RanDoms Nails arts & stuffs

HI Ladies!! I've been very busy this past few weeks and I just want to share some new hauls & manicures I made... thats all for today..happy polishing everyone..

my very first try of sculptured gel nails
from Beautyblends
I used Floral Nail foil from Onestop kikayshop

China Glaze '"2NITE"

Panagbengga Inspired (Flower festival)
it was my very first manicure done by  someone..
 my friend Annie used acrylic paint for the flowers
and I just added some stamping design..
I love these manicure so much its so color IRL..

My Spring Nail Art 2011

my new hello kitty polishes

Hello Kitty Manicure XD

sponge technique (using nabi neon colors nail polish)

XL plate (puzzle design)

Sdp A05 Image plate hello kitty (Dashica beauty)

 

 New hauls from my very dear friend VAX

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RANDOM NAIL ARTS

Hi Lovelies!! just a quick post for some of my past manicures.. hope u like it.. thanks for looking!! happy polishing everyone..

OPI shutter & nabi polishes
(I'm wearing gel nails on this photo)

Nfu Oh #64

NFU OH #59 & XL Plate A with China glaze OMG

NFU OH #59 & XL Plate A with China glaze OMG

RBL NO more war

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Collective NOTD Post

Hi everyone,
I have a few nail polishes I want to show you that I wore lately :) I just didn't have the time to post them all separately, so I put them into one post. Hope you don't mind! Tell me if you want a review for a certain color, because I will now just tell you the names and show you the pics :) I will link posts where I already swatched them and talked about the colors in detail.
Here you go:
- China Glaze - Knotty *click*

- China Glaze - Sea Spray *click*

- OPI - Suzi Says Feng Shui *click*

- Catrice Floralista LE - C01 Pink Spring *click* with p2 crackling top coat in black *click* over it

- Catrice Urban Baroque LE - C02 Rock Barock *click*

Do you like these colors?? And do you want my NOTD posts in the future in separate posts, or collective like this one??
xoxo, Misch Read Full...

Nails of the Day - Funky Plaid

Hey guys!

Today I have a manicure for you that was inspired by a fellow Newfie nail blogger who I really like and respect. She got her design from WAH Nails and the colours she chose are less in your face than the neons I chose so some of you might prefer that look. Check out her blog here and be sure to check out the rest of her awesome designs!

(By the way, this design might look easy but trust me when I say that it was very difficult! It was tough trying to get the lines straight, even with my striper brush and since neons are relatively sheer, I had to go over my lines several times, making it even more difficult than it should have been.)

Anyways, onto my interpretation of the design:



Products:
Seche Clear Base Coat
OPI - Alpine Snow (base)
China Glaze - Yellow Polka Dot Bikini (on top of Alpine Snow)
China Glaze - Towel Boy Toy (blue lines)
China Glaze - Kiwi Cool-Ada (green lines)
China Glaze - Flying Dragon (purple lines)
Seche Vite Top Coat Read Full...

Valentine's Day Nail Art Series - Cute Hearts

Hey guys!

I want to start off by apologizing for only posting nail art recently but I've been completely swamped with school work this whole week! Once things start to calm down I'll get back to more regular posting. :)
In the meantime though, today I have for you the last in my Valentine's series - a simply but cute heart design. I had a few other ideas in mind but I won't get to do any of them before Valentine's Day so I guess I'll just have to save them for next year!



Products:
Seche Clear Base Coat
OPI - Alpine Snow (base on all fingers except ring fingers, white hearts on ring fingers)
China Glaze - Something Sweet (base on ring fingers, light pink hearts on others)
OPI - I'm Indi-a Mood for Love (dark pink hearts)
OPI - Rumple's Wiggin' (purple hearts)
Seche Vite Top Coat

So what does everyone have planned for Valentine's Day? My boyfriend is working in the morning and I'm working in the evening on Monday so we're actually exchanging gifts tonight. We're also planning on going out to supper at some point or another but right now is just too hectic for me with school. Plus, I'd rather go when the Valentine's crowd calms down since I'm not a fan of big crowds.
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China Glaze - Ingrid Revisited

Most of you have probably already seen this polish but I think it's worth re-visiting.  If you don't have it, consider getting it.  It's a beautiful greige with a killer gold shimmer.

Two coats.  Applies like a dream.  Read Full...

Valentine's Day Nail Art Series - Chocolate Dipped Strawberries

Hey everyone!

One of my favourite things about Valentine's Day is that my boyfriend always makes me delicious chocolate dipped strawberries so I decided to do a nail design inspired by that!

One of the best things about this design is that it's a pretty versatile! You could remove the chocolate portion of it and it becomes a fun design for any day of the year and if you used brighter colours this would be a great summer mani.



Products:
Seche Clear Base Coat
Nicole by OPI - OMB! (strawberry)
China Glaze - Starboard (leaves)
Revlon - Hot for Chocolate (chocolate)
China Glaze - Lighthouse (seeds)
Seche Vite Top Coat
China Glaze Matte Magic (on top of chocolate portion only)

(By the way, OMB! by Nicole by OPI is STUNNING. I seriously considered leaving it on by itself because I hated to cover some of it up! If you don't already own this colour, I really recommend considering it.) Read Full...

Valentine's Day Nail Art Series - Glitter Kisses

Hey guys!

Today I have the second design in my Valentine's Day series and this is one that I'm actually going to leave on for longer than half an hour! I removed my Lovebug design about half an hour after I posted it and put on my Neon Rainbow Cheetah Print for the second time. However, I actually really like this Valentine's Day mani so this one will be a keeper. :)



Products:
China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
OPI - Alpine Snow (base)
Orly - Winter Wonderland (white glitter)
China Glaze - Pom Pom (pink glitter)
Color Club - Art of Seduction (red glitter)
Revlon - Belle (silver glitter top coat over everything)
OPI - Black Onyx (lips)
Seche Vite Top Coat Read Full...

Valentine's Series: Nail Art #1: Hearts

Hey everyone,
as I did an EOTD series for Halloween and then a NOTD series for Christmas, I'm gonna do one for Valentine's Day :) I'll be doing not only one category, there'll be some EOTDs and NOTDs for sure!
Tell me if you want a certain design or anything!

Today I did a really cute nail design with hearts that is kinda ordinary for Valentine's Day, but I still liked to do it! To some of you it might be too cute, but you don't have to do it ;)

That's what you need:
- your favorite base coat (mine is Essence pro white french)
- a nude peach shimmer base color (I used China Glaze - Sunset Sail)
- a black nail polish (I used p2 eternal)
- a toothpick or any other tool (I used the Essence nail art stylist)
- a multi-color glitter polish (I used one by Essence, don't know the name, sorry)
- your favorite top coat (I used Essence Nail Art Sealing Top Coat)

That's how to do it:
1. Apply your base coat all over your nails to protect your natural nails.
2. Paint your nails with your nude peach color, use as many coats as needed.
3. Pour some black polish onto a piece of paper and pick it up with your tool/toothpick. Draw some hearts onto your nails. You decide how big they are, if you fill them in or not, how many you put onto one nail - just how you like it to be! :)

4. Add your glitter top coat if you want to, but this step is optional, of course!

5. Add your clear top coat to seal the design.

Btw, this is the China Glaze Polish on it's own:
I like it a lot, it's pretty :)

And that's it! Do you like it, or is it "too cute" for your style??
I'll see you soon!
xoxo, Misch Read Full...

Valentine's Day Nail Art Series - Lovebug

Hey guys.

So I actually had no plans to do a Valentine's Day series but the only idea I could come up with tonight was a Valentine's inspired one so I guess this will be the start of a series!

Unfortunately, this isn't a great start to this series because I really don't like this mani at all. In fact, it probably won't last a whole day.

To start, I filed my nails before doing this mani and I wasn't paying enough attention because I didn't do a very good job. So now i just want to remove the polish just so that I can re-file my nails.

Next, when I had the whole mani done, I started to put top coat on and the colour from the little heart spangles started to drag and run all over the rest of my nail. I seriously could have cried because I had spent so much time on the design and then to have it ruin before my eyes was painful. I ended up fixing it by putting new spangles on top of the old ones that had no colour anymore and I placed a dollop of top coat on each of the hearts before putting top coat over the entire nail which prevented the colour from dragging.

Nevertheless, I was still very frustrated at the end of everything.

Anyways, enough whining, here's the mani:



Products:
China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
China Glaze - Naked (base)
OPI - And This Little Piggy... (over base)
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Black (body)
China Glaze - Lubu Heels (over black of body)
OPI - Alpine Snow (white of eyes)
OPI - Black Onyx (pupils)
Heart spangles from eBay
Seche Vite Top Coat Read Full...

Blue Glitter

As part of my birthday pressy to me I got the rest of the glitters from the Burlesque collection so now I have the complete shimmer and glitter collection! AAAAwesome!
Oh how I love me a bit of blingy bling! Check this awesomeness out. This is OPI Simmer and Shimmer over Orly Viridian Vinyl and truth be told my opinion is that the VV if much improved with all the glitterfullness (I love making up words)
Simmer and Shimmer is a silver and blue glitter in a clear base, it's a little heavier on the silver I think but there is also trace amounts of pinkish/purpley glitter and an even tinier amount of yellow glitter in there as well. I've tried to capture the effect but it's been gray as all get out here so I'm taking pics at night by Ott light.

Here you can see the pinkish/purpleish glitter

I got this coverage in two coats and it dried amazingly quickly. Like really dry, not the I can touch the surface but it will dent like mad if I bump it dry.
It's also fairly smooth. There's not a lot of texture to it and a top coat like Seche would take care of that really easily.

In other blue glitter news, I also got China Glaze Dorothy Who? I used that to bling my toes. I lost count of how many coats it took to get this glitter saturation after the fourth coat. Yeah... Still a bit of VNL too, love-ah love it though.


I'm amazed at how smooth this is, really no need for a top coat at all.

Yeah I know my toes are a bit rough...but ask me if I care at the moment...Mmmm, not so much.


So there's my blue glitter run down, I hope you enjoyed. In other news... Joy! 95 followers. This means that I should start thinking about my 100 follower give away huh? Thank you so much for following and commenting. I think I have the hang of this reply thing so please keep the comments coming ! Read Full...

Review & Swatches - China Glaze Anchors Away Collection

Hey!

My local Chatter's Salon just got this collection in today and of course, I got there as fast as I could to pick these up! Hopefully they'll be getting the Katy Perry for OPI collection in soon because I'm just as (actually, maybe more) excited for that one as I was for this one!

Anyway, I just spent a ridiculous amount of time swatching these because my camera didn't like this collection for some reason. I even had to change my background from white to black because my camera was just spazzing out when I was snapping bottle pictures! Nonetheless, the swatch pictures turned out pretty true to life so that's all that really matters!







Keep reading to see swatches and read the review!



Life Preserver (a burnt orange creme), Hey Sailor (standard red creme), Ahoy! (deep raspberry with pink shimmer)


First Mate (navy creme), Starboard (shamrock green creme), Lighthouse (warm yellow-gold glitter)


White Cap (sheer pearly white with gold shimmer), Pelican Gray (blue-grey with subtle silver shimmer), Sea Spray (dirty light blue with subtle silver shimmer)


Below Deck (dark mauve-grey-taupe creme), Sunset Sail (light nude with silver shimmer), Knotty (light warm brown with pinkish/silvery shimmer, pictures don't do this one justice, it looks like if Ingrid from the Vintage Vixen collection had a baby with Fairy Dust, very unique)


Life Preserver, Hey Sailor, Ahoy!, First Mate, Starboard, Lighthouse


White Cap, Pelican Gray, Sea Spray, Below Deck, Sunset Sail, Knotty


Life Preserver, Hey Sailor, Ahoy!


First Mate, Starboard, Lighthouse


White Cap, Pelican Gray, Sea Spray


Below Deck, Sunset Sail, Knotty

The formula on all of these was fantastic. The cremes all applied like butter and the shimmers were also great. As far as opacity goes, despite the fact that I basically always do 3 coats of polish, all of the creme swatches above are 2 coats - they just didn't need another one! The only colours above with 3 coats are Ahoy!, Lighthouse, White Cap and Knotty.

Although this collection offers a few unique colours that I don't have anything similar to in my collection (Knotty, Sea Spray, Pelican Gray), there are also some colours that are pretty dupeable. I plan to do some comparison swatches for you so that you don't end up with colours that you pretty much already have.

Most of these colours will look great on everyone but I think that both Lighthouse and Knotty will look better on darker skin because they're so warm-toned. I think the best colours for paler folk are First Mate, Ahoy!, and Starboard.

Overall, I think this is a great collection, especially for those with smaller polish collections because you won't end up with colours you already have. I think China Glaze hit the nail on the head with the colours because they're all very nautical and fitting for the theme. Read Full...