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

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

You don't know Jacques Suede + Konad

Finally I got in the mail my bottle of OPI You don't know Jacques Suede version.
It's the first of that finish I own and I'm in love.
It needed only one coat to be completely opaque and dried very quick.

The downside of Suede finishes as well as Matte is that they get "shinny" quite fast.
You cannot use lotions and they wear off quicker than regular finish.

This polish is different from the regular version of You don't know Jacques, it's a golden brown tone with a gorgeous shimmer, beautiful in suede finish as with topcoat on.

I wanted to make this mani a bit more fancy and I decided to do some konad on it

I love how it looks like black lace over a piece of golden fabric...

I used:
Nail Tek Foundation II as Base Coat
You don't know Jacques Suede as Base Color
Konad Stamping Polish in Black pearl ( the flash makes it look blue)
Bundle Monster Plate nr. 20
Seche Vite as Topcoat

Besos,

Brenda