Choi's nails

NOTD: Essie’s Sexy divide

Ahh now this one is amazing, I received more than a few compliments at work wearing this shade. It’s Essie’s sexy divide from their winter 2008 collection. Essie isn’t a popular brand amongst everyone here though and it’s only just made it into our drugstores recently so when I told people it was from Essie not everyone knew what I was talking about.

Both taken indoors, natural light

Sexy divide is a deep rich purple with pink and blue shimmers that are hard to catch a glimpse of in the bottle unless you’re rolling it around under the light. It’s the same case once it’s on the nails too, it’s very subtle. This is one of them shades that in certain lighting could be mistaken for black but its true colour comes out when the light hits it.

Both taken outdoors, in the sun

The rest taken outdoors, in natural light

The formula was great, I applied two coats but I think one thick coat might have done the job if it was applied evenly since it’s close to opaque. I even felt I painted my nails neater with such formula because it applies better. The shade actually looks very glass like and extra glossy. It’s beautiful. I think that comes down to my topcoat too though.

I applied this on Friday, don’t remember whether it was morning or night but by Sunday after two days of work I could peel the whole thing off. I was slightly bored sitting on the bus so I peeled almost every polish off, I only needed two minutes and a little bit of polish remover to remove the rest before my next manicure. Overall I do recommend this shade if you don’t have anything similar to it.

I photographed my nails early in the morning just when the sun was up and out and I was just cam whoring on the balcony. Haha. I’m pretty sure some of my neighbours have poked their head out and seen me picturing my hands at different times of the day. Meh. I couldn’t care less and they better get used to it because I’ll be doing that every other day.

Do you own this nail polish? What's your favourite purple?

Wednesday, July 04, 2012
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Some China Glaze extras from past collections

China Glaze

I’m trying to pick up shades from past collections that I’ve wanted but have been too lazy to do so. Ive put this task off for so long because I see it looks similar to what I have already; it doesn’t mean I won’t be purchasing it later though.

Poinsettia is from CG’s winter holiday 2011 let it snow collection. I have a few from that set but I recently saw a manicure from another nail blogger and it reminded me that I didn’t have this shade. It’s your classic holiday red which would do well in my collection.

The next is traffic jam from their fall 2011 metro collection. I purchased more than a few from this one; it’s one of the fall collections I remember quite vividly because I liked the ones I picked up from there.

Poinsettia – classic red creme

Traffic jam - A deep fuchsia/raspberry creme

Once again I have to say I’m not the best at describing colours. It’s just sad to say that until this age I still don’t know how to sing the rainbow song. I think I was ill when it was taught during primary/elementary school. I blame that as the prime reason why I suck at distinguishing what kind of pink traffic jam is along with other colours. Haha.

I realised I have many colours similar to these two but I still end up picking similar ones up. Just in the last haul of some of the Electropop collection you might find one or two shades similar to traffic jam. I guess it’s because I want to pickup almost every shade out there even though they look very alike and I love it when I receive nail mail.

Anyone remember these polishes? Did you pick them up?

Tuesday, July 03, 2012
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Haul: Rest of China Glaze’s Electropop collection

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I already own one polish from the Electropop collection, Techno which is by far my favourite holographic glitter so I decided to haul the rest that I’d prefer out of the whole set. This collection was made mostly of crèmes and one glitter. There were one or two more I wanted but my EBay seller didn’t have them in stock.

Gothic Lolita – purple with subtle blue/pink shimmer

Wicked style – raspberry pink

Aquadelic – Turquoise crème which looks more blue to me

Dance baby –A standard pink crème

Electric beat – Looks like a periwinkle blue shade

Fuchsia fanatic – bright fuchsia pink

The one I’m most eager to try is Aquadelic because that seems like a popular shade amongst other people. I’m hoping it’s a colour like Color club’s blue-ming which is a favourite turquoise of mine.

These reached me within two weeks with no trouble; the only problem I have is with Dance baby. If you look closely you might see some polish dripped onto the neck of the bottle, this was before I even opened it. It bothers me to think that someone might have opened the bottle and played around with what’s inside. I know this is just nail polish but I just hate the thought of people tampering with my stuff.

In my opinion they’re all shades that can be easily duped so if you have anything similar you can avoid these shades from this collection. They all look like very sweet colours though.

Did you pick up any polishes from this collection? Which ones?