Review: Pretty and Polished Freedom Calling

I'm not American nor do I live there so I see no problem posting a red, white and blue polish with a name like Freedom Calling on June 25th. In fact, it's the same colours as the Australian flag so to hell with it, yay Australian nails! Let's take a look at one of Pretty & Polished's new colours, Freedom Calling. Don't faint, you can actually sometimes buy this one!

Freedom Calling is a mixture of red, white, blue and silver glitter in a clear base. You've got all kinds of glitter in there - bar, hex, matte, shiny, all without the micro glitter which I love. I didn't, however, love the application. It's almost impossible to get the glitter out the bottle. I had this sitting upside down for an hour and still, nothing but big clomps of base came out. I'd have liked more glitter on each of my nails but one coat was all I could do as it was so thick already. Even then, the glitter didn't even a bit sit flat. I'm used to rougher nails but even the hex glitter didn't sit properly. PITA. At least my base colour went well for once. Chanel Blue Satin, if you were wondering.

The Verdict: Love the glitter combo, hate the application. I'm getting stressed out just looking at these pictures again as I can see an entire nail without a large piece of glitter on it, and can see the glitter sticking up. Sigh. Shame it's so pretty.

Where to Buy:

Chanel Blue Satin, $22, department stores
Pretty & Polished, Freedom Calling, $8.50 + postage, Etsy

Review: Nicole by OPI A Million Sparkles is Accurately Named

It's amazing what you can find when you wander around at night. My favourite time to go shopping is ridiculously late and I'm extra happy when it pays off. I've been looking for Nicole by OPI A Million Sparkles for a while now at that couldn't be more up my alley if it tried. I finally managed to find it in a Shoppers last night and it really does live up to its name. A Million Sparkles is a predominately blue glitter that has an amazing ability to look like a foil after a couple of coats. Combine that with gold, silver and pink bar glitter and you have a winner. It's seriously so sparkly I got distracted from what I was saying at lunch today. Application is decent but you really need four coats to get completely opaque coverage. That's ok, glitter dries fast. It's a little rough too but nothing Seche Vite can't fix. The Verdict: Yay glitter! If, like me, you like sparklies to the point where it's the biggest tag on y

I'm a Proper Mermaid This Time Beeeeaches

Ermerger guys, I don't have any glitter on me! Well, I do, just on my nails. I always have glitter on me. And cat fluff. It's funny how often my bf comes home with glitter in his beard. That means it's been there all day... Anyway, new nail vinyls mean something a bit different. I swear I'm not actually obsessed with mermaids, it just seems like it... Anyway, again, shall we?

Overlaid Red, Black and White Gradient Nails!

Ever since I did this mani recently I've been wanting to do a better version. The colours seemed like they would work together but it just didn't turn out how I wanted. I wanted to try again and decided to learn from my original mistakes. For example, make sure you use a super opaque creme polish on your top layer, don't bother with horizontal stripes and using thicker lines looks cool too.

Polish All the Nails

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