The Good Nails

Hellooooo everybody! I am so sorry for my lengthy absence from this blog, I didn't expect to be as busy as I have been over the last 6 months or so. But! Don't  despair! I'm back now and I'm going to try my very ultra-best to update this blog regularly! Anyway, it's almost one of the most exciting times of the year- Christmas time! Are you guys excited? My excitement is at 1000 per cent (which is a lot even for me). So! To get in the Christmas spirit I decided to kick off my return to this blog with a review of a nail polish in one of the most classic Christmas colour of all time- RED! So let's dive in head first very quickly into this review! So, this here is With the Band by ESSIE (You guys know that I love me some Essie)! This here isn't your typical red, it is a touch darker. This colour is not the most unique in the whole entire world but I do think that it's still pretty, especially if you are a fan of reds! While I'm not the biggest fan...

Hey guys! My nails seem to be apart of a weird phenomenon lately: whenever they start to grow out, they just break again! I have never experienced this nail breaking phenomenon before, but for a nail addict, it's just about the most frustrating thing ever! Anyway, today we will be looking at a swatch from before my nails broke (again), and it's YELLOW! And not just any yellow, it's a mustard yellow! Oh! And before I forget (well, actually, I did forget, then I remembered again and now I'm typing it up before I once again forget it) I have some new collections to swatch! I haven't had any collections to swatch so I am looking forward to getting to do some serious swatch and reviewing for them so I hope you guys are as excited as I am! Anyway, here it is, our mustard yellow polish Never a Dulles Moment by the one and only OPI! Now, you know that I love yellows: neon yellows, pastel yellows, bright yellows, all the yellows....and mustardy yellows are no exceptio...

Hi everyone! I'm back today with another swatch and review (yay!) to share with you all! For some reason in the winter pretty much all I feel like wearing on my nails is blue: blue, blue, blue, blue, blue! Lately I have been blue MAD! But, today we are looking at a pink polish with a fabulous name, that as a lover of pink nail polish I thoroughly approve of: Pinkalot by Mud. Now this polish is kind of an odd one, it kinda had me a little confused: it's matte-ish and neon-ish which is kinda weird. But hey! It's pink! It's got a cool name and it's by Mud so I am excited to get into the review! Here we have this gorgeous hot pink shade that, I tell you, I fell in love with at first sight. It's such a pretty bright colour, so bright that I think it's almost neon, but not quite. It's just got a little pinch of neon. Just a tad. It's a great shade if you want something neon, but not super duper in your face bright. I don't know that I have really ...

Hi guys! I am so sorry for my absence, it's been so long since I have posted anything! I have just been SUPER busy lately and haven't gotten a chance to post. But, anyway I'M BACK! And, even better, I'm back with an Essie polish to swatch and review, isn't that great? Today we will be looking at an Essie polish called It's Genius (sounds like a promising name for a pretty polish!), and upon a quick search, I found this polish is from WAY back in 2008, now, that;'s a way of a ways back, and I am really looking forward to seeing what a polish from back then is like, so let's hop into the swatch and the review guys! \ And there it is, It's Genius (isn't it though?). Anyway, upon first inspection I was not sure what exactly this colour was, at first I thought wine purple, but now I think it's more of a burgundy. The colour also looks slightly different in different lightings, which further added to my confusion when I was trying to figure out...

Hello everybody! I have yet another exciting post today (they just keep coming right?!) as today marks both the first Ciate swatch and review and the first ever swatch and review of  mini nail polish! Both of those things, all at once! Actually, this is the very first Ciate polish that I have ever tried, so I am looking forward to sharing my very first thoughts on this brand! Also, I am looking forward to just unwinding and chilling as I write this post; as I have been WAY too busy lately! This here is Hopscotch, and it is a nice kind of red-orange colour. I really enjoy this kind of colour, especially looking at it in different lighting and thinking 'Ooh right now it looks more red than orange' or 'Wow! Now of looks orange again!' Also, it's not quite as common a colour as your typical orange. It's just a really fun, bright colour that I enjoy a lot! Ok, so the formula on this polish was not at all what I was expecting, but kind of in a good way! ...

Hey guys! How are you going? Today we will be once again be looking at a polish from the Sally Hansen Miracle Gel range! I have REALLY been looking forward to trying out this polish! And that is because I have a long history with this polish; I once saw it when I was on holidays and I was drawn to it like a magnet, I thought 'Ooh! Pretty polish! I like it',  and then I saw it again a few months later (a few weeks ago)  in the clearance bin (aka the best bin ever) and snatched it up for a bargain bin price! I was interested in this polish because a) it was pink, and b) it had some really pretty shimmer in there! So! This is I Lava You, by of course, Sally Hansen. This is a peachy pink polish with two kinds of shimmery shimmer; pink and gold. Out of the two shimmers, the gold definitely stands out better, the pink is kinds hiding a little bit; I think that it is because of the already pink base that it doesn't stand out quite as much. But still, it is a really pretty pol...

Hi guys! How's everyone going? Today have been shocked to find out that my nail polishes drawers are getting too full! I hardly have any room any more; disaster has struck! Well, kinda not, an actual disaster has yet to occur polish-wise, but this is indeed a problem! The upside of problems is that there are almost always solutions! And a solution shall be found! Anyway, today we are looking at a polish from the realm of Sally Hansen, specifically from the Complete Salon Manicure range. This polish here is Red Zin. It's a darkened red colour, that I would specifically classify as a garnet red. Well, I ain't the greatest red lover out there, but there is something about a good dark red that I quite like. It's still not my very favourite colour in the world (that would be pink) and I don't know how often that I would wear it, but I still like it! Two words to describe the formula for this polish; absolutely amazing! It goes on to the nail so smoothly and b...

Hello everybody! I'm so very excited today because we will be looking at the Sinful Colors Vanessa Hudgens collaboration collection for winter! I just adore the Sinful Colors/Vanessa Hudgens collaboration polishes, they are some of my favourite polishes in my collection, so my expectations for this collection were very high (almost as high as my excitement levels!). This is a 12 piece collection (the last collection aka the Jungle Beat collection only had 8 polishes but the Festival collection also had 12, just a fun little fact) and every single one of them is shimmer polish; not a single creme in sight! This differs from the the other collaborations, which all had at least a few cremes thrown in there. But, I'm not too upset about that; I LOVE shimmer polishes, and after swatching a collection that was pretty much completely made up of creme polishes (none other than the Sinful Colors New Shades collection), I am happy to be swatching these shimmery beauties! Oh! And, before ...

Hi guys! Today is Easter here in Australia, so it seems like a great time for the last instalment in the Top Ten Nail Polishes to Wear this Easter series (information about it  here )! The very last one; It's a sad day, but also a happy day coz' I get to share with you my very top pick for the Easter season! So far we have looked at a whole bunch of awesome polishes but this is my favourite for the season! So! I will not keep you all in suspense, instead I will hop right into the swatch and review, let's go! My number 1 polish for this Easter is YOLO Yellow by Sinful Colors and as you can see it is a beautiful bright yellow! As I have mentioned not too long ago, yellow is one of my favourite colours for Easter time, and this yellow is extremely good. This colour is super bright, it looks like a beautiful strong ray of sunshine on your nails. This is really an Easter essential colour for me! The formula on this polish has got to be one of, if not my very favour...

Hi everybody! We sure are close to the end of this list , huh (read about said list here )? And Easter is juuuuust around the corner as well, and it is a very short corner, Easter is super close! Right now I have some Easter baking going on as well as some Easter nails (good combination, right?)! I'm pretty excited for these last swatch and reviews, because of course, these are the top two! Today we are looking at another polish from the Miracle Gel range by Sally Hansen, which has got a bunch of things that I really like about it, especially that brush! This polish is called All Chalked Up and it's quite a interesting shade that you may recognise as a close dupe for  Spring Fling , by Sinful Colors. This is pastel purple that is super, super light! It looks almost like it's only just purple; but I love that! It's a very subtle and soft look on the nail which is very unique and very beautiful! Definitely a favourite of mine for Easter as it is a really cool take on...

Hi guys! It's really getting down to the wire here in this series (details and facts for this series can be found here )! Three polishes left! That's not many at all! One of my favourite colours ever to wear for Easter is yellow! It's such a bright and happy colour, and pastels of course, are another Easter essential for me, so as you can imagine, a pastel yellow would be just about be perfection! Well, today we will be looking at a polish that has both of these elements. This polish is Beaches and Cream, which is a lovely pastel yellow polish. I would say that this is a little different to any old pastel yellow; this can be described as a pastel lemon yellow (ooh!, if you mix the colour up into the name, you could have a polish called 'lemons and cream'!)This is another beautiful soft shade for the Easter season and it's unique as well! Gotta love a unique polish!  Another interesting little thing that I noticed about this polish is that there is...

Hi guys! With very, very few days left until the commencement of Easter, we are left with very very few posts left till the final instalment of the Top Ten Nail Polishes to Wear this Easter series (info about this series stored here )! Am I excited for these last few posts? Definitely! Am I sad that it's ending? Yup! But, I am putting all of that aside for now and focusing on because currently I am very happy to be reviewing another polish from one of my favourite line of polish; the Colourstay Gel Envy line! We last looked at this line of polish a mere 2 posts ago, when I reviewed a pretty purple polish situated in position number 6 on this very list. Today we will be looking at a colour that you may or may not recognise as my very favourite colour; pink! Ooh! This here is Lucky in Love, and this can be classified as a bright pastel pink. Pastel colours and bright colours are really essential Easter shades, so combining both of those in one; that's gotta be pretty perfec...

Hi everybody! This is getting really serious; we are half-way through this series already! Whaaaaat? How come that happened? But it's also pretty exciting, coz' we're getting to the real point end of the list here; this is the top 5 (before I babble on any further I will provide some background information for anyone that is unfamiliar with this series here ).  Only adding to my excitement is the fact that one of my favourite TV shows started airing a new season last night; any more excitement and my computer may explode!Today we will be looking at another nail polish by Sally Hansen, but this time from the complete salon manicure range, which has a base and top coat built right into the polish itself; pretty cool right? This specific polish right here before your eyes is Skys the Limit! This is a Sky blue polish, and I just love shades of blue like this, especially for Easter time, because it's so bright and cheerful! It's like a beautiful clear blue sky! ...