French Manicure Ruby Deer and Where's the Soiree

Hello dear readers, welcome!

My last post was on how much I love ruby deer from China Glaze, a lovely sexy striking red creme, but the sad fact that it chips faster than, well, you can say chip.

So I did a french manicure with it because I wasn't ready to take it off, nope! Lovely red makes me feel happy! Here's how I improvised it with Color Club's Where's the Soiree, a black creme opaque in just 1 coat! Awesome!

Where's the soiree from Color Club

A red and black french manicure! Sexy and mysterious, no? Somehow it's just pull in all the right directions. I love how the starkness of the color compliment each other. Both are colors, a red and a black, and it just goes so well together, it just spells out confident, no? A I-know-what-I'm-doing look.

Modern Red and Black French Manicure: China Glaze Ruby Deer  and Color Club Where's The Soiree

Sorry for the little hiccups in the tips, I'm kinda clumsy, but I guessed you've already known it by now.

Modern Red and Black French Manicure: China Glaze Ruby Deer  and Color Club Where's The Soiree

I hope you dear readers love it, and would like to try out this look some time. Till then, cheers!

Skittle Pastel Manicure

I have quite a lot of untrieds in my stash, so after going back and forth among the bottles for nearly half an hour, I finally decided on a skittle manicure so I can wear every color. Yay!!

I wanted something fun and colorful, some cheerful nails, so this is what I came out with:

On my right hand:

Skittle pastel manicure: (L to R) OPI Alpine Snow, Color Club Take Me To Your Chateau, China Glaze Refresh Mint, China Glaze Something Sweet, OPI Lucky Lucky Lavender

This is my first skittle manicure, and I jazzed it up with some stamping on it.

I wanted something creative, so I stamped each finger with a different design. It looks sort of like a kindergarten wallpaper, doesn't it?

Thumb: OPI Alpine Snow stamped with China Glaze Someting Sweet; m79

Fore: Color Club Take Me To Your Chateau stamped with Konad White Special Polish, M79

Middle: China Glaze Refresh Mint stamped with OPI Alpine Snow; m79

Ring: China Glaze Someting sweet stamped with OPI Alpine Snow; m64

Little: OPI Lucky Lucky Lavender stamped with Konad White Polish; m35

I did it with my right hand too, but in different order. I didn't want a matchy matchy manicure which looks boring.

Skittle Pastel Manicure

I alternate between Alpine Snow OPI and the Konad Special white polish, I don't prefer one over the another for stamping, it all gets the same look anyway.

I know I know... my stamping is off and the alignment is bad and all that, but you get the look I was sporting, right? Right??

I get a lot of compliments on this manicure, so I'm happy! :D

Hope you like them!

Color Club Wild At Heart

Today I will show you an awesome deep purple holo nail polish from Color Club.

Color Club Wild at Heart

This is an awesome 1 coater, very very opaque, and drying time is comparable to those of OPI, very short!

Great formula, goes on smooth like buttahhh! Me likey likey!

CC wild at heart under shade

This is how it looks under the shade, daytime. It's a pretty lovely true deep purple, not vampish pruple, but original purple, with some small tiny silver shimmer which will burst into holographic rainbows when light hits.

CC wild at heart under the shade

I understand that some have gotten a dud batch of Color Club Wild at heart, where there is no holographic effect in it. That's sad. Really. But I was really lucky to have gotten the good one!

Maybe they didn't wait for the sun to come out, I'm not sure, but under the shade, mine look just like from a dud batch, deep purple with silver shimmers and no holo.

But when the sun comes out...

CC wild at heart sunlight

BWAHAHAHAHA.... look at the lovely holo!

Granted, it's not as holo as those China Glaze OMG and Kaleidoscope collection, or the Nfu Ohs, or the original holo OPI DS collection, or GOSH, but this is a really pretty not-in-you-face holo.

It is a linear holo, not strong, as can be seen, but still very pretty. It's such a shame a lot of holo are discontinued now. I would have gotten them in a jiffy if I could and swatched them. After all, the weather here is extremely good and the sun is always shining, such a pity... such a pity...

Color Club Wild At Heart Indoors

This is a shot taken indoors under the fluorescent lamp. Regardless, the holo effect is still visible. Pretty!

I did it without a top coat, thus the tip wear in the first few pictures taken today. :( Not very long lasting, unfortunately...

The weather became like below... after I took some photos, which was why I didn't take the photo of the bottle's lovely holographic effect. But anyway, I was lucky I was in time to take a few photos.

Gloomy weather~

Now I'm thinking of mattifying Wild at heart... hmmm....

China Glaze 2030 and Konading

I did a full gold mani yesterday. Never thought I was a gold girl, but 2030 is a very suitable gold to be worn. It looks like a high-classed gold mannequin hand against my skin tone, very very nice!

China Glaze 2030

But then I kinda got tired of it, an thought of stamping some pattern on it.

I got out my konad plates and used m64 to create this look.

China Glaze 2030, konad with m64 color club where's the soiree

I used Where's the Soiree from Color club for the black stamping. 

Where's the Soiree is a very good nail polish for stamping as it doesn't dry very fast, and is very opaque when stamped.

Then I top it with a coat of Konad Top Coat.

I still really bad at painting my nails and stamping, give me some time, I'll improve!

Till next time girls. Tata!

Color Club Soft As Cashmere

Okok, I admit. I bought this mostly because of the cosy name. Soft as Cashmere. 

It sort of just seduced me into buying it. Doesn't the name hollers COMFORT?

Color club Soft As Cashmere

But I was not in the least disappointed. The gray/beige/nude/mushroomy trend a while back did not appeal that much to me, but I was surprised I liked this color so much.

It has a creame finish, a light brown or gray, or kind of a mix, and it depends on your skintone and the lighting to depend which shade show out more.

The formula is quite thin, so I took 3 layers to acheive opacity. It gets quite streaky in the first two application, but it all evened out in the last layer.

In the evening sunset, it shows a lot more brown than gray, but in the afternoon, it is more gray than brown.

Picture taken in the evening

Since I am more yellow toned, I think the gray showed up more on me than others. In fact, in the afternoon, it looks more light cement color than anything.

Color Club Soft As Cashmere

This color is very suitable for office wear, more formal occation, but some may not like it. It might look like mud to others, but I absolutely adore this shade because the color looks so comfortable... it reminds me of wool sweater in winter-time.

I do know that some nail bloggers don't like this shade, but I just love it! (a part of it due to the name anyway)

It's really a nice shade to wear and it makes my skintone looks lighter, not to mention my hands look clean in a weird sort of way, Maybe it's because the skintone around the color looks more fairer than the rest. 

Haha... hope you like it too. Next on my list is Essie Playa del Platinum to try. I'm gonna get it on my next splurge. It looks lighter than Soft as Cashmere, but those mushroomy wearable colors. Till then!