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!

Daring Digits: Super Heroes

I love super heroes.

Daring Digits released four super hero themed polishes last year. So of course I had to buy them!

Iron Man over a Red Creme

Robin over Ulta-3 Earl Grey

Spiderman over CG Kinetic Candy

Batman over CG Immortal

All four of the polishes have the same amazing formula. The glitter is perfectly suspended and easy to spread.
The only one that needed dabbing was Spiderman...which you'd expect with that bar glitter.

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!