Lynnderella Witch Cauldron Was It?

I'm cracking open my first Lynnderella with Witch Cauldron Was It? today for the second round of November's #polishtogether. My post last week was one week early so I wanted too do another post.

Witch Couldron Was It? has such beautiful orange hex and bar glitters and as much as it is a Halloween polish, it's still quite a versatile one. I really like it with here with OPI Gouda Gouda Two Shoes. The gold shimmer really does complement the glitter in the Lynnderella. 

Gorgeous!

National Day Mani

Happy National Day to my peeps in Singapore!

This year's nail art idea came from my colleague. We were talking during lunch and she suggested painting the Merlion so I found the eaisest Merlion outline and viola!

After last year's national flag with the crazy small stars, this year I decided to go simple with a glitter polish. I'm wearing one coat of HARE polish Leap Light Year painted over a base of OPI Vodka and Caviar. It's the perfect patriotic red shade!

Here's a close up bottle shot of Leap Light Year.

On my thumb, I'm wearing two coats of piCture pOlish White Wedding  and I used a red nail art polish from Daiso.

Hope you're having a great long weekend! :)

Rainbow Polish Taffy

Hey guys, sorry for the lack of updates. I've been more busy with work over the past couple of months and truth be told, my interest in painting my nails seemed to slowly dwindle. I was/am still buying polish but I just didn't have the great urge to paint my nails on such a regular basis. And when I did, I was just too lazy to edit the pictures and type a nice narrative on the polish. I did take pictures though so I'm hoping to slowly revive this blog during my upcoming break from work. I finally managed to apply for a week's of leave so fingers crossed!

I've gotta be honest. Taffy wasn't my first of pastel glitter polish. I originally wanted to get Happy Hands Motherboy but Happy Hands is really hard to get where I live so that's where Taffy comes in. Taffy has the same glitter colour combi - white, green, blue, purple and pink.

This is two thin coats of Taffy over three coats of OPI Bubble Bath. I LOVE how soft and delicate this combination looks. LOVELOVELOVE. This is one of the most work appropriate glitter polish I've ever seen.



I actually wore this over the Chinese New Year weekend and I got tons of compliments! I even had cousins asking where I got my nails done.



Best thing about this is that it worked so easily with all my different outfits! YAY for soft and pretty nails!



Here's a close up of Taffy in the bottle. I can't wait to wear this over more colours!


Till next time! :)

#SGSwatchFest: Mothers' Day with Femme Fatale Cosmetics Crimson Acolyte

Hey lovelies! Happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful Mothers out there!

Just on a side note, I was thinking how to decorate my Mum's card this year and because I haven't done any sort of art and craft in recent years with the exception of nail art, look what I "resorted" to...



Nail polish roses!

Back to the polish, today I have a beauty to show you!

Femme Fatale Cosmetics Crimson Acolyte is a reference to World of Warcraft! It's a cranberry jelly polish filled with pink and red glitters of all kinds - hex, bar, holo.

Here I'm wearing three coats of Crimson Acolyte on my middle and pinkie, one coat of Crimson Acolyte over OPI Siberian Nights on my index and one coat of Crimson Acolyte over OPI Miama Beet on my ring finger.





Application wise, Crimson Acolyte was a pretty fuss-free polish and dry time was not bad. I also like how the base colour is pretty see through so it provides for tons of layering options!









Here are some close up shots. This is Crimson Acolyte by itself. It's squishy as hell (in a good way, of course)!



This is Crimson Acolyte over OPI Miami Beet. Miami Beet is the perfect base colour for Crimson Acolyte if you want a matchy-matchy look.



Finally, this is Crimson Acolyte over OPI Siberian Nights. I love this one the best actually. Siberian Nights is dark enough but it's not the predictable black base. LOVE IT! 



Definitely a recommended polish!

Pahlish Toxic and Timeless

Pahlish Toxic and Timeless is a teal jelly polish with gold and blue glitters. It's a little similar to My Oblivion, which I showed you previously but they are different enough to warrant owning both. I have a comparison of the two polish later on in this post.

Here I am wearing two coats of Toxic and Timeless over OPI SKi Till We Drop on my index, middle and pinkie. On my ring finger, I have three coats of Toxic and Timeless by itself.





I have really short nails and almost no free edge so you can't really see the white bit on my ring finger but I can only imagine is on gals with longer nails and for that reason, I actually prefer layering Toxic and Timeless over a base colour. Plus, your bottle will last for more manicures!





That being said, wearing Toxic and Timeless by itself wasn't difficult. Application was easy and with a layer of Seche Vite on top, everything dried pretty quickly!





Here's a close up shot of Toxic and Timeless. You can see the gold and blue hex and bar glitters swimming in a gorgeous teal jelly base.



And here is Toxic and Timeless next to My Oblivion, as promised. You can see that the two are different. Toxic and Timeless has blue and gold glitters while My Oblivion only has gold holographic glitters. Toxic and Timeless also has a greener base compared to My Oblivion's bluer undertones.



Well, this is the last of the Pahlish polishes I hauled a couple months back but stay tuned because I have loads more indies to show you all! Till next time!

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! :)

#SGSwatchFest: World Water Day and Earth Hour

Hello my dear polish lovers! Earth Hour is tonight and in celebration of this special event, together with World Water Day (which was yesterday), I thought I'd do a special mani!

My mani was inspired by blues and greens - the beautiful colours of our Earth. From left to right: China Glaze Meteor Shower, Nfu Oh #40 over black, Gloss 'n Sparkle Edge of the World and a saran wrap nail with OPI Mermaid Tears topped off with NOPI Khloe Had a Little Lam Lam.







Time for some close ups!

This is two coats of China Glaze Meteor Shower. I think that it's important for us to just enjoy the simple things in life like watching the night sky and I'm hoping that during the hour when the lights get turned off, maybe we can all just look up to the sky and appreciate the beautiful stars.



This is one coat of Nfu Oh #40 over black. #40 is a colour shifting flakie which shits from green to cyan to blue and it just reminds me of the ocean.



This is three coats of Glass 'n Sparkle Edge of the World. It's a pretty teal jelly with blue and green hex glitters, together with some finer holo glitters. Very suitable for Earth Day eh? :)



This is a saran wrap done with OPI Mermaid Tears topped with NOPI Khloe Had a Little Lam Lam. I loved the saran wrap mani with the sepia tones and I wanted to do it again with more water / ocean-inspired colours.



If you have some time to spare, do take a look at the UN World Water and Earth Hour websites! Till next time! :)

Polish Days: Vintage

I must admit, I have been a naughty girl. I haven't participated in the recent Polish Days events because of my horrible work schedule and the lack of inspiration but I"M BACK!



Today's Polish Days theme is Vintage and as much as I wanted to show you some vintage (OPI black label) polish or the first polish I bought, I thought I should jazz this day up - with Essie Jazz!

This is two coats of Essie Jazz that I started with.



Jazz is a nice and opaque nude shade that is extremely work appropriate.



And no, I haven't forgotten about the Vintage theme. No no, Essie Jazz isn't the end product. I wanted to try out the whole saran wrap trend with sepia tones (my Vintage link) so I used OPI Over The Taupe for the top layer.



Just a quick tip, be sure that the bottom layer is dry before painting on the top layer! I used a quick dry top coat to speed things up.



I'm loving how pretty the subtle marbled effect looks and man, this was such an easy nail art to do! I was initially a little scared I wouldn't be able to do this saran wrap thing but seriously, it was so little effort for such a pretty end product.

Remember to check out all the other Vintage manicures!

#SGSwatchFest: Spring Nails

Hey lovelies! Couple weeks ago, a few of us came together for our first #SGSwatchFest with Femme Fatale Cosmetics Winter Hyacinth and it was such a hit, we're now planning for many more #SGSwatchFests to come.

Today, a couple of us were supposed to meet and show off our latest Spring themed nails and I was really excited to finally meet some of the girls I've come to know in our local polish scene. Unfortunately, during my lunch, just hours before our meeting, I suddenly came down with serious abdominal pains and I started throwing up so I had to take a rain check. :(

I did my spring nails last night though, in anticipation of the meetup and here they are!



This was actually the inspiration behind the mani:



I saw this mani article in yesterday's Urban newspaper and I it was such a fit for this #SGSwatchFest so I decided to paint my nails like that too!





According to the article, they used Butter London Cuppa (nude base), Trout Pout (pinkie), Artful Dodger (ring), Kerfuffle (middle), Jasper (index) and Molly-Coddled (thumb).

For my version, I used Essie Sand Tropez for my base colour, China Glaze Lemon Fizz (thumb), Essie A Crewed Interest (index), OPI Done Out In Deco (middle), Color Club Take Me To Your Chateau (ring) and Essie Navigate Her (pinkie).



I haven't done *any* form of nail art in a very long time and with the whole glitter indie craze, I got lazy but this mani was so easy to do and it's a great way to break into the whole nail art thing again!





Loving this spring mani so much! Looking forward to the next #SGSwatchFest! :)