China Glaze - Flying Dragon (Neon)

Today is so lazy day. I don't know what's happening but I don't have any energy. And weather is so bad - it's something between raining and cloudy! Boring, really boring!

Because of bad weather I decide to lacquer my nails, that always make me feel better. For today I pick China Glaze - Flying dragon (Neon). It a creme purple with a blue and pink glitter in it.

I add 3 coats, because it's a little streaky after 2 so I add another one to make it more perfect. It dries very fast and its finish is matte! Click on the picture to see blue and pink glitter better! On the bottle you can easily see glitter, really looks gorgeous through the bottle.

With flash

Is there another version of this polish? Because this one from Nihrida and this one from Elchy doesn't look like mine? Mine is really not so dark, I think I capture quite a real color.

One extra photo with lots of walnuts in background! Do you like walnuts?

Thank you for reading and wish you a nice beginning of this week!

Ivana

Giraffe Manicure

Yesterday I was reading blogs I follow as usual and I saw this cute tutorial for Giraffe Manicure at Katrina's Nail Blog. She really did an amazing job! Thank you for the tutorial, it's really helpful!

I was really impressed with it, because it's so cute and adorable, but I didn't think I'll do it too, well not yesterday. I had in plan to remove Rich & Famous, but then I give a giraffe a try, but I wasn't sure if I could do it. I really don't have a hand for any nail art, so I just love konad for upgrading my manicures.

I choose different color for base and for dots, but I did a quite similar giraffe as Katrina, but my giraffe isn't so adorable like her. All I've used is on this picture.

Base color: China Glaze - Rich & Famous
Dots on giraffe: Essence LE Into the Wild - Desert Fox
Dots: Essence LE Sun Delicious: Sunny Side Up
TC: Seche Vite Dry Fast TC

I don't have a dotting tool, so I had to improvise. I tried with toothpick, pencil,... but it didn't work. But then I try a ballpoint and it worked!!! Dots aren't so round but for the for the first time of doing this I was quite satisfied.

So, here is the picture of my version of Giraffe Manicure.

What do you think - Fail or success?? Maybe it would be better with other colors and not pink. It's really not difficult so if I can make it, everyone can! If anyone will do this manicure, please let me know I would really love to see them.

Happy Sunday!

Ivana

China Glaze - Rich & Famous Matte & Comparison

On the request I add a Matte Topcoat on beautiful bright jelly pink Rich & Famous.

Let me show you a comparison with TC and with matt TC. TC I use is Seche Vite and matte TC is Essie - Matte about you.

On all nails

Tips are so much more visible on pictures as in real! What do you think? What finish do you prefer more? I really like both. At first I was sure I won't like matte, but I really love it! I think I'll matte more pinks in the future.

When I usually upload pictures, Blogger always made it worse and bad quality. So I find out what helps! If you save your image as .png and not .jpg quality of picture stays good and even if you resize the picture! Just the uploading time is longer, but I really think it's worth to wait.

Hope you all have a great Saturday!!

Ivana

China Glaze - Rich & Famous

Let's start the 1st day of October with a gorgeous pink polish!

Next China Glaze from my little collection is Rich & Famous, gorgeous bubble gum pink. Do I love it? Of course!

I add 2 coats and Seche Vite TC. I think it's more jelly as creme, butI really have problems with defining a finish and color of nail polishes. My tips are in RL a little bit more visible, but I didn't add another coat because I love it like it is!

All pictures were taken outside on a cloudy day. I played with setting of my camera to capture real color, so my skintone is weird on last picture.

Today officialy started my last year on Faculty of Administration!!!I have now 1 year to make a few exams from last year and to write my thesis. Can't wait! I never liked this school so I'm really happy that will be over soon.

For all students, I wish you a nice beginning of new school year and a lot of good marks (especially 10)!

BTW, you have a few hours left to enter my tiny giveaway here!

Happy Friday!

Ivana

China Glaze - Something Sweet

I have something sweet for you today. Second China Glaze polish. It's so soft ant lovely and for sure sweet, so thank you Carolina for sending me this beauty.

Something sweet from Up & Away collection is a beautiful pastel baby pink creme nail polish. This collection is so cute!

I was surprised with the application, because pastels are usually so hard to apply and they need about 3 coats for perfect opacity. But this one has very good application, I add 2 coats and Seche Vite.

Bad weather so here are bad pictures, it always came out white, so I had to play with camera settings to capture pink color in it, but still I think it's even more beautiful in RL.

What do you think? Do you like pastels?

My current manicure is calling for stamping, do you agree? I haven't done any stamping these days, because I still don't have new image plates and these I have, became boring to me. I always want so many thing at the same time, but I'm broke at the moment and I can't purchase for all I want. But my next image plate will definetely be M79, just because of polka dots pattern. I loooove all the manicures and combos I'm seeing on blogs with this pattern. My WL is really every day bigger and bigger!

Hope you all have a great time,
Ivana