My First Glitter Gradient

Can you believe I have never done one of these before?? This is over yesterday's China Glaze Sweet Hook manicure.  I used China Glaze Fairy Lights, China Glaze Nova and OPI Servin' Up Sparkle.

I really like these and will be doing more of them. Hopefully with a bit more practice I can get them looking perfect.

Lots of Love
Lisa

China Glaze Sweet Hook

Sweet Hook is from the China Glaze Electropop 2012 Spring collection.  It is well and truly autumn (fall) here now, but today is sunny and I am not ready to put away my summer colours yet. 

China Glaze Sweet Hook - Sunshine

 

China Glaze Sweet Hook - Shade

Sweet Hook is a pink toned lilac creme.  This is three coats. I found my bottle to be quite runny and therefore harder to work with than I would have liked. Dry time was usual but if you had too much on the brush, and flooded the nail it took longer to dry.

I bought my bottle of this from Transdesign. Although there are places in New Zealand selling these, just have a look at the "Where to Buy" tab at the top of the page.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Spotted in NZ: Butter London Lippy

 

From the Butter London Website:

Introducing LIPPY by butter LONDON. LIPPY is a range of long-wearing, lacquer-like lip glosses in shades to match our famous nail lacquers. Like the butter LONDON nail lacquers, LIPPY colours are rich and heavily pigmented for a look that is deliberate, high fashion, and luxe. LIPPY does not contain parabens, petroleum, phthalates, sulphates, or bismuth. If you’re being LIPPY, look the part.

I found these in Farmers today. 

Not surprisingly an untouched full display. The Lippy's are NZ$35.95 each and the polishes (as always) are NZ$34.95. I snapped a photo of the price to show you. (for those interested NZ$35 is US$28.50, so a full set of Lippy and Polish would set you back US$58.  This is why I shop online!)

In better news Farmers has Orly in sale for buy one get one free. And OPI is buy 2 get one free.
Also check out the Warehouse for three OPI Shatter polishes for $30, two for $24 and one for $15.  They have all current colours available and massive displays in store of them.

I am hoping to be back to regular blogging with in the next few weeks. I have so much to show you all.
Lots of Love
Lisa

Im a little distracted....

This is the newest edition to our household.

His name is Cooper. We got him from the Wellington Cats Protection League. We think he is about 12 weeks old, but are not really sure.

Our other cat (Keera) is having a hard time dealing with it. At the moment we are keeping them separate, but its taking a lot of energy to keep them both happy.  Google says it can take up to three months before they are friends. Should be an interesting few weeks at least.

If any one has introduced a kitten to another cat before and has any tips please please please let me know.

Needless to say, the nails are taking a backseat to this little cutie. Sorry :(

Lots of Love
Lisa

Wedding photos!!!!!!!

No words, just pictures.

Lots of Love
Lisa

My Prismatics Arrived!

Look at these beauties that arrived in the mail.

Left to right - Prism, Ray-diant, Polarized, Liquid Crystal, Full Spectrum, Optical Illusion

The press release for the Prismatic collection said:
Array your nails in a myriad of color this spring with China Glaze®’s limited edition Prismatic nail polish collection! Inspired by the colors formed by the refraction of light through a prism, Prismatic by China Glaze® combines glitter and holographic particles to create the ultimate eye-catching, 3-dimensional manicure.

Bursting with color and dimension, Prismatic shades include:

Ray-Diant
Greenish-gold shimmer filled with specks of silver, pink, green, orange and blue
Polarized
Silver metallic sheen sprinkled with yellow, pink, orange and green glitters
Liquid Crystal
Bright blue holographic with purple tint dusted with silver, gold, green, pink and orange
Prism
Grape purple holographic gleams with pink shimmer and glitters with pieces of pink, blue, green, orange, silver and gold
Full Spectrum
Baby pink bursts into holographic magenta to party with silver, gold, blue, pink and green particles.
Optical Illusion
Aqua green glimmers with a hint of purple filled with pink, yellow, silver, orange and green flecks

This is the last lot of nail polish I am allowed to buy until our trip to North America in September/October. Its going to be hard, but I have to think that the price of one polish here equals about 4 polishes in America.

Lots of Love
Lisa