In your face, Valentines

I entered a competition on facebook to win some Sugarpill stuffs which I'm not about to win but I thought that I would post some pictures here anyway.

This isn't actually what I was originally going to do. What I had been thinking of doing was a red/pink/purple army print mask thing. I tried that twice before I gave up on that idea. The second time I was almost up to doing the mascara before I decided it looked horrid.

Then I thought of this. I did the whole outline in a white eyeliner first to make sure it looked okay and filled the whole thing in with it as well (I don't have a jumbo eye pencil yet - it's on it's way, though!). Then I went over the outline with black eyeliner and then set that with black eyeshadow, pulling the eyeshadow in as I went around so that the inner part faded out. Then half over the black and half over the white that hasn't been coloured I went used a deep shimmer red, then bright red (Love+ from sugarpill) then a bright pink then a more white pink and another pink just over the lids of my eyes. Using magentric (sugarpill) and another red shimmer loose shadow I went over the pink & red parts. Regular eyeliner but I pulled it out quite far in the inner corners and added lashes. I went over the outline with a liquid liner, and went for a basic lip with some bright blush!

Single on Valentines? More than enough love in these nails!

As promised I did another Valentines Day manicure. I have now been told that it looks like St Valentine got drunk and threw up love on my nails, haha. Why not go over the top for Valentines? It only comes once a year!

I was totally stuck trying to think of what to do. I was actually going to do a polka dot look. Then I was thinking of bright green with something (because I really like green nails for some reason), but I couldn't decide what. THEN I was thinking of doing a beach scene but with palm trees all broken in reference to the cyclone in north Queensland that is making my work hell at the moment. After pondering this while watching the first 5 episodes of Cowboy Bebop again I thought "Oh My God! Valentines day is on Monday! Duh!" Which is when I actually wrote the last post and had the brainwave of doing this manicure.

The colours I used are China Glaze - GR8 (as the gold base) then various hearts using China Glaze - Ruby Pumps, China Glaze - Purple Panic (neon), OPI - Crimson Carol, Essie - Limited Addiction, Sephora by OPI - Shopping Frenzy. Then I did black outlines using America Apparel - Hassid (I think I might buy myself another 3 bottles of this, haha) and a couple of dots with Sephora by OPI - Rumba Romance. Then a few dotty things that I got in a really cheap wheel from ebay.

Valentines means red explosion

Or something.

So I'll have two valentines inspired/themed nail designs that I'll put up before Valentines. This is the first and was something of an experiment on my part.

So you can see it's not totally even, but it still looks good. I really enjoyed this look, actually. And it's almost easy to do because you can just use the regular brush for the polish. All you need is a steady hand! Another good this is because the thickest part is at the top of the nail it takes longer to start to wear off.

I've used Sephora by OPI - Shopping Frenzy, OPI (Designer Series) - Sapphire, China Glaze - Ruby Pumps.

Birthday nails revisited

So I said in my birthday nails post that I would do another post with the actual birthday day nails. And here they are!!

I quite liked them. It's a more spiced up version of the original. To do these yourself you can use pretty much any colour, too, which is great.

I ended up using: OPI - Designer Series Sapphire as the base with a coat of Nubar - 2010 over the top for extra sparkle. Then the balloon's are China Glaze - Frostbite, China Glaze - Solar Power, China Glaze - Ruby Pumps,  China Glaze - Paper Chasing, China Glaze - Kiwi Cool-ada and Revlon - Orange Flame. Art Deco nail art lacquer in Black for the strings and another coat of Nubar - 2010 over the lot. Easy!

Flood

So I live in Queensland and a couple of weeks ago we were all going to die in flood waters. Fortunately not too many people died in flood waters and it didn't get quite as bad as it was predicted in Brisbane. My work got flooded and I had a week off work with full pay so that was okay. And I had people at my house who either couldn't get home or had to leave their home for fear of flooding.

I went with the masses and gawked at the flooded Brisbane River on the Thursday that the waters reached their peak. Because I'm pale as a ghost I got burnt. For the record it was between 6 and 7am that I was out in the sun.

Recognising the fact that it was the worst floods since 1974 in Brisbane I decided to paint my nails in honour of the occasion. Tasteful? Perhaps not. But it did get a random Navy man to offer to kill someone for me in exchange for coffee. I didn't take him up on the free assassination offer but I did walk up the hill to get him coffee from the Mater hospital.

Apologies about the messed up thumb nail. It was perfect but this was about a week after I'd done it. I had got the middle finger of my other hand slammed in a door and the polish had cracked. I got out my Color Club - Take me to your Chateau to do a quick one colour fix before I went out in the morning and I smashed it allllll over the tiles. So now my favourite colour polish is smashed, and I spent 30 mins cleaning polish off the tiles using polish remover and my dwindling supply of cotton balls. 

I thought the feature nail being in the opposite direction of the other nails was something a bit different.

Colours used are (in order of lightest to darkest): Color Club- Take me to your Chateau,  Australis Nail colour - Blue Tiger mixed with Colour Club - Take me to your Chateau then just Australis - Blue Tiger, Nubar - Absolute, L.A. Girls Flare - Twinkling, China Glaze - Frostbite, China Glaze - Blue my mind, Nubar - Sapphire.