GOSH: Blue Monday

Summeeerrr, wooooooo!

... Just had to get that out of my system :)

Now! Here's Blue Monday from a European brand called GOSH.

GOSH is sold in Shopper's Drug Mart across Canada. As far as I know, that's the only place to get it here.

Blue Monday is actually lighter than this - and in the bottle it had these really pretty purple fleckies. Unfortunately, when the polish dries the purple kinda disappears. So, that really sucked. Anyways, figured it would be good with some stamping, so I stamped using Nicole by OPI's Positive  and Bundle Monster plate -212.

Okay, that's all :) Till next time!

-Melanie

Prom Nails (I found em!) & Stamping.

So I was casually looking through my camera's memory and boom! There's my prom nails. Honestly, I thought I took the photos on my phone, which I've been doing a lot since it gives more accurate colors than my Nikon, sadly...

ANYWAYS, here's a double swatch type post. First off is a scotch tape mani from a tutorial over @ Chloe's Nails, that I used for my Jr. Prom - it features two coats of a white nail polish from Avon, and two coats of a pink Korean nail polish from a store called Cara.

 

Major bubbling happening here! Seriously, what went down? I noticed Seche Vite sometimes does that to me. I'm pretty sure I need to just stop shaking the bottle :P

Anyways, I totally didn't execute this well, and the pink was WAY more fake Barbie than I hoped. It looks fine in the photo, but the photo lies! D:<

OKAY, next up is one from another one from the Cara store, from a brand called Nail Colordium. Definitely was too plain for my taste (though I LOVE THIS COLOR, OHMYGOSH)

 

Stamped with my Bundle Monster plate to make up for it! I used another Nail Colordium polish with this.

 I'll probably edit this post later when I figure out which plate I used, and if anyone asks I'll put up the names (or numbers) of the polishes I used.

Till next time :)

-Melanie

China Glaze: Blue Iguana from the Island Escape Collection

Oh sadness! The nails I did for prom... Apparently my pictures didnt save :/ But! I do have this swatch, of Blue Iguana from China Glaze. The colour really didn't wow me, so it was followed by a Konad/Bundle Monster stamp for an extra kick! Here's a photo.

 

(ignore the chips everywhere, I was tired of the mani... and when I'm tired of a mani I pick at it)

Blue Iguana is a not so unique frosted blue, with a pretty regular application.

It took me three coats to have decent coverage, but my smile line was still pretty visible. Hence the stamp - which is from the new Bundle Monster set, plate BM-208.  I used the special Konad stamping polish in white.

Meh, though Blue Iguana is a nice colour, it really didn't... blow me away, like I was hoping it would.

For next time, maybe some fakies? With fimos :)

-Melanie