H lovelies,

So, it's the 26th, and that means it is Australia Day down here! It also means that I'm away for the long weekend and so if you're reading this, it also means I actually figured out how to schedule posts! So, I thought that I'd better do some appropriately patriotic nails for you (and we'll ignore the fact that I actually did these three days in advance) and instead we'll concentrate on how obnoxiously Australian these are...

Actually, in all honesty, they are not as obnoxious as I first thought they were going to be. Although, they are quite bad. I think it's all the yellow. Yellow is just not my colour, in any shape, shade or form and there is a reason why I only own one yellow nail polish out of my collection of about 120. And I only own this one because I need it for nail art.

That yellow is also much brighter in real life and the green is also more rich. It's slightly less yellow than it appears in these pictures.

Coming up with a design for Australian nails that was not only obviously Australian but also straight forward, easy and quick and did not involve the flag was a lot harder than I expected. I did the flags last year, so I wanted to do something different this time (please excuse the super horrific set of acrylics I'm sporting in that post as I'd just started my nail course and they were the second or third set I'd done). 

For these, I used,

Bright Lights by BYS (yellow)

Snow Me White by Sinful Colors (white)

Black Out by Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear (black)

Shade 17 by BC Company (green)

It was all topped off with a coat of Poshe's Super Fast Drying Top Coat.

To be honest, I don't actually celebrate Australia Day much. I normally go down to the beach with my family and have brunch, but that's the extent of my patriotism. I'm proud to be Australian, but not enough to take all the Aussie paraphernalia seriously (although I take part in some ironically, such as the nails) but I have fun anyway.

Hope all you Aussie's out there have a great day!

Lightning Nails

Hi lovelies,

I have just a short post for you today.

I thought that it is high time for me to get back into painting my nails excessively with crazy designs now that my nail course is nearly over. I have to say, that is one thing that I am veeery glad about, the fact that my poor little nails no longer have product on and off and on and off of them. In the last 8 weeks, they have have 2 and a half sets of acrylics, one set of gels and two manicures - one including a paraffin soak that my nails did not like at all! Not that I really begrudge it - the knowledge I have gained from this course far outweighs the cost of some broken, short and very much weakened nails.

Vines and Flowers in Albany

Hello lovelies,

Man, nearly another week has passed and I have not posted at all... My weeks seem to go so fast! Between my nail course (two days a week), a lot of practice and homework for said course and lots of work, I never seem to have any time. Isn't that ridiculous? I used to blog more regularly when I was at school five days a week, with days starting at 7:30, sometimes 6:45 and not ending till 7-8 at night (after homework and study), plus all saturday morning band... I need to start getting organised. :)

Happy Australia Day

Hello lovelies,

Here in the land of Oz it is Australia day, so I celebrated by going to the beach this morning and coming back for brunch - is that 'aussie' enough? I think so. Especially when combined with the Australian beach ball, inflatable ring, wind socks and umbrella hat my family and I own. (We didn't actually buy them because we are extremely patriotic, but rather because Opinionated had an Australian themed birthday party a couple of years back and we still have a lot of stuff left over). :)

I also got into the spirit of patriotism with some Aussie themed nail art...