31/10 Go Pink Wednesday

Today is the last day of Go Pink Wednesday!

If you haven't seen any of my other GPW posts, me and some other bloggers are doing a series in October for Breast Cancer Awareness. The series was started by Andrea from Finger Painting Fingers and if you'd like to join us you can read about it here.

For today's manicure I used OPI Too Hot Pink to Hold 'Em from the Texas Collection. I was going to just leave the mani at two coats of that, but I couldn't resist using it for a "jelly sandwich". ;)
OPI Too Hot Pink to Hold Em is a jelly finish (OPI calls it a sorbet finish) hot pink! I loooove it. Jelly polishes are a little sheer and have a "squishy" look to them. They also dry very shiny.
I know I said I wasn't going to show any more indies for GPW but...I added a coat of Dollish Polish Putting on the Ritzzz. I just looove me some black and white glitter. <3 The formula on this was a little thin for my liking so I had to move the white hex glitters around a little but that wasn't really a problem.
Over the glitter, I added another coat of Too Hot Pink to Hold Em, therefore "sandwich-ing" the glitter in between the jelly polish. :)
I topped this mani off with Essie Good to Go top coat. :)

NOTE: This photo was taken on a different camera to the other 3 photos, hence the colour difference

If you'd like more information about Breast Cancer and how you can help, go to: The National Breast Cancer Foundation Australia website.

Elissa

24/10 Go Pink Wednesday

Woohoo, it's Wednesday again! I love Go Pink Wednesday!

If you haven't seen any of my other GPW posts, me and some other bloggers are doing a series in October for Breast Cancer Awareness. The series was started by Andrea from Finger Painting Fingers and if you'd like to join us you can read about it here.

I just realised that I've worn an indie polish every week for Go Pink Wednesday. Woops! ;) I'm just obsessed with indies right now! :D

Let me start off by saying that I have been obsessed with black and white glitter polishes ever since I first heard of indie polishes (I also just figured out this week why they're called indies. *facepalm*, I'm an idiot)! Every time I saw someone wear a black and white glitter, I swooned. I don't know what it is, I just freaking love the look of black and white glitter! But I didn't own any indies until a month or two ago. And now I am obsessed with indies!

This week I received two polishes I ordered from Emily de Molly! Hayley is the owner of EDM and I've been following her on Instagram since even before she started creating polishes! She does really nice swatches too! :)
I knew that since I was ordering from Emily de Molly, I HAD to buy her black and white glitter. There was no if's, but's or maybe's about it. I had to have it. ;)

This is A Black and White Love Affair by Emily de Molly. It's a clear base with large and small black and white hex glitters, with some bar glitters and square glitters too. Some people hate bar glitter but I don't mind it if it's mixed in with other shapes. :) I used a dabbing sort of method to apply this polish since the base is a bit thin but that didn't bother me. :) I can see myself going through this entire bottle quickly!

I layered ABAWLA over Face of Australia Have Your Cupcake and Eat it Too from the new Pretty Pastels collection. :) A pastel blue toned pink that I actually only bought two days ago! Have Your Cupcake and Eat it Too was opaque in two coats and was a really nice consistency  Not too thick and not too thin. Just right. :)

I am IN LOVE with this mani. Absolutely in love. I'm wearing it as I type this and I can't stop staring at my hands! <3

If you'd like more information about Breast Cancer and how you can help, go to: The National Breast Cancer Foundation Australia website.

Elissa

17/10 Go Pink Wednesday

Hello ladies!

It's Wednesday again! Which means that I'm going pink for Go Pink Wednesday. ;)
If you didn't see last week's post, I'm joining some other bloggers who are doing a series for the month of October for Breast Cancer Awareness. This series was started by Andrea from Finger Painting Fingers so if you'd like to join, you can read all about it here! :) 

This week I'm showing another Dollish Polish! I just got this one in the mail yesterday! I was waiting til I received it to do my Go Pink Wednesday mani! ;) I bought this one from Tara's blog sale! I bought 7 polishes from her sale and I am so excited about each and every one!

This is Dollish Polish A Peachy Princess (1 coat) over OPI Pink Friday (2 coats)! I'm not a huge "gamer" but I LOVE Mario! I have a Nintendo 3DS and I only ever play MarioKart on there! My favourite game! I love playing as Princess Peach, so I was very excited about this polish! :) I don't have any others from the collection but if they're in stock soon, I will probably be buying more. :D

A Peachy Princess is a very sheer pink base (I've seen swatches where it took 4-5 coats to look decent, but not opaque) with loads of pink glitter! I see small matte squares, small holographic hex glitters, bigger hot pink holographic glitters and larger square matte glitters! SO MUCH PINK!

This glitter wasn't hard to apply at all! I got a few of the large squares on my nails but if you wanted a lot of them, you'd have to fish around for them.

OPI Pink Friday is one of my favourite pink cremes! It's from the Nicki Minaj collection released earlier this year. Pink Friday is very opaque! It does need 2 coats, but it's pretty opaque in one, apart from a bit of patchiness!

I am loving indie polishes if you can't tell! They're so unique! I'm loving matte glitters! You never find matte glitters in store bought polishes!

If you'd like more information about Breast Cancer and how you can help, go to: The National Breast Cancer Foundation Australia website.

Elissa 

10/10 Go Pink Wednesday

Hi girly girls!

I've decided to join some other bloggers who are doing a series for the month of October for Breast Cancer Awareness. This series was started by Andrea from Finger Painting Fingers so if you'd like to join, you can read all about it here! :) I'm a week behind but that's okay. ;) Even if you don't have a blog, you should join in! :) Send me photos on Twitter or tag me on Instagram if you do because I'd love to see your pink manis! If you don't, maybe you could think about donating to Breast Cancer research. :) At all the supermarkets and shops near me, they have a lot of little knick-knacks like pens, ribbons, bracelets etc. that you can buy at the counter and the proceeds to go Breast Cancer research.


Also, side note, I'm thinking of making a Facebook account especially for my blog, as I don't want to make a "fan page". Let me know if you'd be interested in friend-ing me on Facebook for updates etc. :) I know that some of my readers don't have an Instagram (my username is @elissafay if you do) or Twitter (@elissaloo) which is where I will usually post any updates. So please let me know if you'd like me to create a Facebook account where you can 'friend' me and see more updates from me! :)

For my mani I decided to use my first indie polish! :D I recieved this in my swap with Natalie and I was so so so excited to try it! :)

This is two coats of California Gurl by Dollish Polish, layered over OPI - Kiss Me On My Tulips which are both mini bottles. Let me take a moment to tell you how much I dislike OPI mini bottles. :( The brushes suck. I make such a mess with the mini brushes! And also, after using one of the mini polishes a few times, it becomes impossible to get any more product out! :( Very annoying, since I have a LOT of OPI minis and I just don't want to use them because of how annoying the bottles are.

Anyway, Kiss Me On My Tulips is a gorgeous hot pink. It has something different to other hot pinks in my collection, though I don't own many others because hot pink is pretty classic and I don't even reach for it often. I think KMOMT has a blue undertone, which makes it unique in my collection. :) I really like it and I'd like to buy a full size bottle if I can find it.

California Gurl by Dollish Polish is a mix of very small and medium pink glitter, and some slightly larger teal/blue glitters. I believe an old version of this had hearts and stars in it instead of the regular blue glitters which I think would've been so fun! I still like the new version though. :) I had no problems with the Dollish Polish mini bottle/brush. :) This glitter is so pretty and girly! :D It also didn't dry to a super gritty finish and was smooth with one coat of Seche Vite!

I also matte-ified this mani after wearing it for half a day. :) I used the Rimmel London Lyrca Pro Matte Finish top coat. It's not the best matte top coat, judging from other swatches I've seen but it does an okay job at matte-ifying. :)

Matte-ified Macro!

This makes me want to try loads more indie polishes! x) Which may not be such a good thing for my wallet. ;)

If you'd like more information about Breast Cancer and how you can help, go to: The National Breast Cancer Foundation Australia website.

Elissa