Love Thy Polish - A Beautiful Mistake

Hi all!

I have a beauty from Love Thy Polish to show you today!
I was kindly given this to review from Sophie, who owns Femme Fatale Cosmetics. She is our awesome Australian distributor for Aussie & international indie brands that may be hard to get here.

It's no secret that Love Thy Polish is one of my favourite brands. I have shown them here, on more than one occasion before, including LTP week.

I was so happy when i saw that i got "A Beautiful Mistake" in my review kit from FFC. Not only did i already have a bottle (untried, bad me!) i now have a back up bottle :D, and trust me, you will want a second one too!

A Beautiful Mistake is a dark blue linear holo. Simple as that, super stunning! This was two coats shown in all photos, with one coat of Out the door QD top coat. Formula was amazing and easy to work with. 

Im actually still wearing this today, after wearing it all weekend. I had no chips up until last night when i was at work, but its the only reason i am taking it off now lol Such a beautiful colour and one i will wear again and again!

A Beautiful Mistake can be found here at Femme Fatale Cosmetics  along with a lot of Emma's other LTP polishes. They sell out quick, so you have to be quick. FFC also now ships internationally, so you can pick up this beauty just as easy if your living outside of Australia. This is also available through Emma's shop itself at Love Thy Polish.

Product sent to me by Femme Fatale cosmetics, for honest review.

Hope you all have a great week!!

Kel xx

Love Thy Polish - The holo's!

Hi all!

It's the end of Love Thy Polish week and even though i didn't post yesterday i have three awesome holo's to show you today to make up for it lol

These are due to be released on Thursday 15th Aug. So get your wallets ready as these are beautiful!!
All these holo's are absolutely stunning and are very holo-y (yes, that's a word :P )

First up,

Green Eyed Monster. A beautiful forest green holo. A little less blue than the pictures suggest.
This was 2 coats, but could easily go on in one!

Smurf's got the Blues. A beautiful dark denim blue holo. Perfect in two easy coats.

Marine Dream. This is almost smack bang in the middle of the two above. It's a teal green holo. A little more green than blue than the pictures suggest. Two easy coats.

If you're living in Australia, Love Thy Polish can be purchased directly from her website "Love Thy Polish" Most of her polishes are AU$9.50, Mini's are AU$6.50 but they are a big 8ml mini's. Holo's are AU$12.

If your living outside of Australia, Sorry this is not available but please check out MeiMei's Signatures as she has selected shades available, with worldwide shipping.

If neither option above suits, please beg and beg your closest vendor to stock Love Thy Polish ;)

Check out:

Lacquer Dreams

Lacquer and Leather

Pretty in Pink/ All polished Up

Kel xx

Love Thy Polish - The Only Snow in Town

Hi all!

Again, this will be super quick tonight as my sister decided to come up and stay for the weekend. Yaaay!!


Today's Love Thy Polish is The Only Snow in Town. It's such a pretty shade.

The Only Snow in Town has a shimmer white creme base with green micro glitter. This was three coats. Application was a breeze and i had no trouble at all. One coat of Wicked fast tc.

If you're living in Australia, Love Thy Polish can be purchased directly from her website "Love Thy Polish" Most of her polishes are AU$9.50, Mini's are AU$6.50 but they are a big 8ml mini's. Holo's are AU$12.

If your living outside of Australia, Sorry this is not available but please check out MeiMei's Signatures as she has selected shades available, with worldwide shipping.

If neither option above suits, please beg and beg your closest vendor to stock Love Thy Polish ;)

Check out:

Lacquer Dreams

Lacquer and Leather

Pretty in Pink/ All polished Up

Kel xx

Love Thy Polish - Gypsy

Hi everyone! Day 4 of LTP week!! I can't believe i have actually blogged 4 days in a row now! Record! lol This will be short and sweet tonight though, i just got home from work and am ready for bed.

Today's Love Thy Polish is Gypsy!

Gypsy is one of my all time favourites from LTP. It's everything i love in an indie polish.
Gypsy belongs to the Dreams collex, which was a collaboration between Emma (LTP) and Tammy (lacquer and leather, who is also doing LTP week) which was inspired by Fleetwood Mac.

I was lucky enough to score a free mini bottle when we all met up for the first time. I have since bought a full sized back up bottle i love it so much lol

Gypsy is a white milky based polish with magenta dots, turquoise blue dots and squares and a very fine sparkly holo like shimmer. <3
I used 3 coats and it was a Dream (haha get it?) to apply! I didn't have to fish at all for glitters but a tiny roll of the bottle between hands before application helps in grabbing more glitters.

Gypsy is still around for a little while longer so grab it while you can.

If you're living in Australia, Love Thy Polish can be purchased directly from her website "Love Thy Polish" Most of her polishes are AU$9.50, Mini's are AU$6.50 but they are a big 8ml mini's. Holo's are AU$12.

If your living outside of Australia, Sorry this is not available but please check out MeiMei's Signatures as she has selected shades available, with worldwide shipping.

If neither option above suits, please beg and beg your closest vendor to stock Love Thy Polish ;)

Check out:

Lacquer Dreams

Lacquer and Leather

Pretty in Pink/ All polished Up

Kel xx

Love Thy Polish - Shifty Smurf

Hi all!

Before i get onto my Love thy Polish post for today, i just want to let you know i have updated my blogsale! Please click HERE or the above blogsale tab.


Today's awesome Love Thy Polish is an unreleased beauty, Shifty Smurf!
It is one of 5 being released on August 15th. These are going straight into her core line.

*pic heavy*

Shifty Smurf has an awesome blue/green shift as well as a slight purple shift too, which is a biatch to capture as it's very subtle. Applied like a dream. 2 coats and 1 coat of Wicked Fast tc.

The purple shift is best seen in the shade.

If you're living in Australia, Love Thy Polish can be purchased directly from her website "Love Thy Polish" Most of her polishes are AU$9.50, Mini's are AU$6.50 but they are a big 8ml mini's. Holo's are AU$12.

If your living outside of Australia, Sorry this is not available but please check out MeiMei's Signatures as she has selected shades available, with worldwide shipping.

If neither option above suits, please beg and beg your closest vendor to stock Love Thy Polish ;)

Check out:

Lacquer Dreams

Lacquer and Leather

Pretty in Pink/ All polished Up

Kel xx

Love Thy Polish - I Shit Glitter!

Hi all!

Back for day 2 of Love Thy Polish week! If you missed yesterday's post, you can see it HERE.
Basically i am showing the awesome Love Thy Polish indie brand's awesome shades, at least one a day. There will be a few new unreleased ones in the mix too, so keep an eye out. You can also check out the other girls involved in it too, links are down below.

Today's shade is a Limited Edition which came out not long ago along side the Animation Celebration collex. Only 50 of these babies were released and as far as i'm aware there are still a *few* more left to purchase.


This is I Shit Glitter.

I Shit Glitter has an awesome dark chocolate brown base with tiny scattered holo particles through it. 

Name speaks for itself really lol The sparkle was a bit hard to capture, especially when there was no sun around today. This was two easy coats and one coat of Cult Nails Wicked Fast tc.

If you're living in Australia, Love Thy Polish can be purchased directly from her website "Love Thy Polish" Most of her polishes are AU$9.50, Mini's are AU$6.50 but they are a big 8ml mini's. Holo's are AU$12.

If your living outside of Australia, Sorry this is not available but please check out MeiMei's Signatures as she has selected shades available, with worldwide shipping.

If neither option above suits, please beg and beg your closest vendor to stock Love Thy Polish ;)

Check out:

Lacquer Dreams

Lacquer and Leather

Pretty in Pink/ All polished Up

See you tomorrow!!

Kel xx

LTP Week! Love Thy Polish - Take over the World

Hi everyone!
Welcome to Love Thy Polish week! Lacquer & leather, Lacquer dreams, Pretty in Polish and myself are showcasing the awesome Aussie Indie brand Love Thy Polish!

I will be showing at least one of her polishes per day so stayed tuned for some awesomeness!!

Today i have Take Over the World to show you.
Does that sound familiar? If you remember and loved the TV cartoon show Pinky & the Brain, you'll love this!

Take over the World is part of the recent collection "Animation Celebration" and is available now. Check below to find out where.

 Take over the world has a pale pink base with large red hex glitters and small white hex glitters. Application was a synch! This was three coats and one coat of C/N Wicked fast tc. The is opaque enough that it didn't need a base colour, which i thought it might need. There was also no fishing for the red hex glitter.

If your living in Australia, Love Thy Polish can be purchased directly from her website "Love Thy Polish" Most of her polishes are AU$9.50, mini's are AU$6.50 but they are a big 8ml mini. Holo's are AU$12.

If your living outside Australia, her polishes can be purchased from MeiMei's Signatures.

If none of the above suit, please beg and beg your closest vendor to stock Love Thy Polish ;) You won't regret it!

See you tomorrow!!

Kel xx

June Aussie Indie Box!

Yep, bit late to the party as usual lol!
Rachel from Glam Polish has put together a monthly polish box for Aussies! Yaaay! Finally we have something awesome that noone else has!

Most of you will have seen what's in and you can't get June's box anymore but here is what it contains.

Cute little box it comes in.

All neatly bubble wrapped up and wrapped in tissue paper.

Contents:

Love Thy Polish, Peita's Polish, Glam Polish, Alanna Renee, Lilypad Lacquer.

Three of the polishes from this months box were limited Edition. Love Thy Polish How do you Spell FBI? can be purchased from her store. I'm not sure about Alanna Renee Lenny. 

Swatches to come soon!

I was so impressed with June's box i immediately ordered July's box, which should be arriving any day now. If you want to order, you'll have to wait until August's box is up for sale which should be in a week or two from Glam Polish's Store for $47.99 plus $7.95 postage.

Kel xx

Nailene Calcium Gel Tip Kit review.

Last week i reviewed two of the three products i received from Nailene. Today i will be reviewing the third. 

I received the Gel Kit, which was awesome as i have a break in my index finger and i didn't want to round it off, so it was a great time to try this out.

The Kit comes with;

- Instructions

- Nailene Gel Overlay

- Nailene Gel Activator

- Tips in both white and clear

- Plastic dropper (not pictured)

- Nail file and buffer pad

The break on my index finger which i will be putting the Gel overlay on today. 

I started with wiping my nail down with nail polish remover to get rid of any dirt and oils.

I then chose a tip that best suited my nail size. If your inbetween sizes, choose the bigger size and file the sides down. It also told me to keep the tip on the holder thing and twist it off once it was stuck on my nail but they're a bit flimsy and it just fell off anyway, which was fine as it seemed easier to work with.

I then used the Gel Overlay and placed a dab on my nail where i wanted to place the tip, quickly put the tip into place and waited a few seconds for it to adhere.

I then filed the tip down to my liking. I did file the sides down a bit too to fit better and so it didn't look so flared out. 

I used the Gel overlay again and painted my whole nail with it, just like i paint my nails. 

 Then using the plastic dropper that is included, i placed 2 drops of the Gel Activator on my nail, starting at the cuticle and letting it roll down my nail.

I waited 2-3 minutes and repeated a coat of Gel Overlay and 2 drops of the Activator. I was happy there and let it dry a little bit longer (around 5 mins).
I then gave it a light buff (the black file looking thing) and i put a coat of topcoat over the top.

And your done! =D

This was very simple to use and a lot easier than the acrylic set. It's as simple as painting your nails lol. 

The great thing with the gel kit is that it is odourless and won't stink the house out.

I did find that somehow, or for some reason, i got a very slight uncomfortable pressure feeling in my nail and it was a bit tender to touch. It was ok by the next day, but i noticed my nails were not as curved as you see in the pic above, and they were quite flat. 

You can see in the below picture (index finger) with what i mean. It almost looks like i have duck nails 0_o

(Polish is I Shit Glitter from Love Thy Polish) 

I took the gel off this morning and my nail has somewhat gotten it's curve back. Hopefully, over time it will come back fully to it's original curve.

While i really loved the idea of this product and was excited to use it, i cannot go past the pressure felt in my nail. I am going to give this another try soon and see if the outcome is better. I'm not sure if it was the way i applied it or something but it seemed strange. 

Nailene Gel kit was provided for honest review, see my disclosure policy for more info.

Kel xx