Tokyo Nights: Swatch

Another of my Julie G. by Jesse's Girl polishes.

"Tokyo Nights" by Jesse's Girl

Indoors.

 "Tokyo Nigthts" is, in my opinion, the perfect shade of navy blue. It's dark, but not too dark, and it's a creme finish, no shimmer, metallic or glitter mixed into it.

Direct Sunlight.

This is 2 coats, it went on smooth and easily, no streaking to be found. It dried fairly quickly too, which was nice.

I'll update on the wear and tear once I've had a chance to break it in.

OCC Inky; Swatch

I've got another swatch for you today, this time it's
Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics' "Inky".

"Inky" by OCC

Inky, is a very dark shade of blue, it's almost black it's so dark. It wears wear, but will stain if you go without a basecoat. I used 2 coats here, but with 1 thick coat it would be just as opaque, one of the reason's I'm loving OCC's Nail lacquers lately.

Have a Good Weekend!

Flashback Friday: Up All Night

Aug/07/2011 to Aug/14/2011

Here we have "Up All Night" by China Glaze. It's a beautiful navy shade, I added some hand painted gold roses for some fanciness.

Adventures in Foiling

Just a mini post about some experimenting I've been doing in my down time. So this started out in the form of a question in my head, "Can I use my foils and nail stamping stuff together?" As in, would the glue pick up the pattern from the stamp plate and transfer to the nail. The outcome was well, disappointing. It made nothing but a filthy, sticky mess :(

"Up All Night" by China Glaze, foil is "Wedgewood"

After that fiasco I wondered, "If it can't do that will more intricate designs pick up enough foil?". That luckily worked, which is what you see above. The base colour is "Up All Night" by China Glaze, a very pretty dark blue with subtle shimmer, and the foil is actually a shiny blue/grey called "Wedgewood".

The design was hand painted in the glue supplied by Dollar Nail Art, and once dry I pressed the foil to transfer. Needless to say, it picked up quite well, and so I'm kind of excited to try it on more difficult designs.

You might be thinking "Why didn't you paint the whole nail?" simple, I'm practising for school. Trying to get a perfect clean line without the polish bleeding into the person's cuticle (there is a green "cuticle" line drawn on the nail prior to polish application).

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed my experimenting, and hopefully if you also wondered this it helped clear anything up for you. Questions and comments are always welcomed :) Enjoy!

Starry Night

Some simple and cute gold stars. The base colour is "Up All Night" by China Glaze. The stars were done in "Aztec Gold" foil from Dollar Nail Art. I like how simple they were to do, I just wished some of them had transferred better, but w/e it doesn't matter too much. On my other hand they look like drunken starfish =S

Water Marble Testing

Testing out the nail polishes in my box to see which one are best for water marbling.

Nail Polishes:

"Lime Lights" Sally Hansen eXtreme Wear

"Wet Cement" Sally Hansen eXtreme Wear

"Poinsettia" China Glaze

"Holly Day" China Glaze

"Hey Sailor" China Glaze

"First Mate" China Glaze

"Frostbite" China Glaze

"Temptation Carnation" China Glaze

"Purple Panic (Neon)" China Glaze

"Pink Voltage (Neon)" China Glaze

"Seduce Me" China Glaze

"Turned up Turquoise" China Glaze

"Black Creme" Wet n' Wild

"Jazz Olive" Kleancolor

"Copper" Kleancolor

"Expresso" Kleancolor

Nov/20/2011

"948 First Mate" by China Glaze with "460 Wet Cement" by Sally Hansen

This weeks paws, entertaining myself with stamping.  This time I used Bundle Monster plates: BM206 and BM20. The base colour is "948 First Mate" from China Glaze, with the stripes stamped using "460 Wet Cement" from Sally Hansen's eXtreme Wear collection. As you can see, the stripes didn't turn out so well.. and I had to re-stamp since my nails are bigger than the designs on the stamping plates.

These will probably be changed out when I have a chance.