China Glaze VIII + Orly Fowl Play

Couldn't decide what to wear on my nails and I wanted to do something purple and I wanted to try something new so I grabbed Fowl Play. I decided to layer it over ChG VIII cuz I didn't want to use too much of Fowl Play.

The first two pictures were taken under a table lamp and the last two were taken in sunlight.









I have on one coat of Sasatinnie Q10 (another OPI Merry Midnight dupe) over ChG VIII on one finger. Can you guess which finger?

Here are some close ups!



The Sasatinnie is on the middle finger btw!





I totally love how Fowl Play has gorgeous red flake with tiny blue ones thrown in for good measure too! I wore the Sasatinnie polish on my middle finger and it had a little more silver shimmer in it and its flakes are less dense and a bit tinier but both Fowl Play and Q10 are still pretty close.

I'll do a three way comparison with Merry Midnight once I collect my full bottle from Lynn in December!

31 Day Challenge: Day 9 (Rainbow)

Didn't really plan this manicure well so erm, it's a little lopsided. My bad.

Here it is anyway!



I wanted to do 7 colours but my nails were too short and couldn't fit all 7 so I ended up with 6 colours.

Here's what I used:
China Glaze Hey Sailor
Sasa Arezia 25
Dodo Club Yellow
China Glaze Four Leaf Clover
China Glaze First Mate
China Glaze Grape Pop

I used a normal painting brush that I got from Diaso to do the rainbow because the brushes on the polish caps are all too fat! This took pretty long though cuz I really wanted the lines to be even so I had to paint them slowly and then go over them again after!

Okay, one more day left to do before my break for the exams! (:

31 Day Challenge: Day 2 (Orange)

Can you believe it took me a 31 Day Challenge to realise I have no proper orange polish in my stash of 200+ bottles? Guess I never gravitated towards the colour. Eeeeks!

The closest thing I have to an orange polish is this really bright, almost red polish I bought from Sasa but I do see some orange hue in it and I called it my "carrot polish" when I bought it 2 years ago so this it will have to do!





It's really bright and cheerful! I used 3 coats here even though it was opaque in 2 because there was major streaking. No top coat so you can see how glossy thing polish is!

Next up, yellow nails! (Spoiler alert: I just cut up some fimo sticks so stay tuned for that!)

October's Haul

There's still a couple more days left in October but since I'm on my polish ban (apparently until Christmas or so, although I'm already starting to crack),  I don't think I'll buy anymore polishes in the next few days. Maybe when November approaches...hehe, my birthday's coming up soon so maybe, just maybe, I can get away will another haul. EXCUSES, I know, but I need to be cheered up among all the studying I have to do!

Now, I bombed ALOT this month and I bought so many polishes, that the normal "background" I use to take my pictures, which if you are interested to know, is the cardboard backing of my foolscap pad, wasn't large enough so I had to resort to using the cover of one of my Ikea boxes to take the next few pictures. LOL!

Presenting, the haul that put a big fat hole in my wallet...



Really really really, my savings this month is abysmal. I only manged to save a couple of bucks. I am so thankful I'm only hooked on nail polish and not other forms of makeup as well. Phew. To be totally honest, I got 3 more polishes but because I already spent so much in October, I pushed to to November's Haul! HAHA! Earnings (or rather, expenses) management.

Gonna show you close ups with names now..



Chanel Blue Rebel, Chanel Blue Boy, OPI DS Glamour, OPI Last Friday Night and Elianto Indigo Shine



Elianto Glittery Nickel, Beadstreet Barney's Suit (there are no names so I shall christian them! HAHA! Love how Barney, from HIMYM loves suits but this is obviously for Barney, the purple dinosaur), China Glaze Snow Globe, China Glaze Atlantis and Essie Bobbing for Baubles



Essie School of Hard Rocks, Beadstreet Enlistment (again, it's my own name for it), OPI Warm and Fozzie, Elianto White, Beadstreet Brick It Up and Beadstreet You Mustard! (HAHA! I love my corny names for the Beadstreet polishes!)



And lastly, four bottles of Sasatinnie Q10. I first saw swatches of them on a nail blog by someone who lives in HK so she had easy access to Sasa and I didn't think our local Sasa would ever bring them in but when I was there a few weeks ago and I saw these babies, I went ballistic. I bought four bottles in total, two for me, one for my (future) giveaway and I only got the last one because it was retailing at two for $5 so I might as well get four. From swatches I've seen, it's a good substitute for OPI Merry Midnight so go grab it if you want Merry Midnight and don't want to buy Orly Fowl Play. It's so cheap so just BBBMTL (Buy Buy Buy, Mai Tu Liao, which loosely translates to Buy Buy Buy, don't wait any longer / procastinate)!

Okay, end of haul. I'm gonna start planning November's Haul now! I already have 10 items on my to-buy list! :D