Wishlist #5

1. Mr Fox X Body Bage ~ £7.50

2. Black Milk Middle Earth Map Leggings ~ $85.00

3. Birthday Cake - Neon Handmade Nail Polish ~ $9.00

4. Sleepy Owl Ear Flap Hat/Beanie ~ $35.00

5. Raccoon shrink plastic studs ~ $20.00

1. This bag is so adorable. I already own a foxy bag but this one would be awesome! Check out those lashes, I think this is a Mrs Fox not Mr Fox bag hehe.

2. I want these leggings so badly! Being the huge lord of the rings fan I am, I need them for my collection.

3. How cool does this nail polish look. I love the neon colours and I can imagine it on my nails right now.

4. There's still a few more weeks left of winter and one of these owl beanies would be great to keep my head warm.

5. These raccoon earrings are super cute critter earrings range from Core Jewellery. I want all of them!

What's on your wishlist?

Australis Swatch ~ Fairy Bread Nails "Milky Way"

In one of my earlier posts I did a swatch of Face Of Australia's new nail enamel collection. Today I'm showing off one of Australis' nail enamel Glitter collection called "Milky Way"

This is three coats using the polish on naked nails and I think it looked really great, but I decided to add a bit of colour to my tips to match the colourful glitter. With each stroke you get LOTS of glitter and it spread quite easily. This polish is a milky white base with tiny blue glitter, and multi-colour medium & large hex glitter. I found this polish in my local Priceline store and it was $7.95 which I thought was a bit expensive. Then I decided $7.95 was reasonable for such an awesome colour and when good Franken-polishes are hard to come by in Australia, or are too expensive to ship from the U.S. 

I'd like to try this over some different coloured nail polishes to see how it may change the dynamic of the milky base and the different coloured glitters. I know the name of this polish is called "Milky Way" but I think it looks so much like Fairy bread, it's like I was wearing hundreds & thousands on my nails! (although there is a glitter in this collection already called Fairy Bread which I will be posting about at a later date)

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Face Of Australia - Glitterati Nail Enamel Swatch

Face Of Australia have released their new Glitterati Nail Enamel and in this post I will show you two of those polishes. The polishes from left to right in the above picture are: L-R Dancing Queen, Studio 54, Saturday Night Fever, Lookin' For Some Hot Stuff, Disco Inferno, Boogie Wonderland, Heart Of Glass and Funky Town.

The two polishes I will be showing are Heart Of Glass & Boogie Wonderland as pictured below.

In Australia it's hard to purchase Franken Polishes because most of the best Franken polishes are made in the U.S. and they don't ship overseas. While I was shopping in my local Priceline store I saw this gorgeous collection of nail polishes. It was so hard to pick which ones I liked the best but I finally decided on theses two. But with a price of only $4.95 you could almost buy them all!

This is 'Boogie Wonderland' and as you can see it's jam packed with all sort of glitters. With only one coat I noticed how much glitter came out with one stroke. This polish is a milky lavender base with long white & green glitter, big white hex glitter and orange, purple, dark blue and pink circle glitter. This is with three coats of the polish and I love it, it's so much fun! My only problem with this polish is the long green glitter sticks up, they're scratchy and get caught on things.

This is 'Heart Of Glass' and is so beautiful. I was lucky enough to pull out a heart glitter on my middle finger, very cute! This is another milky polish with a baby pink base and so many different types and colours of glitters. There's small silver round glitter, small purple square glitter, small pink glitter, medium silver stripe glitter, large red square glitter, large pink hex glitter, large purple hex glitter and large red hearts. Phew that's a lot! This is also three coats and looks gorgeous.

Which one do you like best? 

Terrestrial Nails - Nail Polish Swatches

Franken Nail Polishes are all the rage now in the nail polish lovers world, so of course I HAD to jump on the band wagon.

Terrestrial nail polishes are my first handmade polish purchases. The three polishes I purchased are 'Alice', 'Piggy' and 'Vampy'.

There's not many people in Australia making their own Franken nail polish so you'd be looking at paying a little bit for postage from America but if you find something you love it's worth it!

This is my swatch of 'Vampy'. I used it as a Christmas nail art design.

This is a milky white base with very tiny gold glitter, small red hex glitter and red star glitter.

This is 3 layers of the polish and I kind of wished I had put it over some white polish because then you could have seen the red stars in it a bit better.

It was pretty easy to apply and the stars came out without having to struggle to get them out.

This is my swatch of 'Piggy'. It is a very light pink base with tiny pink & gold glitter, small pink hex glitter, medium gold hex glitter and large black hex glitter.

This is 2 layers over a very opaque pink polish and I liked it because a good amount of all glitters came out in one application.

I like how this colour looked. One thing was that it looked like a matte polish once I was done so I applied a top coat to make it shiny.

This is my swatch of 'Alice'. It's a milky white base with tiny gold glitter, small black round glitter, very large gold hex glitter, large gold stars and large blue diamonds.

This is 3 layers over an opaque white polish. This polish was VERY runny so the bigger glitter was very difficult to get out. I had to shake the bottle every time and fish out the big glitter.

I don't know why this polish was thinner than the other polishes I bought but I still like it and it was worth the extra work to get the bigger glitter out.

Which one do you like best? Let me know if you have a favourite Franken polish.

Wishlist #4

1. 'Unicorn Droppings' nail polish ~ $9.00

2. The Lord of the Ring Sketchbook ~ $25.69

3. Teapot & teacup brooch ~ £9.95

4. Pokemon starter trio magnets ~ $8.00

5. Funky red skirt with sash belt ~ $33.20

1. I adore nail polishes and I'm really into Franken handmade polises at the moment. This one has been on my wishlist for some time now and I love this nail polish name, it's hilarious!

2. People who know me will know I'm a huge 'Lord of the Rings' fan and this sketchbook would be perfect to add to my book collection.

3. How adorable is this brooch set. I love to wear brooches to dress up outfits, they're such a statement piece!

4. Pokemon! Charmander was always my favourite pokemon and these magnets would make my fridge look so cute. My boyfriend wouldn't mind me buying them either as he is a fan of pokemon too.

5. I love wearing skirts because they're so feminine. This skirt is so funky and the big bow sash completes it, I really like the red pattern!

What's on your wishlist?

January Nail Art Challenge

I saw this challenge on Instagram and thought it looked like a bit of fun. I didn't see this until the 4th so I missed out on doing the Ombre nails so I started with the Sparkles.

These are my Sparkles nails - cute and simple

These are my Pastel nails using one of my Franken polishes hand made by Terrestrial Nails called "Piggy" 

These are my Animal Print nails. I did these early on a Friday morning before I started work so I did them really quickly and they're really messy! If I had time to do them I would've liked to do leopard print nails as I've never done them before.

I decided to do Navy & Subtle Snow nails together and I will post a tutorial of these nails at a later date so look forward to seeing that. It's very easy!

I'm about half way through the challenge and I've enjoyed doing it so far. The only thing is that I have to do my nails more regularly than I normally would. I usually paint my nails once a week where as I'm almost doing them twice a week while doing the challenge. 

If you like doing your nails you should definitely try doing the February Challenge when it's posted on Instagram. I post all my nail art pictures of my Instagram, my username is love_sami if you would like to follow me.