Color Club Alias

Happy Monday! Starting the week off with something amazing, Color Club Alias.

I encourage you to enlarge that photo (click on it!) to see the full depth and glory of that bottle. Alias is an amazing mix of duochrome, sparkles, and purple. I really love wearing purple on my nails, it's not my favourite colour, but its my favourite to wear on my nails.

The finish on this is phenomenal. It has what looks like a mix of glass fleck/foil particles that are super sparkly, and the particles make the polish glow under certain lights.I love vampy, dark polishes like this. The colour shift is great too, purple to green WITHOUT copper in there. I cannot tell you how bored I get with green-copper/red colour changes!

I have read that some people layer this, but I'm not sure why! This is 3 coats on its own (with BYS UV Top Coat), no layering. It IS opaque in 2 coats, but I added the third on one nail to cover a slight ald spot, and let me tell you, adding the 3rd coat adds so much more depth and sparkle!

This polish has bumped its way into my Top 10! Absolutely gorgeous, can we have more like this please?

Until Next Time

<3 Bec

PS. My giveaway ends in a few days!

BFF Challenge - Striping Tape

Hello and welcome to week 2 of the BFF Challenge! This weeks themes were chosen by Pram from My Nail Polish Addiction, and they are challenging for sure!

The first of Pram's two choices is a striping tape mani. And I do NOT like my results lol!

So, it's not THAT bad, I'm just not keen on it. I used Color Club Revvvolution, so it IS holo, but of course I had no sunlight today! And the pink is OPI La-Pazatively Hot Matte. And there is the problem lol Matte + striping tape = BAD. It wasn't bad at all when I had Revvvolution on top, but the fingers with LPHM on top were a bad idea. It needed two coats, and that caused drying time problems.

I do like the way the colours pop against each other though, but just for future reference, no matte on top of striping tape!

Check out my other challengers!

Pram of My Nail Polish Addiction

Bec of Lacquer Dreams

Kerrie of PishPosh and Polish

Caitlin of Caitlin's Creative Corner

Emma of Manicurity

Alyssa of Fancy Phalanges

Sally Of Nail Pron

 

Until Next Time!

 

<3 Bec

Rainbow Favourites Blue & Green + a review!

 Hello hello! I know I skipped yesterdays Rainbow day, Green, but, I had an idea.

A short while ago I was contacted by FeatherGirlz, a Canadian company that specialises in AMAZING feather products. I was planning to post my review earlier, but I very suddenly had to juggle 2 courses, and a sudden move of house. So I do apologise to the girls for taking so long! I'm sorry!

The products I was sent to review are simply divine. They chose the products for me, and they picked two I would have chosen myself! I was sent the Chocolate Mousse charm, and the Off the Hook Clip in Extension (click the links to see the items!)

I really love these. The feathers are natural, soft, and beautifully coloured. We'll start with the charm.

Chocolate Mousse is a great mix of neutral/brown patterned feathers, all secured nicely on a sturdy clasp and chain. I'm actually using it as one of my keyrings! I've gotten some great compliments about it too, luckily they sent me some business cards to hand out!






And the Off the Hook Clip in extension? There are no words for how much I love this.

As you can see, there are 5 long feathers attached the the snap open/shut clip. A green, a blue, a pink, and 2 that transition between all three colours, one plain and the other with black stripes. It's a gradient on feathers, I love that!

And, how it looks in my hair; (please excuse the regrowth lol!)

  You can see the clip here, it's nice and sturdy and easy to use.

And, you can't see it under your hair! Bonus!

So, for my nails for the rainbow challenge, today is technically 'Blue' day, so I added some green to make up for yesterday, so here are my favourite blue and green;

China Glaze Towel Boy Toy and Color Club Glitter Envy. Love love love.

So, there you have it. I love the feathers, and will be purchasing from them in the future for sure!

Until Next Time,

<3 Bec

*Some of the products in this post were sent for review. This in no way has altered my views, they are my honest opinions*

Nail School Update! (Plus more!)

So I've mentioned before that I'm currently studying to get my qualifications to be a nail tech, and Tuesday night was the first night of term 2. Quarter way through it! WOO! Last term, we studied basic and deluxe mani/pedis, which I really enjoyed (and passed easily ;D), and this term we're doing acrylics. To be honest, I was a bit nervous, because I really expected to struggle with this... So after a demo in class, I called upon my favourite Client/Hairdresser Cienna, (who has supported me from day 1, and even encouraged me to apply for the course!) for a practice the night after.

Now, for my first time doing acrylics, I gotta say, I'm stoked with how I did. I took notes from the demo, but I barely needed to look at them! So after the entire process (except buffing for the last time), we took a photo (I do apologise for the bad lighting, it was 8pm!)

Not bad huh? And then, just because we can, I polished them.

That's A England Ascalon, with A England Bridal Veil as the accent nails, and it's all topped off with a franken holo topcoat I've made. They look sooooo good! Also, I have a few A Englands to show you soon, just waiting for some sun!

And, to explain why I haven't been posting much, I make and sell acrylic nail sets on etsy (chekkit out here!) and through facebook, and all of a sudden I had a HUGE amount of orders! So my week has been spent doing them, I posted the last one off this morning. And I figured I would share them with you! (not all are from actual orders, some I made for the hell of it)

So that's where I've been! I plan to get some awesome insane amounts of swatching done tomorrow so I guy show y'all some amazing things! (and start posting more!)

Until next time,

<3 Bec

Color Club - Revvvolution! (pic heavy)

Enough v's for you? Haha! I did this swatch a while ago, (I'm talking well over a month!) and for some reason haven't posted it yet... I'm sorry for neglecting you swatch :(

Mmmm so pretty! I am such a sucker for black/dark polishes, and holos (obviously!) so this is PERFECT for me!

Look at the bottle in the sunlight. Amazing. So much sparkle and holo and rainbows and everything.

I really love the way this polish sparkles in the sunlight. It totally blew my mind. It was not what I was expecting, as I had heard around that there were 'dud' versions of this going around, and mine is definitely no dud! (although, if it were, imagine how cool the non-dud would be!)

The formula on this one was flawless. It was almost opaque in one coat, had to add a very thin second coat, but only because I was rushing around to get ready for nail school, so I kinda slapped it on lol. I don't doubt that it could be opaque in one coat if you are careful. It dried quickly, which was lucky, and it doesn't dry as matte as some holos tend to. And after using it in my course, I have learnt that a top coat doesn't dull the holo.

Color Club really surprised me with this one, I only have one other CC polish, Glitter Envy, and thats mainly because they aren't readily available in Australia, and when I do find them, they're $15 a jar- which is ridiculous. I know they have a few other holos out, so I think I need to track them down!

One last picture, because its nearly 3am (who doesn't love late night blogging? LOL)!

Until next time lovlies!

<3 Bec