Shocked - piCture pOlish

piCture pOlish time again! And this week I have another collaboration shade to show you. 'Shocked' was created by a collaboration with Sarah from Shatter me Claire blog.

Yet another brilliant piCture pOlish polish. How is it that every single one I have tried has been so perfect? This is another irregular shard-like scattered holo (yep the type that I fall more in love with every time I lay my eyes on them). 'Shocked' is a gorgeous fuschia, almost cerise leaning, bright, blue-based pink jelly. The particles in this polish tend to shine almost golden through the layers. So pretty.

And here's a little macro for good luck. See those little irregular pieces. They seem to make the blue in the pink shine through more too. So striking.


'Shocked' applied beautifully and though this is a jelly like 'Ocean' and 'Starry Night', I found this one to be a little more opaque. You are seeing 3 coats in these photos, but 2 was enough for normal eyes (that's how I am wearing it on my left hand).

I just want to add in here that so far all the polishes I have tried from piCture pOlish have worn really well. Mostly 4-5 days until I'm getting any real tip wear and that is surviving work and lots of hands in water and cleaning and all of that jazz.

piCture pOlish is available from a whole bunch of places. Make sure you check out the piCture pOlish website, you can order this polish direct from them for $12 AUD or you can have a look at their list of distributors.

This product was provided for review. This is my personal, unbiased opinion.
For more information, see my disclosure policy.

Tempest - Cult Nails & Sweet Hook - China Glaze - Stamped

Hi!

I have a quick little mani to show you today that I did before work yesterday. I feel like it's been forever since I did any stamping so that's what I did...

I felt like something Spring-y and I really am loving this. I know I'm backwards as we are in Autumn at the moment, but I'm always like that, when the weather is getting crap I always feel like happy Spring or Summer colours. My bases were China Glaze 'Sweet Hook' and Cult Nails 'Tempest' and I stamped using Konad White and Lilac (? - there's no name/colour). The stamping plate I used was my most adored LeaLaC XL - B.


Formula-wise, 'Sweet Hook', as I have already told you, is perfect in 2 very easy, thin coats. 'Tempest' took a little getting used to. It's fairly thick and my first 2 nails (the ones you see in these photos) needed 1.5 coats, or one and a little thin one to even it out, but once I got used to it my other nails only needed 1 coat. So yes, I think 'Tempest' lives up to all the anticipation of it being a one coat white, which is amazing - Go Cult Nails! The images picked up perfectly from the plate, as they always do, so that part was good and easy too :)

Cult Nails 'Tempest' is available from the Cult Nails website and you can get the LeaLaC XL - B plate from Llarowe.

Blogger - piCture polish

It's Wednesday and that mean it's piCture pOlish time. These weeks are flying by at quite an alarming rate, I feel like this year has barely started and it's May already!! Anyway, today I have a new piCture pOlish shade 'Blogger' that is a "colourful, sparkly ode to you all". I love that :) I have used blogger a couple of different ways...

For these photos, I used 'Blogger' over a few different colours, so you can get an idea of what it will look like. I used one coat of 'Blogger' (of varying thickness) over each finger with polish underneath. On my ring finger is 3 coats of blogger alone and as you can see, while there are still little gaps at the tip etc, this polish can be easily built up for a serious glitter bomb explosion! From pinky to index finger, I used Lime Crime 'Lavendairy', Ulta3 'Sea Breeze Swirl' and OPI 'Tomorrow Never Dies'. I love it over all three of these colours and I feel like each one brings out a different colour of glitter. I think it would look perfect over piCture pOlish 'Jade' or 'Honey Dew', I'm really going to have to remedy the fact that I don't have those polishes sooner rather than later!

I decided to try a little glitter gradient out as well with 'Blogger' and I kinda love how it came out. I used Lime Crime 'Milky Ways' as the base and then just brushed on a little 'Blogger' to get the gradient effect. When I look at this it just makes me think about celebrating. I don't know what particularly, but celebration none the less.


Blogger was really easy to work with and is packed with glitter, and when I say packed, I mean PACKED with glitter. Because of this, it's reasonably thick, but still really workable. For the ring finger in the top swatch photos, I did use a bit of a dabbing technique for the last coat to make sure most of the nail was filled in, but for the other fingers I just brushed the glitter on normally really. This is one happy polish and a perfect glitter bomb!


piCture pOlish is available from a whole bunch of places. Make sure you check out the piCture pOlish website, you can order this polish direct from them for $10 AUD or you can have a look at their list of distributors.

This product was provided for review. This is my personal, unbiased opinion.
For more information, see my disclosure policy.

Galahad - a-england

Hi lovely people!

Quick post tonight (this morning - it's 3am?!) as I have been desperately finishing up a rather large neuroscience report and I have to get up and study for a genetics test on Monday. I have a couple of quick pics of a gorgeous polish that I don't know why I haven't shown you guys yet... a-england 'Galahad'.

'Galahad' is a dusty teal polish. It has quite yellow undertones, but is surprisingly wearable even on my pale skin. It's really quite striking.


Best part about this polish... it's formula is so easy peasy and super opaque. In the past I have only ever needed 1 coat when I've used this polish, but I was in a hurry last night and I didn't let my base coat dry so my first coat was not perfect. I just used a really thin second coat to even everything out.

Check out a-england's website to see where you can buy their beauties from (as currently they are not shipping internationally).

Starry Night - piCture pOlish

It's Wednesday again and that means it's piCture pOlish time! It was hard to wait for Wednesday to roll around again to show you another of their beauties! Anyway, enough chit chat... This is another collaboration polish and this time the collaboration was with the wonderful Leah Ann from Llarowe. I'm sure you all know about the online shop that is Llarowe and if you're anything like me, you have probably spent more time and money there than you care to admit, trying to get your mitts on so many wonderful indies.

I love me a good dark polish and piCture pOlish have done it again, yet another polish I love. I am quite deathly pale with really dark hair and so I often shy away from black polish, but with the addition of the scattered holo effect and the jelly formula of the polish, I found 'Starry Night' really wearable.

In brighter light, you can really see how packed full of holo particles 'Starry Night' is and the slightly sheer jelly allows this to really shine through.

A close up of the piCture pOlish holo shard particles that I simply cannot get enough of. In fact, I made a bold statement the other day while staring at my nails, I decided that I could be happy if I wore only polishes with this finish for the rest of my life. Luckily, in reality, this would never happen, but if for some reason I had to choose a single type of polish to use for ever more, I would be quite happy if it was one like this.


Just like with 'Ocean' last week, 'Starry Night' had a sheer jelly formula. I used 4 coats, but only because of the close up photos. Three easy coats gave full opacity and, as usual, that's how I wore 'Starry Night' on my left hand. I did try putting a single coat over a coat of black and at the end of the day, there wasn't a huge amount of difference. I actually preferred 'Starry Night' on its own, because it has that look of depth with the particles showing through the layers of polish and just an overall softer look about it. 'Starry Night' was really easy to work with formula-wise.


piCture pOlish is available from a whole bunch of places. Make sure you check out the piCture pOlish website, you can order this polish direct from them for $12 AUD or you can have a look at their list of distributors.

This product was provided for review. This is my personal, unbiased opinion.
For more information, see my disclosure policy.

Sugar Spun Fetish - Cult Nails (with Sinful Colors & China Glaze)

I decided to do some major study avoidance earlier in the week and the best way to do that was to try the sugar spun technique. I had already been wearing (and loving) Cult Nails 'Fetish' and that seemed like it would work as the perfect base. Let's start with 'Fetish'...

I have always loved the look of matte black polish but have never quite mastered using Essie 'Matte About You'. Lucky for me, Maria from Cult Nails created these wax finish polishes. I love that sort of rubbery waxy look of 'Fetish'. So different and pretty edgy if you ask me.

So here's my attempt at a sugar spun mani... I didn't top coat it because I think the texture of this is a big part of the look of it. Overall it went ok apart from that big old glob on my pinky nail. This was the last nail I did and I was gutted when I did that! Must have been rushing to get it finished. Oh well, I decided just to roll with it. The colours I used were China Glaze 'Splish Splash' and 'Surfin' For Boys' on my index and middle fingers and on my other two fingers I used China Glaze 'I'm With The Lifeguard' and Sinful Colors 'Dream On'.


'Fetish' was so easy to apply. I barely needed the second coat, as it's beautifully opaque. I had been a bit worried about the dry time seeing as you obviously aren't putting a quick dry top coat on top, but I was pleasantly surprised by how fast it dried. For the sugar spun technique I searched a lot of videos on YouTube and if you're wondering how to do it yourself, that's what I'd recommend. There are always lots of good tutorials. I think the main tutorial I used was one by xoxo Alexis Leigh.

Cult Nails polishes are available from the Cult Nails website for $12 USD.

Ocean - piCture pOlish

I am so excited, I am about to start a weekly piCture pOlish review. Each Wednesday I will be showing you one of their lovely polishes that they sent me to review. So let's kick things off ASAP because I'm basically dying to show you this gorgeous brand spanking new polish that has just been released. This is 'Ocean' and it is an addition to their collaboration collection. piCture pOlish collaborated with Kelly from Kelly's Kolors for this polish...

'Ocean' is beyond gorgeous! I saw it in the bottle and was like "whoa" then I put it on my nails and was like "WHOA!". So incredibly sparkly it is not even funny! I cannot stop staring at my nails!

The best part about the sparkles is that holo shard type flake that piCture pOlish uses. I love the irregularity of it. It adds a whole other dimension. Also it looks to me like there is some sort of teal shards/particles going on in there too... Regardless, a gorgeous teal colour flashes through in different lighting situations. In dimmer light this polish can pull quite green/teal. I couldn't for the life of me capture that colour!!

MMMmmm! Do you see what I mean about the irregular holo shards? So pretty. And I love how the scattered holo really brings out the blue colour even more.


'Ocean' is a jelly polish so I did need a few coats, but it was really easy to work with. I had 3 coats on and it was looking absolutely fine, then, once again, when I got the macro lens on this baby, you could see through it a bit too much. In real life, this is what 3 coats looks like, in fact I am still wearing 'Ocean' and I have only 3 coats on my left hand (I do not want to take this pretty polish off!).


piCture pOlish is available from a whole bunch of places. Make sure you check out the piCture pOlish website, you can order this polish direct from them for $12 AUD or you can have a look at their list of distributors.

This product was provided for review. This is my personal, unbiased opinion.
For more information, see my disclosure policy.