With this horrible weather we're having at the moment, I was in dire need of some bright nails and lucky for me, this came in the form of OPI's new Brights collection. These polishes were delivered to me by COTY PR and I can't wait to share these gorgeous polishes with you! The collection has 6 polishes with one of them (On Pinks and Needles) not being part of the Australian collection. Overseas they also re-released two polishes (Life Gave Me Lemons and Down To The Core-al) and Put A Coat On as part of the 2015 collection.


I STOP For Red
This is a super bright red that will definitely make people stop and look ! It has less of a creme formula but it's more of a jelly. I needed about 3 coats for an opaque finish but it's super glossy and even though I have quite a lot of reds that are similar to this, I can see this being one of my favourites.



Can't Hear Myself Pink!
This bright pink reminds me of Go With The Lava Flow from the Hawaii Collection released earlier this year. It has a metallic shimmer through it and this comes through nicely on the nail. When I did the first coat, it was really sheer and I thought it was going to take a lot of coats to reach full opacity but it was pretty much opaque by the second coat.



I Sea You Wear OPI
I feel like this polish is basically a blue version of Can't Hear Myself Pink! and I prefer this colour more.  It's a mid-blue that reminds me of Teal The Cows Come Home except darker and would be really nice layered with other colours.



My Car Has Navy-gation
I love this colour but unfortunately the formula is tricky to work with. It definitely has a jelly formula that's a bit gloopy on the first coat but evens out on the second and third coat.  

The Berry Thought Of You
This is a darker shade of pink that's almost magenta. The formula of this polish is a crelly and was opaque in 3 coats. When I swatched it, I put it over Put A Coat On! to try and get a more vibrant colour but I found that this really affected the drying time. However it is still a gorgeous colour and I don't have many colours like this in my collection.



Put A Coat On !
I like the idea of this and it's essentially a white undie to make polishes brighter. It's like a thicker, more opaque version of Alpine Snow and was completely opaque in 2 coats.



I really like this collection however I feel like the Brights 2014 collection had a wider range of colours. This collection is mainly reds and pinks so if that's your thing then you'll love it. The formulas could be a little easier to work with but they're not horrible and the colour pay off is worth it!

Hi everyone, hope you're having a fantastic weekend !

Recently I shared my brand new nail polish shelves on Instagram and I thought I'd do a blog post on how I made it and how it's organised.



I've been wanting to reorganise my nail polish collection for a long time and I've always wanted to be able see all of my colours and brands clearly. My collection was previously in a set of drawers and I was fast filling them up.

My dream was to have a giant nail polish rack and I had a look online and I found ones that stored around 100 bottles for $200 which seems ridiculous to me as I would need to get 3 or 4 = $$$$$.
There was no way I could afford that so I started researching how to make my own. Luckily my dad is pretty handy with carpentry so he helped me out a lot. The total cost of making the shelves would have been around $100 and considering the size of them, I think it's pretty cheap.

I got the timber from Bunnings Warehouse and it was pre-primed. The timber only had to be cut for the shelf length and vertical pieces but the depth was perfect so that didn't need to be cut.  We then sanded it and put it together using dowels and glue. We painted it using spray paint (I used Dulux Dura Max enamel spray paint in the colour in Vivid White Gloss) and once it was dry, we screwed to the wall.

Here's the shelves against the wall

The finished shelves are floor to ceiling so they're about 2.5m tall and have 20 shelves. It stores pretty much all of my collection (around 300 polishes) with 2 free shelves. It's the first thing I see when I walk into my room and makes me so happy.


I've organised my polishes by brand and then by colour. I just get so much satisfaction out of seeing the same bottle caps grouped together.

Top: BYS, B&C Co, Bottom: Sportsgirl, Natio, ORLY

Essie, Toy, Rimmel London

China Glaze

Sally Hansen Triple Shine

Sally Hansen Triple Shine

OPI

OPI

OPI

OPI

OPI

Ulta3

Ulta3

Ulta3

Rimmel London, L'Oreal

Nailene, Mode, Sally Hansen Miracle Gel, Color Club, Morgan Taylor etc.

OPI Minis, w7

OPI Minis

Phewf that's a lot of photos. I hope this post helped anyone who is thinking about making their own nail polish shelves or just wanted to check out my collection. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask :)

 I was lucky enough to review some more products from the Born Pretty Store ! You can check out their website here. They've also recently released an app for your phone so you can browse their website and buy your favourites right from your phone. You can download it for free in the app store. Now onto my review, I got to try out some studs and a brush set that I'm sure you'll all love !
 

Lip Nail Art Decoration Product ID #19648

This is a fun little charm that will spice up any mani ! The option I selected was the red colour but it also comes in light pink, hot pink and gold all with a white pearl. The charm is quite large so I had to stick it on with quite a bit of glue



Nail Art Brush Set Product ID #16587

This brush set has 4 different brushes: 3 different lengthed striper brushes and a flat brush. I used the shortest of the striper brushes for my mani below. The brush made it super easy to do detailing work and I didn't even have to trim the bristles !



Round Metal Studs  Product ID #17225 in option 3

These are really small, dainty round studs  that you can wear individually or cluster them like I've done in the pictures below. They were pretty easy to apply to the nail, I just stuck them to the nail with a clear topcoat.