Lucerne-tainly Look Marvelous

Hello :) Today's a picture of my current manicure. Sorry this mani is 2 days old though. I haven't thought of any nail design to do on it since it's so shiny and shimmery. But I will definitely come up with something!

OPI Lucerne-tainly Look Marvelous

a shimmery charcoal and silver foil. From the Swiss Collection. The mani is 2 coats of LLM and 1 coat of Seche top coat. Only a small slight sign of fading at the nail ends but not very noticeable. :) I love this color and it's so shimmer and eye catching ;).

Don't forget to:

1. Enter into my giveaway, 4 more days!!

2. I'm still taking Ruffian manicures pictures for a Ruffian mani post featuring different bloggers. Just write me an email with your blog url, what polishes you used & attach pics of your Ruffian mani! :)

hope you enjoyed,

<3katherine

Revlon

Revlon Purchase

*swatch pictures are not available for lilac pastelle yet. after resizing the swatch pictures i had, the color was not accurate - and not that close to it. :\ will definitely redo.

185 Lilac Pastelle - 3 coats and no top coat

pastel lilac/purple. The formula and application isn't that bad. The first coat was a little sheer and two coats was better but still had spots that the polish didn't evenly cover. Third coat looks best and relates closest to the bottle color. Not bad for my first Revlon.

900 Gold Get 'Em - 3 coats and no top coat

yellow-gold shimmer microglitters. The color is amazinginly beautiful?. The formula and application was excellent. Two coats was nice yet sheer but 3 coats gets to the bottle color. Definitely my favorite out of these 3 Revlons :). It was kind of hard to capture. It's a lot more yellow and shimmery than the pictures.

918 Silver Screen - 2 coats and no top coat

light dusty charcoal shimmer. The formula and application was excellent! Surprisingly, it was pretty good with only one coat of Silver Screen but 2 coats looked better. Looks a bit streaky but still beautiful.

<3katherine

Stellare Notte from my love, hehe

I wasn't in a great mood on Wednesday. And on Thursday, my boyfriend decided to make me feel better by buying me a bottle of nail polish from Duane Reade. He got me Borghese Stellare Notte! Though it's only one, his intentions made me happier and brought my mood up :)♥. So I decided to swatch it today before I cut my nails since my nails are uneven and I want to grow them back asap! The color is so unique. It's a charcoal with duo shimmer of purple, blue and green. The swatch shows two coats of Stellare Notte with no top coat. It's definitely a beautiful color and a favorite!

Glitter Gradient with Borghese Stellar Notte

& provided tutorial! :)

(1.) prep nails and put base coat on

(2.) two coats of Stellare Notte

(3.) when it's dry and using your silver glitter nail art, make a silver tip. it doesn't matter the size of it, but if you make it at this size the gradient is bigger.

(4.) before it dries and using CoverGirl Boundless Color Disco Dazzle or anything similar, use the brush from the end of the nail and brush on the nail towards your cuticles.

(5.) after it's dry, put your top coat to seal it.

hope you enjoyed the stellare notte glitter gradient & post comments with your gradients :)

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On a side note, I sent out my old nails polishes for the Zoya exchange today! I'm excited to receive the 20 bottles of Zoya I picked out.

have a great day and see you soon!

<3katherine

Grown Fond of Sinful Colors

Since the last post, I've realized that I've grown fond of Sinful Colors. Cheap, nice colors & found conveniently at two pharmacies in my neighborhood. Their display collection has grown a lot bigger from what I use to remember. It also makes me feel better about how much I spend on nail polish and it makes up for this time when I'm not ordering Essie's, OPI's and China Glazes online. :D

For the past 1-2 weeks, I did these 2 lovelies:

A Classic and my most favorite color: China Glaze For Audrey with Forever21 Nail Stickers (:

I've been wanting to do a manicure of China Glaze For Audrey while I was working and I was thinking, since it's so close to the trademark Tiffany&Co. color, I was thinking of making my nails look like the Tiffany&Co. jewelry box, the aqua-teal color + a white ribbon and bow. So I tried that out, and it didn't work out well, sadly my vision didn't come true. Maybe one day when I get better with nail art T___T;. But since I really love the color, I decided to use it with nail stickers, the next best thing when your vision doesn't come true. Or Konad but I really suck at using it. I bought a box in Vegas and it's been sitting in my room for a while.. maybe I'll resell it or something.

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With no flash

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After that I picked up Sinful Colors Secret Admirer. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS POLISH! It's black or close to black with micro silver glitter. This was 2 coats topped off with Seche Vite Quick Dry Top Coat. I absolutely love this manicure. What surprised me more was when I was taking the polish off, the black would come off and you're left with a metallic gray layer which looks AWESOME! I'm in love & I've really come to loveeeeeeeeee Sinful Colors! ♥(:

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And finally, today I happen to be in Times Square and I stopped by Sephora to look and test out Kim Kardashian's new fragrance, Kim Kardashian. I'm soo in love with the smell that I think I'm going to get myself a bottle :3♥ Also, since I was in Sephora, I decided to take a look at the Sephora by OPI section & I found this baby right here, Sephora by OPI 212 - Sephora. It's a limited edition bottle (and I just read that it's only available online or the Times Square store)! Eek I'm in love and I HAD TO SPEND $9 on that bottle. I rarely spend that much on any bottle I own but I'm definitely in love.

This isn't my picture but I'm going to definitely upload it when I do use this one - which is soon! So look out for a coming post! I'll also add a review & possibly pick up another bottle maybe for back up! Hehe (:

Edit: I did my nails (picture below) with Sephora and I re-enforcing my love for this polish. I can't put the color into words as good as it is, but it's like a brown but with forest green with multi color glitter and gold/orange-ish flakes. I definitely love the color & it was easy to apply. Top coat is a definite need for this one after 2 coats it gets a little bumpy so it'll smooth the bumpiness and make the polish shineeeeeeeeee! I lovelovelovelovelovelove this polish and it's going up to my favorites with (already placed in my favorites) China Glaze For Audrey and Sinful Colors Nail Junkie. :)♥ But the only thing I didn't like was not being able to capture its true color with my camera. The picture below is the best of what I was able to capture close to its true color.

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I also saw another bottle that I love Sephora by OPI Too Good For Him - I think I might just have to pick this up also! I'm not 100% sure though, since I feel like I have something like this in my small but growing collection.

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I was looking though my photobucket to see if I uploaded any pictures of when I did my nails and I came across this

I wanted to practice some nail art so I bought fake tips to practice on. There's a variety of colors that I used on this. The only ones I could remember are:

- China Glaze Passion

- Sally Hansen Gunmetal

- OPI Time-less is More

- Essie Sassy Satchel

- China Glaze Solar Power

and a variety of nail art colors.

Sincerely, Katherine♥