For the love of DS Glamour

I've got another blue for those who love blue as much as I do! I love OPI DS Glamour so much, I couldn't resist on using it for this design. A simple chevron french; blue on blue with a touch of glitter.

Indoor, Flash

Indoor, Natural light, no flash

Indoor, Flash

Base Coat: OPI Nail Envy

Base Color: NYX Ink Heart

Tip Design: OPI DS Glamour & NYX Ink Nail Art in Crystal Glitter

Top Coat: OPI RapiDry TopCoat

Note: NYX Ink Heart is a creme finish but because I used OPI RapiDry when my mani wasn't completely dry yet, the brush picked up some of the holo glitters from DS Glamour making Ink Heart look like a glitter/shimmer polish which sorta gave it a nice effect on the overall mani.

**Images are clickable**

Have a great weekend everyone!

♥, Kristine

OPI DS Glamour IP m39

I've been on a blue streak lately I hope you don't mind. Whenever I buy polishes, for some odd reason, I tend to buy blue one way or another. It's not like I think it looks great on me or anything; I think I buy them because blue is just a pretty color period. So I need to at lease use my untried polishes and make use of them. It would be sad to seem them collect dust. Here's a quick mani for you:

Indoor, Flash

Base Coat: OPI Nail Envy

Base Color: None

Tips: OPI DS Glamour (French Chevron)

Konad IP m39 w/ Konad Special Polish in white

Top Coat: Seche Vite

Hope you liked it =)

♥, Kristine

OPI Ogre-the-top Blue with IP m71

Hi all! I'm finally back to stamping! After my son lost my konad stamper, I've been slacking in purchasing a new stamper but I finally got one here's what I used it for:

Indoor, Daylight

Indoor, Daylight

Base Coat: OPI Nail Envy

Base Color: OPI Ogre-the-top Blue

Konad IP m71 w/ OPI Yoga-ta get this blue

Embellished with rhinestones 

Enjoy =) Have an awesome weekend!

♥, Kristine

OPI DS Coronation striped pattern mani

I don't know what I was trying to achieve on this one but I think it turned out pretty good. Would you call this a striped pattern? I couldn't come up with a better name for it but anyway, this holographic beauty is from OPI's Designer Series called Coronation. A bright silver holo. I actually like it just at two coats where it's somewhat sheer but I went ahead and did three nice coats on this one.

Direct Sunlight

Outside, Shade

Direct Sunlight

Base Coat: OPI Nail Envy

Base Color: OPI DS Coronation

Nail Art: NYX INK nail art in Black

Top Coat: Seche Vite

♥, Kristine 

Milani Cyberspace & Konad IP m63

If you haven't tried Milani's line of 3D holographic nail polishes, what are you waiting for? I only have two and I love them both! I stamped it for fun with konad's IP m63 using OPI Ogre-the-top Blue. These photos were all taken indoors.

Window

Shade

Flash

Enjoy! Hope you had a great weekend!

♥, Kristine

You Don't Know Jacques & Chocolate Taupe Dupe? (Picture Heavy)

NYX's Chocolate Taupe a dupe for OPI's You Don't Know Jacques? Let's see and find out:

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On the Spotlight

NYX Chocolate Taupe

Base Coat: OPI Nail Envy

3 coats, No top coat

Day Light, Indoors, No Flash

Day light, Indoors, with Flash

OPI You Don't Know Jacques

Base Coat: OPI Nail Envy

No Top Coat

Day light, Indoors, No flash

Day light, Indoors, with flash

Looking at the photos separately, you would say that these aren't dupes because one is darker than the other. So I decided to put them together side by side to really see the big difference. Base Coat: OPI NE and no topcoat.

Indoors, no flash

Day light, indoors, with flash

They looked pretty much the same to me. The finish was almost the same except for YDKJ had a higher shine than CT. If you look real close though and stare at it for a while, you'll notice that YDKJ is slightly darker than CT. But seriously, I could go out and where it together like this and no one will notice! Unless it's someone with a magnifying glass observing every detail on my nails, then I'd be really weirded out..wwwaaayyy too close to my personal space. The verdict? I'd say they're dupes. Yay! A $1.59 bottle (NYX) comparable to a $8.50 bottle (OPI)!

So what do you think? Do you have in your stash a possible dupe that might compare to YDKJ?

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And here, a little mishap with my sneaky two year old boy.

So I just finished swatching these colors and left my polish on my table. My son feeling sneaky, takes my YDKJ polish, sees me eying him out, and tries to hide it behind his back. I asked him for it back nicely but he thought it would be fun to make a run for it. And OMG, did he run... into our warehouse, drops the polish by accident, and comes running back in the house with a sad look on his face knowing he's gonna get it from me. I already figured what happened and went to access the scene and this is what I saw...

I was sooo sad... 

The poor polish didn't even have a chance to fully cover all my nails! 

I wanted to scold and yell at my son but was too sad to do that. But then I saw my bottle of Chocolate Taupe...((smiles & shrugs)). I couldn't get mad at my two year old over a broken bottle of polish (even at the cost of $8.50 + tax). He saw how sad I was and gave me hug and told me sorry. On the brighter side of things, I have Chocolate Taupe to keep me happy for a while before I buy another bottle of YDKJ, and I was able to swatch it for you before it broke.

Have a Happy Hump-Day Wednesday! Friday is halfway there! =)

♥, Kristine

My "little hand" model

My niece KL (3 yrs old) was over at my place the other day and saw how cute her little painted toenails were. Her fingernails were bare and I felt like polishing nails (which is almost everyday!). I can't go a day or two without changing my nail color. Sometimes, I admit, I peel my polish on purpose just so i can take them off to put something new on...(unless I really love the color ^_^). Anyway, this is what i put on her-- OPI in Elephantastic Pink and I topped it off with Seche Vite Top Coat (my fave top coat when I'm on the go) which dries super fast since I knew she'd be running around soon after. KL was such a trooper! She kept really still and didn't bother with the application until it was dry. Aren't her little fingernails just the cutest! I love her!

OPI in Elephantastic Pink
Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat

This on the other hand, was my nail polish for the past two days. Before that, I had just the Essie in Licorice (which I love. Black matches anything ;)) I decorated it because I noticed that it was slowly chipping since I'm fairly rugged with my hands and nails (which I know isn't good. yikes) I actually did this in the car with some Bon Bons nail polish in a pink color and silver (there's no name on it) and simmered it up with NYX Ink Nail Art in Silver Glitter which by the way, I got on sale for $1.49! (yay! for sale items!). I basically did horizontal stripes on the left and right side of each nail and layered the colors together. I wasn't trying to be perfect which made this even more fun :) & I modeled it with my MAC Select Sheer Foundation.

Essie in Licorice
Bon Bons in a Pink & Silver color

NXY Ink Nail Art in Silver Glitter

Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat

Hope you enjoyed this! I'll try to take pictures of the NYX Ink Nail Art and post that and maybe do a review on it since I haven't really tried it yet (I'm no pro at nail art and can't think of any cool designs of my own) so we'll see. =)

♥, kg.pinkypromise

Nail polish crazy...

I was searching random things on the web one day and came across a bunch of nail polish pictures. From there, I searched more...and more...and more. I spent hours glued to my computer (which was very unproductive but so satisfying);P! Here are some swatches I did on my nails:

essie in Pop Art Pink (3 coats)

essie in Licorice (3 coats)

Nicole by OPI in Blue Lace

The two Essie, I absolutely LOVE, LOVE, LOVE! First coat applies a little streaky but as you apply the second and third coat, it evens out. It's super shiny even without a top coat. The Nicole by OPI on the other hand, I love the colors that they offer, but compare this to the original OPI brand nail polish, hands down, OPI takes it. Only because Nicole sometimes tends to be streaky and wearing it alone, it doesn't give the kind of shine OPI and Essie has.

Today, I am wearing Essie in Licorice. =)

I hope you enjoy this as much as I enjoyed swatching it for you!

♥, kg.pinkypromise