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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:

Website

Twitter

and Facebook

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!

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

Hi!

A some time ago I showed you in this post how many awesome goodies I got from Amanda from The Nail Polish Enthusiast. Because we all got so many new goodies we decided to do guest post with our new polishes. Here is what Amanda prepared:

Hi ladies! Today I have the pleasure of guest posting for Dolores! Dolores and I swap with each other as often as we can so we can both get our hands on some lovely polishes neither of us have access to in our own countries. This time, we decided to trade posts for each other to show off what we got! I couldn't pick just one polish to show you, so I decided to do a skittle mani with some sparkles on top. I started with ALL the Barry M polishes that Dolores sent me, from pinky to thumb: Strawberry Ice Cream, Peach Melba, Lemon Ice Cream, Blueberry Ice Cream, and Berry Ice Cream (on my thumb, I'm holding the bottle). These all covered really easily in two coats.

Then, because I adore glitter, I added some various patterns on each nail to add some sparkle! On my thumb, I did some dots with giant hex glitters, my index is a gradient with loose blue glitter, I added gold stars to my middle finger, loose orange iridescent glitter in a diagonal on my ring, and Essence Nail Art Twins Carrie on the pinky (this is one I got from Dolores too!).

I know this isn't Dolores' usual style but it was the perfect time to make a glitter appearance on her blog! I hope you all enjoyed what I came up with and thanks to Dolores for getting me these lovelies! <3

xoxo,
Amanda

Don't you just love it?

Although I don't use glitter a lot I really think that Amanda rocks it!

Hi!

I see striping tape manicure everywhere all the time, so I decided ( a while ago) to try it out, and I must say that I really LOVE what I ended up with.

I used striping tape I got from ebay, I'll make a review post in the near future (this time I mean it)

For this manicure I used China Glaze Millennium as a base and China Glaze Deviantly Daring on top. Each was applied in one coat =)

The only downside of this manicure was that it started chipping in less than a day! But at least I got to change my nails =)

Do you like it?

Have you tried striping tape manicure?

I know I'm a bit late ( not a bit, but 10 days). I'm sorry about that, but I've had my reasons =)

For this part I had to make something wavy. When I looked the design on BM 209 I thought that it looks just as wavy as I want it, but when I transferred design on my nails and with this color combination it doesn't look wavy at all. Wavy or not, I liked this look, and I hope you like it too =)

Items Used:

OPI: Dutch'ya just love OPI?

BM 209 and Essence magic wand =)

I'll prepare a post containing all the pictures from threee challenge in the near future =)

HI!

Today I'm going to show you my swap pictures!

I've wanted to show you this pictures for such a long time, but there always came something in-between =(. Now I finally have some pictures to show you.

Firstly I have to warn you that there was MANY, MANY more but some items were for my friends and I gave things to them before I took pictures! Silly me! I also have to mention that this were 3 big swap packages =). And me and Amanda are already working on another package =)

Who is Amanda? She is my fairy godmother when it comes to nail polish. She sent me my favourite nail polishes! She always puts a little extra in the package that brightens my day =). She is really the best! I seriously recommend to all of you to go check out her blog, The Nail Polish Enthusiast! Because we exchanged soooooo many awesome polishes we decided to do guest post, so stay tuned for that as well!

You re probably wondering what I got from her.

Again I should mention, that there was a lot more, but something went to my friends =)

Here are the amazing pictures: