#117: ESSENCE In The Jungle & ESSENCE Iced Mint Frappe + Nail Art

Dark green paired with a pastel mint green filled with loads of polka dots. Simplicity always turn out pleasing to the eyes. Essence In the Jungle looks very very close to OPI Jade Is The New Black. If you love greens, you'll need to have both. Otherwise, you'll only need to have either one of these. I have both, so maybe I'll do a comparison in my coming post. And as for the pastel mint green, I couldn't compare as I do not own many pastel polish.

Nail Color:
Essence In The Jungle
Essence Iced Mint Frappe

Decorated using:
Dotting tools

#116: ORLY Gogo + Nail Art

Orly Gogo is a soft white with subtle shimmer and silver glitter. It was really streaky to apply though and I needed 3 coats for opacity. It looks a little plain on it's own so I added 2 stripes with a silver nail art pen and then 1 stripe of pink in between them to make it pop.

Simple and easy birthday manicure~ I've grown a year wiser today and the hubby is taking me out for German Cuisine today. Excited tucking into pork knuckles, pork ribs & spaetzli~ Happy birthday to all Librans. =)

Nail Color:
Orly Go Go

Decorated with:
Inglot Nail Art Pen
Naga Nail Silver Nail Art Pen

#115: SASATINNIE FCGL002 + Nail Art

A gorgeous dark purple polish with copper flakies and blue + silverish micro glitters. Sasatinnie FCGL002 was rumoured to be a cheaper dupe to Orly Fowl Play and OPI Merry Midnight, the latter was said to be HTF polish now. I don't know how true because I don't have the other two to compare, so you'll have to google yourself for that. I'm sure there are plenty available.

This unnamed polish (only identified with code FCGL002) was bought at a local Sasa store for only RM8.90. Surprisingly this gem was dumped in a large bin and I didn't realise it was there until I dug into it. Shown here was 3 thick coats of FCGL002 alone and not layered. Pretty isn't it?

*edited* Fickleminded~ I'm contemplating whether or not to get Orly Fowl Play which was released recently in their Birds Of a Feather Collection just so I could do a comparison. But.... but.... there are already so many swatches available on the blogosphere. >.< And so it killed my lemming~ On the good side, I can save for Color Club Beyond The Mistletoe.

Self restriction: I'm on no buy at the moment.

Nail Color:
Sasatinnie FCGL002

Decorated with:
Clear Flower Rhinestone

#114: OPI DS Coronation

Chopped down my nails today. It's getting unmanageable for removing contact lenses and typing. I don't know how people can stand having nails that kept stuck in between the keyboards.


Anyway, I had on OPI DS Coronation today. I can't explain how gorgeous this silver holo looks. The holo effect is super amazing! If you're a collector, you should definitely get this.


Nail Color:
OPI DS Coronation

#113: CHINA GLAZE Pelican Gray & JORDANA Lavender Foil + KONAD M76

China Glaze Pelican Gray was a little plain on its own. To amp up the look I sponged on Jordana Lavender Foil up to 2/3 of nail and then stamped on a simple pattern on the corners. Love this mani!

Nail Color:
China Glaze Pelican Gray
Jordana Lavender Foil

Stamp:
Konad M76

Stamping Color:
Konad Special Polish in Purple

#112: SEPHORA Mirror, Mirror & ELIANTO Flaming Pink + BUNDLE MONSTER BM-215

Was out of ideas. I wanted to use either the shatter or crackle polish but I hate the thick goopy polish and I couldn't get a nice thin layer of it. Sick of it! Any idea whether nail polish thinner can be use for shatter/crackle polish?

I went through my stamping plates and found this one that almost resembles the shatter/crackle effect. I freehanded one diagonal stripe of Elianto Flaming Pink on Sephora Mirror, Mirror then stamped the full plate shatter/crackle pattern. And voila, IMO this looks so much nicer than crackle/shatter. Sorry if any of you are offended by my opinion above.

Nail Color:
Sephora Mirror, Mirror
Elianto Flaming Pink

Stamp:
Bundle Monster BM-215

Stamping Color:
Beauty Gal Special Nail Paint in Black