GIVEAWAY WINNERS!

Hi guys! So my Giveaway has officially ended and its time to announce the winners. I assigned every entry a number and then used random.org to generate each winner.

So, without further ado, lets get into the winners after the jump!

China Glaze On Safari: Exotic Encounters Swatch & Comparison

Hi guys, today I'm showing you one of the polishes from the new China Glaze On Safari Collection for Summer 2012. This is a collection of twelve shades that are a lot more 'fall' colours than the traditional summer shades, but then again China Glaze just released a 12 piece neon collection aha.

The first one I'm showing you is Exotic Encounters.

Exotic Encounters is a creme teal which leans A LOT more toward the green side. It also has a dustiness  to it. It applied well with no streaks, but I did find that the brush seemed to pick up a lot more polish than I needed, even when wiping some off, so something to keep in mind. This polish was very pigmented and you could totally get away with one coat if you so wished. I did two coats in my swatches as photos tend to bring out every inconsistancy in polish aha.

 I also did a comparison for you guys.

Left: OPI Jade Is The New Black, Middle: Exotic Encounters, Right: Essie Go Overboard.

Thanks for Reading! 

Are you planning on picking anything up  from this collection?

Glitter Gradient: Candy Lacquer Black Ice & Zoya Sooki

Hi guys, today I'm showing you another Candy Lacquer polish! 

I thought I'd play with this one a bit, and I really like the result. I used a base of Zoya Sooki which looks a little too orange in this photo. I then used Candy Lacquer Black Ice and did a glittter gradient. If you're going to try this I'd do a black polish tip first, otherwise you'll end up with your nails looking really chunky like mine with too many coats of Black Ice lol

 PLEASE EXCUSE THE CRAPPY CELLPHONE PICTURE - CAMERA IS CURRENTLY ON THE FRITZ.

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Candy Laquer Peyton & China Glaze Bahemian Escape

Hi guys!

So this week I did my first "indie polish" brand order.. I ordered from Candy Lacquer on Etsy.

In my oppinion the problem with indie sellers is that they are often out of stock, don't get me wrong, I understand that they are handmade and that takes time and money, but it is frustrating sometimes. Before going indie shopping also keep in mind that these shops go on holidays so you may not be able to order when you want.

Regardless of this, the service was very good and shipping was quick, the products were well packaged as well.

The first polish I'll show you is called Peyton, it's a spectraflair topcoat! The formula is nice and easy to apply. While it's not the most IN YOUR FACE holo around, it does have a fair degree of rainbow. In my pictures it's a little subtler as I had barely any sun!

I layered one coat of Peyton over China Glaze Bahemian Escape.

Candy Lacquer is available on Etsy HERE. Most polish retails for $8 per 15mL, but Peyton if I remember correctly was $12.

Sigma Paris Palette Review!

Hi guys, so first off this doesn't have anything to do with nails lol, I recently purchased the sigma paris palette and wanted to share my thoughts :) Now from what I understand, this palette was created by seven youtube 'beauty gurus'. I used to watch two of them and really liked them, but the others I'd never heard of..

Anyway, this palette contains eight eyeshadows, two blushes and a highlight shade all inspired by the beautiful city of paris. It also contains two fullsize sigma brushes the E55 Eye shadow brush and the F40 angled blush brush. This palette is limited edition and retails for $59 on sigmabeauty.com, however, if you go to any of the youtubers chanels they give you a code for $10 off so I paid $49.

 So this is the cover slip that comes over the palette, super cute!

Read on after the jump for more pictures & a reveiw!

Teal shimmer Nails & Makeup Look!

Hi guys, today I'm showing you my teal look aha, I'm going to a party tonight and thought I'd spice it up with my makeup, I did teal nails to match but they aren't as bright as my eyes lol

 Sorry for the cellphone pic! 

This is Essie Go Overboard (ONE COAT!) I freaking love this polish such a great and pigmented formula I'm not especially used to from Essie! I then did one coat of CND Sapphire Sparkle to sort of brighten it a bit!

 Here you can see the bright vibrancy of the makeup

Here it looks a bit toned down..

I used Too Faced shadow insurance, Urban decay foxy on my brow bone, I then used the new Sigma Paris Pallette for the rest of they eye. I have Lourve in the crease and outercorner as well as the bottom lashline, I used a tiny bit or Orsay in the centre and then Verseilles in the inner corner. I also used Eiffel to darken the crease slightly and a teeny bit on the lower lashline. I also have some no name false lashes just on the edges of my eye.

Click Here for my reveiw of the sigma paris palette
Click here to visit sigma beauty and shop online

Nfu-Oh #52!! Glossy & Matte

Hi guys, today I'm showing you one of my alltime favourite polishes!

NFU-OH 52!

Now I've shown this before, but these pictures are a bit better, unfortunately the beauty of 52 cannot be captured on camera! It's a blue blurple jelly base packed with blue green duchrome flakies!

 I also tried it with a matte topcoat, but I like it better glossy.

I layered one coat of Nfu Oh 52 over 3 coats of Nubar Blueberry. I fully intended to swatch this for you, but I had planned on waiting till the morning to take pictures, but somehow, cleaning my makeup brushes managed to make weird cloudy marks all over it which wouldn't come off, so on went 52 lol.

However, I did take this picture holding my dogs hand? why? because I'm weird lol