OPI’s Summer Collections – Minnie Mouse & Spiderman!
I’m pretty excited after seeing the previews of the summer collection that OPI will be releasing. Seeing the Minnie Mouse collection reminds me of the days where my friends & I would compare how our stationary back in primary school. pens, notebooks, underwear… you name it, it had minnie’s face on it!
As for Spidey, well since Tobey Maguire has left the franchise, I can’t wait to see what the next spiderman, Andrew Garfield has in store for us. I’ve thought he was a pretty good actor in The Social Network, so I’m quite keen on seeing if he has the acting chops to pull off nerdy Peter Parker
Of course, who can forget that the beautiful Emma Stone (who just happens to be one of Quirkychic’s favourite actresses) will be playing his love interest? This time, she sports a blonde hairdo and those two are looking pretty hot together
My nails are screaming for these polishes! which ones are your favourite? I’m eyeing, The Colour Of Minnie, Call Me Gwen-ever and Just Spotted the Lizard. Sooo gorgeous!
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Outfit Inspirations
It’s Friday!! Ah, the joyous dawn of the weekend is near. If you’re having trouble deciding what to wear this weekend, take some inspiration from these beautiful Polyvore sets (:
The Printed Cardigan
With the rainy season, it’s a great idea to wear a cardigan – it won’t feel too hot in our humid weather and is easy to stow into one’s bag when not needed. The cardigans showcased here are really cute, yet simple, using a single repetitive print. Here are some of our picks from the Polyvore depository .
Polka dot cardigan, £55
Oasis blue cardigan, £28
Madewell polka dot cardigan, $75
Polka dot shirt, £75
Paul Smith floral cardigan, £319
Dkny watch, $215
Marc by marc jacobs watch, $200
Kate Spade square watch, $150
BCBG Max Azria leather strap watch, $125
Friis Company leather watch, €46
ASOS leather watch, $36
Fossil watch
Red valentino dress, £329
Miss Selfridge block dress, $68
Carven knit top, £275
H M short sleeve top, £30
Bohemian style skirt, $110
Topshop flap handbag, $32
Glitter belt, $24
Butter London nail polish, $14
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Thakoon + NARS polish collection
In a first for the brand, NARS pairs up with designer Thakoon to create a gorgeous palette of brights for their nail polish line.
It’s a web exclusive and hasn’t been officially released yet, but I think that yellow is so intense, the slightly darker blue is a blue I haven’t ever seen before, and that tomato orange! gorgeous.
Keep yourself in the loop for the release of these polishes here
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DIY mani: Turqoise Gradient
There are so many gradient DIY tutorials on the web, but given my extensive polish collection, I’ve always found that layering different polishes is often the best (and easiest) method.
Sorry for the grainy pics – I’m too reliant on the iphone haha. In any case, arranged in the order I used them, here are the polishes I used for this gradient manicure
- Sally Hansen’s Continuous Treatment Base & Top Coat
- The FaceShop Nail Colour in WH003
- Elianto nail colour in 27 Turqoise
- China Glaze’s Four Leaf Clover
- Missha in BL201
To achieve this manicure, you don’t have to use the exact polishes I used. All you have to do is
- pay attention to how dark the colours are
- make sure that polishes 3 & 4 are semi-opaque in 1 coat and;
- polish 5 is translucent
After using polishes no. 1 & 2 all over the nails, I used polish no. 3 to paint the bottom half my nail, then painted polish no. 4 over the bottom half of the portion with polish 3.
At this point, it’s not gonna look pretty – but you need to ensure that these two polishes are semi opaque, so that they won’t disappear over the last coat. One trick to doing this is to make the edges messy instead of super straight, so that the gradient will be more gradual and seem more “natural”.
then, use polish 5 all over the nail – this is why it’s important that it’s a translucent polish, so that the colours can be seen!
tada! super pretty gradient nails (: I used two coats of polish 5.
Last but not least, layer over with polish 1 again.
Have a great weekend ahead, everyone!
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Foil Wonder
It’s been a gloomy week with overcast skies and the monday blues.. so I thought I’d chase them away with really bright, shiny nails :)
Isn’t it such a gorgeously beautiful colour? Unlike some polishes that appear lighter in the bottle and darker on the nails, the Faceshop’s FACEit polish in GL111 comes off perfectly on the nails as it does in the bottle. I couldn’t stop staring at my nails… then I decided that *omg* if I wear this shade to work it’ll blind people when I wave or gesture. HAHA!
So I decided to do some dark tips, somewhat inspired by Madonna’s gladiator get-up during the Superbowl. It was really easy to execute, using this technique – and voila! In less than half an hour, my tips were done
This was just such a great mood uplifter. I couldn’t stop glancing at my nails every now and then :)
Satisfaction + Pride + Perfection = Happiness.
Here’s a quick rundown of the polish:
- Colour: Gold Foil
- Opacity: Achieved in two coats. Attempted layering this over another polish, it pretty much obscured the other colour almost entirely in one coat, but on a bare nail, two coats are definitely required for complete coverage.
- Dries: medium fast. vulnerable to scratches in the first 3 minutes
- Imperfections: very easily covered up! some of the gold foil polish got chipped in the middle of the nail and I just painted over that patch, TOTAL INVISIBLE COVERUP. Awesome for clumsy fools like me! :)
Overall, I’m pretty pleased with the polish, can’t wait to experiment with other polishes, though the formulae is slightly too runny to use as nail art, but we’ll work around that when inspiration comes along..!
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DIY nails: The Watermelon Manicure
Have fun you guys!
Colours used are Sally Hansen’s Jumpin Jade & Sonic Bloom (Insta-dri), China Glaze’s For Audrey and Missha’s Black
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Cherry Red
Remember how I blogged about the Zoya matte velvet polish? Well surprise surprise I now have two in my hands, though I’m only going to review one today :)
As you can see, there’s a hint of silver with the red, which I love. Unlike OPI’s suede polishes, ZOYA’s matte polishes go on shimmery and gradually mattify on the nail. It’s quite fascinating to watch. I have to say, this being the first ZOYA polish I’ve ever tried, I was really impressed with the quality. Matte polishes mean you can’t apply a top coat. This Zoya polish not only dried in seconds, but resisted scratches and chipping without a top coat for 2 days straight. For a matte polish, I’d say that’s really pretty awesome. Plus, what you see above is just one coat of polish! The pigmentation and colour is incredible, I’m insanely pleased.
I’m also rather happy that the red came off prettily, I was worried that it’d be ruined by the matte effect. To match, here are my fashion inspirations
I find red a really bold and strong colour to wear so I don’t really have red pieces in my work wardrobe. That said, last saturday I decided to just heck it and have fun with prints + a dash of colour, so here’s what I wore to work!
It’s a slightly messy picture, I hadn’t tucked my blouse in properly prior to taking the shot but, oh you get the idea of mixed prints! I purchased this cherry print tunic ages ago and never really liked the length (past my butt, before the half thigh mark) so I didn’t wear it much. Matching it with this F21 skirt made it look soo much better. So yay! I wore a new colour to the workplace, though I’ll admit, this will stay a casual friday/saturday outfit and not a monday-thursday kind of thing.
are you in love with red?
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Denim Blue
I’ve been pretty intruiged with blue lately. somehow it’s a very awesome work colour in every single shade that it comes in. I can’t really think of a blue that can’t be incorporated easily into work attire.
China Glaze – Midnight Mission
This deep blue is has a denim feel to it – I’ve two! similar dark blues from Faceshop, one with multi coloured shimmer and one with no shimmer and while Midnight Mission isn’t my favourite out of these three, it’s still pretty unique. Unlike the other two blues I have (and now I think with regret why I have so many blues of the same shade…but I digress.), the silver shimmer in Midnight Mission makes it seem as if it has a denim texture. Plus, with the silver, even in the dark the polish reflects a deep blue, which I like.
& trust me, denim isn’t just for the cowboys. With the right cut and the right fit, denim can be part of a very modern look.
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Whether as a colour or as a fabric, denim blue has me in its clutches. I’m sooo much more inclined to this deep shade of blue than I am to black at the moment. & with my nail polish looking as if it’ll continue to last for the rest of the week, (I’m impressed with china glaze’s formula!) I’ll be continuing on my blue obsession with my work attire :)
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a Bright Streak of Blue
another freaky nail polish colour I tried recently was Sally Hansen’s Blue Streak
It’s a very bold and bright colour and like all Insta-Dris, applies opaque in 2 coats. & if you’re thinking that it’s a duochrome, as seen above, it’s actually not. It’s more of a reflective polish, & the tinge of purple you’re seeing there is merely the pink reflecting off my very pink Canon :)
Sally Hansen’s Blue Streak makes me think of Aztec/Ikat/Tribal-inspired clothes & accessories
& these prints are so often seen on maxi dresses these days! It’s great to see a revival of old prints and how they’re adapted to modern fashion :)
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Everything is just Peachy
I decided to be bold & daring and go where I had never ventured before.. the land of *gasp* ORANGE POLISH!
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Personally, I’ve always thought of orange as a rather strange colour. Mind you, I’m not talking about its more familiar cousins coral or light brown.. Orange is a colour that is neither yellow nor red, and has a certain… air about it that makes me feel that I
- can’t pin down its “personality”
- can’t envision myself making it part of my outfit
- always think that it’s too close to my skintone to carry it off well
Raj: I’m feeling blue.
Sheldon: Blue, as in depressed?
Raj: Not so much depressed, as lonely.
Sheldon: I don’t know what color lonely is.
Raj: What?
Sheldon: Red is angry. Yellow is frightened. Green is jealous. And blue is depressed. Perhaps we can assign a color to lonely.
Raj: Nothing rhymes with orange. It’s probably lonely.
Sheldon: All right. Come in. You look positively orange with loneliness. Sheldon & Raj – The Big Bang Theory
So even with this impulse, I was rather cowardly and chose to go with the safe, lighter option – China Glaze’s Peachy Keen!
Isn’t it pretty!!
Peachy Keen was part of a muted, pastel collection from China Glaze, inspired by the now iconic Pixar animation, Up!
In my opinion, this was by far one of the best collections China Glaze ever received, & to my regret, I’ve only got one other polish from this collection in my personal stash at the moment, a gorgeous green known as Four Leaf Clover
Looking at the swatches, I’m feeling keen on the beautiful lavender Light as Air & if it weren’t for the fact that I’ve already soo many pinks in my collection, I’d go for both Sugar High and Something Sweet as well. The yellows also look gorgeous but I’m no yellow fan so those will wait until the impulse strikes me to get out of my comfort zone & try something new.
Just because it’s so bright, I don’t think that orange is an easy colour to wear, so pairing it with neutrals and toned-down colours like white and brown would be a good idea
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So what do you think? Are you a fan of lonely orange? :)
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