China Glaze Kaleidoscope him out + Konad

China Glaze Kaleidoscope him out - Sunshine

This is gorgeous. Three coats which applied easy. These are not as opaque as the OMG holographics and the holographicness is more spread out and sporadic (not linear like the OMG polishes). It is more holographic than this in real life but my camera didn't want to capture it. China Glaze make no mistakes with their holographic polishes - they are all amazing in my opinion.

I used konad plate m78 and konad black polish to stamp this image. This was the first time I have ever done a whole nail konad.


Oh its so pretty I just want to stare at it all day long. I had a few issues with clean up (I think I need to get a stronger polish remover as the black was so hard to get off - so please excuse the mess)

Hope you all had a good weekend.
Happy Fathers Day!
Lots of Love
Lisa

OPI The Color to watch and I try some nail Art

Todays Polish is OPI The Color to watch from the new 2010 Fall/Winter Swiss Collection.
This was the one I was most looking forward to, but in fact was the most disappointed with :(

OPI The Color to Watch - Sunshine

This is 3 coats. In the shade they look fine and look like they are opaque, but get into the sun and you can see that 3 coats is not enough. You can still see my nail through it. I wasn't happy, and really didn't want to have to put more coats on. I think I am just going to use this on top of creme polishes now.

On a redeeming note this does have a pretty shimmer to it.

Blue and red/pink sparkles through out make it a pretty shimmer. If you have this polish were you happy with it?

Nail art is not big in New Zealand at all. You cant really buy anything nail art related in store. I ordered my first CM Nail Art pen thing (what are these actually called? with the thin brush used for nail art......?) Anyway I am just starting out and here is the first thing I have done with it.

In case you haven't heard there was a huge (7.1) earthquake in Christchurch (about 4 hours from where we live) and my brother is at uni there at the moment. Thankfully no one died, and all my family down there are ok, but blimey they always warn us a big one will come (our country is basically a giant fault line) and it is freaking scary.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Sephora by OPI Sparkle Me Silver Top Coat

Sephora by OPI Sparkle Me Silver Top Coat -sunshine

To be honest I was a little disappointed with this polish. It is thick and gluggy clear jelly with sparse long silver glitter. The glitter does not cover the nail very well. This is 2 coats over black and was so thick on top of the black. It was hard to even out and leave any glitter on the nail. I'm not sure how often I will wear this again, but it will probably not be much. On a good note the glitter is pretty and does sparkle like lots of little rainbows on the nail - I just don't think it is worth the effort.


Back to the thesis writing and job hunting *sigh*

Lots of Love
Lisa

OPI Diva of Geneva

This is my favourite of the three Swiss (OPI Fall/Winter 2010 Collection) polishes I have.

OPI Diva of Geneva - sunshine

This didn't look that exciting putting it on it the shade, but once you step outside - oh boy it is beautiful. It is a purple/plum/maroon colour that sparkles with read and blue shimmer. This was two coats, which covered and applied to the nail perfectly. I must say I really do appreciate those prowide brushes.

The bottle looks like the polish should have a slightly orangey/purple duochrome to the polish - but I didn't manage to see it at all on the nail, just in the bottle :( - but with the shimmer it is already pretty enough.

Compressing my images to make loading faster is losing the detail so here is a close up of the amazing shimmer in this:

OPI Diva of Geneva - close up

These are not really needed on the great colour, but I added some little silver flowers to this. They were meant to stick by themselves but didn't, so I had to secure them on the regular way with top coat afterwards. (You can see a bit of the duochrome I was talking about in the bottle here at the bottom of the picture)

I'm having a shitter of a day - I got turned down for a job - because I was too qualified so now I am majorly bummed and in three weeks will be finished with Uni and unemployed - not a good prospect :(

Lots of Love
Lisa

OPI Swiss Haul

My partner has been spending a lot of weeks away for work lately and as he was unable to find me any presents where he was he said he would get me some nail polish instead - I think it is true love :)

He let me get the three polishes I wanted from the OPI Fall/Winter Swiss collection and the latest OPI suede I was hunkering after.

Left to right: Here Today... Aragon Tomorrow Suede, Diva of Geneva, The Color to Watch, Cuckoo for this Color

Swatches to come later on :)
Lots of Love
Lisa

Black Onyx and Sparkles

I have recently rediscovered how awesome plain black nail polish is.


Here is OPI Black Onyx with cute little flower sparkles on each nail. I have 12 different colours of these cute little sparkles and have just started experimenting with them. They sparkle more in real life, but with no sun here I wasn't able to capture it on camera.

Hope you are all having a good weekend :)

Lots of Love
Lisa