Zoes pirate nails...

Last week Zoe,my dad and hubby went to go and see Ice Age 4.

Apparently it is all about pirates!??! anyways, she was determined to go to watch the movie as a pirate so i made her a eye patch,and wrapped a scarf on her head. then she said i had to paint her nails like pirates!
So i got out a bunch of polishes and started to paint!

  On the thumb i used Essence galactic black and stamped with wet n wild white.
The next finger i painted with wet n wild white and did the red lines with kleancolor metallic red
next finger was china glaze DV8 and then blacl BYS nail art polish
next finger was kleancolor metallic gold with essence make it golden to give the look of gold coins
and little finger was OPI designer...de better (from muppets mini set) then Ulta3 chocolate cake for thelines and revlon love that red for the X

Phew! a lot of polishes. on all the nails i used sally hansen insta dry base coat and seche vitetop coat.
Clean up was hard as Zoe just will not sit still so she ended up with a little bit of polish on her cuticles but hey! she is only 10!!!

Zoe loved the nails and they managed to last 3 days before she peeled them off!!!

Tara:)

a bit of a mish mash.....

Right i have had a few polishes in the post lately OPI just spotted the lizard,some china glaze optical illusion, and 4 picture polishes(they were on sale here) so what to swatch??? well i have done a few but between kids screaming and a migraine creeping up on me i have only manages to do a few. along with crap weather over the past few days getting a good pic was so hard. and
i dont know if everyone else is the same, but no matter how much cuticle oil and cotton gloves i wear my hands are so dry at the moment :( booooo!
ok anyway here we go.
first up is OPI just spotted the lizard. I am in loooove with this polish. it was all everyone made it to be and more. i struggled to get good pics but me...i just could not keep my eyes of this polish. after a base coat it only needed 2 coats to get great coverage. i did not put a top coat on for these pics.the polish was not too thick or thin and i did not get too many stroke marks.

how beautiful is this polish. i always struggle to buy OPI because of the cost here in australia but this was well worth the money. if any one knows where i can get OPI that ships to australia for a good price please comment me. i would love not to pay $20.00 a bottle for OPI.

Next up is a very coveted polish from the gecko. When i saw floam i sooooo wanted this polish. and after stalking ninja polish i finally managed to get myself a bottle.
Honestly after wearing it. i have mixed feelings now. i love the colour. and with this combo i used a sally hansen blue polish(i cannot remember the name but it is in the xtreme range) as undies and 2 coats of floam on top with SV for a top coat. but even though it was beautiful on.... it was a bugger to get off even after 15 mins of cotton balls and foil! so as much as i loved to wear it i am leaving this for a once in a while polish as it takes way to long to to take off!

i hope you have liked these swatches. i have my Ozotics to swatch next but that involves painting my nails black etc so i need to do it when children are not around.

Tara:)

And we have a winner!!!!

Good morning all!
I have just worked out the whole raffle copter thing and we have a winner.........


a Rafflecopter giveaway


Congraulations to JME who has won the prize!

and as a little extra i am going to pick my favorite name out of all the great ideas you all came up with for my green franken i created.

There were a load of name and some were even doubled up!

After having a good read through all the names offered up and boy was it hard i love heaps of them! i finally picked one....

Stephanie'sAwesome said...

Hmm... picking a favorite polish is so hard! I don't think I could even tell you a favorite, but my go-to polish is Julep's Charolette. It's a pretty purple, super glossy and only needs 1 super quick drying coat. It is also a really nice polish to use under ones for layering :)

You should call your franken Radioactive. I mean, it's green and holographic, how much more Radioactive can it get?

So congratulations to you stephanie's awesome you have won your self a bottle of my newly named franken radioactive and i will put a couple of new mystery polishes in for you too!
so if you can email me on osirisandloki (at) gmail (dot) com i can send you your goodies!


Thank you everyone who entered!


hugs
Tara:)

Holographic shatter polish

good morning everyone, firstly i have to say sorry for crap pictures there is not much sun around so my nails look way better in real life.!
ok i wanted to get myself a holo shatter polish, i looked high and low on the interweb and could not find one. so i thought hey! i will make my own! so with a bottle of sally hansen silver crackle a empty mini bottle and some spectraflair  i got working. i tested it first with a little bit and them put 5mls of silver crackle in a bottle with a couple of ball bearings then added 2 really small scoops(with a straw) of spectraflair then mixed it up. and hey presto! i have a holo crackle! why has someone not thought to do this before and sell it is beyond me! i layered my crackle over china glaze little drummer boy then a top coat with SV.

the crackles were not great but i think that was because i layered the polish real thick to make sure there was a holo effect.
i am heaps happy! i now have a crackle holo polish!

oh and do not forget My giveaway that ends on the 12th of this month!

Tara :)

some hounds tooth action.

Hello there fellow polishers!
Today i have a main that is did real quick due to the fact the bubs was running around the house screaming and i just had to grab her before she destroyed the whole house.

I painted my nails with pretty and polished  - labor of love and decided that i was a bit bored with it so i grabbed my stamping plate i got from ninja polish and decided to stamp some hounds tooth pattern on my nails.
I used for this dollish polish - millennium falcon and apart from the silver fleck on my skin(which i did clean up later) and the crap light to photograph. the mani turned out great. i used  sally hansen top coat also.

In the past my stamping has not been that great but part from a few smudges due to a 1 year old i was happy and several people even commented on it!


Don't forget my giveaway has only 10 days left, so tell your friends!!!!! here is the link.
Tara:)