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Showing posts with label Essie Matte About You. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Essie Matte About You. Show all posts

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Sparituals: Sacred Ground, Howl, Blue Moon and Spirit Child

Sacred Ground and Howl
Blue Moon and Spirit Child

These lacquers applied beautifully as usual. 2 coats needed to get to bottle colour and these are without topcoats. Already shiny and they even out very well too!

I had to alter the colour a little to get the correct red. The sunshine on the lacquer made it shiny and freaked out my camera =.=
You should be able to detect some golden shimmer amidst the red, making it very sparkly under the sun.

Definitely not a usual red shimmer. I quite like this against my skintone too... 

Howl and Blue Moon

Blue Moon is not a simple blue. Look at that! Purple, gold, brown-ish shimmers. These are micro shimmers to be exact. Unlike the ones in Break of Dawn or Strength (the Zoya Faye lookalike)

*faints*

Howl
Gorgeous dark chocolate base with copper shimmer. 
The colours in Howl remind me of China Glaze Metro collection's Midtown Magic! And perhaps there's no direct correlation but... :/ 

Sacred Ground
Gorgeous greyish colour. This isnt gritty at all! Applies like a polish laden with multi coloured shimmer. With a greyed base of course. 
Very special to me. And compared to Hard Candy's Mr Wrong, this is like sparkly in the sun and has no purple base. 

one last look at them without topcoat- all glossy and shiny...

With Essie's Matte About You topcoat.

Spirit Child mattified
Blue Moon mattified
Howl mattified
Sacred Ground mattified
How do you liked them matted?




Thursday, August 25, 2011

SpaRitual Twinkle Collection 2011 - Illumination, Solstice and Shooting Star

Solstice
2 coats, no topcoat
Solstice- Mattified with Essie Matte About You
A gorgeous yellow gold glittery polish. This isnt made up of the gritty yellow glitter either, but it is laden with chunkier shimmer than the ones we see in OPI The One that Got Away for example.

Was afraid it wont go with my skintone but I am surprised it does that look all that bad! I will probably use this for nail art base.

Still shimmery with a matte coat on. I love it better matte :)

Shooting Star.
2 coats.
Reminds me of OPI Ink but more purple than blue. It is actually more glowy than what my camera could capture. A jewelled shade for sure.

Shooting Star mattified with Essie Matte About You


I love this matte look too! Makes the pink shimmer pop more. 

Illumination
3 coats.
Not your average silver glitter.
Round silver glitter and smaller holographic glitter that almost gave a holographic rainbow shine in the sun. Looks more silvery under indoor lighting though.

Illumination mattified with Essie Matte About You
Cameras catch such glitters better if their shine is blocked with a matte coat :P You can see the particles more clearly here. Coverage in 3 coats is pretty good!

All together now:
outdoor/natural light
no topcoat
indoor light
no topcoat
outdoor/natural light
matte topcoat applied

So now, which do u like more? :)


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Sunday, December 12, 2010

Xmas Manicure #3: Christmas Trees/Forests :P + Pseudo-Xmas Manicure #4 :P




 Did the gradient look with Daiso nail art striper in green. The tip is a nice dark green jelly from Sasatinnie... and the green holo is from a Daiso nail art striper too :) The stars kinda stuck out the whole time even thou I used Seche Vite. Anyone with tips? :)
Using the Funky Fingers lacquer I showed in the previous post, I did it with China Glaze's Kiwi Coolada :) Sorry the neon didnt show up!

 Mattified the FF :)


Mattified the Kiwi Coolada :P 

Here's Mr Stompy with his 'log house' for the winter holidays :P Plus a new smaller cage for him! He gets to roam around more :)