WINNING

butter London are getting into the metallic swing of things with the Olympics right around the corner. 


Here's their take on the medal tally.


The polish names are sufficiently English... 


Gold - The Full Monty
Silver - Diamond Geezer
Bronze - The Old Bill


Enjoy. 

MAC GETS RUFF

Not content to be left out of the nail art/embellishment/enhancement explosion, MAC cosmetics collab'ed with fashion champs, Ruffian to come up with their disposable take on Ruffian's past Fashion Weeks' nail directions. 


Behold the press-on's. 


I believe it's been so long that anyone has actually used press-ons, that we've all sufficiently forgotten their innate down-falls...


None the less!!


3 different polish designs and end shapes in this limited edition collection - each fresh in their own right, with lipsticks to match. 


Beauty!


Images via becomegorgeous.com

COLOUR YOUR (NAIL'S) WORLD

Nostalgia for days!


The colours are crazy.


Get the box collection here.


Image via chipchick.com

POLISHED

There are an excruciating amount of nail polish 'enthusiast' blogs in existence.


Excruciating.


Then last week I came across 'little nails'. What a gorgeous looking blog...


And talent?? Well. Her polish skills speak for themselves. Most professionals can't paint this well - not even close. 


Little Nails is from Sydney, Australia and her personal ethos is one I've also adopted over the last several years. It is... short nails are beautiful. 


As she attests, it can be tough finding a nail professional that shares this philosophy so she has learnt to D.I.Y. and boy, has she excelled. Make sure you hit the link above and check her out. 


Bronz'd salutes you, Little Nails!


Keep up the beautiful work! :)  

HEAVY METAL

Minx Metallics is still killing it. 

MARATHON

I'm back.

Let's go.

NAILSWORTHY

Nails, Nail, Nails!!


Every fashion magazine worth their trend-reporting salts from monthly bibles to weekly trashies seems to be putting nails to the fore.


Almost every one I flick through these days is keeping it right up to date with the latest and greatest for the end of your fingers - from designers and pop stars collaborating with top nail industry leaders, to a complete round-up of up-to-the-second styles, colours, products and looks, to insider how-to on getting those 'celebrity manicurist's' results.


Even your nanna's fav, Sally Hansen has had a make-over and sponsored Grazia magazine's coverage of Australian Fashion Week last month. The coverage's tagline?

"The hottest accessory of the season? Statement nails from Sally Hansen". 

Gosh. Who knew?  

GUTEN MORGEN

Sommer, indeed!


Vogue Germany had the good sense to get Alexi Lubormirski to shoot Carolyn Murphy for their June 2012 cover.


Goodness gracious, this is lovely. 


Nails and tan are tip top.


Shouts out to my bestest ever, mammatuppy for the heads-up.


Images via fashiontography.net

SUPER SUMMER FIZZ

Luckily for me, I love a summer shade in the Southern winter time. 


Peep these lovelies from Super Dry. 


YEAH! 


Image via sugarscape.com

TANNING MOM WISHES

The internet is going berserk over KK's tweeted Instagram of her spraytan in developmental mode, talking all about oh-my-gosh it's sooo insanely dark, she's tanorexic,  she's LOST THE PLOT!! 


Developmental mode. The time frame in between having solution applied to the skin and when you have your first shower. The time frame in which you smell like a corn chip and do look as if you've lost your powers of reasoning. The time frame in which most normal tanorexics stay indoors and dare not expose their state to ANYONE in the known Universe. 


But then we are talking about young Kimmie here. 
She is a monumental twit (albeit a really good-looking one) but she has my vote for advancing the cause of the outstanding spray tan. She uses Fake Bake of which I am a massive advocate  and would recommend in a heartbeat. 


If you don't believe me, put this pic next to one of Patricia Krentcil (who goes in a tanning bed) and let me know which you'd rather look like. 


Kalm the eff down.... 


Image via usmagazine.com

PERMANENT DAMAGE UNDONE

Excruciatingly exciting news for MAC varnish addicts, a permanent range with 31 colours in total is almost here!!


Why did it take so long??? My gosh...


Launching July. 


Image via bellasugar.com.au

LOUBS ROUGE BEAUTE

Who knows if he was inspired by the banging mani inspired by his creations, or if Mr Ford is making such a show of immaculate name-sake cosmetics that he must also join the ranks...
BUT - Christian Louboutin is set to get into it. 


"Christian Louboutin Beaute will include "multiple, unspecified classifications" (WWD) which means anything from lipstick and eyeshadows to nail polish" (HuffingtonPost).


Surely there'd have to be a red lippie/varnish in there somewhere, right?...


Keep your eyes peeled in 2013.   

I WANT MY... NAIL ART

So, the 1990's retro cipher is complete.


Nail art in the stylings of MTV. 


Behold, bungholes.


Images via bangstyle.com 

IT'S SUMMER (SOMEWHERE), OKAY??

Fashion behemoth H&M are copping it for sending an irresponsible tanning message with their latest swimsuit print campaign.


Fuchsia bust-ilicious's tone is admittedly a little heavy-handed, but the rest looks sufficiently, summer-ily dope. From a purely aesthetic point, the campaign is fresh. 


Makes me want to get a crazy spraytan, buy a bikini from H&M and get to a freakin' tropical ocean, so I'd say H&M should be pretty happy with that as a result. 


In all seriousness, though, being 'sun safe' is really huge in the Australian consciousness, so the only realistic way anyone from this side of town is going to think you get that depth of tan is from a spray bottle. (Or here's a radical idea... maybe her skin tone is close to that colour sans tan?? just an idea...)


ANYHOO, here's a good message - if you're very very pale and you want to be very very tanned, get a (good) spray. They are not scary anymore. They are very responsible. And look hot. 


That is all. 


Images via huffingtonpost.com

NUDISTS

RGB have done it again. 


There's something about looking at a complete range of liquid foundations - from the lightest to the darkest - that makes me wanna get my hands on every single bottle.


Which is the EXACT opposite of how I feel about 'nude' nail polishes (or 'mannequin' hands, as we in the biz refer to this booooring look). 


But somehow this magnificent collabo between Jenna Hipp (stylist) and RGB founder Gina Carney has taken me from polish snooze to oh-my-gosh-I-need-one-of-every-colour.


Not sure where you can get this collection in Oz, but just did a quick search and those good girls at honeyhoney.com.au have got more than a decent amount of RGB (aaand uslu airlines!! hoorah!!). Do your best. 


The above image is making me salivate...


TRIUMPH!! 


Image via becomegorgeous.com