Cosmetic Cupcake

Hi ladies! Just a super quick swatch for you of Butter London All Hail the Queen today. I picked this up a little while ago when Ozsale had a Butter London sale and the polishes were VERY reasonably priced so I picked up a few lemmings! I also got No More Waity Katie and Victoriana but unfortunately the bottle of No More Waity Katie came a bit smashed.


All Hail the Queen (or All Hail McQueen as it was previously known as) is a very subtle beige holographic polish. It is such a work appropriate colour to the point it's not bright enough for me LOL. It applied wonderfully and dried quickly to a glossy finish. The brush was easy to use but I prefer to use a slightly firmer brush, nil clean up needed. 2 coats pictured.

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As you can see it's a very subtle holographic. I do wish it were more noticeable! I'm glad I finally fulfilled my lemming though =)


Unfortunately I haven't had much time for nail art this week so check out my nail art gallery for my previous manis! Thanks for looking as always ladies!

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I'm currently still compiling my ABBW post for you which is going to take a while so I thought I'd show you the mani I rocked for the weekend first =) My blogging backlog is CRAZY at the moment due to my darn flu so please bear with me!


I didn't know what I wanted so I actually brainstormed mani ideas a few nights before - something I never get around to doing! My sis always tells me to trial manis first on a nail wheel or paper because she's the one who has to help me remove polish if a design goes pear shaped haha! Pic below is what I instagram-ed during my brainstorming ;) (I LURVE instagram so if you have it please let me know! You can follow me too - cosmeticcupcake).


Here's what I used for my mani:


Thumb: I used 2 coats of China Glaze Empowerment as a base and added vertical stripes using Kiss nail art striper in white.

Index finger: I used 2 coats of American Apparel Office and stamped full dot design from Konad plate m79 using Konad Special polish in white.

Middle finger: I used 3 coats of Ulta 3 lily white and stamped full roses design from Konad plate m65 (one of my favourites!) using China Glaze Admire. This colour combo is one of my absolutel favourites. It works EVERY time!

Ring finger: My cupcake! I used 1 coat of Butter London Pink Ribbon for a sheer base. For the cupcake liner, I used China Glaze Empowerment to freehand a thick french tip and added white lines using Kiss nail art striper in white. For the cupcake, I used Ulta 3 chocolate cake and added red bullions for the sprinkles and a pink half pearl as the cherry. Unfortunately the bullions bled!

Pinky: I used 2 coats of OPI Glitzerland and a few coats of Milani Jewel FX in Gold for some bling.


I LOVED how this mani turned out but it didn't last very long due to the excitement of ABBW! I had to do quite a few dodgy touch-up jobs unfortunately and I also broke 2 nails wrestling with suitcases and gift bags xp

What do you think? Thanks for looking as always ladies!

It's not often I dislike a colour but unfortunately today I have for you a shade that I just did not like on me AT ALL. And it pains me to tell you that it is a lovely Butter London lacquer but there are just colours that don't suit everyone!

Butter London Fash Pack is described as "cement meets mushroom". A strange but quite accurate description! It has a very subtle gold shimmer through it but unfortunately it doesn't really translate on the nail. I loved the look of the shade in the bottle but as soon as I put it on it didn't sit right. Maybe a little too brown and not enough grey? My high school uniform was brown and I am very averse to wearing brown these days *shudder*


Application was flawless and the lacquer itself is beautiful. Only 2 smooth coats needed for opacity and it dried to a glossy finish. The brush is easy to use and handle and no cleanup was needed. Butter London polishes are also Big 3 free which is fantastic and I love the shape of their bottles. These rectangular shaped bottles look soooo nice in my helmer haha.

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I just didn't fancy the colour on me unfortunately and I would have taken it off straight away had it not been nearly midnight when I painted my nails so I had to endure a day of work with it on x) I got asked what was with my "muted" polish today haha!


I'm sad because it's a beautiful lacquer but the colour just doesn't suit me! Are there colours that you find just don't work for you and avoid wearing?

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Thanks for looking as always!

Thank you so much for the well wishes and overwhelming response to my Birthday Giveaway! You guys rock! Just a quick post tonight to show you my celebration manicure to celebrate my 1st blog birthday. Yes I am corny like that and use any excuse to celebrate with a mani OK! I've wanted to do a cupcake manicure for a very long time now but I decided to save it for this blog milestone =D Here is my Cosmetic Cupcake manicure!


I wanted some bling so I went with 3 coats of the awesome Rescue Beauty Lounge Frugalista on all fingers except accents. I hauled this beauty in the 50% off sale last year and am now kicking myself for only purchasing 4 polishes.

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Frugalista is a gorgeous silver and purple glitter and I now know why Rescue Beauty Lounge polishes are so hyped about! The polishes are just gorgeous and it was easy to apply and quick to dry.


I then freehanded cupcakes on my accent fingers by following Rina's great cupcake tutorial. You might notice that my cupcake is in the same colour scheme as my logo! It by no means looks like the work of art Claude made for me but I tried =p I didn't even attempt the lippie and nail polish bottle as it would have been a fail haha. I am still completely in love with my logo!!

For this design I used a coat of Butter London Pink Ribbon as a sheer base. I then used China Glaze Sugar High to freehand a thick French tip and used Kiss nail art striper in white for vertical stripes to complete the cupcake liner. I then drew a large half circle on top of the cupcake liner using Ulta 3 chocolate cake and added dark red bullions to make sprinkles.


The pic above is of the design on my right hand (which I hardly show) as I actually preferred the way I did the cupcake. I got lazy with my right hand and didn't add the cherry which I did using China Glaze Empowerment. I topped it all with a coat of Coffret D’or gel mode topcoat which Christina gave me in one of our swaps. The topcoat makes my nails so lovely and shiny! I have yet to fully use it properly though.


I'm now trying to think of a mani design for my actual birthday! What would you suggest?

Thanks for looking and don't forget to enter My Big Birthday Giveaway! I'll be catching up on comments tomorrow x)

It was requested that I do some more haul posts so here we go! I will endeavour to do a haul post at the start of each month to give you guys a look at what I’ve gotten over the last month that’s beauty related and anything that’s worthy of mentioning too. Hope I don’t create too many lemmings for you all! Here are September’s hauls.


I am supposed to be on a polish/shopping ban but of course that went right out the door! However some of the items I’ve gotten in the last month were gifted to me so I technically didn’t break my ban much hehe. I forgot to add some other stuff in the photo oops.

From L – R: Glitter Gal 3D sparkle polishes in Purple, Ballerina and Not Another Red
I made my 1st Glitter Gal purchase last week from their online store to get some holo polishes for some lovely bloggers I’m doing swaps with at the moment. I wasn’t going to buy any polishes for myself but of course I couldn’t resist and before you know it my credit card was seriously dented! I can’t wait to try these out.

From L – R: Sally Hansen Nail Prisms in Pink Rose Diamond and Blush Diamond
More holo goodness! The boy and I went to Paddy’s market on the weekend and I picked up 2 Sally Hansen Nail Prisms. On other occasions we’ve gone to Paddy’s, I’ve admired these polishes but put them down again but not this time! I thought I deserved some holos after 2 brain draining days at uni haha.

From L – R: Butter London Fash Pack and Pink Ribbon
This months (Aussie) Harpers Bazaar came with a free Butter London polish with a choice of 2 colours. I bought the magazine with Pink Ribbon (the pink sheer) for myself as I’m not a huge fan of earthy nail polishes but my sis gave me Fash Pack (the mushroom creme) too. Woot.


OCNail Art are currently having a promotion where you get plate m13 for free with code scary when you purchase over $30, coupon ends October 15th. I’ve been lemming more of the full nail design plates so this offer made it too good to resist!! Plus with the excellent exchange rate it made it even more tempting. I got Konad plates m57, m60, m65, m73, m76 and m78. Customer service and shipping was fantastic as always.


I’ve had splitting nails lately so I really wanted to try OPI Original Nail Envy out after reading some good things about it. The boy was kind enough to get it for me when I was last at the nail supply shop along with OPI Maintenance Nail Envy. Does anyone use this too? What’s the best way of using it? I’m thinking now that it wasn’t necessary to get the Maintenance too.. I was using Seche Plus originally which made my nails quite strong but I was still having issues with splitting. If you get splitting nails, what do you use to combat this?

From L – R: China Glaze The Ten Man and Channelesque
I forgot to add these to the group pic above but these were also gifted to me by the boy =) I heart China Glaze!

What did you haul last month?

Thanks for looking! Don’t forget to enter my Polished Pink for October giveaway for Breast Cancer Awareness month here!