More of the Wet N Wild Summer Getaway Set and Vogue Fantastic in Morado

I think it's been taking me too long to update this blog but I promise that I will be updating it. I am so lazy editing pictures but when  I do I kinda do them in bulk so when I write my post they're kinda in bulk as well ^_^

I'm going to continue with the review of the goodies I won from  Sekhmet's Purple Castle

  

 This is Sage in the City which is from the Wet N' Wild Summer Getaway Set

I've said on my previous post that this polish would look great over black so that's what I exactly did here.

I used one coat of black as base then applied two coats of Sage in the City.

This green really pops, it's almost a metallic finish.

 

 I love pinks and greens combo so I decided to use this baby pink crackle polish on top. The crackle polish is thin so the pink didn't take over the whole nail and it dries to a matte finish.

 

After one coat of top coat here it is looking sweet and shiny. I love this color combo but I barely do it on my nails. The contrast of the metallic green and pink is so pretty! ^_^

First I want to say sorry because my phone's camera is not giving me a break and I can not take a true color of this nail polish, aaarrrggghhh!!!

Buffy the Violet Slayer is a deep electric violet. Once on your nails it is so mesmerizing, every time I would look at it it feels like I'm looking at someone else's nails. I know it sounds crazy hahaha!

 

On this pic I sponged in a dark semi metallic blue then applied an orange flakey like glitter, I was hoping that there would be a contrast but it isn't very visible on pic. I was trying to take a pic of it in a well lit area so I won't have to use the flash but my phone doesn't want to show the violet still *sigh*

 

 Here I did some skull stamping using an orange nail polish, unfortunately my top coat turned the orange into a murky shade good thing it didn't melt the copper gold pen I used in the crown.

 

Here's a better pic I think ^_^

 

I cheated a bit here :)

I first applied two coats of jelly orange polish then used one coat of 9.0.2.1.Orange

I really like this orange polish because of the gold shimmers, even if it's sheer it's great for using as a topper.

  

I did a Halloween theme with it! ^_^

 

 I'm going to do a little break from the Summer Getaway set....

I used two coats of this polish which I believe is a dupe of a Sweet Nail Polish brand, the number is 04.

I only used two coats, I didn't mind that it was streaky because I've decided to use it as a base for Vogue Fantastic in Morado.

 

Here it is! I love this combo because the purple really popped!

Like most crackle/shatter polishes the finish is matte so....

 

I used two coats of top coat just to smoothen the surface. 

 

Just because I then added a coat of my favorite gold glitter polish that after a few minutes I realized that it was a bad idea, hahaha!

Next time I'll just leave the shatter polish alone ^_^

 

I still have a few more polishes to review and I've made some new manis that I hope to post soon.

Thanks a lot for hanging out here! ^_^

Chevron Nails and Nail Polish Haul

Chevron design nails I finished last night ^_^

I used BM201 for the chevron design and MASH 30 for the tribal image. I didn't expect that this would turn out pretty damn well, I got some compliments from the sales ladies I encountered at the mall earlier, haha!

Base polish used is Ever Bilena in Lagoon, then added two coats of Caress in Glitter Gold. On my ring finger is the glitter franken that I made.

Okay enough of that let's proceed with the nail polish haul ^_^

My first stop was Etude House because they always have nice colors of nail polishes and I like the formula. The top coat I use is from one of their regular line of polishes which is kinda cheap, really can't afford Seche Vite :P

These are the ones I picked!

L-R: LUCIDarling Fantastic Nails Glitter in turquoise/teal, this kinda reminds me of mermaid scales, in the picture it looks like a dark blue :( stupid camera phone. Next is Etude House Tint Mint, the color is very close to a Tiffany blue color which is a total lemming for me that's why even if this polish cost P178, which is roughly around a little over $4 I still bought it. I love Etude House polish bottles, they're cute and pretty! ^_^

DGR701 Tint Mint, I believe this is supposed to be more green than blue but I prefer that it is more blue than green. I've bought some mint polishes that when I was in the store they looked bluish but when I get home it turned out be real mint colored. So I am really happy that I found this one ^_^

Next stop the department store ^_^

I like buying polishes in the dept. store because I have a lot of choices and some of them are really quite cheap.

L-R: 24K in Sugar Plum, Sweet Cherry in Glitter Gold (I bought two) and Sweet Cherry in Glitter Silver

Glitter Gold is my favorite gold glitter that I've encountered, it's the same glitter that I used on my chevron nails.

It's more like gold dust to me and there are like two sizes of the dust, the larger of the two sizes is minimal so when applied you can see the slight contrast which I very much like ^_^

You can see how much I like it that I bought back up for my back up because I don't want to run out!

The Caress glitter gold is very much the same with the Sweet Cherry brand because they came from the same manufacturing company, Kateenson Industries.

I prefer Sweet Cherry because it's cheaper but I prefer the brush on the Caress bottle so I figured that I could just pour it on the Caress bottle when it's halfway empty ^_^

So yes, I am planning to use this in most of my manis, hahaha!

Sweet Cherry in Glitter Silver

I do have some silver glitter polishes in my stash but this one has fine glitters. Since I am so in love with the gold I figured I should try this one too.

Here's a pic of both polishes side by side, I hope the silver is just as good as the gold in terms of the size of the glitters. ^_^

24K nail polish in Magic Sugar Plum

All of the 'Magic' line of 24K polishes is either duo chrome or multi chrome. This one is multi chrome because on different angles where the light hit I can see blue, green and gold. I'm just not sure that they would be very obvious once it's on the nails though. I'm really not into this kind of effect on polishes but when I asked my boyfriend if it was pretty he said yes, so why not?

The shimmer like quality of this polish remind me of galaxy nails, I wonder when I could try those...

Another angle, I can't make the other colors show up... aarrgghh...

Here's another, I think I was a little lucky with this one. Do you see the gold and bluish lines? Those are the chrome colors. ^_^

Okay obviously this is not a nail polish, I just wanted to share a pic of my new house slippers.

Isn't cute? haha! ^_^

Thanks for hanging out here!

Nail art using metallic pens ^_^

Ever since I learned that I can use metallic pens for nail art I couldn't stop using them on my nails and I even got three more colors for variation ^_^. These are the stuff I came up with, I'm so sorry my designs are very mediocre they look like grade school art... hahaha!

Hearts on hearts, this was my left hand...

Wavy lines, since I'm not ambidextrous this was the only thing my left hand can do hihi :)

First time to do dream catcher nails, this looked better up close and personal. I did some writing too, there was a bit of smudging on the 'm' because I accidentally touched it (I was watching a TV show and was immersed in it forgetting that my nails aren't done yet *sigh*).

I love this one! I did some stamping over a coat of gold glitter and small orange flakies (which looked copperish I think). I wasn't planning to use the pens but since the flakies are kinda copperish I tried filling in the gap between the wavy lines with the copper gold pen and I just love how it turned out. This lasted 3 days on my nails which is long for me.

I made this yesterday morning, I did the 'drip' nail art then bordered it with the metallic pens and did some writing as well. This was a bit of a disappointment because bubbles started appearing when my top coat was starting to dry. I took it off after a few hours, I like the design but I couldn't stand the bubbles. Glue base has spoiled me!

These are the metallic pens that I use, the're pretty opaque and my favorite are the silver and copper gold. I guess the only con for me is the 0.7 ball point, 0.5 would have been better. If there was a metallic black or white pen that would be incredibly awesome, too bad they don't make those :(

Thinking of using black sign pens... but I'm afraid that they might be too smudgy... ooohhh I have to go, need to experiment! LOL! ^_^

Thanks for hanging out here!

Caress Nail Polish Tiny Haul ^_^

Mainly, I only wanted the glitter polish but when I saw these other shades I just had to get them ^_^

First up is Avocado, most if not all Caress polishes are really sheer. You would need at least 3 coats for it to be opaque but this is not a downside for me because they could easily pass up as jelly polishes because of their sheerness.

When I saw Avocado I immediately thought of making a glitter sandwich, I did not own a jelly green so I'm pretty sure this would do just fine.

 Next is Obsession, it's a medium light pink that's a little more opaque than Avocado. I'm not sure if this would be good for making glitter sandwich but the color looks really pretty, I just hope it would look good on my nails. I really like pinks, specially light ones but not all pinks look good on my nails. :(

Third is Flamingo, this is a dark khaki shade. I don't know why I bought this color, well I guess it looked unique to me because I don't have a color like this on my stash. I'm a bit confused why it's called Flamingo, aren't they supposed to be bright pink? Anyway I was thinking I may be able to use it for some nail art designs because you'll never know when you might need a khaki right? Or not. Hahaha ^_^

Last is Christmas Polka, this is the one that I originally wanted to buy. I've seen this before like months ago but I didn't get it because I had an abhorrence of glitter polishes then. Now that taking off glitter polishes is easier I just had to get this ^_^

This has small silver glitters with a mix of purple and red hex glitters. The base is clear which is perfect for glitter sandwiches.

I have not used this polishes yet that's why there are no swatches but I will give a more detailed review if and when I get to use them.

Thanks for hanging out here! ^_^