Nail Art: Marble Dots

Hi Everyone,

something random today hehe.. I don't know what this is really so I called it marble dots!

Now I've always wanted to try marbling but I hate the clean up because usually when I am doing my nails, it's about 3 am in the morning :P.

I saw on ASK Cosmetic's Facebook page a blogger's photo of a ombre dotticure which used 2 shades of a colour (ie. navy and sky blue).
I picked up China Glaze - Aquadelic and American Apparel - Malibu Green. Ignoring the discolouration of AA they have a bigger difference in shade but my camera couldn't pick it up!

I thought that was neat so I wanted to attempt it!

Materials needed:

• Base colour
• Two colours you want to 'swirl' together any combination can be done!!!
• Dotter tool
• Scrap paper or art palette (anything to hold your polish droplets)

First I painted my base colour which is Essie - Blanc. Pretty much my go to white at the moment. Just look how amazing it looks in the picture underneath!

I did my usual droplets on paper but accidentally it was too close and they stuck together. Then the idea popped up... let's swirl it!!

So after swirling a bit, I redipped my dotter tool and made dots on the nails.. and viola.. marble nails!

I need to practice a bit more so the dots don't turn out like huge globs but how do you like them? :)

What other colours would you mix together?



Mir

Sally Hansen Sugar Coat Nail Art (Roses)

After my nail art attempts in the other post - link here, I watched a video shown on Catrice's website on how to do a floral design. Then I thought why not use Sugar Coats to do '3D-ish' flowers??!

It was pretty fun but as a tip, after every "C" shape, redip your brush into the polish to pick up the 'sugar' particles or it won't be gritty enough!

Materials needed:

• Base polish colour - I did 3 colours to show how the design would work on different colours
• Sally Hansen Sugar Coat's Cherry Drop
• Sally Hansen Sugar Coat's Cotton Candies
• Sally Hansen Sugar Coat's Sweetie
• Sally Hansen Sugar Coat's Sour Apple
• Little dish with acetone / nail polish remover
• Cotton Pad
• Scrap Paper
• Thin Paint Brush

Click for Instructions

Essie Naughty Nautical Summer 2013 Collection - Naughty Nautical

Since I saw press releases of Essie's 2013 collections, I loved everything I saw and was excited with the variety of colour Essie was bringing out in these collections!

One of the ones which caught my eye first was Naughty Nautical - a bright medium teal with a fine silver shimmer. A shimmer so fine, you can barely see it on the nail.

I just love love colours like these! It's so bright, it just screams summer!

Are you ready to take a look? Click below!

L'Oreal - He Red My Mind & Top Coat Matte (Matte Top Coat Comparison)

Today I have L'Oreal Paris He Red My Mind, a nice shimmering red and a Matte top coat comparison at the end! :)

Click to read more on my review about He Red My Mind & Matte Top Coat Comparison!

Summer Dotticure

Hi Everyone,

Many apologies!!!! I am so backlogged at the moment and I am still quite busy with a situation! Don't miss me too much as I will be back regularly soon. Aside from the situation, Toronto had some heavy rains which lead to flooding in some parts and power outages in others. I was without power for a day and no internet for about 3, luckily my area was safe from flooding! Hope everyone was okay too =) Was anyone stuck on the GO and had to ride a boat out??


Anyway, today my post will be very lacking. Since I didn't bring my camera and my phone completely went haywire and died all weekend..ugh!!! I only have one picture of my manicure, since M&J (my friends) think I am obsessed and they shouldn't be fuelling my habit ahahah..
Confession: My phone contains MANY nail /nail art pictures.

The past weekend, I went camping and one of my friends told me to bring some polishes. So I grabbed a (coincidental) rainbow of colours + basic manicure tools there. At night, the 3 of us decided to do our nails. First we decided to do something plain since we were "roughing" it..
I picked Essie's Blanc (yes, this summer white is my go-to colour - I absolutely LOVE white polish)
M picked Essie's Rock the Boat + Essie's Butler Please as accent nails
J picked Quo By Orly's Hot Mess

M then suggested we do nail art, since I didn't have anything but a dotting tool with me.. I decided it would be fun to do a dotticure - it's easy and we can use a variety of colour.
I am going to leave ou M&J's combo since there's no pictures :P

Then my manicure - the one pictured here is...

First I did spaced out dots of Essie's Naughty Nautical & Essie's Butler Please.
Ps. Butler Please is not a good polish for dots, it's quite sheer and dries semi-matte.
We thought it was a bit plain so M suggested I add on Quo By Orly's Hot Mess. At first I was a bit skeptical but after I added it, I thought it was quite lovely and quite the punch of colour!

What do you think? Does this colour combo work??
What colour combos are you go-to for dotticures??
Can't wait to hear your responses :D

- Mir

Cult Cosmetics Review Part 2: INSPIRED BY: BEYONCÉ

Hi! Here is part 2 of our Cult Cosmetics review. Annie already shared a bit of information about the company here. So being lazy me I will just skip ahead to my review :)

Ahead, you'll also see the first 2 pictures is Annie's!

My kit also included a similar cult sticker!

my kit is on the right :)

The kit I am reviewing today is the Inspired By: Beyonce kit.

Cult Cosmetics Review Part 1: Lychee Glam

Hi friends! I'm finally connected back onto to the internet...my internet has been down since Thursday night and it was beyond frustrating trying to get re-connected.

Today I have a nail kit from Cult Cosmetics to share with you all. Cult Cosmetics, also known as Nasty Nails is an online shop that sells nail polish, nail accessories and nail art kits. I would say their nail kits are the main products of the company. These kits include all the polishes/accessories/tools needed to achieve certain nail art looks. Currently, the site overs over 20 different kits to choose from! These kits are described as "Exclusive Designer Nail art Kits" and contain polishes from brand name companies like OPI, Essie, China Glaze, Seche Vite, Color Club etc.

I should also mention that these kits are very reasonably priced for what you're getting. Kits range from 9.99 to 24.99, all kits come with full sized polishes the number of polishes varies from how simple or complex the design is. So given that Essie and OPI nail polishes around here go for well over $10 in retail stores I would say the value of the kits cannot be beat. The kits come with the polishes bubble wrapped and sealed inside a zip-lock bag. Each kit also comes with an awesome Cult Cosmetics sticker. We were sent 2 kits to review, the Lychee Glam kit and the Inspired by: Beyonce Kit.

Lychee Glam Kit

The kit I am reviewing today is the Lychee Glam kit.

Essie Sleek Stick

Hey Everyone,

A while ago, Essie offered a promotion to sample their new product Sleek Sticks, which is basically nail appliqués. I was pretty excited since I've never tried these types of products before.

I love their stickers and stones design! But in person, the 'stones' looked a bit too bubbled/foiled for my liking and I actually prefer their a to zebra design :)


Essie offers 12 designs pictured below:

photo credit: essie.com

Their sample included 2 stickers of 4 designs: a to zebra, sneak-e, don't cheetah on me and sticker and stones. 

The sample stickers don't really fit my fingers, my thumb is slightly too wide but the rest of my fingers are too narrow hehe, so I roughly tried it on my thumb because I'm lazy with clean up.

Application was easy enough. I just peeled, stuck it on and filed off the excess. At the base, it wasn't totally flat but after a bit of rubbing, it flatten itself out :)

Pictured here is sneek-e without a base coat, base colour or top coat.  I folded the tip then filed it off. You can't really see it but the edges aren't rough persay but it looks like it has tip wear.. Not bad for a first-timer right? :) 

The stickers are smooth and easy to apply, the price point is a tad high for my budget ($12.99 on well.ca) so I am glad I have this sample to try it out first!

Did you get these in the mail also? How do you like them? :)