Nicole by Opi : Ladies in the Limelight & Make Mine Lime

When I saw that there was a sale at Qoo10 for nail polishes, I knew I was going to purchase at least 1-2 bottles. :P

Since most of the colours that I want are sold out, I decide to get 2 colours that I would seldom try. :P This was easy with the help of my nail polish display rack. hahas. It's that obvious that I'm not a huge fan of yellows colour. :P

Overall a good experience. Delivery is fast. Item came with 2 layers of bubblewrap.
Product is a little thin but colours does show well in 3 coats. I tried it immediately after receiving, with Opi's servin up Sparkle on top and it's gorgeous.

Poshe Basecoat, Seche Vite fast dry top coat, Ladies in the Limelight, Make Mine Lime, Opi Servin' Up Sparkle.

My First Neon Orange Nail Polish

Received China Glaze's Neon Orange nail polish in my Bella Box for August and decide to test it out with Sally Hansen's Hard as Nails as base (which I received in my May Bella Box). Maybe orange's just not for me, the colour's a little too bright for my liking. :(

Comparing SH's Hard as Nails to the normal base coat I use, I still prefer my normal base coat. Don't really see the "hardener" effect. My nails still felt like it's going to break all the time. :(

Comparing China Glaze Neon colour to my other China Glaze colour, it seems that Neon's a tiny bit thicker, would prefer pastel colours or glittery ones. :D

Used OPI Silver Shatter on top of the Neon Orange and it instantly makes it less "刺眼" imo, should have tried black shatter though. :p

Nail Addict Journal 29/Dec

Notice sometimes we purchase similar nail colours without realizing it? What you see on the bottle might not show the actual colour that will be on your nails.. Which is why I like to see people posting photos of swatches. :D

Today I'm going to show some of the common colours that I own and hopefully will ease your pain of trying to get the colour you want. :)


1. The Noticeable Pink Battle
China Glaze's Dance Baby Vs OPI's Sparrow Me the Drama






Dance Baby's pops up more, Sparrow Me the Drama's more pastel.


2. The Blue Greens Battle
OPI's Mermaid's Tears Vs China Glaze's Kinetic Candy Vs China Glaze's For Audrey





Mermaid's Tears's more of greyish kind of green, Kinetic Candy's more light bluish, For Audrey's quite close to Tiffany blue.


3. The Glitter's Battle
OPI's Servin' Up Sparkle Vs China Glaze's Techno Vs China Glaze's Fairy Dust





If you ask me, I would say Servin' Up Sparkle, Techno and Fairy Dust are pretty much same, only difference is that Fairy Dust doesn't have the holographic hexagonal pieces thingy and Servin' up Sparkle has more tiny glitters.

Servin' Up Sparkle - Holographic hexagonal pieces + more tiny glitters.
Techno - similar to Servin' up Sparkle but sightly lesser tiny glitters.
Fairy Dust - Only tiny holographic glitters.

If these doesn't help you make up your mind, maybe searching for more swatches will help you in making the choice. :D

Nail Addict Journal 12/Dec

China Glaze For Audrey + Matte Magic





Opi Grape..Set..Match + Servin' Up Sparkle

Adding on to my OPI collection..

Recently in ❤ with OPI nail polish.
❤ the smooth-ness and easi-ness to apply and how the colours always comes out in a way it's so pretty. :D

My regular OPI shop is having some sales promotion and some of the nail polish were going for S$10 each! Yes, you've heard read right.. S$10 for 1 authentic normal size bottle of OPI nail polish (inclusive of free normal local postage!)

After purchasing the really awesome Pirates of the Caribbean, I decide to add more brighter/darker colours to what I currently have.. So I've more colours to play around with. :D

6 Bottles of OPI Nail Polish + 1 Bottle of Nail Polish thinner. :D
Total Damage this time: S$72.90


❤ The seller gave me complementary free Smartpac delivery. :D




Me ❤s Individually bubble wrapped bottles. :)




❤ these pretty babies. :D




E50, L00, H45




H20, A36, A16




Painted these in a rush. :p




Bright colours comes out nice and not streaky.. Me ❤s..




Really pretty colours right? :D




H20 + A36 tips.
Suitable for day to day work. A lil bling without looking like I'm "trying too hard". :D




Currently own 2 pinkish "nude" colours from OPI. One's Passion the other is Hearts & tarts, both makes my nails look healthy and pretty. By far the best nail polish I've ever owned.. :D

If you're interested in getting these darlings..
You can contact Fred at through his facebook link at http://www.facebook.com/crazyemart.

I'll try to make time to blog about the other OPI colours I own. :D
Bought a long while back... :) ❤❤❤

OPI Pirates of the Caribbean on my puny fingers

Ordered (pre-order) on 3rd May 2011
Received on 9th May 2011!
Total Damage: S$56.50 (Inclusive of Registered Postage)


Fragile!!



Individually bubble wrapped bottles. :)



Without Flash



With Flash



Swatches of these babies. :D



Oh so pretty.. but not suitable for work. :(



1 more. :D



With Glitter Shatter. :D

Painted my nails just for this post, removed it cause I've got work then next day...