- Sunday, August 23, 2015
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Long time no gradient! Or that's how it feels. I wanted this one to be colourful, bright and bold but not every design would look like what you imagined.
For this manicure:
- Apply one coat of your preferred base coat (I used Essie's protein base coat.)
- Apply two coats of a basic white. Here I used Nails Inc's Floral street.
- Using the following colours apply to a sponge and sponge onto each nail.
China Glaze Spontaneous - Purple
China Glaze Wicked Style - Fuchsia pink
China Glaze Secret peri-winkle - Periwinkle blue
Misa Good to be green - Light grass green - With black polish and the flower image on Bundle Monster's BM 221 plate stamp the image onto each nail.
- Seal with one coat of your preferred top coat. (I used INM's Out the door top coat.)
I might have over sponged everything here so it's not looking as 'bold' as I wanted it to but the end look is still satisfactory.
- Saturday, August 22, 2015
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Anyone remember when fish braid nails took instagram by storm at one point? I do. After trying it once or twice I never gave it another chance because I had a hard time picking which colours I should use for the fish braids.
The colours chosen for this design all come from China Glaze and I do find they match quite well with each other. But this design makes me think of Autumn. Am I a bit too early?
At first having the design on my ring finger nail alone was the main idea but things feel a little empty and 'uneven' whenever I do that so I did the design on the middle finger nail also.
Do you prefer the design on one nail or two nails? What do you think of this one?
- Saturday, August 22, 2015
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Second post in one day to make up for my lack of posting. I'm being a bit too hard working today. Ha!
The polishes used for this post all come from Color Club that I purchased a while while back. The base is CC's Nail-Robi which is a deep purple blue. Very pigmented and better yet it's a one coater. It has a normal consistency making application that easy.
I do love this base but it sometimes feel like a crime to leave bases like that empty. So I picked up CC's Something new which I haven't had the chance to try yet. I was looking forward to how this light glitter on dark base would look. These glitter actually look better in the bottle though. Just look at it, it's like snow in a bottle but overall everything together looks okay.
What do you think of these two polishes? Do you know of any other glitter polishes like so?
- Saturday, August 15, 2015
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This post will be dedicated to a bright red glitter from China Glaze. I remember this being my go to red glitter polish back then but as I started getting myself more and more reds this polish was slowly forgotten. It's nice to bring it back out from time to time.
Here is China Glaze's Ring in the red. I did nothing other than using this polish as a full manicure with two coats and a top coat to seal everything up. I couldn't think of what to do to give it some edge whilst not stealing the spotlight from it so I kept it plain.
What do you think of this red? What's your favourite red glitter polish?
- Saturday, August 15, 2015
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Going to make things stripy and glitter with this manicure
The base I'd decided on was Essie's Absolutely shore which I might have blogged about somewhere in the past but I can't say for definite.
Essie's AS is a light sea foam green but my photo editing may have washed out that little bit of colour in this polish. The photo below shows AS at two coats.
For this manicure:
- Apply one coat of your preferred base coat (I used Essie's protein base coat.)
- Apply two coats of Essie's Absolitely Shore as the base.
- With some nail vinyls apply it vertically on the index and pinkie finger nail.
- Using Essie's Going incognito - an emerald green apply over the index and pinkie finger nail, wait a few seconds before peeling the nail vinyls to avoid the polish 'spilling'.
- Layer China Glaze's Tinsel Town on the middle and ring finger nail.
- Seal with one coat of a matte top coat. (I used China Glaze's Matte Magic.)
Hmm, the index and pinkie really makes me think of a watermelon but I'm still 50/50 with the overall look.
- Saturday, August 08, 2015
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I've missed wearing a full pink manicure without layering any design over it. Usually I'd go for more of the pastel pinks because hey they're still very gorgeous but as I was rummaging through my drawers and drawers of polish I came across this.
China Glaze's Dance baby. This one is more of a blue based pink and it's good enough at two coats here. Good consistency and even application.
Do you own any China Glaze polishes? Which is your favourite?
- Saturday, August 08, 2015
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