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Showing posts with label green. Show all posts

Monday, 22 July 2013

Black and White Glitter Topper Comparison and Julep Adriana!

Hey all! Today I have a swatch of Julep Adriana and a black and white glitter polish comparison to show you featuring two indie polishes!

I bought a bunch of black and white glitter polishes recently and I've hardly/never used them! I kind of fell in love with all the glitter toppers featured in this post and I'm thinking of doing a gradient topped with one of them and posting that tomorrow!

I've made myself a light box but I still need some white light lightbulbs and a few lamps, so bear with the inconsistent lighting! Maybe I'll post my gradient topped with black and white glitter tonight if I get my light box in working order by then!

Anyways, onto the pictures!

Julep Adriana

I took a few pictures in the Sun of Adriana after I took these shade pictures, and I noticed it had bubbled pretty badly. What you see here is two coats and no top coat! I didn't wait very long between coats, but I waited as long as I do swatching Black Sheep Lacquer polishes and they have never bubbled on me!

Julep Adriana

Black and White Glitter Polish Comparison

Thumb and ring finger: Hard Candy Black Tie Optional
Index finger: Dollish Polish Putting on the Ritzzz!
Middle finger: Black Sheep Lacquer A Letter to the New York Post
Pinkie finger: Sally Hansen Tweedy

They were all super easy to work with and had lovely formulas!

Black and White Glitter Polish Comparison

Black and White Glitter Polish Comparison

Let me know if you have a favourite or any questions in the comments! Thanks for reading my lovely people! :)

Saturday, 20 July 2013

China Glaze Inner Beauty and Simple Cartoony Flowers!

Hello everyone! Today I have swatches of China Glaze Inner Beauty and some simple floral nail art to share!

I'm really not sure about what lighting looks the best for my pictures so lately the lighting of my pictures has been very varied, I apologize! I'm thinking of making or buying a light box for more consistent pictures, let me know what you think I should do or a good light box you've heard of in the comments!

Onto the pictures!

China Glaze Inner Beauty

This is three coats of Inner Beauty and a coat of top coat! It had a lovely formula and it seemed to dry pretty quick!

China Glaze Inner Beauty

China Glaze Inner Beauty

China Glaze Inner Beauty


The blue seen here is Black Sheep Lacquer Aquabat (without glitter), the orange is Black Sheep Lacquer Orange Blossom, the pink is Butter London Trout Pout, and the green is Julep Adriana!





Thanks for reading everybody! I think I'll be painting some nails today and tonight I get to babysit my boyfriend's little baby niece, I'm so excited! Hope you all have a lovely day planned as well! :)

Wednesday, 17 July 2013

Sinful Colors Mint Apple with Diamond Holographic Glitter!

Hey everybody! Today I have some swatches of Sinful Colors Mint Apple and some awesome glitter polka dots to share!

Mint Apple had a perfect formula and this was just two easy coats! I got the holographic diamond glitter off of eBay here in case you're curious!

Onto the photos!

Sinful Colors Mint Apple

Sinful Colors Mint Apple

Sinful Colors Mint Apple

Sinful Colors Mint Apple







Thanks for stopping by! :)

Saturday, 13 July 2013

Black Sheep Lacquer Swatches: Badass, Major Tom and A Letter to the New York Post!

Hello my lovelies! Today I got bored and decided to start swatching my new Black Sheep Lacquer polishes! I keep buying and getting sent them for swatching and they're all so awesome!

They all had lovely formulas as I've come to expect, so onto the swatches!

Black Sheep Lacquer Badass

This amazing polish is called Badass and it's definitely that! I actually think this one is my favourite of the twenty-one Black Sheep Lacquer polishes I own. Badass is a green to purple duo-chrome polish with a pinch of scattered holographic glitter thrown in. It also looks like a charcoal colour at certain angles... basically it's just incredibly stunning. This polish was so generously sent to me for swatches! This is two coats!

Black Sheep Lacquer Badass

Black Sheep Lacquer Badass

Black Sheep Lacquer Badass

American Apparel Coney Island

Undies for the next polish! Two coats of American Apparel Coney Island.

Black Sheep Lacquer Major Tom

This is Major Tom (a reference to David Bowie's Space Oddity, love him!), a pink jelly base with tiny silver glitter, small silver holographic bar glitter, small matte light pink hexes, medium-sized matte light pink circles and large hot pink matte hearts! As if all that wasn't cool enough, this polish also glows greenish yellow in the dark! This is just one coat over my undies!

Black Sheep Lacquer Major Tom

Black Sheep Lacquer Major Tom

Black Sheep Lacquer Major Tom

Black Sheep Lacquer Major Tom

As you can see, the glow effect isn't super strong, but that makes it easier to sleep while wearing!

Essie Play Date and Mojito Madness

Undies for the last polish of this post! Two coats of Essie Play Date (purple) and one coat of Essie Mojito Madness (green).

Black Sheep Lacquer A Letter to the New York Post

Finally, we have A Letter to the New York Post, a whole bunch of matte black and white glitters of all shapes and sizes in a clear base! This is just one coat over my undies!

Black Sheep Lacquer A Letter to the New York Post

Black Sheep Lacquer A Letter to the New York Post

Black Sheep Lacquer A Letter to the New York Post

Thanks for reading everybody! Stay tuned for swatches of three more Black Sheep Lacquer polishes tomorrow!

Tuesday, 9 July 2013

Peacock Nails for Hannah and OPI's You're Such a Budapest Swatch and Review!

Hello my lovely readers! Today I have a swatch and review of OPI's You're Such a Budapest and some peacock nail art to share!

This lovely lady posted in Reddit Laqueristas about her sick little sister recently, and it touched so many of us who frequent the subreddit. She painted a beautiful peacock on her sister's heart monitor because her sister, Hannah, loves peacocks. Here is her original post. If you're reading this, you should do some peacock nails too and post them to Reddit Laqueristas :). My heart goes out to Hannah and her family, I hope when she sees this it makes her smile!

OPI You're Such a Budapest

I feel strange putting a review in this post so I'll keep it brief. This is just two coats of You're Such a Budapest because it had a perfect formula! It has some silver and possibly pink shimmer that's only visible in the Sun (you can see it in the sunny pictures coming up).

OPI You're Such a Budapest

OPI You're Such a Budapest


I know I'm not very good at painting anything realistic, but I really wanted to do the best peacock nails I could for Hannah! The green seen here is Essie Mojito Madness, the orange is Essie Tart Deco, and the blue is Sally Hansen Pacific Blue.




A picture of my dominant hand that's bad at posing :P.


Thank you for reading everyone! Go get your peacock nails on! :)

Thursday, 4 July 2013

Essie Naughty Nautical and Studs: Swatches and Review!

I just had to try out the Rhinestone Pickerr Uperr I posted in my haul post the other day! I'm very happy to say I was super excited for good reason, this thing is awesome! I could easily place my studs wherever I wanted them, even with my non-dominant (aka left) hand!

Essie Naughty Nautical was also very lovely, what you see here is just one coat! It's a green/teal creme with silver shimmer and a perfect formula! One coat is enough for low light but as you can see in the last picture, it's not opaque enough for brighter light. I always leave my nails with one coat of polish if it looks okay inside, because if I can make a polish be a one-coater, that's too awesome to cover with a second coat haha!

Onto the photos!

Essie Naughty Nautical

Essie Naughty Nautical

Essie Naughty Nautical

Essie Naughty Nautical

Thanks for reading everyone! I might have a cool nail art post to show you all very soon as my best friend from Switzerland is arriving today and staying for a month! She's awesome at doing her nails, but maybe she'll let me do them for her for fun! :)