OPI Burlesque Collection Holiday-Design Nail Arts

I am a bit late with swatches of the OPI latest collection but I still think these are worth looking at again and again :) The Burlesque collection consists of twelve polishes...six shimmers and six glitters. I wanted the collection so bad since I first saw the promo pictures. From that time many months have passed and I saw a lot of swatches on other blogs. Some wrote the collection is overhyped. You want to know what I think? Well read on :)

The swatches are all without a base or top coat and are in natural daylight (no sun or lightbox).

TEASEY DOES IT!

Amazing dark brown purple. I love colors like this. Just look at the close up. This is what makes the polish look really pretty. This was two coats.

LET ME ENTERTAIN YOU!

One of my favourites. I love reds with pink sparkle. It glows so much and it is really sexy. Can´t wait to wear it as a full mani. You can do either two thick coats or three normal for full coverage.

ALI’S BIG BREAK

This is a classic Christmas red. I am sorry about the vnl, it wasn´t visible until I saw the pictures in the computer. This was two coats, next time I will do three, just to make sure :)

TAKE THE STAGE

I will be repeating myself but this glows like crazy. It is a nice warm orange. I don´t normally wear orange or colors like this but I can´t wait to try this one because I really like the way it goes with my skin. Two coats.

THE SHOW MUST GO ON

This is just so perfect. Another favourite. I have no words, just have a look at the pictures :) Two coats

RISING STAR

Goldem shimmer. Not the champagne kind of gold but reall rich gold. Great color for Christmas! Full coverage in two thicker coats.

BRING ON THE BLING

The first of the gilletrs. Like the others this has multi color glitter and looks amazing! It was also very easy to apply. Two coats.

GLOW UP ALREADY!

This is maybe my least favourite polish from the collection. I just don´t like light green on me. Two coats.

SPARKLE-ISCIOUS

On the other hand this might be my favourite glitter. I love the combination of colors used. Pink, blue, gold...they work great together! This is the only glitter polish that needed three coats.

SIMMER AND SHIMMER

Icy blue glitter, great for winter :) This also needed only two coats.

SLOW IT AN GLOW IT

Light purple, silver and other colors mixed together. Here is another favourite of mine. How many are there already? :) Two coats.

EXTRA-VA-VAGANZA

The last glitter is mostly orange. But look at the close up how many different colors are there. Amazing. Two coats.

So this is it. All twelve of them :) As for the shimmers, I know I will be wearing each and every one of them. There might be some shades that are not so unigue but there is always that brush factor which makes the OPI polishes winners for me. I also like the fact that most of the polishes are only two coaters. As for the glitters, I must apologize for my pictures but I tried my best. You just have to see these under artificial light to see the full beauty of these. They will be just the perfect thing for christmas parties. Tomorrow I am going to celebrate my birthday and I will for sure wear one of the glitters, just have to decide which one :)

I will also be posting a video, hope it will be helpful :)

I am sure a lot of you have these at home. So tell me, which are your favourites?

Flower Stamping Nail Art

Hi everyone. Today is my first experience creating nail design with Konad Stamping Nail Art. Thanks for Nicola from http://nailartoftheday.blogspot.com. She told me where to get this stamping nail art. So, when i spent time in Jakarta, i got the stuff and today i tried them.

These are what i used :

Pixy as base coat, 2 coats of  BL505 from Etude House, Red special nail polish from Konad, glitter purple from Eternally. I used Konad's stuff : plate m41, scraper, and stamper.

BL505 - Etude House as base colour :

Flower Stamping Nail Art :

Paint Me Flower

Since flower is easy to make and favourite to almost every women, i made flower to my nails. But like i said, so far this is only style of flower i can make. And i think make some leafs also bit difficult , i dont know why it looks very easy to make, but when i trying to do it by toothpick, its so hard. Well, i never used any nail art pen anyway, but dont know how much would the diffrences between them.

So, for this mani i started with base and top coat from Sally Hansen, a coat of brown gold from Pixy, green for leafs from Eternally, red from Pixy and white unknown brand-polish for small dot in the middle of flower, and last of course a top coat.

Then i started to make more flowers :

 

For this mani, i started with base coat from Pixy, a coat of purple from Eternally, white fron unknown brand-polish to create the flowers then a top coat from Pixy.

 

I'm back online home dawgs!!!

Hello. I have not had internet since April 28th 2010 and I am lucky to still be alive.  Seriously have you ever been without internet for that long?  SERIOUSLY?   Do you realize how long that is in "interwebz time"?  It's like 5 years ok.

The first week or so I tried to be cool about it and act all one with nature and, "I'm living the simple life" hanging my clothes out to dry and not shaving my legs, THEN, I became so desperate for a connection to my beloved laptop I started to play those dumb ass games in the accessories tab just so I could spend time on the computer.  Go ahead punk, challenge me to a game of minesweeper, I freaking dare you.  I am a P.R.O.

A quick side note here- Dear poor pathetic winner of my Boston Terrier Rescue giveaway. Your polish was mailed yesterday and please tell me how you would like to receive your $25 bones. I am so incredibly sorry it has taken so long to get you the goods!

Anyhoo here are a few swatches of the china glaze poolside collection, NOT.  What I mean is, here are the two polishes from the poolside collection that I bought, slathered in glitter because they are stupid on their own.

Towel boy toy is the base for this one. It applies ok but I am SICK of neons and this is a 3+ coater worn alone. BLECH.

Meh.  This is Kiwi coolada under sour apple. It looks like crap alone and takes a lot of coats but this combo was kinda cool. I actually wore it for over 24 hours which is almost a record.

Here is Electric Lilac over the purple polish from the poolside collection...oh WAIT they didn't freaking MAKE a purple they just made three more identical bright pinks instead. The base for this, since I was unable to acquire a new purple, was spontaneous. 

It's great to be back dudes.

Love, MM

Zoya Sparkles my way.

This is my favorite new collection of the season.  Absolutely gorgeous, unique and with perfect timing.  I was about to stab myself in the throat if ONE more pastel creme collection came out people. These are all solid 3 coaters and apply quite well.  They can be runny if you try to do thicker coats but they do dry fast.  

I only bought three of the sparkle collection, quite frankly because I have ENOUGH boring pink Zoyas and they just didn't look all that awesome.  So, I snagged the purple, blue and green as seen above. Then instead of the rest of the sparkle collection I got my pink fix by buying Astra, Nova, and Roxy.  I sort of wish I had gotten the red from the sparkle collection but oh well, I'm sure I'll find an excuse to order again at some point.  These are all 3 coats as well.

I think these 6 are the prettiest Zoyas I have ever seen! 

Love, MM

New Misas! Mardi Gras!

I only got three of the new Mardi Gras collection and I kinda wish I had gotten more.  The formula was the classic, awesome Misa formula but the colors I got were a little weird. Well not weird, but definitely different than I had hoped.

For example, to me, this isn't purple people!  Maybe they want us to throw them something purple because this polish is clearly BLUE?

This one is nice but I wish it was a tad less blue and pastel looking. 

This was my favorite one out of the 3 I got. Sooooo pretty!

Love, MM