Nails - BYS Asteroid

Due to my awesome purchase yesterday of new BYS polishes and with the new week ahead I had to change polish colours.

Say Hello to Asteroid... quite an interesting little polish, in the bottle it looks black base with goldy flecks in it. First coat it comes out as a dark chocolate base with goldy flecks. Second coat it seems like a black polish but step into the sun and woah Bronze micro glitter, no not gold....bronze! LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE! May I also say that this applied like a breeze!

I'm a big fan of polishes that look black until you get super close and see they are in fact something entirely different.

I took a few different shots to try and get the full effect. If you have a range of BYS polishes available to you, get onto this one ASAP!

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NOTD - BYS Hocus Pocus

This is my very first BYS polish, I've heard such great things about them on other blogs and with the reasonable price I knew I had to try them out. They are sold in Kmart, The Reject Shop & Gloss Stores. You can also buy them online at Fashion Addict.

Hocus Pocus is a bluey green colour, with a light blue microshimmer. Very pretty and very me! I'm so addicted to any polishes in blues and greens I now need to stop myself buying them when I see them because i'm getting close to duping most of them..ooops!!

The wear of this polish was okay... I did get a couple of chips on the first day but I also know my Seche Vite needs replacing and I think this is part of the problem.

I have photos of course, how odd would a polish post be without pictures! These  don't show the true true colour, I tried to get it as close as possible but it's a really hard colour to photograph with my little Sony Cybershot (I need a new digi cam... hello... digi cam fairies?)

Nails on Tour - Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Celeb City

There is a reason why i've called this Nails on Tour, it's not a NOTD because I changed that last night (pics to come of this tomorrow...promise!) also I took the photo of this nail colour at the aiport waiting for my plane to go to Splendour In The Grass. I must also make note that this is one of the worst nail photos i've taken, I do apologize but I will try and get a better shot of it next time I wear it.

Let's talk about the polish itself, because I know thats what you want to hear about . This is my first Sally Hansen polish in the Xtreme Wear range so I was excited to give it a go. Application was decent, at first I tweeted that I didn't like it at all but quite frankly I think it was because I was being a little careless with my application, so not Sally Hansens fault at all!

Celeb City is a gorgeous metallic silver which I think is a true true silver colour it has tiny tiny microshimmers in it but basically it's silver.

The wear of the polish... O...M...G... AMAZING! I put this on Thursday and only had 2 minor chips a week later (see 2nd picture below). I'm hoping this wasn't a fluke or maybe it was because I used a different base coat, i'm not sure. I did buy another colour in this range so i'll be interested to see if it lasts as well as Celeb City did. I'll be sure to report back to you all on that. Actually it's not the base coat because I just noticed a chip in my current polish which is a different brand with the same base coat.

If you want to get your hands on this polish or any others in the Xtreme Wear range, I got mine at Priceline for under $7. 



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Splendour In The Grass 2010

On the weekend I attended Splendour In The Grass in Woodford, QLD. This was my first Splendour In The Grass experience, having never visited the site at Byron for this festival before. With reports of bad weather I spent Thursday in search of gumboots, which I found and wore all weekend though the rain didn't come... well there was a slight sprinkle at one point but nothing overly dramatic.

I won't go into a ton of detail about my weekend except say it was fun fun fun! Highlights for me would be Florence & The Machine, Ash, Clare Bowditch, Jonsi (I wish I didn't leave for Passion Pit, because he was AHHHH-MAZING), The Pixies gah and I can't remember who else... I saw so many bands!

Here are some piccies I took, I thought i'd take more but I always forgot to pull my camera out... oops!

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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="510" caption="Main Stage, I can't remember who it was! oops!"][/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="491" caption="Sandology... Alice in Wonderland! Or Alice In Splendourland :)"][/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="491" caption="Random Night Shot"][/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="491" caption="Hard to see, but these faces were a lighting effect in the trees...so awesome!"][/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="491" caption="Found the Sportsgirl Caravan in Woodford! They were handing out macarons...yum!"][/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="491" caption="Fruit Shop in Woodford....wait for the next picture..."][/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="491" caption="Elvis Parsley was there singing "Viva La Vegies"... I am not kidding"][/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="491" caption="Clare Bowditch"][/caption]

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Pores Be Gone! Hello, Benefit POREfessional

So hands up who loves having pores on their face? I can pretty much guarantee no one has raised even a single pinky finger. I've only recently started noticing my pores a lot more and have become somewhat obsessed with them... yes people obsess over shoes etc, i've been obsessing over pores.. go me!



So I was so excited when I attended the Beauty Blogger Event and Benefit Cosmetics were launching their new product to us bloggers POREfessional, i'd read about this in the Benefit newsletter previously but learnt so much more sitting down with one of the lovely Benefit Gals to go over the details on this product.

So what's so special about this product. It can be used under your makeup to minimise pores and also over the top for touch ups. The packaging is a little more unisex because they also wanted to target men for this product... Yes guys, you too can have a pore-free complexion! It's so light that you don't know your wearing anything extra on your face... and it works!

One of the perks about the launch of the product is we got to take one home to try ourselves, i've been using it everyday since the event and it has really made a difference. My pores are particularly in my t-zone and mostly on my cheeks, I always notice because this is the first place my foundation goes a little haywire and sinks into the pores (FYI I do also use a primer). So I tap the product into the areas where I can see my  pores the most. When I used the POREfessional I have noticed my foundation stays put so much better and it glides on so nicely and looks so much more flawless. I did have a few comments on my last video for July Favourites about my skin, and I think this product has something to do with it.

So you want to go buy this product yourself right? Well it is available at all Benefit counters in Australia from 21st August and it retails for $53

This product was given to me as part of the launch by Benefit Cosmetics, This is my honest opinion and I am not being compensated for my opinion.