Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Pina Parie 52+Kleancolor Red Hot

I am too excited to wait any more to show this.
I started with Pina Parie 51 which was a bit difficult on the application because of the brush that was curved. My guess is that they put normal bottle brushes in small bottles and it touched the bottom of the bottle and it tilted. So that made the application super complicated and that's why my mani is a bit messed up. But the polish on the other hand is excellent, I love the color and was totally surprised to see how great it looked on my skin, and wondered why I had waited almost 6 months to swatch this.
The base is a burdgundy jelly with blue shimmer which gives it an overall look of purple. It is not completly opaque in two coats but it was good enough for me so I left it that way.
And since I am now trying out all my new Kleancolor I thought it would look good with Red hot on top. Red hot is a red transparent base with large red hex glitter and small round glitter.
The result is this and I think it looks great! Picture spam warning!!





The reason of my sloppy application

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Pink Wednesday - Kiko 313

Hello everyone!!
I am so sleepy I don't know if I am too tired, or if I just haven't had enough coffee. I can't concentrate on my work, and I only want to sleep, so I decided to do a post.
And it's Wednesday again!!
I saved this for today it's a gorgeous fuchsia cream pink with some blue hints in it. Or is it just the fact that I am tired that's making me see blue in it. Don't know.
I applied two coats and it looks just perfect. My cuticules were not at their best but now they are doing much better.
I also put on two coats of Kleancolor Chuncky holo purple. It's a bit too much but I think this way you can see the beautiful flecs and the multichrome goodness better.
And bonus a cute photo of Mumu:








Isn't he a cuttie?

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

George - Sunset Orange

I was a bit dissapointed by this George. It is a neon orange cream, but it's not quite neon, because the formula was just like on a cream, drying time also, and application.
That was not the dissapointement though. The thing about this polish is that it wears badly, it has tip wear and small chips in two days. It also get scratched and even with the top coat on, I simply don't understand that.
But I guess for the price it retails for, it's worth it.
This is two coats:




Monday, July 11, 2011

Kiko 318 + Kleancolor Sugar coat

I wore this Kiko for two days before taking it off, and the pictures were taken right before.
It's a dark dusty purple, leaning towards a soft brown.
I love the color, but it doesn't look that good on me.
Application is excellent and formula too, I think all Kiko creams have the same one.
I placed an order on Beautyjoint that is a site that I've recently discovered with the help of Lily , to buy some kleancolor because I love their glitters. They have a sale on Kleancolor they're all at 1.75$. I bought 11 with 25€ including delivery for France.
I got them in record time - like 5 days, and really well wrapped.
The polishes are great but kinda stink.
Anyways I added a coat of Sugar Coat on top of my Kiko. Sugar coat is a transparent base with flakie like large hex glitter.
This is two coats of Kiko and one coat of the Kleancolor





Sunday, July 10, 2011

Milani - 3D - 3D

This is not quite a holo in the traditional way, it's a shimmer gold base, with very small holo glitter. I think that is the best way I can describe it. It's not like the other polishes in this collection that is the 3D collection. The other ones are clearly holos and you can see the swatch of Hi-tech here, the swatch of Hi-Res here, and Cyberspace here. These other ones are not linear holos but they remain holos, and it was obvious in the application and the removal.
 This one on the other hand it did not have the same application & removal. It applied very well on a normal base, and the removal was just like on a shimmer polish.
It is still a very pretty polish, but it's not really a holo.
This was 3 coats I think:




  

Friday, July 8, 2011

Essie - Cantaloupe

Essie Cantaloupe is exactely what it says it is the color of the Cantaloupe or a faded peach color.
It's a cream and it needed about 3 coats for opacity. I had some trouble with the application on this one, even with the second coat it had streaks, but the third one did the trick. Still I found this weird, because usually Essie cream are perfect in two coats.
Anyway because of the three coats, I had some shrinking, with the Seche vite on the tips, and that's why it looks kinda like tip wear. And excuse the horrible cuticules.
I also did a comparison with Wet'n'Wild Blazed and Revlon Peachy.
The Revlon is almost a dupe of this one.
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Natural sun light


Artificial light

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Pink Wednesday - OPI - Tropical Punch

And another one from my swap with Carolina, I had this on for about 3 days and it didn't chip, I just had some tip wear.
It's a fuchsia redish colored cream, that becomes opaque in two coats.
Application and formula are great just as OPI has always had, and I guess there's nothing more to say, this is an OPI and that says it all.
Photos:
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Natural sun light



Natural light

Giveaway over at Cristina's

Hey everyone!!
Just a quick post to let you all know my friend Cristina is having a giveaway in honor of her reaching 101 followers, so go check it out!!
Congrats honey!!

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Peggy Sage - Diamond Prune

I picked this up at Cyra Lido and it was about 4,30€. It is pretty ok price wise. 
Peggy Sage polishes are amazing quality, the brush is great and makes application easy, formula is good - it's always opaque in two coats.
I am super tired so if I make any mistakes don't pay attention to them. 
This is a sort of charcoal blue cream with purple and blue shimmer. 
I applied two coats, and it looks awesome! 
I have nothing negative to say about these polishes. 
On top I applied a coat of Turquoise Shatter. Sorry about the thread hanging from my middle finger, I only saw it when looking through the photos.







Monday, July 4, 2011

KIKO 342

I really really loved this shade, and I have my reasons.
It's a blue toward turquoise blue cream, the formula is amazing just la on all Kiko, and the application is pretty ok too, with the flat brush.
But the color, oh that color!! it's deep like the sea, and it shines like water in the sun!
I wore it for only a day so I can't tell you about the wear on this one, but Kiko is usually ok, in this departement too, on me Kiko wears better than OPI.
I added a coat of Kiko 298 which I reviewed here, and as I told you there it's more of a layering polish and this is the proof.
I love the final look, but I love it more by itself.
I forgot to say I am so sorry for not posting these last days, but on friday I had several meetings with clients and after that I had a friend from Romania come over, and had to go wait for her at the train station, and after that all weekend was full of stuff to do with her; I loved having her, I miss her very much.
Here are the photos: