Something Sweet

Hello there! :) I'm posting my current manicure/nails! I received this nail polish in a swap and ever sine I got it, I've been wanting to try this!

China Glaze Something Sweet

it's a pastel light pink with hints of lavender and a slight hint of gray because it isn't as bright as Wet N Wild's Tickled Pink although it seems very similar (I'll be doing a side by side comparison soon for these two cute pinks). I started off my manicure with base coat, 2 coats of Something Sweet and 1 coat of Seche top coat on my pinkie, middle fingers and my thumb. (*Note: the pictures of the manicure isn't as accurate. The closest to the actual color is the pictures of my manicure+nail art. My camera's wonky on certain colors x___x & notetoself:savemoneyandbuynewcameraandmakelightbox)

To add a little "nail art" to my manicure, I decided to do simple white stripes. I used Kiss Nail Art in White for the stripes, although they aren't perfectly straight, they look amazingly cute! I finally topped it off with Essie's Matte About You on my ring and index fingers. :) How cute is that? It reminds me of those round peppermint mints that are red and mainly white. :P

hope you enjoyed,

<3katherine

Pastel

Hello :) Today's a swatch day from the vault since I didn't want to change my nails after my pink leopard nails. For these swatches, I used plastic Nailene tips because my nails were nubs. They do look a little funny on me haha. But I hope you enjoy the swatches.

American Apparel Butter

pastel yellow. The swatch is 2 coats and 1 coat of top coat. I love American Apparel nail polishes, the formula is nice and it applies nicely with awesome color. Butter is one of my favorite pastel yellows that actually works with my skintone.

American Apparel Coney Island

a pastel pink. The swatch is 2 coats and 1 coat of top coat. It's suck a cute girly pink. :) The formula and application was awesome, typical American Apparel.

Essie Looking For Love

a pastel periwinkle jelly creme. The swatch 3 coats and 1 coat of top coat. It took another extra coat because the formula was kind of thin so it came out sheer. It applied nicely though. :)

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hope you enjoyed,

<3katherine

Quick Mini Haul: Rite Aid

Along with my mini haul from Walgreens, I decided to hit up Rite Aid for some nail polishes too! :) I picked up 3 brands that I haven't used or tried yet so I was excited to see the outcome.

Group photo:

Swatches!

Petites Color Fever Electric Indigo

a shimmery frosty blue. The swatch is 2 coats and no top coat. Easy to apply and came out really nice. I love the shade and the shimmer!

Petites Color Fever Candy Green

a shimmery frost green. The swatch is 2 coats and no top coat. Easy to apply and the color is amazing.

CQ Tahitian Green

a shimmer kelly green. The swatch is 2 coats and no top coat. My first CQ and the formula wasn't that bad. It was great to apply and the color was so pretty.

Brucci Heidi's Glow

lavender purple with gold shimmer. The swatch is 3 coats and no top coat. The color is beautiful and I like it a lot. I had a hard time debating whether I wanted it or not but I'm glad I picked it.

Brucci Jaded

shimmery jade green. The swatch is 3 coats and no top coat. I kind of rushed after each coat. But I really like the color.

POTW

I noticed that ever since I started my blog, I never posted my pedicures, I guess because mainly they're just regular polishes. But I decided for once to do some 'art.' Before this I had China Glaze Ruby Pumps and my aunts were talking about how my toes can rock any color :), awesomeeeeee♥! Anyways so I decided to add some 'fun dot's (credit to Pan again, hehe).

base: OPI Lucky Lucky Lavender

dots: OPI Alpine Snow, OPI You're Such a Kabuki Queen & China Glaze Lemon Fizz

used: dotting tool

Also, I don't know if this happened to anyone else but about 1-2 months ago, I bumped both my big toes at work and it really hurt. After I decided to change my pedicure because it was getting boring, I noticed that on my left big toe I had a black spot in my nail bed on the left corner & a black spot in my nail bed on the right corner of my right big toe. I started freaking out and google-ing it. There were 2 things that I found, that it could be a disease or it's just the blood from the impact. But it's still there and noticeable, I'm debating whether to go to the doctor or not about it. :x And after that incident, I've always had nail polish on my toes because I don't want anyone to see the big black spot. Sometimes you could even see it through the nail polish. Maybe I'll post up a picture next time or something, because I looked and didn't see the right picture on Google that is similar to mine.

<3katherine

Oh Happy Happy

So I found 2 bottles of Sally Hansen in my collection as I reoganized them today. In total, I have 115 bottles, not including top coats, base coats, cuticle oil, Essie matte about you and nail art bottles. That's not that bad but I hope I could get more! :)

Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear Twisted Pink

hot pink with gold shimmer. the formula was excellent, it looked great with only one coat except for VNL (visible nail line) so I thought I'd be better off with 2 coats. This is 2 coats with 1 coat of Seche top coat.

Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear Wet Cement

light grey with some taupe. the formula was very good and the drying time wasn't that bad. it's about the same time as my OPI's, Essie's and China Glazes. Love the gray! (: Not much to say about it though ahaha.

OPI Lucky Lucky Lavender

lavender with light pink. two swatches. the formula was good and the application was alright. the second coat evened out the first coat because it was applied unevenly. When I did this swatch, I thought why not and attempted leopard print (second attempt; first one was an epic fail). & then I added China Glaze's Medallion (from their glitter collection) on top. I think I'll do this idea later one hehe. I only did the leopard print on one nail because I was trying it out. :P

Hope you enjoyed,

<3katherine

TYxINFINITY♥

Laura, you are amazingly awesome. Seriously! First Hidden Treasure and now 2 other surprises in the package! I'm really grateful for your gift and I will return the kindness! :) When I opened the box, I was really confused because the packing was big until I opened it. You threw and blew me away!~ ♥ Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart.

And to share my happiness, I have swatches and pictures.

Essie Huckle Buckle

Very sheer dusty grape shimmer. The swatch is 3 coats and no top coat. As you can see it's really sheer, so maybe 4 coats would do the trick, or maybe using black as a base? Nonetheless, it's very unique and I haven't seen anything like this. I'll probably be back with more pictures, perhaps next week?

(1) indoors (2) indoors with sunlight (3) flash (4) indoors with Hidden Treasure

Zoya Kotori

I've done a swatch and review of this but still nonetheless a very beautiful nail polish. It's best described as a "dense bright blue shimmer superimposed over a sheer black base," (official Zoya website) however, it's very sheer. In my previous swatch, I believe I used 3 coats and no top coat and it was good but maybe it could've looked better with another coat. I'll probably come back with a re-swatch of this.

and finally Sally Hansen's Hidden Treasure!

Irregularly shaped flakies with a sheer pearlish clear base. Swatch is 2 coats of Zoya Raven, 1 coat of Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure and 1 layer top coat. Excellent for layering, especially with a black base, it reminds me of China Glaze's limited edition Halloween polish Fortune Teller. I don't own Fortune Teller but Hidden Treasure + black base certainly comes close. The difference I believe is that Fortune Teller has orange glitters and Hidden Treasure has flakies that shine in multiple colors (orange, green, etc). I LOVELOVELOVELOVE Hidden Treasure and I'm so happy that I finally have it (all thanks to Laura again, I could never thank you enough!)

(1) outdoors in sunlight (2) outdoors in shade
(3) indoors with flash

An extra swatch I have for today is OPI's Let Them Eat Rice Cakes.

It's from their 2005 Japanese Collection. It's fairly old, so it doesn't have the pro-wide brush, but that's okay. It is a pale pink creme with lavender undertones. It comes off streaky but after you put top coat you don't notice it. I used only 2 coats and 1 coat of top coat and it looked fine, but if you notice the unevenness, you could go for a third coat. It might be hard to find now, but nonetheless a very nice conservative color but you could do a lot with this one. :)

hope you enjoyed,

<3katherine

Busy Bee

So this past week has been hectic for me, studying for finals and finals. Today was my last day of final exams so I'm glad my summer has just begun. I'm happy to say that I did not break my 1 month ban of no buying nail polishes & it's almost over!! ~ June 4th will be the day I can finally buy nail polishes again :p! I have pictures of my nails for this week as well as swatches from my recent haul (that is excluded from my nail polish ban).

Haul:

- Color Club Si Vous Please

- Color Club Take Me To Your Chateau

- Essie Lapis of Luxury

China Glaze Lemon Fizz, Strawberry Fields, Medallion, and Nova

OPI What's With The Cattitude, Rumple's Wiggin', Jade is the New Black and Alpine Snow

This week's nails:

- OPI What's With The Cattitude (Shrek Collection)
- OPI Rumple's Wiggin'

+ Sinful Colors Black on Black (mickey mouse)
+ Rhinestones
+ China Glaze Nova (gradient)
+ LA Colors Nail Art (gradient)

left hand:

right hand:

Afterwards, a day later, I kept looking at my nails because the mickey mouses were not proportional and slightly disorted and being a perfectionist I am, I redid them into silver gradients rather than mickey mouse.

Swatches:

*note: the swatches are each on individual nails because I don't have much nail polish remover left and I forgot to buy some. So I'm trying to make sure I could finish swatching and still be able to remove them, lol. :P

Index: OPI Jade is the New Black (dusty unique green)

Midde: Essie Lapis of Luxury (rich cornflower blue)

Ring: China Glaze Strawberry Fields (strawberry pink & gold flecked shimmer)

Pinky: China Glaze Lemon Fizz (pastel yellow)

* all the above were 2 coats with no top coat. LOVE THEM♥ :)

Index: Color Club Si Vous Please! (frost shimmer)

Middle: Color Club Take Me To Your Chateau (pastel blue) + Si Vous Please!

Ring: China Glaze Medallion (clear base gold glitters)

Pinky: China Glaze Nova (clear base silver glitters

* all the above were 2 coats with no top coat. LOVE THEM♥ :) it's my first color club bottle and I'm VERY pleased with Take Me To Your Chateau <3.

hope you enjoyed,

<3katherine