Summer nail art dotticure and review & swatches of China Glaze Aquadelic

Hello lovelies!

Just before I go to holiday our landlord scheduled changing of the windows *slaps her forehead*...that's exactly what I need - three days of moving furniture and cleaning instead of packing and last minute shopping. 

Today I have for you another dotticure. That's because today's Summer Challenge theme is Turquoise, Aqua or Jade - Freestyle Day. 

For this manicure I've used China Glaze Aquadelic, A England Camelot and Essie Mint Candy Apple.

China Glaze Aquadelic - aqua blue creme shade. It's a really lovely colour I adored on my nails, so summery! It applied ok, the only thing I had problem with were patches in the first coat. Second coat evened everything out . Polish dried fast and removal was super easy.

Two nail art manicures featuring SpaRitual, A England and Essie!

Hello lovelies,

Today I have TWO manicures in one post! Why? Because I've created these two manicures for a jewellery e-shop Talullah Tu. They sell some really interesting pieces.

The first manicure I've created is a simple two-tone gradient manicure using SpaRitual Color Trip and Illume. I've reviewed both shades previously here and here.

This second manicure reflects Talullah Tu's e-shop colour scheme and their logo - black bow. I thought it was rather cute logo so I incorporated it into my design. I've added silver stamping to add a femininity and shine to it. I've used Essie Nice Is Nice, A England Camelot and A England Excalibur.

I also have a ring from Talullah Tu which I'm showing on the two pictures below.  It's a very cute enamel butterfly wing decorated with sparkling aurora crystals.

So what do you think? How are my first amateur hand modelling pictures? :D

Retro Waves & Dots manicure with tutorial! Featuring China Glaze, OPI and Essie

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I'm so excited to show you these nails! They are kinda retro funky and they are also my Beach Towel manicure for the Summer Challenge. I really loved them on me so I wore them for four days and skipped on swatching :D I created a tutorial as well so you can give it a try! I'd love to see your recreations so feel free to share it on FB or let me know in the comments :)

For this manicure I've used Essie No More Film as a base colour, OPI Fly and China Glaze Sweet Hook for the side colours and dots.

You like? I did! :D

 

Chevron manicure with Essie Navigate Her and Olé Caliente

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Today I have just a quick chevron nail art inpired by Sarah from Chalkboard Nails and her Heart Fishtails manicure. It's beautiful and sunny weather so I'm swatching rather then writing long blog posts :)

I've used two new Essie Spring colours from Navigate Her collection - Navigate Her and Olé Caliente and Seche Vite topcoat.

Essie Navigate Her Spring collection: Review and swatches of Navigate Her and Olé Caliente

Hello :)

Today I'll show you two shades from Essie Navigate Her Spring collection. I didn't buy the whole collection because I didn't like the shades or I already had dupes.

Navigate Her collection consists of six shades and "pays tribute to the beautiful, ambitious woman of action. Not content to play it safe and hedge her bets during the wintry economic climate, the change in weather perfectly suits her sunnier outlook. In both fashion and finance, she’s ready, willing and able to strike out and try something fresh and new."

Olé Caliente - very bright red creme leaning to orange shades. I'm wearing just one thicker coat in the picture but I can see my nail line a bit. So maybe two thin coats would be better. The formula war quite runny but it has excellent pigmentation so in the end it is ok. It dried fast but it stained my nails despite using basecoat :( No topcoat.

 

Navigate Her - pale spring green creme shade. The formula was good as the polish is pigmented very well. I've applied two coats but one was almost enough. It dried very fast, actually too fast! I struggled a little bit with even second coat because of the fast drying. No topcoat.

Layering experiment: Essie Raspberry with Nfu Oh #50

Hello :)

I did another layering over Essie Raspberry I've reviewed here. Nfu Oh's are just beutiful and I love experimenting with them! As it says in the title, I've layered Nfu Oh #50 over Essie Raspberry.

Essie Raspberry - review and swatches

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Today I've decided to post more girly colour and I chose Essie Raspberry.

Raspberry - reddish berry creme shade. This polish has very pleasant formula with good pigmentation. I've used two coats for full coverage and it dried reasonably fast. I haven't used topcoat and you can see the polish dried nice and shiny. This is a very nice shade, not red, not purple but something in between..like light berry colour. For me it's a must have :)