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Madam Glam Glitter My Life and Wine Divine

Hi!

Today I'm going to show you 2 nail polishes from Madam Glam. Madam Glam is a store from USA that sells gel and regular nail polish (they also sell other decorative cosmetics). They offer a wide variety of colours, but the most interesting thing in their store is definitely colour change gel nail polish and gel nail pens!
Today I have swatches of two nail polishes prepared for you.

Glitter My Life

A beautiful silver glitter/sand finish nail polish with larger hexagonal glitter. I think this is a must have in every girls collection! It looks elegant and because of the sand finish it has a special touch.  I already know that I'll wear this one on new year's eve! 
I used 2 coats, application was super easy and it dried pretty fast.
(did not test the wear time)



I also did some nail art on it. I used stripping tape and Essie Licorice as a base. I really like the way it turned out!



Wine Divine

This one is also a classic that every girl should have. It is a dark magenta with magenta shimmer that gives it a lot of depth. 
I used 3 coats, because I had some bald spots after second coat and I was afraid that it will be noticeable in the pictures. Nail polish itself dried fast. Sometimes nail polishes that are packed with shimmer leave brush strokes on my nails, but this one didn't which gives it another bonus point!




I also played a little with this one! I used Pueen 38 and BarryM Gold foil. On all of the nails the design is the same I just turned it a little or I did not transfer the image completely. To me it looks like Christmas ornaments.
I'm not completely satisfied, because it could look better, but it is still wearable =)




The store also offered and early Black Friday coupon code which will give you 40% off on items in your shopping chart. Just use code BFColorfulbottle!



These products were sent to me for a reviw. See my disclosure policy.

Big mix


Hi!

I had a lot of really old manicures that deserve to go public, but since they are so old I managed to save only a picture or two of a manicure

The first one is China Glaze Ahoy stamped with Bundle Monster 221 over a pale pink ( I don't know the name of the nail polish since this picture is about 4 years old). 
I was never a pink person until I met Ivana from Ivana Thinks Pink, but even now I'd pick purple or blue over pink any time. But when it comes to Ahoy! the story is completely different. I really can't remember where or when I got this one, but it was love at first sight and now I own 3 bottles of this gorgeous colour =).

In this picture there is S-he stylezone 155 stemped with China Glaze Ahoy! and BM plate no. 019.

The last one is Essence Style me Love from Nails in Style LE.
I stamped it over with Konad special nail polish in black and stamping plate m57. Although I'm not a fan of animal print, I really LOVED this one. I'm already thinking about recreating this manicure.


Do you have some old pictures waiting to be publishes on your flash drive?

Fleur De Sante: Silvery Pink

Hi!

Today's post will be mostly in SLO language, because I am doing a review on a product from SLO Fleur de Sante. In the end I'll try tu sum up my review in english.


Pozdravljene!

Tokrat izjemoma pišem v slovenskem jeziku. Ker mi v življenju slovenščina nikoli ni ležala, vas lepo prosim, da se ne smejite preveč mojim slovničnim napakam, še posebej vejicam =).

Kot sem že v prajšnji objavi pokazala, sem od FdS SLO dobila 5 izdelkov v oceno, danes vam bom predstavila prvega. Izbrala sem si lak za nohte z imenom Silvery Pink iz linije FdS make-up. 

Nanesla sem 2 plasti laka, lak se je posušil zelo hitro, nanašal se je pa kot pesmica ( kljub majhni steklenički in čopiču). Barva me je zelo presenetila, saj sem pričakovala bolj frosty finiš in sledove čopičev, posušil pa se je v čudovit kovinski finiš(z minimalnimi sledovi čopiča). 


Obe sliki sta narejeni pod day light žarnico, saj na žalost v času slikanja vreme ni bilo primerno še za sliko na naravni svetlobi. 
Lak je izgledal potencialni kandidat za štempljanje, to pa morem še stestirati.

Kje lahko dobiš ta lak?

V trgovini Fleur de Sante
cena: 5,99€

Kmalu objavim ocene še ostalih novih pridobitev, ki so prav tako odlične!

For my international readers:
I applied 2 coats of this polish, it dried quickly to a lovely metal finish. I didn't test it for stamping, but I think it will work great with stamping. This polish is from FdS make-up line and it is called Silvery Pink. 

Stay tuned for more reviews and posts!

*This product was sent to me for reviewing purpouses*

Finally! Essence Colour and change swatches

Today I'm finally showing you Essence colour  change swatches I bought recently =)

I bought 3, there are 4 in this line, but the orange one didn't seem attractive enough so it stayed on the shelf =)

The first one I swatched  was unexpected galaxy because I thought it will have matte finish, but instead it surprised me with a lovely metallic finish.
I applied only one coat and it was completely opaque, so  I had to check if it stamps well and it does, but I'll show you the picture later =).
I like this colour, it is a very dark metallic silvery purple which changes to IMO prettier purple when  TC is applied.
Lets take a look at the pictures:
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I played a little bit with one of my top coats an got these looks: 
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In this combination I prefer the one with TC


 Next on is sweet suprise
This one is also a one coater and it stamps great too =). It immediately remembered me on CG Admire, but in fact they are quite different. This one has chrome finish so you have to be really careful with ridges and application. 

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I got these looks when I applied TC:
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I was really impressed with this colour combination as well.I had to choose I'd pick pink over red. 



The last one is a shade called wonderlicious green. I don't know why they decided to name this polish green since I don't see even a tiny bit of green colour in this polish.
This one is one coater as well. Application was great and as the other 2 shades this one dries fast too =)

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This is what I got after playing with TC:
( you can clearly see that I ran out of ideas )

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On my pinkie I used a really thin coat of TC so the colour change effect isn't that visible, but this only happens with the blue one, with other two I didn't have problems

I must warn you! This picture is really not colour accurate. The colour changed blue should be a bit darker, but I failed to capture it. I really like the darker blue in this combination.


This is how they work with stamping:
( please forgive me for such a bad quality picture)
L without TC, R with TC ( If I used another TC desings probably wouldn't be smudged that much)


My overall opinion:

I was really impressed with them. They are easy to work with, great for stamping, colour contrast is really visible, but you have to make sure that you apply enough top coat. Their price was about 2,2€ which is much less than BarryM Chameleon  
Essence congratulations, you put another great stuff on the market for a very reasonable price!


I already have one pretty nail art in mind with 2 of them. 
I'll probably use them a lot for stamping, because they stamp pretty well, and when I'll get sick of on colour I'll only add TC and get a completely different combination =).

I also tried what would happen if I stamped TC on colour change polish. I discovered that this doesn't work, because the layer of TC is too thin.

What do you think of them? Are they a must have or they don't catch your attention? 

Which one of  this shades is your favourite?

I'm baaaaaaack with a challenge invitation!!!!


 Hi!

I'm back from my very long "holidays". Here are the reasons I was gone: I was lacking inspiration and motivation, I had big issues with one of my exams and I didn't allow myself to write a blog, and there wasn't a lot of free time in my life. I still don't have a lot of free time, but I still hope I'll have time to post at least twice a week. I hope I don't lose my inspiration too soon again =).

Anyway, I won't be talking on and on about why I was gone. Here is what I'm wearing today:
It is Catrice: Heavy Metallic, awesome purple that didn't allow me to capture all of her glorious purple metallic look, because on almost all of the pictures it looks tooooooooo blue. 
Picture this polish with no blue:
Mission impossible right?
As you probably noticed there was a lot of bubbling going on on my nails, but I didn't figure out yet what is causing it.
I don't have any top coat on.

The next pictures was taken in direct sunlight, here the color is much more realistic, but it is still not perfect


What  do you think, is it pretty enough that bubbling can be ignored?

 I also started making nail polish rings

I really liked the way this polish looks on me, so I had to make one ring with this nail polish. What do you think of it? I loooove it =).
Please excuse my poor dry skin, but I haven't find a way how tu cure my poor skin yet. 

Here are also some other cabochons I made for rings: 


They were really hard to photograph, so sorry for the crappy quality.
What do you think of them?



Now off to the challenge. Mateja from Purple Glitters made a really interesting Black and White Challenge, it will start on the 1st of March, so if you want to take a part in it, do not hesitate and contact me or Mateja (purpleglittersblog(at)yahoo(dot)com)  for details. If you join I know we'll have loads of fun =)

Have fun!!!
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