Swatch: Essence - Choose Me!

Oh, Essence - Choose Me! - choose you I did indeed! :D
I've been wanting to wear this as a base colour ever since I received it, because it just looks so gorgeous in the bottle. Fortunately, I was not disappointed. :)

Choose Me! is a bit hard to describe the colour of. In some lights it looks blue, in some lights it looks teal, in some lights it looks like a colour-shifting polish with blue-to-green powers.

The shimmer is also interesting. In this next picture, though not colour accurate, you can kind of see that it's almost more like little flecks than glitter/shimmer.

 Here's one that shows some of the colour diversity:

By the way, this is two coats. It's fine with two. If I was picky I could have gone with three.
Either way, it's quite lovely. :)

I'm glad I have this polish, and finally got to use it in my Sea Water nails. I've also used it in my Let it Rain nails.
I love pretty polishes. :)

06/03/13 - Sea Water

So after the disaster of yesterday, I appealed to my friends for a fail-proof idea. Natalia suggested the saran-wrap method, which I have yet to try.
It occurred to me that if I chose shades of blue and green, it might look like sea water. And so I gave it a shot, and added a fish to match. :)

I used Essence - Choose Me!, Love&Beauty - Mint, and Wet 'n' Wild - Blue Wants to Be a Millionaire for the saran-wrap styled base, in that order.
The fish is done with Sally Hansen - Orange Impulse, with apparently invisible hints of Brash - Gone Bananas. I finished that off with Kiss's black striper for the eye, and dotted on some bubbles with Sally Hansen - Platinum.

Unlike my last design, the more I look at this, the more I like it. :) It's so simple, but it takes me away to lovely thoughts of summer and happiness.

And just to try to show why it reminds me of water, here's a picture of my hand in water:

Have a happy day, everyone. :)

06/02/13 - Fail Stripey Plaidish Nails

So, I saw a Pin on Pinterest that I thought looked super cute. I decided to do a design inspired by it. I tested it on my handy dandy test page. Looks good to go. I did the process on each of my ten nails. By the time I put the finishing touches on it, I didn't like it. By the next morning (since I do my nails at night), I hated it. This design only stayed on my nails less than 24 hours, basically being removed as soon as I could.

 

I don't really know what went wrong, but it just didn't work. I started with China Glaze - Fairy Dust (something I was sure would always guarantee success!), then did stripes with Lime Crime - Pastelchio, Lime Crime - Parfait Day, Essence - Break Through, Jordana - Boy oh Boy, and Lime Crime - Peaches <3 Cream. Then I did the plaidish lines in Pure Ice - Super Star.

I'll post the design I changed to tomorrow, and I like it much better. :)

05/20/13 - Lime Toes

A while ago I painted my toes. I kept it pretty simple.

It's just a gradient from Love&Beauty - Neon Yellow to Love&Beauty - Neon Green, topped with Sation - Tall, Dark, and Has Some.

Tall, Dark, and Has Some is a fun glitter. It's got varying sizes of black glitter and blue shards and small hexagons. Paring it with the neons makes for a fun combination.

That's it. But I like it. :)

05/25/13 - April Showers Bring May Flowers

I know May is almost over, but my friend Brittany suggested this, and as the weather is still being weird and raining, I thought I'd give it a shot. :)

I tried to show the transition. Rainy, stormy weather, to rainy, to cloudy, to flowers!
There were a lot of polishes used in this, and if you're curious about any of them I could let you know. But I will tell you the base colours are China Glaze - Concrete Catwalk, Sally Hansen - Wet Cement, and Lime Crime - Once in a Blue Mousse.

I think this is fun, matches the theme pretty well, and certainly represents the weather we're having right now.

Thanks for the idea!

Swatch: Color Club - Wild At Heart

I've been meaning to write this post for the last week, but for whatever reason kept getting distracted! Maybe it had something to do with having a bunch of tests last week. Oh well!
So this is a swatch post for Color Club - Wild at Heart. This is only one coat (!). I do my nails at night, so no sunshine pictures, but it really is gorgeous in the sun, and you can even see how pretty it is inside.

Bam! Look at that! Gorgeous!

I swear when I was debating buying this, most reviews said it was a scattered holo. While it's not as linear as some holos, it seems more linear than scattered to me.

The formula was awesome, too. Like I said, one coat, and it looks beautiful and smooth!

I've only used this in my Checkered nails, but seeing how beautiful it is, I'll have to use it again.

This might be one of my favourite polishes now. :)

Checkered Nail Art Tutorial

If you were wondering how I did the checkered nail art in my last post, wonder no longer. I did a tutorial for this one too. :)

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