Anniversary Post - Pic Heavy

Hi guys,

Well, today is my first wedding anniversary :D so this is definitely a scheduled post ;)
My gorgeous husband, amongst other pressies, bought me W7 Famous Five and Color Club Holiday Collection 2011 Beyond the Mistletoe.

I will be swatching them in this post but first, my 3 year old wanted her own polish too so my hubby bought her this lovely little collection. She wanted me to put her nails 'on the computer like mummy' so, for today, Grace is showing her mani :) This is a little collection called Once Upon A Princess from TK Max. These don't have names but they are all pretty pastel shades. Below are some pictures of her own mani. She asked me to paint her nails but wouldn't sit still for long (those with 3 1/2 year olds will know what I mean!) so plenty of polish on skin :D

White, lilac, pink, coral, lemon, green and sky blue.

Look at that for a hand pose! She's a natural :D

She also painted my nails, bless her.

Here are my lovely pressies: W7 Famous Five. These are 5 of the Planets Collection.
L-R in box: Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune.

Thumb to Pinkie: Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Mercury and Jupiter.

These are gorgeous! The thumb, Venus, has the most stunning duochrome effect (purple to blue) on the nail. In the bottle it has about 5 different colours including pink, orange and gold which don't seem to transfer to the nail.

Neptune (index) is a stunning teal with slight glitter shimmer/fleck through it. Gorgeous!

Saturn (middle) is a beautiful metallic greeny-gold.

Mercury (ring) has pink/orange duochrome glitters in a rose base but in the bottle has a green flash which unfortunately didn't show on the nail.

Jupiter (pinkie) has blue and pink flecks in a dark base. Hopefully the photos pick the detail up enough for you to see.

And Color Club - Beyond the Mistletoe. GLITTER GALORE!!!

Jingle Jangle, Beyond the Mistletoe, Holiday Splendor

Candy Cane, Gingerbread, Sugarplum Fairy

These are all 2 coats. 3 coats would make these completely opaque. These are all holos but Candy Cane (Index) has very little holo. Still very pretty.

Thumb-pinkie: Gingerbread, Candy Cane, Sugarplum Fairy, Jingle Jangle and Beyond the Mistletoe.

This next lot of pics are of Holiday Splendor but I think they have changed the formula, color or holo effect as it's completely different to any pic I've seen of it elsewhere. Every photo (on google images) I've seen of this polish looks more turquoise with holo but this it TOTALLY emerald. NO holo glitter, No silver glitter, NO teal/turquoise/aqua colour. Just Emerald. Think shamrock green. Any coloured glitters you can see in the next pic are remnants from the other glitters I had on before I swatched this one, you know how hard it is to remove glitter!



Bokeh Holiday Splendor

Holiday Splendor

Here are some comparison shots.

This is what I see on my monitor when I google Holiday Splendor but you can see what it's like on my nails too. I thought at first it was my monitor showing the wrong colour but if it was then MY swatch would be showing teal but it's not. For me anyway.

The Sinful Colors - Aqua is what I was expecting this to be like but as you can see its a colour 'match' for Sally Hansen - Emerald City. Is it just me? Have I gone crazy? Or am I the only one who has a different Holiday Splendor than everyone else? Weird... Anyway, THIS Holiday Splendor is gorgeous. Packed full of green glitter in a clear base. This is 2 coats.

Anyhoo, seeing it's my anniversary, I want to share some wedding pics of mine, hope you enjoy :)

 

See you next time :)

Ellie

Oooooh Sparkles!

Hellloooooo everyone :)

I discovered something about my franken, Rainbow Dust. It ROCKS!

I made it a while ago by mixing micro glitter eyeshadow into clear polish. I knew it would settle as it wasn't put into a suspension base but I didn't mind as it's just for myself to use. A good shake and Viola!

To get this density, I gently rolled the bottle. It's over my other franken - Black Cherries.

You can see, with a gentle roll, the bulk of the glitter at the bottom of the bottle here.

Bokeh shots, love 'em! This is a blurred shot of the 1 thin coat.

This is a bokeh of the bottle shaken and re-applied to another fresh mani of Black Cherries. Again, this was only 1 coat. See the difference?! AMAZING!

This is it, after sitting overnight. I have Mixer balls in it so a slight roll and it's like the 2nd from top pic and a good shake makes it like the above pic. I love this stuff!

Not only is this an awesome topcoat but I also mix it with other colours to make holo colours. ... :D

I usually only mix a small amount with colours on a plastic lid and apply but recently, I made 2 holo frankens. I haven't named them yet but here is the red:

And the turquoise:

I tried to blur so you could see the holo.

I think this is a little under holo-ed, lol, so I might add more to these. These were made with a very small amount so the mixture I have would probably make about 30-40 holo polishes. Plenty to go around. :D

Hope you enjoyed reading,
Ellie



Plastic Pink And Glitzy Tips

Boy, is that title a mouthful! I keep saying 'Plastic Plink'! Ha!

Hi Guys :)

Now, I'm not normally one to wear pink. Before I had my daughter, I don't think I had any pink in my house. In fact, The only reason I own pink polish is because Mr Pixie~Nails bought me a huge stash of polish (15 or so bottles) on a trip to Prague, and it included about 3 or 4 pinks. I then got some included in a bulk purchase on ebay. And from then, I have grown to like this once detested colour.

This is brand, La Femme. It doesn't have a visible name or number so I call it Candy. It's got a gorgeous plastic look about it and it's a super-girly barbie pink. If you look closely, you can see a slight shimmer but I didn't notice this irl. This went on like a dream. A perfect 1-coater if applied with care. I used 2, out of habit.

 

This is Chit Chat nail varnish - Pink. It is made exclusively for Poundland and comes in a variety of colours. I love these, they are jam-packed with glitter and wonderful for making frankens with.

These didn't need to be dabbed on like some glitter polishes as the glitter placed itself perfectly. The photo above was only 1 coat on the tips! Normally I'd have to dab, dab, dab to get this.

The next couple of pictures are the mani a few days old, about 3 if I remember correctly. I got bored, like I do after a few days so I added my Glitterball franken. It was made with loose, large holo hex glitters from ebay and Fairy Dust from La Femme.

So there you have it, possibly my last vault photo for now. My nails are back to a decent state so I will be ok posting pics of them. XD

Later Nailies :D
Pixie~Nails

Galaxyish....

Everyone has tried them so, so shall I!

 

 

blurry bokeh... purdy

These were quite easy to do, I was surprised to find. I just painted on a very dark navy. I then sponged pearly white, blue and purple on, covered it in gold and silver glitter then finished with a few blue star gems. Ooooh!, I nearly forgot, I also put on some white dots and some single holo glitters too :)

 

The above photos were the afters because before the whole hand was done, I had thought it interesting and 'kewl' to have an accent nail.... no ellie, just no...

 

It was the disastrous northern lights nail.... Bahahahaha! As you can see it was far prettier in my head than on the nail... I shall never show you anything as rubbish again (touch wood).

 







So there you have it, galaxy nails a la pixie.

Hope your mascara didn't run/you didn't get in trouble with the boss laughing at Aurora Crapialous :) hehe! Maybe some day I shall do Volcano nails... or Rubbish Green Flame nails! lmao!

til next time my pretties < sorry, watched Wizard of Oz earlier!
Pixie~Nails

Franken~licious

Well, I don't know about you but I just LOVE frankens!

To date, I have 27.

I've given them all names but no doubt will have stolen a name (by accident) so if anyone knows of a polish with the same name lemme know, ta, and I'll revise it.

Anyhoooo, on to the babies.
I won't be swatching on my nails in this post, just posting pictures of the bottles. I will do each one separately in future posts.
If there is one in particular that you would like to see, message me and I'll swatch it for you sooner.

(click to enlarge)

From L~R:

Midnight Kisses ~ A deep Burgundy Red with Cerise glitter mix
Ruby's Shoes ~ A bright Red with Red glitter and Sally Hansen's Hidden Treasure mix
Graphite ~ A Med Grey with an opalescent micro~glitter mix
Twilight Mauve  ~ A pale Mauve with mixed micro/glitter mix
Cornflower Creme ~ A simple blue mix
Rainbow Nights ~ A sheer Black with multi~coloured glitter mix
GlitterBall**REVISED BELOW ~ A super~sheer silver shimmer with large Hex holo glitter mix
Son Of Zeitgeist ~ A Duochrome based purple franken with green shimmer mix

So there you have it.... my babies :)

I have a few more in production/near completion.
And like I said, if you see one you like, message me and I will do a post on it :)

THIS IS A WORK-IN-PROGRESS, I WILL UPDATE EVERY COUPLE OF FRANKENS

UPDATE!!

Black Diamonds**REVISED BELOW, Shlurple, Moonlit Ocean

S-Late Night, Barbie Shimmer, Fuzzy Peaches, Mother Of Pearl

Magic Forest

UPDATED 25/09/2012
L-R
**ALL NEW GLITTERBALL, a clear base with holo glitter
White Noise, a black and silver holo glitter in Fairy Dust base
Deep Space, a dark grey with silver holo glitters
Rainbow Dust, a mini-micro fine holo dust (eyeshadow powder) mixed with Fairy Dust
**ALL NEW BLACK DIAMONDS, black holo glitter in a Fairy Dust base
Let's Party, a multi-coloured glitter mix in a pink base

L-R
Un-named, a dark dusky rose with Fairy Dust
Ruby's Shoes ~ A bright Red with Red glitter and Sally Hansen's Hidden Treasure mixture
Black Cherries, a vampy red/purple mix
Un-named, a dusky pink with pink and purple glitters
Tangerine Blush, an orange shimmer base with pink and red glitters

L-R
Autumn, a tinted base with diamond holos, orange round glitters and micro gold glitters
Autumn Leaves, a brown base with diamond holos and orange round glitters

The above 2 polishes look identical but I can assure you, they couldn't be more different. Autumn started off a clear base with brown diamond holos and orange and gold glitter but the colour ran into the clear base and give it stunning tint. With the Autumn Leaves being in a brown base, the colour of the holos stayed a bit better but faded slightly. Here is a pic to show the difference. Autumn is on the left and Autumn Leaves, the right.

Til the next update :)
Pixie~nails x