Franken polish- bella's blood,Zombie yawn and bend and snap

I have finally finished the last of the frankens i was having a go at.and i am quite pleased with them. Zoe helped me name them.
First up i have bella's blood. zoe named this because....1...... she is twilight mad...... and ...... she says that bellas blood would sparkle just like Edwards skin now!

This polish does settle but i popped a few ball bearing in and with a good shake up looks great. i used pearl ex macro pearl pigment, red micro glitter in a clear base.

You can see the really fine red glitter in the polish and because it is sheer it looks great over black! this is 3 coats.and no top coat.

Oh and BTW how good are my cuticles looking!! finally getting better thanks to lush's lemony flutter!!!!!

Next up is bend and snap.
Zoe named this after legally blonde as this is just the polish Elle would wear!
This polish is a duo coloured polish as the pigment i used is pearl ex pink-blue pigment colour shift. thee is also silver micro glitter and flakies(from opi lilly love you) in this polish. this is 2 coats with no top coat.

I tried the best i could with a daylight globe to get the duo colors showing . it is almost dark outside so no luck with the sun i am afraid!

Last  up is Zombie Yawn. Zoe loves Shawn of the dead and one of her favorite sayings from this movie is zombie yawn so that was what she named this greeny gold polish!
I used green/gold duo pigment for this with gold sparkle glitter base.
I did 2 coats with this as well and no top coat.

I really like this polish! the gold really stands out in the sun!

I made up 2 bottles of all my frankens and labeled them with the ingredients.
I am going to have a blog sale tonight so if you like any of these polishes or the super hot icy slide that i swatched the other day i will be selling 1 of each.
so check it out ok!
Tara:)

Pretty and Polished Swing swatch.

Here we are with another swatch from pretty and polished.
This swatch is for Swing.

Ok again do not look at my cuticles they are a work in progress, you almost need to wear a hard hat around them!!LOL!!
Swing really surprised me. i love the look in its bottle but when i put it on over 1 coat of sally hansen base coat i was not convinced. by the second coat i was in love with it! the reddish pink really came out and i found it not too hard to get bits of hex out of the bottle to place on my nails. i think over a reddish pink pair of undies i think it would really look dramatic. I will be defiantly be wearing this again!!!

Tara:)

creme egg mani....thanks cosmetic cupcake!

I was surfing the blogs the other day and what should pop up but a great mani done by Michelle over at cosmetic cupcake big up to her as she is a fellow aussie and when i saw her mani i just had to have a go!

real light! 

daylight globe.

I used revlon royal, revlon love that red, opi mummy knows best, and ultra3 honalulu. 

I had such a great time doing this mani so thank you so much cosmetic cupcake for sharing this mani. Michelle is SO talented!!!! and i also have to give her a HUGE thanks for her advice on nail care. i went out and got myself some lemony flutter from lush yesterday and 3 applications later i cannot believe the difference in my cuticles! this stuff is like a miracle!!!!

Tara:)

Super hot icy slide franken polish with a very valentino topper.

Hello there everyone! i have been at it again and making some frankens.
This franken i am going to show you today is called Super hot icy slide.......do you know what movie it is from?
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Blades of glory! i love that movie, anything with will Ferrell in is GOLD!

anyway i made this polish up with some green/blue duo mica pigment and a bottle of silver glitter ultra 3 glitter top coat. it worked out well as the glitter base was a suspension base and the pigment did not settle.

Now before i share with you the pics please do not look at my cuticles and general hand condition. with a combo of bleach and detergent the other day my hands have gone dry and yuck!! if anyone knows of something to get them back into condition that i can buy in Australia PLEASE i beg you comment me. i ham using clarins hand cream and sally Hansen cuticle treatment and nothing is working...whaaaaaaaaaah!!!!
ok here are the pics.

My polish painting is crap too it was a late night and i was tired but you get the idea of the colour. this is 1 coat over opi black polish. and a coat of fast forward top coat. i love how the green and blue do stand out with this duo though i was inside when taking it so lighting is an issue. as i get better at taking the pics i hope they turn out better.
once i had done this polish i wanted to cover up the mess i made with the black undercoat so i got out my new pretty and polished very Valentino.
i have to say it goes on well and i was quite happy with the coverage i have 1 coat of very Valentino on.

 Tara :)

Blue nails for Autism Awareness day

OK. If you know me and my family, you will know that my oldest daughter is Autistic. Not the autistic that you see with some kids these days,and if you excuse the frankness , the kids that...if they were better parented and taken of a bunch of crap food and lollies these kids would not act like they do....... but i am talking about  AUTISM.
 My daughter Zoe is Autistic.
 She did not speak till she was 4 1/2 ...i will never forget her first word. It was 'Flower'i think i cried when she said it. i get a tear in my eye just writing about that moment. While she was little Zoe just use to either stare into space, be obsessed with the TV or be screaming the place down. she never babbled, pointed at things or clapped. She never said mamamama or dadadada, looked you straight in the eye, or wanted to play with other kids. Honestly we thought she was deaf. she even had her brain stem checked out! But at 3 she was diagnosed with Autism.
Do not get me wrong. I am so grateful to have Zoe just the way she is. She is SOOOO funny! she has the wickedest sense of humor,very adult for her age and boy oh boy,is it a black humor!
 As soon as she was diagnosed i gave up work and have taught her as much as i could,she has had so many specialists and speech therapists etc you would not believe. and now she can talk you crazy! she doesn't shut up! She does not always make sense but i am happy she is as 'normal' as she can be. Zoe even started a normal school with a special teacher 3 years ago.
She  has good days and bad but is coping fairly well.
The one thing Zoe is, is honest! she will say what she thinks. i suppose this is because our kids as so literal! And i think this is to her advantage, but kids do give her a hard time because of it.
Saying that, With the other health issues Zoe has i am quite grateful she does take everything so literal. Zoe has a spine issue which she has to wear a back brace 20 hours a day and she also has irlen syndrome, and a really bad anxiety disorder. so she freaks out at the smallest thing.but if we say something to her she takes it and does not argue.
Anyway enough about Zoe, lets talk about Autism awareness day. it is all about Blue!!! even the opera house is getting the blue treatment tonight! so for this reason i painted my nails blue this morning.
I got out my sally hansen blue polish and my opi last friday night and splashed a bit of colour around!
check it out.

 Excuse the cuticles they are horrible at the moment, if anyone can tell me what to do to get them better please let me know. no amount of cuticle oil and hand cream seem to help :(
so if you are feeling in the mood paint your nails sometime this month blue for autism. i know Zoe wants her nails blue all month!!!
Tara:)
(sorry about the long winded post...)