Category: Creme

ABC Challenge – O is for Ole Caliente

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Happy hump day! Today it’s time for the letter O and my pick for that is Essie Ole Caliente from their Spring 2012 collection. Ole Caliente is a bright coral-y red creme. Such and awesome summer color. The formula on this is great. It applies smooth as butter! I used two coats for this mani but for shorter nails this is a one coater. I love these bright reds!

I have a ton of nail stickers and water decals that I never use so I decided to give them a try. I chose white Artclub stickers to decorate this manicure a little. I’m not sure how I feel about the outcome though. I think the reason I don’t use stickers much is because they, ehh, well they look like stickers LOL Not that there is anything wrong with using stickers, I think I just prefer acrylic paints or nail polishes for nail art like this. The stickers look very pretty and feminine but I think they also lack personality :P

For this mani I used two coats of Essie Ole Caliente and HK Girl top coat.

 

Tänään on vuorossa viikottaisen ABC haasteen O kirjain. Tällä kertaa valitsin Essien Ole Caliente lakan kevään 2012 kokoelmasta. Tämä on ihanan kirkas korallinpunainen creme. Täydellinen kesäsävy! Tämä on laadultaan erinomainen ja levittyy todella tasaisesti. Näihin kynsiin käytin kaksi kerrosta, mutta lyhyempiin kynsiin riittää yksi kerros.

Minulla on iso kasa tarroja, decalseja sun muita ja en käytä niitä juuri koskaan. Tällä kertaa päätin kuitenkin tarttua tarra-arkkiin ja liimailla muutaman valkoisen Artclub tarran tämän manikyyrin koristeeksi. En oikein tiedä mitä mieltä olen lopputuloksesta. Ihan kaunis, raikas ja naisellinen, mutta mutta, jokin vaan tökkii. Ehkä pidän kuitenkin enemmän akryylitöherrysten ja lakkojen kanssa aikaansaaduista persoonallisemmista kynsikoristeluista.

Tähän lakkaukseen käytin kaksi kerrosta Ole Caliente lakkaa ja pikakuivattajana HK Girl top coat.

Color Club – Take Me To Your Chateau

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Hi everyone :) Here’s another polish I love to use as a base for nail art and layering glitter polishes. This is Color Club’s Take Me To Your Chateau from their Spring 2010 Pardon My French collection.

Take Me To Your Chateau is a very pale baby blue creme. This is very well pigmented, almost a one coater even for my longer nails. On the photo I have two coats of Take Me To Your Chateau and HK Girl fast drying top coat. I really love this pale blue shade. It works great with a lot of other colors and nail art styles too.

 

 

ABC Challenge – M is for Mint Candy Apple

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Happy Wednesday to our amazing group of ladies and everyone else too :)

Also Happy birthday to lovely Lariesa ♥

Today it’s time for letter M on our ABC challenge and for this week I chose Essie Mint Candy Apple. Very simple and basic color but also very pretty. This goes great with my skintone and makes a perfect base for some nail art or layering glitter polishes. On the first photo I have two coats of Mint Candy Apple and a coat of the amazing HK Girl fast drying top coat.

I decided to try some stampings on this one but they ended up looking a little messy. I like how the two colors turned out looking though. For the butterflies I used some tiny little sample plate from Konad and the ring finger pattern is from XL O stamping plate. These XL plates have nice and big patterns for longer nails. The polishes I used for stamping are China Glaze Adore and Harmony.

That’s it for this week and be sure to pay a visit to all the other ladies too :))

 

 

China Glaze – Mimosa’s Before Mani’s

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I bought three shades from China Glaze Avant Garden collection and I think I have to get at least three more. I love these spring/summer-y shades! First I’ll show you Mimosa’s Before Mani’s. This is a light colored and bright peachy coral/orange-y shade with a subtle gold shimmer. I didn’t have anything like this in my stash yet so I welcome it with open arms :D This is another perfect shade for a hot and sunny summer day. I’m in love!

Mimosa’s Before Mani’s applies perfectly and two coats dried fast. My long nails could’ve maybe used a third coat though. So on the photo I have two coats of Mimosa’s Before Mani’s and Poshe fast drying top coat.

I ran out of my Inm fast drying top coat so I need to place an order for it next week. I also have many bloggers favorite HK Girl Fast Drying + Super Shiny top coat coming my way.

Have a great Saturday everyone!

 

China Glaze Mimosa’s Before Mani’s with daylight bulbs.
China Glaze Mimosa’s Before Mani’s with daylight bulbs.
China Glaze Mimosa’s Before Mani’s in sunlight.

 

 

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 :)

 

 

 

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!

 

 

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 ;)

 

 

Wet n Wild Megalast – Heatwave

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Is it spring yet!? This Wet n Wild Megalast Heatwave, a delicious and lovely coral red creme polish made me feel like spring is right around the corner. I bought this from a local store when I went hunting for cheap nail polish on sale and decided to get one of these WnW bottles too just to try it out. There were other pretty pastel shades too and I was so pleased with this one that I just might have to go pick up another bottle (or two) later on.

When I opened the bottle naturally the first thing I noticed was a very large brush. I think my exact words were “Oh! Holy crap, look at this!” as I turned to show my finding to my husband. Of course he had no idea what I was so amazed by so he just rolled his eyes at my craziness. It took a little bit of getting used to but the brush was actually pretty easy to use and polish applied nicely with it.

Heatwave was very well pigmented, even so well that I wonder if it would work for stamping. Two coats was more than enough for opaque result and dry time was short with Inm Super Fast Dry Top Coat. The color range is, I’d like to say safe, on these Megalast polishes but there was a few really pretty pastels too.

You own any Wet n Wild Megalast polishes and if so what do you think of them?

 

Wet n Wild Megalast brush with OPI brush

 

ABC Challenge – A is for Age Of Aquarius

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I decided to join the ABC Challenge that is hosted by Kimber from Kimber’s Lacquer Corner. There’s quite a few of us doing this challenge and it’s not too late to join in if you’re interested. Just contact Kimber and come aboard, the more the merrier. We are posting once a week, on Wednesdays and rules are really simple. You choose a polish, brand or style of nail art that starts with a certain letter, naturally this week it’s A, next is B and so on.

I had actually already started this challenge on my own before Kimber announced that she is starting it and I post the letter A already. So I’ll be lazy and use the same polish, Color Club Age Of Aquarius and photo for this too :P

 

Color Club Oooooo La La with Snow-Flakes

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This time I wanted a lighter, fresh looking manicure. I decided to use Color Club’s Oooooo La La (Spring 2009 Femme Fatale) and Snow-Flakes (Holiday 2012 Winter Affair) polishes together.
I applied two coats of pearly white Oooooo La La and one coat of Snow-Flakes. I think it would’ve been better with two coats of each polish but I was afraid of a long dry time. Snow-Flakes brings depth and beautiful shine to the white polish and it looks a lot colder shade layered with white than it does in the bottle.
Unfortunately my camera couldn’t capture what the mani really looked like and all of it’s little color changes. Peachy-pink shimmer on the nail doesn’t show up on these photos at all.