Choi's nails

China Glaze's Lemon fizz and Misa's Pink cadillac water marble

It seemed a while since I last did a water marble so I pulled out some brights to match the sunny weather we were having in the UK at that time. I hardly wear yellow especially as a full manicure on its own but I do like to bring it out when it comes to nail art.

The base is China Glaze's Lemon fizz which is a bright yellow crème. Both coats applied with this polish was streaky, it would've been better with a third but since it'll be covered with the water marble design I left it as it was. The layer of yellow used in the design could act as a third coat.

The colour I paired Lemon fizz with was Misa's Pink Cadillac. Just tried to search my blog for a post to let you see how it looks on its own but it seems that I haven't done one. Oops. You can look forward to that one in the future ;)

Pink Cadillac is a lovely shimmery pink but it looks a little in the design because of the yellow it's mixed in with.

I didn't have high expectations for this water marble with the bright colours and new pattern I started trying out but everything came out neat and it started to grow on me. Very little mistakes too!

What colour combo would you like to see for the next water marble design? What do you think of this one?

Wednesday, August 14, 2013
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Essie's Sand tropez

Essie

Some of you might already be familiar with this shade since it's been talked about quite a few times. I'd still like to blog about it though just because it looks good against my skin colour even on its own. It's one of the first nudes I discovered that doesn't wash out my skin tone.

Essie's Sand Tropez is a ‘soft sandy beige’ with a runny formula. The first coat was streaky but the second was much better with just one or two streaks left. I'd suggest being careful with how much you load on your brush also when going over each coat since there's a chance the brush will drag the polish and leave those annoying empty spaces. That tends to happen to quite a few of my manicures whenever I come across these polishes.

I have two coats on every nail except for my index finger which has three to cover up a small accident; it was too obvious to leave it as so. I tried smoothing things out, it works most times but in this case it was better to add another coat.

Overall it had a good drying time. This is sand Tropez without a top coat because I had plans to add more to it. Even so, it still has a good shine.

What’s your favourite nude? What are you sporting on your nails today?

Monday, August 12, 2013
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China Glaze's Lofty ambitions with a bit of Barry M

Barry M

It's time to pull out an oldie to wear again so I grabbed one of the dark shades since the previous manicure was full of light ones. Here's China Glaze's Lofty ambitions from their metro fall 2011 Collection. It's already been two years since I've had this and fall's just about coming round again. Ah time flies doesn't it?

Light box photo.

Lofty ambitions is a deep vampy wine red with very tiny shimmers. It's very subtle but if you look closely they're definitely there. The application and formula was normal to deal with too. One coat was alright but in the end it took two to finish the look.

I was planning to leave things plain with this manicure but my hand just grabbed the Barry M silver nail art pen that was sitting next to me at the time and started doodling on my thumb nail. It was just simple random lines at first but a design started forming inside my head and so that’s how it came out. It looked good enough so I went ahead and did the rest of my nails; my thumb still looked the neatest though.

These nail art pens are super handy especially when you're terrible at using nail brushes and doing any freehand nail art. I'm thinking of posting a review once I've had a good try of the pens in each colour for a good while.