Showing posts with label nail polish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nail polish. Show all posts
19/03/2011
Haul: Essence New Stuff
Hello Darlings :)
This time I bought something for me :)
Do you know that Essence has lunched a lot of new things? No, well go check it out if you can.
This is what I got (minus the gel eyeliner that is in the 2nd picture)
This was my first part of the haul (day 1)
Let's break it down:
From left to right: You Belong To Me (pastel blue, perfect for Spring), Let's Get Lost (pretty medium blue), Out Of My Mind (absolutely stunning duo chrome- blue and green), Where Is the Party (another duo chrome-green and purple, Irreplaceable (gorgeous beige with gold shimmer)
From left to right: Circus Confetti (it reminds me of Happy Birthday from Lippmann), Hello Holo (omg it's a holo topper), Cool and the Gang (a TRUE indigo), Bella (hopefully it's a dupe of H&M Bella's Choice, but I doubt it).
I also got 2 eye brushes. One is an angled brush for gel eyeliners and it's sooo soft, love it.
The other one is a crease brush and is truly the softest crease brush I own! If you have a chance, go buy it as it's cheap and better than many other brushes.
Ok, now I'll show you how the gel eyeliner looks like. I picked the purple one, because I love purple (heh, which color I don't love?) And of course I had to stick my finger in it. Do you know what happend? I picked up half of the gel eyeliner with it! (ok, I'm a bit exagerating, but it's extremely soft). I thought, well whatever, I'll test it out. Huh, see for yourself.
It did need some work to work (:D), but to me it wasn't purple. It looked black(ish) and it didn't last more than 3 hours on my eyes (and eyeliners stay put on my eyes).
So I love the nail polishes and adore the new brushes (all their brushes are amazing), but I would skip the gel eyeliner.
I love shopping :) Do you know why? Because I feel like a kid in a candy store with all those colors to chose from. And the best part is, that I can wear those colors (unlike with candy, where you eat them :D) and play with them. So the next time you see me in a cosmetic department giggling like crazy, you'll know why :D
Have fun,
XOXO
Parisky
14/03/2011
Review and Swatches: Illamasqua Toxic Nature
Hello Darlings :)
I really hope you've enjoyed my previous post on Beauty, but now it's time to get back on schedule with reviews of some latest collections. I promise I'll do some more inspirational posts as soon as I can.
Before Illamasqua's latest Spring/Summer 2011 Toxic Nature collection was available for the public to purchase, I got a sleek black box into my mail box. Guess what it was? Some products from Toxic Nature collection!
I got:
- Nail Polish in Gamma
- Cream Pigment in Emerge
- Cream Pigment in Dab
- Lipstick in Flare
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Cream Pigments
Dab
It's a lilac cream pigment with a matt finish.
Of course I had to try it right away on my eyes and I loved it! It makes my eyes pop and it's such a great colour for Spring as it reminds me of flowers in Spring and the fresh feeling I get in Spring :)
It looks great on the lips as well :)
Emerge
It's a peach cream pigment with matt finish.
I absolutely love this one! I wore it at work and felt so fresh and young with it on the eyes :) It gives you a "no-makeup" look instantaneously.
Emerge is very wearable as a lipstick as it gives you a nude look, but with a bit of colour. I think this may be the next "it" look for this spring.
And the swatches
At first I tried the pigments without any eye primer. They didn't crease for whole 15 minutes on my extra oily lids. Than I applied an eyeshadow on top and they didn't crease for approximately 1 hour and with an primer under the cream pigments they didn't crease for 5 hours, what really is something, if you ask me.
Pros:
+ Fresh Spring colours
+ The texture
+ The formula
+ Great staying power
+ The package
Cons
- Not really suitable for extra oily lids
Price: £17.00
Where to get? HERE
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Lipstick in Flare
It's a bright orange lipstick.
I couldn't really capture the gorgeous colour of it, but usually it's more orange and less red than in this pictures. When I applied at first I was so happy! I finally got a lipstick that is so bright orange that it's almost neon. I was wow'd away :)
The formula is a bit dry (but not drying), so I really recommend you a good lip balm underneath, especially if you have dry lips.
Pros:
+ The colour!
+ Doesn't dry out your lips
+ The package
Cons:
- Dry formula (a bit chalky to apply)
Price: £15.50
Where to get? HERE
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Nail Polish in Gamma
It's a gorgeous neon orange nail polish.
Ahh.. lately I've been obsessing over the orange colour, so this is perfect for me! It's bright, it's neon and it's ORANGE! What more do you want?
The first picture is the most colour accurate from the bunch.
The formula was good, as with all other Illamasqua's nail polishes. I needed 2 coats, but some nail lines were still a bit visible. The saying power is on the average side (I got one chip in the same day, but the rest of manicure resisted for another 2 days). And as all neon polishes, this one as well dries to a satin finish, so I applied a top coat.
I love this colour so much that I already wore it twice in the past week (and that's a rarity for me, with so many nail polishes that I own).
Pros:
+ The COLOUR
+ The formula
+ The packaging
Cons:
- The price
Price: £13.50
Where to get? HERE
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Overall: This collection feels fresh with a mixture of pastel colours typical for Spring and neon colours typical for Summer. So weather you pick a neon or a pastel colour, you'll be ready for the next season :D
I especially loved the nail polish (because I'm a nail polish freak) and the lipstick as I don't own anything like it.
Do I recommend it? Yes :)
XOXO Parisky
19/02/2011
Gets: Swap
Girls you won't believe what I got from Juliana!
A lot of gorgeous nail polishes (some of them are holographic!) and some goodies from Brazil.
Ah-mazing!
Check it out for yourself :)
Thank you so much Juliana!
HERE you can see what she got :)
XOXO Parisky
10/01/2011
Review and Swatch: BB Couture For Nails Sea of Cortez and Midnight Desire
Hello Lovelies!
This time I got an opportunity to review two gorgeous nail polishes from BB Couture - Sea of Cortez and Midnigh Desire.
I'll start with Sea of Cortez from The Lets Cruise to Mexico Collection.
The first picture is how it looks in the bottle - interesting, but it only comes to life on nails.
I would describe it as a light blue jelly nail polish with lots of blue and silver glitter, but in artificial light and cloudy or rainy weather it looks medium blue.
This nail polish seems to be on the watery side, so I thought it would need at least three coats, but no, two are more than enough. You know what come a as a big surprise to me? How easy it was to remove it! I didn't have any struggle as with all other glitter nail polishes. Amazing!
Ahh ... just look at it
Here you can see the glitter
Than we have also Midnight Desire from The Wedding Blues Collection.
It's a pretty dark purple nail polish with pink and silver/holographic shimmer in it.
It's one of those colors that looks like one thing in the bottle, but like something completely different on nails (prettier) and is also one of those colors extremely hard to capture on camera.
I love how it looks almost black inside, while outdoors, on sun, you can see it's true beauty.
I needed only one coat of this beauty for full opacity! Isn't that amazing?
Too bad we didn't have any sun, so that I could show you the shimmer :( It's gorgeous and this picture do it no justice.
Pros:
+ The brush! It's long and thin and you can get right up to your cuticles with it
+ Perfect formula
+ Lots of colors to chose from
+ Long staying power
+ 4 in 1 formula
+ No toluene, Formaldehyde and DBP
+ Easy to remove (even the glittery one)
+ I love how they also have a line for men
Cons
- Not available locally
Price: 9.95 $
Where to get? HERE
XOXO Parisky
10/12/2010
Hauls: Fairytale
Hi!
Ow jeah! I got them all plus two extras for my giveaway :))
When the pictures came out ... I really wasn't convinced by not one nail polish in this collection, but than bloggers swatched them and oh my! The red one was like Ruby Pumps (CG), the orange one was gorgeousness and so on and so on ... So since than I was looking for my own red and orange fairytale and today I stumbled on a full stand, so I HAD to have them all :P
Two really pretty Miss Sporty nail polishes. I really don't know why this brand isn't as popular as Essence?
Something for my upcoming giveaway (there will be lots of nail polishes :P)
And at last, two pretty bracelets (one is a B day gift) and a gorgeous necklace with the tree of life.
A closeup of my necklace
And what's the best thing about this necklace? That 60% of the purchase price goes to Centre for Down Syndrome.
XOXO Parisky
28/07/2010
Review and Swatch: Piggy Paint Nail polish and Nail Polish Remover
Hello Lovelies!
Today I received my Piggy Paint polish and Nail Polish Remover to test out. I was really excited as I've heard only good things about them.
What are Piggy Paint nail polishes?
They are natural, non-toxic, odorless and kid-friendly nail polishes.
How to use them?
Check out the picture (way too cute! :)
Ingredients: Water, water-miscible acrylic resins and thickeners (well below 100 parts per million), glycol ethers. May contain mica, D&C red lake, ultramarine blue, iron and titanium oxide pigments
I received Girls Rule! nail polish. It is a pink purple. Actually it's hard to describe this color as it is a purple but with pink undertones and holographic shimmer.
My experience with it: I loved it! It's true that this color is not really my favourite, but the formula is more than amazing! It is very dense but still thick enough so I could get really close to my cuticles (I couldn't go so close with any other polish). The brush is on the softer and longer side, but it works great.
I don't know how else to describe it: it's something you should try to believe it. You get an even application with just one super thin coat! And two coats are opaque and just perfect. There is not any toxic smell (you know that one, that makes you go dizzy) and to be completely honest, when I opened it, it smelled like chocolate to me (no kidding!). I had to smell it a couple of times to realize I was wrong (too bad, but we don't want the kids to eat their nail polish, right?).
Girls Rock! (2 thin coats)
With flash. Notice the pink undertone.
Pros:
+ Non-toxic
+ Odorless
+ Free of formaldehyde, toluene, phthalates, biphenyl A, ethyl acetate and acetone
+ Hypoallergenic
+ The formula and the brush!
+ Many different colors to chose from
+ Water-based formula
++ Cruelty free! (a major plus for me)
+ Safe for use during pregnancy
+ Cute packaging
+ Clever and sweet names
Cons:
- I got some major chips in the first day (without using a top coat).
Overall: Loved it! Even though I got some chips in the first day, it's so easy to apply and it doesn't take too long to dry (on the average side) so that's not a big problem (and with that blow drier technique or a top coat the problem should be solved).
Will I buy again: YES! I want the neons! :)
The price: 8, 99 $
Where to buy: HERE
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I also got their Nail polish remover to try.
What they say about it:
Low odor hypoallergenic nail polish remover. Put harmful, smelly polish removers behind you with Piggy Paint™ Nail Polish Remover, a remover that works quickly on all polishes, especially Piggy Paint™ Nail Polish. Our remover contains none of the solvents that could offend your nose or harm our atmosphere. Aloe Vera and Vitamin E are added to supplement the natural oils that protect nails and cuticles.
Ingredients: Corn alcohol, butyl diglycol, Aloe Vera, Vitamin E, embittering agent.
My experience with it: I also tested it today to remove the remains of my previous manicure. It took some more rubbing, but it worked as good as any other nail polish remover plus this one didn't nauseate me or make me light-headed.
Pros:
+ Biodegradable
+ No acetone
+ With aloe vera and vitamin E
+ Didn't dry my cuticles
+ Cute packaging
+ Low odor (unless you smell it from really close, than you can smell the alcohol)
+ Hypoallergenic
+ Doesn't harm the atmosphere
Cons:
- None :)
Overall: I think the idea of a cuticle-friendly and almost odorless nail polish remover is genius!
Will I buy again: YES. It's genious.
Price: 8, 99 $
Where to get: HERE
P. S. The coupon code for 10 % discount on anything on their site (including sale items) is: XO10L (Expires October 2010)
Have fun!
XOXO Parisky
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