Lush Lacquer: Winter Blues and After All It's Fall

Argh!

Bad start to the morning today.
I thought I was super organised. I'd spent a couple of hours in school on Sunday, sorting out my classroom displays and making new games. I was feeling pretty awesome.

Then Monday morning comes around...
All of a sudden I have a horrible headache, feel nauseous and don't want to get out of bed.
Of course I dragged myself out of bed, despite the rain, and got everything ready to leave for school.
I got to school, still feeling pretty organised to realise... I left my laptop at home!

Everything is on my laptop. I make a lot of my own worksheets...and of course all my planning was on it...

So to acknowledge my blue wintery day...Here are two gorgeous Lush Lacquer polishes! They may be wintery but they certainly make me feel happier looking at the pretty sparkly pictures.

Winter Blues over Revlon Princess

Wow! If this is what winter looks like... then bring it on! I love this look. Princess is a silvery blue metallic and Winter Blues looks amazing over it. Winter Blues has an awesome mix of blue glitters, bright blue, dark blue, bar, hex, square, small, tiny, medium...
I really do love this combo!

After All It's Fall over Revlon Electric

Well this is a nice bright combo! After All it's Fall is the perfect fall glitter and goes fantastically with the yellow base.

Here's hoping for a better tomorrow! maybe I'll remember to take my laptop to school!

Polish Elf Goodies

Before Christmas I participated in a polish secret santa... We dubbed it Polish Elves!

My elf was Michaela from Nail Polish Anon. She totally spoiled me.

Pretty and Polished Island of Misfit Toys, Holoday Duo Glitter Topper, Ruby , CG Atlantis, Lynnderella Boy Girl Party and Lilacquer Walk the Planck.

See! See the glitter and the sparkles and the nom nom nom polishes!

Pretty & Polished Happy Holoday Duo Ruby and Glitter Topper

Pretty & Polished Happy Holoday Duo Ruby

Lynnderella Boy-Girl Party over SH Lavender Cloud

I wanted Boy Girl Party to really stand out, so experimented by using it over a pale colour... Whilst I like this combination... I found an even better combo!

Lynnderella Boy-Girl Party over LA Colors Wisteria

Nom, nom, nom!! Definitely party nails.

Pretty & Polished Island of Misfit Toys over Revlon Girly

Lilacquer Walk the Planck over OPI Tomorrow Never Dies

Lilacquer Walk the Planck over black

China Glaze Atlantis

Wow! Was I spoiled or what! Nick even felt the need to question me to ensure I'd been as nice to my polish elf. Yes, I was super nice to my polish elf as well :)

All That Glitters: Dotties

I'm still hard at work getting reports done.

When I say reports I don't mean a single A4 page for each child. I mean around 25 A4 pages for each child, including full pages of text, photos, scans of work and graphs showing exactly where each child is at. It's a lot of work. Especially when you have 27 children to teach.

Our new kitty Bumble Bee has been with us a week now. She has a vet appointment this afternoon, just to have a check up. Did you know it costs more to take her to the vet than for me to see the doctor? Crazy.

Anyway on to polish! I have quite the indie polish obsession, especially glitter top coats. Of course I needed the Light and Dark Spotty Dotties from All That Glitters.

Spotty Dottie Light over aEngland Bridal Veil

Spotty Dottie Light over CG Loves a Beach

Spotty Dottie Light and Spotty Dottie Dark over CG Loves a Beach

I love combining the two Spotty Dotties. they look amazing layered over each other. One of my favourite combos is wearing the two over a browny taupe.

Spotty Dottie Dark over Revlon Sunshine Sparkle

And I better head to work now! children to teach and all... lets hope they are calmer than yesterday. they had a half day yesterday due to Teachers Union meetings and were high as kites.

Revlon: Fierce and Royal Cloak

I hope everyone has had a fabulous start to their long weekend. I know I have. I didn't have to get out of bed when I woke up today. I stayed in bed until 9am. That was the highlight of my day!

Today I have two stunning Revlon polishes to show Fierce and Royal Cloak.

Fierce

Fierce is a very pretty fuchsia foil. It had amazing coverage and I felt like even I could get away with one coat...being a creature of habit I of course used two. I picked Fierce up from Farmers but I haven't seen any of the polishes from this collection for awhile, which is a shame I was keen to try a couple of the others.

Royal Cloak

Royal Cloak is an amazing polish. It's such a nice purple...so of course it looks blue here and purple. What sets Royal Cloak apart is the gorgeous little flakies littered through it. Royal Cloak was from Revlons Halloween collection but I have seen these polishes in Farmers recently, just in case you missed it.

Revlon: Scented

Argh these pictures are terrible, but they'll have to do today. I cannot be bothered re-swatching all of these. Yup, lazy... and the sun isn't n my side lately. It's summer, it's warm, but there's no sun.

Anyway today I have the Revlon Scented polishes that were realeased last year. You know, I'm actually not sure what the collection was actually called. All the polishes have Fizz in the name.... All the polishes are fruit scents and rather sheer glass flecks.

Watermelon Fiz

Orange Fizz

Pineapple Fizz

Appletini Fizz

Colada Fizz

Mint Fizz

Grape Fizz

Grapefruit Fizz

I used 3-4 coats on each of these swatches and omg they are sheer. That's ok though because they look pretty awesome layered. I tried Watermelon Fizz over a dark blue the other day. It looked pretty cool to be honest. Due to lack of sun I have no picture...but honest it was cool.

Colada Fizz is a good one for layering, it just adds a glass fleck to any polish and a yummy pinacolada scent.

A Party Hearty Christmas!

Wow! day 6 of the school holidays and already I feel so much more relaxed...
I can even handle shopping at the mall, when its crazy and hardly any car parks. I drive up to the 3rd floor... I just get uber scared if I have to stop on the ramp. During term time I can't even cope with the mall on a Saturday morning. I just get a little cranky when there's too many people.  I've even been swearing at random cars that don't follow the road code less.

But the point is I've been calm and happy and did I mention calm? I've managed to clean my house and keep it clean, seriously that is a major achievement if you know how messy my darling is.

I'm even starting to look forward to my new class next year. I really do love teaching...despite the stress and headaches this year has given me.

Anyway on to pictures...

My mani today is Revlon Stonewashed with a generous splash of CG Party Hearty.
I've already had two people tell me how much they like it. I went to the post office and the supermarket and got stopped at both places by people wanting to know about my nails.

Revlon Stonewashed and China Glaze Party Hearty

Now I'm off to get a hair cut. I am super nervous...I may have a slight irrational fear of hairdressers. It's not as bad as my irrational fear of chalk...but anyway...

My hairdresser moved an hour and a half away just after my wedding...So I haven't had a cut since then. I'm trying out a new person working at the salon...but omg I'm nervous. It doesn't help I don't know exactly what I want... Lets hope she can read minds like my old hairdresser could.

In all seriousness I do have a few pictures of what I like. In all honesty I really just want a change. Last cut I had we left my hair quite long, with a long fringe, because of the wedding. I know hair grows back so as long as it's about shoulder length and doesn't look heinous I'm happy. I'm sure the hairdresser knows what she's doing and wont make my hair look awful! I even left it naturally wavy so she could see the texture...*fingers crossed*

Here's the before...

Long, wavy, scraggly hair that is in desperate need of a cut!

Wish me luck!

Revlon Top Speed Spam

Recently there was a nice special on one of the daily deals sites here in New Zealand. 2 Revlon top Speed Polishes for $12.99. When they retail anywhere between $16.99 and $19.99 each....$12.99 ain't so bad! So I may have stocked up. Yes I got 7 polishes... There were only 7 colours. I accidentally ordered 2 of Modern grace. I ment to buy another in Mock Snob for mum... opps. Maybe she'll wear the purple :S

Mock Snob

Lux Laque

Super Nature

Modern Grace

Wind Fall

Omg if you are a teal/aqua/turquoise lover you need this gorgeous polish. I have no idea if it's still in shops or anything....but you should seriously hunt it down. Look how amazing it is! The shimmer....the colour... Seriously i'm pretty much in love. it was a two coater.

Stone Washed

Polished

All in all I'm pretty happy with my new Revlon Top Speeds. I've been loving Revlon lately and these are all nice additions to my collection.