Author: RiaG

Sephora by OPI – Opening Night

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This is a perfect choice for my first swatch from the Sephora by OPI 18 minibottles collection. Sephora by OPI Opening Night is a stunning blue shimmer polish. This shade is so deep and still clearly blue, not black in any light.

This is a dupe for OPI Yoga-Ta Get This Blue!. I compared this next to each other on my nail and Yoga-Ta Get This Blue! is tiny bit deeper blue and has brighter shimmer. The difference is too slight for my camera to capture so no use taking a pic. If you have neither of these polishes and you have to choose between the two I recommend YGTB! cos that one is just a tiny tiny bit more beautiful.

This polish is so pigment-rich and applies so smoothly. One coat was enough for my short nails and it dried super-fast. Perfect!

In this mani I used: Nail Tek II x1, Opening Night x1 and Seche Vite on top.

 


My poor nails!

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This nail-a-holic has been extremely lazy lately when it comes to taking care of her nails and the result can be seen on the pic. Short, uneven length and peeling nails. Bleh!

I’m trying my best to take better care of my nails from now on so I can have my long and beautiful nails back. While they grow back I’m still going to take pics of nail polish and I hope people won’t be bothered by the fact that for a while my nails will be different length and shape and won’t look all that pretty ;)

 

Still alive ;)

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I’m still here even though I have been taking quite a long break from blogging. Maybe I can finally find some inspiration to write again. I took some photos of few of the things I’ve bought/got lately and I’ll write more detailed reviews of these products later. Tomorrow I’ll show you my poor, short, neglected nails. I hope I can also find some inspiration to take care of and grow my nails again :P

 

My lovely husband got me the amazing Urban Decay Naked palette for my birthday.
And my lovely sister in law got me this cool nail polish collection. How great is she! :D
A collection of 18 Sephora by OPI nail colours.
The shades are:
A True Romantic
Techno Girl
Access 24/7
Ms. Can’t Be Wrong
What a Broad
Just a Little Dangerous
Cab Fare
Caliente Coral
Special Request
High Maintenance
Sample Sale
I’m With Brad
Leaf Him at the Altar
Mermaid to Order
Opening Night
Already Famous
Dating the Drummer
Never Enough Shoes
We went to Long Island, NY to visit family and enjoy some great food on Thanksgiving. Of course I had to buy some cosmetics too ;)
Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear glitter shades 24 Shooting Star and 200 Strobe Light plus HD shade 15 DVD. I was thinking about layering these with other polishes.
Sephora by OPI Metro Chic and Only Gold for Me Top Coat.
A few bottles of Seche Vite and Poshe fast drying Top Coats.
Pink ones of course ;)
I got another NARS Albatross from Sephora to wait for the old one to be finished off first. Dior eyeshadow Crush Glow I got from Finland a while back.
Got Maybelline Lash Stiletto Volume just to try it out. I’ll review this sometime soon :)
And last but not least the newest addition to our family white male mini-schnauzer puppy, Aarre.

Color Club’s Lava Lamp with Dior’s Indian Saffron + an attack of a killer balcony window

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Here’s a nice summer-y manicure. Color Club Lava Lamp is bright neon orange creme. It’s really cool on it’s own but this time I wanted some depth to the shade so I added Dior Indian Saffron on top of it. Indian Saffron is sheer, peachy color which has a lot of micro-glitter in it.

In the first photo I have one coat of OPI NNS and two coats of Lava Lamp.

On the Second pic I have added two coats of Dior Indian Saffron and a coat of Seche Vite on top.

In the last pic you see what happened to my poor nail yesterday morning. Killer balcony window attacked my left index finger nail and almost tore the whole thing off. I can tell you that really HURT and it actually still does! The torn part is still attached and it’s hanging by a tiny bit of nail. I don’t have the balls to remove it cos it hurts way too much. Now I keep hitting it everywhere and screaming every 5 mins. I filed the nail as short as I could after taking that pic and now I try to survive with a little help from a band aid for the next couple of weeks.

Now I’m also gonna have to live with one nail shorter than the others for a while cos I don’t want to cut all of my nails super short. At least I’m on a maternity leave and no one pays attention to my nails here at home :P

 

Photo taken in sunlight. This is so bright my camera couldn’t handle it too well.
Photo taken under artificial light to show the glitter a little better 
Oh the horror!!!

 

China Glaze – Golden Spurs

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After that glitter overdose and the last mani that was about as attractive as dog puke I decided to go for something a little more subtle. China Glaze Golden Spurs was perfect for that. I got this ages ago but never tried it until now. I have so many polishes that I have never tried and I’ve had them for a long time now. So I made a decision not to buy any nail polish until I have worn all the polishes I have at least once. Though I’ll let myself slip if I run into some extremely gorgeous polish for a great price.

Golden Spurs is from China Glaze Fall 2008 Rodeo Diva collection. Beautiful golden sand-y brown shade with a lot of gold shimmer. This is thin in the bottle and applies like a dream. Took only two coats to be opaque and dried really fast.

In this mani I used: OPI NNS x1, Golden Spurs x2 and Seche Vite on top.

 

(Photo taken in sunlight)

 

French mani with glitter vol. 2

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This is yesterday’s mani. I added butterflies and made some dots with Color Club Electro Candy using a dotting tool. A little too cute for my taste but I’ll post the pic anyways ;) I don’t know when I’ll learn that decorations like this just aren’t my thing :P Thank goodness for nail polish remover!

 

French mani with glitter

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Let’s continue with glitter. Here’s a french mani with glitter. I found a package of Trind Nail Stickers for French Manicure thingies and as soon as I used them I vividly remembered why they were forgotten in the first place. They leave glue goo on your nails and yet they don’t stick well enough to create a sharp straight line. Also I like the white line to be a little more curved than what these stickers are. Regardless of all this I decided to continue my mani and covered the whole mess with some glitter polish.

In this mani I used: OPI NNS, OPI Alpine Snow on the tips and Color Club Si Vous Please! to cover everything. Seche Vite on top to dry the whole thing.

Not perfect but allright. Next time I could try some sheer pink polish under the glitter and free hand the tips.

 

Color Club Pardon My French Collection – Part 3

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Here are the glitters layered with creme polishes and they definitely look the best this way.

I layered Turn The Other Chic with five polishes and the results looked really good. It changed the neon-green Color Club Feelin’ Groovy into more grassy/nuclear green, very cool looking shade. It also gave black polish a hint of golden green. It was nice and pale over white creme and very bright and fresh looking on bright yellow Color Club Almost Famous.

I also took new pics of Oh Naturale and I Believe In Amour with just one coat on.

These are just quick swatches so no base or topcoat on these pics.

I Believe In Amour (1 coat)
Oh Naturale (1 coat)
Pardon My French (2 coats) and Hot Couture (1 coat)
I Believe In Amour (2 coats) and Hot Couture (1 coat)
Take Me To Your Chateau (1 coat) and Si Vous Please! (1 coat)
Oh Naturale (2 coats) and Turn The Other Chic (1 coat)
OPI Alpine Snow (white creme, 2 coats) and Turn The Other Chic (1 coat)
Color Club Almost Famous (neon yellow, 2 coats) and Turn The Other Chic (1 coat)
Color Club Where’s The Soiree? (black creme, 1 coat) and Turn The Other Chic (1 coat)
Color Club Feelin’ Groovy (neon green, 2 coats) and Turn The Other Chic (1 coat)

Color Club Pardon My French Collection – Part 2

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Here are the glitter polishes from the Pardon My French collection. These are very sheer and have multicolored glitter in them.

Hot Couture is peachy looking in the bottle but doesn’t leave much color on the nails.

Turn The Other Chic is fun yellow glitter and gives most coverage out of these three.

Si Vous Please! is clear slightly blue tinted polish. The hint of blue saves the day in this polish and even if it’s very sheer my yellow-ish nail tips look bright white with this one so you can wear it alone too.

These work the best when layered with the creme polishes from this collection and I’ll show you pics of that tomorrow :)

 

Hot Couture (3 coats)
Turn The Other Chic (2 coats)Si Vous Please! (2 coats)