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Tip top Nails

 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!

On crack!

HI!

Today I'm going to show you a nail polish that I got as a gift yesterday from my cousin. She knows me too well.
She bought Deborah Pret a Porter Crackle polish no.9. She had no idea that this is a crackle polish so I had to tell her alllll about the crackles =) ( like there is a lot to tell =))
Anyway it wouldn't be me if I wouldn't try it on as soon as possible, and since my cousin said that it would look great over white I just had to polish my nails in this combination =).
I used Essence White Hype and Deborah Pret a Porter no.9 ( one coat of each)




As you can see I started watermarking my pictures in the middle, just because of THIS! If you aren't familiar with the first picture you can find it here. Instead of linking it was easier to chop of half of my finger. I'm really happy that chopping of a finger isn't all that easy in real life  =)

Happy polishing to all of you =)

Depend polishes in SLO!

Hi girls? How have you been?


Today I'm not going to be very long, because I'm in serious lack of time =).
The first thing I'm going to show you my recent hauls:
You can see that we have now Depend available in SLO. I just had to pick 2 colours =).
Also a while ago I made a purchase in one Turkish internet store and I'm planning to review the customer services and polishes, but I'm also planning to show you 2 swaps that I haven't showed you the pictures yet =). 
To make my decision easier please let me know what would you like to see next(besides my manicures).

Also because I realised that I don't like crackle effect with black polishes, I decided I'm going to give a lila crackle a chance, and since they only cost 2,1€, I just had to try it out. Because the pink part of the duo nail polish looked perfect after 2 days, I decided I'm going to applay this crackle to it. 
Here are the pictures of what I ended up with:




First 2 shade the last on sun =)
It was one of the rear crackle manicures I liked =)
Maybe I'll buy some crackles now since I liked this one, but I already know that I'm going to rush into buying the crackle effect polishes and I won't be happy with them in the end.
What do you think about this manicure?
It lasted 4 days on my nails almost without tip wear, but today I was so nervous(I had to learn) that I just "eat the polish off". Mmmmmm, that was delicious=(. 

Kelier Crackle polish in black review

It's time to review the Kelier crackle nail polish(no.3 on the picture below) from Born Pretty store.
I had I 2 problems with this polish, but when I realised what I was doing wrong I got a pretty cool effect on my nails =).
The first problem was, that this polish doesn't work well with dry nail polishes! It just doesn't stick to it and peels right of when dried.
My second problem was , that I applied the crackle polish on a wet nail polish too fast, and the result was that even the base polish cracked. I really didn't like that result.

To solve my last problem I did a little test. I polished my nails with the base and than waited for 2 minutes and then apply crackle polish on the first nail, than I waited 3 minutes and applied crackle polish on the second nails. In the end I compared the results of the cracking effect, and the one I was most satisfied with was the look I got after 6 minutes. 

The only thing I had to do is to make a manicure that included 6 minutes of drying time for a base =)

I used gold polis from Beautyline as a base 2 coats.

Here is the look I got:

Daylight

My favourite crack

Under my daylight lamp

I am really impressed by the final look. I have to warn you only about one thing. You should apply a top coat right after the cracking process ended, because if you don't the crackle polish will chip really fast. I took pictures of my manicures 2 hours after I painted my nails, and you can already see, that the polish chipped at my tips.

The polish contains 15ml
The price is 4,52$
you can get it in 8 colors


I just couldn't stop looking at my nails, because I really liked the effect.

How do you like it?
I usually don't like gold color at all, but I'm really in love in this look =)

(this product was sent to me to review from Born Pretty store)
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