If you're like me, you're super eager to check out the upcoming China Glaze collections, right?
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Color Club Nouveau Vintage
Good morning, Dear Reader!
I have a couple of things to tell you about today, and the first is Color Club Nouveau Vintage* nail polish from their Fall 2011 Back to Boho Collection. It's an interesting shimmer that's brown overall with a lot of gold and green in the shimmer. It was good in two coats and dried completely in reasonable time. Here it is in the sun, and I chose this picture because parts are less focused and you can see its sparkle well.
I also did a little filing for this manicure, partly because I needed some shaping and partly for product testing. Sally Hansen sent their Nailgrowth Miracle Serum for me to try out, with the product claims being flawless cuticles and up to a 59% increase in growth in two weeks with daily use. For the increases growth, the labeling isn't totally clear on the claim - it says 59%, I'm assuming that means up to 59%. I figured for our purposes here, just hacking off some length and then looking at the change over a couple of weeks with it as compared to a set of older pics with a similar starting length covering the same time period would be sufficient to determine whether it makes a difference or not. So really, I took off some length to see how fast it comes back.
That is Color Club Nouveau Vintage and my little extended testing project, so I think that's just about everything. Until next time, Dear Reader, love and nail polish to you!
*This product was sent for review by the manufacturer.
All Rights Reserved, Siobhan@The Nailphile. If you're reading this elsewhere, it's stolen from a real nail polish blog.
I have a couple of things to tell you about today, and the first is Color Club Nouveau Vintage* nail polish from their Fall 2011 Back to Boho Collection. It's an interesting shimmer that's brown overall with a lot of gold and green in the shimmer. It was good in two coats and dried completely in reasonable time. Here it is in the sun, and I chose this picture because parts are less focused and you can see its sparkle well.
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| Color Club Nouveau Vintage Nail Polish, Two Coats |
I also did a little filing for this manicure, partly because I needed some shaping and partly for product testing. Sally Hansen sent their Nailgrowth Miracle Serum for me to try out, with the product claims being flawless cuticles and up to a 59% increase in growth in two weeks with daily use. For the increases growth, the labeling isn't totally clear on the claim - it says 59%, I'm assuming that means up to 59%. I figured for our purposes here, just hacking off some length and then looking at the change over a couple of weeks with it as compared to a set of older pics with a similar starting length covering the same time period would be sufficient to determine whether it makes a difference or not. So really, I took off some length to see how fast it comes back.
That is Color Club Nouveau Vintage and my little extended testing project, so I think that's just about everything. Until next time, Dear Reader, love and nail polish to you!
*This product was sent for review by the manufacturer.
All Rights Reserved, Siobhan@The Nailphile. If you're reading this elsewhere, it's stolen from a real nail polish blog.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Broken Nailed
Consider this a slightly early Pink Wednesday post!
My nails are in a sorry state at the moment due to my dwindling supply of OPI Nail Envy. I need a new bottle and I normally save my credit on Valued Opinions to buy it on Amazon but I've recently neglected my account so I need to do a few more surveys before I have enough virtual pennies.
I've been meaning to write a review of the Nail Envy for a while and this shortage has reminded me how much I love it and need to tell you all about it! Basically, it's the sole reason I have been able to grow my nails and keep them long, I can't recommend it highly enough.
Plate: Bundle Monster BM224 and BM201
Base Colour: Cult Nails - Iconic
Konad Colour: Miss Sporty Zodiac
Top Coat of NYC
Monday, August 29, 2011
Sally Hansen Limited Edition Halloween Salon Effects Nail Polish Strips
Good evening, Dear Reader!
I ran across something cool I thought you might want to know about, so I'm here to tell you. I've been eyeing the various patterns of Sally Hansen Salon Effects Nail Polish Strips, and I ran into some limited edition Halloween ones that look really fun. That's the kind of thing that'll test your last nerve to hunt for in stores much of the time, and the good news is I found them online for $8. Here are the pictures of the patterns. They're skinny pictures, so I'll just put the giant versions right here.
I found them listed as "Salon Effects Nail Polish Strips-Limited Edition Halloween" on Ulta.com for $9.99 retail, but the reason I was on their site was a 20% off code, which is 61252. I don't know all the details of the code like end date and stacking codes, but I'd wager they're on the site somewhere. It's a good price for them and Halloween stuff pops up and disappears so fast that I thought I'd let you know about them.
I'm really digging these nail polish strips in general (as well as the Halloween ones specifically!) - my mani's still good, but I'll likely change it tomorrow. I used the gold glitter strips for a pedicure so I can do a real wear test on them though. I tend to leave a pedi alone for a really long time - I remember crossing the Ridiculous line with one, and made the conscious decision to see if I could bear to just grow the whole thing out and did it (just cutting them and leaving my hot pink polish on there). I wish I could say that at the time I wasn't writing a nail care blog, but alas...
That's about all I wanted to pass on, so until next time, Dear Reader, love and nail polish to you!
**Added 08/30/2011: I just saw a display of these in person. It's a tabletop display, so one that goes on a shelf, and there are two boxes of each per display. These pics are representative of all but the green, which looks very cool in person (but I bring you this information empty handed).
All Rights Reserved, Siobhan@The Nailphile. If you're reading this elsewhere, it's stolen from a real nail polish blog.
I ran across something cool I thought you might want to know about, so I'm here to tell you. I've been eyeing the various patterns of Sally Hansen Salon Effects Nail Polish Strips, and I ran into some limited edition Halloween ones that look really fun. That's the kind of thing that'll test your last nerve to hunt for in stores much of the time, and the good news is I found them online for $8. Here are the pictures of the patterns. They're skinny pictures, so I'll just put the giant versions right here.
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| Spun For You |
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| Wish Nets |
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| Hot Wired |
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| Numbskull |
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| Ghoulie Girl |
I found them listed as "Salon Effects Nail Polish Strips-Limited Edition Halloween" on Ulta.com for $9.99 retail, but the reason I was on their site was a 20% off code, which is 61252. I don't know all the details of the code like end date and stacking codes, but I'd wager they're on the site somewhere. It's a good price for them and Halloween stuff pops up and disappears so fast that I thought I'd let you know about them.
I'm really digging these nail polish strips in general (as well as the Halloween ones specifically!) - my mani's still good, but I'll likely change it tomorrow. I used the gold glitter strips for a pedicure so I can do a real wear test on them though. I tend to leave a pedi alone for a really long time - I remember crossing the Ridiculous line with one, and made the conscious decision to see if I could bear to just grow the whole thing out and did it (just cutting them and leaving my hot pink polish on there). I wish I could say that at the time I wasn't writing a nail care blog, but alas...
That's about all I wanted to pass on, so until next time, Dear Reader, love and nail polish to you!
**Added 08/30/2011: I just saw a display of these in person. It's a tabletop display, so one that goes on a shelf, and there are two boxes of each per display. These pics are representative of all but the green, which looks very cool in person (but I bring you this information empty handed).
All Rights Reserved, Siobhan@The Nailphile. If you're reading this elsewhere, it's stolen from a real nail polish blog.
Daisy Daisy...
I always feel so guilty when I go more than one or two days without posting. It's blogging withdrawal! I can't concentrate because all I'm thinking about is when I'll have time for all the photographing and editing and writing.
Do any of you other bloggers get this way? I'm not complaining though, I love being dedicated to my blog. It's the only serious commitment I have in my life at the moment!
I've had an awesome bank holiday weekend so far. I've been on an open top bus tour, partied with my old school friends and had some alone time strolling around the shops where I found some incredible bargains. Today I'm off to my aunt's house for her birthday lunch and then heading in to the city for my friends birthday meal. I wish my life was always this exciting!
My favourite bargain from my Sunday shopping trip was some white Wet N Wild polish which has kind of solved my stamping dilemma for the time being. Wet N Wild products aren't really sold anywhere here, the only place I've ever found them is in bargain or end-of-line stores so my jaw literally hit the floor when I spotted a few dozen of these on the shelf. I still have a lemming for that Sally Hansen Whirlwind White though! Thank you for all the help you guys gave me with that, you know who you are ;)
Konad Plate: Bundle Monster BM205
Base Colour: No7 - Stand Back
Konad Colour: Wet N Wild - French Manicure White
Top Coat of NYC
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Do any of you other bloggers get this way? I'm not complaining though, I love being dedicated to my blog. It's the only serious commitment I have in my life at the moment!
I've had an awesome bank holiday weekend so far. I've been on an open top bus tour, partied with my old school friends and had some alone time strolling around the shops where I found some incredible bargains. Today I'm off to my aunt's house for her birthday lunch and then heading in to the city for my friends birthday meal. I wish my life was always this exciting!
My favourite bargain from my Sunday shopping trip was some white Wet N Wild polish which has kind of solved my stamping dilemma for the time being. Wet N Wild products aren't really sold anywhere here, the only place I've ever found them is in bargain or end-of-line stores so my jaw literally hit the floor when I spotted a few dozen of these on the shelf. I still have a lemming for that Sally Hansen Whirlwind White though! Thank you for all the help you guys gave me with that, you know who you are ;)
Konad Plate: Bundle Monster BM205
Base Colour: No7 - Stand Back
Konad Colour: Wet N Wild - French Manicure White
Top Coat of NYC
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Sally Hansen Salon Effects Laced Up
Good morning, Dear Reader!
Today I have something new to me to show you, Sally Hansen Salon Effects Nail Polish Strips in Laced Up. If you recall, I tried Sephora by OPI's Chic Prints when they first came out and didn't love them, so despite hearing good things about the Sally Hansen strips, I was reluctant to try them until Sally Hansen offered to send some for review, which is where this pack came from. They're completely different than the Sephora ones, so I took a lot of pictures to show them to you.
The pattern is Laced Up, which is black lace over a neutral base. I did a manicure in black Konad over a neutral some time ago, and I thought it was okay, but my opinion of it was higher than the general opinion reflected in the comments (that's my delicate way of mentioning it was largely hated). I used Laced Up today because I wanted a very cool manicure for something later today but didn't feel like investing the effort in one. I took out the package of nail strips, unpacked everything in the box, and read the directions (to any gentlemen reading, that's the normal way to do it, the unpacking and direction reading).
The directions told me how to clean off my nails for application, recommending totally bare nails. I normally follow directions precisely the first time with a product, but here, that deviated from how I would reasonably use it so I changed it up a little bit (this is not the normal way to do it). I chose them because I feel lazy and didn't take off yesterday's manicure, so I took out two isopropyl alcohol pads and used the first to clean the day old polish on each nail of my left hand and set the second aside for my right. Then I got about the business of applying the nail strips.
The most significant difference between these and the Chic Prints is that these are made out of nail polish while the Sephora ones I tried were some kind of plastic, like decals. With the decals, I struggled with wrinkles over the natural curves of my nails, with that being the biggest disadvantage to them, and these didn't cause any trouble at all. Since these are polish, they're super-sealed in the packaging, being sandwiched between two layers of plastic. I took pictures of the steps as well as I could using a leftover because by the time I did the second hand, each nail was taking well under a minute to complete, so this is really easy and I wanted to show you how easy. This is the the strip as it comes out of the package.
The top layer is a thin but strong plastic film that gets peeled off from the blue tab. I mention it's strong because there were no problems with tearing it. I forgot this step with one, which messed up the nail a little because some of the polish strip came off when I managed to peel the plastic off, but I was able to save it (I'll get to how when we look at that picture). This is peeling off the plastic.
The next step is removing the polish strip from the backing
Then I took off the little tab, and this is what's applied.
To apply, I chose which end better fit my cuticle and touched the strip down centered at the cuticle, slightly stretched it to the center of the tip of my nail, then stretched each side as I pressed it down. It's the stretchiness of these that's very cool - it lets the strip really take the shape of a nail. I pressed down one side of my demo strip and stretched it to show you how elastic these are. Here, you can see how that came into play in fixing my error - it's at the cuticle of my thumb nail here, at the corner closer to the strip, that I pulled off a piece when I forgot to remove the top plastic layer and ripped up a bit of the strip when I got the plastic off my nail, so I tore off a little bit from the opposite end of the strip and covered the spot. The pattern is imperfect there as a result, but that's a handy trick.
To finish, the directions told me to lightly file the end with an included file, but I found that while applying them that I could stretch it over the tip and my nail would cut the strip, so I just did that. My last step wasn't in the directions, which was finishing it with top coat, applied to each nail as soon as the strip application was finished. Here's my mani, which took under ten minutes from start to finish.
I definitely like these a lot. The price varies pretty significantly since they're a drug store item that often goes on sale, and of course they're costlier than regular polish, but I think for instances like this, where I really want a cool manicure and it's just not going to happen with regular supplies, they're great. I'd also bring these along on a trip lasting several days since it worked to put them over an existing manicure and they're not a hassle to get through airport security. I've seen pictures of a pack that's a bright crazy flower pattern, and those are some that I really want to try now that I know how well they work.
I have a few more packs of these that were sent, so I'll show you more of them soon. Frankly, I can't believe that smacking something over another manicure worked out so well. I know it's not absolutely perfect and that if you try, you can see a few spots of the red at some edges in the picture, but the reality is that it's only in the moment that I'm taking the picture that it matters how a manicure looks in a macro picture. Knowing where to look, it takes a few seconds to identify the red on my hands looking at them, so I doubt anyone else would ever see it.
That's what I know about Sally Hansen Salon Effects Nail Polish Strips, so until next time, love and nail polish to you!
All Rights Reserved, Siobhan@The Nailphile. If you're reading this elsewhere, it's stolen from a real nail polish blog.
Today I have something new to me to show you, Sally Hansen Salon Effects Nail Polish Strips in Laced Up. If you recall, I tried Sephora by OPI's Chic Prints when they first came out and didn't love them, so despite hearing good things about the Sally Hansen strips, I was reluctant to try them until Sally Hansen offered to send some for review, which is where this pack came from. They're completely different than the Sephora ones, so I took a lot of pictures to show them to you.
The pattern is Laced Up, which is black lace over a neutral base. I did a manicure in black Konad over a neutral some time ago, and I thought it was okay, but my opinion of it was higher than the general opinion reflected in the comments (that's my delicate way of mentioning it was largely hated). I used Laced Up today because I wanted a very cool manicure for something later today but didn't feel like investing the effort in one. I took out the package of nail strips, unpacked everything in the box, and read the directions (to any gentlemen reading, that's the normal way to do it, the unpacking and direction reading).
The directions told me how to clean off my nails for application, recommending totally bare nails. I normally follow directions precisely the first time with a product, but here, that deviated from how I would reasonably use it so I changed it up a little bit (this is not the normal way to do it). I chose them because I feel lazy and didn't take off yesterday's manicure, so I took out two isopropyl alcohol pads and used the first to clean the day old polish on each nail of my left hand and set the second aside for my right. Then I got about the business of applying the nail strips.
The most significant difference between these and the Chic Prints is that these are made out of nail polish while the Sephora ones I tried were some kind of plastic, like decals. With the decals, I struggled with wrinkles over the natural curves of my nails, with that being the biggest disadvantage to them, and these didn't cause any trouble at all. Since these are polish, they're super-sealed in the packaging, being sandwiched between two layers of plastic. I took pictures of the steps as well as I could using a leftover because by the time I did the second hand, each nail was taking well under a minute to complete, so this is really easy and I wanted to show you how easy. This is the the strip as it comes out of the package.
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| Sally Hansen Salon Effects Nail Polish Strip |
The top layer is a thin but strong plastic film that gets peeled off from the blue tab. I mention it's strong because there were no problems with tearing it. I forgot this step with one, which messed up the nail a little because some of the polish strip came off when I managed to peel the plastic off, but I was able to save it (I'll get to how when we look at that picture). This is peeling off the plastic.
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| Sally Hansen Salon Effect Nail Polish Strips, Plastic Peeled |
The next step is removing the polish strip from the backing
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| Sally Hansen Salon Effect Nail Polish Strips, Peeling Strip |
Then I took off the little tab, and this is what's applied.
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| Sally Hansen Salon Effects Nail Polish Strips, Ready to Apply |
To apply, I chose which end better fit my cuticle and touched the strip down centered at the cuticle, slightly stretched it to the center of the tip of my nail, then stretched each side as I pressed it down. It's the stretchiness of these that's very cool - it lets the strip really take the shape of a nail. I pressed down one side of my demo strip and stretched it to show you how elastic these are. Here, you can see how that came into play in fixing my error - it's at the cuticle of my thumb nail here, at the corner closer to the strip, that I pulled off a piece when I forgot to remove the top plastic layer and ripped up a bit of the strip when I got the plastic off my nail, so I tore off a little bit from the opposite end of the strip and covered the spot. The pattern is imperfect there as a result, but that's a handy trick.
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| Sally Hansen Salon Effects Nail Polish Strip Stretched Out |
To finish, the directions told me to lightly file the end with an included file, but I found that while applying them that I could stretch it over the tip and my nail would cut the strip, so I just did that. My last step wasn't in the directions, which was finishing it with top coat, applied to each nail as soon as the strip application was finished. Here's my mani, which took under ten minutes from start to finish.
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| Sally Hansen Salon Effects Nail Polish Strips in Laced Up |
I definitely like these a lot. The price varies pretty significantly since they're a drug store item that often goes on sale, and of course they're costlier than regular polish, but I think for instances like this, where I really want a cool manicure and it's just not going to happen with regular supplies, they're great. I'd also bring these along on a trip lasting several days since it worked to put them over an existing manicure and they're not a hassle to get through airport security. I've seen pictures of a pack that's a bright crazy flower pattern, and those are some that I really want to try now that I know how well they work.
I have a few more packs of these that were sent, so I'll show you more of them soon. Frankly, I can't believe that smacking something over another manicure worked out so well. I know it's not absolutely perfect and that if you try, you can see a few spots of the red at some edges in the picture, but the reality is that it's only in the moment that I'm taking the picture that it matters how a manicure looks in a macro picture. Knowing where to look, it takes a few seconds to identify the red on my hands looking at them, so I doubt anyone else would ever see it.
That's what I know about Sally Hansen Salon Effects Nail Polish Strips, so until next time, love and nail polish to you!
All Rights Reserved, Siobhan@The Nailphile. If you're reading this elsewhere, it's stolen from a real nail polish blog.
The pink UV LED light
Hey ladies,
Pink is the hot favorite, it comes in white as well
Happy? Hehe
Price is at $90
Some update,
I will be taking a small break to concentrate on my exams, so I will not be taking orders at the moment.
But don't panic
hold your orders as I will be doing a promotion for Gelish once I am back. It will be worth the wait I promise.
For those who would wish to secure this promotion coming up, you will be required to drop me an email about your orders, and make a small 20 % deposit of the price now. The remaining will be charged when I am back but will be charged overall base on the promotional price
I will be back on the 25th september. See you guys soon!
Regards
Evelyn
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
Pink is the hot favorite, it comes in white as well
Happy? Hehe
Price is at $90
Some update,
I will be taking a small break to concentrate on my exams, so I will not be taking orders at the moment.
But don't panic
hold your orders as I will be doing a promotion for Gelish once I am back. It will be worth the wait I promise. For those who would wish to secure this promotion coming up, you will be required to drop me an email about your orders, and make a small 20 % deposit of the price now. The remaining will be charged when I am back but will be charged overall base on the promotional price
I will be back on the 25th september. See you guys soon!
Regards
Evelyn
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Chanel Red Dream
Good afternoon, Dear Reader!
Although I have a few new things to show you, I felt like wearing a comfy old standby today, so I picked Chanel Red Dream. It's an older one, a darkish red with a great sparkly shimmer, and although I'm sure I must have shown you this one at least once before, I think it's worth lots of looks.
I used SpaRitual Lacquer Lock and Tout de Suite with this manicure, as I've found that for me SpaRitual's products work well with older Chanels. In between those I used three coats of Chanel Red Dream. I took a picture of it with the sun coming and going, and was happy to find that one of the pictures shows the shimmer as it really looks on my hands. Here's Red Dream.
I just love this polish. It actually sparkles like in the picture just walking around, which make it nice to look at without being too much.
That's my manicure for today and just about all I know about Chanel Red Dream, so until next time, Dear Reader, love and nail polish to you!
All Rights Reserved, Siobhan@The Nailphile. If you're reading this elsewhere, it's stolen from a real nail polish blog.
Although I have a few new things to show you, I felt like wearing a comfy old standby today, so I picked Chanel Red Dream. It's an older one, a darkish red with a great sparkly shimmer, and although I'm sure I must have shown you this one at least once before, I think it's worth lots of looks.
I used SpaRitual Lacquer Lock and Tout de Suite with this manicure, as I've found that for me SpaRitual's products work well with older Chanels. In between those I used three coats of Chanel Red Dream. I took a picture of it with the sun coming and going, and was happy to find that one of the pictures shows the shimmer as it really looks on my hands. Here's Red Dream.
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| Chanel Red Dream Nail Polish, Three Coats |
I just love this polish. It actually sparkles like in the picture just walking around, which make it nice to look at without being too much.
That's my manicure for today and just about all I know about Chanel Red Dream, so until next time, Dear Reader, love and nail polish to you!
All Rights Reserved, Siobhan@The Nailphile. If you're reading this elsewhere, it's stolen from a real nail polish blog.
nail design for beginners
For marine life designs, you would require blue acrylic paint and a bit the most popular Nail Art Designs and of white acrylic paint for the base coat. Apply transparent varnish onto Accessories in the market are nail stripes, stars and dots,the blue sea-like coat and then paint tiny fish on the nails.
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cool nail designs for girls
Nail salons has given various nail products to make your nails beautiful, colorful There are many fancy accessories available in the market for the beautification and can be the eyes and even for the outline of the entire face.either made on the entirely painted nail and makes you different from the normal crowd.of nails like different kinds of below.
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Popular Nail Art Designs 2011
Nail Art Designs & Accessories require orange, green and a bit of white acrylic paint.is widely accepted and the latest fashion statement today. Now beautification is not limited to face or the You will also require an acrylic top coat, which is to be In fact on each finger nail, you can have different Halloween characters.applied once the nail art design is complete.
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Nail Art Designs for kids 2011
Nail decoration is not a new concept and can If you do not allow the nail polish to dry,be traced back from in China, but has now been the art work a better effect. Allow it to dry completely.advancements has lead to an improvisation introduced in some European countries as well.
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Nail art has driven many cuttings might stick to your nails and ruin the entire nail designs women crazy these days. This hottest fashion statement comprises in wide array next is a detailed information on how to create New nail designs of patterns and designs and amazing
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Fashions and fads continue to come on and on The process for embedding is very simple and but one fashion that do not ever fades be the most popular amongst people and with those who follow would be the French manicure . Here's more info The French manicure still
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