Monday, September 5, 2011

NOTD: Ruby Kisses Golden Red + bm202

A nice red - stamping was a little more subtle than I thought it would be, and actually turned out better on my right hand.  Base color is Ruby Kisses Golden Red, stamping done with  Bundle Monster image place bm202 & Misa Ghetto Fabulous:
 

SOOOOO not looking forward to going back to work tomorrow =(  These long weekends have spoiled me LOL, but I seriously hate hate HATE my job lately.  Only good thing is getting payments processed in 4 days instead of 5 should make the time fly because we'll be so busy.  One can only hope.  I'm already planning my retail therapy after work tomorrow - I went to Ulta to spend my reward certificate & saw several other things that I wanted so I'm going to print some more coupons from their website =)
 
Thanks for reading.
 
~Colette

Sunday, September 4, 2011

More 2012 Crackles & Kleancolor Crackles

I have quite a haul, and a lot of them are crackles =)  I went to a new to me beauty supply store & found a whole bunch on nice & cheap polish, so I indulged.  A few of the 2012s are from Walgreens, colors that Family Beauty Supply (Broadway & Fremont for my local readers) didn't have, but they were only $2 at the beauty supply compared to $5 at Walgreens, so I got what I could for cheap.
 
Here's the haul vid - my longest video so far I think, almost a half an hour somehow LOL:
 
 
Here are all my new 2012 colors:
 
 
Top:  You & I, Acid Rain,Mercy Me, Helios, Afterlife, Evolution.  Bottom:  Extraterrestrial, Tomorrow, Jesus Christ Superstar, Sea of Galilee, Typhoon, Prayer.
 
 
 
Blue Crackle & Green Crackle.
 
Here are the NK polishes:
 
 
Left to right:  Green Apple, Turquoise, Charcoal Navy, After Dark, Metallic Noir.
 
Here are the Ruby Kisses polishes:
 

Top:  Black Eutopia, Golden Red, Twinkling Mauve, Tropical Green.  Bottom:  Blue Pearl, Baby Blue, All Purpled Out.
 
And here are some closer-up pics on the nail wheel swatches - the Kleancolor is a very unique crackle (similar to Kelier if you're a fan of that now HTF brand) if you're patient enough to let it dry, so I also swatched them over white so the pattern was really visible:
 

And then the 2012s - some of the neons did kind of a weird thing with top coat added ... they look almost ... I don't know, diseased LOL, the orange over black in particular:
 

Have you picked up any of this 2012 brand?  Which colors did you get & what do you think of them?
 
Thanks for reading =)

~Colette

Saturday, September 3, 2011

NOTD: Savina Money Tree + 2012 Crucify

I used this combination for one of my swatches, and I liked it so well that I decided to do a full mani.  Base color is Savina Money Tree & I neglected to take any pictures before I added crackle on top - 2012 Crucify:
 

Top coat makes a huge difference - the 2012 crackle dries pretty matte:
 
 
While I do like the combination, I actually didn't like it as well as I thought I would so I only wore it one day LOL.  Thanks for reading =)
 
~Colette

Thursday, September 1, 2011

FAQ: Nail Wheels

Hmmm, what to add to this vid?  I think for once I managed to fit everything in LOL =)
 

I do wish that I remembered exactly where I got the nail wheels, but I was unable to find the blog post & I'm not going to go digging through 2+ year old receipts just to satisfy curiosity.

Thanks for reading.

~Colette

TOTD: Claire's Fresh Water

Gorgeous, gorgeous turquoise blue - Claire's Fresh Water:


I was very disappointed that it didn't marble well =(  I wanted to have a matching design on my fingers =)

Thanks for reading.

~Colette
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