OPI Blue Shatter

Well yesterday we had sunshine! I wanted a sunshining mani to match the rare glimpse of sunshine we had.
I fished out 108 degrees and layered it with OPI blue Shatter to create this rather bright and 80's coloured mani!

OPI Blue Shatter over China Glaze 108 Degrees

We had an awesome day pretending it was summer again, despite the freezing wind. We visited both nephews. We even took Bradley (5) to visit baby Max. Max is starting to chatter, gurgle and talk back when you talk to him. Bradley sat down to have a conversation with him and was rather disappointed when Max just made baby noises back!

Awwww little baby hand.

Color Club Fractured: Crush on You

Well I thought this was a good idea...

I layered You Got Soul-ar with Crush on You...

It looked awesome. It was so bright.

My camera didn't agree with me and freaked!

Crush on You over You Got Soul-ar

Crush on you is a very bright purple/pink Fuchsia crackle. It's verging on neoness. Highly awesometastic.

Color Club Fractured: Have a bash

Have a Bash is one of the Color Club Fractureds I wasn't that excited about. I decided to buy it as I didn't have a blue cream shatter. To be honest I'm glad I bought it. Have a Bash is not your standard blue cream. It's hard to describe...but I would almost call it a greyed out neon... Such a vibrant bright blue but it's got this hint of greyed teal almost... ok my descriptions are officially bad! Look at the pictures instead.

Have a Bash over Space Case

Have a Bash fractures beautifully. It's more random, with larger breaks that show the base colour, than the OPI Shatters or China Glaze Crackles. Definitely an awesome polish to own!

Color Club Fractured: Tattered in Gold

I was going to post my Nyx Girls glitter polishes this morning, but I'll do that this afternoon. Everyone wants to see more Color Club fractureds. 

Here are the three colours I got on my nail swatch wheel. You can see Tattered in Gold shattered quite nicely and looks distinctly gold, not just metallic and almost silver. 

Tattered in Gold, Have a Bash and Crush on You

I swatch all my crackles over a top coat, rather than a coloured polish. So you're just seeing the nail wheel plastic underneath. I actually really love these three colours and the formulae is great. You can see that Have a Bash and Crush on You have broken into more random pieces with bigger gaps than say the OPI Shatters. Same look but slightly different again. 

I've also been busy this morning and tested out Tattered in Gold over Zoya Veruschka. It stands out nicely against the dark green and best of all I was able to swatch and prepare dinner to go in the slow cooker, it dries nice and fast!

Tattered in Gold over Zoya Veruschka, no flash

Tattered in Gold over Zoya Veruschka, flash.

Look at those blingy sparkles with the flash! I've been looking forward to a gold shatter and I can't wait to see how this compares to the new China Glaze Crackles. Mum skyped me last night for some odd reason instead of ringing me on the phone, so I was able to hold the bottle of Tattered in Gold up to the web cam for her. She actually squealed. She is very excited to try out the gold shatter. Lucky for her I purchased an extra bottle of Tattered in Gold, and a replacement Black Shatter for her. She's getting so addicted now.

Color Club Fractured: Fuchsia, Blue and Gold!

I had an awesome day today.

The kids were fantastic.
I came home to three parcels.
One was my sexy new 2 chillies one piece swimsuit.
One was OPI Shatters in Turquoise, Blue and navy.
The last one included three new Color Club Fractured polishes!!!

Crush on You, Have a Bash and Tattered in Gold.

I know a lot of people have been saying they're over shatters...but I love them. I don't have the patience to do  a lot of nail art....and this is my way of making my nails stand out.

I of course tested them out straight away. I was wearing China Glaze He's Going in Circles, which wasn't the best base for Tattered in Gold...but here are my quick pics anyway.

Tattered in Gold, Have a Bash, Crush on You  and  OPI Navy Shatter

Unfortunately Tattered in Gold didn't turn out too great in my pics, but I can tell you it shattered beautifully when I swatched in on a nail wheel. It has shattered on my nail as well, but He's going in Circles just doesn't have enough contrast to let to shine in these pics.

The non-flash pic shows the true colour of Crush on You best.

Anyway that's all for tonight. I'll hopefully have some new NYX polish pics for you all tomorrow! It depends on what time I get up...

Long Weekend

Well Happy Birthday Queen Elizabeth...even though it's not your birthday, but thank you anyway for a long weekend!

I'm so excited to have a long weekend this week. I've been feeling so run down and tired. I can't wait to head out and do some shopping. I'm rather keen for a new camera to take away with us to Rarotonga. My current camera is highly cute and waterproof, but not up to taking decent low light pictures.

Anyway on to pics of my current mani, broken nail and all.

Color Club Love 'em, Leave 'em with a helping of Red Shatter

 On Thursday an awesome order of color club polishes arrived and I'm so glad I ordered yet another Love 'em, Leave 'em because this one actually is the amazing holo I dreamed it would be. Well ok it's a lot more holo than my previous version! Anyway I've been looking out for combo's for mum to use with her red shatter and I think this one is awesome. Don't look too close though you might see my awful patch up job with tape I tried on my ring finger... Unfortunately I didn't apply it very well this time and couldn't stand it anymore... I peeled the tape off and the polish came with.

Love 'em, Leave 'em, Red Shatter and Rule Breaker

After peeling off my tape I had a naked nail in need of polish. Rule Breaker just happened to be sitting there. I thought I should probably try and make it look purposeful...I used some cute nail stickers I picked up on Wednesday to try and blend it in. I haven't taped my nail again, I'm kind of hoping the copious amount of top coat I applied will keep the break in place...I'll sort it out tonight.. :S