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Friday, 16 May 2014
OPI x Coca-Cola Preview (Hi-Def Images)
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Now I want them even more!! :D
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Wednesday, 14 May 2014
OPI x Coca-Cola Preview
When I first saw the preview for this, they only showed one "classic coke" red, and people wanted to see more, not just red because...come on..OPI has a million reds out!
To our pleasure, I got another sneak peek of this new collaboration and there's a whole range coming!
I have to say I am excited, I love a nice dark vampy purple and OPI makes the best ones!!! (Lincoln Park After Dark anyone??)
I'm going to throw in some information from the press release so enjoy! I also took a screenshot of the new range, hoping soon I'll be receiving better pictures..
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To our pleasure, I got another sneak peek of this new collaboration and there's a whole range coming!
I have to say I am excited, I love a nice dark vampy purple and OPI makes the best ones!!! (Lincoln Park After Dark anyone??)
I'm going to throw in some information from the press release so enjoy! I also took a screenshot of the new range, hoping soon I'll be receiving better pictures..
Click to view more..
Monday, 12 August 2013
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
Monday, 29 July 2013
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!
Wednesday, 17 July 2013
OPI Bond Girls: Vesper
Bad news :(
Let's start off with I LOVE liquid sands..
but Vesper, I hate Vesper :(. It was super sad because Vesper, the purple was the one I was most looking forward to!
I would love it as a normal purple colour, but as a liquid sand, boo! In the bottle it looks like a weird brown with a purple tinge and black dots.. I tried to take a photo which shows it as brown, where the 'bubble' is you can see the purple! :)
It's just a deep purple base with black 'sand' ..
Even with the combo, it's underwhelming compared to the other beautiful liquid sands OPI came out with!
I didn't even bother swatching it on my hand sorry, it looked terrible on me. I did it on one finger and when I removed it, all the micro black 'sands' stuck to my cuticle bleh.
In good news, it does act like the other liquid sands, as a nice sandy finish, opaque in 2 coats.
Not sure of its lasting power, but if it's similar to the other ones, it's great!
I'd say, buy the other ones, they are much prettier, especially Tiffany Case. I thought it was similar to Get Your Number, but it's not, I definitely put in an order for Tiffany Case, right away!!
I should have blogged about the other liquid sands first but I took the pictures and totally forgot, oops!!
But can't wait to show you after, they are B-E-A-U-TIFUL!!
Did you purchase anything from this collection..? if so, which ones?? :D
Mir
OPI can be purchased at Trade Secrets in Canada for average of $10. OPI is also carried in various retailers :)
This was purchased by me. Reviews are all my honest opinion at this moment in time, not company influence.
Let's start off with I LOVE liquid sands..
but Vesper, I hate Vesper :(. It was super sad because Vesper, the purple was the one I was most looking forward to!
I would love it as a normal purple colour, but as a liquid sand, boo! In the bottle it looks like a weird brown with a purple tinge and black dots.. I tried to take a photo which shows it as brown, where the 'bubble' is you can see the purple! :)
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| love the grittiness, horrible on my hands :( |
It's just a deep purple base with black 'sand' ..
Even with the combo, it's underwhelming compared to the other beautiful liquid sands OPI came out with!
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| LOVE THE PURPLE! |
I didn't even bother swatching it on my hand sorry, it looked terrible on me. I did it on one finger and when I removed it, all the micro black 'sands' stuck to my cuticle bleh.
In good news, it does act like the other liquid sands, as a nice sandy finish, opaque in 2 coats.
Not sure of its lasting power, but if it's similar to the other ones, it's great!
I'd say, buy the other ones, they are much prettier, especially Tiffany Case. I thought it was similar to Get Your Number, but it's not, I definitely put in an order for Tiffany Case, right away!!
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| bleh, why are you so ugly on me..? |
I should have blogged about the other liquid sands first but I took the pictures and totally forgot, oops!!
But can't wait to show you after, they are B-E-A-U-TIFUL!!
Did you purchase anything from this collection..? if so, which ones?? :D
Mir
OPI can be purchased at Trade Secrets in Canada for average of $10. OPI is also carried in various retailers :)
This was purchased by me. Reviews are all my honest opinion at this moment in time, not company influence.
Saturday, 13 April 2013
Spring Giveaway!
Is anyone else sick of the crappy weather? These past few days have been snowy wet and cold here :( Can you believe the first of spring was last month! With the weather these days it feels more like fall/winter.
So I thought better way to to cheer up our followers than giveaway.
If you haven't had the chance to try out texture finish polishes then this giveaway is for you.OPI came out with the Mariah Carey collection in early 2013, the collection included 4 liquid sand polishes. OPI describes them as polish that "dries to a textured matter finish infused with reflective glints of light." They also recommend that a top coat should not be used. This mini set includes the colours: Get Your Number, Can't Let Go, The Impossible and Stay the Night. Each bottle is 3.75ml, the perfect size for you indecisive folk (like me) who want to try out the sand finishes but can't choose just one.
Interested? All you need to do is enter the Rafflecopter...
So I thought better way to to cheer up our followers than giveaway.
If you haven't had the chance to try out texture finish polishes then this giveaway is for you.OPI came out with the Mariah Carey collection in early 2013, the collection included 4 liquid sand polishes. OPI describes them as polish that "dries to a textured matter finish infused with reflective glints of light." They also recommend that a top coat should not be used. This mini set includes the colours: Get Your Number, Can't Let Go, The Impossible and Stay the Night. Each bottle is 3.75ml, the perfect size for you indecisive folk (like me) who want to try out the sand finishes but can't choose just one.
Interested? All you need to do is enter the Rafflecopter...
Monday, 25 March 2013
Club Nail Polish - Review
Hi Everyone!
before you start, I'd like to apologize for my bad nail pictures, they have been so bad all winter *hides*
Club Nail Polish sent a review package for their upcoming subscription service.
I was pretty excited waiting for this package.
But when I got it, I have to be honest. I was a bit underwhelmed.
Find out why under the break.
before you start, I'd like to apologize for my bad nail pictures, they have been so bad all winter *hides*
Club Nail Polish sent a review package for their upcoming subscription service.
I was pretty excited waiting for this package.
But when I got it, I have to be honest. I was a bit underwhelmed.
Find out why under the break.
Thursday, 27 December 2012
Seasonal Manicures
Hi all! I hope everyone is enjoying the holidays! This year I was so fortunate enough to be invited to a few holiday parties/dinners. At first I planned on wearing a different holiday themed manicure to each event. But that idea pretty much went out the window when I was up til midnight wrapping last minute presents and writing out cards a couple nights.
I'm not very good at nail art so water decals are the perfect cop out for me. The patterns are so pretty and once you get the hang of it they're fool proof to use! I wore this red and green tartan pattern for about 2-3 days, the pictures were taken on day 2 so you can see some tip wear. Considering I washed a ton of dishes, wrapped presents and washed my hair the wear of the water decal was pretty great. I used a base coat, a topcoat and I wrapped the tips. I purchased my decals from eBay through this seller. There were no instructions included with the decals but there a ton of tutorials on YouTube...or if any of you guys would like I could also do a tutorial post in the future.
My second manicure I used OPI Die Another Day as a base, stamped a white pattern from BM - 222 and added a loose glitter accent nail. I must say that my pictures do not do the Die Another Day justice. The polish is super duper gorgeous in person. The application was a dream and it dried so glossy and shiny. Originally I just wore the base coat and could not stop starring at my nails because they looked like little glossy pieces of candy. But the downfall was that it looked so bad against with my skin tone I had to add on to it to offset the colour a little.
This manicure was my absolute favourite. I used China Glaze Winter Holly from their Holiday 2012 collection and a star glitter I fished out from NYX Girls Dreamy Glitter. This polish caught my eye just as I was about to cash out at the supply store and had to go back and grab it. I'm such a sucker for dark emerald greens. The accurate colour was so difficult to capture. In the bottle there are tonsss of green yellow and red micro-glitters shimmering all over the place in a greenish jelly base. It reminded me so much of a decorated Christmas tree that's why I had to include a star at the base of my nails! The depth and beauty of this polish really makes up for the amount of work I had to put into applying it. A top coat is absolutely necessary with this polish because the glitters dry so gritty. I did 3 thick coats to achieve opacity and 3 topcoat layers but even then I couldn't get a smooth glossy finish. These glitters were thirsty!
All polishes, water decals used in these manicures were purchased by me. In all manicures I used nail envy as a base and NYC Grand Central Station as a top coat. Stay tuned for my next couple posts about Urban Outfitters - Pink Holo, OPI Skyfall collection swatches and my favourite fall/winter items! Thanks for reading!
Annie
I'm not very good at nail art so water decals are the perfect cop out for me. The patterns are so pretty and once you get the hang of it they're fool proof to use! I wore this red and green tartan pattern for about 2-3 days, the pictures were taken on day 2 so you can see some tip wear. Considering I washed a ton of dishes, wrapped presents and washed my hair the wear of the water decal was pretty great. I used a base coat, a topcoat and I wrapped the tips. I purchased my decals from eBay through this seller. There were no instructions included with the decals but there a ton of tutorials on YouTube...or if any of you guys would like I could also do a tutorial post in the future.
My second manicure I used OPI Die Another Day as a base, stamped a white pattern from BM - 222 and added a loose glitter accent nail. I must say that my pictures do not do the Die Another Day justice. The polish is super duper gorgeous in person. The application was a dream and it dried so glossy and shiny. Originally I just wore the base coat and could not stop starring at my nails because they looked like little glossy pieces of candy. But the downfall was that it looked so bad against with my skin tone I had to add on to it to offset the colour a little.
This manicure was my absolute favourite. I used China Glaze Winter Holly from their Holiday 2012 collection and a star glitter I fished out from NYX Girls Dreamy Glitter. This polish caught my eye just as I was about to cash out at the supply store and had to go back and grab it. I'm such a sucker for dark emerald greens. The accurate colour was so difficult to capture. In the bottle there are tonsss of green yellow and red micro-glitters shimmering all over the place in a greenish jelly base. It reminded me so much of a decorated Christmas tree that's why I had to include a star at the base of my nails! The depth and beauty of this polish really makes up for the amount of work I had to put into applying it. A top coat is absolutely necessary with this polish because the glitters dry so gritty. I did 3 thick coats to achieve opacity and 3 topcoat layers but even then I couldn't get a smooth glossy finish. These glitters were thirsty!
All polishes, water decals used in these manicures were purchased by me. In all manicures I used nail envy as a base and NYC Grand Central Station as a top coat. Stay tuned for my next couple posts about Urban Outfitters - Pink Holo, OPI Skyfall collection swatches and my favourite fall/winter items! Thanks for reading!
Annie
Sunday, 16 December 2012
OPI Ulta 2012 Holiday Exclusive: Stuff My Stocking
I had the pleasure of participating in a swap in one of my nail polish groups, I was lucky enough to be paired up with Katharine who sent me a bunch of goodies including this holiday set from Ulta. Up here in Canada we unfortunately do not have Ulta stores so I was pretty psyched to try out one of their holiday exclusives. The set includes four 3.75ml polishes, 3 coloured and 1 rapid dry topcoat. In this set we have a red, a green and a purple, pretty traditional holiday shades.
Last Minute Shopper - Last Minute Shopper is a very traditional seasonal/holiday red, it has a metallic feel to it. I thought the application of this polish was great, I achieved opacity in 2 coats. The colour is actually more red in the bottle but looks more magenta against my skin tone.
Skip the Gift Wrap - Of all the polishes from the set, this colour was my favourite from the bunch. On the nail the colour reminded me of beautiful emerald gems. Again, it has a metallic like finish to it and opacity was achieved with 2 thick coats. Application was a little tricky because it is one of those polishes that show every brush stroke and possible flaw on the nail. Other than that, gorgeous!
Gift Cards for Everyone! - I love the name of this polish! In the bottle this colour looked the most promising, a beautiful metallic purple with blue micro-shimmer (see second picture above). But it was the most difficult one to work with. I felt like the polish was very thin and streaky. I applied 3 coats and still there were some bald patchy spots as you can see in my swatches.
All swatches were topped with a layer of the OPI Rapid Dry Topcoat included in the set. I received this set in a swap so I do not know how much they are sold for. They're available at Ulta during the holiday season. Thanks for reading! And thanks again for the swap Katharine!
Annie
Last Minute Shopper - Last Minute Shopper is a very traditional seasonal/holiday red, it has a metallic feel to it. I thought the application of this polish was great, I achieved opacity in 2 coats. The colour is actually more red in the bottle but looks more magenta against my skin tone.
Skip the Gift Wrap - Of all the polishes from the set, this colour was my favourite from the bunch. On the nail the colour reminded me of beautiful emerald gems. Again, it has a metallic like finish to it and opacity was achieved with 2 thick coats. Application was a little tricky because it is one of those polishes that show every brush stroke and possible flaw on the nail. Other than that, gorgeous!
Gift Cards for Everyone! - I love the name of this polish! In the bottle this colour looked the most promising, a beautiful metallic purple with blue micro-shimmer (see second picture above). But it was the most difficult one to work with. I felt like the polish was very thin and streaky. I applied 3 coats and still there were some bald patchy spots as you can see in my swatches.
All swatches were topped with a layer of the OPI Rapid Dry Topcoat included in the set. I received this set in a swap so I do not know how much they are sold for. They're available at Ulta during the holiday season. Thanks for reading! And thanks again for the swap Katharine!
Annie
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