... get back to watching the TV.

That sounds terrible, but it's the truth.  On Easter Monday my husband and I started watching the first series of Game of Thrones.  We have two episodes left and I'm going to go watch them now!

So quickly, here is a franken that I made using all the different sized and shaped silver and silver holographic glitters I own.  Plus a little bit of black glitter. Two coats, with two good coats of top coat to smooth it out.

Ok, off to watch some heads getting chopped, siblings having it off with each other and other weird and gruesome happenings in this show!  How many others out there watch Game of Thrones?

Oh, and last call for any Aussies that want in on the group Layla order for holo, mirrors or anything else.  Here is a video of the mirror effects (all in Italian :P).  They also have a newish flakie and glitter collection, with a purple flakie that looks very Nfu Oh 51 esque.

We seem to have recovered from our chocolate induced Easter Monday coma.  Far too many MaltEaster Bunny's have been consumed in this household!  

A number of polishes that I got during the last few months were some the new aEngland Legends collection.  There are heaps of awesome swatches out there of this collection, which of course meant I had to get them.

This is Dragon, which is a dusty green polish with a golden shimmer and a light holographic effect.  I love that this polish is a true one coater.

After wearing my Lynnderella's for such a long time, I feel I can't just wear a plain old mani at the moment, so I pulled out my stamping plates and chose this cool number image off some plates I recently got through Fab UR Nails blog. This was plate QA9 from the QA image plates.

Stamping was done using China Glaze 2030, which matched the golden undertones of Dragon really well.

And for my little boy who is learning the shapes of different numbers, this mani is pretty cool.

For the record, here is aEngland Dragon on it's one.  One single coat over Orly Bonder base coat.

The holo effect is subtle on the nail.  The holo particles are very fine and totally smooth, but I don't think you could really call it a linear holo.  Gorgeous nail polish tough!

Back to work tomorrow after four lovely days off. At least it's a short week!

Happy Easter Everyone.  The Easter Bunny visited our house last night and I'm afraid to say that both my kids ate chocolate before breakfast!

For today, I'm sporting these rather hideous looking Easter egg foil nails.  I figured it didn't matter too much how messy and uneven they are, because foil covered eggs are always messy and crinkled.

I created these nails by first painting my nails black, and the accent finger white.  I then applied nail foil glue in various zigzag patterns and stuck down different coloured foils.  On the accent finger I put a layer of a Spectraflair topcoat and then an Easter water decal from an old holiday set I have.

These pictures are taken in the shade, because it was so hard to get a decent photo of this in the sun, due to all the reflections off the foil.  And they really do look much better in real life.  Stupid macro shots showing ginormous nails!

Here is one in the sun.  I have to say, may nails really do look like Easter eggs.

Up close photos of this mani really are hideous and messy, but you realize that no one actually sees your nails like that in real life.  It looks more like this...(taken during an egg hunt in the backyard)

See how much better it looks from a distance!

And here is a close up of that Easter water decal.  WTF is that bunny on?  Red eyes and yellow teeth!!  No more Easter Eggs for you bunny!

I hope you all have a happy and safe Easter.

I had a really fun coffee catch up today with the lovely Alana from Pretty Purple Polish. She's in Canberra for the weekend and she even visited Bankstown Nail Supplies for me before leaving Sydney.  She picked up some extra OPI DS Original's, one of my missing China Glaze Kaleidoscope polishes, as well as two polishes I've wanted to get for ages, China Glaze Ruby Pumps and Emerald Sparkle. Oh and OPI Ink too! Awesome nail day!  Thanks so much Alana!

But today's polish is one I received as part of a swap with a lovely reader in the USA.  She grabbed me some of the Icing and Claires magnetix polishes. Specifically the thing I really wanted was the curvy magnet.  For some reason I feel compelled to own every sort of magnet style that exists.  I really love this wavy magnet design when it's applied vertically down the nail, and in the blue polish it just looks like water ripples.

Unfortunately, by the time I met up with Alana, I was in day two of this polish and I had some serious tip wear and two chips off the edges - I felt terrible not having a perfect mani when meeting up with a nail buddy!  

This polish didn't seem to last very long on me, but generally that's not an issue as I change my polish so regularly anyway.

Also, I'm thinking of placing another order with Layla Cosmetics in Italy.  I want to get the just released Mirror effect polishes.  I'm sure they will just be like most other chrome polishes, but the only real chrome polishes I have are an old Revlon and China Glaze 2030.  I missed China Glaze Millennium, and Layla's Number 8 below looks to be a nice silver chrome.  I'm guessing they will be great for stamping just like other chrome polishes are - that's the main reason I want the colour selection.

So if other Aussies want in on the order, just let me know (that way we can share the international shipping).  Don't forget they have the holos too.  The holos are 11.90 Euro and the mirrors are 12.20 Euro. Email me if you want in.

Happy Holo Daze! everyone.  Sure, I know it's not Christmas, but it is the Easter holiday's ok.

This here is the last Lynnderella I have to show you.  I know some of you thought I had a magic Mary Poppins bag full of Lynnderella polishes that would never end, but sadly the saying is true, and all good things do come to an end.

But if my run of Lynnderella's had to end, wow what a polish to finish on.  Happy Holo Daze is chock full of different sized and shaped red and green glitter, as well as gold holo hexes and bars and small silver holo squares.

Here I have two coats of Peripera Crystal Gold with two dabbled coats of Happy Holo Daze!  I was able to press down and smooth out all the glitters in the polish while it was dry on top, but still squishy beneath and I actually left it without top coat when I went to bed.  In the morning I applied a coat of Ulta3 non chip and a layer of Seche Vite and it was glassy smooth.

I had a lovely lady comment today that my nails looked like opals from where she was standing. It was such a wonderful compliment as I thought my nails were just screaming Christmas.

Well, that's all the Lynn's folks! I'll be back with just good old regular polishes, as I have accumulated quite a pile of untrieds in the few months I have been wearing nothing but Lynnderella's.  But I am looking forward to removing nail polish the normal way and not having to wrap up in foil in acetone!

But I also will continue to post other Lynnderella mani's when I try different laying combinations.

Lynnderella's Attitude Adjust-Mint was actually one of her polishes that I just didn't know how to wear.  Pretty much every swatch I'd seem had it layered of a lovely minty green creme. But you seen I don't actually own any mint green cremes except one I frankened about two years ago, and it wasn't really winning me over, but was going to have to do.

But then, as I was putting my Picture Polish bottles in their Helmer drawer, I saw my bottle of Peripera P027 Metallic Green, with it's little cat's bum facing me, and I had a light bulb moment.  The metallic green polish that shifts blue seemed to have the exact same shifting properties as the iridescent green glitters in Attitude Adjust-Mint.

This mani is one coat of Peripera Metallic Green, two coats of Attitude Adjust-Mint and one coat of Seche Vite.

I can't explain how much I loved this mani.  I loved that I could clearly see the glitters in Attitude Adjust-Mint, they weren't lost in the base colour, but they also matched the base colour.  I loved how the milky base of Attitude Adjust-Mint dulled the metallic finish of Metallic Green. I loved how both the base colour and the glitters shifted from minty green to blue.  I just LOVED it!

Attitude Adjust-Mint was also a really smooth glitter. No tamer or double top coating was necessary.

I have such a huge unexpected love for these two polishes together.  Wow I love it when that happens, it's usually the other way around, when something looks so awesome in the bottle and doesn't translate to the nail. But this time it was so much more on the nail than I expected it to be! 

If you have these two polishes (or Missha HGR01), you have to try this combo!

When I was wearing the Picture Polish Opulence polishes over the weekend, I noticed that Monroe was the perfect match for me to wear as undies for one of the last three untried Lynnderella polishes I had.  That made the choice really easy as to which one I would wear next.

This is two coats of Very Pretty Vampire over one coat of Picture Polish Monroe.  I think I had two layers of top coat on, Ulta3 non chip and Seche Vite.  

I found this polish tricky to photograph, because the glitters are really quite dark.  I don't have a fancy light box (although Kristy's fridge shots make me think that might be an ok light box), and the only time for me to photograph my nails is at about 7:00am in the morning, just after sunrise. I feel my photos lack a bit of oomph!  This is such a pretty polish and I want to do it justice.

Geez I miss Lynnderella's blog where she details what is in each of these polishes, cause I liked to copy and paste her exact descriptions for you all.  But I also like the fact that she doesn't have the full list of glitters in these polishes up any more, cause it means the copy cat creators have to make dupes from photos and not her list of glitters.

I've only got one Lynnderella polish left untried *sad*  I'm wearing Attitude Adjust-mint today ready for tomorrow's post and I still have Happy Holo-daze to wear.  Happy Holo-daze is such a Christmassy combo I think I'm going to feel a little weird wearing it, but I tell you I can't leave it sit there untried until Christmas.

When I first saw Lynnderella'a ChocoLotta Love, I knew instantly I needed it.  I mean look at this polish.  It's so unique and edgy that it's verging on weird, isn't it.  A chocolate brown glitter polish - hell yeah.

Did you guys read Scrangie's April Fools post about her new line of flavoured polishes.  Well if there ever were flavoured polishes, this would have to be one.  Can you just imagine what this one would taste like.  Clearly it's chocolate based, but the teal green bits would have to be mint chips. What what flavour would the red and purple bits be?

This was just one coat of ChocoLotta Love layered over Ulta3s new Cocoa metallic crush polish.  A match made in both colour and name heaven.

I really liked this, but over a perfectly matching base colour it doesn't totally blow you away.  After seeing swatches of it over gold, I'm going to have to revisit it again soon.