Author: RiaG

Delush Polish – Trendsetter

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Happy Saturday lovelies! Quick post today as I’m trying to survive here in the sickhouse.  It’s been a week of only a couple of hours of sleep per night (if that) and I’m starting to look and feel like I’m ready to go play a part of a zombie in Walking Dead ;) Kids are still sick and the little man is so sick that I needed to take him to the doctor and now he is getting antibiotics to help him beat an ear infection and what not.

But enough of that and on to the polish :) This stunning blue-ish grey metallic shimmer is Delush Polish Trendsetter from the Nue Collection. Great formula, easy application and opaque with two coats. Hardly any visible brush strokes and very quick dry time. Perfect!

This is a coat of Essie Nourish Me, a coat of Glisten & Glow Stuck On Blu!, two coats of Trendsetter and HK Girl top coat.

 

***Trendsetter was purchased by me.  I don’t benefit from clicking the link on this post.
 

Polishers Inc. – So 90’s!

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Polishers Inc. Sunday is here again! Today’s theme is “So 90’s!”. First thing that came to mind was Nirvana and grunge but I decided to do something bright and fun instead and got inspiration from early 90’s crazy clothing and colors.

Index and middle finger nails are done with a little help from NailVinyls. Ring and and pinky nail have slices cut out of dried watermarble sheet.

Base color is Essie Licorice. Other colors used are OPI Hey Baby, OPI Live.Love.Carnaval, OPI Where Did Suzi’s Man-Go?, OPI I Just Can’t Cope-Acapana, China Glaze Def Defying and Color Club Wicker Park. Shine is provided by Glisten & Glow HK Girl top coat.

That’s all from me this time and please don’t forget to check what the other ladies have come up with this week. You can find the links at the end of this post. Thank you for reading!

 

 

 

Reminding myself that age is just a number…

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Lately I’ve caught myself thinking that “Ohh, that’s pretty! If only I was ten years younger!” on more than one occasion. I’ve felt that I’m starting to be too old for certain things like crazy colored hair or really bright eye shadows. Now it’s time to break out of that box I’ve locked myself into. I’m 38 years old and I’m not too old! Age really is just a number!

I keep buying beautiful, colorful makeup only to leave it sitting on my makeup drawer while I reach for another Naked palette once again. There’s nothing wrong with nude makeup, it’s quick and easy and can’t really go wrong … or can it?

I have noticed that yes, it actually can.

Let me explain.

During summer nude makeup looks fresh, beautiful and glowing. During winter, not so much. I’ve noticed it makes me look dull, lifeless and older *gasp* Winter and spring require color and a good amount of it too. The other day I was testing lipsticks just for the hell of it. Brown-ish red lipstick made me look 5 years older, I swear! (that color looks great on some people, I’m obviously not one of them). Nude colors made my already small mouth disappear completely. Then I tried on bright pink and it instantly lit up my whole face. I had no other makeup on and the difference just the lipstick made was significant.

So the next step was to go for something other than a nude eye shadow palette. I chose Sugarpill Cold Chemistry cos the colors are perfect for winter. I’ve owned this palette for over a year now and I’ve only used the white Diamond Eyes shade. Shame on me!!

This is what I mean though. I have gorgeous, good quality eye shadow palettes and I show them no love. Instead of looking radiant during the winter I decided to look beige most of the time. When and how did this happen? I don’t know but it changes now.

 

 

I think this blog is going to take a new direction from here on…

“Almost forty is the new thirty!”  :D

I’m not old!
I can do whatever I want!
Self-made rules are meant to be bent and broken!

Yes, I’m having some sort of age crisis and I’ll fight it publicly, with color! LOL

Eye makeup was done with Sugarpill Cold Chemistry. Lips have Illamasqua Eurydice and MAC Fleshpot in sort of a gradient application. I have a lot of nude lipcolors so this is a perfect way to still use them :)

***All products used for this makeup look were purchased by me.  I don’t benefit from clicking the link on this post.

Dance Legend – Android

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Lately I’ve become a little obsessed about Dance Legend polishes so here’s another one. This is Android, a gorgeous green linear holo.

Formula was excellent and very easy to apply. This was very pigmented so it could also work for stamping. I can’t wait to wear this again on a sunny day. So pretty!

This is two coats over Glisten & Glow Stuck On Blu! base coat, no top coat.

 

***Android was purchased by me.
 

Lacquer Lust – BBN

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Lacquer Lust Butt Bootie Naked was a long time lemming of mine and I finally bought it from Norway Nails sale. This is a nude linear holo that looks almost like a taupe holo to me. I love taupe polishes and I love holos so naturally I loved this polish too.

Excellent formula and application. No balding at all and two easy coats gave an opaque result. I wore this for three days and there was minimal tip wear on a couple of nails and no chipping at all. Perfect!!

On this manicure I used a coat of Essie Nourish Me, two coats of BBN and HK Girl top coat.

 

***BBN was purchased by me. I don’t benefit from clicking the link on this post.

Jindie Nails – Phone, Keys, Polish, Check! and The Blue That Holds Us Together

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Today I have two awesome polishes by Jindie Nails. These are sister polishes Phone, Keys, Polish, Check! and The Blue That Holds Us Together.

These are really vibrant colored jelly polishes packed with glitter, microglitter, holographic glitter, and shimmer. Absolutely stunning!!!

Phone, Keys, Polish, Check! is a one coater! One generous coat was enough for an opaque result. Application was excellent and dry time was quick. This dries a little rough so I applied two coats of top coat to get a smoother result.

This is one coat of Essie Beam Me, a coat of  Phone, Keys, Polish, Check! and two coats of HK Girl top coat.

 

The Blue That Holds Us Together had an equally excellent formula and application. Though for this I applied two thinner coats. This was also a bit top coat hungry so again I applied two coats of top coat.

This is a coat of Essie Beam Me, two coats of The Blue That Holds Us Together and two coats of HK Girl.

 

Aaaahhh!! I’m so in love with these! They are even more vibrant and sparkling in real life!

You can buy Jindie Nails polishes from JindieNails.com or from authorized distributors. You can find the latest news, releases and restock info from their FB and IG.

 
***These were sent for review. I don’t benefit from clicking any of the links on this post.

Polishers Inc. – Safe and Sound

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Today’s Polishers Inc. theme was Safe and Sound aka my comfort zone manicure. For me the bright red polish is always a safe choice. I love red nails and red looks great with my skin tone. I also love to use studs and rhinestones. They are so quick and easy to use and nearly impossible to mess up.

For this manicure I used a coat of Essie Nourish Me, a coat of Glisten & Glow Stuck On Blu!, two coats of Delush Polish Glam Squad and HK Girl top coat. I also used different sized clear rhinestones plus black and silver studs for these nails.

Don’t forget to check out the links at the bottom of the post and show some love for the other lovely ladies in this group :)

 

 

 

Mavala Nude Colors and a dry brush manicure

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I’ve already shown you the new Mavala Spring 2015 Nude Colors collection here and this time I used all the polishes from this collection to do a dry brush manicure.

I started by applying a coat of 112 Pink Boudoir on a coat of Essie Nourish Me. This one was pretty well behaving and one generous coat evened itself out nicely and dried fast. I really liked this powdery soft pink so I ended up wearing it alone for a day before doing to dry brush manicure.

 

For this dry brush design I used all the polishes on this collection. I love how matte polishes leave such nice textured look on the nail. Very quick and easy to do. This soft looking design also goes really well together with brighter spring colors.

 

***This collection was sent for review.
 

Freehand lace nail art

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After two days my KIKO 512 (see the original post here) manicure still looked so good that I decided to practice some free hand lace nail art on it before removing the mani.

I used my Pure Color NO. 10 brush and white acrylic paint for this design.

 

 

***Products used for this manicure were purchased by me.

On a road for a Better Hair Day

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I’m going through postpartum hair loss for the third time in my life and let me tell you it’s still not enjoyable. So I’ve experienced this twice before and it still freaks me out. I feel like I’m going to be bald any day now. This time the difference is that I’m getting a little outside help. I’m part of a test group and I get to test a product that is going to be sold in pharmacies here in Finland starting February. I tell you the timing couldn’t be more perfect than this. I got 4 months worth of these pills and I started taking them last week. Naturally when it comes to hair and nails nothing works in days but I hope to see some results in a couple of months.

I think the hair is still going to fall off either way but I hope this product will help me grow new hair faster and stronger. Even if this exact product is only sold in Finland I’m still going to keep everyone updated on this project too since something similar is probably available in many countries.

 

 

Right now I’ve been growing my own hair color back since late October 2013. So bleaching or hair dyes are not going to play any part in this project. It’s been relaxing just letting my own color grow out and having a healthy shiny hair is a great bonus. Now this postpartum hair loss has come to haunt me again and like my nails and eyebrows, my hair is also very thin so I can’t really afford to lose hair like this.

I’ll take some before photos this week and take some after photos when I hit two and four months. Fingers crossed that this helps me to continue my hair growing project.