Pastel rainbow gradient

In case you didn't know, it's Spring here in the southern hemisphere... and today, I'm feeling the season!

This isn't much of a gradient really since the colours don't "blend" into each other. I chose to sponge on the rainbow because I didn't want to mess around with tape and getting straight lines (read: I'm lazy).

What I used:

L to R: OPI What's With the Cattitude, American Apparel L'Esprit, China Glaze Something Sweet, TBN Anna Loves It!, China Glaze Lemon Fizz and China Glaze Re-Fresh Mint. (They look so pretty lined up together!)

All sponged over a coat of Revlon Powder Puff with stars from plate M17.

I'm loving the way it turned out but I kind of wish I'd done the rainbow on the diagonal - I think it would've looked better that way. Still happy though! It's so cheerful :)

Lynnderella 50 Shades of May-Be

Ahh... 50 Shades. I have not and probably will not read it. Although I am a big devourer of, how would you say, Harlequin romance? The bad kind... Harlequin Presents. LOL. But yes.... it is true. Any other sad souls out there too??

One coat of 50 Shades of May-Be over OPI Suzi Says Feng Shui. Consists of black, white and greys like the name suggests. And if you look closely, you will also see a translucent, large-particle flaky shimmer that runs through it. The glitter is super shiny and I had a hard time taking pictures because I couldn't stop the reflections. Amazing.

Lynnderella is available here.

Apple Nails

I saw this mani on Polish Art Addiction who in turn had taken it from this one by Rebecca Likes Nails. She has a lovely little tutorial up and the whole thing is so adorable, I couldn't resist!

Usually I shy away from any form of freehand nail art or I relegate it to an accent nail only. That way I don't have to worry about doing my dominant hand. However, this looked simple enough that I could do it on all my nails so I went ahead. They're kind of messy but at least they look good from a distance!

Here's what I used...

Left to right: Ulta3 Allure, Essie Red Nouveau, OPI Suzi Loves Cowboys, China Glaze Starboard and Misa Heaven White

Again, I followed the tutorial posted by Rebecca Likes Nails except I left out the large apple accent design. Thanks for stopping by!

OPI Sparkle-icious

I was a little disappointed with Burlesque when it came out because I was hoping that the glitters would be amazing and super sparkly like Absolutely Alice was. They are pretty in their own right though.

Sparkle-icious. Three coats. Very dense. Gold, blue and fuchsia. The mix is pretty even but on me, it pulls very gold in the sun.

Late Green Spam

So errr... St Patrick's Day was yesterday but here is my green post. Sorry it's late! Enjoy :)

A-England Dragon. A dark yellow-toned green scattered holo with gold shimmer! *licks*

Essence Back to Paradise. Deep blue-toned green jelly. Not so keen on the formula but the colour is amazing.

One coat of Big Universo Espectral over Nfu-Oh 56 over China Glaze Gussied Up Green.

MAC Dry Martini. Gross colour? Yes. Do I still love it? Also yes.

Ozotic 503 over black. The colour shift is subtle compared to the other Ozotics but it's still very pretty.

OPI Simply Smash-ing! Gives me the worst lobster hands in the world but I still love it.

Unnamed Sasatinnie. Very dark smoky green jelly with some hidden shimmer. Reminds me of Here Today, Aragon Tomorrow.

Jelly sandwich with New York Summer Amaranth and Love my Nails Pink Surprise. Diamond glitter!

OPI Jade is the New Black. A perfect dusty green. One of my most worn green cremes.

China Glaze L8R G8R. Pale green holo. I haven't pulled this baby out in years! Glad I did!

Misa Let's Go Green. Bright, bright lime with gold shimmer. Gold shimmerrrrrr...

And lastly, Rimmel Mania. My love. I know this isn't technically green but that's besides the point :) My bud Kristy snapped this up for me on eBay. (((((hugs!)))))) Isn't she wonderful?! Mania is a close cousin of Bloom Bianca. But better. So much better!

Hope everyone's St Paddy's Day was awesome, green and full of good luck!

Three Glittery NOTDs

I wore these quite a while ago but the pictures have been sitting in my camera for so long I thought I might as well post them. Enjoy!

OPI Teenage Dream with black konad. I'm pretty sure that plate is from the second Bundle Monster set.

Amour Rain Glitter. The glitters in this are itty-bitty little bar glitters. Very cool. I haven't pulled my MaaH out since it was released but seeing this again makes me want to. Badly.

I love blue and copper together. Love. I think it's one of the best colour combinations ever. This mani consisted of iicrc: two coats of Pure Ice Strapless (thank you Noelie!), one coat of LA Girl Jostle, one coat of LA Girl Flamboyant and lastly, another coat of Jostle. Phew!

Pink Brocade Konad

One of my favourite manis I've ever done. I very much loved it!

I started with this...

American Apparel Coney Island stamped with plate M71 and OPI Mrs O'Leary's BBQ.

Then matted down....

Ahhh.. YES! The texture and the print totally reminded me of some kind of fancy pancy velvet brocade wallpaper.

I received so many compliments when I wore this. A tonne. A stranger actually stopped me on the street to ask me what it was. Apparently, I was on my phone, so she shadowed me until I hung up so she could ask me. Hahahaaaa! We had a good laugh.

OPI La Boheme

From my December Top 20... La Boheme.

I swear that the bottle I obtained a couple years back did not have as much of the duochrome shimmer as this one does. Or maybe my noob eyes just couldn't see it. Who knows. *shrugs*

But this one... this one is magic. It freaking gloooowwsss. Love it. Thank you Kristy!

Just Another Christmas Mani

Only one more sleep till Santa arrives!

OPI No Room for the Blues with Bloom Abbie sponged lightly on the tips. Then stamped with various designs whose plate numbers I can't remember.

It's really hot down here today. I wish we could have Christmas in winter... alas, that's not the case so I'll just stick with a wintery mani :)