Models Own Black Magic

Okay, I'm pretty sure that's the name of the polish. Pretty sure.

After all that Silver Shatter, I thought I'd show you something more normal and simple. A plain black creme. Actually, I don't really need to post this, because we all know what a black creme looks like. Who doesn't have a black creme? Right?

Black is one of my favourite colors to wear. I deliberately nubbin-ised my nails for this because I didn't want to have long black nails. Black feels good on short nails to me for some reason. So, here are my nubbins. Be nice to them. Haha.

I did 2 coats with top coat. I don't know if this is blue or green based, but does anyone really care? It turns out black anyway. Nobody is going to say "Hey, that blue based black does NOT go with your skin tone". No.

Black and white were the first 2 colors I wore, many years ago.

Black polish, yes or no?

OPI Silver Shatter on Some Skittles

Hi. Again. I hope you're not sick of me yet. Haha. After yesterday's post about Silver Shatter on the Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides collection, I hope you're ready to see more of Silver Shatter.

I didn't think Silver Shatter would look good on shimmers/glitters/etc. so the skittles are all cremes. I did this at the same time I did the PotC skittles with Silver Shatter so I didn't do many colors. I also didn't want to waste my Silver Shatter.

Here is my awkward left hand again. All of them are the base color + Silver Shatter + top coat.

 

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Index: China Glaze Happy Go Lucky, 3 coats

Middle: Barry M Cobalt Blue, 2 coats

Ring: Barry M Red Black, 3 coats (or was it 2? hmm)

Pinky: Models Own Black Magic

 

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Silver Shatter on China Glaze Happy Go Lucky

 

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Silver Shatter on Barry M Cobalt Blue

 

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Silver Shatter on Barry M Red Black

 

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Silver Shatter on Models Own Black Magic

I have worn the others besides Red Black on their own but I only have pictures of Black Magic by itself, I just haven't posted it yet.

The match yesterday was awesome. Barcelona drew 1-1 with Real Madrid, but Barça wins 3-1 on aggregate which means they'll move on to the UEFA Champions League Finals with Manchester United! Assuming Man U doesn't lose by more than 0-2 to Schalke later, of course. Barça can totally take Man U on. ;)

I woke up at half past 3pm this afternoon, in case anyone's wondering. Haha. (:

OPI Silver Shatter on PotC On Stranger Tides Collection

(PotC = Pirates of the Caribbean)

Hi. I finally finished all my tests for this semester. Now I have 3 final papers to go and I can (hopefully) go on to the second semester without worrying about resits. I am taking a short break from my notes (damn those things) and I finally get to watch a football match tonight! It's been months since I've been able to watch one.

Anyway, a quick, picture heavy one since I need to take a shower and decide what I want to do before the match starts. I did two parts for OPI Silver Shatter, the second part will be posted tomorrow. Today's post will be just Silver Shatter on all the colors from the Pirates of the Caribbean Stranger Tides collection, which I swatched here and here.

While waiting for the weather to be nice to me, I wore Planks A Lot and Steady As She Rose for a couple of days and decided to try Silver Shatter on both of them. The other 4 colors I did as skittles. I did 3 coats of everything without top coat under Silver Shatter.

I can't remember which ones were photographed before/after I added top coat on top of Silver Shatter. I'm pretty sure there's top coat on the skittles but not too sure about Planks A Lot and Steady As She Rose.

 

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L-R: Silver Shatter on Mermaid's Tears, Stranger Tides, Skull & Glossbones, Sparrow Me The Drama

 

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Silver Shatter on Planks A Lot

 

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Silver Shatter on Steady As She Rose

 

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Silver Shatter on Mermaid's Tears

 

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Silver Shatter on Stranger Tides

 

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Silver Shatter on Skull & Glossbones

 

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Silver Shatter on Sparrow Me The Drama

 

L: Silver Shatter on Planks A Lot

R: Silver Shatter on Steady As She Rose

If I had a penny for every time I've said "Silver Shatter" in this post...

EDIT: I am such a doof. I forgot to mention that Silver Shatter crackles well and I absolutely love it. I want a million back ups and I want to layer it over everything!

I am way sleepy and it's shower time. Barcelona will win tonight! Sorry, Real Madrid/Ivana ;)

Uptown Visions Dream On & China Glaze Wireless Holographic Top Coat

I am blogging so much this weekend. I have no mood to study at all. I have one test on Tuesday then a couple of weeks before my final exams (for this semester) start. Why won't this end? ):

After a couple of days, Uptown Visions Dream On by itself was really bugging me and I really wanted to change it but I was waiting for some polishes to arrive in the mail. So I turned to the one polish I knew would save the mani, just like it saved another before.

This is two coats of Dream On and one of China Glaze Wireless Holographic. I love me some holo (:

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Sunlight + decreased exposure

 

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I love Wireless Holographic so much. And I've kinda stopped buffing my nails, so you can see my ridges now but just ignore them. Or think of Ruffles. Yum! :D

I will be blogging again on Tuesday or Wednesday with a haul post or OPI Silver Shatter (:

Uptown Visions Dream On

Hi! I am 10 minutes away from it being not April here anymore, but I will adjust the time on this blog post so that it appears to be April still. I know that's cheating but I was watching a movie and didn't think it would end that late.

I bought this polish really long ago. I was in a pharmacy and I was looking around and I saw a new display. I'd never heard of this brand before, and there's an explanation for that in the polish I bought. It was a buy one get one free thing, I think, so I just picked up the two colors that looked best to me: this one, and a red shimmer.

The first thing I noticed after I was done painting was that it didn't last long. Within a day I had tip wear, and usually that doesn't happen for me. So I ditched it and when I rearranged all my polishes, this one went into the little corner that rarely ever gets opened.

I did 2 coats with top coat. The photos are very deceiving because I added top coat before I took them. When dry, it's flat and has no depth. But I have to make it look good for the last day of April, right?

 

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Looks pretty in the bottle, huh? I would tell everyone to NOT buy this. I'm sorry, Uptown Visions, but I can't get the horrible first experience I had out of my head. If the dried result was pretty it wouldn't be so bad, but it's boring when completely dry.

It's 20 minutes past 12am but not according to the timestamp ;)