Essence- Where is the Party?

Today I have a swatch for Essence Where is the Party?. Where is the Party is a purple douchrome with green. The polish is mostly purple but at some angles it looks or shows a hint of green. It is a amazing polish and looks much better in person then in pictures. This is possibly my biggest swatch post with so many photos. This many photos was important to show and capture the duo chrome effect.

Although you can see streaks on your nail, it didn't really bother me. I was liking the colour a lot that this kind of thing just doesn't bother me with this polish

As you can see. It's a solid purple with no green in the picture above.

Here It tries to capture the green. The purple has mostly disappeared and my nail is green. In person the green is more green looking and not so off like the picture. Let me warn you that it was incredibly hard to capture this polishes true colour.

Here you can see purple in the middle and green around the sides. It's really gorgeous and I recommend everyone to get this polish. 

It depends on the angle you look at the polish to see either purple or green or even maybe both. It also depends on the lighting. It's best to try for yourself and be amazed.

Essence polishes come in a small 5ml bottle and is available in Australia for $2.55. Collection or trend polishes are usually $3.50

I think this picture captured the effect better then some of my other photos. 

Hope you enjoy

Designer Nails

Hey guys. Today I have designer nails for you. All your favourite brands are on my nails except Prada.... Oh and Armani. I few posts ago I said that I ordered a few things off eBay, well they are arriving. Today this arrived so I had to use it and I'm so pleased with how it turned out. When all my stuff arrives I will post pictures of everything I bought so that if you like, you can also buy. 

Things I used:

Essence- Where is the Party?

Image plate KD12

Konad special polish- white

BYS- Top coat

Jordana- Quick Shine Top Coat

I stamped a different logo or brand on each nail using my new image plate. For some weird reason my index finger tip looks like it has no polish but it's actually the lighting and my nail tip does have polish. The Chanel logo came out bad but that was my fault and not the image plate. Very happy how this turned out

Gucci was the only big stamp and that could only fit on my thumb but I'm totally cool with that. I really with the image plate had Prada and Armani bu sadly they don't. There is two versions of this image plate. An old one and a new one. The old one doesn't have Dolce & Gabbana and has another brand, some other picture is also different. The old ones are hardly available so your most likely to find the new image plate which is what I have

What do you think?

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate.

Born Pretty Store Water Decals

Today I have a review of Water Decals from the Born Pretty Store. These are used to decorate your nail just like nail art stickers. They come in a set of 11 small sheets as seen below for the cheap price of $4.73. Each sheet has roughly 20 decals each, which means you can use one sheet to do four hands or two full manicures.

How to use:

1. Peel of protective clear film

2. Dip water decal into water for 10-20 seconds

3. Stick nail decal onto nail

4. Dab dry with paper towel

5. Secure water decal with top coat

What I loved about this was the fact when the decal is wet you can move it around until you find the right spot. Once you find the right spot, dab dry with paper towel to stop decal from moving.

                         

Here you can see some of the water decals. The Born Pretty Store has many different sets of water decals so head over and pick the set that you like. As you can see in the picture above they are set in order of thumb to pinky. This can be seen in the hello kitty and snow white decals above. Starting from largest to smallest (thumb to pinky)

The polish here is Country Club Khaki by Orly with water decals from this set. I actually really like water decals after using them. You can say I like them more than nail art stickers since you have the flexibility to move them around. There is no difficulty with using these so that was good. The only thing that was a bit of a problem was removing the water decals from backing film once wet but that wasn't a huge problem and you will get used to it once you get the hang of it.

I've had this on my nails for a few days with top coat and it has stayed on and looks the exact same as day 1 of this manicure. I definitely recommend this for everyone and even beginner nail art people who want a simple way of decorating plain nails. Don't forget to use the code SADAFW21 for a 5% discount on bornprettystore.com

The product seen in this post was sent to me for review. In no way does it influence my review. Like always my review is 100% honest opinion

Orly- Country Club Khaki (review and swatch)

I'm such a liker for nude and beige polishes, so you can guess my excitement when I was sent Orly Country Club Khaki to review. Country Club Khaki is a creamy, milky nude-ish nail polish colour. I truely like this colour. Orly always seems to impress me. It's a subtle colour and very work appropriate. You can wear this polish anywhere and that's why I absolutely love beige and nude colours and the fact that they look awesome. it dried smooth and very shiny like every other Orly polish. Country Club Khaki  is completely streak proof and didn't require any clean up.

I only used 1 coat to achieve this look which really shocked me. It was completely opaque and didn't require a second coat. It was an added bonus since Orly nail polishes dry super quick. This manicure only took 10 minutes which included painting my nails and letting them dry. This is my quickest drying polish I have in my whole collection of polishes and not to mention one coater.

You've got to love a polish that only requires one coat, dries super quick and requires absolutely no clean up. I forgot to mention amazingly smooth and shiny. I've got to say its rare to find a polish that has all these qualities and I'm glad I did. For further information please head over to the Orly website at Orly

The product in this post was sent to me for review. In no way does it influence my review. Like always my  review is 100% honest opinion

Orly- Charged Up (review and swatch)

Today I have swatch and review for Orly Charged Up. Charged Up is a classic dark purple with an amazing shine. I've noticed with all Orly polishes that they have a great shine which I absolutely love. The drying time for the polish was great because by the time you finished your last finger, the first finger was already dry. When I use dark colours I always hate clean up as they stain your cuticles and skin but I had no problem cleaning up with Orly Charged Up. Applying was also a breeze so that was good. I've used I few Orly polishes before and now I can finally say that I really truely like Orly

Three coats was used to achieve this look however you can still get away with two coats as long as your second coat is not incredibly thin. The polish has a smooth and shiny surface once dry. No topcoat is used in the pictures. You don't need topcoat as it already has that incredible shine as if it has topcoat and seems to be lasting quite a while without topcoat.

I can definitely say that Charged Up is one of my favourite polishes. I recommend this polish if your looking for a dark and gorgeous polish as well as if your in a rush because I was amazed at its drying time.

Orly nail polishes are available in big 18ml bottles. For further information please visit Orly

The products seen in this post was sent to me for review. In no way does it influence my review. Like always my review is 100% honest opinion.

Newspaper/Love Letter nail art

I'm sure all of you have heard of newspaper nails where you using rubbing alcohol to transfer the newspaper words onto your nails. I've always wanted to try that but never had access to rubbing alcohol. Bundle Monster's newest set(third set 2012) has a newspaper/love letter looking stamp. I knew I had to do this. Sadly my plate BM-311 wasn't working but Bundle Monster kindly sent me new ones to make up for them. As soon as I received BM-311 again I got straight down to this.

Products I used:
Jordana- Base Coat
DearFace- Modern Gray 904
Konad special polish- Black
BYS- Topcoat
Orly- Fifty Four
Bundle Monster- BM-311 image plate

This picture is really just to show the shimmer/glowwy effect of Orly Fifty Four. As you can see Fifty Four is the polish bottle in my hand. This design needed a little sprucing up so I added Fifty Four. The camera didn't really pick up the effect of the polish but it looks much better in person. I applied two coats of fifty four.

I liked this design and was happy with it although the grey could have been  a little lighter. In al

 Pictures I have Orly's Fifty Four but they just aren't noticeable. This stamp requires you to scrap gently because the words are so small, if you scrap hard you will scrap all the polish from the words on the stamp

Everyone seemed very impressed when they saw this design. Someone even asked if I work in a nail salon because of this design. It all worked out very well and I'm glad I tried it.

Here you can see the shimmer a little better on my index finger. The shimmer picked up better when in a room with lights rather than in natural sun. The second and third photos was in the natural sun. My curtains pulled up so the sun can shine through and that really didn't help with the shimmer in the photos however in person when the sun shinned on my nails the shimmer was more noticeable. The first picture and this picture were taken in a room with lights and that showed the shimmer better in the photos

DearFace- Modern Gray 904 (Swatch)

Today I have a swatch of DearFace nail polish. I have never heard of DearFace but for $2 I had to get it. I really liked the grey colour. I saw this randomly near Woolies(Woolworths) when I went in to buy some water. They had a massive pile for sale at $2 each. I only picked Modern Gray up since a really needed a grey in that shade and the fact that I didn't know the brand made me a little fidgety in picking it up. Modern Gray is a classic grey with a creme colour look to it. It seems slightly on the dark side of grey. Application worked well but wasn't amazing and drying time was average. It is still worth the $2 I paid for it. After researching quite a few people seem to own and know this brand. Many people have swatches it on their blog. DearFace is an Asian brand and is made in Korea

The polish only require two coats to become opaque. The first coats is a little streaky and parts of the nail don't have much polish compared to other parts but everything evens out with the second coat. All the pictures shown are with two costs

The bottle shape is cute. At first I thought it was in a pumpkin shape but now I think it's in a crown shape  because the DearFace logo is a crown but I could still be wrong. If you wish to purchase this polish many          websites are selling it and even some blogs. I just happened to ran into a stall in front of woolies to find this.