Leopard Tutorial

Hello! Today is a tutorial for leopard/cheetah print! :) You don't necessarily have to use the same color combinations I did, and you can mix and come up with your own. Hope you enjoy! 

First, you start with your base color and in this case, I used Essence Color & Go White Secrets. 

Next step is to make "random" spots and I used China Glaze Golden Spurs for this. You can make it in different shapes, whether it's like an oval or just a random blotch.

Next I used Kiss Nail Art Paint in Black and slightly made a 'C' on the spot and made a backward C on the other side of the spot BUT not connecting to the first C.

Continue doing this on the other spots and then I added 3 random black spots to fill in the empty space.

And this is the end of the tutorial. Make sure you seal your nail art with top coat but be sure it's dry before you apply the top coat or else it will smear. Sometimes it happens to me even though I let it dry for a long time too. So apply top coat with caution!

I hope you enjoyed and happy polishing! :)
<3katherine

"Classic" Cheetah/Leopard Combo

Hello everyone! Sorry for the lack of posts, I've been working 3 days straight after having 2 days of rest from when I came back home and boy am I exhausted! I haven't worked that much in a while either! Today's post is another color combination scheme of the cheetah/leopard print, which I will try to do more combinations of so that I can experiment on color combinations that work well together.

I have swatched a few polishes which I will try to have resized and posts scheduled so I won't seem like I'm abandoning the blog. I do have a package I'm waiting for and then I will try to squeeze in a giveaway as well.

For this color combination, I've gone back to the classic - brown cheetah/leopard print. For the base I used 2 coats of China Glaze Golden Spurs which is lighter than the normal brown and it includes a gold shimmer as well. The base of the accent nail is 3 coats of Essence Color & Go White Secret and to complete the print, I used Golden Spurs and a black nail art brush.

The Hello Kitty Pez was one of the things I brought back from Atlanta :). I got it at the Dollar Tree, which makes me even happier because normally Pez is about $2 (?), I forget because I haven't gotten them in a long time (probably when I was a kid).

Hope you enjoyed and happy polishing! :)
<3katherine

Essence Spam

Hey everyone! Today's a mass swatch post on the brand Essence, which I've showed you two of them before - Surferama and Hang Loose. But here's some more from their other collections, etc.


First is Essence Color&Go Absolutely Stylish, which is a chocolate brown creme with green shimmer. The green is more noticeable in the bottle rather on the nails though, which sucks because I haven't seen such a combination of color & shimmer like this. It took only 2 coats to be opaque to reach bottle color and I added top coat as well :D

Next up is Essence Humpty Dumpty from their Fairytale Collection, which is a metallic purple silver. It looks awesome and I only needed 2 coats. :) The only thing is the weird bottle shape, it's fatter but shorter, lol.

This is Essence Multi Dimension in Purple Cherry, which is a glossy dark purple creme. It took 2 coats to reach bottle color and it's darker IRL, almost like a glossy black creme... same goes for the next polish too. :\

This is Essence Multi Dimension in Midnight Rocker, which is a dark navy blue glossy creme. This, like Purple Cherry took 2 coats to reach bottle color and it is darker - like a glossy black creme IRL. At first I almost couldn't see the difference between PC & MR when I swatched them until I was resizing the pictures.

The final Essence of the day is Essence Multi Dimension in Must Have which is a charcoal silver shimmer. It's basically the typical charcoal silver shimmer - I remember swatching a Sinful Colors one and another similar polish would be Misa Wishing on a Star that I swatched a long time ago (lol). This was 2 coats and 1 coat of top coat.

Hope you all enjoyed and happy polishing! :)
<3katherine

Quick Post

Hello everyone! :D Hope you've all had a good week so far as the week is coming to a close! Here's a new nail post today - Here's Essence Hang Loose from their Surfer Babe collection in 3 coats - which you could get away with 2 but I had some uneven spots. It's a dusty lilac creme with a glossy finish. And I added on the accent nail Essence Surferama for the spots and used a black nail art brush for to complete the spots. :) Hope you like it!

I would've posted more swatches today (pssttt... my Nfu Oh holos just came in today) but the weather was horrible, raining on and off! :( So hopefully another day!


Hope you enjoyed & happy polishing :)
<3katherine

Fly like a Butterfly!

Hey everyone! :) I'd like to show you a new nail art that I've been wanting to do. This is my first attempt which took a few tries to get it to my approved passing. :P

I used Essence Surferama from their Surfer Babe Collection in 2 coats. It's a berry creme that applies easily and dries quick. :) 

Now here's my first attempt at doing a monarch butterfly that I was inspired by lacquerized. For this part I only used a black nail art brush, white nail polish which I used a dotting tool to place the dots. It isn't perfect but it's close for a first try :)

 

Hope you all enjoyed & happy polishing!
<3katherine

The Goodies

I know I said I'd be taking a break from blogging yesterday, but I can't help myself just for today, an amazing package thanks for Martje from Girly Addictions came in today!!!!!♥ (BTW ILYFOREVERRRRRRR hahaha). A while back, I contacted Martje because she has my lemmings, LE Catrice! So I had to swap with her haha. I received an amazing package today and I'm definitely happy, except for one Catrice who didn't make it in one piece here :( the insides bursted from excitement lolol!

First, here are all the nail babies I received:

• Catrice - Crispy Crimson (Limited Edition Expect the Unexpected Collection)
• Catrice - Looking Greyt (Limited Edition Expect the Unexpected Collection)
• Catrice - Purposely Purple (Limited Edition Expect the Unexpected Collection)
• Catrice - Spruced Up (Limited Edition Expect the Unexpected Collection)
• Catrice - Berry Bazaar (Limited Edition Caramé Collection)
• Catrice - Bronzed Brown (Limited Edition Caramé Collection)
• Catrice - Oriental Orange (Limited Edition Caramé Collection)
• Catrice - Absolutely Chinchilly!
• Catrice - Bloody Mary To Go!
• Catrice - Blue My Mind *casualty of delivery*
• Catrice - Hip Queens Wear Blue Jeans!
• Catrice - Let's Mauve On!
• Catrice - Wrapped Around My Finger
• Essence Color & Go - Absolutely Stylish
• Essence Color & Go - Choose Me! 
• Essence Multi Dimension - Midnight Rocker
• Essence Multi Dimension - Must-Have
• Essence Multi Dimension - Purple Cherry
• GOSH - Fix Base Coat
• GOSH - Holographic

And here's all the awesome extras♥

• Avène Gentle Milk Cleanser and Gentle Toner
• Chanel - Hyrdamax + Active Serum (x2)
• Dr. Van Der Hoog Cocos Mint Masker Masque
• Hema Lip Gloss 
• Jil Sander Style Soft perfume sample
• Juicy Couture's Couture Couture perfume sample
• Lancome Teint Miracle
• LipSmacker travel mini Vanille Vanilla
• TONS of Mentos Fruits♥ & other chocolates & candies
• Montagne Jeunesse Skin Polisher
• Pickwick Dutch Tea Blend
• Vichy Laboratories Reconditioning Care for Dry Feet

And I was in a frankening mode yesterday and here's a sneak peak of the goods:

P.S. My labels were unorganized so I'm re-labeling all my posts, which will take a while, just putting it out there.

hope you enjoyed this post as much as I did! & happy polishing :)
<3katherine