MWCILTRMND MONDAY!

MWCILTRMND MONDAY is baaaaack! And not very safe for work, so you might not want to scroll down if the boss is hanging around, OK? Mmmkay...

Today I have for you a tender little Italian morsel by the name of Lorenzo Zanirato.
If anyone is fit to carry on the good work done by Fabio, it's this guy...


As you can see - his range is so stunning...


...he could give Zoolander a run for his money. I call this look "Brown Aluminium". Let's see it in action, shall we?

Viewers were outraged when Felicity cut her hair.

"Thank the Gods I wore my asbestos loincloth today. Mordor Fashion Week, here I come!"

The towel-dispensing 6-pack was a popular addition to the Ikea bathroom range.

Lorenzo and the Salad Fork of the Gods.

The reason bikes are called "Crotch Rockets"

Eat it, Bill Cosby!

Thanks for all the suggestions for MWCILTRMND Mondays - keep 'em coming! :D

Quick Update

Hi guys - I arrived back in Melbourne Thursday night and hopefully should be back to blogging regularly next week. Back to work (blargh!) today so I just need to get myself organised...

BTW - I desperately need more suggestions for MWCILTRMND Mondays, so speak up if you have some himbos in mind!

Overall Beauty/BB Couture Hands of Hope!

People! Want to help Haiti and get your hands on some excellent new BB Couture Polishes? Of course you do!

Kim at Overall Beauty is selling the brand new BB Couture "Hands of Hope" collection - 6 polishes in lovely island-inspired shades. 25% of sales will go to the Salvation Army to help the people of Haiti.

~Tortuga Island - explore the exotic lush green island foliage

~Kyona Beach – gaze up at the cloudless baby blue sky while sunning on the beach

~Bassin’s Blue – experience subtle turquoise pools linked by spectacular waterfalls

~Labadie Beach – delight in the delicate pink hues of the setting sun

~Cape Haitian – mornings bring a mysterious pale violet haze over the mountains

~Paradise – savor the natural beauty of Haiti along the endless sandy beige beaches

How dreamy and ice-creamy are they? Perfect for the northern hemisphere Spring coming up. There are swatches of them here if you wanna drool some more.

The whole collection retails for US$54 and will be available from Tuesday the 19th US time. Kim is taking pre-orders now, though - so get in quick! She has very reasonable shipping rates to Australia, so if you've never tried BB Couture or Overall Beauty before, now's the time! Kim has the best customer service in the online polish biz, as any nail blogger will tell you!

I hope you're all signed up for the Overall Beauty newsletter (there's a window on the site to do so if you haven't) - Kim puts all the best deals and info in that. She'll be releasing one about the collection very shortly...

Please pass this info on to whoever you can - blog hits, tweets, re-tweets, etc = more help where it's needed!

Perfect Chic #53, Wixxy Franken

Howdy y'all!
I thought I'd post some off-the-cuff pics of one of the beautiful polishes Inbal sent me for Xmas.
#53 is the perfect glossy baby blue. Even my Nanna, who said in her day there were only two types of polish acceptable - red or nude - loves this.
(Sorry bout the cuticles - my hands are going through the "peeling off all the damaged skin" stage of recovery after the allergic reaction over Xmas)

Ha! I just realised you can see the tiny spot of hair dye that made it onto my pinkie nail :P

This is 3 coats plus a layer of Poshe. Application is really good, but you'll definitely need the 3 coats to get bottle colour.

These pics are from the third day I've worn it - some minimal tip creep but otherwise very nice staying power, too :D
Thanks Inbal!

Now, all attempts to photograph one of the frankens Wixbetty sent me so far have failed. They look fine when I take the pics, then when I get them on the computer they're all out of focus! Very frustrating. So this is the only pic I've been able to salvage so far, done pre-cleanup so please excuse the messy application...

My hands still looks like lobsters from the allergy! But nothing was going to stop me wearing this baby! EDIT* I should point out that the allergy was from a BYS polish I wore over Xmas, not the franken!*

I put on one layer of Color Club's Sexy Siren as a base, then 3 coats of "Happy Birfday" (as Wixxy calls it) over the top. It's cr-azay! Hopefully I'll have better luck with it's sister polish next...

I'm getting towards the end of my holiday. Starting to feel sad and apprehensive about going back to work again :( I really have to look for another casual/part time job when I get back. Doing what, I don't know.

Mum and Dad have me going through all the stuff I left behind to see what I want either chucked out, given to charity or sent on to Melbourne. Again it's quite sad, but hey - I'm a grown up now. I'm sending quite alot of stuff back home, but I have no idea where I'm going to put it all. As a little girl I thought when I grew up I'd go live in a warehouse like Jennifer Beals in "Flashdance" or Janet Jackson. If I lived in a warehouse I wouldn't have this problem!


The Pleasure Principle By Janet Jackson

Miss Carmelita | MySpace Video


Of course, the heating and cooling bills may be rather excessive in a place like that :D But look at all the room you have to DANCE!

Thanks Inbal & Wixbetty!

Well I'm still on holidays, but I couldn't wait any longer to show you the pretties Inbal sent me for the Bloggers Xmas Exchange! I was a good girl and didn't open them until Christmas day, not like the rest of you cheaters! :)

Here they are sunning themselves in my parent's backyard -

I've actually worn the burgundy one and it's fantastic!
I just didn't take photos of it cos my cuticles are still having problems with the allergic reaction I got over Xmas (to my supposedly formaldehyde resin free BYS Kung Fu Blue).
I actually had to trot over to the doctor today to get some higher strength medication - it's just not clearing up fast enough this time. But rest assured, they are AWESOME! Thanks again, Inbal!

And then a couple of days ago these arrived from Wixbetty!




Her frankens of Lippmann's "Happy Birthday" just for me!!
So excited to try these - she gave me one with bar glitter and one without (click for bigger pics).
Yes, Monica - you are now exempt from a nutsacking :D
The rest of you, however...just wait till I get back from vacation...

In celebration of such haulage, there is only one way to party.

And that is with 80's rock.

Witness the stone cold WTF-ery that is "The Warrior" and tremble in your taffeta!

From what I can tell, it involves the be-mulleted weedy second cousin of Wolverine going on a murderous yet strangely lyrical rampage at a rooftop performance of "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert".
You can just tell he's going to get his in a strangely anti-climactic jazz ballet-battle that involves an extraneous dance-lift that would make Sarah-Jessica Parker from "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" vomit up a sequined scrunchie in fury. Sigh. Soooo predictable...






I still think Maybelline's Mirror Image looks better on me than on him :)

PS - I should point out that although blog posts are few and far between at the mo with my holiday, I'm still Twittering quite a bit. Just click the little birdy to the right and you'll find me.