Contrasting the last post

Hello everyone,

I'm back here today with a (hence the post name)-- guess it -- yes, white! It is another older manicure and I just realized how far behind I am in posting, so I add some other pics today, too.
Here goes a nice Colorama white polish which is a cheapo and so-so in application.

Glossy (on its own) and matte (with Essie Matte About You).

The polish tends to thicken up real fast. 7.5ml. I finally obtained a thinner and now it's nice and has a great consistency. I really recommend everyone to look up for Colorama's since they do make some dupe-y polishes for such a bargain.

Here are some of the designs I tried on single nails, just to look how it'll look like.
This one was based on the design I saw@ The Lacquer Files. Colorama white, Rimmel Urban Princess, Avon Pastel Pink, and the green I can't remember.

This one -- made by tutorial @Nails By Asami.

And finally -- this one done by myself. A watermelon thing, using a several layers of jelly neon Orly Passion Fruit for the transparet-y squishy look, Orly Matte Vinyl for seeds on each layer of PF, SH Emerald City, Orly Enchanted Forest, China Glaze Limonyte, Rimmel Jade Glamour, China Glaze Paper Chasing for the cortex.

Please excuse the state of my cuticles! :)
Hope y'all enjoying your time.

A little bit random

Hello.

I thought it would be time for some rambling about this and that in my blog.
There are some thoughts I just feel like sharing with you.

Firstly, it annoys me so much, when some person just doesn't even try to say something meaningful, and by this I mean constructive, in their comment, just trying to force one to follow their blog. I mean this : "hello nice blog follow me cause I follow you" and things alike.
Well, girls. Nothing comes easy. I'm not here to gain more followers, I'm here for those, who come here and enjoy what I do. You see? THEY come. It's not me linkwhoring anyone. And that's why I'm so happy about each follower who stays there because likes my stuff.
That totally doesn't deserve any respect just to go and soulless-ly try to gain moremoremore followers to gain moremoremore comments.
Whew.
And another thing. About comments too, now about mine. Just as all (most) of you, sometimes I comment shortly and commonly, when I've nothing more to say than just how I feel about some polish. But sometimes, I guess even mostly, I take a little bit more of myself in my comments. And maybe that's just me, but I get so...say, offended, when some person just ignores it, "choosing" people whom to answer, and, of course, I'm never there. Yeah, I understand, there are a lot of people following and commenting some blogs, but when it's obviously possible to answer to each one, I get a little furious. Sure, that comes and goes pretty quickly, but it leaves a tiny "scar" on how I feel about that person. Ahaha, yes, I'm easily hurt.

And still not to get you so very bored of my annoyed talkings, there's some old manicure for you, that didn't actually last long, I've peeled it off the same day. You know why? It was so awfully made. But nonetheless, I've got a lot of compliments on this one.
This is Orly Gumdrop + Maybelline Colorama #104. Sorry for the pre-cleanup look, somehow I didn't get myself to take a normal photo of this one done.

Thanks for reading!

Don't make me angry

Hello, ladies.

This manicure is more than a week old. I've been inspired by myself beeing moody. Let the pics say everything:

The Good hand

 

do you see the crackled black?

 The Angry hand

I'm sorry for the blurriness of some and the state of the cuticles.
The good hand is black with ring finger white. Why ring? It's meant to be something sacred, you know what ring I'm talking about. Too bad it was my left hand, oh well...
The angry one is all about... well, I think it's needless to say what does it mean to have middle finger pop out. Even colorwise.
Black and red have stained my nails like hell. Like hell.
Black is one coat Matte Vinyl by Orly topped off with Sally Hansen - Black Out, glossy sheery black, which caused the lovely crackle effect, so matching.
Red is one coat Rimmel - Stiletto Red (blue based middle toned red) + another one coat of Rimmel - Ruby Me (sheer scarlet). White is two coats Maybelline Colorama #51.

I wore this for a little while, but I'll definitely do this again. For a longer time. 'Cause I think that it friggin' rocks.

Cheers.

Some comparisons//pic heavy//

Hello tout le monde!*

Long time no post, since I have much less time, got school, so I fill in my free time with coffee cups and sleep. But who cares about me, anyways! :)
Let's get to the business. I promised to make some comparisons. This is actually my first time to do it, so all the recommendations are highly welcome.

This one was questioned by me long time ago, One of them was my favourite colour in 4th grade, so it's exxxtremely old. The other one was bought a little less than a year ago (not sure), because I'm a sucker for this kind of colours.
I found them dupes back then. Now look what I got:

1 thick coat Orly It's Up To Blue :index+ring
1 coat Avon Ocean Breeze: middle+pinkie

here you see the opacity. Avon is much more sheer, it needs about 3-4 coats.
And you definitely will be fine even with one thick orly coat.

this is still one coat orly versus 3 coats of avon. In real life, Avon is much lighter and less deep, I wish I could make more colour-accurate pics...

I love the depth of Orly. Anyway, that avon shade is long gone :)

2004! Haha!

I used Avon one over sephora's blue, which totally died by now. It was a quite long time ago...

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Next up: Rimmel Blue me away VS. SH Spark

 Rimmel: index+ring
SH: middle + pinkie
They seriously looked alike to me. But they are totally not! SH looks more purple-shimmered in the bottle, but that shimmer is not that visible. It's loads of blue shimmer mixed with slightly larger purple one. Or not larger. Not sure! Rimmel is packed with copper-violety shimmer. What they have in common is the base : both dark rich blue, both very pigmented, SH is more. 1 Coat SH, 2 coats Rimmel.

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SH Emerald City VS ChG Paper Chasing

These two looked a bit similar. But even in the bottle  the difference is obvious.

SH: Index+ring
ChG: Middle+pinkie

Paper Chase is sheer like hell. This is 4 coats.
Emerald city is pretty opaque, this is two coats.
PC is lighter and brighter, EC is deeper, forest green.

That's all for now. I'm extremely sorry for the mess.
Hope something helps!

Have a great day.
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*tout le monde - everyone (fr.)

The autumn is here!

Hello lovely ladies! Can you feel the autumn tonight? :)
In the continuation of the rainbow theme, there's another mani I found pretty interesting.
Straight to the pics!

Skychaser! :)
This was a semi-rainbow angled tips on matte black. This is day three, I guess.
Matte black is Orly Matte Vinyl, my pretty one-coater, if I'm not shaky.
Tips: Thumb - China Glaze Paper Chasing (will be posting this one later on alone!), Index - Orly It's Up To Blue, Middle - Sally Hansen - Blue It, Ring - Sally Hansen Cyber, Pinkie - Maybelline Colorama in magenta shimmer (unnamed). These all are 3-4 coats I believe. Paper Chasing is pretty known for its ridiculous sheerness.
I didn't take pics right after the mani was done and fresh, my bad, but I wanted to rejuvenate the actual look. You know mattes get satin pretty fast.
So here are the pics with one coat of Essie Matte About You + Orly Top2Bottom for tips compared to the "worn" look.

See the difference? It's pretty obvious. But I don't really mind the three-days-old look too.

The look on them really cheered me up when I was sad.

There was a City Day on 4.09. The photo kind of reminded me of it. Happy Birthday Moscow!

Have a great day!

Oh hai skool.

Hello mesdames!
Forgive the dorky post name, this is just the way I feel now. School has started. No more sleep right till 2pm (Mythbusters...*slaps self*).
Just exclusively for yesterday I've made a special mani, which was fun and I got lots of compliments on it. It's totally imperfect, with a lot of mess... Well, you'll see.

This one says "11th V" , my class (or however you call it). Yes, it's a russian V, equal to C. Going third in the alphabet. I've been in a G class for most years (D), then one year in A (A. duh) and now V. I've always wanted to be in a B one! It's quite funny I've been in every class but my favourite. :))

Right hand. Index : 1.09.10
Middle: MDXXVII (1527) my school's number
Ring: a bell
Pinkie: |||| |||| | for 11

Messy thumb. sinα/cosα=tgα

Left hand. Pinkie: binary code (absolutely random)
Ring: paragraph symbol
Middle: E(o)=mc^2
Index: abc

The polishes I used are Orly Enchanted Forest, for a blackboard green, almost black and black looking in some lighting and a white colorama. All drawn with shaky hands (man, do I need sleep) with a toothpick.

I had fun with this one.

Thanks for reading and let there be sunshine in your soul!

Seize the rainbow!

Hello girls!
The summer is over. While painting my nails "1st Sept." special, I've decided to make a quick post. Ocassionally, it's the 13th post, which was kind of meant to be not like the most others. :)

This one was made by request. It's bright and cheering, but I did take it off because it doesn't actually look that fun on long nails IMO. But certainly the mani like that IS FUN!!!
Here you go!

| Orly - Matte Vinyl, ||| Rimmel - Ruby Me, | Sephora - ? , |||| Colorama - 82, || SH - Emerald City, |||| Orly - Green With Envy, || SH - Blue It, || SH - Cyber, || Orly - Soul Mate, | Colorama - 51
(| - coat)

Sorry for some mess!
Here it is nail-by-nail.

Pics are all clickable!

CELEBRATE THE LAST SUMMER DAY!:)))
Cheers at all of you, be happy!

Just guess what I've been frankening...

...hmm, a warm grey with creamy undertones.
Sounds familiar? Let's have a look.

 I think you already get the idea, yep? If you're not, let's go further.

Does that remind you something? :)

Yes! It's a Waking Up in Vegas franken! Go eat a candy if you guessed it right.
I've never seen the shade before I saw it on... well, I think you know who I'm talking about :)
And somehow it GOT me SO HARD, I couldn't resist but try how could it look on me. (DL don't ship outside USA and is pretty expensive, such a pity)
This is Orly Mirror Mirror + Avon Vanilla Shake mix. I'm not sure if I got the shade right, but it's how it looks to me. The swatches all round the nailnet differ from eachother like hell.
Actually, I've been searching for a look-a-like shade, really wanted Essie Body Language to be the lighter version to it, but it's just so pink. AND this franken looks a tad mauve, WTF. Maybe because MM is kinda bluebased or that sort of thing? I don't know. Still it looks real cooool (not in terms of tone) to me.

With my grandma's ring. I love it so much. Any huge rings fans out here?

Now onto the formula. It needed three coats too look pretty opaque, but at some angles it still doesn't look so. But I don't care. Really. I don't. Because just look how FAT at the tips it is! How would it look with a fourth coat? No, seriously, imagine. Gross.

Sorry for the dehydrated cuticles, remover killed them. Now they're all restored and pretty again!
Ah yes, don't buy orly's little bottles. They suck. I have less than 1/2 of the bottle and totally can't get any normal amount of polish out. Sec'n'dry topcoat in my case. And it smells ew-alicious. Any recommendations on safe and not stinking quick dry topcoats?

Thanks for reading and happy polishing!

Dream-coloured.

Hello ladies!
Have you ever saw a certain colour in a dream? This one appeared in front of my eyes while I was sleeping...With a certain track.


I wondered how do I make this colour come true. Then I find this...

Orly Fantasea!

I was in love at the first sight.

Since it's sheer, I knew I had to make a layering. This is two coats of blue-based Orly Charged Up + one coat of warm purple based copper shimmer Orly Fantasea.

 

You can see how the shimmer hides and shows up at different angles. More obvious here:

I just love that effect! It turns from warm to cold.

Plus, you have a maaaajor purple fan here. *waves frantically*

Next to some yummy avon eau de toilette in make me wonder.

And with a matching pendant :)

What are your thoughts on this one, girls?

Orly - Cashmere Cardigan

Hey there!
When I first saw this one, my first thought was: this would look gorgeous. Well I'm a major fan of violets, this one is more periwinkle, and it's beautiful. To the pics!

indoors, indirect sunlight

sunlight

The application was awesome. I didn't like Orly brush much, mut I seem to get used to it. Got a few bald spots though. This was 2 coats with Orly Top2Bottom as a base and Sec'n'dry topcoat. You might need a third (as I should have done it).
Somehow when I saw it on my nails I thought of a purple lotus... here's the ref found in the net and my failed "lotus" :)

well, it didn't turn out right :)

Aaaand then I thought it could look amazing with some iridiscent shimmer...hmm.
I'll be swatching this one later, I'm pretty excited about it...

with flash

under the lamp

 

Looks pretty, doesn't it?