Blackberry Bling: Models Own Sterling Silver & Juicy Jules

Hi. Again. I thought it would be a good time to finally clear my backlog on flickr, since I'm in a mood for celebration!

The post title says it all. For some reason I only have like 3 photos of this, and not great ones, but I really like Juicy Jules. It's round silver holographic glitter in a clear base. Very gritty. I took these photos under my desk lamp, I don't know why I didn't wait for the sun to rise or something. This is 1 coat of Juicy Jules (on my thumbs) on 2 coats of Sterling Silver.

What was going on in my mind when I took these? Hmm. Once I get over Mad As A Hatter on my nails, I'll probably try Juicy Jules on her own. I wonder how many coats it'll take to reach opacity.

I wonder why I'd never tried China Glaze Wireless Holographic Top Coat on a black polish before. I've tried it on blue, purple, but never black. And it was a mistake to not have done that because it's AWESOME over black. I actually did this on my toes so just to give you an idea of just how awesome...

This was 2 coats of Color Club Black and one of Wireless Holographic. Color Club Black dried looking like a tar pit. Ugh. I needed to find something that would save it, so of course, China Glaze came to my rescue.

So much holo. I'm so tempted to gather all my holo polishes and put them all in one post. I love my holo (:

Models Own Sterling Silver

First of all, I logged in yesterday/the day before and saw that I have 51 followers! That totally made my day! Thank you guys! I'm giving each and every one of you.. a virtual hug! Haha (:
I wanted to post yesterday but I had a short presentation to do today so I had to work on that. I did horribly, but luckily, it's not being assessed. I would probably have put in more effort if it was.

Anyway, I've wanted a silver polish for the longest time ever and bought myself China Glaze Cheers To You. Then my aunt bought me Models Own Sterling Silver, which is really close to the China Glaze. I love silver and will probably find something cool to do with all this silver. I did try doing a comparison but the photos turned out like poop so I'll just do it again.

Sterling Silver is a basic silver foil. I did 2 coats with top coat. I loved the brush and the formula. If you're observant enough, you might spot a couple of bald-looking spots but it was completely opaque in real life. The first 4 photos were taken in the shade, and the two after those were with sunlight.

I felt a bit Terminator-like having this on my nails. Like the Terminator melted and I painted the liquid metal part on my nails.

 

I tried putting on a second coat of top coat on a couple of nails, which seemed to make the polish look grittier (although it felt smoother to touch) and more sparkly. I used my index and ring finger for this. I can't recall why I didn't use my middle finger. Odd.

Left/Index: Models Own Sterling Silver with double top coat

Right/Ring: Models Own Sterling Silver with single top coat

Left/Ring: Models Own Sterling Silver with single top coat

Right/Index: Models Own Sterling Silver with double top coat

Taken under my desk lamp.

Blurred to show the difference in sparkle.

I knew adding more top coat to a gritty glitter would make a difference but I didn't apply that to foils too. I'm guessing, from this, that if you don't put any top coat on, the foil would look smoother and less sparkly. I guess if you're a little bored of the foil look you could add a top coat and then make this a little more party-like.

Speaking of gritty glitters, I have OPI Mad As A Hatter on now! *happy dance*

Comparison: OPI Merry Midnight vs. Sasatinnie FCGL002

I don't have a Valentine's day mani to show you since I didn't do one (couldn't be bothered). My nails are blue with Models Own In The Navy, so.. definitely not Valentine's day themed.

I am so sleepy and I keep thinking that today is Friday (or Saturday, since it's past 12am) because tomorrow is a public holiday here. And I don't have to go for class! Yay! And my mom is going for her manicure and to get rid of OPI Lucerne-tainly Look Marvelous on her nails. I usually tag along and have breakfast. Breakfast is so much more enjoyable nowadays, since I have things to eat besides bread and biscuits.

I really need to clear this backlog of posts. My stash and untrieds keep getting bigger and the amount of un-watermarked/un-uploaded photos keeps increasing too. Hmm :/

Anyway, the other day, my friend and I went into Sasa, probably because I wanted to. And I remembered seeing these flakie polishes there, so I looked for them and found them! This one, FCGL002, reminded me a lot of one of my all time favourites OPI Merry Midnight and I had to buy it to do a comparison. There was a discount if you bought two bottles, so I chose a blue based flakie polish. I love flakies (:

What is with the name of this one? What does FCGL even stand for? Why couldn't they have chosen a shorter code name? They should've just given it a name name, not a number/code name.

If I'm not mistaken, I did 3 coats of the OPI and 4 of the Sasatinnie

 

Bottle comparison. Rainbows!

 

Pinky and Middle: OPI Merry Midnight

Ring and Index: Sasatinnie FCGL002

The OPI is more red-based than the Sasatinnie which is more blue-based.

A lot more silver glitter in the Sasatinnie compared to the OPI. The flakies appear to be smaller and more sparse too, but that could just be from the random picking of the brush.

Although in my eyes, the Sasatinnie doesn't beat the OPI, I think if you really can't find Merry Midnight (and for some reason FCGL002 is available to you), it's quite worth getting. The price isn't too steep and the formula was manageable. The only thing I didn't like was how there was so much silver glitter, like they were trying to make up for the lack of flakies, and the sheerness.

I love both (the OPI more) nonetheless. Not dupes, but none of your non-polish friends will know the difference.

Also, did anyone see Rooney's bicycle kick during the ManU vs. ManC match? I wanted to make noise in awe but I'm generally a silent viewer. AND I missed the match where Casillas got sent off in the 2nd minute of the match against Espanyol! What happened? ):

Okay, the bed is calling me. Goodnight (:

Barry M Racing Green

First of all, what the heck is racing green? Is it a green that's used specifically for racing? Is it a green that races?

I'm about to fall asleep right here in front of the computer. I ended up getting to this post later than I expected because I was watching Sherlock Holmes on tv. Love that movie. It's pure genius. Also, my dad was hogging the computer from the moment he finished dinner.

Racing Green is a blue-based green jelly (?) base with yellow-based green shimmer. You can't see the difference in color between the shimmer and the base in the photos, but it was more obvious in real life. I'm not a huge fan of greens but this one was lovely. At first I questioned (to myself) why my aunt bought this but then I realised.. this is awesome :D

I did a thin first coat followed by a thicker second. I almost forgot how many coats I did until I saw the number on my flickr. All pictures taken in daylight unless otherwise stated. If you see any bald spots or anything like that, they weren't visible in person.

Taken under my desk lamp.

Blogging seems to be a bit more time-consuming now that I have to wait for the opportunity for nobody to be there to watch me as I blog, since I'm using the desktop computer now because my laptop sucks and a couple of the keys are starting to need extra effort just to be pushed. I've also been taking a billion pictures because I want back-ups in case some didn't turn out so well when transferred to the computer, hence I spend a lot more time picking out photos.

I haven't watched an entire football match since last year. Yup. The ones I want to watch are never on when I turn on the tv. Portugal is set to face Argentina soon.. I really want to watch that!

Goodnight!

Layering Experiment: Barry M Red Black

I'm so sorry for abandoning my blog. I really, honestly intended to blog over the week but for some reason my laptop wouldn't connect to the wireless network at the house I stayed in so I couldn't even read anyone else's blogs unless I did it on my phone and the screen's pretty small on that thing.

I had a great Chinese New Year, lots of food, as usual. I had a few headaches because of the really hot weather coupled with my refusal to drink more water. I went to my uncle's house which is in a different state, a 2 hour drive from my house. There were a billion mosquitoes, which is why I'll be going to class with a LOT of pink spots on my legs and arms. Argh. Hate mosquitoes.

Back when I had Barry M Red Black on (seems like forever ago!), I tried layering a whole bunch of stuff on it. Some didn't work out (didn't take pictures of those), to the extent that my friend questioned it. And finally I tell you what the third mystery polish I bought was (somehow I still remember this). Nobody managed to guess what it was from this post.

First: multicolored glitters. The BeYu (left) looks nothing like the other two but since it had the same type of glitter in it, I thought I'd throw it in. Elianto Glitter Mixed (middle) was more dense than 17 Cosmetics Glitter Top Coat (right). Here is 1 coat of the Elianto and two of the 17.

The Elianto has more green and the 17 has more blue glitters in it.

I wanted to try something different, so I put China Glaze Matte Magic on half of each nail. I like it! I really want to call it schizo. But I think a more appropriate name would be dissociative identity disorder, am I right?

The polish nobody guessed was Nubar 2010. I saw this and HAD to have it. I love flakies! I should've bought that little jar of flakie glitter I saw in this shop I went to but I guess that can wait. I think this was 2 coats of Nubar 2010.

And with Matte Magic:

I found a random bottle of holographic string glitter in a Japanese shop and tried it. The bottle says fast drying but... it's a lie. It didn't even dry glossy. There's regular top coat on the shiny right side of my nail and Matte Magic on the left side.

This was a really.. weird post. I'll be posting regular, normal stuff after this. I don't want to go to class tomorrow! Or.. today, since it's past 12am already. Stupid class. Argh. I haven't even touched my homework. ):

I think I'm going to call it the schizo. It's just sticking with me, I don't know why. I know, psychology nerds, let me have it. :P