Nail Deco Of The Week #103

fauxnad stamps

color club – fashion addict

Magnetic Polishes + misc swatches

Wanted to post up some pictures of the magnetic polishes that I was playing with at Sephora

nails inc. Trafalgar Square (chrome) — middle finger

nails inc. Special Effects Electric Lane Holographic Glitter Top Coat — index finger

nails inc.  Houses Of Parliament (purple) — thumb

Aren’t they cool? For the magnetic polishes, you swipe a thick coat of iron-powder infused polish and quickly put the magnetic cap on top of the wet polish. I found it a little tricky not to let the cap touch my nail (and apparently others have this problem too since the tester cap had quite a bit of residue!) but after about 5-10 seconds, the polish will dry to a cool pattern! If you’ve ever seen cat-eye beads, the finish is kind of like that. They cost $16.00 a bottle at Sephora and come in 3 colors (chrome, purple, teal). I couldn’t bring myself to buy a bottle, hopefully there are dupes to be found!

Two more swatches:

Zoya – Neeka (not quite as glitter as it looks in the bottle, but still very pretty! this color is also darker than it appears in the bottle)

Essie – School of Hard Rocks

 

Nail Deco Of The Week #96

wet n wild – party of five glitters
wet n wild – kaleidoscope
covergirl boundless color – gold rush
covergirl boundless color – disco dazzle

china glaze – white on white

sad that i couldn’t get my hands on lippmann’s glitter in the air

anyway, here’s my attempt to replicate lippmann’s happy birthday

wet n wild party of five glitters does not have gold glitters like lippmann’s, so i just  used whatever gold glitter polish i had too bad i don’t have chunkier gold glitters!

Nail Deco Of The Week #93

wet n wild – kaleidoscope
frankened periwinkle blue

Nail Deco Of The Week #85 + mini review/tut

Saw Lacquerized‘s monarch butterfly nails and had to try it for myself!!!

mine didn’t turn out as nice as hers though

shouldn’t have rushed ._. maybe i will try this mani again in the future and make each nail more uniform + draw the contours better!

color club – wild at heart
sally hansen – hidden treasure
art deco – black
china glaze – white on white

byebye mani…

clean!

now moving on to the 4 way nail buffer that Jessica from Born Pretty sent me

step 1: file nails! i wouldn’t recommend if you want to file a lot because this is a very fine grain. it’s better for touch ups, after 1 or 2 uses you probably will have to dispose of it.

step 2,3: sand nail surface!

step 4: buff surface

dull

shiny!

i wouldn’t recommend using this too often (eg every day).. you are sanding off your nail after all– so you’re thinning your nail though you probably won’t be doing that anyway! one buffing is enough for 2-3 weeks for me~

nail deco of the week #31

china glaze – let’s do it in 3D