One Stroke Roses

Happy Monday! Here's a simple one for you!

Nov/25/2012

Base colour is Butter London's "Come to Bed Red" with only 2 coats so you can still see the free edge. These are just some one-stroke roses I did, you can find tutorials for them all over youtube. I'm not overly fond of them as they look bulky, and I don't really like my nails to look bulky. 

Butter London Mini Haul

Happy Friday!

I wasn't planning on posting today, but when I got into work, lo and behold I learned we began carrying Butter London Nail Lacquer! So far we only have 3 shades, Slapper, Come to Bed Red and Primrose Hill Picnic.

Here I have some swatches for you:

Left to Right: Primrose Hill Picnic, Come to Bed Red, and Slapper

Let's move on to the swatches!

"Slapper" Butter London

 This is "Slapper", cute name, it's a beautiful creme turquoise. I found it much brighter in person and those streaks were not there in person either. It leans more to the blue side of turquoise. This is it with two coats, you can still see a bit of visible free edge which is easily remedied with a third coat.

"Primrose Hill Picnic" Butter London

 Here is a beautiful blue-toned pink creme. Once again, this is much brighter in person than it shows up on my camera. It's a very cheerful shade of deep bubblegum pink. This is it with two coats and it's very opaque. You could go a third coat to completely erase that visible free edge peeking through, but I'm happy with it at 2 coats.

"Come to Bed Red" Butter London

A truly beautiful shade of red creme, it's absolutely perfect for the holidays. It calls to memory the shade "Poinsettia" by China Glaze, but I feel that this is more of a cool tone red, than say "Poinsettia" which is more pink-ish in hue. This one, like most reds, needs at least 3 coats, after two coats here, my free edge is still very visible. 

All in all, these are all gorgeous, bright and happy shades that we got in for the Holidays. I had to snatch a shade of each before I put them all out. Butter London retails for $17.00, so it makes it more of a luxury brand. Although the price is steep(even for myself), the quality on these is perfect, they go on smooth, glossy, and perfectly creamy.

I hope you enjoyed this post and find it useful if you plan on purchasing these colours. Here's a bonus photo of the other items I purchased from work:

Here we have 2 plush toy owls, one large and one small. Three polishes I bought, and a 2013 Barbie Calendar with art by Robert Best.

Toxic Love

The base coat for this is "Dosh" by Butter London, it was chosen by my friends on Facebook after I posted photos of the swatches. I wanted to do something Valentine's day-esque, so I chose this over heart-argyle. I might do a set of falsies with the argyle to entertain myself during the week. The hearts were done using a dotting tool, as was the skull with hearts for his eyes :).

Mini Haul 2

Left to Right: Fuchsia Fever(Revlon), Night Prowl (Wet n' Wild), Dosh (Butter London), Expresso (Sally Hansen)

With one coat of "Sparkling" by Revlon

Bought a few new polishes while I was at Walmart. I love the glitter "Sparkling" by Revlon, its a nice cold rose shade of glitter with lots of sizes of hexagons in it to make it interesting. "Dosh" by Butter London, I purchased off of Glymm.com using the points I earned from the $10 monthly Glymm box.