Awesome giveaway i'm entering!

Carly over at Vintage Musings of a Modern Pinup / Konadlicious is having an awesome 3,000 follower giveaway to say thank you! There are so many amazing prizes to be won including lots of hard to get indie polishes.

Head over to her blog and check it out. You can enter HERE!


See you next time!
xo

Layla Magneffect: Black Metal!

Just a quick one today! Nothing new to report here. I hope everyone had a great Easter. It was nice to have 4 days off but it went quick. Onto today's nails....

(all pics are clickable to make large)

Outside, Sunlight

This is Layla Magneffect Magnetic polish in Black metal. Show here is two coats. I apply one coat first without using the magnet on all my nails then i go back and do one nail at a time putting the second coat on and using the magnet. I like how it came out. I need to practise more with the placement but i'm happy with it. =) 

Shade

Check out my past magneffect nails here. 

Shade, Indirect light

Hope you have great Thursday!
See you next time xo

Easter Mani #3: Pastels, Dots & a Bunny!

I have redeemed myself... to myself for yesterdays mani. After putting it up yesterday i felt bad because i hated it in the end. When i did it i thought it was ok but the longer i wore it the more i hated it. So i took it off last night and decided to do a mani to make up for it. I also forgot to mention yesterday that the whole thing was matte-ified with Essie's Matte about you.
Anyway, onto today's mani!

I am extremely happy with how they turned out. Love 'em! I was going to re-create yesterdays mani too but after i did this i couldn't bare take it off in a hurry! =)

Colours i used Thumb - Pinky:

Orly Gumdrop (one of my fav pastels ever)

Orly Lollipop

Orly Lemonade

Orly Snowcone (blue underneath rabbit)

Orly Cotton Candy

All dots done with a dotting tool and Ulta3 Lily White

Rabbit done with Orly Lollipop, Nose done with Orly Cotton Candy, Eyes done with Ulta3 Black Satin and Lily White (also inner fuzzy ear bits)

All topped off with SV quick dry top coat.

Hope you love these as much as i do! =)

See you next time! xo

Easter Mani #2: Speckled Eggs! Fail?

Another Easter mani for you today!

This is what i attempted to do:

And this is what i came up with:

Not really what i had in mind but they are ok i guess.

Colours i used:

Pink: Strawberry Sundae

Yellow: Lemon Tart

Blue: Blue Heaven

White: Lily White

Purple: Violet Rumble

Brown Dots: Revlon Chocolate Truffle

All colours (except white and choc brown) are from the Ulta3 Gelato collection. I really thought they were pastels and to an extent they are. They look it in the bottle but once it's on the nail they are all darker. I still love the colours but i was expecting them to be a lot lighter which was what i was going for. 

I'll try and get one more mani up tomorrow since i thought this was a bit of a fail. I hope everyone has a happy Easter! See you tomorrow! xo

Easter Mani #1: Chickens!

Hi guys, just a quick Easter mani today before i run off to grab some early lunch and head to work. Sorry for not posting earlier but just like Christmas i get busy around this time too! So here is my Easter mani i did only minutes ago.

For those of you who know me personally, it's only fitting that i wear this to work! haha

Colours i used are:

Base colour: China Glaze Happy go Lucky

Orange: Ulta3 Carrot Top

Black: Ulta3 Black satin

White: Mix of China Glaze Snow (getting low and gluggy) and Ulta3 Lily White (the made is Aus one which is thin) I didn't have time to mix in Restore.

I like these and i wish i had more time to really sit down and do them properly and not have to rush them.

Hope you like! After today, i have the next 4 days off so i will hopefully get 1 or 2 more Easter mani's up!

See you soon xo

March Haul: Embarrassingly heavy pics!

Hi guys,
This is my Monthly haul for March! It is embarrassing (but freakin' awesome!) the amount i have accumulated over this past month!   Hopefully i can hold out buying much in April... Although i did just buy my first lot of A England polishes last night! I got 4 which you won't see until the next haul post =P

I ducked into Terry White Chemist at the start of the month to see if the new Ulta3 Metallics were in but they didn't have any! (and still hadn't though out the month and also now) but i did find these in a little basket at the checkout on clearance.

Jumpin' Jade $8, Blazing Blue $8, Maybelline Ridge filler $2!!

 Then while in the same trip i strolled down to Kmart and they had Rimmel London on special for $4 off their entire cosmetics range! (Also while i was at Kmart i checked out their Sally Hansen stand and found the same Blazing Blue i had just purchased at TW only minutes before, for a mere $4!! Peeved much!)

Green with Envy $4, Mocha Fever $2, Azure $2

As most of you know i went to the Grand Prix earlier this month! It was awesome by the way! On the Monday before heading home we had a little bit of time to do some shopping. I knew Priceline had Orly's for $4.99 each and i couldn't find any at my local one before heading to Melbourne, so i had a look at a Priceline over there and found these 4 beauties. These are apparently old stock. The 30th Anniversary one is from 2005 and the others around the 2009 era! You could tell that these were old stock and had probably been sitting on a shelf in storage for many years. The few Pricelines i checked after this were all the same! They are still good though... They just need a little shake and they are good as new.

Fifty-Four (30th Anniversary Ed. came with a "30" keyring), Sugar, Walk down the Aisle, Vanguard Violet.

While i was at the same Priceline at Chadstone in Melbourne i spotted the Face of Australia Barbados collection. They were on special for $3.96 instead of $4.95. I picked up 4 (plus the Orly's) and headed for the checkout. 10 minutes later i went back for the other 4! haha

You blue me away, Calypso - Gold, Orange you glad you came?, Another Daiquiri Please.

Bright Lights.. Pink city, Let's go Scuba Diving, I like to Mauve it, Party at the Gap.

Then i went to Oz Nail and Beauty Supply in Braybrook (where i always have to go when i head to Melbourne) and picked up these Beauties!

Layla Magneffect Magnetics in 04 Turquoise Wave, 12 Black Metal. These were $12 each which was cheap for Layla magnetics.

China glaze White cap $6 and 2NITE $8, Orly Androgynie $8

 These from the China Glaze hunger Games collection:

Riveting, Foie Gras, Stone cold, Electrify. All $6

 These from the China Glaze Eye Candy collection:

Marry a Millionaire, Love Marilyn, Some like it Haute. All $8

China Glaze Magnetix collection:

You move me, Attraction. These were expensive at $12 which i didn't know until at the checkout but got them anyway!

And their Magnet.

Then i thought that was enough for the month, i had spent enough....... *gulps*
I went to Target to waste some time before starting work last Monday and got these at 25% off plus i had a $20 gift card to use.

Revlon Matte Suede in Ruby Ribbon, Radiant, Scandalous (aka Facets of Fushia) and Popular (aka Starry Pink) 

 So not being able to pick up the Ulta3 Metallics at Terry White, i emailed the Heat group and they sent me a list of chemists that had ordered in the new collection. Only three in Adelaide had, 2 in the Central Markets and 1 at Bridgewater. So even though Bridgewater is closer to me, i was heading to the Adelaide Central Markets anyway, so i picked these up only yesterday!

Copper, Burnt Orange, Shiraz, Pinot

Antique Gold, Cocoa, Jade, Enchanted.

So that was it! haha Hope you liked seeing what i got this month. Do you have any of these polishes? Which is your favourite?

See you next time
Kel xo