piCture pOlish Mellow Yellow and Ozotic 904

Wow, it has been a while. How are you all doing?
Life has been busy and my nails have been crap, although that did not stop me buying more polishes that I didn't need. My nails were still polished, but it is hard to blog in Winter because I cant take decent pictures and Id rather not blog than show you guys crap.
But it was ok-ish weather over the weekend, so I managed to do some swatching.  My nails still aren't as great as I would like. I am trying Seche Rebuild at the moment, so we will see how that goes.

I am on a massive pastel kick at the moment.  Today I have some pastel yellow polishes to show you.

piCture pOlish Mellow Yellow - Natural Light

piCture pOlish Mellow Yellow - Sunshine

This is three coats of Mellow Yellow, however this is thick enough to easily get away with two coats. It is a nice pastel yellow that applies well, even though it is thick, it doesn't leave dodgy brush marks. I am a fan of piCture pOlishes, however I really dislike their brushes. The fibres in them seem to stick together and not spread over the nail easily (just my opinion).

Ozotic 904 over piCture pOlish Mellow Yellow - Natural Light

Ozotic 904 over piCture pOlish Mellow Yellow - Sunshine

Ozotic 904 is the yellow polish from the 2012 Sugar collection. This is a canary yellow that is full of little glass flecks.  This is one coat over Mellow Yellow. 904 is actually slightly duochromatic switching from yellow to green in the correct light.  Its hard to see over the top of yellow, but layered over black really pops.

Hopefully I can get this blog back on track. Wish me luck.

Lots of Love
Lisa

piCture pOlish Paradise

piCture pOlish Paradise is one of the newer collaboration shades produced by piCture pOlish and Liquid Jelly.  Originally this was to be a limited edition shade, but it was announced that this will be a core shade now.

piCture pOlish Paradise - sunshine

piCture pOlish Paradise - shade

Paradise is a dark teal jelly base with blue-teal shimmer and very fine purple glitter, and pink holographic hexagon glitter. This is three coats. The pink glitter looks very sparkly in the sun, but is hard to capture on camera.  I think this is an interesting mix of colours and is totally unique to my collection.

Lots of Love

Lisa

piCture pOlish Splash

Splash is one of the new glitters recently released by piCture pOlish as part of their glitter collection.  

piCture pOlish Splash over Color Club Pure Energy - Shade

piCture pOlish Splash over Color Club Pure Energy - Sunshine

Here is 2 coats of piCture pOlish Splash over 2 coats of Color Club Pure Energy.  It is small and medium pieces of blue glitter in a clear base.  To be honest I wasn't overly impressed with Splash. It needed two coats just to get this light layer of glitter over the base layer.  

Splash is available from piCture pOlish retailers, including Gracie Lou in New Zealand (NZ$13.50).

Lots of Love
Lisa

piCture pOlish Sunset

"totally neon for anyone who dares!" 

piCture pOlish Sunset is a highlighter neon orange crème polish.  Neon polishes are notoriously hard to capture on camera, and look different on ever computer screen.  

piCture pOlish Sunset - Natural light

piCture pOlish Sunset - Sunshine

This is three coats. On my computer screen the picture in the Natural light is the most colour accurate.  Sunset is a pink toned orange.  It applied great, but it was difficult to tell how much polish was on the brush.  I think this is because the brush is a clear/white colour and soaks up the all the bright orange.

piCture pOlish is available from their website in Australia (with worldwide shipping), Gracie Lou in New Zealand, and check out this page here for other worldwide stockists.

Lots of Love
Lisa 

This polish was sent to me for review.

PiCture pOlish Warning

PiCture pOlish Warning is another of the polishes I purchased online when I was having my bad day at work a few weeks ago.

 PiCture pOlish Warning - Sunshine

PiCture pOlish Warning - Shade

Warning is a gorgeous blue toned medium purple.  It is very very fine glitter packed together so that it appears like a shimmer polish, but in the bottle you can see the individual particles making up the polish, in different shades of purple and blue.

These swatches are using three coats. In the sun it looks a bit under done, but not so much in real life.  This is a really pretty purple. It reminds me of RBL Scrangie, however Scrangie is a straight shimmer and has a teal flash running through it. Warning and Scrangie are not dupes of each other.

I purchased this polish from Gracie Lou in New Zealand for $13.50.  Those not in New Zealand can purchase piCture pOlish polishes online at Llarowe, Overall Beauty, Harlow & Co, Pshiiit Boutique and many other places. Check the piCture pOlish website for a full list of stockists.

Lots of Love
Lisa

piCture pOlish Blog Fest 2012

80 Bloggers around the world are taking part in this years piCture pOlish Blog Fest. Luckily I get to be one of them too.

The first shade I am got to review is Orbit.

Orbit is one of the new 'Mesh' shades available from today.  Orbit covers your nails in their own little galaxies.

piCture pOlish Orbit - Sunshine

piCture pOlish Orbit - Shade

Orbit is a dark navy blue base jelly packed full of dark blue and silver glitter.  It is so full of glitter that you barely notice the jelly base.  This swatch is two coats and they applied like a dream. You could even get away with one thick coat.  This polish is not a chucky glitter so only needs on layer of top coat to make it smooth.  The only problem with this polish is that it is a glitter and so takes a bit of elbow grease to take off.

This polish is officially on sale today from piCture pOlish and retails for AUD$9.50.  For those in New Zealand Gracie Lou will be stocking piCture pOlish soon.

The second shade I received from piCture pOlish is this stunning green called Kryptonite.

 Kryptonite is from the 'Collaboration Collection' and was jointly created by Cathy from More Nail Polish.

piCture pOlish Orbit - Sunshine

 piCture pOlish Orbit - Sunshine 

This picture really shoes the holographic glitter in the polish

Kryptonite is a deep green jelly full of irregular shaped micro holographic particles.  This swatch is three coats. It applied nicely and dried quickly.  The holographic particles are scattered and sparkle well in the sun.  It has a smooth finish, as it is ultimately a jelly polish.

This polish is officially on sale today from piCture pOlish and retails for AUD$11.50.  For those in New Zealand Gracie Lou will be stocking piCture pOlish soon, but you can order directly from piCture pOlish if you can not wait.

So far my first two piCture pOlish polishes have been great. The biggest down side to these is that they are only 11mls.  I will be stocking up on more of the new shades just released from the Mesh and Collaboration collections. Some of the polishes being displayed in the Blog Fest today look amazing.

Lots of Love

Lisa

PiCture pOlish and Ozotic coming soon to NZ

piCture pOlish announced that Gracie Lou is going to be the New Zealand Distributor of piCture pOlish and Ozotic polishes.

The polishes have not yet arrived in NZ, but when they do check them out on the out the website here: http://www.gracielou.co.nz/categories/picture-polish-and-ozotic.  I am unsure of pricing for these products at the moment.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Ozotic 533

Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I have been sick for abut a months now (I am currently taking my second course of antibiotics). My computer has pretty much died and takes about 30 minutes to load a website. I had to find a new job in the last couple of weeks. Luckily that wasn't too hard, but still is a nerve racking process. I've also been doing other things - recently I got into cupcake decorating so have been doing lots of baking.

I had been putting off buying some Ozotic polishes for a long time because the price combined with the shipping to New Zealand was pretty high (Even by NZ standards).  But when Picture Polishes announced that Ozotic were discontinuing their 500 series I had a little panic attack and bought 8 of them.

533 is from the Mish Mash collection.  There are four polishes in this collection and all are multi coloured holographic polishes designed to be worn over a black base.

 Ozotic 533 over Black - Sunshine

 Ozotic 533 over Black - Shade

Today was our first day of sun in a very very long time. Luckily I managed to snap these pics before it disappeared.  This is two thin coats of 533 over two coats of black.  It sparkles from green to teal to blue to purple when you hold your hand to the sun at different angles.  This is a beautiful holographic polish. 


Picture polish no longer has stock left of 533 on their website but Llarowe is still selling 533 for US$14.50 and has international shipping. Picture polishes announced not long ago that there were less than 150 of these polishes left in the world. Grab yours now before they become impossible to find!


Lots of Love
Lisa

Best invention in the world??

PiCture pOlish published this picture on their Facebook wall on Friday night

Yes you are seeing that right. It is a NAIL POLISH VENDING MACHINE!!!!!!!

It is situated in the Robina Town Centre in the Gold Coast Australia.

How awesome is that? It would be cool if we could find these all around the world. I know that I would use them. especially if they had cheaper polishes as you didnt have to pay for having them in a shop and paying for labour costs.

We have a flat inspection next week so I will get back to my cleaning now. And when I say cleaning I mean everything - even under the washing machine! By the way I hate cleaning - It is NOT good for your nails at all.

Lots of Love
Lisa