Category: Nails

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

 

Different Dimension – Soft Kitty, Warm Kitty

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Here’s my first indie polish, Different Dimension Soft Kitty, Warm Kitty. I love Big Bang Theory and I just had to get this polish for it’s name too. This is milky grey jelly with different size white, grey and holographic silver hexglitter. The polish lives up to it’s name and the result is soft and smooth, sandwich effect-y finish.

Polish itself is high quality, a little bit on the thicker side but applies very well. The larger glitter laid very flat on the nail and you can’t feel the edges through the top coat. I love that! Glitter came out of the bottle well after I kept it upside down for a bit and rolled it a couple of times before applying each coat. I also let the coats dry in between the application so the glitter didn’t start moving with the next coat. Next I’m going to try layering this with white, grey or baby blue polish. I’m very happy with my first indie purchase :)

On this mani I used two coats of base coat, three coats of Soft Kitty, Warm Kitty and Inm Out The Door Fast Drying Top Coat. Dry time for three coats was very fast with Inm top coat.

I ordered my polish from here.

 

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

 

Essie Nourish Me – One week after

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Here’s a quick report and first test results using Essie Nourish Me base coat. I have now used Nourish Me for about a week and I’ve changed my manicure almost daily. On the photo you can see there has been immediate results for the better. There’s still some peeling left but it has stopped moving up the nail bed. I’ve been able to buff away almost all of the peeled part from my middle finger. Still some left on the ring finger. Of course the tips are now weak from all the buffing and peeling so I have to wait for the damaged part to grow out. At least now there’s some light at the end of the tunnel for my nails and I hope this is the product that will stop my nails from peeling.

I’ll get back to this again next week and yes, there will be photos too :)

 

Right hand nails

 

Golden Rose Matte Velvet – 103

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I found these Golden Rose polishes from a discount basket at a local store for 50 cents a bottle and decided to buy the blue shade number 103. I figured that for 50 cents it wouldn’t be such a great financial loss if it ended up being something awful. Also my 9 yr old niece gladly takes all the nail polish bottles I give her so I wouldn’t have to throw it in the trash either.

This polish ended up surprising me positively though. It applied well and was opaque with just one coat (I still used two coats). Dry time was very quick and I really like the color too. Without a top coat this dried to a nice velvet-y semi matte finish. I don’t have too many blue polishes so this one got to move into my polish drawer and make friends with other cheap polish bottles ;)

 

Nice velvet-y semi-matte finish without a top coat
Top coat just ads a bit of shine to it
This polish is packed with beautiful light blue shimmer

 

Nail art studs and stars

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Before Christmas I ordered star shaped and square nail art studs from Born Pretty Store after I saw those on Kynnelle-blog. These arrived in mail this week and I’m very happy with my purchase. Nice change from rhinestones and glitter. I just had to quickly try the stars on my OPI On Her Majesty’s Secret Service manicure. I especially like the fact that these are not flat. Instead they curve and follow the shape of the nail nicely.

Now I just have to figure out some nail art using these :)

 

 

 

OPI – On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

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By far I have only bought two polishes from OPI Skyfall Holiday 2012 collection and here’s the first one, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.

Blue-ish grey shimmer polish packed with multicolored microglitter. This changes color depending on lights and angle. It’s a bit on a sheer side but three thin coats was enough for opaque result on my nails. Dry time was very fast with a little help from Inm Super Fast Drying Top Coat. I have no complaints, gorgeous polish!

 

ABC – A as Age Of Aquarius Color Club

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I’ve seen this ABC-theme on Jos edes kynnet and Charming Nails blogs. It’s such a fun idea that I decided to do it myself too. The idea is to go through your stash and choose a polish that starts with a particular letter, starting from A, then B and so on. I’ll try and choose polishes that I haven’t used/photographed yet or I use very rarely.

For my letter A polish I chose Color Club Age Of Aquarius from their Poptastic neon collection. Gorgeous turquoise shade that was a pain in the butt to photograph. I had to adjust the color on the photo a lot to get it to look even near of what it is IRL. I think it’s still a tiny bit darker and greener in real life than it is on my photo.

On this mani I used three coats of polish and a top coat since Age Of Aquarius is neon and dries matte finish. This one is just lovely!

 

 

Testing Essie Nourish Me – Before pictures

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My nails are in quite a bad shape cos of the freezing weather we’ve had here lately. I’ve been using OPI Natural Nail Strengthener and Poshe Nail Strengthening Treatment Basecoat but they don’t seem to be helping the problem at all. There’s also some gel nails damaged part left on the tips the nails. My nails seem to be very dry, peeling badly and breaking easy. I decided that it’s about time for me to try something new (to me) and I picked up Essie Nourish Me Intense Hydration Basecoat from a local store. I’ll report back in the future with photos and let you know if this worked for me or not.

At the moment I use Body Shopin Hemp Hand Protector cream and Burt’s Bees Lemon Butter Cuticle Cream every night. I also apply Creative Solar Oil under my nails and wear cotton gloves over all of these. I avoid washing my hands after putting on the creams and oils at nights. During the day I use lighter hand creams as needed. I use acetone free nail polish remover and always wear gloves when I go outside. After all this moisturizing, oiling and taking care of my hands and nails my nails are still in a bad condition. Right hand nails are especially bad.

 

Label on the Finnish package

 

Left hand nails
Left hand ring finger still has some damaged part left from gel nails removal
Right hand nails are in a horrible condition

 

I can only hope this Essie hydrating base coat does the trick for my nails. Above you can see the photos taken before I used the Essie base coat for the first time. Those were taken right after nail polish removal, before any moisturizers. I will only use this base coat from now on and keep my nails on this length till they appear to be in a better condition.
Thumbs up that this will work! I’d really like to finally grow some length on these nails.

My New Years Eve nails

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I welcomed the New Year at home shopping nail polish online, talking to other polish fanatics in Twitter and sipping some Fresita strawberry sparkling wine ;)

For my manicure I used two coats of Color Club Pucci-Licious, two coats of Sally Hansen HD Hi-Definition in DVD and Inm Super Fast Drying Topcoat. After the polish was dry I used some nail art tape for the stripes and applied one more coat of Inm Northern Lights Hologram Topcoat Gold. This was very shiny and sparkly IRL, just perfect New Years Eve manicure!