Hello lovelies,

It's happening!!! This year's piCture pOlish Blog/Insta Fest 2014 is on! It's a little bit different from the previous years and you will see a swatch of one nail polish, nail art manicure, tutorial and Nail Vinyls so hold on to your hats!

The first part of this post is the swatch & review of piCture pOlish Scarlett. Scarlett is a beautiful, feminine rose red colour with bijou holo* finish. The fine holo dust shows in the sunlight yet it's very subtle. The formula was really good - easy to apply and well-pigmented. I've applied two coats and topcoat for this swatch.

*Bijou Holo is a mix of delicate small holo particles and coloured flecks that look amazing in bright sunlight and three dimensional in low lights.

Now it's time to show you the nail art. The challenge was to create nail art using only Nail Vinyls, two provided piCture pOlish shades and possibly a bit of black and white polish. No special nail art techniques were allowed meaning no dots, no gradient, no decals, stamping, acrylic paints, studs, rhinestones etc. It was very restrictive and challenging so I've had quite a difficult time coming out with something other than just simple chevrons. But now I'm so curious to see what other fellow bloggers came up with! Let's have a look at my nail art then...

I have been sent two shades to work with - Atomic and Moody Blues and mini chevron Nail Vinyls. Additionally, I have used a bit of black nail polish as an outline in my design. It was very time consuming but I'm so pleased with the result. I've applied two coats of Atomic and one coat of Moody Blues over the Nail Vinyls. I wanted to do a reversed accent nail but Atomic is too sheer to cover the Moody Blues.

You know I love patterns so having Nail Vinyls to hand made the whole process much easier. They apply easily and stick to the nail well but they do not stick too much at the same time. I have applied Seche Vite topcoat before using the Nail Vinyls so that they wouldn't ruin the polish underneath. they worked really well.

I've also prepared a picture tutorial for you ;)

The Nail Vinyls are very handy and I think I'll be using them again in the future. piCture pOlish will be retailing a special exclusive 4 pack ‘Nail Vinyls’ containing ‘Chevrons, Mini Chevrons, Straight & Right Angles’

You can follow and buy Nail Vinyls at:

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IG: http://instagram.com/teismom

Store: http://nailvinyls.com/

So that it, that's my Blog/Insta Fest 2014 post over :) You can find more and follow piCture pOlish at:

Store: www.picturepolish.com.au

Every Day Deal: http://picturepolish.com.au/everyday-deal

International Stockists: http://picturepolish.com.au/network

FB: https://www.facebook.com/piCturepOlish

IG: http://instagram.com/picturepolish

Hello lovelies,

I've recently bought Dance Legend AQUA genetic which is supposed to be a base coat for holographic polishes BUT I know that it can be used as topcoat over nail foils! So obviously I've had to try it straight away...

I went with a very simple abstract design where I've layered four nail foil colours over Models Own Gumballs.

I'm quite happy with the look, these abstract and colourful mixes look very cool and there isn't easier mani to do with foils than this one. The Dance Legend AQUA genetic (I bought mine at Rainbow Connection) worked brilliant as a topcoat. It didn't crinkle the foils nor did it stripped the colour. I am yet to try some other holo bases like FNUG and Picture Polish but I'm already over the moon that this one works perfectly! If you would like to see some nail foil tutorials, I've done one here and some here.

And just to remind you - The voting for Cosmo blog awards is open only till the end of August! I would be very grateful if you would find few minutes and give me your vote in this year's Cosmopolitan Blog Awards. I'm in the very first category - Best Established Beauty Blog (Lucy's Stash of course) ;) You can or don't have to vote in each category, you can just keep pressing the next button to get to the end. Also you don't have to live in UK to vote. Thank you SOOO MUCH! xx Please vote here!

Have a lovely day! Lucie x