YSL Jade Imperial and Dior Nymphea Comparisons

Hey gals, this is going to be a quick post. I went out today, wanting to haul YSL Jade Imperial home but sadly it was already out of stock so all I could do was swatch the tester. For those wanting to get Jade Imperial too but who can't get hold of it or don't want to pay its hefty price tag, you can consider OPI Mermaid Tears or NOPI Green Up Your Act!



I'm wearing Jade Imperial on my thumb, Mermaid Tears on my index and Green Up Your Act! on my ring finger. Mermaid Tears is clearly closer to Jade Imperial than Green Up Your Act but it is still more yellow-toned and less dusty than Jade Imperial.



Here I'm wearing Jade Imperial on my thumb, Beadstreet A42 (or Enlistment, as I call it) on my index, and Chanel Khaki Vert on my middle finger. Once again, no dupes.

Next, we have Dior Nymphea, RBL Bikini Bottom and Essie Mint Candy Apple.



Nymphea wasn't OOS but I wasn't willing to pay S$37 for a blue creme (okay fine, Nymphea doesn't appear to have some secret shimmer going on in the bottle but it doesn't really show up at all on the nail so for all intensive purposes, I'm going to regard Nymphea as a creme). Bikini Bottom is clearly more jelly and greener than Nymphea but I'm finding myself more in love with it than Nymphea. Lastly, Mint Candy Apple is so much more vibrant and chalky than Nymphea. 

Hope this quick post was useful! :)

Jindie Nails Noel

Heyhey! Today, I have Noel from the Jindie Nails Santa Claws collection to show you guys.

Straight up, I couldn't resist doing a bottle shot. Noel is described as a "neon green, white and red matte glitters and green sparkles densely packed in clear base," from Jindie Nail's Etsy and that couldn't be any more accurate!



I started out with two coats of Essie Going Incognito. Love how glossy it is!



Then went on one coat of Noel. What I love about Noel is that it doesn't have too much jolly green (Christmas green) glitters so using a jolly green base really brought out all its colours!



I also love how the red jumps out and make everything pop even more.



We've been seeing so much red and green hex (and bar) glitters from all the other indie Christmas collections and Noel's matter glitter is such a breath of fresh air!



I also decided to try layering Noel over some reds. This is two coats of Sally Hansen Brick Wall, Beadstreet 74 (or Brick It Up as I have christianed it) and China Glaze Hey Sailor.



This is one coat of Noel over all three nails.



Now on to some close up shots, here's Noel over Going Incognito. Love the colour combination!!!



This is Noel over Hey Sailor. Hey Sailor is a typical Christmas bright red and I'm sad that it kidna swallowed the red glitter in Noel.



This is Noel over Brick It Up. Brick It Up reminds me of gingerbread cookies and it just brings up such not so typical Christmasy feel whenever I see it.



This is Noel over Brick Wall. This one is my favourite combination of the reds. Brick Wall was dark enough to let all the glitters shine through.



LOVE LOVE LOVE!

Jindie Nails is available from Mei Mei's Signatures, who ships worldwide with the exception of Italy.

Disclaimer: This product was sent to me for my honest opinions. I am not affiliated with Mei Mei's Signatures or Jindie Nails.

OPI On Her Majesty's Secret Service

The moment I laid eyes on Zoya Fei Fei, I had to have her but Zoya's pretty hard to buy where I come from so when OPI released On Her Majesty's Secret Service, a pretty close dupe for Fei Fei, I was pretty ecstatic!

This is three coats of OHMSS with one coat of Essie Good To Go.



OHMSS is a sheer polish that is sooooo complex.  It actualy slightly duochrome as it flashes from green to purple but unfortunately, my camera was having a bitch fit so I didn't manage to capture the pretty duochrome. :(



I'm totally in love with the gold and blue and periwinkle shimmer swimming amidst its slate blue base.





Seeing how sheer OHMSS was, I thought it'd be a pretty good topper so I decided to try layering it over a couple of dark, sexy colours.

From L-R: One coat of OHMSS over NOPI Khloe Had A Little Lam Lam, Revlon Chic, Essie Going Incognito and Beadstreet Black

Here are some super close up shots!



One coat of OHMSS over NOPI Khloe Had A Little Lam Lam



One coat of OHMSS over Revlon Chic



One coat of OHMSS over Essie Going Incognito



One coat of OHMSS over Beadstreet Black

OHMSS is one of my favourite polishes from all of this year's release. That's how much I love it!

May's Haul

Sorry I'm late with May's haul. I haven't really been keeping track of my polish collection of late, reason being it's getting harder to do so with the ever-expanding polish count. Also, I've been trying to stay off polish to save for something I would treasure more, a new guitar! That being said, I only started my serious low-buy in June so May's haul was a little crazy (as usual).

The first two pictures are of the polishes I got in Korea, while on my graduation trip. The polishes were dirt cheap I tell you and I grabbed so many that my baggage was overweight on the flight back. Thank goodness my friends who didn't shop a lot, so I "ate" into their excess weight limit.





As you can see, I'm really loving the chunky glitter trend right now, especially with all the indie polish trend so I had my chunky glitter fix with the Korean polishes! I'm not gonna name them because in all honestly, they're all alphabets and numbers and it's just too much work.

Next, we have the three Cult Nails polishes I got (Seduction, Captivated and Toxic Seaweed), Floam, as well as a couple of Beadstreet polishes I bought. In the bottom row, I got Jawbreaker and Dream Queen, Catrice Sold Out Forever (a Chanel Jade dupe), Essence Glorious Aquarious, GG 10 to Midnight, Inglot 204 (a blue flakie) and GG Andamooka Blue (a supposed blue flakie but I see random bits of red and green flakes in there too! D:).



Then we have four Essence Colour3 polishes. Three of them were CPs from EuropeI didn't know Singapore was gonna bring them in and sadly, I paid almost double what they cost at Watsons but hey, you win some, you lose some. And I'm still very grateful to my dear Evillee who helped me buy all the gorgeous European polishes on her trip there!



And lastly, I did an epic Ozotic / Picture Polish / A-England haul at ninjapolish. I'm so glad I snapped up all the Ozotic 500 series polish that I wanted because they're now discontinued.



So ther you have it, May's Haul. An epic haul if I might add. I seriously need to cut back on buying polishes! My Helmer is now full and I'm storing all the polishes you see in this post in an empty A4 paper box cover, which incidentally, is almost the same size as a Helmer drawer. I know us polish addicts always say we need to cut down and then we go on no/low buys which always turn out to fail but we'll see.

I'm pretty damn adamant this time and considering it's already 26th June, I've only bought a couple of polishes from a US blog sale because those polishes were quite unique and were going at some exremely reasonable prices! I did pay for my Pretty and Polished pre-orders but I placed those orders a long long time ago so they don't count!!! I also have the Nails Inc Sprinkles and some Nubar duochromes in my beautybay cart, which I'm sure I will check out by the end of the month but it's a considerable improvement already so yay! :)

Beadstreet Q50 & Pretty & Polished Dream Queen

I bought this purple shimmery polish from Beadstreet a couple of weeks back and it was so pretty thaat when I showed it to my friends, we actually went to Beadstreet after our meal so they could check it out too! :D This polish has a purple base with fuchsia and blue shimmers.



Then we have Pretty & Polished Dream Queen, which Cheeying AKA Evillee from Inky Polisholicious was kind enough to help me purchase. This one has a pastel purple base with a very subtle purple shimmer, large and small white hex glitter, pink large hex glitter and large purple square glitter.



I had some problems with the pink hex glitter pieces curling, as can be seen in the picture below, and I ended up painting two more thin coats of just the polish over to help "seal" the glitter in so them wouldn't curl as much. That didn't really work out as well as I had hoped because the extra polish engulfed the purple square glitters. :(









I really like Dream Queen but it was pretty hard for me to get the chunky glitters to spread out evenly too. I had better luck with painting the nail on my right hand so I'm going to show it to you. Please excuse my shy right hand. She's a bit awkward in front of the camera!





You can see in the picture below the pretty fuchsia and blue shimmer I was talking about in Q50. I really hate the way Beadstreet "names" their polish and I used to christian their polishes on my blog so this one shall be called Purple Rain, because I love Prince!



C'mon, for $2, Beadstreet polishes are AWESOME! They apply well, they're opaque enough and they're cheap. What more can I ask for? :)

I have an Ozotic 504 review in the lines so stay tuned! See you then!

December's Haul

December's haul was so epic I had to split the entire haul up to take photos. I actually paid for most of the polish you're about to see in October/November but the polishes only arrived in December which is why they're featured in this month's haul. So technically, I wasn't THAT naughty in December!

This first set of pictures are of the polishes I collected from Cheeying from Inkypolisholicious and from Susan. I wasn't able to meet up with Susan to get my polishes but she was meeting up with Cheeying anyway and I too was going to meet Cheeying during the weekend, so she was kind enough to help me collect my polishes from Susan and passed me all my polishes! Thanks Cheeying, if you're reading this!!



December's Haul: Batch 1. This batch consisted of the Cult Nails polishes, Nfu Oh polishes and mini franken bottles the Yings helped me to order, and the RBLs and piCture pOlish Festival that I bought from Susan!

Don't worry, I got some close up shots for you! (:



Love how the Cult Nails bottles came wrapped up in brown paper with their names on the sticker! Doesn't the packaging look so chic? It really makes the packaging look so much more personal, showing how every bottle was individually wrapped by hand, with love!



Here they are unwrapped! The order's opposite from the above picture (i.e. L-R: Wicked Fast to Clairvoyant).



RBL BiBs! These were the RBLs that got shipped to Singapore first because they were from an earlier batch of BiBs. BUT, not all four are mine. One of them is actually for the giveaway that Lynn and I are going to have! We have yet to discuss the details but we should be doing the giveaway very very soon so do look out for it! And for now, I shall keep you in suspense as to which colour we'll be giving away! (:

Susan sent me the remainding two RBLs when they arrived and here they are!



These two Catherines are all mine! They're so pretty!



FLAKIES GALORE! Here are the two Nfu Ohs the Yings helped me to get and piCture pOlish Festival which I purchased from Susan! The Yings aren't really selling polishes, I just tagged along with their Nfu Oh order but Susan is selling piCture pOlish as well as Ozotic Pro polishes so if you're interested, head down over to her blog for more details!



Festival is a gorgeous multicoloured flakie in a clear base which makes it VERY interesting! Here is it next to Clairvoyant, which is also a multicoloured flakie, except it had a darker base!



You can see the flakies better from this angle! Aren't they so purdy? (: And if you're curious how they compare on the nail, Susan did a good comparison post between Clairvoyant, Festival and Nubar 2010, so do check it out!




Here, we have the Starbites pigment I bought from TKB Trading. They make really nice glass fleck duochrome topcoats when put into clear polish! You can check swatches out here, here and here! I've made my glass fleck top coats already and you only need a little pigment for a 5ml bottle and I have plenty left so if you're interested, drop me a comment and I can make and sell you a bottle! (:



And I ordered another 20 mini fraken bottles! I've already used up 17 bottles from my previous batch of 20 mini bottles I ordered a couple months back so I needed to restock my frankening supplies! I somehow don't remember using 17 bottles! WEIRD!!!



December's Haul: Batch 2. These polishes are the ones Janelle helped to buy from the US and mailed it over to me! She was very patient with all my orders because I was collating orders from 4 other gals and she also included some extras for me because she was busy with school and had to delay sending the polishes out! She was way too kind and I'm going to repay the favour when she send me the list of polish she wants from over here! (:

Top row: Deborah Lippmann Across the Universe, MAC Blue India (!!!!!!I FINALLY OWN THIS BABY!!!!!), Sally Hasen Gray by Gray, Sally Hansen Fairy Teal, NOPI Green Up Your Act and Color Club Artsy Crafty

Bottom row: Color Club Bojo Mojo, Manglaze Matte is Murder (these were the two extra bottles Janelle got for me!), Revlon Perplex, Orly Fowl Play and OPI Nantucket Mist

Really happy with this US haul because I got to satisfy so many of my lemmings. I finally own Blue India! It's been on my wishlist since the second month of my addiction and when I saw it on eBay for a reasonable price, I jumped at the opportunity! I also managed to get Perplex, which is a well know dupe for Chanel Paradoxal, which I also have but who can resist such a good dupe? Certainly not me. I also got a backup bottle of Fowl Play and Nantucket Mist. Sadly, I overpaid for Fowl Play, Nantucket Mist and Artsy Crafty but considering Janelle threw in Bojo Mojo and Matte is Murder, I'm still a very happy kid! (:



December's Haul: Batch 3. Collected some of these polishes from Candy and bought the rest during my outing with Lynn and Candy. Oh, and some were Christmas gifts from the very very very generous Candy too! I tell you, shopping with two fellow polish addicts is very damaging to your wallet! HAHA, this batch contained so many polishes I had to take a vertical shot! D:

Let's go to close ups shall we? (:



L-R: Essie Size Matters (What a fabulous name! HAHA!!), Topless and Barefoot, Color Club Fashion Addict and Worth the Risque (THEY BOTH ARE THE FRIGGIN STUD HOLO VERSIONS!)



Nameless Beadstreet polishes again! I friggin love Beadstreet polishes because they're of a very good quality for the price you pay! And since they are nameless, I shall exercise my super creative (read: lame) brain power. L-R: 3 bottles of clear which I'm not gonna bother naming, Yellow Yellow Dirty Fellow, Orange You Glad I'm Only $2 and Night Sky. And yes, I'm VERY happy they only cost $2 per bottle!



L-R: Color Club Magic Attraction, Art Club Glitter Hologram and Gold Hologram



Took a blurry picture just to show you how holo these three polishes are! :D



Finally bought myself some proper yellows! I was doing my nail wheels and got so pissed off at having to paint 5 coats of cheap yellow polish to get it opaque! L-R: China Glaze Lemon Fizz, Happy Go Lucky, Refresh Mint and Essence Lime Up!



And lastly, Essie Smooth Sailing, Orly Sapphire Silk and Pixie Dust!

Okay, as you can see, I'm pretty much broke and need to eat grass for the next two months so I can afford to buy the gorgeous polishes coming out in 2012! I'm praying my addiction will improve in the New Year! HAHAHA! That shall be my New Year's Resolution! TO BUY LESS POLISH! :D



(L-R: Elianto White, Twilight, Perisian Indigo, Night Glitters, Etude House BL505 and OR207)

December's Haul: Batch 4. These were the polishes I bought during my one day trip to JB. I was searching extensively for Elianto and when I finally spotted it, I squealed! Got myself a back up of their black and white polishes because I love how creamy and opaque they are, and I also got two more polishes from their Sparkling Diva range. Etude House was ahaving a 30% off for their polishes so I grabbed a multichrome blue and a dusty salmon/coral colour. Really Happy with the coral colour because I've been having a tough time finding a coral I like and this one is so pwetty!



(L-R: Extra Strength Lacquer Remover, Emerald City, Sacred Ground and Twisted Vine)


December's Haul: Batch 5. These were from the SpaRitual nail class I went to with two of my friends as well as Cheryl! Emerald City came with my goodie bag, along with a buffing block, zebra file and samples of their Handprint Hand Serum and Hydrating Hand Salve (which are not in the picture above). As for the rest, the course fee of $38 was fully redeemable for products and I chose to redeem the lacquer remover, Sacred Ground and Twisted Vine.