Holo glitter!

Hellohello~ I decided to make good use of the sun we had the other day and pulled out China Glaze Atlantis. Yeahhhh, the polish with the gorgeous, more amazing holographic glitter swimming in a blue-teal base. I decided to layer it over China Glaze Holly-day; two coats are shown below.

One of these days, I'm going to have to wear Atlantis on it's own. It's just too pretty ♥

Thanks for reading.
~Sharon

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Have some holo instead

Hi everyone~ I'll skip the apologies and get straight to the mani, since this is why you're all here, aye? :) So have some insanely awesome holo photos instead. I have here two coats of China Glaze OMG from the OMG collection.

Basically, I've just been feeling all meh about blogging the past few days since I've been swamped with work. I did wake up to see the sweetest email in my inbox today though, hence my posting again! I'll try get a reply out soon, if I don't get too distracted by mundane things like uni assignments.

Thanks for reading.
~Sharon

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Flakey layered over flakey?

Hey everyone~So, what do you get when you layer a flakey top coat over a flakey filled polish? Lots and lots of flakies, of course! And while I'm a huuuuuuuuge lover of flakies (♥♥♥), I'm not actually sure I like this end result *shockhorror*

I started off with two coats of Orly Fowl play, which has beautiful blue-orange-red shifting flakies in a plum jelly base. I proceeded to add one coat of Nubar 2010 over it, but didn't like how the denser green-yellow-orange flakies over powered the base. So I decided to layer one thick coat of Australis Speck-tacular to re-emphasise the base flakies. I don't think it really did much seeing as Speck-tacular has really sparse flakies. And because of that, I still think 2010 looks too overpowering and makes the mani look a little...ugly. Definitely has to do with 2010 - maybe it just isn't meant to be with Fowl play.

While I consider this a fail layering, I'll be trying more flakey layerings in the future...I just need more different flakey polishes first! What do you think, is this too much? :P

Thanks for reading.
~Sharon

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First attempt at drawing roses

Hi everyone~ Awhile back, I came across a rose nail art tutorial on youtube and decided to give it a go, seeing as it looked quite simple.

I applied three coats of The Face Shop PP404 onto my index and pinky nails. It is a sheer lavender shade with a light shimmer running throughout it. I think I'll be layering this over a light purple next time! On my thumb and fourth finger, I applied three coats of NOPI Kim-pletely in love. On my middle finger, I applied two coats of Ulta3 lily white. The rose nail art was made with Sinful Colors Vela and lily white. I've forgotten what polish I used for the leaves, sorry!

My topcoat bubbled, unfortunately, hence the ugly bubbles on my middle nail. And I thought my roses looks kind of like goldfishes too! :( Oh well, practise makes perfect so hopefully they'll look much better next time.

Thanks for reading!
~Sharon

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When your mani flops...

Hi ladies~Isn't it terrible when a beautiful mani just doesn't work out? Here, I started off with two coats of OPI Vampsterdam from the Holland collection released earlier this year. I thought this polish was so out of place in the spring/summer collection - a vampy, dark polish. I'm such a huge purple lover and vampy polishes are normally my favourites but I just didn't click with Vampsterdam :(  Although, people were saying it was rather brush-strokey but I didn't have too much of a problem with that. First coat was a little sheer but it built up by the second coat.

Because I was a bit meh with the polish, I decided to layer over it OPI I juggle...men. It's a gorgeous polish with a duochrome shimmer shifting from purple to blue. Unfortunately, it also pulled my base polish and made my manicure look like it had been applied so roughly. I'm hoping it's because it didn't like my Ulta3 top coat.

As much as I liked the combo, I took it right off after the photos haha. Maybe I'll try it again in the future without a top coat to seal it, seeing as I juggle...men dried really quickly!

What do you think of the combination?

Thanks for dropping by.
~Sharon

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Skittling with blue

Hello hello~ Keeping with the blue and holographic theme from my last post, I decided to have a skittle manicure and play with the different finishes of nail polish too :) This is definitely one of my favourite simple manis to date ♥

Pinky & index: Two coats of OPI Russian navy suede. I love this polish so much and am so glad I picked it up in Hong Kong ^^ Ahhh, if only I can get my hands on more of the suede collection by OPI!

Ring & thumb: Two coats of China Glaze 2NITE. Beautiful, light blue holo <3

Middle: Two coats of China Glaze First mate, layered with one coat of OPI Last friday night. I've shown this combo so many times on my blog, but I never get sick of it! LFN was totally made to be layered over First mate.

I've included a photo I took under artificial light only because there was no sun when I wore this mani! What's with no sun in summer, Australia? The polishes aren't too colour accurate, but at least you can still see the gorgeous holo goodness :D

Are you a fan of skittling and combining different polish finishes? :)

Thanks for reading!
~Sharon

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Pretty, pretty holo ♥

Hi ladies :) Back when I had some sunny days, I pulled out China Glaze DV8 from the OMG collection to wear so I could admire the beauty that it is. It's not as holographic as the other polishes I own from this collection, but it's still super pretty ♥

I applied two coats onto my nails before sealing it with a top coat. As with the other polishes in the collection, application is tricky as you may experience dragging when applying a second coat. Definitely wait until the first layer is dry before applying the next! The bonus though, is that DV8 is a really opaque polish :D

And here it is, when no direct light is shining onto it. Still so pretty! :)

Do you own any polishes from this collection? Which is your favourite?

Thanks for dropping by!
~Sharon

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