OPI Dulce de Leche part 2

This is the second time I post swatches of Dulce de Leche. The first time was simply disasterous because I plain suck at applying nail polishes.

As weird as it sounds, I've liked the color more ever since I wear it the second time round. It is unique. 'nuff said. It just reminds me of sweet caramel and ice-cream and yummy food. Weird eh?

OPI Dulce de Leche

Yeah, so I have itchy hands which prompts me to peel of the label that say, peel me. Tadaaa.. nude sticker now.

OPI Dulce de Leche, fore finger and pinky 2 coats, ring and middle 1 coat

The color is a nude fleshy pink with a hint of mauve. The mauve feel is especially strong if you apply the second or third coat. Amazingly, I was able to get decent coverage with 1 coat, which explains why the middle and ring finer is only a 1 coater. 

After applying the second coat, the fore and pinky looks more 'thick' and less pink, I don't likey.

Formula wise, a little thick and goopy, I don't likey. But no biggie because there's always my trusty Seche Restore. Saviour!

Here's a photo of the color in flash, it's rather true to life. All in all, I'm quite liking it again.

OPI Dulce le Leche

What do you think of it? Yay or Nay?

Till next time. I'm thinking of doing a review on how to spot non-genuine Princess Lee fake eyelashes on the next post. Cheers~

OPI Lucky Lucky Lavender

I've decided to take off Nubar Forest though I'm pretty sure it would last a couple more days without any very visible chipping. Time for some new fresh colors!

I wanted to show you a bare Mrs. O'Leary BBQ, but due to some bad experience with MOB, I've decided against it. I'm not sure it's MOB's fault or SV top coat's fault, or it's just that the two of them doesn't go together, but... I'd rather not risk it. To make the long story short, I had some weird matte tips when I used MOB with SV top coat. Isn't it weird? Like... it's all shiny but the tips is matte. Like flat matte. That's about a quarter of my nail length too. I'll show you next time, and if you girls have the same experience, do share. 

So I used OPI Lucky Lucky Lavender today.

Is it lavender? NOOO!

OPI Lucky Lucky Lavender

It's actually a dusty pink, it makes me feel like it has a drop of grey in that pink, and probably half a drop of purple. 

OPI Lucky Lucky Lavender

Despite how red my fingers looked, the nail color is actually quite true to life. 

Application wise, sheer, needs at least two coats for opacity, three if you have some bald patches.

Formula is a little goopy but sheer, nothing I like.

But the color is very flattering on my skin, especially nice on fair skin. It's a feminine not in your face soft dusty pink.

And OPI's brush is always great. Very minimal cleanup needed, I was lazy so I didn't do any.

After the great encounter with In2It Jackpot, I was beginning to wonder what constitute a pricey polish? Is it the formula, or is it the creative color? What is it? Because I'm beginning to question whether it's necessary to spend half a fortune on some pricey branded OPI since I could get so much value for money with merely 10% of OPI's price for a cheap nail polish which is 5 times better than OPI. Sighh....

Stamping with CHG Something Sweet over IN2IT Jackpot

I don't know how to do water marble nails, but I really love those designs. I don't even think I want to try because I'm just plain clumsy and bad with things like that.

So I did the next best thing, stamping with a pattern which looks like a water marble design. hahahaha~ I'm smart.

Konad M78 with China Glaze Something Sweet over IN2IT Jackpot

I know I know, it's not great, but I think it's awesome for me because I just plain sucks at things like these. Besides, it looks really like water marbling to me, especially with my smudges and smears, purfect. hahaha...



So this was the plate that I used, M78, the pattern is circled in pink.

Konad Plate M78

So that's how you get some fake water marbling nails by not water marbling. Hope you enjoyed it. Till next time.

OPI Bubble Bath Matte

This was the nails I've had on me on the day I went for my interview. Much as I love China Glaze Refresh Mint, I couldn't possibly go to an interview with minty green nails, so I had to remove them... which was sad. :(
Then I chopped them down to reasonable length, which was far too short! Ergh!

Since it was an interview for a technical job, very physical, non girly and all that, I figured I better portray that image. Still, I wanted to put on nail polish. Hahaha...

So I chose a safe color, OPI Bubble Bath and then mattified it with Essie Matte About You top coat. It looks natural, and it feels natural. It draws no attention, yet looks clean and proper. Very suitable for formal office meetings.

OPI Bubble Bath 2 coats

After Essie Matte About You:

OPI Bubble Bath 2 coats, Essie Matte About You 1 coat

No one would have guessed I put on nail polish, yet I did, which was fun.... ok.. so I have a weird definition of fun. Hope you like it!

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!