Festive fingertips: OPI - Show It and Glow It!

This festive polish is well known around the blogisphere!

OPI's Show It and Glow It! is a glitter polish from 2010's Burlesque holiday collection.  This riot of a polish is an amazing combination of silver, purple, green...basically multi-coloured glitter in a pinky purple base.  As I love purple, this is one fantastic glitter polish IMO, and I wore it all weekend.

This is two coats of SIAGI! finished with three coats of Sally Hansen Megashine top coat.  This thirsty glitter base really soaked up the top coat and I can see I could have done with a fourth topcoat if I wanted a perfectly glassy finish.  Never mind, it's still a party on my fingertips.

Full sun

Outdoors shade

Until my next post

Vita :)

EOTD - Daytime neutrals

I haven't done an EOTD post yet this month so...

This look isn't festive but more functional and something I fall back on for wearing to the office to counteract a strong lip colour.  It's a daytime look for when I want to look fresh and natural but still a little bit polished.  I laugh at myself over how it takes me using no less than three shades of neutral shadow to look like I'm wearing nothing on my eyelids.  This post is dedicated to the artifice involved in looking natural!

For this look I used:

• Face of Australia primer - (matte) blended over lids
• MAC - Shroom all over lids
• Maybelline - Silken Taupe blended in crease
• Revlon - Not Quite White on brow bone
• Face of Australia eye definer pencil - Brown on upper lash line
• Napoleon - Whole Lotta Lash mascara (black) on upper lashes only

 

How many products do you use for a natural look?

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Vita :)

Festive fingertips: OPI - I Get a Kick Out of Gold!

Happy Saturday!

First of all a big SORRY for my sporadic posting this month.  December is such a crazy month for me with all the social commitments, shopping, planning and trying to wind up all my stuff at the office before I head off on leave!  I can promise you January will be back to the usual routine and I have lots of ideas for new posts.  So many ideas, so little time but just at the moment...

Okay, continuing on the festive theme, here's another old holiday gem from OPI and I can't understand why I haven't worn this one before.  I Get a Kick Out of Gold! is from OPI's Rockettes 2006 holiday collection and is a sparkly white-gold foil.  I got a fantastic even finish from this in two coats and it lasted the entire working week so it's a very durable polish.  This mani looks like my nails have been dipped in precious metal.

Lamplight

Outdoors daylight (no sun)

Thanks for looking!

Hopefully your December's a bit less hectic than mine.

Vita :)

The nail polish tag

Well, Hello I received this great tag from the gorgeous Orange County girl,  Maria of Nails Made Simple and I thought I'd share the fun!

Here are the rules:

Answer the 10 questions below

Pass the tag to 5 bloggers and let them know

1. How many polishes do you own?
Okay, I did a really rough estimate and it's somewhere between 500 to 600. Yikes!!

2. What is your favourite brand of polish?
I'll have to pick my top three - OPI (because I have more of these than anything), China Glaze and now I recently added Orly to my list.

3. Do you like crackle nail polish or do you hate it?
I'd have to say I like it because I've got 7 bottles of it!

4. What is your first nail polish brand?
If you mean the first brand I remember buying, it would be Cutex.

5. If you were going to have a nail polish line what would you call it?
Hmmm...Bottled Rainbows....I just made that up on the spot!

6. What nail polish colour does not compliment you?
I have a morbid fear of yellow because I'm so pale.

7. What colour compliments you?
I love the contrast between vampy or bright colours and my skin.

8. Name two of your best nail art friends
Leanne of thatleanne and Polish Amor.


9. What was the best nail polish gift you have received?
That would be the glitter polish giveaway I won earlier this year!

10. Make a speech to thank the blogger who tagged you.
Maria has been a friendly follower of mine for several months and always has the most encouraging and lovely things to say!  She's a talented girl herself and has been venturing into nail art, doing twinsie Friday posts with her nail blogging "twin" Polish AMOR.   Thank you for tagging me Maria!

Its late in the evening and I'm having trouble deciding who to tag, so consider yourself tagged if you wish!

Vita :)  xoxoxo 

Festive fingertips: Urban Decay - Hot Mess + Ziggy

Hello again,  I've been crazy busy lately so I'm lucky to have been able to sneak in two posts in the last two days.  This is just a quickie...

I finally had the opportunity to wear my new Urban Decay holiday polishes so I decided to try two at once!  Here I've applied the glass-flecked magenta pink Hot Mess as the main manicure shade with multicoloured glitter-bomb Ziggy on my ring finger as an accent.  This was the fun mani I sported to our pre-Christmas street party last weekend! 

Full sun

Outdoors shade

That's all for now.

Vita :)

Festive fingertips: OPI - I Love the Holidays! + Glitter top coat

This is my second officially festive mani and is courtesy of a HTF vintage OPI combination I've had in my stash for quite a few years.

I Love the Holidays! and ILTH! Glitter Top Coat are part of an old black label holiday set I bought way back in the early Noughties on the TV Shopping Network - good ol' TVSN!  I Love the Holidays is a shimmery coral pink with a slight duochrome which looks a bit retro when worn alone (stupido me didn't think to take any pics without top coat - Doh!!).  I added two coats of the matching glitter top coat, which consists of very fine warm pink glitter.  Sparkly like sugar, this manicure is sweet and nice for the holidays and a change from the usual holiday colour combinations...

Full sun

Outdoors shade - you can just see the duochrome in the bottle

I hope you have a great start to your week.  Less than two weeks of work for me then I'll have an extended break at home with my son.  Can't wait!

Until next time.

Vita :)

Haul post: From Vegas, Baby (and a swatchathon)!

Hello Lovelies

This post has been a while coming, as my Hubby's been back home from Las Vegas three weeks now.  Look at the major haul he brought back for me!

From my shopping list:  Wet n Wild eyeshadow palettes, YSL & MAC lipsticks, and Christian Dior Diorshow mascara.  

And as a surprise:   Urban Decay holiday collection nail polish & eyeliners and Sally Hansen crackle polishes!  Not a bad effort for a middle-aged male I've got to say.  You can understand why I married him! ;)

Now for a closer look and all the swatches of course.  Take a deep breath because this is gonna be pic heavy...

L - R:

YSL Rouge Volupte lipsticks - 26 (Tender Peach), 2 (Sensual Silk)

MAC Cremesheen lipstick (Modesty)

MAC Amplified Creme lipstick (Blankety)

I was very much in a nude lip mood when I made up my list as aside from Tender Peach, all of the other lipsticks are variations of nude.  The Rouge Volupte range of lippies are a new luxe addition to my collection and I'm in love with the packaging.  I couldn't pass up the opportunity to score MAC lippies at half the Australian price so that's why I chose two!

Swatched in daylight L - R:

Tender Peach, Sensual Silk, Modesty, Blankety

Wet n Wild Color Icon palette:

736 Petal Pusher

I chose this palette to feed my purple addiction!

I can see lots of possibilities with it, from sweet to smoky...

381B Sweet As Candy

I think this will be pretty for everyday wear.

380B Walking on Eggshells

I've seen this palette feature in lots of beauty bloggers' posts so it was a 'must have' for me.

Another great palette for everyday.

334 I'm Getting Sunburned

Not for the colour-shy this has the most amazing rich gold shade, complemented with pink and a dark chocolate brown accent shade.

It was the gold that sold me on this one.

Urban Decay Electric 24/7 Travel Size eye pencil set

Well, hello, this was a surprise purchase by my husband and he chose well.  These eyeliner pencils are so creamy and intensely pigmented and the colours are amazing!  They're supposed to be waterproof so I should be able to put that to the test when the weather down here really heats up...

Swatched in daylight L - R:

Perversion, Ransom, Woodstock, Radium, Junkie

Urban Decay Holiday Nail Kit

Another surprise purchase.  My Hubby knows me well!   6 new gorgeous nail colours for the holidays.

Swatches shown in full sun and shade in the same order as in the pack above:

L - R: Barlust, Mars, Wrecked, Ziggy, Gunmetal, Hot Mess

Sally Hansen Crackle overcoats

L - R:  Cherry Smash, Vintage Violet, Fuschia Shock

Not exactly a surprise because Hubby showed me these via Facebook although they weren't on my shopping list.  I've not swatched them here so I'll do a separate post on these.

Christian Dior Diorshow Mascara (Black) - see intro picture.

I love this luxe mascara so I added it to the shopping list.  I've done a previous brief review upon finishing a sample tube here .

I hope you enjoyed this post.  

If you have any of these products I'd love to hear what your impressions are!

Until next time.

Vita :)