China Glaze : Frostbite

Semester one is OVER! No more gym for me! Haha, such a great thing - over the semester I broke three nails halfway down the nail bed, salvaged them with nail glue, but my middle finger-nail kept breaking, grrr. I ended up chopping them all down *cries* and making them the same length. These things are like nubs, it makes me really sad, I want my nails back!

To make up for my little nubs, I painted my nails with a truly BAM! RIGHT IN YOUR FACE blue. It's called Frostbite, from China Glaze.

 Two coats for even coverage, but three coats to make it super awesome!

Like always, I topped it off with Seche Vite to make it super glossy. I've had this manicure on for 4 days now, and there hasn't been any chipping (but 5 coats of polish does that!), but there's been natural tip wear. I've gotten tons of compliments on it, too. I'm definitely in love, love, LOVE with this polish.

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

Happy Gray Thanksgiving!

Happy thanksgiving, Canadians!

Alright, so I was going to swatch the black matte from Icing, but the application was just SO thick... It was driving me crazy.

Instead, here's Steel-Her Heart by Revlon.

Application wise? This was a nightmare. It came with a teeny tiny brush and it was streaky. This was two (maybe three?) coats, and it still wasn't opaque at the base of my nail.

Here it is again, with one coat of the Matte Top Coat from Joe Fresh Style. When matte, you can see the transparency at the base of the nail, especially on my pointer finger, yes?

All in all, the color is great, the application ? Not so much. But I did feel very chic wearing this colour.

In case you're daring enough to purchase this, I bought mine at my local Zellers for under $5.

-Melanie.