Infinity and Beyond

Grey is my all time go too favourite colour.  Whether it's nail polish or clothes.  Even one of our kitties is charcoal grey and white.

Today I'm showing you one of the numerous grey's in my collection.  Misa's Infinity and Beyond. This is a blue base gunmetal grey that shimmers.  Lovely colour.  Usually I play with it when I wear it by either adding a coat of Northern Lights Silver Hologram top coat, or China Glaze's Tinsel Town over the ring nail, I've added those pictures down the bottom as well.

Anyways on with the mani, base coat Revitanail,  2 coats Misa Infinity and Beyond and top coat SV.

 

 

 

 

~ Emonej

A-England's Saint George

A quick post today.  Received my new A-England's Legends in the mail last week.  I ordered Saint George, Bridal Veil and Ascalon.

Base coat Revitanail,  2  coats of L'Oreal's VIP Status,  1 coat A-England's Saint George, 1 coat of Ulta3 Clear top coat followed by 1 top coat of Seche Vite.

Love this colour.  I spent most of my day catching glimpses and being temporarily mesmerised. I received lots of admiration and comments on this colour.  Love it.

Great application, total coverage in one coat and as with all the A-England's I have, looked amazingly shiny and holographic under the top coats.

~ Emonej

Birch Box Envy .... no more

So after all these years of lemming America Birch Boxes and others, finally Australia has a couple of options similar.  Bellabox and Glossybox both with the monthly subscription of $14.95.  Unable to decide between the two I decided to give both a trial and will decide if one is better value than the other or if neither are worth it.

I also wanted to give this a go as I work full time and attend university and manage a home with husband and 2 kitties, catch up with family and friends, etc so while I love shopping I'm finding  less and less time to actually get out and search for new products to try.  I'm finding that I'm spending more and more time online shopping for products I know and have tested previously.  Enter the trial boxes as a way for me to trial different products that I wouldn't normally go looking for.

So I signed up in February, I missed the Glossybox cut off, but just snuck into the bellabox delivery.  Well last week I got a parcel tracking notice in my email inbox and the very next day I had the package.

So here is Bellabox's February box.  Valentine themed appropriate. Opening the box I was a little underwhelmed by it's contents.  Maybe I've just been spoilt by blog reading UK and USA sample box offerings.  Anyways on with the descriptions;

Sassy 'n' Savy Citrus hand cream:  It's a pretty tiny sample about 1 applications worth.

Possibly has citrus but the one I got is rose and Lavender which means I'll never try this or know as I'm allergic to Lavender.  So I gave this to a friend. 

B by Bloom Eyeshadow Duo:  Full sized.  Love the bronze colour.  The blue I was hoping was more a gunmetal grey once applied but sadly not.  Still great colours and size.

Bloom Organic hand and body wash:  Haven't tried this yet.  Nice sized.  Smells different but not offensive.  I'm wondering if the ginseng will mean I type faster....

Sparoma shimmer wrap with Jasmine:  About the size of a chapstick.  A white/pearl shimmer stick.  Again haven't tried this as yet but I think it will be useful for a hint of shimmer on a night out.

Star and rose confetti soap rose: Smells pretty, we don't have a bath so haven't used this.  Might add it to my next pedicure foot tray as I'm not sure when in the future we will have a bath and if the scent would last.

Chocolate hearts from Chocolate box: Two, one silver, one red.  Not a lot to add, it's chocolate and I've had these before.

All in all as I said I wasn't super impressed but not disappointed.  I'll await March's box to make a better decision.  I must admit it is nice to get the package, open it up to see what's inside without knowing.

 

 

 

 

~ Emonej

Jaded Meltdown

Last week I tried a new brand, I've been seeing it at Priceline for about a year and at a cost of $5.95 it seemed reasonable but I hadn't seen any reviews and was unsure if I should try it.  Anyways I finally decided to bite the bullet and grabbed Model's Prefer in Meltdown.  A brown taupe colour.  And I don't know why I was so nervous, I ended up loving the colour, the brush and the application and result.  I will be adding more to my collection soon.

Anyways onwards, I really wanted to do a brown and pastel green combination.  First I tried stamping and neither OPI's Mermaid Tears nor Orly's Ancient Jade were up to the job, both too thin for the stamping to stand out.  So then I tried using a dotting tool but while my left hand looks awesome, my right resembles something a 1 year old would produce with finger paints. So then I tried stamping the dots on with white Konad polish and the BM plate.  This started out ok, but then it seemed like I developed a case of the twitches when using the dotting tool and nail polish over the pre-stamped dots.... again fail...

So then I gave up on dots and stamps and decided to try stripes with scotch tape.  Well I definitely need a lot of practice, plus when I used the Orly Ancient Jade, I had to do thick coats to get the opacity so when I removed the tape I got some lovely not straight lines.

So after all this, I think I'll just need to practice, practice, practice and more practice.  So on with the show..... Base coat SH Maximum Growth,  2 coats of Model's Prefer Meltdown and the stripes are Orly's Ancient Jade with a top coat of Poshe.

Meltdown dries darker than the bottle colour, but still a great colour.  Before buying Meltdown I had envisaged OPI's Suzi Loves Cowboys as the base colour, then decided it was too dark for the pastel jade green.  Anyways, first picture is of the brush, I didn't think I'd do well with this but like the few Rimmel's and Sally Hansen polishes I have that have a similar brush it applied easily and with less spilling over onto the skin.  This polish also dries pretty fast.

I then taped off some different width stripes, applying Orly's Ancient Jade.  Now here is where I should have been a little patient.  Instead of worrying that it was going to dry fast and I'd be unable to get the tape removed successfully, I should have waited until the polish had dried enough to where it didn't run once the tape was removed.

So anyways I've learnt a lot.  I'll try this again, possibly with different polishes to see how I go.  Enjoy the pictures and don't judge the horribleness you are about to witness....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~ Emonej

Turquoise Shatter

So the NOTD is to match a birthday party outfit.  Being summer here and 30 plus degree day (roughly 86 Fahrenheit) expected I have a white cotton dress with a turquoise bolero/shrug with matching flip flops.

So I needed a nail to go with this, that's how just how I sometimes roll.  So a base coat of SH Maximum Growth, 4 coats of Face of Australia's Cool Cotton, is it just me that has problems with white nail polish applications I have a lot of trouble with all whites no matter what brand,  2 coats of Northern Lights Silver Hologram top coat.  Then a medium coat of OPI's Turquoise Shatter, a coat of Ulta3 no chip top coat and a final coat of SV to seal everything in and dry it all quickly.

Here come the pics, there are a few as none of them captured this mani right.  It looked amazing, so summery.

 

~ Emonej

Flying Teal Dragon

As you know Chloe's nails is a big inspiration as her mani's always look amazing.  I decided to try this look. So a base coat of Revitanail, 2 coats of China Glaze's Flying Dragon which is a neon magenta with blue and pink glitter, that dries matte, followed by a topcoat of SV.

I probably should have stopped there as this looked awesome.  It's bright, shimmery and for a colour I'd had in the back of my stash but had never actually tried became a new favourite.

Don't get me wrong I love the Funky Fingers Teal Scales over this, but the shatter seemed to, on me, drown out the beauty of flying dragon.  So I think I'll try flying dragon on it's own and teal scales over a different colour.

Enjoy the pictures.

 

 

~ Emonej

Super Bass Shatter

So this morning I noticed I had some noticeable tip wear on the Rimmel Euphoria from yesterday but didn't have time to redo a full mani.

Enter OPI's Nikki Minaj Super Bass Shatter.  I've had this a couple of weeks but haven't had the chance to try it.  So a coat over yesterday's mani and two coats of Poshe over the top.  

My photo's really don't do this justice.  In real life this combination was amazing. It also completely hid the tip wear and made my mani look fresh and new.  Loved it.

 

~ Emonej

Rimmel Euphoria

Today's nail of the day was Rimmel's Euphoria.  A lovely Peige (Pink, Beige)  colour that sets in 60 seconds.  1 coat SH Maximum Growth, 3 coats Rimmel Euphoria (2 coats were fine but I smudged so covered with an extra coat)  and a SV top coat.

I love this colour, it's neutral without giving me mannequin hands. Bit of a duochrome as well, some lights it's pink, others beige and at certain angles a pale plum. 

I love Rimmel 60 seconds, they have great application and pretty colours. Also they don't chip like some other brands, plus the dry in 60ish seconds means I don't really need to SV topcoat but I like ultra shiny.

 

 

~ Emonej

Australis Mates Rates

I can't find this on Australis's website so I'm thinking it's a limited trial release.  Love the name Mates Rates.  So Australian.  The colour is a dark dark olive green with a golden shimmer duochrome.  

Beautiful colour, makes me think of gum leaves and wattle, possibly a great nail polish for this years London Olympics, supporting our team.  Opaque in 2 coats, beautiful application and colour. 

The pictures really don't do this justice.

 

 

~ Emonej

Australis Flip Flops

I know I posted a quick picture before but I wanted to show you the two latest Australis Limited Edition Releases Flip Flops and Vampy.  Without the flakie top coat.

Australis Flip Flops is a beautiful blue with azure glitter.  Blue is my favourite colour though I rarely wear it on my nails.  This one I've worn a couple of times plus had on my toes.

Opaque in 2 coats, lovely application and I get loads of compliments on the colour.

Australis Vampy

The second Limited Edition release is Vampy.  A totally deceptive colour.  In the bottle it looks like a dark red salmon pink with red glitter.  On your nails this dries as bright red and glittery as China Glaze's Ruby Pumps.  On your nails it's a bright red jelly/creme with the red glitter in most lights but then occasionally/rarely you get glimpses of the dark salmon pink with red glitter.

The consistency was extremely thick and difficult on this, I added some Seche Restore and it's a lot easier to apply. Also you wouldn't think so but it's a top coat eater, so either add 2 coats of seche vite or do what I do, a top coat of Australis clear and a quick coat over that of Seche Vite.  Gorgeous colour either way as I am a Ruby Pumps devotee....

Enjoy the pics.. although its true colour is difficult to capture...

 

 

~ Emonej

Australis Dupe Happy Days

Happy days are here.  Remember my post about Australis Limited Edition 1 from a few weeks ago, and my bemoaning how it wasn't a permanent colour.  Well with Australis's new releases last month there was a new colour Rabid Revenge which is an identical dupe for limited edition 1... YAY

The pictures below show the two bottles and different names, sorry galazy isn't fond of making the written word clear.  The nails pics lower are alternate, index and ring are LE1 and middle and pinky are Rabid Revenge.  Hard as always to capture but as you can see identical dupes.  Again YAY.  Love this colour so now have some back up bottles, thank you Australis I wont be writing that letter after all...

 

 

~ Emonej