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Color Club Perfect Mol-ten with some Mistletoe Kisses

Thursday, December 29th, 2011

Say hello to my shorter nails! I had a crack in one nail and a scratch along the tip of another, so I thought it was time to shorten them a bit. I felt a bit amputated at first, but now I’m used to it. My father-in-law was quite clear on what he thought looked best.. =)

So, this is the manicure I had last week before Christmas, it’s two coats of Color Club Perfect Mol-ten (which I wore alone for a few days at first), a cool green foil, and then I painted the tips with China Glaze Mistletoe Kisses, a green jelly with silver glitter in it, and then topped it with Seche Vite. There wasn’t much daylight to photograph in but I think I got some fairly decent pictures of it.

I’m not good at freehand, but as these colors are so close together, and there’s glitter as well I think I got away with it =)

When I first wore Perfect Mol-ten I thought it reminded me of something else, and I’m pretty sure it was China Glaze Cherish. It has a similar finish, but this one is a much cooler green. And this one is a lot easier to handle!

I hope you’ve all had a wonderful Christmas/Hannukkah/Holiday/Whatever =)

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Some Layering On Trendsetter

Saturday, October 8th, 2011

Can you make China Glaze Trendsetter  look more beautiful? I wanted to find that out so I picked out a few polishes from my stash that I thought would be interesting to try on top of it.

L-R: China Glaze White Cap, Max Factor Dazzling Blue, CND Effects Amethyst Sparkle, Color Club Neon White(?), Steel Tropica Sea

The last polish is an oldie from H&M, do anyone remember those?

And here are the results. I apologize for pre cleanup pics, I just seem to mess up quickies like this so I thought I’d take the photos as soon as possible.

Color Club Neon White. I have no idea what they mean by neon in the name, it’s mostly just a sheer pearlescent shimmer. It adds a very pink/purple glow to Trendsetter. It’s not really visible in this shot, but you can see it further down in this post.

China Glaze White Cap. Depending on how thick you layer this you get a lighter base color, full with yellow/golden sparkles.

Max Factor Dazzling Blue. I love how this turned out! Sure, I did a sloppy job but if you do it properly I think it can look gorgeous.  You get more of a blue/grassy green shade that shifts a little to pink in certain angles.

CND Effects Amethyst Sparkle. This combination keeps the base color of Trendsetter, but adds a purple shimmer to it. I quite liked this one as well.

Steel Tropical Sea is an iridescent blue/lavender color, with flashes in pink. It creates quite an interesting shade on top of the olive green base. It’s too bad the brush strokes are so visible. This polish is one of my oldest, it’s probably from the late 90s.

And here are a couple of photos with all of them together:

Thumb to pinkie: Color Club Neon White, China Glaze White Cap, Max Factor Dazzling Blue, CND Effects Amethyst Sparkle, Steel Tropica Sea

Do you like any of these combinations, or do you think I’ve ruined the beauty of Trendsetter? =)

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China Glaze Trendsetter

Saturday, October 8th, 2011

This color isn’t really my cup of tea.. But I still wanted to try a fugly polish for once, so I decided to get this one anyway. As you all probably know Trendsetter is from China Glaze’s fall collection Metro, and is a yellowish olive green with golden shimmer. The formula was very easy to work with, I only went for two coats but if I were to keep the manicure on for longer I would probably have gone for a third. On top of that I applied China Glaze Fast Forward.

The color actually seem to suit my coloring, and it didn’t look quite as bad as I thought it would.

Outside without sun. Please ignore my non-moisturized fingers.

In sunlight. The golden shimmer really makes this polish more interesting.

With flash.

I was thinking if it was possible to make this one look better with some layering, I’ll show you what I did in a separate post.

What do you think of this polish? I thought I would hate it but ended up liking it a bit anyway, so I will probably wear it again in the future.

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China Glaze Oxidized Aqua

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

When I got Oxidized Aqua, a light turquoise shimmery crackle, I wanted to try it out at once. So I applied it on top of the dark turquoise/blue/teal colored Color Club Emerald Depths. I also applied China Glaze Fast Forward on top.  I quite like this combination, it’s both edgy and subtle at the same time.

Photos are taken outside.

Are you sick of crackle manicures yet? Being a shimmer whore I can’t help but fall in love with all the shimmery crackle polishes that have been released lately.

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Color Club Emerald Depths

Saturday, October 1st, 2011

When I made a comparison with some teal/aqua polishes Emerald Depths got some attention, and I thought it was time to show a full manicure with it. Unfortunately it doesn’t look it’s best here, I had cleaned the house before I took the photos, and you know what that can do to a polish!

Anyway, this is three coats plus Seche Vite top coat.

It’s a blue toned teal shimmer, and I really like this color.

Last photo is taken inside with flash:

I wasn’t so careful while applying it so I got some visible brush strokes, especially on the middle finger, but I don’t think it’s looks too bad.

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KleanColor Metallic Black And Some Layering With Nfu Oh 48

Saturday, September 10th, 2011

Mmmm.. black… *said in Homer Simpson style while drooling*. KleanColor Metallic Black looks nearly black with its silver shimmer, and dries a little matte. I really love this finish, and as with the rest of the polishes in this collection one coat was enough (except for the ring finger, I was clumsy and dented it).

It looks like there’s tip wear, but I had just filed my nails and it kind of looked weird because of that.

The shimmer looks quite lovely in the sun.

While I was taking photos inside, my cat Lakrits wanted to join in, so here you have a fur background =)

I thought this polish was perfect to layer something on, so I chose my Nfu Oh 48 to put on top of it. That one has a sheer pink base, with silver shimmer and flakies that change color between yellow, orange, green and some kind of salmon pink. Let’s see what that looks like:

I really like this combination!

Here you see some of the color shifts in the flakies.

Ooops, haven’t done my cleanup I see..

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Isadora Sun Orange

Saturday, August 13th, 2011

Before I start posting any images of KleanColor manicures I wanted to show you this Isadora polish first. It’s the beautiful shimmery Sun Orange, which has been on sale at Kicks and Åhléns lately. I actually picked it up one day but put it back. I changed my mind and when I got to my local store next time it was gone! But I finally managed to find it in another store.

I went for four coats plus China Glaze Fast Forward top coat. I put on a little thicker coat on my ring finger and that resulted in some bubbling, so for me it was better to stick to sheerer coats.

In full sunlight.

Inside without flash, you can see a bit of VNL here.

I’ve never really been fond of these types of yellow orange tones before, but I really like this!

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H&M Coral

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

I bought one of the Spring Nails mini sets from H&M a few months back, and the polish that interested me the most was Coral. I’ve been slightly obsessed by that color this season, both in polish, makeup and clothes. And I’m really glad I got this one, because it’s quite beautiful. It’s a light coral shade with golden shimmer. To be honest I don’t really remember how many coats I did, but probably three as I usually do, and I don’t think I had any problems with the formula.

Outside in the shade.

In sunlight.

I love the golden shimmer in this!

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Some Comparisons of Blue/Aqua/Teal Shimmers

Friday, August 5th, 2011

I bought a couple of polishes each from China Glaze’s and Misa’s summer collections, and when I looked at Mermaid Dreams and Blue Iguana I thought they needed a comparison. I also added one more blue from my collection.

Left to right: L.A. Girl Alkaline Blue, China Glaze Blue Iguana, and Misa Mermaid Dreams.

Here’s me trying to be pedagogical. I’ve applied two coats of each polish.

Blue Iguana in the middle is the sheerest and the greenest of the bunch. Alkaline Blue to the right is the darkest blue. I do find the finishes to be quite similar on all of these.

Here’s a close-up of Mermaid Dreams and Blue Iguana, and I think you can see the purple shift in BI here, and that’s what I think sets this one apart from the Misa polish. So I think you need both =)

I also bought Misa Krystal Water and wanted to compare it to other similar polishes, and to my horror I hardly found any in my stash! After some digging I came up with these to have something to compare it to:

Left to right: Viva La Diva no. 76, Misa Krystal Water, Color Club Emerald Depths.

This is also only two coats each.

Emerald Depths is the darkest and most blue, Krystal Water is the lightest one with it’s beautiful glassfleck shimmer, and VLD no. 76 is the greenest one. They’re all lovely in their own way!

 

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China Glaze Cherish

Sunday, July 31st, 2011

China Glaze Cherish is a beautiful light green polish from the Romantique collection. Last time I wore this I had the same first impression as with Harmony from the same collection, that it was a bit messy to apply. So I tried doing just one coat of polish this time around, and it was definitely better. I did get some pooling on a couple of nails, but after it dried with top coat on (Fast Forward) I thought it looked pretty good anyway.

In sunlight. I love the way the polishes in this collection shimmer in the sun.

Indirect natural light, where it looks more satiny.

With flash, showing off my Schefflera as well. It’s one of the few living green things in my home..

And you know what, I finally have vacation! But something tells me I won’t be able to do half of the things I have planned, but I’ll try my best to get some fun things done. Hopefully that means more posts on my blog =)

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