Friday, December 17, 2010

Smudgy Gradation

In the past I have mostly done gradients that used colors of the same family  because its a lot easier... So I decided to try it with 2 completely different colors, purple and green. Blending was a little hard so I decided to smudge the line with some Out The Door which worked great! I just glopped a ball of Out The Door on the middle of the nail and used the brush to blend the 2 colors together.



Etude House in Beach Green
Etude House in Plum Chou
Etude House in Heart topcoat

Topped the whole shebang with some glittery topcoat (with hearts) and tadah!

Until next time ^_^

Monday, December 13, 2010

Etude House Polish

Etude House is a Korean brand cosmetic company. One of their spokesperson is Lee Min Ho, gorgeous actor from Boys Over Flowers ^_^


I have been wanting Etude House polishes since the first time I laid eyes on them on a friend's Facebook page.
The bottle is so cute and the colors available are actually really interesting!
So I arranged a swap with a wonderful person in Singapore who had access to this brand.

There they are!

Dear Darling Nails Bling Bling collection
Black Glam, Black, and Spangle Purple

Peach blush and Strawberry blush


LuciDarling Collection
Tender Mint, Ruby Purple, and Mint


Petite Darling Nails HD Beam and High Heel Pedicure (white cap)
Plum Chou, Beach Green, Fantastic Heart PealTop coat
I have no idea what the blue one is called. It was a gift from the the swapper :D

Out of the 12 I have tried 8 of them and I have found the formula to be quite good. The cremes are opaque in  2 coats and they are neither think nor runny. Glitters are amazing! The black glam required about 3 coats of topcoat before it became shiny, but the color only took 2 coats to be opaque.

The LuciDarling collection is by far my favorite. The mint colors have this amazing shimmer to them and the ruby purple has cute silver stars and hexes


Here is a quick swatch of some of them. Expect to see the rest of the colors pop up soon!
Glam Black, Black, Peach Blush, Strawberry Blush, Purple Spangle, Purple Ruby
as always, you can click on the picture to make it bigger! :D

I am getting more Etudes at the end of the month because I am so pleased with these. The colors are so unique and the pretty bottles are too awesome to pass up!

you can get these from directly from Etude House USA for around $4 to $7 a bottle
you can also get these on ebay from rubyruby76  for $1 to $8 a bottle. I have never purchased polish from her but I did get some BB creams. She ships directly from S. Korea but she is very prompt and very nice.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Classy Stripes

Black and white stripes are amazing. I wear them all the time. Black and white in general is usually a win.

Here is my stripey black and white mani!



Sally Hansen in White out
NYX in Black
Sally Hansen in Celeb City
Stripe Rite in White
Art Deco in Black and in Silver

So classes are out for winter break! woooo! which means I will have more time to do  my nails and upload what Ive got :)

Until next time ^_^

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Purple Mani

I have a lot of purple nail polish. Mostly because I like purple so much :)
So I got out all of my purple shades and glitters and made a purple mani!

These pics are from the day after I did it so some colors (Chameleon for example) started to chip. Also after I broke my index nail changing the trash in the Rat-Cave
 :(


from left to right
China Glaze in Agent Lavender with Jesse's Girl in Confetti
Color Club in Pucci-Licious with Stripe Rite in White
Hard Candy in Beetle layered over black
OPI suede in Lincoln Park After Dark with BM10
Sally Hansen in Lively Lilac with BM19
...
China Glaze in Agent lavender with LA Colors in neon purple
LA Splash in Sparkling Fushia
Color Club Pucci-Licious with BM20
Chameleon in Calypso
LA Colors in neon purple


I ended up covering my right hand thumb in OPI Sparkle-Icious....

Until next time ^_^

Monday, December 6, 2010

Exam break :)

Im taking a break from finals so I decided to post a quick picture of some nails I did earlier. Nothing fancy, I just wanted to try out this holo looking black I got. Not so very holo after all, but it was pretty shimmery!


Petites Color Fever in Black Diamonds
Petites Color Fever in Fiji
OPI Suede in Lincoln Park After Dark

I will be back with more posts as soon as finals are over. Ive got some pretty neat things to show you, like my new Etude House polishes!! :D

Until next time ^_^

Friday, December 17, 2010

Smudgy Gradation

In the past I have mostly done gradients that used colors of the same family  because its a lot easier... So I decided to try it with 2 completely different colors, purple and green. Blending was a little hard so I decided to smudge the line with some Out The Door which worked great! I just glopped a ball of Out The Door on the middle of the nail and used the brush to blend the 2 colors together.



Etude House in Beach Green
Etude House in Plum Chou
Etude House in Heart topcoat

Topped the whole shebang with some glittery topcoat (with hearts) and tadah!

Until next time ^_^

Monday, December 13, 2010

Etude House Polish

Etude House is a Korean brand cosmetic company. One of their spokesperson is Lee Min Ho, gorgeous actor from Boys Over Flowers ^_^


I have been wanting Etude House polishes since the first time I laid eyes on them on a friend's Facebook page.
The bottle is so cute and the colors available are actually really interesting!
So I arranged a swap with a wonderful person in Singapore who had access to this brand.

There they are!

Dear Darling Nails Bling Bling collection
Black Glam, Black, and Spangle Purple

Peach blush and Strawberry blush


LuciDarling Collection
Tender Mint, Ruby Purple, and Mint


Petite Darling Nails HD Beam and High Heel Pedicure (white cap)
Plum Chou, Beach Green, Fantastic Heart PealTop coat
I have no idea what the blue one is called. It was a gift from the the swapper :D

Out of the 12 I have tried 8 of them and I have found the formula to be quite good. The cremes are opaque in  2 coats and they are neither think nor runny. Glitters are amazing! The black glam required about 3 coats of topcoat before it became shiny, but the color only took 2 coats to be opaque.

The LuciDarling collection is by far my favorite. The mint colors have this amazing shimmer to them and the ruby purple has cute silver stars and hexes


Here is a quick swatch of some of them. Expect to see the rest of the colors pop up soon!
Glam Black, Black, Peach Blush, Strawberry Blush, Purple Spangle, Purple Ruby
as always, you can click on the picture to make it bigger! :D

I am getting more Etudes at the end of the month because I am so pleased with these. The colors are so unique and the pretty bottles are too awesome to pass up!

you can get these from directly from Etude House USA for around $4 to $7 a bottle
you can also get these on ebay from rubyruby76  for $1 to $8 a bottle. I have never purchased polish from her but I did get some BB creams. She ships directly from S. Korea but she is very prompt and very nice.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Classy Stripes

Black and white stripes are amazing. I wear them all the time. Black and white in general is usually a win.

Here is my stripey black and white mani!



Sally Hansen in White out
NYX in Black
Sally Hansen in Celeb City
Stripe Rite in White
Art Deco in Black and in Silver

So classes are out for winter break! woooo! which means I will have more time to do  my nails and upload what Ive got :)

Until next time ^_^

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Purple Mani

I have a lot of purple nail polish. Mostly because I like purple so much :)
So I got out all of my purple shades and glitters and made a purple mani!

These pics are from the day after I did it so some colors (Chameleon for example) started to chip. Also after I broke my index nail changing the trash in the Rat-Cave
 :(


from left to right
China Glaze in Agent Lavender with Jesse's Girl in Confetti
Color Club in Pucci-Licious with Stripe Rite in White
Hard Candy in Beetle layered over black
OPI suede in Lincoln Park After Dark with BM10
Sally Hansen in Lively Lilac with BM19
...
China Glaze in Agent lavender with LA Colors in neon purple
LA Splash in Sparkling Fushia
Color Club Pucci-Licious with BM20
Chameleon in Calypso
LA Colors in neon purple


I ended up covering my right hand thumb in OPI Sparkle-Icious....

Until next time ^_^

Monday, December 6, 2010

Exam break :)

Im taking a break from finals so I decided to post a quick picture of some nails I did earlier. Nothing fancy, I just wanted to try out this holo looking black I got. Not so very holo after all, but it was pretty shimmery!


Petites Color Fever in Black Diamonds
Petites Color Fever in Fiji
OPI Suede in Lincoln Park After Dark

I will be back with more posts as soon as finals are over. Ive got some pretty neat things to show you, like my new Etude House polishes!! :D

Until next time ^_^