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!
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.
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)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)
Better late than never I guess. I finally have the pics of the Color Club Pardon My French Collection. I got these early this year but since the baby came I’ve had absolutely no time at all to swatch these until now.
This is a great collection with seven shades, four cremes and three glitter polishes.
On these photos I only have the polish on, no base or topcoat. On this post I’ll show you the creme ones and tomorrow I’ll post about the glitters.
Pardon My French (4 coats)
I believe In Amour (3 coats)
Oh Naturale (3 coats)
Take Me To Your Chateau (2 coats)
These were once again good Color Club quality. The only one I had a slight problem in application was Pardon My French and that would work better too with a little more time and patience when working with it.
Oh Naturale and I Believe In Amour are sheer ones and work great starting from the first coat. I actually prefer them better with just one coat and I’ll have to photograph them that way too.
Take Me To Your Chateau is well pigmented and is opaque with just one coat.
Yesterday’s Color Club Linen & Silk again but this time with Essie Matte About You on top. Beautiful, velvet-y look!
Right now I love having nude nails. I spent quite some time without wearing any polish. If I do my nails I use sheer/light colors or do a basic french mani. This happens to me every now and then and passes quite quickly ;)
Color Club’s Linen & Silk is a perfect choice when I’m in a mood for nude. Light sand colored shimmer polish applies perfectly starting from the first coat and is opaque on the third coat.
In this mani I used: OPI NNS x1, Linen & Silk x2 and Seche Vite on top.
Another bright color to cheer up this cloudy and wet winter day here in Finland. Jackie Oh! is a lovely coral-y pink neon shade. This is also from the new Poptastic collection.
The quality on this one is also very good. Polish applies well and is opaque in 2-3 coats depending on the length of your nails. Seche Vite dried this one super fast. This shade isn’t a basic neon pink, it’s bright coral color and it makes me think retro-pin up when I look at it. Regardless of the crazy bright color this polish still looks elegant and will look great next to a tanned summer skin.
If these neon shades feel like a bit much to be worn on your finger nails you still might wanna get a bottle for your toes. Bright, summer-y color makes your spring toes look great and summer feels like one step closer :)
Again, the photo does not do justice to the shade. It is much brighter IRL. These neons are just too hard to photograph correctly. You have to try these yourself to know how they really look.
In this mani I used: OPI NNS x1, Jackie Oh! x2 and Seche Vite on top.
Nyt seuraa tunnustus :P Tämä on ensimmäinen kerta yli kuukauteen, kun lakkasin kynteni. Loppuraskaudessa ei enää jaksanut keskittyä kynsiin ja vauvan synnyttyä energiaa oli vielä vähemmän. Noin pitkän tauon jälkeen teki mieli lopettaa kuiva kausi jollakin räväkällä sävyllä ja valitsin siihen tarkoitukseen Color Clubin Mrs. Robinson sävyn uudesta Poptastic neon kokoelmasta.
Here’s a fun fact for you guys :P This is the first time in over a month that I have polish on my nails. Late pregnancy didn’t make me feel like doing my nails and after the baby arrived I had even less energy. After a break that long I needed an energetic shade and I chose Color Club Mrs. Robinson from their new Poptastic neon collection.
This shade is very close to the Power Play shade from their older neon collection. I don’t know if it’s cos of the age of my Power Play bottle but I can see a slight difference between these two shades. I also tested them next to each other on a piece of clear plastic and I was still able to see the difference. Unfortunately this polish is a BIG pain in the butt to photograph and my camera isn’t able to capture the subtle difference between these two shades.
The quality of this polish is excellent. It’s thin, applies like butter and is opaque with two coats. It also dries fast. This is a perfect shade for my skin tone and cos of the great quality I will be using this one more than once.
The photo does not do justice to this shade at all. It is real hot-neon-purple and the camera just sucks all the life out of it :( It might not be a truly unique shade but it sure is beautiful.
On this mani i used: OPI NNS x1, Mrs. Robinson x2 and Seche Vite on top.
After all of those red Christmas manis I felt a need to have something a little more neutral on my nails. Color Club Worth The Risque is a perfect choice for that plus there’s something festive about it so it’s great for preparing for New Years Eve ;)
Worth The Risque is silver-y grey holographic polish. It’s quite thin and applies very well. Two coats is enough for an opaque result and it dries quickly. The holographic effect is not too strong but it’s still clearly visible. I love the quality of Color Club holographic polishes. They are all very easy to apply, well pigmented and they dry real fast.
In this mani I used: OPI NNS x2, Worth The Risque x2 and Seche Vite on top.
