NOTD: Essence Passion For Fashion

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Ah, there's nothing better than a pretty purple colour on my nails. Today I get to show you such a colour, one of my faves, Essence Passion For Fashion, a nice medium creme purple. I'm wondering, for those of you who have easy access to the Essence line, which are must have colours?

The formula was normal to apply and dry, this is 3 coats. I only wish that the bottles for these were bigger. 

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NOTD: Golden Rose Classic Metallic No.10 fauxnad fail

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I know that most of the stamped design manicures I post seem to be ones that turn out pretty well, but the reality is that not all of them do. There's no reason to hide when stuff doesn't work and as much as I like showing you designs that are ok, I need you to know that some fail, like today's. 

I used Golden Rose Classic Metallic No.10 as the base and then stamped with Yssy No.3, using a plate BM-225.

  I really liked the base I used in this mani, if you missed it, see it HERE. I've also used this Bundle Monster stamp before and it worked out great, see it HERE. So I thought that I'd give this design another try.

 I thought that the dark base would look awesome with light over it, creating a nice contrast, but as you can see the white kind of blobbed on there and streaked when I put top coat on, so the end result just isn't what I wanted. Oh well, the idea is to keep experimenting, right?

Bundle Monster plate BM-225.

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My Birthday Giveaway WINNER announcement

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I'm excited to announce the WINNER of 

My Birthday Giveaway!

To remind you of the prizes, there were 4 Wibo lacquers

+

MaxFactor Fantasy Fire!

Prize details:

Wibo Express Growth No.49

An emerald green with gold micro flakes (see swatch HERE)

Wibo Express Growth No.345

A purple/green duochrome (see swatch HERE)

Wibo Express Growth No.354

A magenta with blue micro shimmer (see swatch HERE)

Wibo Express Growth No.355

A medium blue metallic (see swatch HERE)

As a bonus none other than MaX Factor Fantasy Fire!

NOW FOR THE WINNER!

READY?!

It's Michaela 

of 

Nail Polish Anon

How fun, a fellow nail blogger!

CONGRATULATIONS!

NOTD: My Secret Midnight No.150 + Seventeen Supreme 81 + BM-212

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Today I want to show you one of the Bundle Monster stamp designs I've yet to use, it's on Bundle Monster plate BM-212. 

I started with My Secret Midnight No.150, see the swatch HERE, then I stamped it with Seventeen Supreme 81, with design from Bundle Monster plate BM-212.

 I thought that this awesome blue needed some silver added to it and I wanted to create sort of a reverse funky french mani, like I did HERE, but in the end I must admit, I just don't know.... it didn't turn out the way I though it would.

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My haul in Portugal part 3

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I love being able to travel and show you some foreign lacquers that I've been finding along the way. Since I receive so many questions about where I find them, I try to tell you the locations to my best abilities. Today I want to show you my latest haul in Portugal. If you've missed my KIKO haul in Aveiro, click HERE.

While in the pretty city of Aveiro, before getting to the KIKO store, I saw a store that just begged for me to check it out and am I ever happy I did. 

This is the store front, it's called Pluri Cosmetica.

 In there I found a local Portuguese brand, Andreia. Here's a display photo. I took it quickly, as I wasn't sure if that was ok with the SA's in there. Their English was limited and I didn't want to bother getting into a long explanation.

There were a few colours from this brand that I just had to pick up, so I got:

L-R-> Andreia No.7, Andreia No.92 (see swatch HERE), Andreia No.105

 While checking out, I also found some Golden Rose Holographics at the counter, wee!! Yes, I was happy to see these, so I picked up:
L-R- Golden Rose Holographic No.119, Golden Rose Holographic No.107, Golden Rose Holographic No.120, Golden Rose Holographic No.102

During my shopping around, I walked into a few Chinese stores, they literally carry everything and of course I picked up a few lacquers.

L-R-> Yssy No.19, Yes Love No.292, Yes Love No.613

As if that wasn't enough, before I left Portugal, I had the pleasure of going to city of Porto. While there I saw what was the equivalent of a European dollar store... 

 ... and how fun is it seeing this description? How many of you know what it says? Doesn't matter, they had lacquer in there!

I picked up some awesome colours by this brand I've never heard of, Leticia Well. Do any of you know it? Try it? I am wearing No.459 and it's great!

L-R-> Leticia Well No.472, Leticia Well No.470, Leticia Well No.459.

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NOTD: Layering experiment

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What do you get when you layer a flakie over fauxnad stamping over a magnetic lacquer? This, one of my layering experiments!

It took these three lacquers to make this experiment happen. 

L-R-> Ingrid Magnetic Magic No.6, Seventeen 81, Essence Nail Colour 3 City That Never Sleeps

For those who missed it, I was sort of experimenting by stamping over a magnetic lacquer in a monochromatic style a while back, see more HERE. 

But as much as I liked it, I really wanted to add a bit of something to it, so why not add Essence City That Never Sleeps, a purple jelly based green/blue shifting flake, so awesome!

I'm really loving how all the lines became purple yet you can still see the design underneath. What do you think?

In the close up, you can see that Essence City That Never Sleeps is not just a green/blue flake, but that it has pink microflakes. Click on any image to view larger.

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NOTD: Sensique Sky Over Silk Road No. 265 + BarryM Cyan Blue + BM-208

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I've been so distracted lately with all my traveling that I've not been posting what I want to post. For example it's been a while since I posted a stamped design and I always have new ones, so here's one today.

 I know that since I've been running around Europe, collecting lacquers and showing you my creations, some of them might be foreign to you, so I like to show bottle shots. In today's case, I started with the base being Sensique Sky Over Silk Road No. 254 (on the left) and then stamped with BarryM Cyan Blue (on the right).

If you've missed it, I got Sensique in Poland along with others from their line, see it HERE, they are really great in my opinion.

I used Bundle Monster plate BM-208. A simple design, but I think it works with a matte lacquer on top of one that has shimmer and is a bit of a duochrome. What do you think?

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Next blog roll!

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Today's a short post for you all, my next blog roll! I know some of you love seeing new blogs to peruse, so here are some that I have come across recently. 


<< Week 17 >>
Caitlin's Creative Corner
Fab Fingertips
Makeup Withdrawal
Nails Ink
pictura pe unghii
Pshiiit
Sincerely Stephaniee
Sparkly Dots
Spektor's Nails
The Nail Buff


If you want to see more blogs, there are previous ones I have found in a tab on the top, called BLOG ROLL or see some more at the very bottom of my blog, ones written by my fellow Canadians, ones written by my fellow redheads and also by my fellow Polish girls. Enjoy!

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NOTD: Catrice Marilyn & Me

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I've noticed that one of the most popular posts on my blog here is this one HERE, a stamped manicure. Since it is popular, I figured I'd post the base of that mani, which is Catrice Marilyn & Me.

This is a very bright lacquer and very out of the norm for me, mainly because it's a jelly but also because it's a red, so I thought I'd give it a try for something different. 

The formula is great as most Catrice lacquers I've tried so far. I did use 3 coats, it dried in normal time. This one being a jelly, you can of course see the VNL, which may not be for everyone, but the fine glitter in it is real pretty.

In the close up, you can really see the glitter, plus some gold shimmer.

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