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piCture pOlish Blog Fest 2013- Celebrating the year of the blogger

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Not only is it my birthday today (yay), but it is also piCture pOlish Blog Fest 2013! This year’s blog fest is all about celebrating bloggers and showcasing some amazing nail art, using some gorgeous piCture pOlish shades!

I am excited to be apart of the event for a 2nd year! You can check out my post from last year here.

The three colours that piCture pOlish kindly sent me to use in my nail art, are ‘Wisteria’, ‘Hot Lips’ and ‘Marine’.

piCture pOlish blog fest 2013

L-R: Hot Lips, Marine, Wisteria

It took me a couple of weeks to finally decide on the nail art design that I decided to create, but I finally came up with a Peacock manicure because the Marine shade reminded me of the male peacock’s green/teal feathers.

piCture pOlish Blog Fest 2013- Peacock manicure

I used a plain white polish to make the design stand out and a little orange for the beak…everything else was created with the 3 piCture pOlish shades.

piCture pOlish blog fest 2013For the body, I made a kind of ‘bowling pin’ shape with Marine. Then I painted on teardrop shapes (as the tail) in Wisteria, in an arc cascading over the two outer nails. I finished those 3 nails off by adding a white dot for the eye, Hot lips inside the ‘tail feathers’, a small orange beak and the crest on the peacock’s head.

piCture pOlish blog fest 2013

please excuse my awful skin! my hands have been drying out from the chemicals I use to clean at work! definitely should use some mosturiser!

For the two remaining nails I painted a peacock feather on each, with alternating colours. (purple on the outside & pink on the inside, reversed on the other nail).

piCture pOlish blog fest 2013

If you like the look of any of the shades above, you can purchase them from piCture pOlish now! Or from their network partners. piCture pOlish ship internationally (*some exclusions). Also if you love a good bargain be sure to check out their Everyday deals page.

Check out some of the other great blogs participating in piCture pOlish blog fest 2013 below and link up if you are participating yourself!

What is your favourite piCture pOlish shade? I love Wisteria, I don’t own a lot of purple polishes.

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Disclaimer: the three shades pictured above were kindly supplied to me by piCture pOlish for Blog fest 2013.

 

 

Swatch Satuday: Maybelline Color Show Sequins

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I loved the look of the Maybelline color show sequins polishes as soon as I saw a photo of them, on the MNY Aussie instagram account a few months ago. I was excited to finally find them at Priceline last week!

Maybelline color show sequins

I decided to buy all colours because I couldn’t decide on which one I wanted and I’m a sucker for anything sparkly! (total magpie).

There are four shades in the collection: Silver Gleam #810, Gold’s Night Out #815, Sea-Quins #820 and Rose Bling #825

maybelline color show sequins

They don’t disappoint! (except for the blue, but more about that later). The glitter in them is a mixture of ultra fine and larger sequins. Other than the silver, two coats were enough to fully cover my nail…I only needed one with the silver for some reason, I’m not sure why it’s less sparse than the others.

Maybelline Color Show Sequins swatches

 

maybelline color show sequins

apologies for my thumb nail being out of focus!

Silver Gleam #810
maybelline color show sequinsThis is one of my favourites from the collection, silver looks great on it’s own or with any other color really. This polish is packed full of silver micro glitter and bigger round sequins.

Gold’s Night Out #815
maybelline color show sequinsApologies again for the partially out of focus photo…anyway, Gold’s night out is much the same as Silver gleam, but the glitter is a bit more sparse. This is my other favourite, as it looks great by itself.

Sea-Quins #820
maybelline color show sequinsSea-Quins was the shade that I was really disappointed with. I was hoping it would be clear with blue glitter, but unfortunately (like Sally Hansen’s Mermaids Tale) the polish is sheer blue. It has pale blue micro glitter and the same larger sequins. Why won’t someone make a clear blue glitter polish!?

Rose Bling #825
maybelline color show sequinsRose Bling has pale pink micro glitter, the same colour sequins and dark pink sequins. I like this colour, but unless you ‘fish’ around for the darker pink sequins it’s hard to have an even coverage of them.

Over all I really like these polishes, I can definitely see myself getting a lot of use out of the silver and gold shades. I can’t comment on how hard they are to remove because I used my essence peal off base coat under them.

The Maybelline color show sequins polishes are limited edition and retail for $5.95 each, you can buy them online at Priceline.

Have you purchased any of the sequin polishes? which shade is your favourite?

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