Megan Miller Roja and Caribbean

I was one of the lucky winners of Meimei's Megan Miller Giveaway, which was held earlier this year and was randomly sent Roja (the red one)! Then, when I was talking to Susan, who also won one of the Megan Millers so we decided to decant a tiny bottle and send each other the polish we won so we would have two colours each! Best of both worlds!



This lovely dusty turquoise one is called Caribbean and it has a very jelly finish. I'm wearing three thicker coats on my index and three thinner coats on my middle finger, which is why Carribean looks a little darker on my index. Like I said, it has a jelly finish and I've read that some people had some issues with VNL but since I have nubbins, VNL never bothers me! The first coat was a little streaky but coat two even things out and coat three applied pretty easily. Each coat also dried pretty quickly so Caribbean is very buildable, unlike Essie Turquoise and Caicos, which Carribean looks like but is horrible to paint.



This blazing one is Roja and I'm wearing three thin coats here. Two regular coats would have sufficed but I went with three to bring its true colour out. Roja applied like a dream and despite the fact that I have a couple of reds in my Helmer, I don't have any dupes.

Now, on to the BEAUTIFUL Megan Miller bottle...





GOSH, I absolutely love the peacock feather motif on top of the cap!





And here's how the brush looks like! I was initially extremely curious how it would be like before I received the polish and whether it'd be easy to paint my nails with such a brush but let me tell you, the cork makes holding the brush so easy! It's like Orly's rubberised cap but BETTER! It's soft so it's very comfortable to hold. The brush itself isn't all that wide, which worried me at first but the polish surprising glided on easily.
One thing I must add though, is that when I wanted to open the bottle on the second time, the entire cork fell off the plastic cap on the inside. Don't know why but it just did. I glued it back and it's working fine. No one experienced this though, from all the reviews I've read so far so it might have just been a faulty bottle I got. But really, not a big deal because it was very easily fixable!

If you'd like to get yourself a bottle of Megan Miller, do drop by Meimei's. She's the local distributor for Megan Miller and they're going for $18 over at her site. For the exquisite bottle and the quality of polish, it's really worth the price premium. In fact, I'm eyeing Coral Bliss already! (:

Valantine's Day-Inspired Designs

Better late than never right? :D

Super Random Swatches

I suddenly felt like swatching polishes so I picked out some colours I felt like trying.



This is 2 coats of Orly Wandering Vine. I've been on a green polish craze after I got over my nude polish phase and this was one of the shades I really wanted. Unfortunately, it was dicontinued a while back and a lot of etailers had already sold out of the colour. When I saw head2toebeauty selling it, I jumped for joy but then I was told that they don't sell Orly to outside the US. MEH. Luckily, some kind soul in the US agreed to help me buy it then send it to me! Liz, if you're reading this, thanks so much!!





This is one coat of Nfu Oh #40 over Wandering Vine. It shifts from green to aqua and blue! Really pretty! (:



This is two coats of Essie Topless and Barefoot. I bought this duing my nude polish phase and it's really nice and opaque for a nude shade!



This is 2 coats of Picture Polish Festival over Topless and Barefoot. It's a multi-coloured flakie top coat and it's s pweeeeetty! I just wished it was more dense because I didn't like having to paint multiple coats of it! It's too gorgeous to be used so much! :( I'm hoping Finger Paint Twisted will be more dense!



Essence Blue Addicted. Oh, you have no idea the amount of trouble I took to hunt down this baby! I visited the Watsons in Ngee Ann City three times and each time, it was out of stock. Then one day, when I went back to check whether it was finally in stock, I saw a lady stocking the Essence shelf and I thought it'd be my lucky day but not quite. It was still OOS but thankfully, the lasy told me to check out another building nearby (Lucky Plaza) which she had stock just previously. I immediately made my way there (despite being late for an appointment with a friend, Dani if you're reading this, SORRY!) and I was in luck! This was three coats. It's a really jelly base and considering how small the bottle is, my advice would be to layer it over a blue polish instead of wasting three coats.



This is two coats of Essence Choose Me! but I think three coats would have been better. I had to adjust the white balance of my camera to capture the colour as accurately as possible but it's really hard.



This was as close as I could get to accurately captureing Choose Me!'s colour. It's the one in the middle by the way. It flashes green at certain angles and I think it's really close to OPI Catch Me In Your Net.







This is 3 coats of Orly Galaxy Girl. It was an impulse buy at PNC the last time I visited the place. I love how it shifts from purple to blue!



I layered something over Galaxay Girl and look at how pretty it is! So colourful! Can you guess what polish it is?





It's Cult Nails Clairvoyant! I wasn't expecting the combination to work, just wanted to try it out for fun but WOWZA! The douchrome beneath Clairvoyant still managed to shine through, making it more complex and beautiful.



Here's a shot of Choose Me!, Blue Addicted and Galaxy Girl + Clairvoyant!

I then removed Choose Me! from my ring finger and tried on Nfu Of #52 next.



Another crazy colour that's hard to capture. This is what the polish looks like indoors, under low lighting. It looks like a darker purple as compared to under sunlight, when it looks lighter. Really quite cool actually!



Nfu Oh #52 is the righter most one. After staring at it for a while, I suddenly thought it looked really like RBL Scrangie and I sneaked this picture of #52 next to Scrangie before passing Yi Qi the polish which she won! I didn't swatch Scrangie of course, because it isn't mine to swatch!  Hopefully she won't mind the picture!



The shimmer looks similar eh? (:

And the last polish for today's post...



This was three coats of OPI Metallic 4 Life + one coat of Essie Set in Stone + one coat of my rock coat franken.

I liked how Metallic 4 Life looked in every swatch I've seen online but I could never seem to get any of the larger hex glitter on my nail so I improvised and layered on a coat of Set in Stone, which is a silver hex glitter top coat. Then to make it seem less shiny, I painted on a coat of my franken rock coat, which is essentially a super thin black jelly polish.

I suddenly felt like taking a picture of my nails with my guitar so here are some shots!









WOKAY, that's a lot of swatches! Hope you guys liked them! (: