Jessica Smoky Feathers & Ciate Jewels
Bought Jessica’s Smoky Feathers off a local polish lover, Annette (THANK YOU!) and at a great price too. I’m not too sure myself where to get it them locally, but according to thebeautybooth.com (where both polishes are available) they’re pretty exp at 8.95 pounds (S$18 SGD) and Ciate goes for 9 pounds (S$18 SGD). You can find them at beautybay.com as well for 8.50 pounds (S$17 SGD), which also has free international shipping. It... Read More
Butter London Swatches
Finally got my hands on them Butter London polishes! Interestingly, these polishes aren’t from London – They’re from the USA, and are Formaldehyde, Toluene, DBP & Paraben free. They have a page with details of who/what they named their polishes after (inspired by things/people from The Great Britain), get acquainted with them at the butter LONDON dictionary here! I got 3 of their best sellers and 2 others! Henley Regatta,... Read More
Nubar Petunia Sparkle & Violet Sparkle
Nubar’s range of sparkle polishes really has me going…. Before I found Ozotics, their range of sparkle polishes are the only ones that actually “move” me deeply. *weeps* Not sure why I took so many years later to add these two to my lonesome Night Sparkle (review here, 2 years ago!) – I guess it’s because they were somewhat hard to procure back then for Singaporeans. Now, you can get them over at Mei Mei’s... Read More
Layla Hologram Effects
I rushed to get them after seeing swatches from The Polishaholic! Yes, this was yet another “shut up and take my money!” moment. I won’t deny it – polishes are my weakness. I got them from Harlow & Co (based in Canada), which also stocks Nubars, Glitter Gal, Nerd Lacquers, Picture Polish – International Shipping is free for orders above $50 and each bottle is $16 USD, which is around 21 $SGD. (Also stocks on other... Read More
Max Factor Fantasy Fire + Nfu Oh 51
This is the supposed dupe of Clarins 230, and every one wanted to get their hands on it! Unfortunately for us, we don’t have it over here in Singapore and I had to get it shipped from the UK! Thanks to a friend for helping me get it! It’s just a 5ml bottle though, and people on eBay are making all the money off selling this at really inflated prices! (think 30sgd for a 5ml bottle!) I initially did this as a full manicure, but I realized... Read More
OPI New York City Ballet Soft Shades 2012
I got these 3 shades from Tammy of timtam00.blogspot.com (Have you checked out her GSS selection yet? Quote “EVONNZ” for 20% off!) and I love her service, plus quick delivery and she has really great customer service. I’ve always been on the lookout for great french manicure shades, and this selection was just great! Honestly it was always a hit and miss – Prior to this collection, I’ve purchased about 7 bottles... Read More
Some Nubars swatches – Moon Dust, Iris Dust, Gem and Honeysuckle
Got some Nubar nail polishes from beautybay.com (free shipping! Plus Nubars are pretty reasonably priced over there!), and opening them just made my day. Gorgeous gorgeous colors! Moon Dust Greenish Gold – Magenta Duochrome. Very pretty, I love the magenta here, it is just so rich and vampy looking! Iris Dust Iris dust is a transformer. Shifts from Pink TO Gold – Yes all 4 images are of the same polish! Beautiful. Gem Taupe... Read More
Some Zoyas Swatches – Yara, Kristen, Avery, Maisie, Twila
Zoya Kristen Kristen is from the Zoya Feel Winter Collection 2011. I love this dusty grey-blue shade… So soft, and feels so… dove. View swatches of the entire Zoya Feel Collection over at Scrangie’s site. Zoya Avery Avery is also from Zoya’s Feel Winter 2011 Collection, and like what Scrangie says… it really looks like a bottle of foundation. Personally I don’t like this – and frankly speaking... Read More
Round Tip French Manicure
Was gifted with Best Nail Treatments’ Bunny Girl by Meimei’s Signatures, thank you dear! Best Nail Treatments’ Bunny Girl is a pretty pink in the bottle, and I know the brand name makes it sound like it’s a base coat or a topcoat, but it’s really a polish meant for french manicures and this color is just the perfect shade of jelly nude-pink! Here’s a swatch of it, 3 coats alone. A bit of a visible nail... Read More
China Glaze Tronica – High Def & Electra Magenta Swatches
I searched high and low for these, and I actually stood in front of them for 10 minutes searching for them because in the bottles, they didn’t look too impressive – I couldn’t spot the holo! I was wondering if I’d be disappointed – but after swatching them, I’m glad I got them! The Tronica collection is really pretty. High Def Was so, so so glad that I managed to get this shade! It’s a slightly muted royal... Read More
An Armed & Ready Essie & China Glaze Electric Beat / Prismatics from Spring 2012 collections
Essie & China Glaze both launched more than just one collection for the first quarter of 2012. My god! First from Essie, Essie Resort 2012, Essie Spring 2012 and Essie Go Overboard collection. And from the Go Overboard collection, I went straight for Armed & Ready! I was considering Go Overboard, but decided to scrape that as I have a similar shade from Orly. Armed & Ready I’ll call this a really dark, olive green accentuated... Read More
BeautyAsia 2012 – Day 1 (Quick Coverage for Nail Polish Lovers)
Quick BeautyAsia Update This year’s BeautyAsia convention runs from 20th – 22nd Feb (till Wednesday), at Suntec Convention Hall (on the 4th Level, you can’t possibly miss it) and opens from 11am till 7pm. Prices China Glaze at $5 / 8 (depending on retailer, there’s 2, Ugateway ($5), and another more exp stall (United Nails Supply) which sells the latest Prisms collection, but $5.5 price is only applicable only if you buy above... Read More
OPI Holland
The latest offering from OPI – Holland collection for Spring 2012, which sees 12 lovely new shades. (Scroll to the bottom for more information about the other colors and links to lovely swatches by other bloggers) After much poking around for swatches, I decided on two gorgeous colors (well actually, just one. The other one belongs to Veronica but it’s so pretty that I want another for myself!) Dutch ’Ya Just Love OPI? Opaque in just... Read More
A-England The Legend Collection
Not sure if any one has heard of the legend of Saint George. I first heard of it when I was in Barcelona, where Saint George is the Patron saint of Catalunya / Catalonia, Barcelona. In short, he’s the saint who fought a dragon to save a princess, pierced him with a sword and where the blood was it spilled grew red roses. If you want to read more about it here’s a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_George%27s_Day I loved A-England‘s... Read More
Some Rimmel polishes
Got them in London from Boots! Hot Shot Bright, neon pink. So bright that my camera went nuts and it turned orange so I had to adjust it a little in Lightroom… and tadah! My fingers are blue. Seriously. Very blue like almost poisoned cos I was swatching some blue polishes and they ALL stained my fingers! *Roars* Pretty color, nice brush.. And IIRC, cheap. LOL. It was a 2 for xx amount promotion in Boots. Not sure if you can find this in Singapore…... Read More
Essence Polish Swatches
Found them in Barcelona. Whew! Thereafter I never managed to find them anywhere in France Guess I didn’t know where to look! Essence Twin Effects The twin effects had really cute names. Troy & Gabriella, Belle and Edward. And as the above suggest, they work best in pairs! But they could be purchased separately, and since I already bought some cremes from Kiko that were similar to the creme part of the pairs… I just bought the glitter... Read More
Rachel’s Wedding 04-02-2012
Rachel’s big day! She looked really resplendent in all her dresses and her red cheongsam for the day (tea ceremony) was gorgeous and fits her so well! I like! Plus she really worked it out for her wedding man – figure was perfect. If only I had half her sportiness… haha. From Serena's phone. Us with Gary & Serena. Us! "Come dear I make your face V shaped." *puts hand on his face* lol Zhiyun & I camwhoring... Read More
Kiko Milano Polish Swatches
Some Kiko polishes I got in Rome, Italy. 245 (red) This cost me 3.90 Euros. The rest (below) are all 1.50 Euros (some promotion going on in store… I saw Kiko in Barcelona again but this time round they had no promos on the nail polishes, so I got make up instead! Prices in Italy and Barcelona were all the same.) 299 (teal blue, pearl-ascent) Reminds me of Zoya Kotori. But this is not as sheer. 301 (purple,... Read More
Accessorize Polishes (from London!)
From the moment I reached Europe I have been popping in and out and in and out of Accessorize shops to the extend where when le husband sees one he will automatically point it out to me. Hahaha. Anyway I was there only for the AWESOME polishes! (Which unfortunately, Singapore shops don’t carry.) Emerald City, Magic, Princess, Pink Spice, Aztec At £4 per bottle they’re pretty okay priced – but it’s a pretty small bottle at... Read More
Picture Polish Denim
Got a bottle of Denim from Susan (Subtle Shimmer) as I’ve actually wanted it for quite some time but didn’t have enough girls to spree with me. It’s an indigo jelly base packed with lovely blue glitter! A very unique shade this is. Application was alright, but do give it a bit more time to dry inbetween coats as I didn’t and thats why you see bald patches on my swatches. > _ < !!! They cost SGD $17 each from... Read More