I’m not sure if this is just an Aussie colloquialism, but over here we refer to cheap wines (and cheap alcoholic drinks in general) as two buck chuck. Because it costs a few bucks and will ultimately end up with you riding the porcelain bus. HEEE EXPLAININ’ JOKES. The Australian people are a classy bunch, in case you didn’t realise. Occasionally, although very rare, you’ll be able to find a cheap bit of plonk that doesn’t fall into the “chuck” category. (Hello Gossips Sweet Lips Moscato $3.79 a bottle ooooh yeah) Where I am going with this long winded analogy, [...]
This is my third year writing this post (wow, how time flies! See 2010 here and 2011 here) and I am such a fan of lists and putting your wishes down on paper, or a blog entry in this instance, that I am going to do it again. Not only because it seems to have some sort of cosmic HTF attracting powers when I do these posts, but also because it’s fun to look back upon lemmings fulfilled. 2011 was a good year on many fronts, especially for ticking things off the ol’ wishlist. Rarities procured in the last 12 [...]
Everyone please welcome Ivy from Smile Through It All Also welcome to Michelle from Lab Muffin And also Alanna from Pretty Purple Polish Welcome to the family! Gumleaf Girls, please update your blogrolls! And don’t forget to check out these awesome blogs! Do you have an Aussie Nail Blog yet aren’t a member of the Gumleaf Mafia? Contact me or any of the girls and we will give you the info!
And what a year it has been. 2011 felt like a transitional year for me. I learned a lot. I grew a lot. I came to understand myself a lot better. I ticked a few things off “the list” (You know “the list”. Everybody has a “list”). 2011 set a lot of things in motion and I have come out the other end better, stronger and faster. Kinda like the six million dollar man, but with boobs. I’m aware that I am aging myself with that joke, but whatevs. *Pours another glass of wine* Earlier this year I lost my [...]
After my post the other day on my Nails Inc Crystal Caps, I thought I’d dig them all out and photograph them for Bottle Spam Sunday. I don’t have that many though, well not enough to facilitate an entire Bottle Spam Sunday post, so I thought I’d take shots of all my Nails Inc Glitters too! Enjoy! Royal Arcade, Cadogan Gardens, Shoreditch, Charing Cross Regents Palace, Leicester Square, Bow Street, Eden Grove Caviar Top Coat, King Street, Crown Court, Special K Red, Will, Kate Shelton Street, Reading, Somerset House, Pimlico Road, Chapel Street Petticoat Lane, The City, Buckingham Street, Bloomsbury [...]
Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve done one of these! So how has everyone’s week been? I hope you all had an awesome Thanksgiving and if you’re outside the US, I hope you had a pretty rad day nonetheless. And hopefully you’ve all had a bit more restraint than me with these Black Friday sales, because Amazon, 80′s Tees, Sugarpill, NARS & Nails Inc have all seen my credit card in the last couple of days. Time for a no buy? You bet. But the good news is I think I’m finally starting to get back into the swing [...]
It’s a sad feeling when you realise that you have less Prisms than you thought you had. I could have sworn I owned more, but as I discovered when adding these long discontinued beauties to my reference guides, my collection is rather on the small side. However, much like my OPI collection I’d consider it an ensemble of greatest hits. The collection itself might be small, but all the good ones are present and accounted for. Which is why I thought I would put this post together. I love all the Prisms that I own, but I really do think [...]
I’ve spoken (a lot) of my love for Nails Inc before. There’s just something wonderfully luxurious about the brand. I love everything about them, from their image to their range and formula. The only thing that I don’t love is their lack of an Australian distributor. But you want to know what I really love about Nails Inc? CRYSTAL CAPS. Yes, someone at Nails Inc a few years back had the glorious idea to adorn their beautiful silver cap with a crapload of Swarovski Crystals and sparkle loving girls like me proceeded to lose their shit and dump their wallet [...]
It really struck home for me the other day how little attention I’ve been paying to my blogs. It is true that I have been busy with my business, but seriously I can only devote so much of my time to it before it starts to feel like work, and that really isn’t how I ever want to look at nail polish. So I’ve decided to enforce a little scheduled “me time” wherein I can blog and relax, so I’m hoping that will mean some significant changes around here in terms of regularity of content. To prove to you all [...]
No, it’s not any part of my body, so quit asking. It is, however, the fourth shade from my soon to be released nail polish collection. Ladies and germs, I present to you… Forbidden Fruit! A gorgeous, glossy white speckled throughout with silver microshimmer! As modelled by the gorgeous Emma. Even her hands are gorgeous. The formula is a little on the jelly side as opposed to a creme, but it’s still nice and opaque. I can’t even begin to tell you all how happy I am with it. Here’s a close up shot of the shimmer so you can [...]
I made a deal with myself that I am not going to complain about anything on any sort of social media platform or blog for the next seven days, so rather than complain about being busy and having no time and being tired all I’m going to say is that I have been a super awesomely robotesque brand of productive and busy which is why I haven’t had time to get to my usual random acts of bloggery here at Pretty Random in the last few weeks. So much is happening as my baby, Pretty Serious, grows from a tiny [...]
