Valentines Day

Happy Valentines Day to those who celebrate or does something special on this day. :) I spent my morning at work until 2 and then had lunch with the bf :) walked around and shopped around-ish. Saw this cute bag at Aldo which I'm sooooo going to buy the next time I'm near my workplace, lol. Anyways no Valentine's Day mani. but I do have a nail wheel full of colors. These nail polishes were brought back to me from Bangladesh from my bf. :) I love the colors despite wonky brushes and weird-ish formula. But the colors came out great and I don't even know which ones to use first! :P So hard to choose!!

1-5 were from the same brand and I love the formula

I also looooove 8-13! Definitely awesome metallic streaky finish which came out nice. During the process of swatching, it didn't look as nice until the finish product! 

Hope you all enjoyed your Valentine's Day! & happy polishing!

<3katherine

Hard Candy Sky.....Is finally MINE!

Since about a month ago, I've wanted Hard Candy Sky. I saw it posted on MUA, and knew I had to have it. Well, I rarely get to Wal-mart, but when I recently went, I saw it, and snatched it up. It is such a gorg baby blue, with hidden blue shimmer, that I had a HORRIBLE time capturing in pics. The application was a tad tricky, but worth it. When using this, I had to do quick, light strokes, and this was 2 coats. For the tips I used China Glaze Millenium.

Mermaid Attempt

Hey everyone! :) I hope you all are doing well~ Today I'm going to show you a swatch, that you've probably seen before but it's new to my collection, so I hope you enjoy. I also attempted to do a nail art, which is part of my resolution, to be more creative and experimental with nail art, so I hope you'll like it. The nail art wasn't anything planned, it just came to me as I did the swatch. I actually like it although it doesn't exactly reach what I was thinking of.

Today's SOTD is OPI Here Today... Aragon Tomorrow Suede. It's a beautiful medium forest green shimmer. It's beautiful and opaque in 2 coats. The swatch shows both without and with top coat. I think it's absolutely beautiful and I don't know why I haven't gotten HTATS sooner :P! Formula and application was smooth and easy as well.

The NAOTD is Mermaid Scales :P I used 2 coats of OPI Here Today... Aragon Tomorrow Suede, drew scales with KISS Nail Art in Pearl Black then filled in the spaces with China Glaze Fairy Dust to add a more 'mystical' look to the scales :P In my opinion, I think I did a pretty good job. Hope you think so too!

Anyways, hope you enjoyed & happy polishing!
<3katherine

The New, Bad, Beautiful and Good

Hi all~ :) I hope everyone had a great New Years! Mine was alright, and I'm trying to work a bit more even with the lack of hours they gave me. This is my first post for the New Year! :) Anyways, onto nails~ today I'm posting the new, the bad, beautiful and good. The new? meaning new brand or something I haven't tried yet. The bad? Something that didn't come out exactly the way I wanted to, but it isn't that bad. The beautiful? The shades I picked out for today. The good? A pretty good nail art, since I haven't been doing that much lately.

First, here is the new and beautiful. Rimmel 60 Seconds in Night Before (#615). It's a dark purple shimmer with orange and pink iridiscent. The swatch is 2 coats and 1 coat of top coat. The pictures don't show the iridiscents well but you can kind of see it in the bottle. I've never seen these bottles until I went to Kmart, which I don't go to very often.

The pretty bad is the nail art I tried. I tried to make a flower but first the center white came out too much and I think I could've done better. But hey, I tried! And I'll probably practice some more. :P

Another beautiful and new is Wet N Wild Blackmail (#218). This is 3 coats; just to be safe for the color and missing spots and 1 coat of top coat. It's a black base jelly-creme-ish but more creme. It contains orange/copper glitter inside as well. Totally awesome and it was my first time seeing this one! So lucky I found it at Kmart :)

The (pretty) good? Penguin nail art! I've seen a lot of this recently, especially by Pan and I've been meaning to try it out. So I tried to make a bow tie and failed so I covered it up and not well enough and it swirled a bit with the pearl black nail art I used. But pretty good in my opinion! I gave him a sparkly nose, kind of like Rudolph :P

I picked up an extra bottle of Wet N Wild Blackmail for my giveaway that I will start when I reach 300 followers. I don't have the prize all picked out yet, but I will try to get some here and there :)

Anyways, I hope you all enjoyed & happy polishing!
<3katherine

Tis the Season

Continuing from the Tis the Season where I left off, I'm going to overload this post with the rest because I want them outttt for everyone to see before Christmas. So please note that this will be an IMAGE HEAVY post. :P

Mistletoe Kisses. Green base with green glitters. 2 coats & 1 coat of TC.

Mrs. Claus. Sheer red jelly-ish with red and silver glitter. 3 coats & 1 coat of TC.

Naughty and Nice. Vampy deep wine purple-red. 2 coats & 1 coat of TC.

Party Hearty layered over black, white, Phat Santa and Naughty and Nice. 2 coats & 1 coat of TC.

 Peace on Earth. Green olive gold shimmer foil. 2 coats & 1 coat of TC.

Phat Santa. Medium red creme. 2 coats & 1 coat of TC.

Ruby Deer. Medium red creme but a little lighter than Phat Santa. 2 coats & 1 coat of TC.

Sugar Plums. Medium maroon purple with glitters. 2 coats & 1 coat of TC.

hope you enjoyed China Glaze's Tis the Season with necessary★nails!

and happy polishing! :)

<3katherine

Little Drummer Boy

Continuing from swatches of the China Glaze Tis the Season is Little Drummer Boy. Little Drummer Boy is a dark midnight blue with blue shimmer. It's like Jolly Holly, but the blue version of it. Looooove itt!!! The picture shows 2 coats of Little Drummer Boy and 1 coat of top coat.

hope you enjoyed & happy polishing! (:

<3katherine

Jolly Holly

Today is a swatch of China Glaze Jolly Holly from their recent Tis The Season Collection. Jolly Holly is a dark forest green with an awesome(!) green shimmer. I loveeeee the shimmer so much (check out the flash picture)! The picture shows 2 coats of Jolly Holly and 1 coat of top coat. 

hope you enjoyed & happy polishing!

<3katherine

Perplex

Today, I have a nail polish that is recently popular because it's a VERY close dupe for the popular Chanel Paradoxal, which I still don't have yet. I picked it up today from a full display at Duane Reade near my work. I also picked up an extra bottle for my giveaway (I've decided to have it when I reach 300 followers). 

But here's my swatch of Revlon's Perplex which is a darkened plum gray with a purple shimmer. I've seen comparisons of the two and Perplex has more shimmer than Paradoxal so if you prefer less shimmer or "hidden" shimmer, you should go for Paradoxal but you don't need both. The swatch is 2 coats and 1 coat of Seche top coat. I absolutely love this color! I've been lemming Paradoxal so this is feeding my lemming :)

without flash

with flash

I'd like to say (again) that I will be holding a giveaway to celebrate for reaching 300 followers (when I reach 300 I will post up the giveaway). So, there will be only one prize and maybe a small second prize. But so far I only have one bottle of Revlon Perplex. All items in this giveaway will either be brand new and purchased by me, or has been swatched once. I hope no one will have a problem with that. :\

hope you enjoyed & happy polishing! :)

<3katherine

Catrice Week [Day 7]

Catrice Week Day 7. It's the last day of Catrice week, and like the first day, there will be 2 swatches in this post also. Just to fit all 9 of the ones in my collection that haven't been introduced onto the blog. :)

Catrice Sea of Green

medium green with matte finish. 2 coats and 1 coat of top coat (TC on index and ring fingers).

Catrice Sold Out Forever

mint jade green with green shimmer. 2 coats and 1 coat of top coat. One of my favorites! It's said to be the 'dupe' or rather similar to the SOLD OUT, Chanel Jade (one of my biggest lemming!).

hope you enjoyed Catrice week! :)

<3katherine

Catrice Week [Day 6]

Hello everyone! I hope everyone's having a good day so far. Today after my class, I'm stuck in the library because I was supposed to work but got someone to cover for me thinking my bf didn't have work. After I gave away the shift, I found out he has work & I told my parents I'd be at work so now I'm taking the time to study since final exams are coming! Oh no the horror! :( I must break into nerd mode. But I will be able to post tomorrow to finish off Catrice week but the posts will come out a little slowly after that. I have some recent mani's to show you and I'm trying to think creatively on new nail art for my mani's. Hopefully it'll come to me!

Without further stalling, here's Catrice Week Day 6.

Catrice London's Weather Forecast

greyed blue with shimmer. 2 coats and 1 coat of top coat. Another one of my favorites because I feel like the shimmer makes it so different from other grays.

hope you enjoyed,

<3katherine

P.S. There will be a giveaway when I hit either 250/300 followers, depending on whether I have enough money to pay for the giveaway prize. What giveaway items do you suggest? I'm open to ideas & I'll see what I can get! :D

Catrice Week [Day 3]

Catrice Week Day 3.

Catrice Clay-ton My Hero

light brown taupe with gold shimmer. 2 coats and 1 coat of top coat. I really like how it suits my skintone and shimmers!! Another one of my favorites♥

hope you enjoyed,

<3katherine