Manicure Monday - It's Festival Season!! Feat. Picture Polish Festival Flakie

Don't you love when January hits it generally means all the great Music Festivals are starting, well this nail polish besides being called Festival is perfect for those summer days seeing music you love all the while admiring your gorgeous nails in the sunlight (am I the only one that does that with glitters & flakies?)

Festival by Picture Polish is there foray into flakie polishes, when I saw Festival a multi coloured flakie in my inbox and a pre-order was available I was all over it.

I've only just had a chance to get it on my nails after receiving it a few weeks ago and decided to do a swatcheroo with a few different base polishes to see which handles it the best.  So in true festival tradition...

The support acts -

China Glaze - Shocking Pink, China Glaze - For Audrey, Illamasqua - Boosh, OPI - Skull & Glossbones

I must apologize for my crap-tacular swatching you are about to see, The clouds were looming and it was about to storm but i'd already painted up my hands so had to take the picture... Seriously go Here, Here and Here for better swatches of this polish then mine.

 

Here is the headliner!





 I only have 1 other flakie (Nubar 2010) in my collection to compare this to but I found the colour was amazing especially over black there are so many different facets of colour, so this will definitely be one to go over my darker polishes. The actual flakies were quite spaced out so I had to do 2 coats and the formula is quite thick so this can become quite a time consumer especially when it comes to drying time. Even with my beloved Seche Vite on top it took ages to dry. I do love the effect though and look forward to wearing it more!

You can purchase Festival from the Picture Polish website for $11.90AUD and there are also 2 other flakies in the collection and I believe more to come!

I also recommend signing up to the Picture Polish mailing list as you get advised of new colours coming out (like I did with this one) and they also do free shipping deals sometimes!

This product was purchased by moi!  

 

 

Manicure Monday! Summer is Here! (almost)

Only a few days are left of Spring and then it's Summer (haha that could be a new Rebecca Black song, it was worded so well...)

This is a mani I did yonks ago and posted on instagram (follow me! vulcanella is my username) it was inspired by a warm sydney day and i'm pretty sure it matched my outfit on the day too.

What I used -

OPI - What's With The Cattitude (Main Colour) - RRP $19.95AUD (It was from the Shrek collection and is sometimes still found at OPI stockists)

Picture Polish - Coral Reef (Accent Nail) - $RRP 9.90AUD from their website

Review - Picture Polish

I love discovering new brands, especially when they are local (Australian) brands. When I saw Polish or Perish post about a brand called Picture Polish and the fact they were Australian I knew I had to get my hands (or fingers even) on some! Plus the packaging was super cute and if you read my posts you'll know packaging is important to me.

I have to apologize i'm a bad blogger and didn't get to tell you guys about this brand earlier and the discount code...which is valid til tomorrow...oops! However if you want to impulse buy now use the code 41eb62 at the checkout and receive free shipping and one extra bottle of polish when you order 3! If you miss out sign up to the mailing list as i'm sure they'll have more deals for everyone.

Onto the brand, they have a cute little tag line "A week on your tips, and never on your hips". The website has a ton of colours and they range from pastels to neon to duochrome (drooooooool!) and even holo's (droooling again). My favourite thing is the names of the colours and the little tag line they put above the name, very adorable! The polishes range from $9.95 - $14.95AUD so not too hard on the pocket. They also charge a flat rate of $7.00AUD shipping within Australia and International gals...they post internationally! Woo!

I picked out 4 colours because I took advantage of the deal, it was hard picking only 4 but now having tried them I think i'll be going back and ordering some more.

Before I post my swatches the only thing I didn't like was the website navigation is sometimes a little bit difficult. I found it really hard to just go back into my shopping cart. I'm sure this will be fixed over time.



Application of the polishes was really good, I found the Camoflauge colour to be the best in terms of application and the Watermelon and Coral Reef colours reminded me of the consistency of Essie polishes, a little thin but buildable. All swatches have 2 coats of polish.









I think Heavy Metal should be called Glam Rock or Glam Metal because as I was applying it all I could think of was Bret Michaels in Poison.

If you would like to purchase Picture Polish nail lacquers you can visit the website http://www.picturepolish.com.au