... Australia Day Nails ... Nails Inc - Little Miss Splendid ....

Woohoo!! Going to cheat today and use a guest post I did for Cathy at More Nail Polish at the end of last year. If you missed it first time around then here it is again!  I figured this fits in well with the Aussie theme for the week!!!

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I've got this special pretty to show to you today to tide you over for a bit longer! It's from the Nails Inc "Little Miss" collection and this one is Little Miss Splendid.

I brought mine from Beautybay.com but there are many other places out there to get your Nails Inc fix!! I regret not buying all the colours in this set as it's fantastic. They have the cute character on the bottle aswell which is a bonus! I love Mr Men!

When I first got this I immediately thought of Essie Turquoise & Caicos [and it's dupe Essence Chasing Waves from the BBC Sunclub series] but they are slightly different.

The Essie is on finger #3 and it's a slightly lighter shade and also it's not so opaque as the Nails Inc which you can definitely notice in real life. Also the Nails Inc does have a green shimmer through it which I wasn't able to capture on camera but you can slightly see it in the bottle in this picture below

After all that I thought I'd top it off with a little stamping :) Both these designs are from the Aussie Konad Plate A1 and the colour is NYC Color in Midnight which is a dark blue and it seemed to be a better choice with this colour than black

Aussie Aussie Aussie!!!  I love this plate but don't often get a chance to pull it out and wear it but maybe I should make more of an effort as it's great!

So if you are in the market for a beautiful colour but don't yet have the Essie [or if you just like cute designs on your bottles] then it might be worthwhile checking this one out. There are other Little Miss characters in the set [I believe there are 4 in total] but they have been around now for at least a year so get hunting!!

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... Essence Sun Club - 03 BBC Splash Refresh ...

Essence Sun Club - 03 BBC Splash Refresh

Purchased from Target - $3.50 AUD

 And we continue on from where we left off yesterday - we're up to polish 3 in the Bondi Beach Collection and I'm quite liking this one. This is Splash Refresh and it's a Aqua colour that seems to shift from more green to more blue depending on your lighting. Definitely reminds me of the Pacific Ocean!

As with the other colours so far - this is 3 coats with quick drying time. No lumps and definitely not watery like yesterdays effort!

 Looking more blue

And the same polish looking more green.

** Final Verdict **

My favourite polish from this collection so far. I love the way the colour changes depending on the light and I really like how beautiful it is!

... first splatter attempt ...

I first saw a splatter mani here at The PolishAholic and really really wanted to try it out. So here is my first ever attempt at it! It's good ol' Face of Australia Titanium over Mode Party Girl which I reviewed in my last post.

It was definitely a lot easier than I thought it would be. Dip straw in polish, blow through other end of straw, sit back and look at pretty designs! Easy!

I'm quite pleased with how the middle and pinky fingers turned out but it's obvious I need some more practice! Some places are just huge blotches where the polish just fell off the straw in big clumps.

My husband seems to think that it looks like bird droppings all over my hands - charming! :( I'm quite pleased with it though and I'm going to give it another bash later!

... Mode Cosmetics - Party Girl ...

Mode Cosmetics - Party Girl

Purchased from Carrig Chemists - $2.45

**DISCLAIMER **

My camera really hated this colour so apologies in advance for the photos - for some reason it decided that the colour was light blue and I couldn't do anything to make it appear more green like it actually is ... in the end I had to borrow my husbands phone camera to try and get the colour to appear more like it is. The photos still don't do it justice.

With a name like "party girl" I had to test this polish out. I love polish with quirky names that catch your attention. Although on saying that - when I think "party" the colour aquamarine doesn't exactly spring to mind. But each to their own.

This colour jumped at me out of the polish bin - it reminded me of my last car. It's a bright aqua that seems to change between blue and green depending on the light. There is a tiny bit of shimmer to the polish as well so it's not a flat colour but it's not glittery either.

I really struggled to capture this colour as a sea green which is a shame as it's so lovely.

Streak free and quick drying. 2 coats for a perfect finish.

[Looking more blue than green in the sunshine!]

** Final Verdict **

I'll be wearing this one again in the future. I like the fact that it changes colour between the blue and the green and the fact that it's cheap, streak free and easy to apply makes it all a bonus.