New Year's Funnies

Hi guys!
Hope you all had a great Xmas? Mine was pretty laidback (literally - I spent a great deal of it sleeping) but I did get to open my present from Inbal from the bloggers Christmas exchange! I'll show you the pretties later :D

Unfortunately I spent Christmas with a bad reaction to BYS's Kung Fu Blue. Which is strange because I've worn it before with no probs. I bought two bottles at the same time, so I'm not sure if maybe one bottle is the culprit. Both bottles are the new formula with no formaldehyde resin, so I'm stumped as to why it's playing up. So my cuticles are now bleeding but my eyes have stopped itching so that's a plus :)

We've just got back to the family home and now we've got a couple of hours until some friends descend on us for NYE. I have a strawberry vodka slushie freezing in preparation, it's going to be a nice balmy night and we can see the fireworks from our backyard, so it should be schweeet, mate!

I had all these great plans for doing some kind of grand end-of-year post, but to be honest I can't be arsed. So instead I thought I'd post some funnies...

Michael Bay's next feature. Total pwnage...




One of my fave pics of the year would have to be "Up" and this is a very clever little ditty made up completely of samples (if you have a good set of headphones, I suggest you use them - it greatly improves the listening experience :)




This is a bit old now, but still...




So enjoy your last couple of hours of 2009. I'll catch you on the flipside :)
Happy new years!

MERRY XMAS!

I've arrived in Perth and we're just running around doing a few last minute things before heading down south. As I said before, I'm not sure if I'll have net access down there, so I'll say Merry Christmas to you all now just in case!

Hope you find something naughty under your tree! :D

Housekeeping

No MWCILTRMND post today - sorry! I'm just too mired down in preparations for going away. That and I don't really have anyone worthy of the dubious honour right now :)

So anyhoo - I thought I'd better let everyone know what's going on and give you an update on a few things.

1. I know I promised a new chapter of "Phalanges of Terror" a long time ago, but it just hasn't happened. I actually wrote 3/4's of the next chapter twice and erased it twice - it was just crap. Then the descent into silly season started, and it's just a bit beyond me right now. Hopefully while I'm on holidays I'll have some time to re-boot and get back on track.

2. Those glitters I showed you a couple of weeks back? Meh. Not so good. Turns out all the iridescent ones (which was most of them) don't like being immersed in polish. Even though they were billed as "nail glitter", if you put them in a bottle for a couple of hours, the colour bleeds out of them :( They're OK if you put them straight onto the nail, but it's very fiddly and not what I wanted them for. The other metallic glitter left is not as inspiring, so I have left off frankening with them till I get back from holidays next year.

3. Which brings me to holidays! I'm hopping on a plane back home to Perth on Wednesday. For those of you who don't know where Perth is - it's clear across the country, 2720 km or 1690 miles away -


I have a whole month off so I'll be spending Christmas, New Year and my birthday over there. I haven't had a break or seen any of my family in a year, so I fully expect to fall into a mini-coma once I get there. Puntcuated only by Nanna force-feeding me sausages from the BBQ and Mum setting me up with an I.V. of Baileys.

The day after I arrive we're all headed down south for Xmas to the town of Busselton where my Aunt and Uncle have a house on the beach. I'll probably get horribly sunburned, bitten my mozzies and have sand in various crevices. It'll be a riot.

Apparently my mobile broadband coverage does not include Busselton and I'm not sure if my Uncle has net access, so I'm really not sure whether I'll be able to blog or twitter for a week. If I disappear for awhile, you know why! Once we get back home for New Years it should be business as usual.

I'll probably post some more nail stuff tomorrow, and after that things may be a little sketchy.

In the meantime, though - this may be the easiest Xmas mani ever! BB Couture's Fairy Blood and Frosty Meadow skittled...

One More Funny

I haven't been able to find an embeddable version of this for ages, but I finally came up trumps. Now I am as happy as a little girl...

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Weekend Funnies

Seeing as how this is the last lot of funnies before Xmas, I thought some Carols were in order -



Lady Gaga is super-into Jesus...



And on a completely unrelated note - this is for Kaz...




I'm totally bummed he has better legs than me :D

And...well this just made me nigh on hysterical



One more day of work to go for me - can I get a Woot! Woot!?

Zoya Nova

When Zoya released their Ultra Glitter collection, I have to say I was a bit "meh" about it. Only 3 colours, and 2 quite similar pinky colours. For the price, they just didn't seem worth it.

Then came the day when a package arrived from Kaz - and inside was a little surprise. She gave me Nova! And let me tell you - I take it all back! Nova is freaking gorgeous!

Yes, it is quite similar in colour to Zoya's Roxy (and you all know how much I love that), but it's a little lighter, a little pinker. And glitter is finer and more dense.

It's like a vintage Halston dress. Your mum's Glomesh handbag. The blingiest bauble on the Christmas tree.

Even with my poor uneven nails at the mo, it's just damn fine.
The bonus is that it seemed to apply easier than Roxy does, and only needed two coats!

I added a layer of the Nubar Diamont top coat Kaz also sent me (have I mentioned how awesome she is?) and this lasted 5 days with nary a chip. That's very, very good by my record!

Now I MUST have the other two polishes in this collection!
These aren't available in Australia yet (and when they are, I'm assuming they'll be $17 a pop as per usual) so once I have some money next year, I'm going to scour ebay :)

Why did Zoya only do 3 of these? Was it a test run to see how they'd sell?
Cos let me tell you - if they did a whole 6 bottle collection of the same formula, just in different colours (how awesome would a green, blue, purple or *sigh* - turquoise - look in this?) I would not eat so I could afford to buy them.
Not eat.
That's some crazy shit right there, Zoya!
You better release some more soon - 'cos I can feel a nutsackin' comin' on!
And I'll be hungry.
You won't like me when I'm hungry...

Icing - Blackout

This is one of the polishes I got in a swap with the lovely Judy back a few months ago. I actually tried it straight away - it's just taken me ages to get the photos up :)

Anyhoo - if you are a fan of black, you will love this. If you are a fan of glitter - you will love this! It's like goth meets Rainbow Brite...




Inky black with holo glitter - awww yeah!
Unfortunately my top coat produced a little bit of tip-creep - please ignore!
Black polish and I have a weird relationship. I love it, but it doesn't always go with my skin. It seems to bring out the red, so I don't use it as often as I'd like - but c'mon!
It's glitter! It's holo! Like I'm gonna care :)


Application was fine - this was 3 coats. Just be careful, cos sloppy application with a colour like this will look craptacular...

This would have to be one of the most unusual polishes in my collection and I love it!
Thanks Judy! :D