Glittery gray

Hey!

Yesterday (or the day before) I tried a brand of nail polish I never used before and it's the Forever XXI brand : Love & Beauty. Yet again, it's another polish I've had for a while, but never got to try it until now. It's a light gray shade with a light pink shimmer in it, but it's a super subtle shade of pink. I had so much trouble trying to capture it with my camera, and in the end I barely caught it. Anyway, I put a glitter polish on top of it : a verry pretty silver, blue and pink glitter Sally Hansen polish. See for yourself:

 I don't know if you can maybe see the pink shimmer in my index on the first two pictures, and in the bottle of the last picture. Anyway, it's definitely there in real life. It's cute, it gives a little punch of color.

Now, I'm kinda repeating myself, but in this manicure I used (Pictures below) :

- China Glaze Nail Strengthener and Growth Formula - Base coat, one coat.
It's the first time I use this, so I'm gonna be back on this one to share my toughts on it.
- Forever XXI Love & Beauty nail polish in Light Grey - Base color, three coats.
There is no name on the label of my bottle except for "Light Grey", but I searched on the Forever21 website and I think I found the color. On the website it's called: Ashes. I put three coats, but two coats was absolutely fine. I was just feeling for three. I'm not in love with the texture/formula of the polish, but it's not that bad. It does what it's suppose to.
- Sally Hansen Hard as Nails in Ice Queen # 840 - Glitter, two coats.
You can put only one coat, but it depends on how much glitters you want. I think this nail polish is fun. It's easy to apply and there is a good amounth of glitters for one coat. It's a mix of blue, light pink and silver glitters.
- inm Out the door fast drying top coat, one coat.
It's the first time I use this too, but I must say that it's good stuff. It dryed very quickly. I didn't compared it to Seche Vite yet, but it shouldn't take long before I do. It had 6 coats of nail polishes - total - to dry and it did a pretty damn good job! I'm impressed. The formula is not as tick as Seche Vite, but it's not as liquidy as Good to Go from Essie, which I like a lot.

With the flash

With a light, without the flash

Without the flash

Top coat & Base coat

Since I wasn't able to really capture the pink shimmer in my pictures, I went and search for one that was showing it. Here is what I found on Kaboodle :

 I think that on this picture it really shows how cute it is (those are the old Love & Beauty nail polish bottles)

Anyway, I think I went around all the important stuff. If I didn't, please tell me. I want it to be as interresting and precise as possible. I'm still learning and discovering the blog world.

I guess that's all folks!

A.

Sally Hansen Salon Effects try out!

Hi again, 

Let's get right into it : I really wanted to try the Sally Hansen Salon Effects nail strips for a while and I couldn't get to it (I already had problems to wear and try every polish I buy). I finally made up my mind and went to buy some. Yet again, I couldn't find the "strenght" to use one because, for my taste, it's pretty darn expensive for a bunch of nail polish strips that I can use only once. Finally, yesterday, I did what I had to do! I told my self : "Oh well, take the one you like the less, so if you mess it up, it's not gonna be a big loss." So, I took the Misbehaved one. 

I don't even know why I tought it was the one I liked the less : I-lo-ve-it! It's sleek, sexy, ... just wow! The application is fabulous! It took me 10 minutes (at the most) for the first hand and far less than 5 min for the other one. 

I've not had problems to get the right size of strips to match the size of my nails. It's just wonderful. I just have to wait and see how it'll stick on and for how many days. It comes with a little sheet with the instructions, 16 stips (so you have 6 back up strips if you mess up, or if you want to use them for another manicure : you certainly can reshape the strip with scissors if it doesnt fit your nail properly), a little nail file and a little wood-stick-cuticule-pusher.
I'm eager to try the other ones and to see the results. I definitely recommand it!

P.S. : Ok now, I already have a little update. It's been 5 days now that I have these on, and it still looks quite good! I broke one of my nails (right hand) cleaning my bedroom, but it looks pretty great on the others.

Yeah, I know... I broke my middle finger and it's ugly

I could have kept these a little while longer, but I'm not able to keep the same manicure more than 3-4 days. I had to make the effort to keep those Sally Hansen strips longer so that I could see how good they were. But, I'm satisfied with the results, so there you go! I hope you'll enjoy these strips as much as I did!

That's all folks!

A.

First post + Green Splatter Nails

My first post ever. Not that I expect anyone to read this, but if someone, somewhere ever finds this blog : Welcome! Hope you... enjoy. I don't even know exactly what I'm going to do here, what exactly I'll post or write or show you. But let's start with something simple... Some pictures! (you probably already saw that anyway...)

A nail splash technique that I found on the PolishAholic blog (one of my favorites so far). In brief, you have to put nail polish on the tip of a straw and blow through it so that it will splash on your nails (make sure to put scotch tape on your fingers : it's pretty messy! and make sure to go and check out the real tutorial on the polishaholic blog, it's much better). I had some problems, at first, to blow the nail polish out of the straw, but it's because I wasn't picking up enough of it. So, I just went for it and directly put the straw in the bottle. I would be glad to be able to not waste so much polish by doing it the way I did it, but until I'm able to work with only 5 or 6 drops of polish, I guess that'll do for now.

Now, I have to tell : my mother language is French (Canadian french) so I might do some english mistakes, but I'm not here to check my english grammar! I'm here to share my "hobby" the best way I can. And I seriously don't know why I started writing this blog in english... maybe someday I'll switch. 

Probably that my other posts won't be that crowded with text... We'll see.

Now, for the interresting part (I guess) : the nail polishes I used:

- Maybelline Express Finish in Go-Getter Green # 658 - Base color, two coats.
Not the best nail polish, but it's good. Almost totally opaque with one coat. Great colors. Becomes a little ticker in the end.

- Maybelline Express Finish in Outloud Lime # 652 - Splatter color
Same as above.

- Mood Struck in Teal to Turquoise - Splatter color
This polish is a heat activated color changing nail polish... The thing is that I never saw any change of color coming from those polishes. Becomes quickly ticker, do your stuff fast. At least the color is cute...

- Revlon Scented in Pineapple Fizz - Splatter color
This one is kinda fun. It smells like yummy pineapple candy, but the smell is not sickening nor overwelming. I made my nails wednesday (if I remember well) and the smell has already worn off. One thing that I don't like about these particular polishes is that they're way to liquid. Other than that : great colors, great smells, beautiful flaky-like glitters. I love it!
- Seche Vite fast drying top coat, one coat.

With the flash

Without the flash

So yeah... I think I'm gonna finish it here, before I continue blabla-ing for 2 hours and get the readers I don't even have to be bored already.

That's all folks!
I might be back soon

A.