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!

Giveaway by Silence is Loud

Silence is loud is having a giveaway girls, do check out her blog at
http://blackcoffee1437.blogspot.com/2011/05/500-followers-giveaway.html

It is her 500 followers celebration giveaway! Happy 500~
This giveaway ends July 1, 2011 at 11:59 PST. 

She does the cutest nail art, so creative I can only admire, sorry, my talent isn't with me. It's somewhere, far far away, waiting to be discovered.

Giveaway by The Nail Buff

The Nail Buff has a giveaway!!! Wow, it's of everything I love! She has Barry M which I tried to get so hard so many times from ebay but to no avail. :(
Why is it so hard to get Barry M, Illamasqua, Nfu OH, here?

Anyway, look at the giveaway!

Check out her blog at http://thenailbuff.blogspot.com/2011/05/100-follower-giveaway.html
These are so cool!

Not pictured:

6 dotting tools

Nail art wheel (mixed rhinestones)

Giveaway by Sonidlo's Nail Polishes

Look look look girls! Sonidlo is having a giveaway for Nubar polishes! 8 Nubar polishes of your choice from here.
Awesome ain't it??!
You can find her page here http://www.sonidlo.com/2011/04/nubar-nail-polish-giveaway-8-bottles-of.html, do join her giveaway girls! Giveaway ends at June 13th GMT 11.59pm

China Glaze Ruby Pumps

When I wanted to get China Glaze, I didn't know which color to get. Where do I start?
So I googled China Glaze Must have colors, and this came out on many list many times. Without much thinking, I added them to my order, since one can never have too much reds anyway.

And I'm glad I did.

Introducing awesomeness in a bottle (drumrollssssssss): Tahhhdahhhh.... China Glaze Ruby Pumps!

China Glaze Ruby Pumps

When I first saw the bottle, I literally drooled. It was gorgeousness in a bottle. It was sparkly red and red and sparkly and red. Ok... that was a bad description.

Ruby Pumps was a lovely red with red sparkles, in a red based jelly. It might look a little dark red, but it was sparkly when you look at it in another angle. It's not cheap red, but makes you think of high classed, magical unforgettable red sparkles. Not angry red, but simply magical red. Do you get me?

And yes, it was nearly impossible to photograph it's true colors, until I adjust my camera setting.

The true color can never show up if it were to show my real skintone, so I adjusted the lighting to 'incandescent". 

It makes me look blue... a little, like avatar, but it shows the true awesomeness of Ruby Pumps.

It's just a normal red, nothing special, I'll pass red in normal camera setting. See the normal skintone? You can't capture the beauty of Ruby Pumps here.

Ruby Pumps in shade

In direct sunlight, you see the flecks of the sparkles, but no shining shining sparkles there. Again, it's just a normal red.

Ruby Pumps in direct sunlight

But look at these in incandescent lighting! Weird avatar skintone, I know, but the shining little sparkles are peeking out of the deeper based red jelly!!! Awesome Rubio Pumpo!

China Glaze Ruby Pumps

It actually is silver sparkles in deep red jelly, but I believe the jelly dye them red, because when I remove them, I see silver sparkles on my nails. Amazing eh?

Can I drool 1 more time? Ahhhhhhhhhh! The pretties on mah fingers!

I decided to konad them with golden stars! These konading are done with Konad Plates M3, with China Glaze Passion from the Romantique collection. Will do a comparison between China Glaze Passion and 2030 soon.

Konad Ruby Pumps and CG passion in normal lighting

Awesomenesssssssssssss!

China Glaze Ruby Pumps konad with M3 plate using China Glaze Passion (gold)

Go get a bottle of China Glaze Ruby Pumps. I doubt you'll regret. It's so so pretty!

Giveaway by Cel's deconails

Cel's deconails is having a 1st birthday giveaway. It's a blog that I frequent often as well, it's such a cute blog. It makes me think that the blog owner must be as cute as her blog. She spents a lot of attention on the blog it's such a pleasure to go there.

Her giveaway is ending on June 25th 2011, so be sure to check out her blog at http://celdeconail.blogspot.com/2011/05/cels-first-blog-birthday-giveaway.html

Happy Birthday!

Giveaway by Rebecca Likes Nails

Here's another giveaway by Rebecca Likes Nails. It ends on June 18th 2011.
I love Rebecca's nail art, especially her konading is something that I admire a lot! Her stamping alignment are so perfectly straight and I have no idea why I always end up with crooked lines.... :(

And you really should check out her nails on the rose designs. So creative and beautiful!!! Totally awesome!

She has some very pretty polish and possibly the cutest nail plates ever for giveaway. Oh, the cute-ness of the plate! Drooooolssss!

Giveaways by Canadian Nail Fanatic

Canadian Nail Fanatic is having a giveaway girls, do check out her nail blog!
Her nail art is fantastic as well, and she's those extremely neat awesome nail artist who paints her nails ever so oh neatly! I really have got a lot to learn from them. :(

Anyway, she is having a fantastic giveaway for 300 followers giveaway. There are altogther 3 prizes, awesome prizes imho, and you guys should should should enter and check it out.

Below are her photos of her giveaways.

Oooohhhh and ahhhssss! Check out her blog girls and do enter this giveaway as those are really some lemmings to die for~~~! Adios!

French Manicure Bubble Bath and Alpine Snow

I love love love traditional french manicures, but I know some think it's boring... but it's so clean, and crisp and nice... and so damn hard to do!

I have no artistic genes in me. Yeah, my mom's an artist and all that but I just can't draw. It's not in me. I can't draw a straight line without a ruler. I cant draw a flower without looking crooked... somehow. So.. french manicure IS rocket science... to me.

But I did one. :D
Recently. Be nice. Please.

Before and After French Manicure

I used them little strips of french manicure tapes for painting my french tips. Free hand is totally out of the question. Are you kidding me??? Freehand? 

My Final Product of French Manicure

French Manicure with Bubble bath and Alpine Snow + Poshe top coat

I did contemplate to buy OPI bubble bath or not. But I'm glad I did! :D

Application of Bubble bath is smooth, formula is kinda watery, but I like it!

I know there are two versions of Bubble bath running around, but I must have gotten the pink version, but I like it! It makes my nails look so natural and healthy! Yes yes, it's boring, but it's nice... I think. :D

Alpine Snow is OK, no biggie there. Just something to paint my french tips with. Opaque and a little thick, but it's white. I'm not gonna ask too much from it. Plus, it's only on like.. less than 20% of my nails, I'm not gonna be too hard on it.

OPI Alpine Snow (l); OPI Bubble Bath (r)

And they shall live happily ever after

I'm gonna marry them and they are going to live happily every after. Well... maybe Alpine snow is going to be paired with others, but these two are the perfect mate! 

Giveaway by GildedNails

Gilded Nails is holding an totally awesome giveaway I think all of you should check out.

I've been an avid reader of Gilded Nails before I even started this blog, and she is definitely a great nail artist, another guru I have great respect for. Her swatches are so so pretty and perfect, haihhh... when will I ever be there? Look at my messy... no... let's not go there... haha


Anyway, she is celebrating her 1500 followers giveaway, so the price is grand indeed. It is opened internationally so what are you girls waiting for? Go ahead and enter her giveaway~

The grand price is a BRAND NEW COMPLETE set of china glaze OMG collection. And TRUST ME, girls, those are Hard To Find, HG stuff which are discontinued. This is indeed a nail polish addict's dream. It's the sweetest dream ever to win this giveaway and these OMG collections from China Glaze is totally awesome holographic. Groans... I really need to get those, but why oh why did China Glaze discontinued it? Why?? Tell me why!!!

Anyway, second prize is a  brand new complete set of BYS color change. I haven't try on a BYS nail lacquer before but I've heard great reviews on them, and just look at those pretty colors! Don't you just want to snatch them away? It is an absolutely unique nail polish which will change color according to your body temperature! Amazing ain't it? Such a shame I couldn't get BYS here. Oh groans groans.... Her giveaways are simply awesome!

Third prize is a complete set of Face Of Australia Molten Metallics, brand new. Another brand heard of, seen the swatches, but just not accessible here! Argh! Honestly! Those metallics are just simply any girl's dream, even if you aren't a metallic girl.

Remember to follow her on her blog at http://www.gildednails.co/2011/05/1500-follower-giveaway.html to join her giveaway!