Friday Triad: Inspired by Pshiiit

So we back with another Friday Triad and this time round it was Joyce's turn to choose our inspiration. So she chose this mani done by Pshiiit. Thank goodness this was a picture tutorial as it's in french!! But also thank goodness for google translate! The only trouble I had was the polishes.

I started with a coat of Essence play with my mint on all my nails. I then used Sinful Colors rise and shine, piCture pOlish escapades and Parental Advisory Polish happy ending.

I didn't use a stamper to smoosh it, as I every time I've tried it I didn't get the desired effect. Once I did all my nails I top coated for vinyls. I didn't have a lot of shimmery polishes, so I settled for happy ending to add that little extra.

I used different vinyls too from the original. The black is Essence black is back. So this was awesome. I enjoyed looking at my nails and catching a glimpse of shimmer, but nothing over the top.

What do you guys think? I can't wait to see what the other ladies have come up with and now it's time to start thinking and working on the next Triad! It's Michelle's turn to choose and I know it will be a goodie.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Friday Triad: Inspired by...

We finally decided on a post name!! So here is the first Friday Triad of the year! It was my turn to choose, so I chose this mani done by Thea over at Madness Nails! I really hope she'll find it in herself to start blogging again one day, because I looooooove her posts. They so funny and quirky and keeps making you go back for more. I wish I had her way with words.

Anyway, so of course I started with one coat of Sinful Colors snow me white on all my nails. Then While that was drying I went one on one with a makeup sponge and tore it to pieces. Aaaand then nothing, since I had to chose the colours I was going to use and I was drawing a blank... Guess that's the downside of owning such a lot of polishes. Too spoilt for choice. BF wasn't much help as I asked him, but eventually I settled on the 5 polishes I would use.

Essence - love is in the air - yellow
Essence - beijos de brazil - green
Orly - 2hr lunch - pink
Color Club - ms socialite - purple
Sinful Colors - rise and shine - teal
Topped with Parental Advisory Polish - happy ending.

I did one colour at a time and sponged it on my nail using the pieces of sponge. Once all of that was kinda dry I used some dotting tools and snow me white to make the dots and top coated.

I wish I could have taken a better picture that shows off the flakiness of happy ending. Even with the flash it doesn't do it any justice.

What do you think? There was quite a few inspirations using this look. I was a bit meh about it, but it quickly grew on me especially with all the compliments I got!! Although it's a little awkward trying to explain to someone how to do it and people requesting to take pictures of it!!


Thanks for reading guys and I look forward to Joyce's choice for next month. Nevermind seeing what they came up with for this!

Twinsie post with Michelle: Inspired by Michelle

We at it again... Doing twinsie posts... They may become triplet posts (tripsies? tripletsies?) Joyce from What's on my nails today? may or may not join us... Depending on her schedule. But I kow she's joining us today. So the theme for the upcoming posts will be "inspired by". This month we doing by each other, but from the new year(as we (meaning Michelle) will be taking a break over December), each of us will pick one mani off our lists to recreate. Taking turns and hopefully this way we will shorten the list. And if we happen to have each others name, we will redo our own mani. Because how many times have you not thought of doing it differently?

Anyway, so for today's one I decided to do this mani. I wanted to start off easy...

I didn't copy Michelle's design as I wanted to put my own twist on it. It is "inspired by" after all, which is apparently different to "recreating". I don't know, anyway I started with two coats of Parental Advisory Polish fuck me boots on my pinky, two coats of I love Hean black on my middle finger and two coats of Hean 273 from the Jungle Pop collection. Top coated and waited for that to dry.

Once that was dry I used the "extras" from the diagonal alley vinyls from becauseishop as I couldn't find my straight vinyls. I need a better way to organise my vinyls, any tips? So I taped sections off. On my index and ring finger I used I love Hean black and on my middle finger I used Hean 273 to paint in the gaps.

And of course a flash pic just to show off that holo goodness.

What do you think? I really liked this mani, it's so elegant. Do head on over to Michelle's and Joyce's and give them some love. I do know what mani Michelle wanted to do, I wonder if she changed her mind. Mine is a surprise though and so is Joyce's.

I can't wait for my left hand thumb to be decent length again. I hate this awkward hand pose.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Negative space and Tahiti

I hope everyone had a good weekend! Mine has been too short. Today's mani is totally inspired by jewsie_nails. I initially downloaded the pic from FaceBook and thank goodness there was a watermark, otherwise I wouldn't be able to credit her.

I started with 2 coats of Ulta3 Tahiti on all my nails. I got these polishes from BF's mom as a Xmas present. On my middle finger there is a bit of a negative space, for this I used a 'V' vinyl I got from We heart nail art. I added a silver square stud I got with my order of polishes from Parental Advisory Polish.

On my ring finger I used zig zag vinyls from Llarowe, but they are also available from We heart nail art. I top coated Tahiti before I added the vinyls and then one coat of SC Snow me White.

I was going to leave it as is, but I decided to add a matte top coat to my middle and ring fingers. Tahiti was so bright, it was hard to miss. Made me feel like everyone was looking at my nails! Guess that's the point right?

Thanks for reading!

Lady Lila's Happy Ending

Oh man I love this! When the post name just comes together and you can use only the nail polishes names.

I really loved wearing this mani. It was so pretty, I didn't want to take it off.

I started with two coats of Tip Top Lady Lila, named by wonderful Sam. Lady Lila is a blue toned lilac and boy, is it not pretty?

I added some rose decals from BPS that you can find here and I added one coat of Parental Advisory Polish's Happy Ending on my pinky, middle finger and thumb.

Look at that flakie goodness! OMGosh! The coverage that you get from one thin coat is amazing.

Are you seeing yet why I love this hard? I don't have words. One more pic if you don't see it yet....

If you haven't seen it by now, I don't think you will. I can't wait to use Happy Ending again. It's soooo pretty. Pity I couldn't get a full size bottle, I only have two mini's. But considering the coverage on one coat, I'm sure it might last some time.

What do you think? Do you luuuurve that flakie goodness?

Dirty Pickle's black chevron

I'm not quite sure how to describe Dirty Pickle from Parental Advisory Polish. It's an olive green filled with blue flakies. It is honestly not a very pretty colour, but the flakies. Omgoodness, the flakies. It really adds something else to this polish. This is two coats with no top coat. The formula is very easy to work with, but mind the drying time. I'm so used to my polishes drying super fast, that when I get one that takes slightly longer, I manage to smudge it!

Look at those flakies!!! The longer I wore this, the more I fell in love with it! Of course there's some art to go along.

I honestly didn't know what to do with this one, as it's such an odd colour. So I ended up using my chevron vinyls I got from Llarowe and SC Black on Black.

I'm loving my vinyls! The person that came up with it is a genius! I have a whole sheet full, so keep an eye out for more vinyls. And I have one more Parental Advisory Polish that I wanna show, so keep an eye out for that one as well.
What do you think of Dirty Pickle? Is it dirty enough for you? ;)

Llarowe winner

I haven't mentioned this on the blog before or at least not that I can remember....

But back in August last year, early one Saturday morning (before 6am, early) I got an email from a lady named Sheila telling me that I had won a $500 Visa Gift Card from Llarowe. They had this competition on their FaceBook page for getting 1 million likes. I read the rules, luckily there was some international prizes available and I took a chance.

Instead of getting the actual Visa Gift card, we opted to pay the money into my PayPal account. Which was awesome!!

Naturally I had to buy me some nail goodies!! And a lot of it. And I bought BF something too. This post is to show what I bought with the prize money. And it's in the order I received it. Obviously this took forever and a day with the postal strike that we had at that time. So some of these packages took months to eventually reach me. So obviously this post has been a draft for forever and a day too. So I'm am super stoked to finally share this!!

Firstly, the gift I bought BF. A robot from Portal.

Yea, BF is a real nerd sometimes. Although he claims he isn't.... This connects via USB to a pc and is motion sensitive. I've posted two videos to Instagram if you want to have a look. When it's activated it says some of the things the real ones do in the game.

Next I got me some Mont Bleu Crystal Glass nail files. I've been hunting for a decent glass nail file for a while and when I saw it, I think, on Lucy's Stash, I decided to take the plunge and buy it. I got two sets, one of which I gave to my mother.

Now I just need to learn how to shape my nails properly myself, because I totally suck at it.

Then I finally received the package I ordered from BPS back in August I think. Dotting tools, nail art brushes, decals, new stamping sets, stamping plates, stamping plate holders and decals. Some rhinestones and the glitter that you use for glitter placement.

If you want a close up of anything, or if you want to know what stamping plates it is, just drop me a line and I'll happily send you some shots.

Next up, is a package from Parental Advisory Polish. I ordered this back in November because there was an awesome discount going as it was Maranda's birthday. When I got this box, I for the love of me couldn't think who it was from. Imagine my excitement when I opened it! (I actually got two packages on the same day, but I opened this one first.)

I ordered fuck me boots, happy ending, dirty pickle and tiff's tush. OMG don't you just love those names! And Maranda was so kind to throw in some metallic studs and french tip guides. I love it, as I don't have any metallic studs and the tip guides are the skinny ones, which I think works better for some art than the thicker ones. Of course my mother claimed one of my happy endings (sigh).

The other package was from BPS. Some awesome decals and a nail polish bottle holder. To keep it from sliding around, which is a problem for me. I ordered two glass nail files here too, but obviously I'm sticking to my Mont Bleu ones. My mother claimed one of these ones already, even with the set I gave her.

There was also this random little packet with the package, that I (again) for the love of me don't know where it came from. In this packet was a stamping plate, decals, silver hexagon glitter, 3D flowers and loads of rhinestones. BF was like, I probably got some one else's order too. I actually think that when I placed this order BPS had a thing going that if you spent over a certain amount, you got a free gift. It's the only explanation that makes any kind of sense. Or there is actually some one out there that didn't get their BPS order.

I also ordered some polishes from Llarowe. I felt that I needed to order something from them, for the awesome prize I got. 

Isn't that just to die for? I mean, I have Emily de Molly polishes!! I got some vinyls as well and I can't wait to try them out.

There is some lightning, chevron and starburst ones.

And lastly, at least I think it is the last I ordered with my prize money. I mean it took forever!! Stamping plates and decals.

And more stamping plates!!

Double Stamping

I decided to have some back up mani's, for those times that I don't have time for a new mani or when I'm just being lazy. This is one of my back ups. I was super excited about this one, as I did stamping and it was exactly as I pictured! That doesn't happen very often for me.

I started with two coats of PAP's (Parental Advisory Polish) Fuck Me Boots. Again, how gorgeous is this polish?! Then I used the bottom right image on BPS M78 plate.

I used Sinful Colors Snow Me White and Tip Top Gold Mine to stamp with and I'm very impressed with how this mani turned out. Sure the white is a bit patchy here and there, but I don't care! I love it.

Here is a quick look at Fuck Me Boots again.

Galaxy nails

Okay, yea, so the title gives it away. But I had to. I tried out a new polish today, Parental Advisory Polish's Fuck Me Boots. Like OMG this polish is amazing, it's black with loads of gorgeous shimmer. It's beautiful! I think this is what you would call a holographic polish. This is two coats.

Here it is in direct sunlight.

Freak out!! It dries fast, there is some bubbling on my pinky, but I think that was totally me. So as I said the title of the post gives it away, I thought this polish would be the perfect base for galaxy art.

So I absolutely love it. I randomly sponged on Tip Top Lady Lilla, Broken Soul, Moonshine, Milkyway and Parental Advisory Polish's Happy Ending. I also added some random dots with Sinful Colors Snow Me White. Then I added some glow in the dark star decals from BPS on my index and ring fingers, the rest got a coat of Essence Special Effect Topper 101 Dalmations.

I'd love to hear your opinion... So drop me line and let me know.

P.S. I updated my stash list. So pop over and have a look at that too.