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Posted on: March 9, 2010, at 8:57 pm in category: Nails I think this is my favorite type of french manicure. Also my favorite type of Konad, actually! A monochrome french tip with a wallpaper-like Konad pattern on top is just so delicate and pretty to me.
 Plate m71, the pinkish base is Revlon Always Sheer Bliss, and the white is Orly Softest White. I really need a white that’s softer than Softest White!! This is still stark, just with a bit of a pink tint. Better than plain white though.
I was horrified when I saw the awful staining on my nails, so I tried out the bottle of Seche Bright I bought a while ago, and I actually like it a lot. I used 2-3 coats in between the various other coats of polish, and although I know you can still tell that they’re yellowish, it’s better than the bright orange they were before I used the Bright!
Posted on: March 8, 2010, at 10:37 pm in category: Nails Can reds be neon? Cause I thnk this one is. It’s also a jelly, yay! I got it this weekend at a flea market. The two Essies sitting there all lonely and sad on a dirty table were like a beacon for me. ) Now they have lots of friends in my storage drawers!
The cap doesn’t have the Essie symbol carved onto the top, so I guess maybe it’s kinda old?
I got some new Konad plates so I gussied it up a little. The new one with the evenly spaced dots (m79) is BRILLIANT. Of course red and white polka dots scream Minnie Mouse to me, so I added a bow too, also from one of my new plates, m59. Polish was Special Polish in white.
 I had some issues getting the dots to completely adhere to my nails though.
Posted on: March 8, 2010, at 8:15 pm in category: Nails THE NAME OF THIS POLISH IS GOLDEN SEAHORSE. I mistyped the name in the title and now when I edit it, it just won’t update on the main page for some reason!
Golden Seahorse is kind of gorgeous. It’s rather opaque seafoam green polish with really noticeable gold glitter. I wonder how they do that!
Posted on: March 7, 2010, at 7:33 pm in category: Nails And I finally found another Color Club collection, Pardon My French. This collection came out pre-obsession, so I didn’t know anything about it. It’s kinda…boring? I expect that any collection with “French” in the name should be intended for french manicures, right? And I…guess that’s what this is for? There’s one oddball super-light pink, and then in darker pink, orange, and blue, there’s both a creme and a holo glitter. So I’m thinking that they’re laid out like that so you can use, like, the orange creme for a french tip and then the orange holo glitter as a topcoat.
But…the problem is that 3 of the cremes aren’t anywhere near opaque. Take Me To Your Chateau is an AWESOME one-coat light blue creme, though, so after getting tired of adding tip coats with the pink, I switched to the blue duo. It…does not look good, so I’m back to not really understanding this collection again. I do like the glitters though.
So while I was sobbing over my tragic nail stains, I had a Eureka! moment. Maybe I should just COVER THEM UP. If I got a polish that was the same color as my skin, a “mannequin hands” shade (to use a stupid term that bugs me), and used that UNDER the sheer polish, then I wouldn’t have to sob anymore, or to apply 9 coats of Seche Bright (which is actually kinda awesome, BTW)! Now. What polish will work? Can’t have shimmer. Has to be fairly opaque. I know! It’s franken time! So, I give you…my skin:
I think it’s about the right shade, but it needs…something. It’s a bit stark.
Posted on: March 7, 2010, at 12:11 pm in category: Nails This is such a pretty color, but I actually think it’s one of the few old polishes I have that can’t be salvaged and just needs to be thrown away. All of my old Nailslicks have somehow gotten super thin, so they’re really hard to apply now. That I can deal with, but this brush is messed up too, the stem is cracked so the bristles are all crazy.
But, the color is awesome – it’s not too dark so it retains the pretty rosy-maroon color. Wow, this was a messy application!
Posted on: March 6, 2010, at 10:40 am in category: Nails I bought this polish after hearing Brooke rave about it, and I totally agree with her! It gives my nails a smooth milky finish and it’s very, very pretty. Not a polish I would normally ever have even glanced at, but it is pretty awesome, I promise. I suspect I will be using this for a lot of nail art/Konad bases.
This is one coat. Not very impressive, huh? The little fibers that are visible on my nails are from my Orly Nail Armor basecoat.
Three coats here! I didn’t do a fourth to even it out more because I wanted to keep the sheer/jelly look. It doesn’t actually look this uneven in person.
Posted on: March 5, 2010, at 10:07 pm in category: Nails I think this is one of those polishes that’s supposed to be done in one coat, no base or top, but I just can’t do that, so this is 2 coats, plus base and topcoat. This MIGHT be a very faint frost. I don’t like it.
This is much pinker than it appeared in the bottle. I didn’t bother cleaning it up cause I DON’T LIKE IT.
Posted on: March 5, 2010, at 6:58 pm in category: Nails This is an ancient polish. I didn’t think I’d like it at all because I could tell that it’s super thin, but 4 coats gave this result and it is PRETTY. It’s the perfect shade of green, not too dark or too yellow.
Posted on: March 4, 2010, at 12:43 am in category: Nails If all the Konad coupon codes are ending, I am not so sure I’ll be as quick to buy plates – $7 per plate for one design I like? Eh.
I am no business genius, either, but I don’t really see why KonadUSA cares if other retailers are complaining? They’re still getting their wholesale price from the retailers regardless of what they end up selling for. Isn’t that, like, the purpose of having sales? You earn less per item but you sell way more? Oh well, what do I know.
This makes me sad.
Posted on: March 2, 2010, at 10:10 pm in category: Nails This is, like, the perfect grey creme. I adore the shade, it’s maybe a tiny bit darker than what I would call “elephant.” It was fairly runny but applied smoothly in 3 coats.
I’m not sure why I love greys so much, but apparently I always have. My mother tells a story about how when I was little, a clown came to my school to do a show for us. He chose me out of the audience and (I didn’t know at the time) was going to make me a balloon animal or something. So he asked me what my favorite color was and when I said “grey,” he told me to go sit back down. 
Anyway my point is that I love greys, and I’m totally eyeing the Nubar Fortress collection. It sounds like a sort of silly idea, doesn’t it? Six gray polishes, five of which are cremes of varying lightness. And yet…OMG I so want it!
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