Cate Ruby Silver mesh - review

Hi everyone!

Today is the last day of blue mani's for Autism Awareness! I joined my last Autism blue mani in with a review polishes from Cate Ruby.
I got two awesome polishes from Cate Ruby to show you guys, but today i will be just showing you one - Silver Mesh.

How cute are is the bling around the neck?? It's an actual piece of jewellery but my stumpy fingers are too fat! It is stretchy but then it doesn't look nice. I think it can stay on the bottle lol

Silver Mesh is absolutely stunning! It's a polish that is meant to be layered over another colour. The glitter is was too sparse to be able to build up to anything that resembles opaque. The formula is awesome. Not too thin and not thick at all. This was one very thin coat, followed by two thin "dabbled" coats to give it a nice look. 

I layered Silver Mesh over Essence Hard to Resist.

How gorgeous are both of these together?!?!

Keep an eye out for my second review polish from Cate Ruby soon!

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Cate Ruby polish provided for honest review. 

Kel xx

piCture pOlish - Cosmos!

Hi everyone!!
First of all, I just want to say i have had an overwhelming response to my collaboration shade "Ocean" with piCture pOlish! I have had nothing but great feedback and comments! It has all been positive and can't believe it has done so well so far! So THANK YOU! Thank you to those who have purchased it, who have commented on it, shared my photos, swatched it and just generally shared my excitement!

Because i have had such great response, and my 2 year blogiversary was on launch day, i will be having a giveaway of one bottle of Ocean (amongst other awesome things) in the coming days/week to say "Thank You!" So please keep an eye out for that. I will also announce it on Instagram too if you follow me there as well!


Onto tonights post!
In following the awesomeness of Ocean and to keep in with the Austim Awareness month i have been doing all month now, i decided to wear another pretty piCture pOlish shade...


Cosmos by Pshiiit Boutique!

Cosmos is an awesome dark blue jelly with a scattered holo. The same holo particles used in Ocean and the likes and the 600 series. This is a very awesome colour and is probably my favourite PP shade to date (after ocean of course =P ) This was two coats. It was easy to apply and i didn't actually even put on a top coat. It dried smooth and fairly shiny. The thing i love about these shades too lately is that they are so easy to remove and no foil method is required =)

Kel xx

Autism Awareness mani # lost count! Essence Grumpy!

Hi everyone!!
Just a quick one tonight.

I did this mani a couple of weeks ago when Autism month first started and have only now gotten around to blogging it now.

Essence Grumpy is a gorgeous dark blue. Application was awesome and applied in two easy coats. It was released in the Essence Snow White collection that Australia got at the beginning of December last year so it's pretty hard to find now. It is also know as a cheaper version of Nails Inc Baker Street.


Kel xx

ANM + AA - Blue Dotticure!

Hi all!

This weeks theme for Aussie nails Monday is Polka Dots!

Again, i wanted to keep in theme with this months Autism Awareness month so again my nails are all blue using only blue polishes.

I really like what i came up with as this was my first dotticure of this type.... not sure what it's "type" is but it's random dots to me lol

I started with three coats of OPI's What's with the Cat-itude from the Shrek collection. This colour is now HTF. I didn't see the hype of this blue (like seriously, it's just blue!!) to start with but i saw it on a blog sale for about $7 so i snatched it up pretty quickly along with Who the shrek are you? thinking maybe one day i'll actually use them and if not someone else will want them. Ohhh Emm Gee!! How wrong was i..... I was applying this this morning and it's beautiful!!! Absolutely stunning! I know i said it was just blue but look at it!! Much better colour on the nails then in the bottle!

I then grabbed my dotting tools and my palate and got dotting away in random areas and using the different sized dotters.
I used Ulta3 Blue Marlin, the dark blue creme
Color Club Over the Moon
Picture Polish Cosmos

What do you think?


Hope you have an awesome week!


Kel xx

AA Paint it Blue - Sinful Colors Love nails & Essence Blue Addicted!

Hi everyone!!

Just a quick one tonight. I did this mani last week when i had hardly any time to change my nails.


Sinful Colours Love Nails...

Love nails is an awesome medium light blue with a touch of turquoise shimmer. It's quite sheer to start with but builds up to be opaque in three coats.

I wore this for a day but didn't have time to change a full mani so i added Essence Blue Addicted to my middle and ring fingers...

I hated the little bottles of Essence and they were 5ml each so i poured three of them into a 15ml empty bottle =)

Blue Addicted is the dupe of Deborah Lippmann's Across the Universe, only a lot cheaper. It is made up of an awesome blue jelly base with blue and green hex glitter as well as tiny blue glitter. I don't have AtU to compare Blue Addicted to, but BA has an awesome formula and well worth the $2 something it was to buy it. I think it's long gone now though as Essence have discontinued those tiny bottles.

Kel xx

AA Paint it Blue - China Glaze Little Drummer Boy!

Hi everyone!

I have had this polish since it came out just before xmas back in 2010 and hadn't used it until now *hides in shame* I can't believe i left it so long!
I'm not usually into dark (or vampy type colours) but this one is amazing and a must have if you can get your paws on it!

Once again excuse my nubs *sigh*

Little Drummer boy is a dark navy blue with a subtle blue shimmer, which is very hard to capture. Perfect application and it is very pigmented, which also means it's a one coater. I used two coats as usual though. 

If you want more infomation on Autism, check out these links
Light It Up Blue
Autism Spectrum




Kel xx

ANM + AA - Color Club Over the Moon + Stamping!

Hi all!
It's that time of the week again!!

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This weeks theme for Aussie nails Monday is "Candy" or lollies if your Australian :P
Because it is still Autism Awareness month i wanted to keep in with the blue nails, so i have paired my blue nails in with my Candy mani.

First of all, excuse my nubs!! I broke three nails the other day and had to file them all back. They look horrible at the moment. I just got my Duri Rejuvacote though so i am looking forward to having awesome nails!

My base colour today was Color Club Over the Moon, which is classified as a pale blue but i didn't think it was. It's a darker blue than that but not quite a medium kind of blue, definitely darker than their 2012 Halo Hue polish "Blue Heaven" This is just about a one coater but i used two coats, just because i think that is what a blogger should do. Above photos taken in artificial light.

Then you go outside... and BAM!!!
Hoollo!

Be still my heart!! How i love holo's!! <3

For the addition of making it fit in with the theme of ANM this week, which as you know is "candy", i cracked open my stamping folder and gear which i haven't used it ages!!! 

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I used my Konad special white polish for all stamping. 

Plates i used were:

Konad M14

BM 02

BM-306

BM-322

Let me know what you think!

Also, i have an instagram (@kellyskolors) if your interested in following me! I have a few more bits n pieces on there too, including my awesome Helmers which i have just finished painting! I will have a post on that coming up soon too! 

Kel xx

Autism Awareness mani #2 - W7 Mosaic!

Hi everyone!
Garh! So sorry it's been almost a week since my last post. I haven't had much time to get on the computer to upload anything. I have a few mani's to post over the next few days at least!

Today's mani is W7's Mosaic.

I got the polish from an awesome nail mail buddy from the UK (before all the royal mail drama started) who was sweet enough to hunt around and get me this polish! <3

Mosaic has an awesome medium blue base with purple and gold glitter throughout. Awesome formula. This was three coats.

See you tomorrow for ANM!

Kel xx

Light it up Blue for Autism #1

Hi all!
I am skipping today's ANM challenge to participate in Autism awareness month. If you didn't read my post yesterday, i explained that for the whole month of April all my mani's where going to be done in blue polish whether it be a single colour, glitter, nail art etc. It won't be everyday but i am hoping to do most days.

Today is just a simple blue creme mani. I didn't have a lot of time to come up with something unfortunately as i have been working on an awesome project which you will see soon! ;)
If you follow me on Instagram, you will probably see it there first!

This is Ulta3 Soft Hydrangea. It came out last year in their spring collection and i have only just gotten around to wearing it now. It's such a beautiful colour! This was two coats.




If you want more infomation on Autism, check out these links
Light It Up Blue
Autism Spectrum



Kel xx