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! :)

Polish Days: Nail-Venturous Floam

Hello everyone!

A couple of weeks ago, I managed to get my polished claws on Nail-Venturous Floam because Lauretta had an extra bottle and was kind enough to sell it to me. I've wanted Floam since seeing swatches of it and now, I can finally do my evil I-have-a-bottle-of-Floam evil laugh! *MUAHAHAHAHAHA*
Today is ...



Yup, Floam Day! A couple of us nail bloggers will be posting our Floam swatches together! Now, onto Floam!

Floam has matte neon blue and chartreuse glitter in a clear base and was inspired by Floam, a compound that contains polystyrene beads so that you can shape it and create with it.



I have never heard of Floam before this nail polish came out. The only mouldable compound I played with when I was young was Play-Doh so I thought Floam never came to Singapore but I was walking around Art Friend the other day and I actually spotted Floam! I must say, the polish really looks like Floam!!

But back to the nail polish. Application wise, the polish was on the thick side, so I added some thinner and that helped a little. Other than that, application was alright.

First, I applied a coat of Cult Nails Get It On base coat and then two coats of Essence Lime Up! It doesn't have to be perfect because we'll be painting Floam over it. :)



And now, for the star of the show...this is one coat of Floam over Lime Up! I have no idea where that black speck on my pinkie nail came from. With one coat of Floam, you can still see a lot of Lime Up! but if you like it this way, you can stop with one coat.





But oh no, I need more Floam! This is 2 coats of Floam.



Again, you could stop at 2 coats but not me. On to coat number three!







Floam does dry a little gritty so I did another layer of Cult Nails Get It On base coat before painting a coat of Wicked Fast top coat. I read that painting a layer of base coat before painting your topcoat will help your mani last longer so we'll see. Also, with two clear coats on top of Floam, it is gritty no more!

However, when I finally completed my mani, I was shocked at how thick my nail was.



It looked like I pasted a fake tip on my nail but it's not as obvious in real life and I think I'll be staring at Floam more than how thick my nails are. Just a little trade off for such a funky polish! (:

And I was so excited about owning Floam that I made a nail polish ring out of it that will be available on Posh Polish soon! (It looks less vibrant because I used a different base colour)







Now I can wear Floam on my digits without worrying about it chipping! :)
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Where to Buy:
You can get your very own bottle of Floam from ninjapolish or Nail-venturous Lacquers.
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Check out all the other amazing Floam Day posts too:
Hannah (Polly Polish)
Sabine (My Polish Stash)
Jen (The Nail Polish Project)
Lauretta (A Lacquered Affair)
Jenny Hillerström (Beauty by Jenny)
Deborah (Love Varnish)
Jeanette (The Swatchaholic)
Esther (Fab Fingertips)
Rachel (Claws, Nails & Beauty)
Mara (Mara in Polishland)
Charlotte (Charlottes Nails)
Stephanie (Sincerely Stephanie)
Jasmine (Colour Coated)
Carolina (Colores de Carol)
Salla (OMG! Polish'Em!)