Duck tea strainer

There is a story to this. Poor bf walked out of the shop without it on Friday. Then forgot on Monday. We went in today and the clerk didn't even blink but swivelled round and got it. She said I tried to run after you but you drove off.

Two pianos!!!

I couldn't find them in two stores but after work one day he drove to another and got me not one but both. Xxx

Pink mini roses box

Awwwww such a sweetie!!!!

Revlon Moon Candy, 290 Universe and 220 Milky Way

I think I expect more for $15 a pop. The base colour was hard to work. A little blobby and a brush that was insistent on painting my cuticles instead of the nail. Failure to flatten?

The base colour, streaky and dried too quickly. I had visible 3D brushstrokes on the second coat. On the Milky Way I did only one coat. Mistake. When I applied the glitter coat it began melting the colour coat and I soon had a grey slurry as I attempted to coat my entire nail and have even spread with the glitter. I got a bald patch in the centre of the nail.

The MW glitter is too chunky for my liking, as in it is cut up from quite thick plastic sheets and you can actually feel protruding sharp edges. Top coat is required.

However, Universe is quite nice. A dark raisin base with red and green toned flakes.

MW is a navy/grey depending your light source, with silver holo shreds.

Oooo Revlon Moon Candy

$15 big bucks at Target.

Mode - Party Girl 10631

Mode is a cheapy you can get in chemists and I have thought many times ok this stuff is going to be the most dubious of the dubious... However, I got this one which is a very pretty straight out dark turquoise with a shimmer. It's interesting to see that there is a mix of made in Australia, China and UAE. That's correct. UAE - Arabia. For all the Mode ones I've got I picked out Aus and UAE because I have found all my China polishes seem to chip the next day.

This one is made in Aus and I was really surprised. It was extremely easy to paint, had really good even pigment and dried to a semi matte finish which was quite pretty. It then lasted really well. I decided to go without a top coat to preserve the finish. I was really pleased with the colour. Can't wait to try out the other Mode colours I got to test out whether there are formula differences due to being made in different countries.

PS the shimmer is barely visible.

Loreal - Color Riche - Perle de Jade 602 and Luxembourg Garden 608

The Loreal bottles are so cute and the colours so appealing. How could I go wrong, right? Well the results speak for themselves. The jade.. oh dear.. how could it go so wrong. (the bubbles are from my dodgy basecoat though). But anyway, back to the jade... why is it so clunky? I even cleaned off a few nails and started again but nooooo, still the same.

Anyway, I do like the colour, such a creamy robin egg blue. Not exactly green enough to be jade though. I wanted to pair this up straight away with Luxembourg Garden which is a slate metallic with emerald green shimmer. Results below.

Sinful Colors - Let Me Go

I had a base coat malfunction here thus the bubbles all over my nails and this was simply unforgiving and highlighted each bubble even more.

Sinful Colors is from USA and has wiggled its way into Targets in Australia. They are pretty cheap, I think $5 a bottle. This is a pretty soft orchid with a wonderful minty sheen, however the effect is not really strong on the nail and both colours are a hint.

Application is pretty easy. Wear is not bad. I might try it again with a purple base coat next time.

Australis - Milky Way

Oooooooo, sparkly things!!

I was stopped in my tracks when I saw this one. White, creamy jelly with multi colour glitter including hex bits!!!!!!!

Easy peasy to apply. Wear was ok. Would have loved to go with one coat but - creamy a little patchy and not enough glitter gets on. The sweet jelly effect was lost after 3 coats.

OPI - Bond Girls - Live and Let Die

This is a dark, inky green with gold and green densely packed flecks. OPI... I dunno, seems people love it but I tend to get really quick wear and tear. The tip wear shown is only after 1 day.

Still, I totally loved how this looked when I got it but it was a bit less exciting on the nail. This is a two coater. I dunno if you all have the same trouble but in all greens that I own, I find it incredibly difficult to get a good coat. Is there something about green pigments???

Still, the one thing I have to praise OPI with is that it is a very forgiving paint to work with - I was able to shift it about on the nail for 30 seconds and not get visible layering or balding patches. Lordy me though, is OPI ever so $$$.

Beauty Perfect - 1104

This is another one where it looks great in the bottle and is lost in translation. It is a pearly sky blue with violet iridescence all over with a deep silky richness.

This polish I got from a haul that mum brought back from Hong Kong many years ago and these have now all gone a bit dry. I've added some thinner but it has made this polish unable to dry out properly. As you can see I got sheet marks overnight!

The week progressed no better, it remained soft enough to get indentations from holding my pen, digging my other nails in and typing (turning up at the edges). It was kind of pretty on the nail, with 3 coats, but never could get that richness that I so liked.

Bourjois - 68 Vacances a Hawaii

Dear all. Hi again!!! I have had so many banked up that needed blogging. Here is the starter, a pretty tangerine with a flamingo shimmer. Sadly the shimmer barely shows on the nail and I don't mean on camera but in real life. Sad clown. :(

Anyway, I am still finding these tiny Bourjois bottles hard to handle. Gah, and the polish itself dries so quickly that it makes them quite difficult to deal with.

Now the jelly. Well, I didn't expect it to be one. I thought this was actually quite creamy when I got it. However a really sweet jelly finish at one and two coats but sadly, as I said, formula issue and it was quite patchy on every nail. Therefore I actually ended up doing four coats on each which in the end was terrible, it really looked like I had put some kind of clumpy poster paint all over my nails during an art project gone wild.

Soooo I wore it for a day and then it was goodbye.

I'm sorry, number 68, but I love you better in the bottle.

Haul!!

New Sally Hansen and Coral Colours plus some remaindered stuff.

Loreal, Luxembourg Garden

Has a wide, rounded flat brush. I find these a bit hard to use as the flatness means the polish dries out quicker when applying. To compensate I overload the brush and then swipe off excess after I have covered the whole nail.
Colour is good, very even. A dark slate grey with a soft forest green metallic pigment.
However has chipped easily and tip wear the following day. Used two coats. Sally Hansen megashine over the top. Without it, the Loreal has a soft shine only.

Arezia (golden sheen peach)

I borrowed one of my cousin's polishes when I was on holiday. It didn't have a code number. Arezia are fashion colours in tiny bottles sold in Sasa stores in HK, Singapore, Malaysia etc.
This one is so pretty. A mid peach with a beautiful golden sheen. In some light it will look completely gold. So easy to apply. I did three coats to get coverage though and to hide streaking.