Tip top Nails

12:58 AM colorfulbottle 30 Comments

 Hi!

Today I'm going to present you one of my favourite brands! I don't know this brand for a long time, but when I tried it I immediately fall in love in it. Now here is the story about how I got those new beauties in my collection =)

A while ago wonderful Joan from Tip Top Nail contacted me if I'd join their challenge on FB, and I said I'm really busy  but I gave a kind compliment on their polishes, and she was so nice that she offered me to send me something. I was expecting one bottle of nails polish, but when my package came I was really speechless =). I got 3 Nail chic polishes, one crackle polish, quick dry top coat and cuticle oil! I didn't know where to start with watching  but in the end I decided to start with the pink one!

You probably all heard about Tip Top Nails from South Africa, but I think that I should thell you a little bit about them!

Tip Top Nails was founded in 1981, and since that time they become the biggest retail nail brand selling out of our largest chain stores in South Africa. And because their quality is just too good not to be available for the girls from all over the world they decided to go international! I really hope that they come to Slovenia some day =). 
Their products are cruelty free and don't contain formaldehyde, dibutyl phthalate, toluene and camphor. 
They offer a wide spectra of colours and their quality and application is great. 


Here is what Joan sent me:




I started swatching the pink one, it is called Tickled Pink
This is one of the most beautiful pink polishes I have in my collection! 
I used 2 coats, application was flawless and the polish dried quickly



Next is Armourplate ( I love the name)
I applied 2 coats, (I could have gotten away with only one if I were more careful with the first one), great application, great brush, dried fast
This one is a lovely metallic silver, it dried a bit frosty, but it didn't bother me. I'll definitely be using this one a lot, especially for stamping because it stamps awesomely =)






 Here is a proof how great it stamps =)


The last on from NailChic line is Creme De Banana
This one took 3 coats, but just because my Light Box has a strong light =)
Again flawless application, great dry time. I don't like that colour a lot, but I don't hate it ether.





After the first swatching day my nail broke so I had to file them down, so my swatches of crackling polish are made with much shorter nails and the lightning was bad, and I didn't have my lightbox with me so these 2 pictures seriously lack in quality

For this one I used 2 coats of Black polish from BeautyUK and one coat of U Crack Me Up from Tip Top Nails in silver.
This was the end result:




I didn't apply any top coat, because I really liked matte look =)
( crackle polish dried matte)

I also received quick dry top coat and cuticle oil in my package! I tested them both and here is my opinion:

Quick dry top coat doesn't dry as fast as Seche Vite, but it still dries quickly and it has a great shine. I like it a lot

Cuticle oils is the one that impressed me the most. I've been using it for a week now and I just love how nourishing it is to my cuticles. and it is not to greasy =). Really great product!

Some day I just have to try out Miraculous results( nail build base coat), because I think this is the most recommended item from their line.

You can find Tip Top Nails here:

I strongly advice you to like their Facebook page, because they share a lot of useful tips on nail care, nail polish removal, nail polish use and many other thing there, and they also host a lot of great nail art challenges!

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one of the best shopping experience ever

11:39 PM colorfulbottle 26 Comments

Hi!

I was supposed to write this post a long time ago, but with my writing speed you know that everything comes with at least one month of delay =). At least I share things with you, this matters too right?

Now, where should I start?

My friend Sara from Passing Fancy got really excited upon Korean brands, so we decided to buy some. Sara found a lovely blog that sells Korean brands and contacted Cristina the blog owner if she ships to Slovenia, and when she said yes, you can imagine how quickly we ended up with a long list of polishes =)

I'll tell you more about lovely Cristina in the end of the post, but first let's take a look at the pictures =)


I bought:
Tony Molly: Shooting star, Milky way and Pinky star

Close up on Pinky star
 and on Shooting star

And Milky way on my nails =)
Don't ask me about how many coats I used, because I forgot, but I assure you that there were at least 3 =)





 Next are: Etude House Pettite darling 505, Skin Food Puppy Purple ( this one was chosen by Cristina), Peripera Matallic green ( P019)
Close up on Puppy Purple
and Etude House 505


And these are all bonus polishes I got from Cristina! Can you imagine the look on my face when I saw this polishes! 
Etude House pp901, ( I'm not sure what brand is this, but it is a lovely glittery polish with pink hearts =))), innisfree 108 and 97(flakes)

Close up on the flakes:
Can't wait to put it over red polish!

 Tried to do a close up on the hearts, but I failed =(

and 108

 And that is not all!
Cristina also included loads of samples! I've been using them all month and I think I'm not close to an end =)



I just love baking powder cleaning foam! It smells divine and does the work wonderfully =)

Now after seeing this lovely polishes you are probably curious where to get these items?

Because this items were bought in a blog shop I decided I'll present this store on a bit more personal level =)
I decided to ask Cristina a few questions that you might be interested in

Here is what she replied to me:

My name's Cristina (aka tadukhipa) ad I'm actually from Romania and I came here 4 years ago as a student. However after 1 year I had to go back home to graduate from university. And while I was there I tried getting korean makeup without bothering my korean friends too much but the sites that were available at the time had super high prices and the shipping was also expensive so when I returned (to get married to my fiance:P) I knew I was going to be here for a long time so I thought why don't I just do the whole blog shop thing.  Actually in the first few months I wasn't even making profit at all but then I met my partner who has been in Korea for 6 years and managed to expande the 'business' and it turned into thecutestmakeup.com
The reason we don't want to do the whole online shop where u just click and add to cart is because we prefer the more human interaction where people know exactly what's going on with their order and what options they have. ^^
My partner has an office around Eehwa station where are tons of cosmetics store and we just get the stuff from there and we pack it in her office/storage room. About shipping I can't really give an estimate because it depends on item (liquid/solid etc), weight, size and shipping options (bubble mailer - cheapest, no tracking, items like sprays, toner etc cannot be shipped with this, 10-14 days, extra fees are usually not the case but it depends by country;  EMS - box, tracking, a bit on the expensive side but the safest and fastest, takes 3-5 days,  only exception is sprays everything else can be shipped by this method;  Surface - box, very cheap, takes 2-3 months however, limited tracking, only exception is sprays everything else can be shipped by this method) 
At the moment we only have the blog  www.thecutestmakeup.com  and the facebook page and we also have a twitter account https://twitter.com/thecutestmakeup and a pinterest one too http://pinterest.com/tadukhipa/korean-makeup/ .


I do hope you like this approach =)

Here is my opinion:
This was a very pleasant experience! I had fun looking at her blog and deciding what to choose. With some polishes it was hard to decide, because the pictures are sometimes small and there aren't a lot of swatches on-line  but I think I picked just perfect polishes =). I firstly wanted Lioele Matte nail polish, but it wasn't on stock this is why I decided to trust Cristina's taste in polish and I said to her to send me on Skin Food nail polish of her choice, and you can see that her taste in polish is just amazing! She got me something I don't have and is really beautiful, and I have to admit this is really hard since I probably have like 300+ polishes =). . The only downside of this purchase was the fees. Since it wasn't a purchase in EU, we had to pay about 1$ for a polish more, but I also think it was worth it =). Not to mention I got loads of free things, beautiful free things =).
Did I mention that Cristina got us 5$ discount?


What are waiting for? check out  The Cutest Makeup 


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