Calling all Indie polish makers!!

Hi all!
I have come up with an idea that i'd love to do to help some Indie polish makers along. I know there are a tonne of big indie polish makers out there but what about the smaller ones? We all love Indie polishes right now, right?

I am going to be doing an Aussie Indie polish reviews month, for the month of August. If your an aussie polish maker who wants more exposure and would love me to review your polish/es, this is for you. I'd also love to have a giveaway (open internationally) at the end of the month to win your polishes etc.

International polish makers are also welcome, i may open this up to worldwide if i don't think i can get enough aussie's interested. Or i may even have another one run in the following month.

If your interested please let me know by emailing me at kelly@kellyskolors.com

I'd love to hear from you!
Kel xo

Glitter me up Friday - Indie brand Love Thy Polish review!

Hi everyone!
I have a combined post for you today. I have review on a fellow Aussie bloggers line of nail polish, Love Thy Polish. The awesome Emma from Nails in the Desert offered to send me a couple to review. This one fits in perfectly with Glitter me up Friday so i have combined them both today =).

This particular one is only new and doesn't actually have a name yet, so head on over to her Facebook page and make a suggestion as to what she could call it and also to check out her awesome polishes!

This has a green-blue jelly base with aqua and magenta small glitter. This was three coats alone. It was a quite sheer in the first coat but built up nicely by the third which i was (pleasantly) surprised. Application was good, a little runny to start with but was manageable. One coat of Seche vite on top.

I then thought i could try it over a few different colours. First i tried Black and then Blue.

Here this was one coat layered over my go-to one coater black, Ulta3 Black Satin. I didn't think of it until i put it together but it reminds me of Butter London The Black Knight.

And this time i have it layered (again one coat) over two coats of Ulta3 Blue Marlin.

I like how they came out on all of them. Which one is your favourite?

You can purchase this polish (and others) from Emma's Facebook page for $9/ 15ml bottle. She also ships internationally. So go check her out and tell her i sent you =)

Product sent to me for review

Please also check out the other girls participating in GMU Fridays

Shaina from SG Nails
Alana from Prettypurplepolish
Kaz from Parisian Blue Sky
Rebecca from Polished Peripherals
Mam Glam from glamonthecheap

See you soon!
Kel xo

Blog Sale!

Hi all, sorry for the lack of posts.
I have now updated my stash and am going to have a blog sale. There isn't a heap on there at the moment but i will update as i go along and no longer want a polish. That is all for now. Click "blog sale" tab up top or go here.

See you soon!
Kel xo

Glitter Me Up Friday - Savina Fireworks

Hi all!
I feel so slack lately! I'm so behind in this. I had it all ready to go and i just had to post it up last night but i didn't! So slack!

Anyway, onto yesterdays Glitter me up Friday post.

This was two thinnish coats of Savina Fireworks over two coats of Essence Raspberry Swirl. Fireworks has lots of small multi-coloured round glitter and sparse holo bar glitter. It was hard to get the bar glitter out of the bottle but there seems to be a lot in there.

I then also tried this over black. Everything works better over black haha

Please check out all the other girls that participate.

Shaina from SG Nails
Alana from Prettypurplepolish
Kaz from Parisian Blue Sky
Rebecca from Polished Peripherals
Mam Glam from glamonthecheap



Hope you all have a great night!

See you soon with an exciting Aussie indie polish brand you won't want to miss =)

Kel xo

Nury 036

Hi everyone!

I have lost a little bit of my motivation lately to do nails. It's so damn cold here in the night i just want to  come home from work, have dinner and curl up in bed haha. I'm trying to get something done in the mornings before work but even then it is a struggle and i only feel like doing a colour and that's it. Why? I even have the new bundle monster plates i want to use!

Anyway, I did a swap package with Enamoured with Enamel from Tasmania. She sent me a few awesome polishes i had never heard of before.

This is Nury 036. Unfortunately they only have numbers and not names.

Nury 036 is a beautiful Sapphire Blue foil. I thought this was a dupe for Color Club's Cold Metal but it's not. It's similar but it doesn't have as much silver in it. This was an amazing ONE coat! Now i usually do two for good measures but i was so confident with one coat. It is so pigmented! Can't wait to try this for stamping. One coat of Seche Vite followed.

I hope everyone had a great "hump day" and happy 4th of July to my American followers.

See you soon! 

Kel xo

Rainbow Favourites! Green, Purple & Pink

Garh!
I'm sorry i haven't blogged since Friday. I was really busy over the weekend and didn't get a chance to sit down and write a post. I haven't even had time to do my nails =( but i'm annoyed because i broke two nails, my index finger (as usual) and my ring finger, both on my swatch hand so i haven't been motivated to polish them because they look yuk! I'm trying to nurse them back to looking half decent. I have a few mani's in my "unposted" folder on my computer so i might have to resort to using those while they recover and i can paint and take photos again =)

 I said i had three polishes left in the Rainbow favourites. To make it up to you i will throw them all in this one post =)

Let's start with Green. I chose China Glaze Entourage.

Entourage is a lime green with a green micro shimmer. Beautiful colour. This was the first time i had bought a polish solely on it's name haha. I loved the TV show and can't wait for the movie. Moving on, it's a beautiful colour anyway! This was three coats. The first coat was a little sheer but built up. You could get away with two coats but i used three to get rid of that dreaded VNL (which you can see in pics but not IRL) One coat of SV followed.

 For purple i picked Color Club Wild at Heart.

Wild at Heart is a holographic purple. I reckon i got a dud version though =(. This was the most holo i could get it in the brightest sunlight we had here on the day. It hardly showed up at all. Disappointed much! This was only a one coater, though i think i used two as i normally do for photo's, just in case.  No topcoat was added.

 And for the last colour, which was pink, i chose Essie Super Bossa Nova from their 2011 Brazilliant collection.

Super Bossa Nova is a bright fuchsia pink with a subtle purple shimmer. This was two coats. I couldn't get the shimmer to come out more in the photo's but it's definitely there. Stunning colour and for a pink, i love it! One coat of SV followed.

Hope you liked the rest of my Rainbow favourites. It wasn't so much my "favourites" but i really wanted to crack open some polishes i hadn't tried yet. Which was your favourite?

On a side note,

NO - BUY JULY!

I am doing no-buy July this month. Well "trying" too. I have a few exceptions though =( I really want the China Glaze Bohemian collection which is due out this month, so i'll be getting that when it comes out, hopefully it's right at the end of the month and i can hold off until August to purchase it, that way it will not be cheating haha I also have made commitments in June to buying two other things before deciding to do no-buy July so i will have to pay for those too! But that is it. It's day three now and everything is going ok. I went shopping on the weekend and bought a couple polishes (on the 30th) They are mainly for swaps or a giveaway i want to do when i reach 500 followers. yay =) So technically not for me, but i went shopping on the Sunday too which was the first of July and it was so hard not to go into the shops i normally go into to buy polish. I think it would be easier for me during the week when i'm at work and not as tempted but the weekends will be the hardest. lol. Wish me Luck! and let me know if your doing No-buy July also. I know there are a few of us Aussies doing it so hopefully we can motivate each other =)

Have a great day all and i'll see you next time!

Kel xo