Three Manicures

Oh hey guys! Sorry for my lack of updating.. I've been super busy too lazy to bring down my cable to transfer stuff, LOL... I'm lazy...

Anyways, I've built up three swatches because of that (I've also got some new nail art and make up to show/review, sooo yeah!) and I figured I should probably post them all since I kinda disappeared - I suppose. All in all, what I've got to show you is Strawberry Fields, Watermelon Rind, and Sex In The City from China Glaze, Party Of Five Glitter from Wet 'N' Wild, and a reappearance by Groupie from L.A. Girl.

 [This post is picture heavy! Be warned!] 

First off, I want to say I didn't haul these or buy these all at the same time. I feel like I'm dying a bit more when I do that. I like to spread out my buying ;D Also, excuse the dry cuticles.

This is Strawberry Fields from China Glaze.

 

 I used to totally be against most.. well, girly shades of pink - but I've always been captivated by the swatch wheel of this at my local Sally's Beauty Supply. Unfortunately, nearly everytime I look for this, it's gone, and some incredibly obnoxious fuchsia is sitting there. I got lucky, and was searching behind other pinks and boom! Found it!
Anyyyyways, this polish applied awesome! I only used two coats, but my smile line might've been more hidden if I had gone with another coat. It's a pink with shimmery gold flecks in it that I was so in love with. I wouldn't wear this all the time, but LOVE LOVE LOVE.

Next is a glitter accent mani, featuring Sex In The City from China Glaze, and Party Of Five Glitter from Wet 'N' Wild.

 Awesome! I love blues and I have this bad obsession with those tropical looking teal colours (I have so many). This reminded me of those, but it was definitely more blue than green. I added the glitter because I wanted to make use of my glitter polishes, LOL. I hate removal (even with foil) so I usually only do accents.

SITC was only two coats, by the way. Even more awesome!

Lastly, this is the manicure I still have on. This is Watermelon Rind from China Glaze, and Groupie from L.A. Girl (which you might not know, is my all time favorite purple. Yeah. That's right)

This one was inspired by Donatello the turtle (and the boyfriend who picked green). Honestly? I wasn't 'wowed' by this polish. It looks kickass in the bottle, but I was.. eh. Not too impressed :/ If it weren't for my accent purple nails, this polish would've been off in two days. Application took three coats for opacity.

Anyways, hope you enjoyed those manicures ^_^ I have some more posts, and now that I've actually gotten a bunch of photos on my computer, they'll be up within the week (maybe. I'm so lazy)

-Melanie

Teeez: Outta Control

Hey guys!

I recently won this nail polish in a give away from the lovely Witoxicity. It's the first online giveaway I've won, and this was definitely aweeeesomeeee! Anyways, swatch time!

This is Outta Control from Teeez.

Teeez is a European brand of nail polish that I can't for the life of me, find in Vancouver. And isn't this colour so pretty! A deep, dark violet/purple with LINEAR HOLO (scattered holos are pretty meh in my book). I honestly will keep this forever.

It would've been a one-coater, but I had a little bit of bald spots so it was two, plus top coat (which might've killed the holo, just a bit). My phone camera failed to pick up the true holo-i-ness of it, sadly.

On another note, McDonalds has some new Pokemon toys to go along with the Happy Meals... I have a couple friends who work there, I bought this off one of them :)

If you press his tail, his cheeks light up! Ahhhh, so cute :3

Anyways, thats all for now :)

-Melanie

Sally Hansen HD: DVD over Sinful Colours: Black On Black

Look at me! Posting two days in a row ^_^

It makes it easier for me to post more frequently if I write about other products I use (I paint my nails every week...)

Anyways, I tried Sally Hansen DVD from the HD collection before on it's own, and that was a disaster. Not opaque, took forever to dry, and it just drove me insane - but the colour WAS SO PRETTY.

So, thanks to seeing a post @ Beauty by Kayla Shevonne, I decided to layer it over black.

This is base coat + two coats of Sinful Color's Black On Black + one coat of Sally Hansen DVD + Seche Vite.

Picture time!

OOOH! LOOK HOW PRETTY IT IS! <3

And you see that gap? Cleaaaaan cuticles, baby! Awwe yeah, first time cleaning it like that - it was a pain in the butt, haha - and my nails look so tiny!

I also bought a bottle of Laser from the HD collection, so I'll have to try this out soon as well! :3

Byeee!

-Melanie

Sally Hansen : Problem Child

I went to Walmart the other day, and like always - checked the nail polish section. There was a new display of Sally Hansen polishes from the Pro Manicure? line, and surprise, surprise! I managed to pick one up.

Now, I've never been a fan of how freakin' WIDE these brushes are. They're much too large for my nails and I always end up smudging it all over my cuticles (mmm, delicious).

Despite this, I couldn't resist this purple. Here's Problem Child by Sally Hansen.

(Note: this is after 3 days of use)

This polish is a deep, dark purple that looks smokey and quite vampy in the shade (or indoors, really), but when it catches the sunlight it's a rich purple and the peach-y, rust flakes really pop out. This ^ was only two coats + base + Seche Vite.

I'm thinking of a new top coat - any suggestions?

-Melanie

Two Swatches !

Sorry for my lack of posts this week - Valentine's Day certainly kept me busy (^_^) and I because of the tiles I work with in glass art, my nails get wrecked... pretty fast.

Anyways, here's two manicures I did for Valentine's day.

First off is a bright red from Rimmel London. This one is called 310 Red Carpet, and from what I've seen they don't make it anymore.

 As you can see above, I attempted to add some flair to this mani and added on a sticker. They were nifty, but I must've applied them too fast because it got all yucky after I applied my Seche Vite.

Note: these pictures were taken about three days after wear. No major chipping, and only two coats ^_^

Here's the second one I did, simpler this time. This is Claire's Mood Changing Polish in Calm/Wild. It's a really shimmery pink-when-warm/purple-when-cold polish. It does not change by mood, it changes based on your body temperature. It looks really cool with longer nails! Anyways, this polish USED to work for me. I always use three coats, but this time I got a maaaaaajor chip (I blame you, Seche Vite!) so I took it off pretty quickly.

Hope you had a great Valentine's day!

-Melanie

Double Sally Hansen.

Back from my vacation! It's been hectic the past couple days - but I got some excellent shots of the polishes I wore! First up is this lilac polish from Sally Hansen's Hard As Nails line, #35 Applause.

Normally I hate the colour lilac. Pastels in general, usually (I like my colours bright and vivid, thanks) - but this colour... I'm really likin' it so far. It's a lilac that kinda goes darker in not-so-great lighting, and pink sometimes.

This is actually a one-coater, but I always put two for good measure. So, including base coat & my new Seche Vite top coat, that's only 4 coats. Cool beans!

 Next is the one I wore on my entire trip to Las Vegas [no chipping, just tip wear - 5 day trip!] on top of my base and under my Seche Vite top coat. It's from Sally Hansen's Salon Manicure line, #340 Black Platinum.

 This polish was a three-coater, and I absolutely fell in love with it! It's not quite black so it doesn't offend my mom, and it's like a gun-metal type dark grey that felt really chic on my nails. It's like instead of vampy black nails, it's a chic metallic look. Love, love, love!

Hopefully this double swatching makes up for the lack of posts during my vacation ~

-Melanie.

L.A. Girl + A Nail Emergency

I recently went through a major nail emergency.My pinky broke.

It wasn't the usual break on the tip - the break was on both side of my pinky, farther back than I would hope. The thought of ripping it off was horrid - so I slapped on a nail band-aid using a teabag & nail glue so that I wouldn't need to chop it off. Basically, all my nails are a lot shorter now (sadness!). I learned how to fix my broken nail: here.

Seriously, if you break a nail badly, use that ^.

Alright, now that that's over with, here is Groupie from L.A. Girl's Rockstar Collection after 4 days of wear with only a basecoat.

 I'm super pleased with the fact that this baby only needed two coats to get like this - and after four days I expect chips all along the top, but nope! I picked this to cover up my nail band-aid. Nearly everyone couldn't tell I had one on.

 Alright, so this colour applied so easily. It was smooth, only took two coats, and didn't take a long time to dry. It's like a metallic, foil-y frosted purple colour, and it's definitely my favorite purple.

I purchased mine at Garage for around $4.90 before taxes.

-Melanie

Sally Hansen HD: DVD.

Alright guys, I have a this bad boy for you today. From the HD collection, this is DVD from Sally Hansen.

 Now when I call this a bad boy, I'm being pretty serious. You know how many coats this took me? One base coat + 6 coats of polish + a top coat. Yeah. I'm insane.

This was one of the sheerest polishes I have ever used. I know I probably should have layered it over something else, but I was very curious to just do it on it's own - and look at it! Look at how beautiful it is! It's like a blurple-y colour with lots of shimmer and metallic-ness and it's just so shiny~. I'm so infatuated with the colour, but not the application. All the layers of polish made drying a $(!&@. See all the nicks? Okay, maybe not. But all over my right hand, the nails are just smudgy, smudgy, smudgy!

Would I recommend this to someone? Perhaps. Do YOU have a lot of patience? And nothing else to do? This is the colour for youu!

I purchased mine at London Drugs while it was for sale at around $3.50.

-Melanie

Star Of The Party - Nicole by OPI

This is next one is Star Of The Party from Nicole By OPI. It's another one my friend Tim gave me :].

This is like a dazzling violet! When it comes to purple, I usually gave things leaning to indigo, but this is refreshing and a truly dazzling colour. It's very 'Fall'-esque, without being gloomy and dark.

It took me three layers of this colour (though, you could get away with two), and I topped it off with 

Fairy Dust by China Glaze.

 ^This picture was blurred to show you the holo-y goodness of the sparkles! Woo, sparkles!^

This polish applied kinda streaky on the first layer, but see how pretty it looks when opaque? I love it ^_^

Nicole by OPI can be found at your local Walmart for $10, BUT - ! Hold on penny pinchers! Shoppers often has it on sale for $7.99!

I purchase my China Glaze from Sally's Beauty Supply.

Till next time! :]

-Melanie