Aussie Nails Monday - Brights - Sponge tape mani

Seriously? Another week has gone by?
Bad blogger! Bad bad blogger i am. I am *hoping* to get some more posts put up this month lol
I have put myself on a "no-buy" this month as well, purely only because i have more un-trieds than trieds *hangs head in shame* The polish keeps rolling in but i have been barely wearing it... or any for that matter. In the last couple of weeks i have only had time, and somewhat motivation, to do my ANM weekly challenges.
That stops today.... well yesterday, as i did today's ANM mani yesterday, AND i actually wore it to work today!! =), but it's all chipped now, so it's coming right off after this goes live and i am promptly going to paint them again!

Anyway, onto todays ANM mani. This weeks theme was Brights. I interpreted that into meaning bright colours. I love neons, they are my favourite type of polish to wear and i used my favourite collection to date which is China Glaze's 2010 Poolside collection.

I mixed a few different types of "nail art" into this weeks design. I used tape and sponging.
I started with a base of Ulta3 Lily white on all nails, waited until it was completely dry then used my tape to tape off random patterns. I then used a damp make-up wedge to sponge on the colours on each nail.

Base colour for all nails - Ulta3 Lily White

Thumb - China Glaze Turned up Turquoise

Index - China Glaze Yellow Polka dot Bikini

Middle - China Glaze Pool Party

Ring - China Glaze Kiwi Cool-ada

Pinky - China Glaze Sun worshiper

Do you like neons? 

Let me know in the comments section.

Kel xx

Aussie nails Monday! - Black & White

Hi everyone!
Wow! It's been a week since my last post. How slack am i?
I haven't had much motivation in the last week to do any blogging.... make that doing my nails also. I just haven't had much time, it was Australia Day on Saturday, then my birthday was yesterday and i didn't even do my nails for either event =( I need a swift kick up the backside, because all untrieds are sitting in my helmer draws untouched. It's is also growing pretty rapidly and i need to slow down a bit on the buying. haha who am i kidding!

Anyway, onto this weeks ANM. This weeks theme is Black & White.

I chose a Black & White mixed nails mani. I hadn't done one before and i think it came out ok. Using two colours like Black & White is alot easier. I like what i came up with, especially on a spur of the moment thing. Not sure what i was doing with the bow tie but any who! 

Polishes used are my usual go-to Black & White

Ulta3 Lily White

Ulta3 Black Satin

Please check out everyone else's designs!

Lissa's Polish Addiction - Nail Gun XS - Marie's Manicure Madhouse - Shatter Me Claire - A Polished Prance - Shades of Phoenix - The Epitome of Superficiality -Lacquer Dreams - Nananais Nails - Enamoured with Enamel - Adelle1985 - Kelly's Kolors - Polished Peripherals - Mel My Issta - Walk In My Eyeshadow - JennLojko -Erinzi - Lovessweetas - Jas' Blingtastic Nails - Mckfresh - DamoJess - Lili_Bete The Reluctant Femme - Jibber Jabber - Messy Mansion - Nailovelogy

Kel xx

Aussie Nails Monday - Skittles!

Hi all.

Today's ANM is Skittles!
I sat for ages trying to decide what to do and all i can think of was the lollies/candy skittles.
I absolutely hate skittles. Not sure what it is about them but i don't like them :p
So i did skittle skittles nails haha.

Polishes used:

 It's simple but i love it!

Other Aussie nail participants

Lissa's Polish Addiction - Nail Gun XS - Marie's Manicure Madhouse - Shatter Me Claire - A Polished Prance - Shades of Phoenix - The Epitome of Superficiality - Lacquer Dreams - Nananais Nails - Enamoured with Enamel - Adelle1985 - Kelly's Kolors - Polished Peripherals - Mel My Issta - Walk In My Eyeshadow - JennLojko - Erinzi - Lovessweetas - Jas' Blingtastic Nails - Mckfresh - DamoJess - Lili_Bete The Reluctant Femme - Jibber Jabber - Messy Mansion - Nailovelogy

Kel xx

Alanna Renee - Ablaze!

Today i have a new Aussie Indie brand to show. The brand is Alanna Renee, which is made by the awesome Alanna from Pretty Purple Polish!

About a week and a half ago she released her first polishes, a collection of 10. I bought all of them.
I am so glad i didn't pass this one up.

This is called Ablaze!

Ablaze is described as having a mix of orange, red & yellow shredded glitter, orange, red, yellow & black hex glitter in a fiery orange base. I used one coat of seche vite for this and thought it was fine. These pics were taken the next day and clearly it needed a second coat of seche vite. 

If your interested in Alanna's new polish line, check out her website Alanna Renee. Her polishes are a very reasonable priced. For now she only ships within Australia though. 

Kel xx

Aussie Nails Monday - Fishtale Braid

Hi everyone!!
Finally back in time to continue of with Aussie Nails Monday. Of course i missed a bunch being away but i came back at the right time...
I've wanted to try the Fishtale braid for a while now. This is my first attempt. I'm mostly happy with how it turned out...... for a first attempt but I still need to perfect it a bit more. I will be definitely be trying this again in the future.

I definitely liked my thumb nail better than my ring finger.

Colours used:
Ulta3 Lily White
China Glaze Turned up Turquoise
Ulta3 Strawberry Sundae

and oh my freakin eyes!! ChG Turned up Turquoise is (and i never say this word)...... amazballs!!!! Why haven't i wore it before! That is definitely going to be used again and probably again!


Kel xx

Blog Sale!

Hi everyone!!
I am back early from my holidays visiting family and friends interstate!
We had a great time but i am glad to be back. I have about 5 days off before going back to work which is good and i can catch up on what's been happening in the nail world and some blogging!

Just want to mention too that i have put some more items up on my blog sale! So please check it out and let me know if you're interested in anything!

Go HERE or click the tab above ^^^

See you soon! xx