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!

Mash 30 Image Plate

Lucky cat, hahaha!
Such a cute plate this one, I've used the cactus and it looked so sweet  ^_^
Really looking forward to use the other designs.

 Right now I'm doing some experimenting with glue as a base for glitter polishes, if it works out I'll never be afraid to use glitters or flakies ever again. Just think of all the stamping designs with glitter as base! Really hoping for the best :)

Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥

Mash 29 Image Plate

This is the only plate in this set that has a skull image design, I guess at least they included one but it kinda looks generic.
Love the stars and the feather/leaf design. The swirly pattern looks nice too but I'm not sure how to use it. The tribal design looks cool but I never know how to use those designs as well :/
I guess I will have to Google pics before I try them out.


Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥

Mash 26 Image Plate

First image plate from the second set of MASH. Most are french tip designs with one floral design in the middle. I noticed that the french tip star is more oval shaped than the others which I think is kinda cool. ^_^

The maple leaves design is going to be great this fall, I would have preferred it be a full nail design though *sigh*

The scales.... hmmm it's a bit weird for me because usually the design goes horizontal... Oh well...

Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥

Red Angel 108 Image Plate

Love the tribal print on this plate even though it's a little shorter than the other designs, I'm currently using this design on my nails as I'm typing this ^_^
The retro squares are so common but I like this one, will have to keep a mental note to use this. The couple other full designs are okay too
The flowers on the side look like jasmines to me.

Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥

Red Angel 105 Image Plate

I just noticed that some of the full nail designs on this set are smaller than the others, take a closer look on the grass with orb like patterns it's obviously smaller than the tribal design beside it.

I don't want to fuss over it too much because I don't let my nails grow too long anyway.

Again love the unique designs but I would have preferred that the tribal print was the other way around, I mean they should have switched the etching on it the etched part should be the smooth part and vice versa. Oh well...

Rating: ♥♥♥♥♡

OB15 Image Plate

Do you like tribal prints? Then this plate is for you! Or maybe you like Choco Cat, just take your pick ^_^

I've only used this plate once and that was when I used the cat images, I did try to use the full nail with flowers but I had hard time scraping it and believe me I've tried all directions.
The tribal images I haven't used so must I put that on my nail art to do list ^_^


Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥

Bundle Monster 221

I like the tribal print but it's a little too narrow than the other full nail designs, I wonder why that is. The flowers are nice, the animal print not so much it looks a bit lacking and the other full design is just okay. The stem of leaves is cute, I wish there were more ^_^

Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥

Bundle Monster 219

Tribal french tips, NICE! These designs are very suitable for french tips, I mean the reason to use french tips should be to vamp up your nail tips and these are great for that ^_^

Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥