I'm a little late posting this look today, and unfortunately it's the last cocktail design I have cause I didn't get around to painting five designs.  But at least I'm leaving you with a really pretty one. I ended up wearing this all week and I'm so impressed with how closely the colours matched the drink.  Again I ended up googling pretty cocktails, and this was one that popped up a lot. It's called a Paradise cocktail, and I'm pretty sure I drank a few of these when we went to the USA in 2018 and went to the Caribbean.  You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! C ..read more

Today's nails are something pretty extra. In fact I wouldn't be surprised to see these nails appearing on the "That's It, I'm nail Shaming" facebook group. That would really be an achievement for me. Honestly, I don't know what I was thinking. I had a beautiful vertical purple and blue jelly gradient, and for some stupid reason I thought, I'm going to use gel polish to try make 3D ice cubes, plus add some white frost to really make that ice look authentic.  I'm Sorry! *shaking my head* Needless to say, these didn't stay on very long.  Luckily I put on a peel off base and they were ..read more

Have you ever tried a Sweet Poison cocktail? Well me neither, but is sure does look pretty!  Plus it makes for amazing nail art inspo.  I know, it's probably a little too simple to really classify as nail art, it's only a basic gradient after all. But don't these colours just look gorgeous together.  On the tips I sponged two different shades, a blue and a purple, and looking at this you could almost say it looks like some of the fancy thermal polishes some Indie brands are coming out with.  In different lighting sometimes the blue shows more, other times the purple sparks ..read more

Well hello there!  It turns out that my blog is still here and I can still post to it.  Whether anyone is reading it is a whole different question. That sure was a very fast 4 months!   It's been one hell of a ride over the summer down under.  As I'm sure just about the whole world knows, we had a lot of bush fires ravaging the country, and they have been burning since well before I did my last post. In fact in November we drove up to Queensland and I remember that the Highway was closed the night before we drove up because of fires.  It was just heartbreaking d ..read more

Here is the final ook for this week in my five days of fluid art.  I was going for a rainbow look, and used the Pipedream A Night in Vegas polishes as they always look so fantastic together.  The final look ended up very pink looking, and the cooler blues and greens didn't really come through much. I used my own mixed up bottle of clear fluid art polish, made using the quirt of Garnier Fructis Sleek and Shine serum.  But this time I did a slightly another new technique when I used a stamper to smoosh a pool of polishes, but the difference was that I used the black flat side of ..read more

Are you ready for another fluid art design. I hope so, because I've been enjoying these so much recently I think I will continue to participate in the #Fluidartfridays and find the group that sets the colour palette each week. Today I chose to go with a Halloween theme with the colours of green, orange and purple.  This was also my first attempt at creating my own fluid nail art polish.  I mixed up my own clear polish and added a full squirt of Garnier Fructis Sleek and Shine. Yep, you read that right, I added a pump of hair serum into my polish.  I read about this on instagram ..read more

Can you tell that I'm having lots of fun trying out different polishes and techniques for fluid nail art? This time I have used the Sinful colors transforming polishes in Purpunk, combined with a pastel pink and black polish.  The technique I used this time was to paint random dots down on my silicone mat and then use the zip side of a zip-lock bag, and carefully drag it across the polishes.  I managed to get some good cells again using this technique.  You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter ..read more

It's day two for the colours that collide prompt and I have a really crazy fluid art design to share with you today.  For this design, I again used some of the Sinful Colors Hypnotic Transforming top coats. But instead of just one, I used two. A red and a blue. I also use a regular white polish for this look too. I used a different technique with these polishes. Rather than using a stamper to squish the drops of polish, I just piled up the colours on top of each other like a water marble, except on the silicone mat. Then I picked up the mat and swirled the polishes around letting the run ..read more

It's another Digital Dozen week and the theme this week is colours that collide.  I thought for a while about how I would interpret the prompt this week, and I've ended up settling on my own personal theme for the week, that being Fluid Art. Acrylic Fluid Art on canvas is all the rage at the moment, in fact I wasted quite a bit of time watching fluid art pour videos on Youtube. They are so satisfying to watch I tell you. I've been reading about lots of different ways to do fluid nail art, and I thought I would try out a bunch of them this week and see what works for me. I plan to use a ..read more

My home town of Canberra has been painting the town green this week, because the Canberra Raiders have made it into the NRL Grand Final tomorrow. For my American readers, that's our equivalent of a football team making it to the Superbowl. Canberra last won the NRL Premiership 25 years ago, so we are well due for a win.  All around town this week people have been making all sorts of things green. Green sausages, green pastry on the meat pies, green bread, green coffee froth on top of your cappuccino, the Telstra Tower and other city monuments are lit up with green lights, anyway you get ..read more