Artsy Wednesday: Halloween

Happy Halloween! Predictably, this week’s Artsy Wednesday theme is Halloween. I didn’t want to do traditional witches and pumpkins – instead, I took a somewhat lazy route and used some oriental demon mask water decals to make a more unusual (but hopefully still spooky) monster mani. And I got a bit lazy I guess! Here it is: And a close-up …

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Current Favourites

I haven’t done a favourites post in ages (since New Years in fact!), so I thought I’d share some of my recent finds and classic beauty/shiny favourites: The Grove Perfumery Half Baked – Made by the same people who do Glasshouse, this line is sadly discontinued. Half Baked comes in a cute punk-themed glass with an air-tight lid and smells …

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Ozotic Scatter Chrome 914 – Swatch and Review

Cult Aussie polish brand Ozotic are releasing some new beauties next week – the Scatter Chromes. They’re duochrome shimmers packed with irregular holographic dust, a finish that I’ve never seen before. piCture pOlish recently sent me Ozotic Scatter Chrome 914 to review – the base duochrome colour is a dark blue, with a slight purple shift at the sides. Onto …

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Orly Feel the Vibe Neon collection – swatches and review

Are you ready for summer, Southern Hemisphere ladies? I am! It’s the only season where I don’t feel like a teenager wearing neon, although I draw the line at neon all over. Neon nails, though, are a great way of getting into the mood without making me feel too Malibu Stacy. One of the neon ranges coming out soon is …

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Artsy Wednesday: Cling/saran wrap manicure

This week for Artsy Wednesday we’re doing cling wrap manis (aka saran wrap, gladwrap etc.). These are usually done with two cremes, or a creme and a shimmer, but I wasn’t ready to take Gloss ‘n Sparkle Goblins Grave off yet, so I used that as a base and applied ulta3 Gold Rush Fever on top. Here’s the result: I …

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Oily oily oily, oi oi oi!

Even though I have an oily T-zone, I love using oils on my face. At the beginning I wasn’t quite so enthusiastic, but now they’re often my only moisturiser during the day. Here’s a review of some of the oils I’ve been testing out on my face lately: Rose-Hip Vital Rosehip Oil (RRP $19.95 for 30 mL and $29.99 for …

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Born Pretty to-02 plate review

I recently received this plate to-02 from the online nail supply store Born Pretty in the mail. I’m not usually a fan of small designs, but a few of these are really cute! I’ve circled the designs I used: I used ulta3 Black Satin to stamp the designs on ulta3 Earl Grey. Forgive my dodgy stamping: Unfortunately a few of …

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Make-up organisation bonanza!

Make-up organisation has not been my strong point. My organisational style is best described as “ambitious, but fickle”, and my room is usually an explosion of shiny things and packaging detritus. And naturally, the pointy and breakable things have a knack of finding themselves under my feet. So I was super excited when I recently received a mini make-up box …

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