4th of July NOTD & FOTD

Hey Beauties!

If you're in the US I hope you're not too hungover from yesterday's festivities! I didn't drink, but I'm not exactly a morning person... Anyway, I actually made an effort with my nails and makeup for the 4th of July so I thought I'd share it with you.... and it's an excuse to post pictures of myself.

Here's my attempt to do drag art. Errrr let's just say it's a good thing I only did one nail.

Yeah I need more practice. I put glitter over it in the hopes of concealing it's flaws.


I stuck with the classic red, white and blue because I am predictable lol. I'm not exactly patriotic, being that I'm Australian..... But our flag colours are red, white and blue anyway so W/E  

For my makeup, I didn't want too harsh of a red lip so I did my good old blotting trick with Eyeko Lip Lover to soften it up and added Maybelline Baby Lips Cherry Me to make it a little juicier. I wore Benefit Hello Flawless foundation in Toasted Beige and it didn't quite cover my dark circles.. I'm too used to wearing my Missha BB cream and not having to use concealer! I put a neutral shadow all over my lid and up to the browbone, then used Urban Decay eyeshadow in Painkiller and liquid liner in Perversion to line my upper eyelid. I used a white liner to line my waterline and Urban Decay Super Curl Curling mascara on my top and bottom lashes. I put a couple of individual lashes that I got from Daiso on the outer corners of my eyes and wore my Puffy 3 Tone Grey circle lens.

Outdoor lighting

Indoor lighting

Super shiny! Lol.

These are the shoes I wore, super cute denim wedges from Payless of all places. I was in there looking for kids' shoes and saw them on sale for $9! Super bargain and they're really comfortable.

If you do the 4th of July thing, how did you celebrate? We ended up having a BBQ with my husband's family..... it was... er yeah, well anyway next year I am definitely making plans with our friends, lol. Drama is not on my 4th of July menu. Hope you all had a great day and here's looking forward to the weekend! Only 2 days to go :D

4th of July Nail Art inspiration with Red Carpet Manicure

Hey Beauties :)

I'm still thinking about what I'm going to put on my nails for the 4th of July holiday here in the States, so I thought I'd post an inspiration that I may try out: Drag Art!

Drag art is one of the biggest nail trends right now. With Red Carpet Manicure, the first at home – LED gel system, there are multiple ways of accomplishing this effect, and this is a step by step guide provided straight from RCM's Nail Technicians to achieve Patriotic nails for the 4^thof July.

L - R: Red Carpet Reddy, Drop Dead Gorgeous, White Hot

Tips from Red Carpet Manicure Nail Technician, Danielle Candido:

1. Paint the whole nail with Red Carpet Reddy
2. Before curing the second coat of color, take a striping brush and lay down a stripe of Drop Dead Gorgeous. Do not cure this layer. 
3. Clean the brush and lay down a stripe of White Hot either right next to the first stripe or even down the center of the first stripe. Do not cure this layer.
4. Clean the brush.
5. Next, with the thin edge of the flattened striping brush, pull the tip of the brush through all the lines in a pre-determined pattern and cure.
6. Apply a thin coat of Brilliance Top Coat. Cure and wipe with Purify.

Here is an example of 4th of July Drag Art:

From sophienailpassion.blogspot.com 

The nail art in the picture was done using regular nail polish, using this tutorial video.

Now, the HUGE benefit in using gel polish is that it wont dry until you cure it. This gives you unlimited time to perfect your design and clean up before curing it under the light.

I'm definitely going to try it out (Check out my attempt HERE!). What have you got in mind for 4th of July/Independence Day/Canada Day if you celebrate it?

Polish Days - A Delectable Jelly Sandwich!

It's lunchtime, Beauties!


Today's menu has a boatload of yummy jelly sandwiches, from me and a plethora of other blogger participating in Polish Days.


Polish Days is a day where nail bloggers simultaneously blog about a particular theme – you can find out more about Polish Days, and how to take part in more events to come, by clicking here. Today is Jelly Sandwich day, one of my favourite types of manis, and I have a pretty pink sandwich to show you :)

Glitter Sandwich! A gorgeous layering of shimmer, glitter & flakies.

I am officially OBSESSED with glitter sandwiches. That's the one where you layer a glitter between a sheer or jelly polish, and the glitter gets slightly muted and looks like it's glowing from within - PURE AWESOMENESS. I added flakies just for the heck of it.

For this absolute beauty, I layered two coats of Spoiled by Wet n Wild Checkin' Into Rehab, one coat of NYC Starry Silver Glitter, one more coat of Checkin' Into Rehab and THEN one coat of Zoya Chloe.

Sorry for the crappy quality on this bottle pic :( Still supremely missing my DSLR...

Feast your eyes on this...

Beauty Blogazons Roundup 6/18/12

• Pink Sparklz- On Wednesday's we wear pink! Pink NOTD! Sinful Colors & O.P.I.
• Mama Fashionista- Allow Mama Fashionista to introduce you to Evie Evan and the last concealer you will ever need (it's HG status)!
• Ishah x Beauty- It's Girl's Night at Ishah x Beauty! Check out some good eats, drinks and my FOTD.
• Phyrra- Wanna steal the spotlight? Phyrra tells you to break out the Anastasia See and Be Seen Kit.
• Midnight Manicures- Water Marbling with Patricia, see this nail art technique at it's best.
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• Cosmetics Aficionado- Hourglass Femme Rouge Velvet Creme Lipstick in Ballet might be your perfect Barbie pink.
• Creatively Yours by Ro- Smooth out your edges with Carols Daughter Macadamia Hold & Control Smoother
• Adore-a-polish- Get scrubalicious with this yummy grapefruit sugar scrub from Qtica.
• Confessions of a Sarcastic Mom- Check out four lovely Zoya shades at Confessions of a Sarcastic Mom
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• Mani Curiously- The First 50 Giveaway Celebration! Come celebrate Dom & E's first follower milestone with this great giveaway!
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• Cosmetically Challenged- Cosmetically Challenged shows you what Orange Neon nail polish is all about with Sations "One & Only Orange" from the California Gleamin' Collection
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Giveaway! Summer Makeup Faves: Benefit Cosmetics, Urban Decay, e.l.f. and more

It's giveaway time!

Hey Beauties! To celebrate the new URL and blog design, I have some of my favourite makeup and beauty products for Summer and a bunch of extras to giveaway to one of my lovely readers :)

Firstly, some info on my faves..

Wet n Wild Megalast Lip Color in Purty Persimmon

Morning Beauties :)

So as you may have noticed, I changed my blog name and URL! It's now www.ishahxbeauty.com instead of beautymamas.com. I've been thinking about changing it for a while, because I want the name of the blog and the url to reflect the content. I don't want to limit my target audience, so I decided to go ahead and change them.

In other news, I lost my DSLR camera ;_; I am sooooo sad and angry with myself for losing it, there's $500 down the drain. I will hopefully be able to get another one soon, but until then, please bear with the pictures (which I will be taking with my Galaxy Tab).


Anyway, I've been looking for the new shades of the Wet n Wild Megalast Lip Colors everywhere, but haven't had much luck. The only shade I managed to pick up is this one, Purty Persimmon for $1.99 at Target.