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31 Aug 2012

Desert Sun

 Here’s the second of China Glaze’s On Safari polishes to appear on the blog, though it was actually the first I wore on my nails. I love it.

Last year, I bought a set of four mini polishes at H&M and one of them was a tan colour that I fell in love with, utterly and irrevocably. Of course, a defining trait of mini polishes is that the bottles are quite small, so my beloved tan polish dried up in no time.

Enter On Safari. After seeing swatches, I decided I must get my mitts on Desert Sun, but it wasn’t until I actually wore it for the first time I realised that, hey!, here’s my favourite colour in a big bottle that’s going to last forever. Awesome!

It’s a very easily applied creme formula, though I am not the best of friends with the brush yet. I need to get the CG brush technique down pat still, but once that happens? I will be unstoppable! ;)

Also, re: my last post and how I’m getting better at painting my nails without making a mess? Look at this photo. No clean-up was done after applying the polish, and while my cuticles maybe don’t look perfect, they’re damn well close to being so!

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27 Aug 2012

Stamping success? Well, kind of!

I recently bought some stamping plates and have been practising stamping a bit “in the dark”. By that I quite obviously don’t mean in actual darkness, but rather behind the scenes, to use a different expression. In other words, I didn’t want to post anything here until I was at least semi-successful at it.

This was my first, well, I’m not going to say perfect (look at that ring finger nail!), but at least decent, attempt.

I started off with two coats of (and this is embarrassing: I can’t actually remember which one it was!) either Butter London Slapper or Isadora Go Green. Seriously, I should start writing these things down when doing them, and not a week or two later. Usually I can recall which polishes I used for a particular mani, but not so this time. Urgh! (As soon as I get home to my stash, I’m going to do comparison swatches of both likely culprits to try to figure out which one’s the one used here. Promise!) Yeah, so, ::cough::, it’s Illamasqua’s Elope. Look at my memory being brilliant! =P (More on my recent Illamasqua acquisitions soon.

After that was sufficently dry, I used Isadora’s Tip White to stamp on a design from BM 322, a plate from Bundle Monster’s 2012 collection. Finally, I topped it off with a coat of Poshé to help dry and protect it.

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21 Aug 2012
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China Glaze Prey Tell

This polish from China Glaze’s autumn 2012 On Safari collection has got to be one of my favourites. I’ve been wearing it, on its own or paired with I Herd That (more on that one later!) nearly non-stop ever since it showed up in my mailbox.

It covers completely in two coats and I’m absolutely smitten with how dark it is. It looks almost black in some lights and really dark brown in others, but there’s always a hint of red in it. It is, quite seriously, the best.

Two coats and a quick-drying top coat means I can be ready to go out the door in ten or fifteen minutes, and that’s quite something, considering most of my other faves need at least three coats to look good.

I have a feeling this is going to be one of my “reach for”s this autumn. I mean, it already is, and it’s still summer!

 

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17 Aug 2012

Color Club Wing Fling

I feel like I’m really, really getting into the polish thing now, what with having nabbed gems from not just one, but three!, different 2012 collections after having read about them online.

This pink, sparkly beauty is Color Club’s Wing Fling, which is from their summer 2012 collection called Take Wing. It’s actually not even the first from this collection I’ve tried, but it’s the only one I’ve taken any pictures of at all so far. Trust me when I say you’ve not seen the last of this collection from me: I love it!

This isn’t even my favourite colour, though it is absolutely lovely. The pink is full of shimmers and glass flecks and oh my, I can’t stop looking at my nails when wearing it!

It does go on a little sheer, though, so here I’m wearing it in two coats over Isadora’s Pink Lemonade to make it more opaque. It dries quite matte, so make sure to be liberal in your application of top coat if you want to get the most out of the sparkles.

(I’ve recently switched to a different base and top coat, but more on that in a later post.)

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