Barry M- silver foil
Image plate: BM222
micro beads- buttons
Poshe topcoat

 

Polish:  as above, plus China Glaze- ruby pumps

The Aussie Challenge has inlinkz, if you want to participate, head to Lissa's blog for the info here!!

See you soon for the next instalment in the Aussie Christmas Challenge, check out the other manis below.

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