piCture pOlish Blogfest 2012 - Amethyst & Orbit

Hi Everyone!
I am so excited to be a part of this, this year. Last year i missed out because i had only just started blogging. This year i was hoping that they were going to do it again, so as soon as i saw they were asking for bloggers i emailed them straight away. I got two polishes to review, Amethyst and Orbit.

piCture pOlish - Amethyst                         piCture pOlish - Orbit

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Amethyst up first.

Amethyst is part of a collaboration collection which was jointly created by piCture pOlish and Susan from Star Trinkets (their Singapore network member). Amethyst is a dark lavender purple with a subtle blue shimmer and glass flecks - basically a purple version of Denim. Formula was a little on the thick side, as it is with all their polishes, manageable though. This was two coats, no top coat.

Orbit is up next.

Orbit is a dark jelly-like purple packed full of silver micro glitter. It is not a metallic or a foil. This is part of their new "mesh" line. Again, formula was on the thick side but manageable. This was two coats with one coat of Seche Vite.

I decided to not stop there and do some nail art with both polishes. I have been really loving the interlocking design here i showed a few weeks ago, so i decided to do that again with these polishes.

It turned out awesome but the pics don't do it justice and for some reason it was hard to photograph. It was very shimmery and very shiny. 

Both these shades, and all the new PP shades will be available from today directly from their website or a network member (please check the website to find out your nearest member). Amethyst is exclusively available from the PP website or Star Trinkets herself (Singapore network member). piCture pOlish also ships overseas from their website, or check out a network member as mentioned above.
If you want to keep updated with the release of each new polish and more swatches, check out piCture pOlish's Facebook page.

Products were sent to me for review

See you tomorrow everyone as i am continuing on into some more Australian polish with The Great Aussie Polish Challenge. 

Interlocking nail art

Hi all!

I have some nail art for you all today! I haven't done any nail art in a while and i was excited to finally try this. I have seen this around the nail blogging scene a few times now and I love how it came out. I will definitely be doing variations of this in the future.

I used two colours from the "You" cosmetics brand which you can find in most Terry White Chemists here in Australia, they retail for $2.99 each. I picked up a few to try and am definitely heading back for more. They have an awesome formula and opaque in two coats. You could get away with one coat of the purple if your lucky (i used two) Unfortunately these don't have names, just numbers. The Purple is Shade 002 and the Teal is 005.

I started with alternating the colours on each finger, like in the swatch picture above. I waited until it was fully dry (i actually did this the night before as i am impatient haha) I then used tape, any kind is fine and taped off my nails diagonally from one corner to the next in the top part. I used the other colour and painted the rest of each nail (two coats again), peeling off the tape straight after the second coat. I then got out my dotting tool and using one of the big "dots" i dotted one colour on the joining line, about the same sized dot apart, then used the other colour on the other side of the line in-between the gaps. I hope that all makes sense. Let dry for a few minutes and then i added one coat of Seche Vite quick dry.
Next time i try this i will try and make a tutorial for it =)

Excuse my crappy dry cuticles in this awful winter weather.

Hope you enjoy! What colour combination would you like to see next?

See you soon! 

Kel xo