Author: RiaG

Color Club Electro Candy – What a Shock!

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Do I even need to write anything about this!?

Electro Candy collection’s neon-green What a Shock! is a must have for all the green nail polish lovers. Bright green with green shimmer. Blindingly stunning and unique shade! These nails will not go unnoticed.

What a Shock! applies very well and 2 – 3 coats is enough. In this mani I used only 3 coats of What a Shock! without top coat.

Again my skin tone looks really weird cos of the cam settings and Photoshopping. This was hard one to photograph but the polish shade looks quite accurate to real life in this pic.

 

Color Club Electro Candy – Electro Candy

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Here’s the next treat from the new Color Club collection. This one has been named after the collection and it’s the shockingly pink Electro Candy. This is a neon pink, very bright shade with pale blue shimmer. This is about as pink as a nail polish can get!

Electro Candy is little thicker and more opaque than Volt Of Light. This also applied smooth as butter and for shorter nails two coats will be enough. If you have longer nails you might want to add a third coat.

In this mani I used: Electro Candy x3 and Seche Vite fast drying topcoat.

My skin tone looks really weird in the pic. I had to adjust the camera settings and then PhotoShop it a bit to get the bright pink shade to show on the photo. The pic still doesn’t do the shade any justice and IRL it’s much more candy pink. I do need to re-photograph this again when the sun comes out long enough.

*EDIT I added another picture. On the second pic the polish looks a little closer to what it looks like IRL.

 

Color Club Electro Candy – Volt Of Light

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My beloved readers, here’s the first taste from the super-delicious Color Club Electro Candy collection. Volt Of Light is a neon yellow polish with green shimmer and flash. First thing that comes to mind when I look at this shade is a highlighter pen :D This is insanely fun shade and great thing is that it’s not tacky at all.

Volt Of Light is very thin in the bottle and applies very well. It’s quite sheer but it’s nice and smooth starting from the first coat. So you can only apply one coat for a hint of color or keep layering it to get a more neon result. Three coats is enough for “in your face” effect but you might need four coats for an fully opaque result. Seche Vite dried three coats pretty fast.

In this mani I used Volt Of Light x3 and Seche Vite on top. IRL this shade is even a bit brighter than it is in this pic.

And no, my nails didn’t experience an overnight miracle. I got tired of constant peeling and breaking and got acrylic nails. That’s also why there’s no base coat on my nails in this mani. We’ll see how long I’ll feel like keeping the acrylic nails on and decide to grow them out. But for now I feel more comfortable with these longer nails than the short ones.

 

OPI – Don’t Toy With Me!

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OPI nail polish for a change ;)

As the photo shows you my nails are still short :( We’ve had pretty cold weather for a while now and I guess that has caused my nails to peel and break easily. I’ve been trying to use a lot of moisturizers and oils but those don’t seem to be making a very big difference.

Don’t Toy With Me! is a magenta micro-glitter polish from the Holiday In Toyland collection. This shade is really gorgeous and I think the micro-glitter has a bit pink-ish tone to it. This one is definately not only for Holiday season!

DTWM! was quite thin in the bottle and applied really well. Since I have short nails two coats was enough. If you have longer nails you might need three coats for fully opaque result. In this mani I used: Nail Tek II x1, Don’t Toy With Me! x2 and Seche Vite on top.

 

OPI – The “IT” Color

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First of all I’m very sorry about the blog silence for the past couple of weeks. Life’s been a bit busy for me lately but I’m back now. I have a few new nail polish bottles too but I haven’t had time to swatch them or not to mention photographing. Luckily I have a few more pics that I haven’t shown you yet. I also still have long nails on those pics. At the moment my nails are actually quite short and they started peeling after breaking off. Peeling seems to have calmed down a bit so maybe I can start growing them longer again very soon.

And then to the point, which is a perfect yellow creme polish, OPI The “IT” Color. This somewhat dirty yellow shade is a perfect accessory and you can wear it around the year if you feel the color suits you. This polish is not too bright or “in your face” shade, instead it’s just perfect and unique. I saw a photo of this polish on The Polish Addict‘s blog and I just had to have it for myself too.

The “IT” Color’s application is not the easiest possible and it requires three coats for an opaque result. It dried quite fast with Poshe. In this mani I used: Nail Tek II x2, The “IT” Color x3 and Poshe on the top.

 

Konad shopping

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I got my first Konad order in mail last week. I ordered these from Konad Finland. As you can see I got Stamp & Scraper package, two Konad plates (M62 and M63) and black special nail polish. I have yet to try these out since I’ve been quite busy lately. I don’t want to do it in a hurry cos I don’t think the first time is going to be that easy to begin with and doing it in a big rush will make it all the more harder.

I will post pics as soon as I try ’em out. I’m really looking forward on Konading my nails and buying some more nail polishes and Image Plates.

 

Nail breakage tragedy

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This posting is only about me complaining about breaking my nails. Just when I had them grown to the lenght and shape I wanted them to be they have to go and fall apart. Since I broke three nails I had to trim all of them short. I had an option of getting gel/concept nails on the broken ones or try to glue them, but I decided that it’s easiest just to cut them short.

So now I start to grow them back long again and I hope it won’t take forever. I still have a few swatch pics with the long nails, but after that you’ll have to live with the short nail swatches for a bit.

It’s quite a change from the nails you can see on the last posting’s photo, eh?

 

China Glaze – Bahamian Escape

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I decided to show you yet another polish from the China Glaze Bahama Blues collection. This is the last one I own from that collection, Bahamian Escape. I love this light blue creme polish, the shade is so fresh. My first Konad order also just arrived and this color just scream for some Konading, IMO ;D

Bahamian Escape is a bit on the thick side and the application isn’t the best possible, but it’s workable. Two coats is enough for opaque result and this one dries pretty quickly. In this mani I used: Nail Tek II x1, Bahamian Escape x2 and Seche Vite on top.

My laptop is still being fixed but as far as I know it is ready and I should get it back early next week. Then I can get back to my normal posting rhythm.

This week I also experienced the horror of nail breakage :´( I broke two nails at work and I had to trim all of them short. Feels so weird. Well I still have a few swatch pics for you with the long nails and hopefully my nails grow back long soon.

 

China Glaze – Caribbean Blue

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Yet another polish from the China Glaze Bahama Blues collection, Caribbean Blue. This is an interesting light blue shade with a lot of silver micro-glitter/chunky shimmer. I expected this to be brighter but I see it as bit muted. Either way it’s quite pretty.

Caribbean Blue was normal thickness in the bottle and it dried quicly. Application could’ve been a bit better though. I think this needs three coats to be fully opaque. I was lazy though and only applied two coats cos I knew I was gonna remove it the following morning ;)

In this mani I used: OPI Nail Envy Soft & Thin x1, Caribbean Blue x2 and Poshe on top.

 

Hard To Find (for now)

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OPI Kinky In Helsinki is one of those Hard To Find discontinued polishes. I don’t exactly know what to call this color… magenta with a lot of shimmer might be closest to the truth. It’s a lovely, radiant shade. I bet many people have also bought this nail polish just for it’s name ;) This is one of my all time favorites and I just love this color.

So you can imagine my excitement when I read about OPI re-releases from Nail Juice‘s blog. In march the re-released OPI nail polish will be no other than Kinky In Helsinki. I don’t care what I have to go through to get myself a backup bottle of Kinky, but I’m gonna find a way. My own bottle is already years old and I can really use another one for future.

My Kinky In Helsinki is already quite thin in the bottle due to the old age but it still applies like butter and dries quickly. In this mani I used: Nail Tek II x1 as a basecoat, Kinky In Helsinki x3 and Seche Vite on top.