Archives: A few NOTDs

Hi guys, I’ve almost caught up with my swatches (Well I HAVE caught up, but there are a bit of pictures I need to redo and then mark/edit. =) So now I’m just scheduling posts. I hope you don’t mind two posts within 30 minutes, lol. My recent review was shorter than I expected.

These here are old NOTDs from April or May =)

Base Color: BB Couture Adios Mofo (is it bad that I bought this polish purely for the name? lmao at least it looks good too!)
Stamping Color: China Glaze Awaken
Stamp: BM204

Base Color: Rimmel Lava Red
Stamping Color: Konad Special White
Stamp: BM19

Base Color: OPI Planks a Lot
Stamping Color: WnW Black Creme
Stamp: BM18

Thanks for looking 🙂

Guest Nails– Cherry Blossom

My dear friend, Meredith, graduated from our University with a BA with Honors today! I originally promised to do her nails, as I thought I would be here for graduation. Alas, I discovered the flight I bought sent me home last Sunday! (And about my lack of posts, let’s just say finals and real life overwhelmed me. I do have plenty, and I mean plenty, of photos and swatches for y’all!)
So I told her to fit a set of fake nails and give them to me, and I would paint them 🙂 She said to surprise her, so I chose cherry blossoms as she lived in Japan last summer, and since has been in love with that country. A bonus, she can also keep these nails forever with careful removal =)

If you wanted to know how to say “I love you” in American Sign Language, this would be it. 🙂

This featured three Orly polishes, and two American Apparel polishes whose names I have forgotten, and they’re currently stashed far away from me. I’ll just edit this part later, lol. I used a tip of a pencil and the rounded part of a hair pin because at that moment everything had been packed away and I didn’t have my nail art stuff out. It was also my very first attempt at freehand art… yikes! It turned out okay, I hope?

Such long fake nails! I’m going to be surprised if she tells me she never poked herself in the eye with it. 😛

Guest Nails– Cherry Blossom

My dear friend, Meredith, graduated from our University with a BA with Honors today! I originally promised to do her nails, as I thought I would be here for graduation. Alas, I discovered the flight I bought sent me home last Sunday! (And about my lack of posts, let’s just say finals and real life overwhelmed me. I do have plenty, and I mean plenty, of photos and swatches for y’all!)
So I told her to fit a set of fake nails and give them to me, and I would paint them 🙂 She said to surprise her, so I chose cherry blossoms as she lived in Japan last summer, and since has been in love with that country. A bonus, she can also keep these nails forever with careful removal =)

If you wanted to know how to say “I love you” in American Sign Language, this would be it. 🙂

This featured three Orly polishes, and two American Apparel polishes whose names I have forgotten, and they’re currently stashed far away from me. I’ll just edit this part later, lol. I used a tip of a pencil and the rounded part of a hair pin because at that moment everything had been packed away and I didn’t have my nail art stuff out. It was also my very first attempt at freehand art… yikes! It turned out okay, I hope?

Such long fake nails! I’m going to be surprised if she tells me she never poked herself in the eye with it. 😛

Glitter in the Air

You thought I was done with my Lippmanns, didn’t you? So did I! The other day I went to a photography exhibition and my friend, Liane, presented me with this:

Glitter in the Air! So my theme week has gone on for an extra day, making it a total of about 9 days. Wow! 🙂
This is a GORGEOUS polish. I have ordered my own bottle actually. I had to. I couldn’t NOT have this.

Brief swatch. I thought/hoped that the murky grey/pale blue or lilac base would transfer onto the nail, and no dice as you can see above. That was about two coats. It’s a mix of pink and blue hex/round glitter.
So I decided to layer it on a pastel baby blue and wow is it ever gorgeous. It’s a very Easter-y color, too.  I chose Avon Vintage Blue:

Then I layered Glitter in the Air over this!

The only issue I had with this was that it was very hard to align the glitters, but I think that’s just a thing we deal with when dealing with glitter toppers. The sheer murky base muted the pastel blue down and it was PERFECT. However I logged on this morning and found out Chloe did the EXACT same look! GRR. 🙂 I should have gone with yellow or grey. Liane did lilac, (American Apparel L’Esprit if I remember correctly) with matte and it was gorgeous. Oh, speaking of matte…

Yep! I felt that the matte topcoat gave it a lot more Easter feel, it was like an eggshell you know?

However this one reacted badly with the Seche Vite and I felt like it shrank by the hour. Horrible. You can see some tip wear already, and I think this was definitely over 15 hours of wearing it. 😦

Glitter in the Air

You thought I was done with my Lippmanns, didn’t you? So did I! The other day I went to a photography exhibition and my friend, Liane, presented me with this:

Glitter in the Air! So my theme week has gone on for an extra day, making it a total of about 9 days. Wow! 🙂
This is a GORGEOUS polish. I have ordered my own bottle actually. I had to. I couldn’t NOT have this.

Brief swatch. I thought/hoped that the murky grey/pale blue or lilac base would transfer onto the nail, and no dice as you can see above. That was about two coats. It’s a mix of pink and blue hex/round glitter.
So I decided to layer it on a pastel baby blue and wow is it ever gorgeous. It’s a very Easter-y color, too.  I chose Avon Vintage Blue:

Then I layered Glitter in the Air over this!

The only issue I had with this was that it was very hard to align the glitters, but I think that’s just a thing we deal with when dealing with glitter toppers. The sheer murky base muted the pastel blue down and it was PERFECT. However I logged on this morning and found out Chloe did the EXACT same look! GRR. 🙂 I should have gone with yellow or grey. Liane did lilac, (American Apparel L’Esprit if I remember correctly) with matte and it was gorgeous. Oh, speaking of matte…

Yep! I felt that the matte topcoat gave it a lot more Easter feel, it was like an eggshell you know?

However this one reacted badly with the Seche Vite and I felt like it shrank by the hour. Horrible. You can see some tip wear already, and I think this was definitely over 15 hours of wearing it. 😦

Lady Sings the Blues

For this unpredictable Tuesday, we have Lippmann’s Lady Sings the Blues. We are also near the end of our theme week 🙂 This morning it was HOT and then it suddenly rained and now it’s all nice and cool. Sigh. Way to go, DC.

Doesn’t she look promising? Silvery/blue duochrome hex glitter with small round glitter suspended in a black jelly base. All the photos are about two-three coats, I forget. Definitely over two, at least if not exactly two. 

I really liked this one, it was easy to pick up the glitter and distribute it. Bad Romance gave me a little trouble– it would deposit a lot of hex glitter in one spot and then nothing for the next nail, etc requiring me to use a little more coats than usual.

Also looked great! I’m sorry these pictures are a bit dark D: 

I applied this last night, and when I saw it I knew I had to… mattify it! Sorry cousin! I wore it like this for the whole day today:

 Really– can you hate this?! I think it looks even better mattifyed. The other Lippmanns either looked equally good, or kind of strange (in the case of Bad Romance).

But this one… Meant to be matte!

Lady Sings the Blues

For this unpredictable Tuesday, we have Lippmann’s Lady Sings the Blues. We are also near the end of our theme week 🙂 This morning it was HOT and then it suddenly rained and now it’s all nice and cool. Sigh. Way to go, DC.

Doesn’t she look promising? Silvery/blue duochrome hex glitter with small round glitter suspended in a black jelly base. All the photos are about two-three coats, I forget. Definitely over two, at least if not exactly two. 

I really liked this one, it was easy to pick up the glitter and distribute it. Bad Romance gave me a little trouble– it would deposit a lot of hex glitter in one spot and then nothing for the next nail, etc requiring me to use a little more coats than usual.

Also looked great! I’m sorry these pictures are a bit dark D: 

I applied this last night, and when I saw it I knew I had to… mattify it! Sorry cousin! I wore it like this for the whole day today:

 Really– can you hate this?! I think it looks even better mattifyed. The other Lippmanns either looked equally good, or kind of strange (in the case of Bad Romance).

But this one… Meant to be matte!

Across the Universe in a Week!

After sporting my Lippmann polish today, I realized a very important thing….

I have amassed eight Deborah Lippmann polishes. (I was also an idiot and told my nail fanatic friend that I had seven, but it’s eight. Because I didn’t count today.) So naturally, I promptly declared, on Beej’s Nails, today to be the start of

Deborah Lippmann Week!(and a day)

To kick off this week, we have Across the Universe standing in the front of the polish line! Look– isn’t she proud to be first?

Gorgeous, gorgeous blue and green hexagonal glitter suspended in a sea of black jelly with slight duo-chromatic shimmer. 

Hell yes.

 Just showing off my engagement ring. hee!

My camera is kinda poopoo, so if you google this you will see a hella lot better swatch photos. After wearing it all day today, I had to matte it down of course (and plus a new matte topcoat came in, Butter London’s and I think I love it.)

Isn’t it awesome? It really brings out the glitter and sparkles.

Stay tuned for tomorrow! We’ll be featuring the lovely lady, Razzle Dazzle.

Across the Universe in a Week!

After sporting my Lippmann polish today, I realized a very important thing….

I have amassed eight Deborah Lippmann polishes. (I was also an idiot and told my nail fanatic friend that I had seven, but it’s eight. Because I didn’t count today.) So naturally, I promptly declared, on Beej’s Nails, today to be the start of

Deborah Lippmann Week!(and a day)

To kick off this week, we have Across the Universe standing in the front of the polish line! Look– isn’t she proud to be first?

Gorgeous, gorgeous blue and green hexagonal glitter suspended in a sea of black jelly with slight duo-chromatic shimmer. 

Hell yes.

 Just showing off my engagement ring. hee!

My camera is kinda poopoo, so if you google this you will see a hella lot better swatch photos. After wearing it all day today, I had to matte it down of course (and plus a new matte topcoat came in, Butter London’s and I think I love it.)

Isn’t it awesome? It really brings out the glitter and sparkles.

Stay tuned for tomorrow! We’ll be featuring the lovely lady, Razzle Dazzle.

Across the Universe in a Week!

After sporting my Lippmann polish today, I realized a very important thing….

I have amassed eight Deborah Lippmann polishes. (I was also an idiot and told my nail fanatic friend that I had seven, but it’s eight. Because I didn’t count today.) So naturally, I promptly declared, on Beej’s Nails, today to be the start of

Deborah Lippmann Week!(and a day)

To kick off this week, we have Across the Universe standing in the front of the polish line! Look– isn’t she proud to be first?

Gorgeous, gorgeous blue and green hexagonal glitter suspended in a sea of black jelly with slight duo-chromatic shimmer. 

Hell yes.

 Just showing off my engagement ring. hee!

My camera is kinda poopoo, so if you google this you will see a hella lot better swatch photos. After wearing it all day today, I had to matte it down of course (and plus a new matte topcoat came in, Butter London’s and I think I love it.)

Isn’t it awesome? It really brings out the glitter and sparkles.

Stay tuned for tomorrow! We’ll be featuring the lovely lady, Razzle Dazzle.