Wedding Nails...I decided!

Well I finally decided on wedding.
I wanted something slightly different, not totally a french manicure, a bit of sparkle, something that had a name I loved, something a bit special and most importantly something beach appropriate...

I think I've found the perfect polish!

BB Couture Tink Pink

It's perfect! So pretty and delicate and girly. I've emphasised my tips using China Glaze Snow. I'm not sure if I'll do that on the day...I'll have to have a play with different white combinations and underwear polishes. Please click the picture to see the amazing glitter that made me fall in love with Tink Pink. It has a stunning greenness to the glitter. It's spectacular. And the name...Tink Pink...it links back to my love of Disney :)
Imagine Tink Pink in the sun at the beach...ohhhh it's perfect! 

Please excuse my poor dry and battered hands. I've been trying to clean and my new camera's macro isn't forgiving!

What I Wanted...

Well, what I wanted was not what I got for tea. All I wanted was delicious Hells Pizza. A large Pandemonium (chicken, cranberry and brie) and chicken tenders to share with Nick. Actually I changed my mind...not to share. He's mocking my spelling.

What I had for tea was salad...lettuce, tomato and cucumber. With a mince pattie I made with just mince from the left over mince I cooked Nick in his delicious smelling pasta...

I love salad...but mmmm pizza would have been good!

Oh well, it's all worth it for the wedding!

In awesome nail pictures, it's been raining heavily on and off today and most of the week actually. I haven't been able to take any new pictures. The good news is you wont have to look at my stubby broken nail as it grows out! In the mean time here's BB Couture Sea of Cortez.

Sea of Cortez.

Wow! Sea of Cortez is an amazing blue with awesome glitter. It's such a pretty polish. Like omg stare at my nails pretty. Yes, there's some visible nail line on me, but I put that down to my crazy nail whites and my laziness to do another coat! Everyone that loves blue needs Sea of Cortez.

Black Eye and Tink Pink

Well it's almost a black eye. Bruising has started on my nose and in the corner of my eye.
I managed to last less than 5min doing my playground duty today.

A couple of year 6 boys were kicking around a ball...that happened to land directly in my face.
Unfortunately it wasn't a nice soft school ball, it was an omg hard soccer ball from home.

I've got some tiny scratches on my cheek, a bit of swelling, a lot of red and the start of some bruising. Hopefully I don't wake up tomorrow with a full on black eye!

I've been feeling like pretty delicate colours lately..so here's BB Couture Tink Pink. Another polish I bought to test out as a wedding colour. It has possibilities. Pretty and Pink? Check! Soft glitter? Check! Reminds me of Disney? Check...Tinkerbell! 

Tink Pink

This was four coats and you can see I got lazy, so it got a bit thick and gloopy. Never mind Tink Pink is so pretty and girly. Very much so a princess polish! It made it into my short list for wedding polishes.

Bottle Spam

Over the last two weeks I've been very lucky. I've managed to find polishes at the top of my wishlist, for reasonable-ish prices. Ok, so I totally more than I should have more a couple...but they were still cheaper than what I would have had to pay in New Zealand at retail price. Talking about price of polish in NZ, I noticed yesterday that OPI was over $26. That's crazy.

These are the beauties that have arrived for me to play with over the last two weeks.

You Got Soul-ar, I Always Get My Man-darin, Get Your Lem-on and The :Lime Starts Here.

 These were the last few polishes, I didn't originally order from the Wicked Sweet and the Starry Temptress, Color Club collections. To be honest I can see why I didn't order them to start with, but Get You Lem-on and Always Get My Man-darin have some gorgeous shimmer in them. Unfortunately I think they smell like cleaning products. Blah citrus scents.

3D Fantasy, Hyper Haute, Gamer Glam and High Def

 Tronicas! I was so excited when these arrived yesterday. I wanted Gamer Glam for Nick, not for him to wear...but so I could dork out and wear it to game with him. lol...yeah. The Tronicas may not be crazy linear holographics but they are pretty and definitely have a 3D effect happening.

Kaleidscope Him Out, He's Going in Circles and Rated Holographic.

 I managed to get my hands on six of the China Glaze Holographics before Christmas, Nick gave them to me for Christmas. I've been searching for more ever since. I managed to find 5 more on ebay. Octa-Gone Wild and How About a Tumble are making their way to me from Europe, but these three arrived yesterday! If only I could find Visit Me in Prism...then I'd have the whole set!

DS Sapphire, DS Signature, DS Original, DS Passion and DS Diamond.

 These are my first DS polishes. These retail for close to $40 in New Zealand...So I haven't felt the need to purchase the DS polishes before. That is until I googled OPI DS...then I needed them. Original is my most expensive polish to date. It cost me more than my Lippmanns...just...but at $18 it was still cheaper than NZ prices, even if that was US$.

I Juggle...Men, So Many Clowns, So Little Time, Step Right Up and In the Spot-light Pink.

 I'm still on the hunt for the perfect wedding polish.I hoped my perfect polish might be in the Femme de Cirque collection from OPI. Gorgeous light shades and a pretty tiny flaked top coat...I just might find the polish I'm looking for! It would help if I had any idea of what I wanted...

Love Your Life, Lets Get Star-ted and Gone Wishin'

Respect the World, It's Possible, Enchantress and Jade in the Shade

 I managed to get these Nicole's on ebay in a set, for a reasonable price. I really wanted some more of the novelty glitters and had a serious lemming for Respect the World. As far as I can tell Jade in the Shade is more frosty while Respect the World is sheerer and has more shimmer. I'm looking forward to comparing them in the sun. If we get some sun today!

Through the Looking Glass, Alice's Adventures and Down the Rabbit Hole.

Ocean Breeze, Candy Kisses and Peppermint.

 I love that these BYS polishes look more like frankens than something normally produced by polish companies. The first three are special Alice in Wonderland themed polishes and the bottom three are Diamond Shimmers. They're all crazy glittery. Down the Rabbit Hole is my favourite. Awesome black jelly with holo glitter. BYS are very easy to get a hold off in NZ and compared to other polishes, very cheap. The Diamond Shimmers were $5.90 and the Alice in Wonderlands $8.90.

Happy Birthday and Ruby Red Slippers.

 Lippmans...drool. Although to be honest I'm not feeling Ruby Red Slippers or Across the Universe. Well not as polishes by themselves. They get too clumpy with all that glitter. They look so much better layered, but that's just my opinion. Happy Birthday is awesome. I needed it even though I have the pink glitter Milani Gems. Happy Birthday is so celebratory.

Tink Pink and Sea of Cortez.

These are the other two polishes I ordered from BB Couture with the four from the Touch of Greece Collection. Tink Pink is supposed to be another option for a wedding polish and I just really wanted Sea of Cortez.

Wow, that is a lot of polish. Luckily I don't have much on order at the moment. I really should do a no buy...but I doubt I'd cope!

I other exciting news I joined the On Wednesdays We Wear Pink club, so on Wednesday I'll be rocking Pink. Love Mean Girls!

BB Couture: A Touch of Greece

I love Greek mythology. As soon as I worked out I could change the names of the drives on my computer...I changed them to names from Greek mythology. My SD cards are Artemis and Apollo, my iPod is Hebe, my bright pink camera is Aphrodite and the drives on my computer are Athena, Iris and Nyx.

Yeah...dorking out a little...but I like my naming system!

When I found out BB Couture had a collection named for Greek Goddesses...well I needed it. I've been trying to get my hands on some BB Coutures for awhile, but I've had issues with the website not loading. But the planets alligned and www.bbnailpolish.com actually loaded! I found the bbnails website better to order from than overall beauty, shipping was a much better price for me. Talking about shipping....these polishes arrived so fat. I wasn't expecting them for ages.

Hemera, Aphrodite, Selene and Nike

I ordered four of the six polishes from the girls Touch of Greece collection. I wasn't sure about Cybele...the colour was very unusual, and I decided I didn't need another green I wasn't going to wear. Sorry Gaia...but I have too many other greens I have to wear first.

Selene

 Selene is a goddess of the moon, unfortunately for her the Greek gods had some restructuring and Artemis took her job. Luckily for Selene she makes a stunning nail polish. Hot pink with a blue flash and some tiny holo glitter thrown in.

Nike

 Nike is the goddess of victory, and a very pretty purple Polish. Of course my camera has made this one more blue. Nike is actually a very pretty, more red toned, purple with silver flecks of awesomeness.

Hemera

 Hemera is the goddess of the daytime. A beautiful bight coral with silver flecks. Hemera was actually my surprise favourite.

Aphrodite

Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty. A frosty strawberry pink with silver flecks. I wanted more from Aphrodite, but still I don't have any pinks quite the same in my collection and she is pretty and girly and sweet.

I wanted an Athena and a Hebe. Athena a cool silver with pink and purple duo chrome? Hebe a glowing red with flecks?

All in all I'm very happy with my BB Couture polishes and can't wait to rock some Greek goddesses on my nails!