Showing posts with label black. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black. Show all posts

Tuesday, 12 November 2013

More Northern Star Polish Swatches: Smuldering, Ki-Ki Ma-Ma, Storybook Love, Inconceivable and Drop Your Sword!

Hey everybody! Today I have five more Northern Star Polish polishes to show you all!

I was a total swatching machine on the weekend, can you believe I swatched seven polishes (these five and my two Emily de Mollys) in two days? I'm actually not very surprised because I should have been studying for my upcoming biochemistry midterm and doing my organic chemistry assignment :P. I am a horribly efficient procrastinator!

All of these polishes had really nice formulas that were a bit thick, but I should note that Storybook Love was a little too thick for my liking, though still totally manageable! All of the pictures seen here are of three coats and no top coat except for the first polish, Smuldering, which is of two coats and no top coat!

The last three polishes featured in this post are from Kristen's As You Wish Collection which makes me super happy! Does anyone else love the movie The Princess Bride? I've seen it so many times and just talking about it makes me want to watch it again!

Anyways, onto the swatches!

Northern Star Polish Smuldering

Smuldering- two coats, no top coat

Northern Star Polish Smuldering

Northern Star Polish Smuldering

Northern Star Polish Smuldering

Northern Star Polish Smuldering

Northern Star Polish Ki-Ki Ma-Ma

Ki-Ki Ma-Ma- three coats, no top coat

Northern Star Polish Ki-Ki Ma-Ma

Northern Star Polish Ki-Ki Ma-Ma

Northern Star Polish Ki-Ki Ma-Ma

Northern Star Polish Ki-Ki Ma-Ma

Northern Star Polish Storybook Love

Storybook Love- three coats, no top coat

Northern Star Polish Storybook Love

Northern Star Polish Storybook Love

Northern Star Polish Storybook Love

Northern Star Polish Storybook Love

Northern Star Polish Inconceivable

Inconceivable- three coats, no top coat

Northern Star Polish Inconceivable

Northern Star Polish Inconceivable

Northern Star Polish Inconceivable

Northern Star Polish Inconceivable

Northern Star Polish Drop Your Sword

Drop Your Sword- three coats, no top coat

Northern Star Polish Drop Your Sword

Northern Star Polish Drop Your Sword

Northern Star Polish Drop Your Sword

Northern Star Polish Drop Your Sword

Thanks so much for taking a look everyone, let me know if any of these polishes are calling your names in the comments! Happy Tuesday! =)

Sunday, 10 November 2013

Dollish Polish Toad-ally Awesome and Striping Tape!

Hi everyone! Today I have some super simple mix and match nail art to share!

I've seen this alternating glitter polish and striping tape over a creme polish mani all over the internet lately! I really like it, so I decided to try it myself!

The blue seen here is Essie Mesmerize, the striping tape is just off of eBay or Amazon, the black creme is Orly Liquid Vinyl (as always), and the super cute glitter topper is Dollish Polish Toad-ally Awesome!

It's been a while since I posted any kind of nail art on here (the last time was Halloween) so let's get on to the pictures! :)

Dollish Polish Toad-ally Awesome

Dollish Polish Toad-ally Awesome

Dollish Polish Toad-ally Awesome

Dollish Polish Toad-ally Awesome

My right hand!

Thanks so much for having a look everyone, I hope you're having a lovely weekend! :)

Thursday, 31 October 2013

Cartoony Halloween Nails!

Hi everyone! Today I have a Halloween skittle mani to share!

Yesterday we went to my boyfriend's house for the night, so I brought a bunch of nail polish stuff to school so I could do my nails at his house. This means I've been carrying around the ten polishes I used for these nails plus my base and top coat and other supplies for two days now haha! There is one colour I can't tell you the name of in this mani, because I ended up mixing my green, orange and purple to make it! Except for forgetting to pack a brown (though I guess I could have done the stem bit green if I had used a different base colour for the pumpkin nails) I actually feel like I prepared really well for this mani. I ended up using every polish I brought with me on at least one nail!

After dinner I painted my boyfriend's stepmom's toes with the purple seen here (Color Club Pucci-licious) and I added cute little square gold studs to her big toes! In other words, I had a super polished-packed night, the best kind of night!

Sorry I didn't post these any sooner, I didn't have access to my sister's camera and my light box and lamps until now! I posted these nails when I was almost done with them yesterday on Instagram, so definitely follow me there because between here and Instagram, I usually post every three days or less! I also post ridiculous pictures of myself which I also did yesterday! I'm going to go ahead and embed the picture here because I want to show off my adorable new cat ear hat! Isn't it the best? :)

Anyway, asides aside, for these nails I only used two (well three if you count my cleanup brush) brushes! I picked up four new brushes from Michaels on the weekend and I love them all! Well, I haven't actually tried one of them yet, but I'm very excited to! For everything except the gradient I used a 12/0 liner brush, and for the gradient I used a big fluffy brush to mix the different proportions of blue and black and to apply the mixtures to my nails! I almost forgot, I also used an eyeshadow sponge because I bought a pack of them at the dollar store for gradient purposes! I used the sponge to lightly apply my black holographic polish on the tips of my thumbs!

Anyways, onto the polishes used and then the pictures!

Red creme- American Apparel Poppy
Holographic red- Northern Star Polish Ki-Ki-Ma-Ma
Orange- China Glaze Oh How Street It Is
Yellow- Color Club Almost Famous
Green- Essie Mojito Madness
Blue- Essie Mesmerized
Purple- Color Club Pucci-licious
White- OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls
Black creme- Orly Liquid Vinyl
Holographic black- Color Club Beyond






Here's my right hand! I'll only ever do a design I can do on both hands, so I kind of have to stick to simple cartoony designs haha!

Thanks so much for reading everyone, let me know what you think of these in the comments! Happy Halloween! :)

Saturday, 19 October 2013

Four New Black Sheep Lacquer Duochromes: Blue-Yea, Blink, Forbidden Fruit and Zaftig Zombie!

Hello everyone! Today I have four lovely new duochromes (or multichromes, a few of them shine four or more different colours in my eyes) from Black Sheep Lacquer to share!*

I swatched each polish at one coat over black, at one coat on their own and at two or three coats for full opacity (and no top coat)! No formula issues, these were a pleasure to work with as usual!

Based on how these polishes look over black, I think these polishes would be absolutely perfect for a galaxy mani! I think I'll do one with these polishes pretty soon!

Also, I apologize for my short nails in the Forbidden Fruit and Zaftig Zombie over black swatches! These swatches took me quite a while to do and I filed my nails down before Erin and I decided I should swatch those two over black as well! I'm so glad I did, these would all be so awesome as topcoats and look so freaking cool and pretty over black specifically!

Get ready to be bombarded with (36) pictures! I apologize in advance!

Orly Liquid Vinyl

My black undies for the swatches over black! Two coats of Orly Liquid Vinyl!

Black Sheep Lacquer Blue-Yea

Blue-Yea- one coat over black

Black Sheep Lacquer Blue-Yea

Blue-Yea- one coat over black

Black Sheep Lacquer Blue-Yea

Blue-Yea- one coat over black

Black Sheep Lacquer Blue-Yea

Blue-Yea- one coat over black

Black Sheep Lacquer Blue-Yea

Blue-Yea- one coat

Black Sheep Lacquer Blue-Yea

Blue-Yea- three coats

Black Sheep Lacquer Blue-Yea

Blue-Yea- three coats

Black Sheep Lacquer Blue-Yea

Blue-Yea- three coats

Black Sheep Lacquer Blink

Blink- one coat over black

Black Sheep Lacquer Blink

Blink- one coat over black

Black Sheep Lacquer Blink

Blink- one coat over black

Black Sheep Lacquer Blink

Blink- one coat over black

Black Sheep Lacquer Blink
Blink- one coat over black


Blink- one coat

Black Sheep Lacquer Blink

Blink- three coats

Black Sheep Lacquer Blink

Blink- three coats

Black Sheep Lacquer Blink

Blink- three coats

Black Sheep Lacquer Forbidden Fruit


Forbidden Fruit- one coat over black

Black Sheep Lacquer Forbidden Fruit


Forbidden Fruit- one coat over black

Black Sheep Lacquer Forbidden Fruit


Forbidden Fruit- one coat over black

Black Sheep Lacquer Forbidden Fruit

Forbidden Fruit- one coat over black

Black Sheep Lacquer Forbidden Fruit

Forbidden Fruit- one coat

Black Sheep Lacquer Forbidden Fruit

Forbidden Fruit- three coats

Black Sheep Lacquer Forbidden Fruit

Forbidden Fruit- three coats

Black Sheep Lacquer Forbidden Fruit

Forbidden Fruit- three coats

Black Sheep Lacquer Forbidden Fruit

Forbidden Fruit- three coats

Black Sheep Lacquer Zaftig Zombie

Zaftig Zombie- one coat over black

Black Sheep Lacquer Zaftig Zombie

Zaftig Zombie- one coat over black

Black Sheep Lacquer Zaftig Zombie

Zaftig Zombie- one coat over black

Black Sheep Lacquer Zaftig Zombie

Zaftig Zombie- one coat over black

Black Sheep Lacquer Zaftig Zombie

Zaftig Zombie- one coat

Black Sheep Lacquer Zaftig Zombie

Zaftig Zombie- two coats


Zaftig Zombie- two coats


Zaftig Zombie- two coats


Zaftig Zombie- two coats


Thank you so much for reading! Let me know which one is your favourite in the comments! Have a lovely weekend!

*These products were sent to me for swatches