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I Love Nail Polish Holo collection – Raspberry Beret, Chloé & Grande Sunset

Whilst preparing this post, I literally just saw in my Reader that WPP uploaded swatches from this collection yesterday ! Don’t look at hers though – they are way better than mine and I’ll totally feel inadequate !

I’ve not ordered from I Love Nail Polish before, but I’m so glad I did ! The bottles are a little smaller than usual (12ml / 0.4oz), but the formula and wear is just impeccable.

Dispatch was super speedy, and I just love the attention to detail. The bottle caps are matte and slightly rubbery, making them very easy to use with precision. The brushes are great, not too wide but very smooth and flattened. The polish dries pretty quickly, but self levels perfectlyn and the finish is very high-shine, wet look really !

All my swatches below are first under a mix of natural & incandescent lighting, then neon and lastly halogen.

 

Raspberry Beret is the most classic of the shades I ordered. It really is a perfect raspberry shade ! Being the darkest of the three I ordered, the holo effect is of course most pronounced in this one, under any lighting.

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I Love Nail Polish - Raspberry Beret

I Love Nail Polish - Raspberry Beret

 

Chloé is a medium-light cool lavendar. The holo could almost pass as silver dust under natural lighting, but it really does have a perfect spectrum !

I Love Nail Polish - Chloé

I Love Nail Polish - Chloé

I Love Nail Polish - Chloé

Grande Sunset is just about my favourite of the three – considering I love all of them ! It’s a little less covering than the others, but I really felt like it made my nails – and fingers – look super long! However, it’s not the same colour as my skin, it’s a deep apricot.

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The last two photos are both halogen light, I couldn’t choose between them :)

I’m afraid the latter two polishes are sold out right now, but I’m sure they’ll be back in stock soon!

What’s your favourite?

 

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Tuesday Tutorial – Triangles with Tape! *pic heavy*

Here’s my second Tuesday Tutorial for you, for the mani I did with Zoya – Dove last week.

First up, a collage for anyone in a rush (or with a huge screen!)

Steps 1-3Steps 4-6Steps 7-10

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Zoya Dove + nail art

I’m afraid the internet problems are still going on! I just turn on my computer and it will connect to the network, but not to the internet. The other half is a computer programmer and helped me with a temporary fix by setting up a second network, but that just wouldn’t work last night! Computer-Boy was busy with Gears of War, so  I rolled back all my drivers to the last time it worked… Nothing. Then, this morning, I undo the roll back, and all of a sudden I can connect to the original network again. Bizarro !

Anyways, I’ve only recently got into Zoya, when I discovered Veruschka. I’m a big fan of grey polish – and have totally realised that I have very few basic creme polishes in my stash – so the next one I went for is Zoya Dove. This one’s a throwback from the 2011 spring collection, but here in France there are like 3 online shops where you can get Zoya. None of them seem to have any new collections. Bad times :(

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Tuesday Tutorial – Leopard print (Acrylic)

Hey ladies!

I’m going to try and post tutorials on Tuesdays (just because I like the sound of Tuesday Tutorials). Well, we’re actually 2 hours into Wednesday now, but ho hum !

The first one I have for you is for a leopard print over a French mani. I used acrylic paint because it doesn’t smudge when you topcoat it :)

You can follow the collage (click through to zoom) or follow the instructions below…

Leopard French Tutorial

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April Challenge – Day 30 – Recreate

I’m really sad that this challenge is over! It’s been so much fun, and I’ve been very glad to discover some great new blogs :)

Today’s is ‘recreate’. Well, I don’t want to recreate one of my own manis, so I’ve copied Craftynail’s Ruffian mani. Click on the image below to check it out!

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First of all I tried using the same method as she did. I painted my nails black. Hours later, when it was dry, I added some mani stickers and then painted over with my neutral polish. And when I took the stickers off, it took off half the black… Great ! So I fixed that up and waited for it to dry. The neutral I used, Nice is Nice by Essie, then started to bubble! So with a lot of swearing, I took it all off again !

Then I started again, and put Nice is Nice on first. Then that dried, and I freehanded the flattish half-moons. Then I kept going, and went a bit overboard…

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Still, no bubbles this time, hah !

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… Check out the other entries by clicking on the image below !

Short and Sweet in Texas 30 Day April Challenge

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April Challenge – Day 29 – Inspired by a song

Only one day left to go ! Today’s challenge is “inspired by a song”. I was really stuck for this one, until I was trying to relax on my super-long commute, and this came on on my mp3 player : ‘Tessellate’ by Alt-J. Especially this bit (well, the only bit I know the words to):

Triangles are my favourite shape,
Three points where two lines meet,
Toe to toe back to back, let’s go,
My love, it’s very late;
‘Til morning comes; let’s tessellate

Cute, right ! And triangles, I can do triangles. Actually, I even managed to do triangles on my right hand too… Can’t begin to tell you how pleased I am about that !

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