piCture pOlish Marine Comparisons: Essie, Zoya

This is a comparison post for piCture pOlish Marine. Similar polishes shown here are Where's My Chauffeur, Naughty Nautical, and Wednesday.

Pictured above is two coats each of Zoya Wednesday, Essie Where's My Chauffeur, Essie Naughty Nautical, and piCture pOlish Marine.

Marine is a lot bluer than Nautical and Wednesday, where as Chauffeur is in the same line of teal but a few shades lighter. Nautical also has a faint shimmer. Wednesday is a lot dustier looking than the other shades.

Link roundup:

- Purchase Marine from piCture pOlish
- 2013 Blog Fest nail art featuring Marine

piCture pOlish Marine

Today I have piCture pOlish Marine to share with you. Marine is a gorgeous bright teal creme with a formula to die for. Shown here is two coats. You can get away with one, but I usually always do a second to fill in gaps I may have missed. I will shortly share a comparison post of Marine so you can see how it varies from different shades of polish.

Link roundup:

- Purchase Marine from piCture pOlish

- Blog Fest 2013 nail art feat. Marine

piCture pOlish Blog Fest 2013 - Celebrating the Year of the Blogger!

 pIcture pOlish put together a Blog Fest for 2013, which meant that they sent you three colours to use and you had to create some nail art with them! The colours I was sent were Hot Lips, a beautiful searing fuchsia, Marine, a decadent teal creme, and Beige, a picture perfect nude.

At first I was a little bit stumped with how my three could work together as they were so different from one another! I had a nude, a neon and a teal! But the secret was to actually combine them. And by that I mean to mix the smallest amount of Marine in to a dab of Hot Lips to create different shades from thin one another. I also used tiny amounts of black to darken Hot Lips, and the more purpley Hot Lips for the middles of the flowers.

I have to say, Hot Lips is high on my top 20 list of fave polishes. She's just so bright it's impossible to feel sad when looking at that beautiful pink on your polished nails. I have worn it so many times, I couldn't wait to use it in this manicure!

So in order to create this manicure follow these steps:

1. Paint two thin coats of Beige to create the base colour.
2. For the fingers that you wish to gradient, paint a thin line of Hot Lips on the tips of these fingers.
3. Once dry, paint a blob of Beige and Hot Lips together on a sponge. 
4. Dab the sponge in the middle of the thin Hot Lips line and the Beige nail.
5. Repeat to get a smoother blend.
6. For the fingers with flowers, use a small paint brush to paint the flowers in Hot Lips.
7. Use Marine for the leaves of the flowers. 
8. Add a tiny amount of black to Hot Lips to create the darker inside of the flower. 
9. Top coat your beautiful creation, you're done! 

Blog Fest Awards!

All nail art creations will be posted on a pinterest board by piCture pOlish and these will have to be voted on! The top three winners will get to create their own shade of nail polish with piCture pOlish. These three choices are broken down in to: as voted by PP friends and fans, as voted by all participants of Blog Fest 2013, and as voted by Jules and Megs of piCture pOlish.

If you liked my design, pop 'Nail Juice' in to the comments section here:
https://www.picturepolish.com.au/index.php?route=information%2Finformation&information_id=10

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OPI Go Goth Halloween Set 2010 UPDATED

UPDATED: Here are each of the colours on the nail. The formula on these are all very nice. Have to be careful when applying Obscurity though, it can get streaky.

Here is just a quick look at the Go Goth collection! This collection came out for Halloween 2010. I'm really excited to see what they have in store for us this year! 

Retails for $39.90, a bit of a rip off but I really loved these colours.

Sanguine is a beautiful dark red, plus I love saying it. Sanguine.

Nevermore is a very pretty navy with pink and purple sparkles.

Unripened is really nice! I really hope OPI brings this sort of shade into a normal collection.

In order above in outdoor lighting natural vs. flash: Ink, Obscurity, Sanguine, Unripened and Nevermore.

Here is Ink and Nevermore side by side. Can you spot the difference?

Did you pick this set up? Did you like them?

L.A. Disco Vinyl Record

Once again, our faithful cameras let us down again. Vinyl record is much more teal than what is shown here.

You can get this for $7 at Dress Smart in Onehunga. I haven't really seen the L.A. girls colours anywhere else.

The formula was quite consistent with the other shades I tried from this range. Quite a nice thickness to it, very smooth and excellent coverage. It can apply thickly quickly though, so be careful with these ones.

Orly Meet Me Under The Mistletoe & On The List

How's it going? I went into town today and can't resist walking into Farmers and checking out their ever-expanding nail polish collections. Today they had the Orly Christmas shades, the white, green and red that come with a little red purse, and some minis.

The only minis that excited me were these two, Meet Me Under The Mistletoe and On The List.

I don't think On The List is actually a part of this collection, but it sure fits doesn't it?

I will be posting swatches of these two hopefully this weekend if I'm not still settling into the new place, but for now here are some pretty pictures!

Speaking of On The List, which polishes are you wishing that Santa will bring you?

For me.... I think mainly is OPI Who The Shrek Are You?, Isn't That Precious and It's a Girl!

MAC Liberty Of London: Nail Polish Swatches

Blue India was very popular in the states and sold out so quickly. However, at the release party I went to, I think my mum and I were the only ones who paid attention to the polishes! So I don't think they will be quite as a big seller here.

BLUE INDIA

FORMULA

Was amazing! Best MAC formula ever! 98% coverage in the first coat. It was so smooth and creamy. I hope MAC produces more like this!

COLOUR

The colour of Blue India is sort of a dusty teal. But it doesn't have too much green in it, more of a blue teal. But definitely dusty. 

It is quite a universal colour too, I tried it on and loved it, same happened with mum. My hands are more neutral coloured with yellow tones around my cuticles where as mum has more red undertones. So I think it will work with multiple skintones.

VESTRAL WHITE

FORMULA

The formula for this polish was really... different. I've never come across something like this before so I wasn't too sure on what to do for it.

It felt like I was applying a cream polish but then it left weird streaks as matte polishes do when you put them on too thin. I had to use 3 coats to get it all evened out.

I feel a white ridgefiller would help with this.

COLOUR

The colour of Vestral White is not quite a stark white. More of a creamy white. Like it has a little bit of softness to it as apposed to OPI Alpine Snow but not quite as soft as say Zoya Lucy or OPI Time-less is More.

OPI Reflecting Pool

Reflecting Pool is a teal based foil with an electric blue frost (I say frost because it leaves stroke marks that are familiar with frost finishes) also with large gold glitter.

I used 3 coats here as Reflecting Pool is a little on the sheer side. I don't really like the look of it on my skin as it seems to pull out the red undertones.

Also I much prefer this polish to be matte so I can appreciate the glitter/foil without being distracted by the frostiness.

Revlon Tropical Teal & Guava Glam

It must have been fate to have such a crappy day learning about hairpieces and wigs that I needed to do a little shopping on my break.

Revlon has had a few nail polishes on sale for $8 for a while now and today they were $5! So I picked up Tropical Teal and Guava Glam.

The reason I picked up Tropical Teal was because I borrowed my sisters ring hoping to use it for a photo shoot coming up and I didn't quite have a nail polish that matched it.

Luckily Revlon came to my rescue. Look how pretty and shimmery it is at just two coats!

And the reason for Guava Glam was that I really liked it when it came out last Summer. I hadn't even seen it again til now!

I am really happy with both of these colours. Reviews to come shortly.

Cute ring huh? (Secretly I don't want to give it back, but I will because my sister loves it too :D)

CUINONG - Teal, holo and mint!

These are a few polishes I picked up from the beauty supply store I visited early on in my course.

The brand is CUINONG - never heard of it, but boy do they have some lovely colours! I also have a pink and a holo purple.

The green holo smells like petrol. Weird. But the others are impeccable to apply, no flaws.

TEAL:



GREEN HOLOGRAPHIC:























MINT: