China Glaze: Hologlam Collection

Who doesn't love holo?

I love it when the polish I'm wearing suddenly lights up into a rainbow on my nails when I venture into the sun.

I bought these gorgeous holo's the second they were available online. It's just taken me awhile to get the pics up!
I wanted to dislike the polishes...so I could justify buying them, by selling the ones I disliked. I thought I'd hate at least half of them...alas... I love them all.
I know some people were disappointed by the metallic sheen or more subtle than they'd like holo... But not me! I love the subtleness and the metallic look. It just makes them that little bit more interesting than my other holo's. Also the colours are gorgeous.

OMG a UFO

Cosmic Dust

Galactic Gray

Infra-red

Don't Be a Luna-tic

Strap On Your Moonboots

When Stars Collide

Not In This Galaxy

Get Outta My Space

Take a Trek

Astro-hot

Sci-fly By

Picture Polish: Paradise

I want all the Picture Polish!

But no seriously as soon as I saw Paradise was selling out fast...I needed it. Ok...I needed it before it was selling out... I have a serious addiction to any shade of teal.

I knew as soon as I bought Paradise it would be announced it would become permanent...and it did! So you too can pick up this gorgeous polish.

Picture Polish Paradise

 I picked up Paradise from Gracie Lou one of the NZ distributors of Picture Polish (and the only NZ distributor I would personally use). Next time I buy Picture Polishes I'll be buying from overseas though unfortunately the prices have gone up again. All bottles collaboration or standard are now $19.50 each. With  shipping on top. I understand the collaboration ones are always more expensive. But to rise the prices on the standard bottles as well?

The other distributor who shall remain nameless sells collaboration/opulence polishes for $22.95 and standard for $18.95.

Gah first world problems!

Lime Crime: Les Desserts

I have been meaning to post these piccies since forever!
Ok so slight exaggeration... I mean Smokey did buy them for me for Christmas. Gotta love that my cat knows how to use my credit card...and exactly what to buy me! Clever kitty!

The Les Desserts polishes received rave reviews in polishland and came in gorgeously cute bottles...so I had to have them. They also filled a gap in my pastel collection. I tend to steer relatively clear of pastels.

Pastelchio

Peaches <3 br="" cream="">

Crema de Limon

Once in a Blue Mousse

Milky Ways

Lavendairy

Parfait Day

Ohhh now I wish I'd rearranged my photos into rainbow order. They make the perfect rainbow of pastels.

For pastels they have good formulas. I'm a habitual 3 coater anyway...so I did 3 thin coats of each.

Anyway...thank you Smokey for an awesome present.

(I tried to post a piccie of Smokey....but my computer had a tantrum at the idea. Hopefully I'll be able to edit one in tomorrow)

Essence: Breaking Dawn

I really do love the Essence collections. I wish we got them or they were easier to track down. First world problems.

Anyway although I'm not the biggest Twilight movie fan...I did enjoy these polishes.

A Piece of Forever

Edwards Love

Jacob's Protection

Alice Had A Vision- Again

From memory I used two coats on all of them.

I'd ramble a bit more about the colours...but a picture paints a thousand words?
Actually I'm just super tired. We went to the midnight screening of Iron Man 3 last night.
So I ate too much before hand...stayed up too late...and didn't get home until 3am in the morning...
At least I had fun using full beam on the drive home, since there were no other cars on the road!

I had fun at the movie as well :)
I should be able to post my Iron Man 3 mani tomorrow.

Dandy Nails: Just a Little Spam

Argh. Bad blogger!

Luckily it's the end of term. Thank goodness!
Since Easter I've been absolutely had it. Just a complete lack of energy. The kids have been just as bad as me. So many tears this week!

Anyway here's a quickie post to confirm my alive status and show off some gorgeous Dandy Nails polishes.

I love Dandy Nails. I buy mine from Ninja Polish. The shipping is always super fast to New Zealand as well.

Eager Eyes

Wonderwall accent over CG Electric Beat

Wonderwall (3 coats alone)

Come Out and Play (3 coats alone)

I have since added four more gorgeous Dandy Nails polishes to my collection... Hopefully I'll get them posted in the holidays! Have I mentioned the holidays start at 3pm today....

OPI: Liquid Sand

One trend I expected to hate was textured polishes.
I had a pretty good reason to hate it....I had dry feelings around my hands.

I hate using chalk.
I hate clay.
I hate if I don't have moisturiser in my bag...

Weirdly enough... I love the OPI Sand textured polishes. They seem to last forever and they look amazing on. And the texture doesn't bug me. Yes it annoyed me for the first hour or so...but I adjust and good thing as these polishes are gorgeous.

Get Your Number

Get Your Number with top coat

Stay the Night

Stay the Night with top coat

The Impossible

The Impossible with top coat

I loved these liquid Sands so much i ordered the Zoya Pixie dusts...and can't wait for the next liquid sands to come out!