Hit Polish - Shockwave

There are so many blogs out there that are AWESOMELY FULL of nail polish posts but I hardly update so I'm not that awesome :/

In any case, here's a quick post on a new polish I picked up this week from an online shop called Hit Polish.  SO SO SO SOOOOOO~ many CUTE and GLITTERY polishes! I went a little berserk and bought 8 minis for myself >.< (that's my guilty face)

Lookie!

 

Pretty darn cute! I'm wearing Hit Polish's Shockwave (1 coat) over Ruby Wing Myth (which changes color in UV light to a mauve color).

 

Lindsay's Nails

Painted my 16 yr old niece's fingernails when she and her family came to visit.

Star Ferried Laciness

I fell in love with this color when I saw it in the bottle. It might've been the sparkle that caught my eye. This is the first time I've worn the color and I LOOOOVE it even more! I decided to get crazy with my konad plates. Google returned some pretty awesome results for konad related image searches and I was inspired how creative some 'nad ladies have been.



polish: OPI Meet Me On The Star Ferry (Hong Kong Collection)
konad plate: m69 (for the fishnet & the lace)
konad polish: Konad Special Gold (+ some extra gold powder from Bare Escentuals) Konad Special Dark Purple

And as usual, Seche Vite makes everything smooth and lovely.

Monta Vista

My sisters went to a highschool where the school colors were purple and gold.



Color: OPI Louvre Me, Louvre Me Not

Konad Plate: M2 for the flower
Konad Color: Gold (with some extra gold eyeshadow from Bare Essentials added to intensify the gold color - idea from nevertoomuchglitter)

moody roses

I remember that when Nino was here back in December, he glanced at my nail magazine while I was going through it and he mentioned that he liked the dark nail style (black with red roses and gold chains motif). But he said he knew it probably wasn't something I'd normally wear. I guess I got my cue from that.. and b/c I was on a flower binge apparently with the last few sets I did, I chose to paint roses. but I went DARK. Black to be exact. I rarely paint my entire nail black (except for halloween 2009). But I went for it. And at first I thought "OH GEEz.. WAAAY TOO BLACK" but then as soon as I started painted the purple roses... I fell in love. lol. That doesn't mean I'll be doing black regularly. Like Nino said.. It's not really my style. But I'd told Joni that I wanted to do purple roses on black polish so I got stuck on the idea. And I titled this entry "moody roses" because I kept having this feeling that the black polish made me feel moody... but I got a lot of compliments on it. In any case, I only kept this set on for 4 days. lol.

♥ notes: This was the 3rd time I was able to use the tiny brushes I'd bought from Daiso

♥ duration: 40 mins (2 episodes of Nodame Cantabile)

♥ colors/steps for polish:
▪ Orly Bonder base coat
▪ black polish - Orly Liquid Vinyl (2 coats)
▪ Seche Vite

♥ colors/steps for flowers:
▪ dark purple and white acrylic craft paint was used.
▪ start with dipping the tiny brush (set of 8 for $1.50 from Daiso!) into the purple paint (just a bit) then a tad in the white paint. so the brush should have both colors on it already. then I painted in a pattern like these nail seals.
▪ I did the same paint dip trick for the green leaves. I didn't want the flowers so dark, that they'd be difficult to see.
▪ I was tempted to add silver or glitter on them but after giving a bit of glitter to one of the roses on my pinky, I decided against it. I thought it looked so nice as plain art.

straight-line french

[ backlog 12.25.08 ]

Another backlog one~ 2 in one night! Gooooo me :D

Really simple design but I like simple. Good for work and good for going out. Best of both worlds, right? I'm not normally a big fan of this type of polish color on my fingers because it makes me think my skin looks sickly pale or something. I'm sure it's all in my mind ^_- I'd done this style before but I just wanted a chance to play with a new nail color :D It's one I picked up at an H&M in Lisbon (I was on an 11 day cruise on RCCL's Independence of the Seas to parts of Europe and the Canary Islands! It was a fantastic trip. Plus I met my honey while on this one ^_-). The color is H&M's Velvet Touch. The price was something like 2 euros so I figured why not, right? ^_^

♥ duration: 30 mins + a few minutes to pick the colors to use

♥ notes:
▪ So simple, I'd say anyone can do this one.
▪ The gems didn't last long for me for this set b/c again, I didn't put a top coat! Get off my case, people... :P I just didn't know better, at the time! ^_-
▪ If I want my french manicures to look really clean I use sheer & pale colors so that my real nail color doesn't distract from whatever shade I'm using on the tips. (e.g. Orly's Sheer Nude)

♥ colors/steps:
▪ 1 coat Orly Bonder
▪ 1 coat of something sheer by Orly. The label fell off already. >.< but it might actually have been Orly's Sheer Nude.
▪ 1 coat diagonally on the tips from one side to slightly past center of my nail OPI's Sephora polish in "And Then He Said..."
▪ 1 coat diagonally on the tips from the other side to slightly past center of my nail which overlays the other diagonal side in H&M's Velvet Touch
▪ criss-cross Kiss's white striper following the angle of the diagonal layers just painted
▪ 1 dab of Orly Bonder just below where the 2 tip colors meet
▪ 1 7ss Golden Shadow Swarovski rhinestone where you put a dab of Bonder.