Category: Brands

Hare Polish – Midsummer’s Midnight

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It’s time to continue my adventures in the wonderland that is indie polish. This time I have HARE Polish Midsummer’s Midnight for you. This is a glitter polish with multicolored, shaped and sized glitter on a dark sheer-ish base. This is totally awesome!! I especially fell in love with the square glitter in it. Yet another beautiful and unique addition to my polish collection.

In this manicure I used one coat of black Color Club Where’s The Soiree? and two coats of HARE Midsummer’s Midnight plus a coat of Inm Out The Door. I think you can get away with just three coats of Midsummer’s Midnight alone but I wanted to use black base to really make the glitter pop. This was easy and even to apply and glitter went on the nail nice and smooth without extra work. I was very happy with the quality of this one. This was my first HARE Polish but I can already tell it won’t be the last ;)

I bought this from Shoppe Eclecticco. This was my first experience with this store and it was a very positive first experience. I got answer to my question about restock for other brands within minutes via email (this of course must depend on the time of the day when you send your question). The order itself was deliver to Finland in a week. Great service in my opinion! Thanks!

 

 

Urban Decay – Naked Basics

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Urban Decay keeps releasing new products on their Naked range. Recently also Naked nail polish collection. I myself have all three eyeshadow palettes. Naked Basics is smaller than the previous too palettes and contains six shades. Venus is a very fine shimmer shade, Urban Decay calls it off-white demi-matte. Other five eyshadows are mattes. Foxy can also be found from the Naked 2 palette.

Naked Basics palette is light and small which makes it easy to take on trips and carry in your makeup bag if needed. Shades are all velvet-y smooth and well pigmented. As you can see in the swatch photo Foxy blends in perfectly with my warm toned skin and makes it my go to “nude -no makeup” -look eyeshadow. Naked Basics is great addition to the Naked palette family and matte eyeshadows are a very welcome change from all those shimmers and glitter shades. I’m glad to have this one in my makeup drawer :)

 

Yes, Foxy is there too. It’s just hard to see cos it matches so perfectly with my skin tone.

OPI – French Quarter For Your Thoughts

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Today it’s just a basic creme manicure. Every now and then the bright colors and sparkling glitters can feel like a little too much and for those times it’s good to have these toned down basic colors in your stash. A little while ago I noticed that I don’t really have any grey cremes in my polish drawer and I’ve been keeping my eyes open for them ever since. I found this one from a discount bin earlier this week and since I’ve already considered buying it, I decided to give it a new loving home.

OPI French Quarter For Your Thoughts is a smoke/cement grey creme polish from the Fall 2011 Touring America collection. Formula is ok, maybe a bit on the thin side. This was quite streaky on the first coat but evened out very nicely with the second coat and I didn’t need to apply a third one. Dry time was normal with Inm Super Fast Drying top coat. I like this shade a lot. It goes well with my skin tone and gives a sophisticated look. Neutral shade that still has that something in it to make it special. Good buy :)

 

 

 

a england – She Walks In Beauty

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And so has the first a england polish now found it’s way to my polish drawer. I saw two absolutely stunning manicures done with She Walks In Beauty and I couldn’t resist buying it anymore. These awesome glitter tips manicures can be found from The Swatchaholic and The Polished Perfectionist blogs. As soon as I realized I had already bought the green manicure’s Grace Green polish (surprisingly found it from a discount bin ;) ) I gave in and clicked She Walks In Beauty on my shopping cart. Now I also have the gorgeous purple Essence polish seen on The Swatchaholic’s photos on it’s way to me along with the three other Snow Jam polishes. (Thanks J ♥ ).

I decided to layer She Walks In Beauty with OPI Did You ‘ear About Van Gogh and instead of the tips I applied the glitter on the nail bed. I loved how subtle and beautiful this combination was. I think you can really see the true beauty and details of this polish better when it’s not applied on the whole nail. This polish has excellent formula and it’s just truly stunning. It’s definitely worth getting if you’re thinking about buying a england polishes :)

 

 

 

MAC Ruby Woo

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Here in my blog I made a few New Year’s resolutions and one of them was using more colorful lip makeup. I’m trying to live up to that promise and bought the perfect product for that too, MAC Ruby Woo. This bright vintage pin-up red has a pretty dry formula but it applies well, doesn’t make my lips dry and stays on forever.
I really like MAC lipsticks myself. Quality is usually excellent, color range is wide and I just love that delicious scent. You ladies have any other great brands/products to suggest for a beginner lip makeup freak?

 

 

Different Dimension – Social Suicide

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At the end of December I ordered two polishes from Different Dimension indie brand. I already showed you the first one Soft Kitty, Warm Kitty and here’s the other one, Social Suicide. This is a clear base polish with a lot of different size and shape black and white glitter in it. Formula is excellent and this applies thin and smooth. You also don’t have to waste time and energy trying to fish the glitter out of the bottle.

I decided to try this on top of yesterday’s China Glaze Def Defying manicure. The clear base makes this a perfect polish for layering. Black and white glitter also go well together with almost any color and it’s easy to control the amount of glitter by how many coats you apply. I really liked the effect this brought on my nails and next I’ll try layering it with pink polish.

On this mani I used one coat of Social Suicide over China Glaze Def Defying and a coat of Inm Out The Door on top of everything.

You can buy Different Dimension polishes from their Etsy store. It only took a bit over a week for my polishes to arrive counting from the date of ordering and I think it’s pretty darn fast since I live in Finland, not US.

 

Bubbles on this photo are caused by my top coat that is on it’s last leg and I have to twist and turn
the bottle to get something out.

 

China Glaze – Def Defying

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I bought two polishes from China Glaze Cirque du Soleil Worlds Away collection and here’s the first of those two, Def Defying. This is lovely yellow-ish lime green creme polish. Two coats was enough for a smooth opaque result and dry time was normal. With Inm Out The Door top coat the finish was just super shiny and perfect. I LOVE THIS!

 

 

Cult Nails – Coveted

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Today I have a real treat for all of you green polish lovers out there, Cult Nails Coveted. This is a deep emerald green jelly, with flakes and a lot of very fine shimmer. I kept staring and admiring my nails constantly when I was wearing this. Truly a stunning one!

Formula on this is great, it applies smoothly and two coats is enough for semi-opaque result. As a jelly this is never fully opaque and it’s also the jelly finish that gives this one the amazing glow. Some of the flakes were a bit bigger and could be felt but a top coat smooth down most of those. Dry time was very quick with Inm Out The Door fast dry top coat. I wore this for two days and had no chipping or tip wear issues. This was perfect in every way!

If this was love at first sight for you too I suggest you don’t think about it too long. Coveted is a limited edition polish and can be purchased along with other Cult Nails polishes from their website here.

 

Sugarpill 4-Color palette swatches

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Today I have Sugarpill 4-Color eyeshadow palette swatches for you. I’m totally in love with Sugarpill makeup and I have all three 4-Color palettes along with a pile of their loose eyeshadows. The color range is bright and in your face awesome! Online you can see a lot of crazy colorful and intense looks made using these eyeshadows. Though I think using these colors for everyday look is perfectly fine too. Just apply with a light hand and you don’t have to use all four shades in a same look. Don’t let the bold and bright colors intimidate you, just give them a change to brighten up your day! I will be doing and photographing a variety of lighter everyday looks with these eyeshadows for you and on some future Sunday I’ll write a post about those.

Sugarpill has two more pressed eyeshadows that are not included in these palettes. First is black Bulletproof and second is red limited edition @#$%!, which I’m DYING to have but it’s not been sold at the moment *sob*

You have any of Sugarpill eyeshadows? Are you interested in these intense, bright shades or do you rather invest your money on a safer color choices?

You can buy these and other eyeshadows from their online store, Sugarpillshop.

 

Burning Heart: Flamepoint, Buttercupcake, Love+, Poison Plum
Sweetheart: Dollipop, Afterparty, Midori and Tako
Heart Breaker: Acidberry, Velocity, 2AM and Mochi

The scratches are what happens when a little girl uses a pencil as

a makeup brush while her father is not paying attention :P

 

 

Models Own – Naked Shimmer

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Here’s yet another discount basket find from a local store. This time it’s Models Own Naked Shimmer. As the name hints, this a nude polish with gold shimmer. Unfortunately shimmer isn’t as visible on the nail as it is in the bottle but you can still see it. This neutral toned flesh-y nude is probably suitable for many different skintones. I quite liked this myself, shade is pretty chic and sophisticated!

The formula was a bit on the thick side and this might benefit from a drop or two of polish thinner. In this mani I used two coats of polish but the result could’ve been even better with three thin coats. The smell on this was also quite strong but all five of my new Models Own bottles smell the same so I guess that is normal.

In all this was quite positive first experience with Models Own nail polish and didn’t make me regret the four other shades I bought along with this one ;)