Hi guys, merry Christmas Eve! Today I've got the third and final (sort of) installment of the Ciaté Mini Mani Month Wrap Up. Days 22-24 will be in another odds and ends post.
First thing's first! Day 15- Headliner. Headliner is a gorgeous turquoisish blue that is opaque in 1-2 coats.
Day 16 is Big Yellow Taxi. Just your average yellow, not as bright as it looked on the back of the box, but still pretty nice. Opaque in 1-2 coats.
Day 17- Power Dressing. A deep navy blue jelly. Opaque in two coats.
Day 18- Candyshop Microbeads. Candyshop consists of gold, blue, and pink microbeads. Here I have them over Ciaté Cookies and Cream.
Day 19 is Cookies and Cream, how 'bout that? A tan creme, perfect skin color. It should be opaque in 1-2 coats.
Day 20 is one of the glitters exclusive to the Mini Mani Month Calendar, Magic Carpet. A pretty fuchsia glitter. This is one coat over Essie- Off The Shoulder.
Finally, Day 21- Fade To Greige. I'm not a big fan of this color, it's neither grey or beige, just a taupe creme. Two coats works best for good opacity.
That's it for today! I'll hopefully be swatching the new NOPI Kardashian Holiday Collection in my new lightbox I'm wishing to get tomorrow. So, if I don't see you tomorrow, Merry Christmas!
Hey guys! Today I've got for you some wonderful polishes from Pretty And Polished! I love Adventure Time and P&P's new collection is inspired by it! No, I'm not a complete nerd, but come on, it's Adventure Time! I couldn't bring myself to buy them all in a full size so I settled for the mini. These also just so happen to be my first Pretty And Polished polishes, and good ones at that.
Anyway, first thing's first. The Young Hero represents Finn the Human, the 13-year-old adventurer. This color consists of tiny yellow hexes, tiny blue hexes, slightly larger blue hexes, light blue squares, and large light green hexes all in a milky white base. This is one coat, with a little placement, over white.
Next up is Peebles. Peebles represents Princess Bubblegum, the genius ruler of the Candy Kingdom. This color is made of different sized yellow and pink hexes in a light pink jelly base. This is one coat over Essie Off The Shoulder.
Third is I'm Not A Banana! This color represents Jake the Dog, Finn's magical best friend. This color consists of large black hexes, large white hexes, and small white hexes in a yellow jelly base. Personally, I think if Jake as more of an orange dog, not yellow, but it's still a pretty cool color. Here I have one coat over Essie Fear Or Desire,
After that is King Of C-C-Cool. This is definitely one of my favorites of the collection. King Of C-C-Cool represents the Ice King, an evil wizard king who spends his free time capturing princesses. This color is made of tiny red glitter, medium blue and yellow hexes, large dark blur hexes, and some white diamond all suspended in a milky light blue base. Really pretty. This is one coat over Essie- Bikini So Teeny.
Next is Rainy Day Lady. Rainy Day Lady represents Lady Rainacorn, literally a unicorn with the body of a rainbow, and she speaks Korean. This color consists of medium fuchsia, yellow, blue, green, and silver hexes, transparent white squares, blue diamonds, and some larger red hexes in a clear base. This is one coat over Essie- Off The Shoulder.
The sixth piece in this collection is BMO Me Up. BMO Me Up is obviously based on the adorable little robot sidekick BMO. BMO Me Up is a smokey/silver grey microglitter base with super tiny blue flakes. This is one coat over Sally Hansen- Wet Cement, which was probably lighter than what I would've wanted.
This next color is Vampire Sing-a-long. Vampire Sing-a-long is based on Marceline, the vampire queen with a love of music and her axe-bass. This color consists of large black dots, medium purple hexes, small white hexes, black bars, and tiny white, red, and purple hexes in a clear base. I love this color, but there was a lot of glitter fishing for me. I wasn't able to get any black dots and got very few larger hexes. This is one coat over Sally Hansen- Wet Cement.
Finally, we have My Lumps. By far the best name of the collection. My Lumps is based on Lumpy Space Princess, the the lumpiest, sassiest princess of them all. this color is made up of purple and yellow shards, and some tiny purple hexes all suspended in a purple jelly base. This is one coat over OPI- Purple With A Purpose. Ring Fingeris Essie- Play Date.
And just to show you how awesome LSP is, I've decided to give you guys a little video of her finest moments:
You totally don'y have to watch them all, but some of them are pretty funny.
Hi guys! Sorry I haven't been on lately, but after this friday I'm out of school for two weeks and I'll be doing a lot of nails. Anyway, today I have another seven polishes from the Ciaté mini mani month calendar.
First up is day 8, Vintage. Vintage is a dark grey creme that's good in about two coats.
Next is day 9, Mistress. Mistress is a dark red jelly that's opaque in two coats.
Day 10 is Ladylike Luxe. Ladylike Luxe is a really cool gold glittery color, but it isn't really glitter. It also has a little silver shimmer mixed it too, although you can't see it on the nail. Two coats is good.
Day 11 are microbeads called Bumblebee. As you guess it's black and gold microbeads.
Day 12 is Twilight. Twilight is deep black jelly with gold shimmery flakes is it. Opaque in two coats.
Day 13 is Glass Slipper. This is one of the glitter colors exclusive to the calendar. Glass Slipper consists of super fine royal blue glitter. This is one coat over Essie- Bikini So Teeny.
Finally, day 14 is Speed Dial. Speed Dial is a mix between an orange and a coral jelly, but it leans more to the orangy side. Opaque in two coats.
That's it for today, I'll try to post more, but this calendar is keeping me pretty busy.
Zoe
Hi guys! Today I have my Julep December Box to review for you today! I have Ivy, Harper, and Vivien. If you want to become a Julep Maven and get your very own boxes, just go to this link -------------> http://www.julep.com/rewardsref/index/refer/id/50172/ and enter the code 3863244 at sign up. Every month you get about $60 dollars worth of nail stuff for just $20! Think that's awesome? Well now it gets better! Use the code JULEPVIP to get your introductory for just one cent!! I know, awesome! Anyway, the first color I have for you today is Ivy. Ivy is a dark blue micro glitter polish and when looked at at a very particular angle there's a slight purple shade. It's pretty, but when I say particular angle I mean, not in the sun, and with your nails parallel to the ground. To me it's just a meh color. This is two coats.
Next up is Harper. Harper is a teal jelly with teal iridescent hex glitter everywhere. It's a pretty color, but not that great. This is three coats.
Last, but certainly not least, is Vivien. Vivien is a gold shimmer with gold hexes. This is probably my favorite color of the three, it looks it looks like something you'd wear to a fancy party. This is one coat over China Glaze Fast Track.
All in all, this box was nice, but I'll probably only ever use Vivien again. That's it for today! Zoe
Hi guys! In case you didn't know, I got the Ciaté Mini Mani Month Advent Calendar. You open it every day for a new nail polish! It's so cool! Today I'm going to show you the first week of colors.
First is Cupcake Queen. Cupcake Queen is a deep fuchsia with a purple shimmer. It's very pretty, but pretty much the same as OPI Pompeii Purple, Julep Sandra, and Jesse's Girl Breathless, all of which I own. If you don't have those colors though, I'd recommend them over this, probably the OPI, because Ciaté is pretty over priced. Much like most things at Sephora.
Day 2 is Dangerous Affair. DA is a darker red, that's probably best with two coats. Nothing too special about this color, it's red.
Day 3 is Halo. Halo is a pretty blue/purple shimmer top coat. A bit like a polish I made, except mine had more purple. It's one of those colors that you can really only see over a dark color. Beautiful color, but smells super bad. I don't know what it was, but it was gross.
Day 4 is a mix of microbeads called Prom Queen. It's a mix of pink, silver, and blue beads and some silver glitter mixed in. There was a little packet that came with the calendar on how to use microbeads, and one of the ways you could use them was in a French Mani, which I thought was pretty cool, so I tried it, and was very happy with the results.
Day 5 is Cabaret. Cabaret is a deep plum creme, but it doesn't look quite as purple in artificial lighting.
Day 6 is is Angel Wings. Angel Wings is a silvery satin polish that shouldn't be worn by itself, but doesn't necessarily need a bottom color. If that makes sense. I put about 1 1/2 coats over Cabaret, and you couldn't even tell there was a purple under it. It would probably look best over a white or silver.
Finally, day 7 is Cutie Pie. Cutie Pie is a sheer pink jelly, much like OPI Privacy Please. I took some glitter dots I had and made a jelly sandwich. Probably not my best work, but it still looked pretty cool.
Hey Guys! Well, It's that time of year and you know what that means! This is normally the part where somebody breaks out into song, but I won't do that to you. Anyway, I love the holiday season because I get home in the afternoon, plug in the christmas tree lights, turn on the christmas music, and hop into my PJ's since I have nothing else to do that day. Weird? Maybe, but I do it anyways!
I'm sort of overloaded with stuff I have to swatch though, haha. So far I still need to swatch Nicole By OPI's Kardashian Holiday Collection, my Julep December Box, my Pretty and Polished Mathmatical! Collection, and I got that Ciaté Mini Mani Month Calendar that I vowed to swatch every day. Yes, yes, those will all be reviewed on here. I'm thinking of doing a weekly Ciaté "wrap up" too. Yes? No? Yeah I'll do it.
So you're probably wondering when I'm going to get to the nails. Well, they're here!
First up, I have nails inspired by the pajamas referenced earlier. My cutie patootie polar bear pajamas!
Just don't look at the ring finger, I messed up on the eyes.
And you just looked at it didn't you? Oh, well. I still think they're pretty cute. Don't you? The base color is Essie-Playdate.
Next up are just some generic christmas nails. Elf, Gingerbread house, Santa, Reindeer, Christmas Tree.
My friend actually told me to do these, so I did! Mu favorite is probably the Rudolph, how about you?
Hi guys! Sorry for slacking! But today I've got a lovely polish to show you! It's part of the latest OPI collection, the James Bond Skyfall collection. It is none other than the 18k gold leaf top coat The Man With The Golden Gun! *Cue dramatic music*
TMWTGG's gold flakes are pretty small, but there's enough that you can get everything on there in one coat. Now, this is a really beautiful polish, but super expensive. Are you ready for this? $30. Ya, luckily I got it as a gift! Here I have one coat over Essie- Butler please. Unfortunately, Butler Please is very difficult to paint evenly, it just doesn't spread out super well. Still super pretty though.
That's all for today! I'll hopefully have either a NOPI holiday collection review or Julep December box for you by the weekend!
