Swatch of NFUOh 59, 46, 49, 53

They sort of didn't turn out well, I didn't think in these photos, I will be giving each colour their own review shortly though. They are all layered over China Glaze Dress to Kill.

One coat.
Left to right: 53, 49, 46, 59

I tried NFUOh 53 over the red because it has the red/orange flakes but blue shimmer. I didn't realise how much of the blue shimmer actually showed. I thought it would be sheer that it is. It'd probably be best set over a blue or purple.

One coat
Left to right: 59, 46, 49, 53

NFUOh 49 is a clear base with the red/orange flakes. I think this is one of the best NFUOh polishes to own, then you can add it to anything without having a base colour to worry about.

Two coats.
Left to right: 59, 46, 49, 53

NFUOh 46 is what I'd call a tomato red base with orange/gold shimmer and flakes. It looks really beautiful in real life. I wasn't able to catch it here for some reason, hopefully in it's own review you'll be able to see it in all it's glory!

Three coats.
Left to right: 59, 46, 49

NFUOh 59 has a deep red wine base with the red/orange flakes, but it actually comes out quite sheer. Kind of jelly like. I think this one would look awesome over a deeper red.

Three coats.
Left to right: 49, 46, 59

You can see the flakes better here in 49. 


Stay tuned for their full reviews! :)

The Stash - Fuchsias

Hey reader!!! I feel so bad when I leave little NJ for a while *hugs NJ*. I was spending Valentine's with the boyfriend, great weekend. I have pics of my Valentine's mani too along with all the other V-day manicures I didn't post >_<

So here is a tiny chunk of the stash, Fuchsias :D Oh all these stash pics are two coats :)

From left to right we have:

China Glaze Purple Panic

OPI Fanatical Fuchsia

OPI Santiago Sangria

OPI DS Divine

Japanese Blues + Moooooore Newbies?

Good morning! Just had the biggest urge to bite my nails so I'll be off soon applying a very pretty polish to deactivate that urge.

Alright from thumb to pinky we have:

Midnight Blue Glitter - I absolutely love this one, would be great for layering too!

Blue Jeans - A very unique colour. It's like a grey with heavy blue shimmer and I know you cant see it here but it has silver sparkles too.

Pick Me Up Purple - You have already seen how pretty this one is :D

Bleu-Blue - Don't know what to think about this one, might have to Konad it n_n

French Riviera - Love this one to bits, its what I wanted Moon Over Mumbai to be. A nice chic sheer grey.

And here's the newbies to the polish collection, Lilac I Care, Starbright Sparkles and Fanatical Fuchsia.

Playing with Flakies, Glitter & Matte!

I was so amazed by mariannaoust's manicure today, I thought I'd have a go too :D

Luckily I brought some awesome polishes home with me for Christmas.

I used OPI Black Onyx as the base colour, then played around with combinations of Sinful Nail Junkie, NFU51 & 61(I don't think I've got the numbers right for the nfu's sorry :( ), OPI Merry Midnight, China Glaze Fortune Teller and of course, Essie Matte About You.

My sister asked me to do her nails like one of these designs for Christmas :D

Skittle Me Happy with Nail Art!

On my travels into the city, my partner wanted to show me a new Japanese food place. So there we went, food was great. This place was also a mall. We came across a nail salon that had like a bargain bin outfront.

Nail art supplies $2.

So I sat on the ground and sifted through everything and came out with these babies. I have been looking for these FOREVER! The only place I could get them was China.






















Last night I was really in the mood for some nail art. Perfect chance to try them out.


























From pinky to pointer:

Gold Gradient; I used a base of one coat of OPI Starbright Sparkles. I left it for awhile so it was pretty dry and I was scared that the glitter wouldn't stick. I have acres of glitter so I put my finger into the bag of gold and then dabbed it almost the whole way up my nail. Applying more closer to the tip. Then I stuck a few gold hex's along my tip and a few random ones going up my nail.

Nautical; I love love love love love nautical stuff. I am still waiting for Konad to make that nautical plate >_< Blue Moon; For the base I used two coats of Essie's Shelter Island. I applied the little blue circles in sort of a moon shape, but it looked a little too spaced out so I added a couple n top of the gaps.

Pink Triangle; Don't quite know what I was wantng here. I have a feeling I should have done half the nail in the pink circles, but keeping that diagonal line.

Skittle Me Happy! I

Ok so there are a few parts to this Skittle Me Happy! series, today is Part I.

I received a few romantiques today in the parcel from TransDesign. Not happy with TD, they charge a ridiculous amount for shipping and I get smashed polishes >:( For that much shipping I would expect these polishes to be protected, even wrapped individually! D:<

Back to being happy, here are the Romans :D

From the thumb to pinky:

Devotion - Quite possibly my favourite out of the lot! Two coats, a little streaky, but nothing that bothers me :)

Emotion - A little more red than I was expecting, but it still looks really pretty. Two coats, the one I had least problems with.

Harmony - Oh! I love this one too, this is just one coat. I got a little polish happy and applied a thick coat n_n;

Admire - Really nice, but I'm not feeling it. I will definitely give it another chance though. Had little lumpy things in it...

Delight - I'm surprised I remembered all the names :O I like this brown, two coats. Went on smoothly.

Overall, I am really happy with them, I think I just need practice on applying them. Can't wait to use them with Konads!

Skittle Me Happy - Baby Pinks + Peaches

I think this is about the only thing that has gone right for me today... I managed to ruin the keyboard by spilling my hot chocolate all over it. For some reason when I pushed 'K', an '8' would appear beside it. So I pulled out the old keyboard lol.

Ok so whilst I had some sun before the storm, I managed to swatch a few comparisons.

From the pointer to the pinky:
OPI I Pink I Love You
OPI I'm OK, You're Bouquet!
OPI Blush Of Adrenaline
MAC Seasonal Peach

I Pink I Love You was three coats, a little iffy to apply without a base coat. Bouquet was beautiful in two. Adrenaline was beautiful in two as well, and Peach was a nightmare to apply without a ridge filler at 3 coats.

I love these shades together, makes me think... candies, clouds, cute little animals, bows, ribbons, sweet lolita, rainbows... everything girly and feminine.

Bikini Bottom & Square Pants

I just took these swatches for you :D Almost broke my neck trying, but here they are!

Square Pants is the pastel yellow with very subtle shimmer (similar to OPI The Violet-ter The Better), I used three coats here.

And of course Bikini Bottom is on the right, a pastel blue jelly. I used four coats here.

You know how I wasn't feeling too flash about these little gems? Yeah well, now I love 'em! :D Haha. What made me change my mind? My holy grail ridge filler of course!

Zoya's Get Even.

It's beautiful. It's white. It works so so well. But I do recommend that you use it over your normal base coat as itself tends to apply a little unevenly without it. You only need one coat of Get Even n_n

Without Get Even, Bikini Bottom applied lovely, but the polish sort of gathered at the sides of my nails, so it looked like there was less in the middle of my nail. Ugh. It was also a little difficult to make them all even (opacity wise) throughout all ten nails. Bikini Bottom also made my tips appear green. Green tips makes me think fungal.

When RBL brought these colours out last year, along with Starfish Patrick (which I'm still trying to figure out how to get) for Fall/Autumn I think? Any who, I knew I had to have them! My sister and I *love* Sponge Bob, and there were pastels made after the show?!!?! Holy flip!

I'll fully swatch these babies for you on the weekend.

Just in case anyone is wondering how I almost broke my neck lol, I stood on one of our breakfast bar chairs (they're really tall, guests often get stuck in them trying to get out of it) and had to try get as close as possible to one of the little lights on the kitchen ceiling (to make sure the colours come out correctly).

OPI Japanese Collection 2005 - Nude Comparisons

Yay, Autumn's weather is finally kicking in. It has been raining on and off a lot today with thunder too! I like when it rains, but sadly my nail polish didn't. It didn't dry fully, I suppose it doesn't help when my fingers are as warm as an iceberg.

I had been meaning to compare these three for awhile now. I love all three of these shades, all three are work appropriate and apply quite nicely.

In order from top to bottom:
Have A Tempura Tan-trum
Miso Happy With This Color
Let Them Eat Rice Cake

They are a little streaky on coat number two but three fixes them right up. I tried them over a ridge filler to see if I could do it in two coats, no, ridge filler makes them more streaky lol.

So, if you can put up with doing three coats, they are absolutely perfect.

In the last photo you can see the Tempura is the more yellow toned one, Miso the red toned and Rice Cake being the blue toned one. I am positive that at least one of these would work for you!

The Last Three OPI Yokohama Polishes!

My Yokohama collection is now complete! :D Such a milestone ♥

TOP TO BOTTOM:

Vintage Violet

I Love Yokohama

Pinkerbell

The rest of the collection:

Cherry Blossom

Sweet Love At Ferris Wheel

Baby Blue

Yokohama Twilight

Swirl Of Euphoria

Starbright Sparkles II

Bay Bridge Sunset

Penny For Your Thoughts

Blush Of Adrenaline

OPI South Beach Skittles

Mum surprised me today with a phone call to say that Farmers has the South Beaches in and that it was 3 for 2 :D So she bought 9/12 haha

I was very impressed with these as most took 2 coats to be completely opaque and they dried fairly quickly.

Corals, from thumb to pinky:

OPI On Collins Ave.

Sand In My Suit

Clubbing Til Sunrise

Conga-line Coral

Paint My Moji-toes Red

Pinks, from pointer to pinky:

Party In My Cabana

Feelin' Hot, Hot, Hot!

Naked

Cherry Much In Love (not a south beach)

Then I compared Collins Ave with Cajun Shrimp. The only difference, Cajun is less opaque.

EDIT: Oops! I wrote Moji-toes instead of Collins >_<

Skittle Me Happy! IV

Some Misas. I have found a holy grail polish here.... :D

From top to bottom we have:

Misa - Tender Violette, not sure about this one. Has a very strong lavender flash.

Misa - Foxy & Folksy, I quite like the look of this one.

Misa - Mar De Morado. Three words, NEED BACK UPS. The perfect colour I have been looking for :D

Misa - Radiant, don't worry! You will get to see it fully one day :)

Skittle Me Happy! III

More skittles! Purple this time, yay!

From the top to bottom we haaaaaave:

MAC - Varicose Violet, such a dreamy colour.

OPI - Amethyst, so so pretty. Like the purple version of Chiffon.

Essie - Sexy Divide, this one glows. Can't wait to swatch it fully :D

OPI - Text Me, Text You. Don't mind my horribly stained nail n_n; TMTY looks so pretty over colours!

Skittle Me Happy! OPI & China Glaze

I finally have some great pastel/bright colours for summer! Woohoo!

From thumb to pinky:

Cajun Shrimp - I have been lemming this forever, next is My Chihuahua Bites! This is only two coats and looks jellyish in the bottle and on the brush.

Gargantuan Green Grape - I always thought this polish was called Garangatuan Green Grape lol and I will still keep calling it that :D That is three coats and you can still see my tip.

Spontaneous - Why did I not discover this earlier? I love love love it! It will be a victim of loads of Konading :) Just two coats here, applies beautifully. Contains formaldehyde.

Verano - I saw this one in a salon and fell in love with it. A bright fuchsia with subtle shimmer. Will also fall victim to Konads. Three coats here, applies nicely.

Lavender Lingo - A little disappointed with this one, I was hoping it would be more purple. It's not very lavender at all... Three coats here.

You will get to see Spontaneous tomorrow :D

And here is what I wore to the hospital, Emerald Sparkle (two coats) with OMG used with a Konad design. Two coats of Poshe, makes ES super sparkly! Try it :)