Friday, February 22, 2013

Color Club Halo Hues: Kismet


Kismet is one of the latest colours from Color Club's Halo Hues collection! Usually I am not a huge fan of holo greens, but Kismet was actually my favourite out of the three!

The formula is very nice, it has that nice thin but opaque quality to it. I am wearing two coats here.

At the moment you can buy the first lot of Halo Hues from USA Nails Online (new zealand) for $19.90 each. The second lot, which Kismet is a part of, will be released on April 1st.

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Color Club Halo Hues: Eternal Beauty


 Eternal Beauty is one of the latest colours from Color Club's Halo Hues collection! Eternal Beauty reminds me of China Glaze's sought after LOL. This is two coats here. The amount of holographic-ness in these babies are just amazing!

At the moment you can buy the first lot of Halo Hues from USA Nails Online (new zealand) for $19.90 each. The second lot, which Eternal Beauty is a part of, will be released on April 1st.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Color Club Halo Hues: Beyond



Beyond is one of the latest colours from Color Club's Halo Hues collection! Beyond looks fabulous in the sunlight! Soooo holoooo...

I am wearing two coats here. However when I wore it for two days it was mighty chippy along the tips! I don't know if it was the basecoat combo or the heavy load of housework, maybe a mixture of the two? I will experiment and let you know :)

At the moment you can buy the first lot from USA Nails Online (new zealand) for $19.90 each. The second lot, which Beyond is a part of, will be released on April 1st.

Monday, February 4, 2013

Nail Art : Skullies and Mr. Juice


The lovely ladies on FaceBook have heard about the wonderful Mr. Juice, so it's time he appeared on NJ! Mr. Juice is a bit of a creative man so I asked him if he could paint me some little skulls to stick on my nails. He had a little play around last night with OPI Alpine Snow, a plastic sandwich bag and a fine paint brush.



We let them dry overnight so they'd peel off more easily. I chucked on some base coat, lay the decal down, gave it a little push to make sure it was stuck on securely and topped it off with some top coat.



I wanted some skullies on my nails too! Most of the designs were a little too big for my nails so I put them on my thumbs like Mr. Juicey.



I used two coats of OPI Black Onyx first, lay the decals on each thumb. For the rhinestones I dabbed a little bit of base coat down first where I wanted them, then used a toothpick with the tip dipped in base coat to pick up the stone and placed it down. Give it a little push and wiggle to make sure it gets stuck into the polish,



Check out some more simple Nail Art ideas! 



OPI Earthquake! + Rhinestones


Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Great Sales on Ruby Wing NZ!

USA Nails Online is having a great sale at the moment, they have a selection of Ruby Wing polishes for under $10!

 Festival


 Moonstone


 Gypsy


 Sand Dune


Sweet Rose


Visit here to see Ruby Wing and Color Club polishes, don't miss out!

OPI Can't Let Go


This little beauty is from OPI's collaboration with Mariah Carey released early 2013. There were four liquid sand polishes in this collection. Can't Let Go is a pretty medium purple glitter that dries a gritty matte. 



This was two coats of Can't Let Go. It applied nicely and was easy to control. Although it dries gritty, it is actually quite smooth to the touch. Incredibly sparkly in the sunlight!




Thanks for reading!

~Steph

Monday, January 28, 2013

Nail Art : Flower Print


It has been too long since I have done some nail art! So I broke out the dotting tool last night and kind of made up a design as I went along. I have put together a nice, neat how-to version at the end of the post.

I used OPI Roadhouse Blues for the base, OPI Alpine Snow for the petals, OPI Skull & Glossbones for the petal shading and OPI A Roll In The Hague for the center of the flowers.



Thanks for reading! 



~Steph