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!

CQ Rustic Dream

Hello hello! I am absolutely kicking myself  or not swatching this one earlier, it has sat in my untrieds for too long! I got this in a swap a few months back, along with some other polishes still sitting in my untrieds (woops!) and I had an urge to use this one last night. No regrets!

CQ Rustic Dream. This is a drugstore/cheap polish in the US. AUSTRALIAN POLISH COMPANIES, TAKE NOTE! This is SUCH an amazing polish. Its a copper-y duochrome (multichrom maybe? I dunno) that shifts from copper to yellow gold to pink. OMG.

WHY did I wait so long to use this?! It's gorgeous! It's shimmery, slightly frosty, therefore leaving a few brushstrkes, but nothing too bad, and it glows. I'm looking at it in natural light and the pink is just shining through strongly making it look glowy.

The formula was a little on the thin side, and it's a little sheer, but I find most duochromes to be that way. I have three coats on and can still see some VNL in person, it didn't show up in the photos thankfully!

It is one of those polishes that is perfectly named. Rustic Dream. Yup! And, my favourite photo, saved for last so you can see the full duochrome effect;

YUM.

Until Next Time,

<3 Bec

A England Ascalon

Dear Adina and A England in general.
Stop with the amazingness.
Love, Bec's Wallet

Seriously though, I have 4 A England polishes to show you, and I may re-swatch Tristam (because it's amazing), and every. single. one. is PERFECTION. Ugh. A England are still an indie brand in my eyes, and out of all of them (and there are HEAPS now), they are my favourite. I love the colours, I love the medieval themes, I love that there are holos, and the formula is amazing.

Today I'm showing you Ascalon. And there's a few pics. I couldn't help myself.

Ascalon is a mousy grey holo with a purple duochrome. Duochrome and holo?! *fans self* I had some difficulty capturing the duochrome shift, because it was very temperamental weather that day, cloudy, then a few minutes of sun, then more cloud...

This is one gorgeous polish. Application was flawless, 2 easy coats here. A England polishes are just SO pigmented, so intense and always stunning.

You can see some of the purple in this pic, but trust me, it's much stronger in person! These polishes are nice and glossy too, unlike a lot of holos.

There really isn't much more to be said about Ascalon. If you've been eyeing it off, GET IT. A England have free worldwide shipping from their website, and shipping is pretty fast! I'll leave you with a couple more photos ;D

What do you think, gorgeous? No? I'd love to hear your thoughts!


Until Next Time,

<3 Bec

Borghese Stellare Notte

I am a lucky girl sometimes. The bf gave me DS Original, and now another amazing friend gave me a polish surprise that turned out to be a huge lemming of mine without her knowing!

Borgherse Stellare Notte. Beautiful, rich, deep multichrome. It has a dark greenish charcoal base, and it builds up to show a gorgeous teal and purple shimmer. This polish is exactly what Nubar Peacock feathers should have been.

This is 3 coats, and straight after the first I knew I had to layer it. It would look great over black, but it would look spectacular over one of my favourite greens, China Glaze Gussied Up Green (Rodeo Diva collection). I WILL be doing this combo shortly.

It's really hard to capture, so LOTS of pics!

I'm still working through my untrieds, it's taking a while lol!

Until Next Time

<3 Bec

CQ Golden Green

Something non-holo! Nice change, huh? I realised that a fair chunk of my untrieds pile were for my Secret Valentines package (which I have found out came from the lovely Emma) so I decided to start swatching them!

This is CQ's Golden Green. CQ is a new brand to me, and I got a great first impression with this baby! Golden Green, while not having an original name, it has the best descriptive name possible. It's a yellow based olive shimmer, which looks like it could be a duochrome, but I'm not sure! If there is any colour change, it's a very slight one.

That said, it is lovely. I'm quite fond of this colour. And I love the shape of the bottle, almost like an oval cylinder... hard to describe really. Very unique though. The formula was a dream too, applied like butter, dried quickly, 2 coat opacity, and the brush was fantastic.

 I do have one question though, WHY do we not have polishes like this in Australia?!

Making up for a lost week!

Hello there Ladies (and Gents ;p)

It's been a hectic week for me! One post since Sunday?! UGH, so not like me! So, prepare for an epic catch up! It's now 11:35pm friday night, what better time to catch up?

As some of my beloved readers may know, I have just started a course to become a qualified Nail Technician. Only had two classes so far, but I'm loving it! This week we learnt how to do 'proper' salon style mains, complete with arm massage. It's a lot to take in, but very fun! I had to grab a quick pic of my work, on a classmate.

I was also asked by a friend to do some nails for a photoshoot on Thursday. I haven't seen any photos yet, but she was amazing enough to take one for me!

I love them! I used; CG Turned Up Turqoise, OPI Zom-Body To Love, Orly Androgynie, CG Cosmic and KleanColor Holo Green.

I had a few etsy orders too, so I've spent some time on them, I am SO in love with Milani One Coat Glitter!





And lastly, I must show you one of the perks of my Nail Tech course, wholesale priced polishes! A friend took me to one of the stockists today, where all they sell is Nubar, for very cheap! I was stunned at the range, there were even some extremely hard to find discontinued ones, like Nubar Peacock Feathers! Ugh so gorgeous. I was a little strapped on cash today though, so I only grabbed three, but they were three of my most sort after Nubars!

Nubar Reclaim, Black Polka Dots and Peacock Feathers. Cost me $18 all up, which is less than what one jar of Peacock Feathers would cost online! Not bad huh?

Valentines Nail Mail!

I LOVE getting nail mail! It's really the only mail I get, and I've been getting it a lot lately...

I'm in a polish group on facebook, PolishAholics Anonymous (PaA) and we recently did a Secret Valentine swap, similar to secret santa, but with polish! And I recieved my package yesterday! I'm not sure who it was from though, she really kept it 'Secret!'

She REALLY spoilt me! I got Milani Red Sparkle, Milani Hi-tech (OMFG!!!!!), Scherer Zodiac, WnW Everybody loves Redmond, scherer golden green and WnW Sparked, and lots of candy (which the bf ate most of)

So a HUGE thank you to my mystery valentine, I love you!