NOTD: Turquoise Gemstone ( Waterspotted Nail Art )

Hey guys!

A quick post on a mani I did today. It's called "Turquoise Gemstone", where I was trying waterspotted mani for the first time. I've seen this technique a lot, starting from watermarble nail art which I'm not really a fan of, but this particular style actually looks cool.

What I did, basically:

1. Paint my nails with turquoise nail polish (I used Icing Marine Blue), let it dry.

2. Fill a plastic cup/container with water (preferably filtered and room temperature).

3. Drop a dollop of black nail polish (I used WnW Black Creme) and make sure it dissolve within the surface of water, it'd look grayish and transparent.

4. Quickly spray any liquid containing alcohol (I used perfume, you can use hairspray or spray-able hand sanitizer) on the dissolving polish. This should "crack" the smooth surface into random spots.

5. Dab your nails on those spots. Wait 10 seconds before you lift up your fingers from the cup.

6. Dab gold nail polish (I used SH X-treme Golden-I) randomly on the empty spots very lightly.

6. Clean up. Apply top coat.

It does take a lot of practice & trial/error since not all nail polish dissolves nicely on water, also the alcohol spray..sometimes they don't work if the nail polish has been left for too long in water. 

I think it's so cool to try and you could even use more than 1 color if you like.

Tip: Tape your fingers around the nail beds with scotch tapes, it's simplify the annoying process of cleaning process. Trust me, you would want to do this.

Have fun & experiment!

 

Thanks for checking out!

Indie Focus: Pahlish August Duo & Moats and Boats and Waterfalls

Hey guys!

I'm back with new indie polishes from Pahlish, an indie seller on Etsy. The first one is called:

 "Moats and Boats and Waterfalls"

It's a dark teal jelly with blue, silver, lavender and teal hex glitters in various sizes. I think it's such a unique combo and the lavender certainly makes it much more interesting than the usual blues/teals mix that many indie polishes currently have.

Used 2 coats with Seche Vite

It looks a bit like a galaxy, don't you think? :)

 Some cool macro shot

Second one is actually a new upcoming August duo called "Old Fires Were Burning" which consists of:

1. Slow Like Honey

2. Heavy With Mood

According to Pahlish:

Slow Like Honey: nude/putty cream with copper shimmer and green glass flecksHeavy With Mood: clear based glitter topper with copper metallic glitters in several sizes, small moss green hex, and medium midnight green squares accented by sparse gold shimmer

"Slow Like Honey"

 

LOOK AT DEM FLECKS THO

2 coats with Seche Vite 

 I love this one so much, it's subdued and the flecks is very subtle. 

Kinda wish it'd show up more, actually.

"Heavy With Mood"

I like how in certain lighting the copper glitters look like rose gold,

and in another angle they just look like peas & carrots :P

 Macro shot because WHY NOT

Check them out on Etsy and Facebook for further info and sales.

*Disclaimer: these products were sent to me for review purposes*

NOTD - Mother Earth

I'm baaaaaaack!!!!!

I know, right? It's about damn time.

Well, honestly I'm always surprised to see you, my dear new followers because in my mind no one reads this blog anymore these days. I'm so bad at addressing any of you, so I'd like to take advantage at this awkward "Guess who's back...back again...?@$*&" moment to say WELCOME TO MY BLOG and hope you find what you're looking for and not regretting following me...but if you are then I'd like to apologize because I suck at this nowadays and I don't blame you.

So now I'd like to post some cool (at least I think so heheh) mani I did a while ago, inspired by our mother earth.

 I used dabbing method using alcohol and 3 colors + white base

 

 Cool, no?

NOTD: Femme Fatale Cosmetics - Winter Hyacinth

It's finally here.

Yes, my biggest lemming is finally mine. I'm not gonna bore you by discussing at length on how much I wanted this Australian-based seller's polish, which is not only hard to get, but also ALWAYS sold out whenever I tried to buy it.

As I said, the time has come and I finally snatched it from Llarowe's site (which is pretty much like "the" ultimate drug dealer of indie polishes junkie).

It's called Winter Hyacinth, by Femme Fatale Cosmetics and it's a teal jelly with white, red, magenta, and pink hexes in various sizes.

Go on, feast your eyes. 

No one's gonna stop you.

All I can say is, it's worth the wait and anxiety. Super gorgeousness!

NOTD: Dandelion

Just trying out this design using light-handed brush strokes.
Also, I did gradation for the base color.

Used:
OPI My Vampire is Buff
Revlon Chic
Artdeco White & Black nailart
Seche Vite

Thanks for checking out :D

Swatches: Liquid Lacquer Collide Into You & Halfway Gemini

I'm on a roll this week! Here's another post on indie polish sellers I've tried before, Liquid Lacquer. Recently they released these 2 limited edition polishes which contain circle glitters exclusively, so of course, I had to have them. They are called Halfway Gemini and Collide Into You...and they are GOOOOORGEOUS!

Halfway Gemini - Collide Into You

"Halfway Gemini - A vibrant blue jelly with rose gold and pink circles and scattered silver dust."

 

As you know, I fell head over heels with another blue jelly polish by the same company, 

so I was so excited to try this one as well. 

Obviously, they don't disappoint.

"Collide Into You - An awesome turquoise jelly with pink and gold cicles and scattered gold micro flakes."

Holy crap on a cracker!!!! I'm DYING over this one.

The turquoise/magenta combo never fails me.

This feeds my perpetual hunger for Femme Fatale Cosmetics's Winter Hyacinth for a while.

Overall, I'm so impressed by the quality of the product. If you're interested, check out Liquid Lacquer here and their Facebook here.

Thanks for checking out!