Choi's nails

NOTD: China Glaze’s Lorelei’s tiara

Ahh I’ve been a bad bad girl. Not only have I not been drafting any posts in word document but I’ve totally abandoned my blogs for a good month. It all comes down to nothing but laziness and to say I’ve even made another personal blog is just ridiculous. Let me just slowly get back into the habit of posting and swiftly move on to what I’m going to say in this post..

I was excited to try out all of the polishes from China Glaze’s eye candy collection especially this one, Lorelei’s tiara. The mix of the two colours here just makes me think of tinsel decorations and Christmas, one of my favourite times of the year. Mind you my family never had tinsel as a decoration on our tree and these years we don’t even bring the tree out anymore either, I guess that’s why I miss Christmas a lot. It’s beautiful.

Lorelei’s tiara is full of small blue and silver round glitters in a clear base. It’s bright and shiny. I was expecting the opacity to match the other I came with in the collection but it didn’t perform as good as those, weren’t too bad though. Maybe because I’ve abandoned it for a little while, I found the more I used the polish the less the brush picked up. By the time I got to the left hand it didn’t look as opaque as the other so I had to layer a third coat on the ones I felt needed one. It dries matte but that can always be solved with a layer or two of top coat.

Overall it looked lovely; I just didn’t fancy how thick my nails were looking from my angle. Please excuse the dull photos, really need to break the habit of painting my nails before the sun sets too.

Did you pick up this polish? What do you think of my NOTD?

Monday, October 22, 2012
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NOTD: Half polka dots with China Glaze’s Poinsettia

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I‘ve been meaning to do the half polka dot nail design but this didn’t look the way I thought it would. The similar nail designs I’ve seen has that sort of cute effect to it and mine just looks..boring. I’m immensely impressed with the base colour I used though. I usually wear new polishes as a full manicure first before I use it for any nail designs but since the base colour looked somewhat ordinary to me I felt it would’ve been okay to go straight into a design.

All photos taken outdoors.

I think I can skip the instructions for this because it looks pretty straight forward. The star of this design is China Glaze’s Poinsettia which is a bright juicy red that I paired with a basic white, Essie’s blanc. I love this red. I know I have many in my collection and I’m sure I’ve said the same for some of them but this one just looks yummy.

Opacity was great and application was as smooth as a baby’s butt. You could almost get away with one coat but adding another will make it more vibrant and bright. It’s not looking as bright as it should be in the photos because of my lighting though. I think my China Glaze fast forward topcoat doesn’t really work here because it only smudged some of the dots that were dotted on with Poinsettia even after I gave it some time to dry first.

At first I wasn’t too impressed with it even though almost everything went smooth with this design but eventually I started to think it looked fun. Maybe next time I’ll make the dotted area smaller and add a bit more to it to give it that cute look.

What do you think of this nail design? Do you own Poinsettia or any colour like it?

Thursday, September 13, 2012
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NOTD: Zoya’s Tru

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As much as I liked my previous water marble nail design it had to go, not that I didn’t like it anymore but my notebook stated it was time to redo my nails. That’s right, I note down my next manicure dates to keep things organised and make sure I follow them otherwise I’d never ever finish my polishes since I have a bit more than the average person. Lucky there’s enough days and weeks in a year for me to keep doing my nails. I don’t really like to keep the same polish on for more than three to four days unless I love it or if my schedule doesn’t allow for a manicure because then it gets quite boring.

Both photos above taken outdoors.

Photo taken indoors, natural light

After my water marble manicure I wanted something plain yet not so much. I went with Zoya’s Tru next which Zoya describes it as ‘A saturated, red-toned grape purple with speckled shimmer that reflects gold, orange and red.’ Pretty accurate if you ask me except the shimmers becomes less sparkly on the nails.

This reminded me of how I felt with Zoya’s skylar. Maybe I’m looking for a bit too much from them but I feel the shimmers just don’t translate to the nails as I would expect from looking at the bottle. Other than that the grape purple isn’t bad to look at, it still is a nice polish. The formula was good to work with, a little runny though, just a little but it still worked out well with just two coats.

Overall it’s a polish that’s nice to have if you don’t have anything like it in your collection otherwise I don’t feel it’s too special. Since purple is my favourite colour this shade still managed to make me keep it on for a quite a few days.

What do you think of Tru? Do you own this polish or anything like it?