Good evening!
I've decided to bring back my dupe posts, at least until I run out of dupes to post about lol.
Up for consideration tonight are two OPI colors, Wreathed in Red and I've "Red" the Script. These were both released as part of holiday collections. Both are gorgeous reds and perfect for the hoidays. Here is the bottle shot:
Wreathed in Red is on the left, I've "Red" the Script on the right. For my comparison, I applied two coats of each with no topcoat.
Again, Wreathed on the left, Script on the right.
Index and ring are Wreathed, middle and pinky are Script. Aside from the shimmer, these two are pretty much the same color. Wreathed has a red shimmer to it, while Script had blue/purple shimmer. Unless you're a red lover like me, you really don't need both of these :P
Good evening and Happy St. Patrick's Day! I hope you got to enjoy some green-ness today :) If not, I hope my mani does it for you.
It started with two coats of OPI's Skip the Gift Wrapping, followed by one coat of OPI's Fresh Frog of Bel Air topped with Seche. This was pretty enough on its own, but I wanted to stamp over it using my Messy Mansion plate 04. I used the full nail clover image stamped with Wet 'N Wild's French White. The white wasn't as opaque as I thought it would be, but I kinda like how you can see the glitter through it.
Good evening! How's your weekend, do you have plans for tomorrow? I don't, aside from cleaning and grocery shopping xD We don't normally go out on holidays such as St. Patrick's Day, too many drunks on the road.
Ok, so, I just ran out of time yesterday and too tired to try and post yesterday's green mani. It wasn't anything complicated, since I didn't have much time to throw it together Thursday evening. The pics aren't the greatest but then that's what happens when I have to be up at 5 am for work x.x The pics were taken indoors with a flash.
The green-ness was achieved with 3 coats of Zoya Mitzi, one coat of Zoya Opal, and one coat of China Glaze Matte Magic. It may not be the most flattering color on me, but I likke how it came it out :)
Now, I want to show you some neons that I found th other day that seem to stamp nice. I only tried them on one plate, but for that one plate, they came out well. These are from the Walmart brand, Salon Perfect, and they are from the nail art line.
Good morning!
I have a few holo swatches I want to show you this morning. I've got so many swatches to post, that I figured I would post a few on the days I don't have an actual mani to show you :)
The holo goodness I want to show you are from Color Club's latest releases from the Halo Hues line, Cosmic Fate and Beyond. Mind you, I didn't buy any from the first releases of Halo Hues, but that was because the colors didn't really call to me. The newest ones did, from the pics I had seen.
First to show is Cosmic Fate. I was a little disappointed in the color of this one, since the pics I had seen showed it to be more orange than it really is. Cosmic Fate is more coppery than orange; I like it, but I was wanting more of an orange holo. The polish applied very nicely, and I could have done with just one coat, but did two anyways. I can also tell it stamps well. First pic is inside with a flash, second is outside no flash.
Look at that linear holo goodness! Color Club really hit the nail on the head with their Halo Hues!
Next is Beyond. Beyond is a true black holo, unlike Revvvolution which comes off more charcoal grey. I have no words for the beauty of Beyond; same great formula and application. I'll let the pics speak :) First inside flash, second outside no flash.
Oh, and no topcoat was used in either swatches, but I can tell you it does not effect the holoness of either. Beyond also stamps very well. I plan on acquiring the colors in 2013 release of the Halo Hues; they are a little pricey, considering I get pro prices for other brands, but I believe they are worth it :)
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Good evening, lol! This week, I'm showing some green manis for St. Patrick's Day. I have today's and yesterday's manis to show off tonight. I'm not normally one for greens, unless they're teals or mints, but occasionally I would go for something different.
Today's was the something different. I started with 2 coats of China Glaze's Gaga for Green. Layered over that was one coat of Sour Apple, also from China Glaze, topped with Seche. Simple, but glittery :)
The next one I'm rather proud of. It's a gradient, and it didn't come out too bad, if I do say so myself :P My base color was two coats of Essie's Mint Candy Apple topped with Seche. I let that dry for about ten minutes before I sponged on my gradient colors, China Glaze's Aquadelic and Turned Up Turquoise. I went over the gradient twice and topped again with Seche.
Now, I had full intentions of leaving it be, but I was just dying to try my St. Patrick's themed plate, MM04, from Messy Mansion. I chose to the line of shamrocks, stamped with Konad Special white. After all that, I then made it matte with China Glaze's Matte Magic :) It did smear some of images a little, but it wasn't too terribly noticeable until close up.
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Good morning, peeps! It's a beautiful morning here in FL, and I really can't complain about it being too warm...... yet xD I can complain about the time change, though. I was still all messed up from the fall time change, so yeah. The change this past weekend did not help any lol.
Anyways! On to today's featured mani, which is yesterday's Stamping Sunday challenge. This one called for using a plate that ended in 6. Realistically, most of my sets on have 2 plates that end 6, so you'd think it would have be easy to pick one......... I chose Bundle Monster 316. Turns out, my BM 316 doesn't stamp, at least not with the polishes I tried (including Konad Special White), and I refuse to stamp full nail image with any stamper but my XL one.
So, sadly, I moved on to my back up plan, which was MASH 46. I used two images from that plate, because their full nail images don't fit my wide thumb nails. My base color was two coats of Zoya Gie Gie, Seche over that, and the images stamped in Sinful Colors Ardoise with one more coat of Seche.
Good evening!
Tonight I'm going to show you my first St. Patrick's Day themed mani. There's no green involved in this one, but I can't say the my next St. Patrick's won't lol.
This mani was easy to create. I started with three coats of my base color, China Glaze's Dandy Lyin' Around. First of all, I love this color. It totally reminds me of cream cheese frosting. Secondly, it's a bitch to apply. It might just be user error on my part, but if I wore this alone, I would prolly need a fourth coat. Since I was stamping, though, I left it at three and topped with Seche so it would be dry enough to stamp.
For the stamped image, I used my Messy Mansion plate 004. It's a plate full of St. Patrick's Day goodness. I absolutely love MM's holiday theme plates. The celtic knot image I used was stamped in Pure Ice's Magic, then everything was topped with Seche again. The final result is a festive mani without being too in-your-face :)
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