Showing posts with label Nail polish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nail polish. Show all posts

Saturday, 24 November 2012

Speciallita Guerra Dos Sexos




Speciallita have come up with yet another lovely set of new polishes. They are called battle of the sexes and they come as a double ended polish. Either end can be worn on its own, or they can be worn together to make a third colour. They are called war of the sexes and they look like this.

Speciallita's press release reads

''The male never alone. The female never lonely. States have created a purpose in the world of possibilities in which we live today. A blend that recreates that recycles and reinvents itself.

With the concept that 1 +1 = 3, the new bottles are double the Gender Wars. Two glazes sharing the same cover, each with its own brush. Each color can be used alone, as any enamel line HITS Speciallità. But by purchasing the product, you can also prepare your nails using one over the other, thus creating a third or fourth enamel often quite different than imagined. Just free your imagination and make their blends show to her friends, exchange pictures over the internet, send emails, and go crazy with the party. After all, war is war.

These are the principles of the new collection of enamels War of the Sexes - HITS Speciallitá in its seventh successful partnership with Globo Brands, after the collections Bites & blows, Malhação, One Kiss, The Life of the People, buzz and Full of Charm. Effects, colors, coatings and pigments only. A glaze that is creating its greatest essence.

12 are double glaze, which can be combined with each other to form endless mixtures and effects on the nails. Creativity is the limit.

The novel War of the Sexes is a remake of the 1984 hit, written by Silvio de Abreu and now directed by Jorge Fernando. The story revolves around the eternal struggle between men and women. Performed by Tony Ramos, who lives OtávioII, and is in constant fights with Charlô II, played by Irene Ravache.

Check out the collection:

Cable War: A bottle is a bright orange and the second, a shimmering pink. The mixture of them form a new pink enamel well marked.

Carolina: A pale lilac and the other a transparent iridescent color, together result in a smooth and shimmering lilac.

Charlô: A striking red and silver metallic other coverage, together form an irresistible metallic red.

Perfect Duet: A very dark blue with sparkles and the other a turquoise very much alive. Together they form an intense blue with sparkles.

Loving Explosion: A delicate pink and pearl, and in the other an orange bottle, together form a pearly coral alive.

Front Line: A light gray and the other a transparent iridescent color, but together form a gray iridescent indispensable for a good ballad.

Cheque-Mate: A bottle navy blue and the other pink creamy but together result in a royal blue chic and unique.

Counterattack: A pale mauve blue and subtle, and together form a lilac evening.

Iron Lady: A metallic pink and wine chiquérrimo, but together they form a metallic wine intense and sophisticated.

Manoela: A mild creamy brown bottle and the other, a transparent cover iridescent color, together result in a brown metallic scandal.

Vanya: An amazing matte black cover and a slight lilac, but only together could form a sophisticated metallic purple.

Veruska: A delicate pink and blue roses with pearls, and together, it creates a light pink metallic.''

 

I have placed an order for these polishes and they will be stocked in the Sally Magpies Shop very shortly. ( and while I am plugging it we also have the new Speciallita Glitters World in stock along with No Olimpo and Jade Diamond/Holographic polishes too)

Tuesday, 11 September 2012

Rainbow Nails

I was supposed to post these blogs weeks ago for the MSE - now NPAA challenge. But, unfortunately life got ahead of me and I had to focus on other things. But these darlings deserve an airing.

It is a water marble I did onto plastic again, and used lots of different brands. I think it looks adorable.







If you want to see what the other ladies have created, have a look here at our forum.

http://npaa.forumotion.co.uk/t12-rainbow-week



Sunday, 9 September 2012

Barry M Gellys

I am a bit of a Barry M devote, and was really excited to see them launching a new range of high gloss, one coat polishes. I was even more excited when I received three in the post as a random act of kindness.

As I know people are calling out to know more about these wonderful polishes I thought that I would get them on my nails and give everyone a good look at them.

First thing I should say is I buy alot of my polishes online, so it is nothing unusual for me to have jiffy bags galore delivered, but when I opened these my mum and sister were on them like a bonnet. The bottle looks lovely with the silver cap, and a little a-england esque.

All the colours available are :


So here are the three I have swatched...

On the left we have the wonderful Prickly Pear, in the middle Blood Orange and on the right Blueberry.


The consistency of the polishes is lovely, they are thick without being gloopy and the brush appears to be thinner than the normal Barry M one which makes for a more accurate application. Whilst they are advertised as being one coat, this has never been my style and I prefer to go for two thinner coats so I have better wear, so this is what I did. However, I am sure these would coat well with one thicker coat as they are highly pigmented.

To show these off to their full effect I have not put any top coat on them, but did use a ridge filling base coat because my nails are a little bumpy and I hate the look it gives glossy polishes. So without further ado heres how they look on my nails.

So here are the Blueberry ones, I think the shine really shows up well and gives my nails that soak off gel look which I love without the faff of the lamp/layers/removal.



 Here is the Blood Orange. It is a really really nice bright red. The finish is lovely and sooo shiny. Best Red I have worn in ages.







Then finally, we have Prickly Pear. I am a lover of Lilac. so this one was just perfect for me. It is a strong colour without having any hint of moving towards purple. Out of them all this is the one I would probably wear the most.


I really really enjoyed these polishes, and think they are something very different to the matte neons that we were having over the summer. They will be out on 26th September and more details can be seen on the Barry M Facebook page . Personally I can't wait to get my hands on Watermelon, Satsuma, Blackberry and Plum. Oh Pomegranate and Grapefruit too. Whoops, thats all of them!




These products were provided to me free of charge, but the opinions made are my own


Friday, 3 August 2012

BFF Bloggers Challenge - Animals

Well, this is a favourite topic of mine. After years and years of wanting and needing I now have my very own fur baby. He is called Dobby and he is a now 15 week old Cockapoo puppy ( cocker spaniel/miniature poodle). I will freely admit I never knew how much work a puppy would be, but I wouldn't change him, or a minute of it for the world.

So, when it comes to an animals challenge this can be the only answer. Before the pictures of nails, this little fella is Dobby. ( covered in dog bubbles)



For this I have used,
- NYC City Blackout
- Unnamed Brown Jelly ( because although he is back, he has tinges of brown around him)
- DRK-A for the puppy prints
- Konad Special polish in white for the paw prints and the hand drawn heart (because I loves him)







Here are the other ladies who are taking part in the challenge



Sunday, 22 July 2012

MSE Challenge - Week 5 - Blue

So it is already another week in the MSE challenge and I can't quite get over how time is flying.

Blue is a nice one for me as I have a choice of polishes, and can't wait to use them all.

Little Finger - Color Club - Hydrangea Kiss
Ring Finger - Miss Sporty - 456
Middle Finger - Sally Hansen -  Flash
Index Finger - No 7 - Poolside Blue
Thumb - No 7 - Betty Bloo







In addition to these lovely polishes I have managed to catalogue my nail varnish collection and added it to my blog. ( you should see a tab at the top) and I have added a tab for the nail varnishes I have loved

So, another personal challenge for myself is I am going to use ALL of my polishes before Christmas. On the inventory there are links to the blog posts I have put up with them in, so everyone can see.

So, at the moment I have about 200 polishes I need to get through, and my friend is bringing me a scary amount back from Spain for me...Does anyone else have masses of unused polishes, or is it just me?

Tuesday, 17 July 2012

For Sarah Diamond - Bright Blue Sky

This is a special post for a special lady, who is having a bit of a hard time at the moment. I suggested that some of the girls on PolishAholics Anonymous do a manicure with her in mind. So, here is mine.

I decided I wanted something to show her there is a bright blue future out there, no matter what might happen.

So I started with a base of Sinful Colours 'Gorgeous' and added a couple of coats of Essence Special Effect Topper in 'Glorious Aquarius'. I love this topper so much because it isn't quite blue, and it isn't quite green, but what it does add is little sparkles of copper which are just wonderful. So, to make the sparkles stand out I used my Leighton Denny Matte Topcoat which is lush.

Hopefully Sarah will like the results, and honey, I hope you are feeling better soon





Friday, 13 July 2012

TGI...Turquoise

Last weekend for a reason I can't really remember I decided to start cataloguing my varnish collection. I have this wonderful idea about knowing exactly what I can, and can't stamp with and hopefully cross reference it to pictures of me actually wearing it.

This has brought about a few shocking realities to me though
1 - I have more nail varnish than I never thought I would have
2 - I have never worn most of it
3 - I am a saddo who loves excel.

So far I have done my glitters/topcoats, Greens, Oranges and Yellows and I am already at 110. The biggest sections of purples and pinks are yet to come.

I have a wonderful friend who is going to Spain very shortly and she has kindly agreed to bring back some Catrice and Essence colours for me that I don't already have - yay, but in addition to this I am also hoping to make an order to brazil for some Jade Holografico's and Luducrana colours. Lets hope I can get it organised as it should be very exciting.

So girls, should I set myself a task of using every one of my polishes at least once by Christmas? Must admit it is going to be a tight thing to do, but if I start right away I might do okay. Also, would it count if I use them on others, so long as I get the pictures?

Anyway, onto todays nails.

I am having an awful time at work, and to be honest home isn't all that great either. Having quite a peaceful happy family I find it really hard when others don't have that same dynamic. But, I suppose it is horses for courses. So, with all this pent up feeling inside I decided it had to be neon, and nothing is more neon that China Glaze Turned Up Turquoise. Now I didn't have alot of time, so it had to be a flat colour with nothing fancy, but it cheered me up all day. ( esp as it was one of my unused!)

Here are the pictures, and what do you think...




Monday, 9 July 2012

The Pinkest Yellow Challenge In The West

Well, where to start? I don't like yellow nails. I don't have the skin tone to carry it off, and I don't like the colour. I don't think I actually own a yellow item of clothing!

So, I decided the best thing I could do with this manicure is to make it something I would like. So I set out to make my nails like rhubarb and custard and mainly covered them with pink! However, I do have yellow feature nail and yellow tips on the pink ones.

All I can say is I am very glad that yellow is over! What do you think?

For added information I used Sally Hansen, Hard as Nails 610 Hard Lemonade and Colour Club pale pink which was unnamed in a set.




Sunday, 8 July 2012

The weekends here, so let it be grey, and sparkly

Trying to go out of my comfort zone again with this one, as I NEVER wear grey nail varnish. However, I am quite chuffed with the results.

I used two coats of Essence Got a Secret and one coat of Color Club Backstage Pass. Must admit I am quite chuffed with the results. Backstage pass is lovely, it is silver, purple and pale pink hexes in a clear jelly. Om Nom Nom!