Wednesday, February 23, 2011

New goodies!

A while ago I found a local (dutch) site that sells all the nail polish brands I like and made some picks. I wanted to try getting polishes here since buying them online from USA can take a while for delivery and this site counts with the polishes I wanted to get.


I was looking for good non konad stamping polishes and a couple of colors I was craving for.

For konading I picked from China Glaze Khrome and Romantique Collections:

2030, Adore and Harmony (I purchased from a USA site China Glaze Millenium also in the photo)






And from Color Club:
Snakeskin (Untamed Luxury Collection)
and the popular Revvvolution from the Femme Fatale Collection (which many blogs claim to be the closest dupe to the holographic almost imposible to find version of OPI My private jet) I have the regular one and still find it a beautiful color, but definitely the other one is just perfection.




And a big bottle of black Konad stamping polish.









The site is www.nailpolishfashion.nl

I liked that they give you the option of choosing for package sending costs or regular post envelope (under your own risk). This can make your order much more cheaper. Delivery was quick and well packed.

I'm very happy with my picks...how do you like them?

Besos,


Brenda

Monday, February 21, 2011

Seche Vite & Seche Restore...the golden duo

Sometimes I think and I just can't remember how was life before Seche Vite fast drying Top Coat :D

Doing nails was kind of a tedious long wait until you were able to start doing things without ruining your freshly made manicure.

I discovered Seche through blogs and youtube gurus and found it here in some e-tailers in Holland, but at quite high price compared to USA.


So my Ebay adventure started.




I found the Seche Vite Professional Kit at a great price (around 20 euro included shipping) if compared with the 6 euro that costs the small bottle here. The kit contains one 14ml Seche Vite bottle, a 118ml glas bottle and a plastic nozzle. I refilled my bottle around 4 times already and I haven't used half of the big one yet. 







Also I purchased the Seche Restore Professional Kit. The kit contains a glass bottle containing 59ml of Restore and a drop dosificator.
Restore is a polish thinner. I had some bottles that were all goopie and not good enough to do my nails since were just too thick to apply them evenly.


Also the fact that Seche Vite top coat gets thicker after a while, so I wanted to give it a try.


I have a beautiful glitter polish from Art de Lautrec, which after a couple of applications became very thick and difficult to apply







I added to the polish bottle between 5 to 8 drops (depends of how thick the polish is, you have to try and keep addding as needed) and rolled the bottle between my hands.




It worked wonders! as the name says, it restores the original consistence of the polish.




I am very pleased with this two products. They deliver what they offer, a ultra quick dry and shiny top coat and a great polish thinnner.


Now I'll keep "restoring" the bottles that need it...just an excuse to look around my little treasures :D


Have a good one!


Besos,


Brenda





Sunday, February 20, 2011

NOTW: Sexy Leopard !!!

This sexy design is inspired on a tutorial by Brooke
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjTjfmrQer0

From the China Glaze OMG collection I own 2 bottles:

DV8 and BFF
and I'm just crazy about holographic polishes since then. Bad that they are limited edition and can be quite pricey to find them on Ebay.



(photo taken under fluorescent light without flash)


This are things I used to achieve it:

 The plate is number 57 

 

I used Konad Special Polish in black
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(photo taken with flash)



I finished this manicure with a nice thick coat of Seche Vite.
How do you like this design?

Besos,

Brenda

Nicole's Fave

I got this beauty as a birthday present, came as part of a set with a gorgeous purple which I'll swatch soon. My first two Nicole by OPI polishes.

Consistency was good, dried very quick and only needed 2 coats to be completely opaque.



photo taken under fluorescent light without flash



photo taken with flash


natural light without flash
(and most accurate color photo)


Is this your fave too?

Besos,
Brenda


Sunday, February 13, 2011

Scandalously Polished Giveaway!!!!

Hallo Everyone!

Scandalously Polished is hosting a giveaway of Zoya Polishes and other great goodies!!!




You can enter here


The giveaway ends on St. Patrick's Day.

Good luck!

Besos,

Brenda