The great Aussie polish challenge ...day 2

Good morning everyone! we are no on day 2 of the great Aussie polish challenge!
Today i am going to share with you the wonderful brand Ulta3.

These polishes are great value at $2.00 a bottle and you can pick them up at Blooms chemist, Woolworths, and sometimes even in Target.

I was lucky to pick up a bunch of Ulta3 polishes the other day for 80 cents a bottle in Woolies!
So as i had green yesterday on my blog today i am going with.....Yellow! well Neon yellow to be exact!

To get the best effect of a neon it really needs to go over White, i used Ulta3 lily white. This is a great polish and good for stamping!
The Neon Yellow is called Citrus.

For this swatch i used a base coat of seche vite rebuild then 2 coats of Ulta3 white lily, then 2 coats of citrus.
How nice is this neon. it is SO bright on the nail! i think i may even stamp on white with this polish.

OK now below are the other lovely Aussie ladies joining us in this 7 day challenge



epitome of superficiality
Kellys Kolors
Shatter me Claire
All things Charmed
Lab Muffin
Polished Peripherals
The Polish Haven
lacquer Dreams
Jas's Blingtastic Nail Blog
Pretty Purple polish



Make sure you check them out!

Tara:)

The Great Aussie Polish Challenge Day 1

Hello Everyone!

So a bunch of us Australian nail bloggers got together on FB and decided to celebrate the Olympics and all things Aussie,we would share with the world wide web some FANTASTIC Australian Nail polish brands.

First off for me is a brand we all know and love........ Picture Polish!
They are a Aussie Brand which can be purchased Here.
They also have their blog-fest starting today also so go and check that out!

Picture Polish have a great range of different polishes. from duos to holos and muted and neon's.
I have chosen a muted shade to start off the week.

I picked this polish for 2 reasons....
Firstly it is green and that is one of the Aussie Olympic colours. and second.....because it is the name of my daughters favorite skylander!!!

This polish went on a bit streaky with the first coat but the second was great. I used Seche vite rebuild as my base coat and 2 coats of camo. no top coat! and look how shiny it is!

Here are the other Aussies playing this challenge this week.



epitome of superficiality
Kellys Kolors
Shatter me Claire
All things Charmed
Lab Muffin
Polished Peripherals
The Polish Haven
lacquer Dreams
Jas's Blingtastic Nail Blog
Pretty Purple polish


Make sure you check out all their blogs!!!

Tara :)

Stealing pictures, lying about techniques, removing watermarks....what ever will they think of next???

I woke up yesterday to have a read of the usuall blogs on polish, and craft to see that a saga had happened over night. Sinful colors (now owned by REVLON) had brought out new leaflets and store displayed into the american chain Walgreens. Fine you might say, so what? but to the horror of a dedicated bunch of bloggers like myself who read our fellow nail addicts blogs each and every day, we hear that Sinful (and boy oh boy are they sinful...) colors  had stolen several bloggers photos,removed the watermarks and cropped to use in their leaflets. to top this all of they then Photoshop the nail imaged onto the models in the store displays!
Check out the following blog post by Nailed it here.

Personally i do not own many sinful colors polishes...actually i own only1. and i am not a huge fan of revlon, i find their polishes very hit and miss with cover and drying time. i have one polish that just will not dry on my nails! but form now on i think i will be boycotting their polishes for some time.

Revlon have issues on facebook and apology to the bloggers in the saga, but seriously.....they must have know what they were doing??? they purposely cut out  the watermarks and cropped the photos! and to top this all off the polishes used the the said manis were not even sinful colors, i think one was MAC and the other color club. I really hope that these companies seek legal advise about this too.
I am the first to say i do not watermark my pics, i should but really....my cuticles are terrible and i am sure no one will want my pics LOL!!! but i will be doing it from now on.

The other thing that upset me is the leaflet had wrong info on it. one of the manis was a toothpick method. and the picture clearly showed a stamping mani. there will be a lot of newbies out there who want to give it a go for prom or another function and in now possible way will get the same effect. this i am sure would ware away future blogger like myself who learned by leaflets and searching the net.
Please help us stamp out this display of theft and send a message to big companies who are too lazy to hire a model and a makeup artist for an hour to do someones nails. here is a link to the following.

sinful colors community page

a petition to stop sinful colors theft.

revlons so called apology

please feel free to comment on all of these.

Ok i have had my rant....and i really hope this does not happen again!!!

Tara :)

Daring digits polish!

I had some more happy nail mail today! i got my order from daring digits. Ashley and her polishes are awesome!!! you can get them from her shop daring digits on etsy Here.
Ashley is such a sweetie! She was kind enough to make a personalize bottle of polish for my daughter Zoe.

I do not think that Zoe has ever been so excited! She came home from school, the normal conversation followed as usual...... "hi mum. did you get any post today?"  i said "yes" Zoe then asked what she always asks when i get post. "did you get any nail polish?" See i  have her well trained!!! i then this time said "yes Z, i got my order from Daring digits."Zoe then said "Oh! the super hero ones???"i then told her that yep it was these polishes and there was also a special one as well. Well Zoe got all excited and then i showed her. She picked it up, looked at it ohhhing and arrring over the glitter and then looked at the bottle bottom. 
The scream i think was heard back at school!!! " MUM MUM!!!! IT HAS MY NAME ON IT!!!!!"she screamed. Yes i said ashley from daring digits made especially for you!, but how did she know my name and my fav colour?? she asked. so i explained the conversation with Ashley and she just looked at me and said"so it is mine???? " Zoe is so cute! she sometimes does not understand always about things due to her ASD but i have to thank you Ashley for making my childs day!!!


Ok. so want to see zoes nails??? She painted them all herself, and i just cleaned up with some acetone and a paint brush at the end. She used Sally hansens xtreme Blue me away as her "undies" and then her Zoe polish on top.

She even has the posing on with the bottle down pat! and her cuticles look a bunch better than my dry hands!!!!
I think she did really well for her own paint job!

Now what else did i get from daring digits??
I got the super hero collection.

left to right- ironman, spiderman ,robin and batman. I think that ironman looks a lot like china glaze electrify so i think i will do a comparison i think. and robin will be great for xmas nails!!! but my fav would have to be spiderman i rally love this. it went on really well with good coverage. i decided to do a sandwich with spiderman and essie waltz this was my first attempt at a sandwich.
check it out (and excuse the dry cuticles... no amount of lemony flutter seems to get them back to good!)

The last 3 polishes i brought from daring digits was there 3.

These are- why so serious, enderman and cherry square. how great does the first one look! i cannot wait to put it on my nails!

So again thank you Ashley your polishes are awesome and the price and quality is great!

Tara :)

Flakies,flakies,flakies.....

I finally manged to find myself some flakies! 5 bottles from ninja polish actually!
They are so pretty!

Here they are close up....

Hits Cha,Cha,Cha

Hits lambada

ludurana chura

ludurana trovao

up colors Banho de mar!

I have yet to swatch them but i cannot wait!!!!

Tara :)