Late Post

Helloooooo everyone! Sorry for not posting in a while, I've been busy a lot but that doesn't mean I've neglected my nails! :P This is from the vault, you might be able to know that it's been a while - Zoya 3 Free Nail Polishes because they reached 20,000 Facebook followers. So here are my swatches, which weren't that great, in my opinion since I'm looking back at these. :P

First one is Astra, it's mostly a clear base with red/fuchsia packed glitter and there's barely any clear spaces. The swatch is 2 coats and 1 layer of top coat, pretty nice and shiny :)

The second, which is my favorite, Crystal. I've been wanting this for a long time after seeing it on blogs *drool* and I jumped on this chance to get it :) It's a metallic blue with gold flecks and silver glitter packed in. VERY BEAUTIFUL. I believe the swatch is 2 or 3 coats and 1 layer of top coat, which looks the same to me :P

The last one is Nova, my least favorite of the 3 :\ but it's a red-purple but more purple tone jelly base with silver glitters packed in. The swatch is 2 coats and 1 layer of top coat.

hope you all enjoyed & happy polishing! :)

<3katherine

p.s. don't forget to enter into my CSN giveaway (ends March 12) and my 300 follower giveaway (ends March 26)! :)

Sparkling Coconut Kiss

My last post for today will be a layer post of 2 new polishes that I haven't shown in my blog. First is, China Glaze Coconut Kiss. It's a shimmery frosty purple that's sooo beautiful! It's my favorite purple now :) To reach bottle opacity, it took 2 coats of Coconut Kiss. I used top coat on my pinky and index finger and it seems that top coat makes it less shiny and frosty! :(

And for the layering, I layered 1 coat of China Glaze Fairy Dust over Coconut Kiss. Totally beautiful and so sparkly that my camera can't capture it and it looks blurry haha.

hope you enjoyed,

happy polishing

& happy early new year! :)

<3katherine

Catrice Week [Day 1]

Today marks the first out of seven days of Catrice week! I love Catrice and I wish I had all of their nail polishes because they're soo yummy and beautiful! :) Each day this week, I will post up swatches from the ones I own, thanks to swaps! (=

Catrice Be My Millionaire

silver-copper metallic. The swatch is 2 coats and 1 coat of top coat.

Catrice Big Spender Wanted!

fuchsia pink-red with orange gold shimmer. 2 coats and 1 coat of top coat.

The formula and application was easy and excellent, that's why I like Catrice nail polish. ^______^ I wish I could get moreeeeeee haha.

<3katherine

Buuurlesque

November 10, 2010

Everyone has probably seen these a ton of times already, sorry for slacking! :( But here are my swatches of the Burlesque Collection by OPI. I've shown about two of them previously but here they are all together. Instead of overloading one post with the swatches for the whole collection, I decided to do a skittles swatch instead so it's easier to see and compare. :) {Sorry for some blurry parts of the picture, my camera isn't the best & I don't have any room to have a lightbox in my room. I'm hoping to save for a better camera though!}

* Ali's Big Break - red with fuchsia glitter. 2 coats & 1 coat of TC.

* Bring on the Bling - mainly gold glitter & other colors. 2 coats & 1 coat of TC.

* Extra-va-vaganza! - mainly orange & silver glitter. 2 coats & 1 coat of TC.

* Glow Up Already! - mainly silver & gold glitter. 2 coats and 1 coat of TC.

* Let Me Entertain You - red-fuchsia and fuchsia glitter. 2 coats & 1 coat of TC.

* Rising Star - orange-copper foil metallic. 2 coats & 1 coat of TC.

* Show It and Glow It! - purple, silver & blue glitter. 2 coats & 1 coat of TC.

* Simmer & Shimmer - turquoise blue and silver glitter. 2 coats & 1 coat of TC.

* Sparkle-icious - gold, purple and blue glitters. 2 coats & 1 coat of TC.

* Take the Stage - reddish bronze foil. 2 coats & 1 coat of TC

* Tease-y Does It - deep vampy plum with red microshimmer. 2 coats & 1 coat of TC.

* The Show Must Go On! - hot reddish pink shimmer. 2 coats and 1 caot of TC

My favorites in this collection is Simmer & Shimmer and The Show Must Go On! :)

PS - I'm thinking of having another give away, perhaps at 250 or 300 followers :P I haven't decided yet but just putting that out there! ~ Don't forget to check out Necessary Nail's Facebook page! You can also find the Facebook link on the Facebook Icon at the top right along with the Twitter link to Necessary Nails!

hope you enjoyed,

<3katherine

Just playing around with my Scotch tape......

I'm always trying to find new designs I can do using tape, so here are a few that I did, just messing around.

This one was done with the teal glitter/metallic that cae in the CVS pack of 4 & my regular Sinful black

This was done with the silver and purple from the CVS pack as well.

This one I did using Twinkle Twinkle from Claires & Sinfuls What's Your Name, only because I grabbed that thinking it was my black :(  This idea looked WAY better in my mind, lol.



Just a few L.A. Girls polish swatches..

 I shop on Forever 21's site for clothes a lot, and decided to pick up some polishes that they had on there. Oh and I must say, the way they named the polishes is uber boring. No real names, just color descriptions.
So here are the L.A. Girls I got

This one is from the Matte collection and it's just called Hot Pink. I love this!!

Lavander - Since this was soooo sheer, I layered it over black

Bronze

Pink Steel

Iron Red

and my fave from the group. It wasn't labeled, but I asked MUA, and they all said it was called Groupie. You can kind os see the purple flashes in the picture, but trust me, It's much more obvious IRL!

Jackelin $0.50!!

So I stopped by Walgreens today after work and after I bought a palette at Inglot for a swap, and I saw these babies for 2 for $1! I must confess that I saw these before but didn't bother with them because they lack color range! :( and they looked old because the polish separated. But these 2 were the good ones out of the batch.

On the left we have, Jackelin Allure and on the right we have Jackelin Pear. Allure is a grayed out blue with silver shimmer but it's very pigmented like they added fyrinnae in it to make this polish. The swatch is 2 coats of Allure and 1 coat of top coat. Pear is a metallic bronze with a green tone to it. Pear was on the harder side to capture but you can see the color perfectly from the bottle color. The swatch is 3 coats of Pear and 1 coat of top coat. Pear is a little opaque, but you could've gone with 2 coats but I decided to do 3 because a small VNL.

If anyone is interested in any Inglot Cosmetics (they don't sell their products online), I will gladly agree to a swap or custom purchase for you. Just write me an email & I'll email the store for a price quote. Please note that if you want the Freedom Eyeshadow Palettes, let me know how many eyeshadows, the number & it's color family and back up colors in case the store doesn't have a color that you wanted.

The reason I started putting it out there that I'm willing to get custom Inglot Cosmetics is because of a MUA swap. If you're more comfortable swapping with me on MUA just write me a message to itsofluffy (that's my MUA username).

I'm bringing this up because Inglot in the US is only available in 2 stores, one in NYC which is an hour train ride from my home and I work & go to school in the city so I'll be there frequently.

hope you enjoyed,

<3katherine

Ulta Beauty Gems mini swatches...

So I had been eyeing these pretties up at Ulta for a while and about 3 weeks ago, I finally just caved and got them. Well here they are! I don't have many mini's, in fact other than these, I might only have 3 or 4 more. The application on these was great, and these are all 3 coats!

This is Amethyst, It's a metallic purple

This beauty is Emerald, it's hard to tell from the pics, but it's full of shimmer!!

This is my 2nd fave of the group, it's such a creamy color. Pink Ruby is her name

Now for my all time fave of the group.....Smoky Quartz! It's from the popular purple/gray group.

Well, that's all for now, I'm off to Target to get another polish container. Woop Woop!!