Nail Polish Discussion - Any Brand

[Anitacska]

I sure hope things start going better for everybody.

Everyone's manis look great

I bought the new Nail Pattern Boldness topcoat from Llarowe yesterday, look forward to trying that out.

I finally have a new microwave after my old one shot electrical smoke out of itself last weekend. scary lol (it was my mom's old micro so it had about 8 years on it.)

I got myself a little frozen red velvet cheesecake at the store today because I deserve cheesecake- it was on sale and it had reward points too

I've mentioned my building's crazy elevator before, well it's finally getting parts replaced next week!

now I just hope I can get my hair dyed next week... it's starting to look weird lol Don't want strange looking hair on my birthday.

Yummy! I made some cupcakes today. I made some on Thursday actually for a school cake sale, but I put too much mixture in the cake cups and they came out massive and I ran out of mixture and only had a few left over. Since there's 5 of us, I think we got 1 each. I made 21 today and some again came out rather large.

Right then, onto some nail polish stuff. My recent mani is Barbara Daly Carousel with Mavala Violet Diamond glitter gradient.



The glitter isn't actually very violet, it looks more silver. It's pretty nice though.

My Llarowe order from about 3 weeks ago has arrived:



Glitter Food, Ho-Ho-Hope, Elderberry, Glitter-a-Peel

And not polish related, but this is the dress I made for my daughter. Well, not the actual dress, but the organza sleeves, trail and panels. Still, pretty chuffed with myself.

 

[Fuzzy]

Love the mani!

No, the PP polishes are only releasing on their website at the moment, the other retailers will get them later apparently (hopefully!).


No, I don't think these are anything like the Beatles polishes. I thought they looked like the Ozotic Scatter Chrome polishes, but I think the shades are completely different.


Mei Mei was very sneaky, she said she won't launch the EPs on the 7th, but she did (technically it was the 8th in Singapore, but even there it was something like 2 am). Oh well, I wasn't that fussed about them anyway, would've liked All Love Garden and Afternoon Delight, but I can live without them.

I am curious about what January 2014 looks like. Please post pictures when you get it.


Yummy! I made some cupcakes today. I made some on Thursday actually for a school cake sale, but I put too much mixture in the cake cups and they came out massive and I ran out of mixture and only had a few left over. Since there's 5 of us, I think we got 1 each. I made 21 today and some again came out rather large.

Right then, onto some nail polish stuff. My recent mani is Barbara Daly Carousel with Mavala Violet Diamond glitter gradient.



The glitter isn't actually very violet, it looks more silver. It's pretty nice though.

My Llarowe order from about 3 weeks ago has arrived:



Glitter Food, Ho-Ho-Hope, Elderberry, Glitter-a-Peel

And not polish related, but this is the dress I made for my daughter. Well, not the actual dress, but the organza sleeves, trail and panels. Still, pretty chuffed with myself.

That happens to my cupcakes too LOL

Nice mani and haul!

Great job on the over-dress! organza can be so hard to sew

Also: Kittens on livestream- sooo cute and squeaky!! http://new.livestream.com/tinykittens/cupcake

 

[CartoonChic]

I went back a page to catch up a little. I'm sorry for everyone having a rough time as of late. I'm determined to make this a better year for myself. I'm not where I'd like to be yet, but I am moving in the right direction. I hope we all get to where we want to be and that things get better for each of us very, very soon.


Anita, your mani looks so sparkly. Great job with the outfit. You should be proud. I can't sew to save my life.

 

[Anitacska]

I went back a page to catch up a little. I'm sorry for everyone having a rough time as of late. I'm determined to make this a better year for myself. I'm not where I'd like to be yet, but I am moving in the right direction. I hope we all get to where we want to be and that things get better for each of us very, very soon.


Anita, your mani looks so sparkly. Great job with the outfit. You should be proud. I can't sew to save my life.

Thank you!

My Konad kit and extra stamping plates have arrived!

I've tried a simple design on my 3 day old mani and I can't believe how easy it is. Why didn't I try this ages ago???



Off to order some more templates! Can't wait to do a proper mani this evening with more designs.

Also, I went shopping yesterday and picked up this lot:



The one on the left is Nicole by OPI, it's called Be Awesome, the Claire's are Teal (sand effect), Summer Ball and Shiver. I saw the Nicole by OPI Party Bus polish (the one with the flower glitter), but it's just a holo glitter polish with flower glitter which I can recreate for myself as I have the flower glitters and more than one holo glitter polishes already.

 

[Fuzzy]

Thank you! Those kittens are so adorable, and it's so addicting watching them.


Thank you!

My Konad kit and extra stamping plates have arrived!

I've tried a simple design on my 3 day old mani and I can't believe how easy it is. Why didn't I try this ages ago???



Off to order some more templates! Can't wait to do a proper mani this evening with more designs.

Also, I went shopping yesterday and picked up this lot:



The one on the left is Nicole by OPI, it's called Be Awesome, the Claire's are Teal (sand effect), Summer Ball and Shiver. I saw the Nicole by OPI Party Bus polish (the one with the flower glitter), but it's just a holo glitter polish with flower glitter which I can recreate for myself as I have the flower glitters and more than one holo glitter polishes already.

Wow the stamping turned out so good! I don't have any... and I probably shouldn't get any until I have a desk to work on LOL who knows when that will be!

 

[Anitacska]

Wow the stamping turned out so good! I don't have any... and I probably shouldn't get any until I have a desk to work on LOL who knows when that will be!

I know, I was very surprised to see how easy it was! Even with my left hand.

 

[Anneri]

Bad Fuzzy! Bad! I'm now totally addicted to watching small kittens!

Anitacska, I'm totally impressed by your skills. I couldn't sew a costume like this even in my wildest dreams. Wow!
And please share where you got your starter kit! Apparently Essence does really crappy ones, because my stampings weren't nearly that clear.

 

[Fuzzy]

Bad Fuzzy! Bad! I'm now totally addicted to watching small kittens!

Anitacska, I'm totally impressed by your skills. I couldn't sew a costume like this even in my wildest dreams. Wow!
And please share where you got your starter kit! Apparently Essence does really crappy ones, because my stampings weren't nearly that clear.

I know, I can't get enough kittens!

 

[Anitacska]

Bad Fuzzy! Bad! I'm now totally addicted to watching small kittens!

Anitacska, I'm totally impressed by your skills. I couldn't sew a costume like this even in my wildest dreams. Wow!
And please share where you got your starter kit! Apparently Essence does really crappy ones, because my stampings weren't nearly that clear.

I got the set from the Konad UK website. It's this set: http://www.konad.co.uk/konad-set-c.html

 

[Anitacska]

Well, after my successful first attempt at stamping I tried it again last night using Color Club Kismet as the stamping polish, but it really didn't come out right. I don't know if it was the plate or the polish (although the polish does appear to dry very fast which probably didn't help), but it was very hard work. I guess it looks okay, but it took me over an hour to get to this result. The butterfly on my ring finger pretty much refused t show up. Argh!





The base is CrowsToes Maia over black by the way.

 

[Anitacska]

I've just seen swatches of Enchanted Polish January 2014 and I'm happy to say I don't have skippers remorse. It's a nice enough polish, but it's not that exciting. I think I shall continue skipping if the monthly releases are all going to be mysteries.

Here's the link (didn't want to spoil the surprise for those who haven't received theirs yet by posting pictures):

http://lavishlayerings.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/enchanted-polish-january-2014.html

 

[MRV]

I've just seen swatches of Enchanted Polish January 2014 and I'm happy to say I don't have skippers remorse. It's a nice enough polish, but it's not that exciting. I think I shall continue skipping if the monthly releases are all going to be mysteries.

Here's the link (didn't want to spoil the surprise for those who haven't received theirs yet by posting pictures):

http://lavishlayerings.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/enchanted-polish-january-2014.html

Thank you for posting this. It suits me just fine.


Finally pre Valentine's mani: PP frosting

 

[Anitacska]

Our work elevator was finally fixed today, too! It just stopped too early going down, and you got stuck. The only way out was to go up(per) again!


Thanks, CC!


Thanks, Anitacska!

They are coming later this month to Llarowe!

After reading the post I just KNEW that mei mei is going to restock EP after their mifnight (it was after midnight, not 2 am). Unfortunatlely I completely forgot about it as I was rearranging my living room. Well, until 20 past. Then I saw some polishes flashing (mostly the ones I've already got), was able to get the exl. into my cart, but not able to check out properly so it was gone.

Nice mani and haul! Esp. the npb one.

Your girl looks like a mermaid. Well done!


Now I want to try stamping. It looks very nice!


Maybe this polish just is not suited for stamping? Or is it the lack of contrast?


Thank you for posting this. It suits me just fine.


Finally pre Valentine's mani: PP frosting

I've heard that the CC holos are really good for stamping, but after applying it to the plate and scraping the excess off, there was hardly anything showing up on the stamper.

I'll try the template later with the Konad polishes that came with it and see if that makes a difference.

Rainbow Connection and Sally Magpies are also launching the PPs on the 20th February, so hopefully between those 2 and Llarowe I'll be able to grab them. Aurora is the most LE I believe, I think I've read only 1000 of those were made.

 

[MRV]

Another pink: CG Wish on a Starfish. A cute polish, but I had to put three coats as it was kind of uneven (Pixies/OPI/Isadora are much better).

 

[Anneri]

Very spring-y manis, MRV!

Just came across the swatches of the new CG Spring LE and wanted to share, though it looks kinda boring to me!

http://www.thepolishaholic.com/2014...aign=Feed:+ThePolishAholic+(The+PolishAholic)

 

[Anitacska]

Very spring-y manis, MRV!

Just came across the swatches of the new CG Spring LE and wanted to share, though it looks kinda boring to me!

http://www.thepolishaholic.com/2014...aign=Feed:+ThePolishAholic+(The+PolishAholic)

I saw these too and I agree, they look boring. There's a couple of colours that I like, but not enough to bother.

 

[Anneri]

Wanted to share my latest manis! Essie Lot of Lux - like this best with tc.

Hare Golden Years with accent nail from P2 Precious.

My Viennese polish: Bipa Bronze Changer

 

[Anitacska]

Nice manis! I've just changed mine too. I'll take pictures tomorrow.

 

[Fuzzy]

Another pink: CG Wish on a Starfish. A cute polish, but I had to put three coats as it was kind of uneven (Pixies/OPI/Isadora are much better).



pretty pink, too bad about the formula.
Quote: Originally Posted by Anneri

Wanted to share my latest manis!

Essie Lot of Lux - like this best with tc.



Hare Golden Years with accent nail from P2 Precious.


My Viennese polish: Bipa Bronze Changer

Still need to use golden years too!

 

[Anitacska]

Here's my mani, Deborah Lippmann Sugar Daddy with Beauty UK Posh Polish Antique Chic on the accent fingers.







I really like this. The duochrome is lovely and the glitters are so sparkly and almost look like they're floating above the nail.

My Rainbow Connection order arrived yesterday. I got Laquerlicious Gut Feeling, Bite Your Tongue and Hare King of Carat Flowers.