Choi's nails

Nails Inc Barbican & some nail art doodling using Barry M

I have to admit I'm pretty late when it comes to trying some of the new stuff which is why I've never tried any concrete polishes. Have a look at Nails Inc's Barbican though, it's the first concrete polish in my collection.

Barbican is a sort of grey-ish green rough textured polish. The colour looks a little light in my photos but this one is definitely a one coater. Doing two was a must for me though just to make sure everything was covered. It's fast drying even without a top coat.

I wouldn't say these types of polishes are exactly my style. My fingers were just itching to rub those rough surfaces against something but it's nice to have in my collection since it's different from the usual.

When manicures reaches the end of it's wear time I tend to do some practice nail designs before removing everything since it's a good canvas to work on without having to worry about messing the whole thing up. My Barry M nail art pens are no longer kept in my drawers but instead sitting on my table so I used it for some nail art doodling since it's now in easy access. The surface was rough to work on but it ended up looking good to me. Will definitely be re-doing these designs properly.

Does anyone own any concrete polishes? Would you give it a try? What's your opinion on it?

Hope everyone enjoyed reading this.

Saturday, March 01, 2014
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Nails Inc's Lanesborough place & my first zebra print stamping

Bundle monster

Here's the next Nails Inc polish I have to show and it's Lanesborough place, a yellowy gold shimmer.

Lanesborough place was almost opaque in once coat and had a very smooth application but despite that it shows very apparent brush strokes so this polish needs to be applied carefully. Cleanup felt harder though; I guess shimmer polishes just ain't that easy sometimes especially when the shimmery goodness starts leaking everywhere and making a mess. Lucky it's not the case with this one this time.

I'm still on the lookout for the perfect gold but it seems like lanesborough place isn't the one. It doesn't match my yellow undertone skin and with it's finish I'm not quite sure it'll work well for stamping but it's good enough as a stamping base colour though. I didn't like it as a full manicure but I don't mind it for nail art.

This is also the first time I've done a zebra print stamping manicure too! The zebra print was from the Bundle monster plate 223 and stamped on using a Konad black polish and sealed with INM out the door top coat. Simple.

Wasn't really fond of this design when it was actually on my nails because it weren't really my style, a little too wild for me but even so I still kept it on for a few days to see if it'll grow on me. Didn't think it was so bad afterwards.

What does everyone think of this manicure? What's your favourite animal print manicure? Talking about animals anyone have any pets? :)

Wednesday, February 26, 2014
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Nails Inc Royal arcade

Barry M

Hihi everybody! Today I'm going to show you this lovely blue layering glitter from Nails Inc that I received in my Lucky dip order a VERY long time ago.

HOLY CRAP! Didn't know the photo quality would turn out this bad after editing :/

Royal arcade has blue glitters of different sizes in a clear base; that's a mix of small, medium and large hex glitters with small round ones. I questioned whether this one was alright to use on it's own and the answer was obvious once there was two coats sitting on my nails. I didn't see if getting anywhere but it seemed liked a good idea to let you guys see how it looked on its own with one/two coats. The two photos below shows one coat of Royal Arcade.

NI's Royal arcade, one coat, no top coat.

The glitters on the first coat is a little sparse, the second is better but you can see it doesn't cover everything. The good thing about this polish though is it's fast drying and it also dries matte. The name 'nail jewelry' could've been a hint that it was more of a layering polish but I didn't really think much of it.

NI's Royal arcade, two coats, no top coat.

I didn't want to spend too much time thinking about what base I wanted to layer RA over because I could be there for ages. I really could! Nearby was a bag of untried polishes sitting on my table so I grabbed the simplest polish which was Barry M's Matt white. The glitters would stand out very much on top of the white.

Barry M's Matt white. Two coats. No top coat

The first coat turned out streaky as expected. There's not a lot of light colours that I come across that don't turn out streaky for me on the first coat. The formula is runny so the second coat is better but still had some streaks so a thicker second coat is recommended or even a third coat would be best. No top coat was used here but it was still shiny. Not quite sure if this one is actually a proper matte unless it wasn't left long enough for it to change to the matte texture.

Barry M's Matt white. Two coats. No top coat

Maybe it's been too long since I've had a good bottle of white polish that I had to start taking a bunch of photos. My bottle of Essie's Blanc is almost exhausted that the brush has to be swished in the goopy formula a few times before there's a good amount on the brush. Now it's only used for nail art.

Barry M's Matt white. Two coats. No top coat

Tada! Here's Royal arcade finally layered on top of Barry M's Matt white. There's a bit of glitter overload on the index finger but it turned out seriously gorgeous! Thumbs up :)

One coat of RA over BM's Matt white. No top coat

I know the amount of photos in this post is a little much today but bear with me these are the last three. This is two coats of Royal arcade over the white.

I personally think that one coat already looks good enough. Two makes the glitters look a little congested for me but the results are gorgeous. Will need to see what other shades this one matches well with.

Hope you enjoyed this post. Thanks for reading! So what do you think of this polish? What's your favourite blue glitter and what colour would you like to see this paired with?