Circus Confetti in the Green Room

Once again, here is Topshop's Green Room with a little bling:

In the previous post, I've mentioned how surprisingly sheer Green Room was. That makes it a perfect ingredient for a glitter sandwich. I used Essence Circus Confetti and layered one coat of Green Room on top. 

Circus Confetti is a real party glitter with its multi-coloured glitters in different sizes.
Before the sandwich:

After:

What do you think of this combination?

Have a great one!
 

Topshop Green Room

My lovely sister bought this one for me as a souvenir from France. It was a pleasant surprise, both the gift and the polish itself:

This is Topshop Green Room, which is a beautiful green with an extremely glossy finish. I didn't expect the jelly-like formula judging from the bottle. So I was surprised to find out that Green room was so sheer. It will become opaque with three coats.

one coat

three coats

 The camera couldn't capture the real colour of Green Room, so I edited one of the pictures to give you a better impression of how Green Room looks like in real life.

In the next post, I will make a glitter sandwich with Green Room. Don't miss it...

Have a great one!

Inspired Ribbon Mani

Today's mani is inspired by a ribbon mani from the Nail Up! magazine (November 2012 issue).

This is the look in the magazine:

The base colours are 2 coats of Topshop Hopscotch (index, middle and pink) and Essence Black is Back (ring).

Index ~ I made 2 X's with black striping tapes to create the ribbons. Then gave the ribbons different colours: blue with KIKO 385 and purple with Essence Passion for Fashion. On the insection of the striping tapes, I placed golden glitters.

Middle ~ The same method as the index finger, just different colours. The purple ribbon is created with Essence Passion for Fashion and the black one with Essence Black is Back. I made dots on the ribbons with Topshop Hopscotch.

Ring ~ 2 coats of Essence Black is Back and added golden glitters.

Pink ~ The ribbon design from Konad M3 with black Konad stamping polish.

 

Have a wonderful one!

Lace Fever

Lately, I've been doing a lot of NOTD's from the latest Essence and Catrice nail polishes. The fingers were itching for some nail art, so here is one:

There are 2 coats of Topshop's Hopscotch, my favourite light grey creme with subtle silver shimmer. On the accent finger, there is also one layer of Essence Ahoy! to draw the imperfect white rectangle. Then I used lace stripes to cover the outline of the rectangle. One layer of topcoat is used to seal and shine.

These lace stripe water decals are very easy to use. You just roughly measure the length you'll need and cut it. Then soak that little piece of water decal in water for a few seconds. The water decal will easily come off and you can place it wherever you want. I bought mine at the Born Pretty Store, but I think you can find them at other online stores that sells nail art related products as well.

Have a great weekend!

Tiny Mittens

Brrr...the winter has really arrived... It is time to wrap yourself in nice warm clothes and get yourself pretty winter accessories like mittens. That is exactly what inspired me to do this mani: the patterns of mittens.

I used Topshop's Hopscotch (grey) and Catrice's Back to Black (black) for this manicure. Furthermore, I made use of the Viva La Nails black striping tape to make the excellent horizontal lines in this nail art. The striping tape was easy to use and it is impossible to make a mess. This comes in handy for me since I am quite clumsy when it comes to drawing a line with a striper brush. In the end, I had to redo it many times which is time consuming. The use of a striping tape is simple and effortless: you just place it on the nail and make your preferred pattern and that's it. AND it doesn't need time to dry.

Hope you like this winter mani.

Have a warm and wonderful one!!!

Gypsy Night

So excited to show you this pretty polish: Topshop's Gypsy Night!!!

It was a tough job to capture every detail with the camera, so I hope you can see how AMAZING this polish is. Gypsy Night has a black jelly base, but more important are the tiny glitters and orange FLAKIES!!! The glitters give a different color as the light falls on it in different angles: green, blue, orange. 

See for yourself:

With Flash

Without Flash



Flakie on Pinkie

Totally in love with this one  ^^

Have a wonderful day!!!

KOTD 'crack nail polish design'

Yes, you heard it right. There is a Konad image plate that makes your nail polish look like it has cracked! Well, at least from a little distance, I will show you.

First of all, I used the grey colored polish of Topshop, which is called 'Hopscotch' as base color. I prefer a light base color with this design. As for the stamping color, I used Koh's nr. 134 'Rainy Day'. This is my first Koh nail polish, so I was very excited to try it out. The formula was quite thick, which is normal for a creme polish. It was opaque with only one coat, how cool is that?! This makes it suitable as stamping color.

Hopscotch

nr.134 Rainy Day

And with image plate M73, the final look is created:

Yes, that is the Catrice 'C02 Looking Greyt' from the fall collection: Expect the Unexpected. Doesn't the design on the polish bottle look like the KOTD? This is totally a coincidence, since the mani was created last night and I had no intension to buy this nail polish at all (well, at least not this particular day ^^ ). But this afternoon, the whole Catrice LE collection was displayed in the drugstore...you can fill in the rest of the story...

What do you think? Does this design of M73 look like the nail polish has cracked?

And to those who were just looking at the 'Looking Greyt' bottle, I will swatch it very soon...

Have a wonderful day!