OPI Venice Fall Winter 2015 - A Great Opera-tunity

A Great Opera-tunity is from OPI's Venice collection for Fall/Winter 2015. This is the perfect salmon shade every collection needs! It goes on so incredibly smooth and only needs two thin coats for full coverage. What I like most about Opera-tunity is that it's an all year-round shade. I also like that it just has that little bit of punch to it that stops it from being a 'my nails but better' shade.

Revlon Gel Envy - Joker's Wild

Joker's Wild is one of my absolute favourites from the Gel Envy line. I usually struggle to pull off oranges with my yellowy skintone, but this orange... WOWEE! Even the man commented that this is the perfect orange for me.

The formula is fantastic. Nice, thick and opaque. I used two coats here.

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China Glaze Shell-o

Today I have China Glaze's Shell-o to show you! This is very similar to Heat Index, which is a blue toned pink, in regards to formula and finish. They are both very thin jellies. Although the formula is quite thin and watery, it's still quite usable. I really like the look of these jelly neons! I think I need more...

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Orly Baked Summer 2014: Ablaze

Today I have Orly's Ablaze to show you! This was a tricky one for my camera to capture. The shade photo shows the correct colouring quite nicely. This is two coats of Ablaze shown. It has a very nice formula, slightly on the thick side - but look how gorgeous this is!

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Nail Juice Chibi

Hi everyone! Today I have Nail Juice Chibi to show you. This beautifully bright glitter topper is so... happy looking! I loved wearing it over a soft white. This is two coats shown here. There are a few other people with a bottle of Chibi, I can't wait to see how they wear it :D 

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Nail Juice Millions of Peaches

Peaches for me! I love light peach cremes, and you will most definitely fall for this one. Millions of Peaches is completely opaque in 1-2 coats.

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Nail Juice Cutie Pie

Cutie Pie is just that... cute! Peaches and oranges might just be one of my favourite colours. Cutie is made up from a light peach base sprinkled with red, orange, pink and gold glitters. Shown at two coats here.

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OPI Outrageous Neon Minis

Today I have OPI's Outrageous Neons set to show you! These were released last year in a mini set along with a white and top coat. I used my own white here as the base with two coats of colour of each neon. In order: Ridiculously Yellow, Riotously Pink, Formidably Orange, and Seriously Purple.

Nail Art: Retro Flowers!

I was in a bout of procrastination as well as feeling the need to try some untrieds. All three used in this mani were untrieds! Zoya Sooki, Zoya Arizona and Sephora by OPI Hi-def.

Firstly you need to paint down your base colour, I used Hi-def for this. Then I used Sooki with my dotting tool to create the outline of petals around the nails. Lastly I used Arizona for the centre of the flowers. I really loved how all of these colours looks so well together. Like they're all from the same family tree!

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- You can purchase Arizona here

- And Sooki here!

OPI Hi, Pumpkin! - So Skullicious 2012

This is two coats of the little orange from OPI's So So Skullicious halloween set 2012.

From the colour code on the bottom, it is apparently this shade: In My Back Pocket!

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Nail Art: Spotty Gradient!

This is the manicure I am wearing today! I have to admit... this one was painted for little kiddies. I've noticed that they love to count things and to call out colour's names. So! I made a manicure just for them! One sweetie counted 3 dots on one hand and 16 on the other hehe :)

The base colour is OPI's Skull & Glossbones, the pink is piCture pOlish's Hot Lips, and the yellow is a mini OPI. I just used two different sized dotting tools to achieve this look, very simple and easy!

Nail Art: The Hunger Games

Today I have a manicure to show you that is inspired by the book trilogy, Hunger Games. I think the first movie has just come out or is about to come out. I'm all booked to go and see it a day before my birthday! 

For this gradient I used two lovely Misa's called Under My Sunbrella and Endless Keys. These guys were released last year in Misa's summer collection Paradise Shore.

To create this manicure I started with a coat of yellow followed by orange just dabbed on the tips. The formula of these two polishes made it very easy to blend.

These polishes are quite sheer though. This is a huge benefit when doing manicures like this though! I kept adding layers in the order of yellow/orange/yellow/orange. Only painting the yellow half way down the nail though and slowly bringing the orange up on each coat.

This is how I envisioned Katniss's nails and dress to look when she entered the Hunger Games.

Can't wait for the movie! :D

Australis Citrus

Out of the three Australis polishes I have tried, not one has disappointed me. The formulas have always been spot on and incredibly pigmented.

I think Citrus is new to New Zealand. I checked Australis and they have Citrus described as an orange with gold shimmer... I haven't seen any other orange Australis polishes with shimmer, maybe it just isn't in NZ? Who knows.

These polishes are really cheap too! The first time I bought them they were around $8 but Citrus was $12 or $13.

I highly recommend you try Australis out if it is available in your country!

Purging: Which ones to keep?

I think we all have that time in our nail polish lives where we feel that we own just a little bit much. As I am moving out of home again for university next year, I really want to trim my stash down! Today I am only showing you a little bit of the stash.

Purging is a hard thing to do... usually I am very strict on myself with the polishes that I keep. Usually it's ones that I don't have a doppelganger of, or I wear it more than a few times a year and most importantly it has to suit my skin tone.

These are my reds. To be honest, the only red I am crazy about is Ruby Pumps. I sort of only own the others because I don't have something like them and fear I will need them at some stage to match an outfit. Now that I think about it, I don't actually wear any red outfits, only ever red lipstick. Hmmm...

Left to right: Glitter Gal Not Another Red, OPI Guy Meets Gal-Veston, China Glaze Dress to Kill, China Glaze Ruby Pumps

These are some of my favourite polishes. Quirky, pale, sweet shades. I love every one of these to pieces. I can't trim down this area any more.

Left to right: OPI It's a Girl, OPI Steady as She Rose, OPI Skull and Glossbones, OPI Time-less is More

Browns, oranges and rose golds have only started to grow in the stash this year.

Left to right: Australis Citrus, OPI Pros and Bronze, OPI Ginger Bells, OPI Suzi Loves Cowboys

I could not trim down my navys any lower than this. I think I had about eight. They are the largest colour group found in my stash. I feel safe with these ones as I have one in almost every finish if I ever did need it. That is some weak justification if I ever did hear!

Left to right: OPI Russian Navy Suede, OPI Roadhouse Blues, OPI Play Til Midnight, OPI Ink

Lucky last, the greens. I'm still not completely sold on all of these shades. I do however love wearing Uh-Oh and Trendsetter.

Left to right: China Glaze Electric Pineapple, OPI Who The Shrek Are You?, China Glaze Trendsetter, OPI Uh-Oh Roll Down The Window

Do you have any shades you just can't get rid of?

China Glaze Ick-a-Bod-y

Mum had bought me this one a little while ago, I've always been too scared to wear it. Glitter usually tends to freak me out but it always looks so pretty. Last night I decided it was time to break out Ick-a-bod-y!

This is two coats of Ick over OPI Suzi Loves Cowboys (the chocolate creme from Texas). I knew Ick had a dark green base to it but I wanted it to be a little softer looking. I was also really inspired to break out my little rhinestones. These are Nfu-Oh ones! I have had these sitting in my nail draw for several years now. They're really pretty too.

Sometimes my camera likes to surprise me with awesome macro shots like this.