Day 31 – Recreate your Favorite Challenge

Day 31 – Recreate your Favorite Challenge

Hello! Today will be the day the challenge bids farewell to all of us. And for Day 31’s rules is to Recreate your Favorite Challenge.

But before I do that, I just want to share with you the gift I received from my sister last New Year.

This pack includes Sassy 2 way Nail Art Pen in Black, Bobbie Purple Passion and Chic Missy Daisy. I looove all of those and can’t wait to try all of them.

So going back to the challenge, I decided to recreate Day 17 which is glitters. This day isn’t my favorite. But I decided I’d do this for two reasons. One is because I wanted to make up for not posting a better glitter polish and two, so that I’ll have a reason to use my new polish.

I thought I’d use Bobbie Purple Passion. Purple Passion is a very pale purple polish with tons of micro holographic glitters. Here’s how they look like inside the bottle.

Aren’t they lovely? I fell in love the moment I saw it. I tried putting it as it is. But the polish is so sheer that even 3 coats can’t make it opaque. I decided to put a base color instead.

See what I mean? I used Essence Got a Secret as the base color. And even at this angle, you can see the shining shimmering splendid holo glitters. Got a Secret is a gray polish but it started looking like lavender after using Purple Passion. The formula is super okay and application is a breeze. I had 2 coats of Got a Secret and two coats of Purple Passion. One more good thing about this is that it dries quickly and not as thick. I remember my other Bobbie polish will feel thick on my nails.

Here’s a better look at the glitter goodness.

And a closer look.

I think this polish would work well if it will be used like a top coat. I will try to use this on top of different colors one of these days. The polish is so awesome that I cannot stop staring at my nails even the day after (I decided not to remove it yet). These photos do not even give justice on how splendid this polish is. And for just PHP35 (approximately US$0.81), this polish is totally worth it.

What do you guys think?

Day 17 – Glitters

Hi guys! I can’t believe I went this far on this challenge. Can you believe that I’m already on the 17^th day? For today I will be showing you some Glitter nails.

For today’s challenge, I let my 8 year old nephew choose what color should I use. He chose Elianto Yellow. I really love the yellow shade but the application is really a pain in the neck. You’ll need 3 medium coats to make it opaque but yet, it’s still streaky. you would need a top coat to at least even it out.

After putting on 2 coats of Essence Space Queen, the streaks are not anymore visible. Space Queen have small multicolored glitters on a clear base. But I feel that the polish is so thick that I would have to wait till tomorrow to let it dry. (of course, I’m exaggerating). Here’s a closer look.

Those “sparklies” are the glitters. I actually like those glitters, maybe its just the color combination. I’m not really satisfied with how this turned out. It’s like I wanna remove this and change it with another one. But its too late for me to do that now. Before I wrap things up, let me show you how it looks in the bottle.

Lesson learned: not to use Space Queen over Yellow. Anyway, I have few more hours to have this changed.

Colors used:

Elianto Yellow

Essence Space Queen

Day 9 - Rainbow

At the end of the rainbow there is a pot of gold, I will be there and the gold will be mine.

Hi guys! Before anything else, I would like to apologize for the blurry pictures. I didn't realize it till now that I am posting it.

Today's challenge is the Rainbow Nails.

I decided to use my fan brush for the first time since I got it last year. As you would notice I really need more (and I really mean more) practice on this one. But I liked how each of the colors blend in the middle. I’m not really sure if it’s with my polish, the brush or my application skills

I use white as base color before applying the other colors. It went pretty smooth at first but as the polish thickens, the application becomes pain in the neck.

I am just planning to put in the colors on the nails as it is, but my sister suggested that I add something gold (because of the quote I mentioned on the beginning of this post). I tried to draw a “pot of gold” but didn’t turn out the way I liked. My nephew even said it looks like a garbage bag. Haha!

So I decided to paint on the rainbow colors on my thumb and add on gold glitters instead. And I’m happy on how it turned out.

Do you really think there’s a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?

Colors used:

Bobbie Vamp

Bobbie Salmon

Caronia Sweet Surprise

Bobbie Lush

SanSan Warm Blue

SanSan Violet Glam

LA Colors Art Deco Violet

Sassy Nail Art Brush Red

LA Colors Art Deco Yellow

Neon Blue

En Vue

Day 1 – Red

This is supposed to be up yesterday. But due to severe colds, I was not able to think and write something about this. So today, you will be seeing two days of the challenge.

For Day 1 is the color Red. I started looking at my stash for a polish I haven’t showed you yet. I remembered the polish I left for my sister to use when I went to Holland. I can not imagine how she was able to live 3 months with just one polish. Anyway, here is the polish I’m talking about.

Bobbie Vamp

This is Bobbie Vamp a regular red crème polish. Bobbie is a local brand in the Philippines, and I doubt if it’s available outside the country. I really love this shade of red. Aside from its very bright red color, I also love its formula. This color stood out from all of my other Bobbie polish since it only needs two coats to be fully opaque. It’s also very easy to apply

Bobbie Vamp

Here are other picture of this lovely red polish.

Bobbie Vamp

Ever since I started loving nail art, I got bored with just plain polish. I always wanted to add something else. So I decided to add some glitters to my polish.

En Vue Glitters

This is En Vue. Another polish that I got from Cindy. She did have a lot of disposable polish that she barely use and this is one of those that can still be used. I love the combination of the big and small glitters.

Christmas Wrapper Nails

I already this polish combination but was not able to post it back then. I decided I’d redo this so that I can show this to you. I also think that this is in line with the season. Why, you’d ask?

My sister said that this mani reminds her of a Christmas wrapper that we have here. These wrappers are usually those free wrappers in our Department Stores when you opted to have your gifts wrapped there. They do have 2 versions of this, one is with green and the other is this one. And yes, my sister is right, it do look like Holiday wrappers.

Christmas Wrapper Nails

What can you say about my Christmas wrapper nails?

Colors used:

Bobbie Vamp

En Vue Glitters