Blue Waves manicure for the Day 12 of Summer Challenge

Hello lovelies!

Yay! It's another Summer challenge day and another opportunity to do some nail art! Today I've done 'Blue waves manicure'. The official theme is HOT HOT HOT Combo!

For this manicure I've use paper/painter's tape, craft scissors, ME Mattese Elite Passistas as a base colour, ME Mattese Elite Embarasse Moi on the top and then I've created the waves effect with Dr.’s Remedy NOBLE Navy.

 

These are other lovely ladies who participate in the Summer challenge:

Gradient manicure with Mattese Elite Fantasias and China Glaze Prism

Hello lovelies,

I'm so excited to show you this manicure! I absolutely love it! The contrast and colours are just perfect and it lasted on me 5 days!

Firstly I painted my nails with two coats of Mattese Elite Fantasias and when it dried I started to apply China Glaze Prism to create gradient effect. I've used one coat of Seche vite to seal the combo. ME Fantasias dries satin which I really liked but I needed to use the topcoat to get rid of the grittiness and make it last for few days.

Mattese Elite ME AMOUR collection - Review and swatches of Embarasse Moi & Amour De Ma Vie

Hello lovelies!

Today I'll show you two polishes I've totally forgot about! They are Mattese Elite from ME AMOUR collection introduced for Valentine's Day 2012. The whole collection contains six shades and I will show you two. Mattese Elite polishes can be purchased at Ricky's NYC website and they retail for $5.99

Embarasse Moi - bright magenta glitter. The glitter is lots of really small glitter with bigger glitters in it, all magenta colour in a clear base. I've applied one coat of glitter over Mattese Elite Nail Polish - Embrasse Moi which has very similar colour. The glitter looks like it might need two or three coats for full coverage but I haven't tried it. I quite like it layered. It applied nicely and didn't dry very gritty which is very nice to see with glitter. I've still used one layer of topcoat.

Amour De Ma Vie - turquoise, red and silver glitter in a black jelly base. The formula is quite good with decent pigmentation. This is only two coats and it is enough for the full opacity. It dried gritty and a bit longer but after I applied coat of Seche Vite it was dry very fast and no gritty finish.

*These were provided to me for a review