The Great Aussie Polish Challenge Day 3: You #014

Ohh i hate hate hate numbers on bottles instead of names! Ozotics i'm looking at you too! Just as well you are sooooo pretty!
Today i have another aussie brand polish called "You" or "You Cosmetics" whichever you'd like to prefer. This brand is only fairly new.... that i am aware of. I have seen it started to pop up in Terry White chemists no longer than two months ago. I picked up this colour and two others which you can find here (my first interlocking nail art) just to try and i have been back for more since.

014 is a milk chocolate brown with lots of dark bronze-y shimmer to it. It has an ever so slight streakiness to it but i can forgive it as it's brown... my favourite colour lol. The formula with these brand polishes are pretty awesome! This was two coats with no topcoat. 

I then decide to do something stupid and i wish i hadn't.

I wanted to do nail art but i didn't want to do anything over the top. I wanted to keep it all Aussie still so i used Ulta3 Precious (even the AUS version) and did a not so "funky" french tip. Yuk! Don't like it! lol So it came right off. 

Please check out the other girls participating in The Great Aussie Polish Challenge

Epitome of Superficiality

The Polish Haven

Shatter Me Claire

Lab Muffin

Pretty Purple Polish

Osiris and Loki Paint their Nails

Lacquer Dreams

Jas's Blingtastic Nails

All Things Charmed

Polished Peripherals

See you tomorrow for some more Aussie awesomeness!

Kel xo

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