Wednesday 30 September 2015

The Nail Challenge Collaborative presents: Pets - Cat Silhouette


Hi all!

This month's last Pets mani is again all about cats... Although I cheated a bit and there's only 1 cat.... shhh.


Polishes:
  • Catrice - 65 Be My Violetine
  • Max Factor - 45 Fantasy Fire
  • Essence - 48 My love diary
  • Lucky 13 Lacquer - Elemental Ward


Base: 2 coats of Be My Violetine. Using the brush from the bottle I added a stripe of Fantasy Fire down several nails, twice. My thumb and middle fingernail got just 2 plain coats of Fantasy Fire instead of a stripe. I added the details with My Love Diary. Stripes along the FF stripe and a curled cat tail on my middle finger. Ended with Elemental Ward top coat.


And here's the cat!


Fantasy Fire is hard to photograph, I did spot green flashes while I was in my car earlier today, but the reddish hue is most dominant with this purple base. It's a lovely polish though.

Love, Brethil

More pets down here!

Saturday 26 September 2015

The Nail Challenge Collaborative presents: Pets - Cookie Cats


Hi all!

Today I have my third cat mani for you! After swatching L13L's Cookie Cat I had to use it for another cat mani. Obviously.


Polishes:
  • Lucky 13 Lacquer - Cookie Cat
  • NYC - 011 Power of Elements
  • Ünt - Ready For Takeoff (peelable base coat)
  • Lucky 13 Lacquer - Elemental Ward


Base: 3 coats of Cookie Cat. After a coat of Elemental Ward I added cat head outlines in the shape of the cat glitter. I wanted to use pink like the pink glitters in the polish, but my pink is not the same colour unfortunately. Ended with more Elemental Ward.



I guess I have to do cats for my last mani as well....

Love, Brethil

More pets down here!

Tuesday 22 September 2015

52WPNMC - Blue and white zigzags


Hi all!

This is the last #52WPNMC! Next month we'll be starting a new one, so stay tuned for that one. The last prompt is zigzag and dark & grungey. I did zigzags recently, and seeing as I do not need to do both prompts I'm skipping the dark & grungey. Plus I'm in Greece right now, so blue and white do fit *winks*.


Polishes:
  • Sinful Colors - 101 Snow Me White
  • Sally Hansen - 4860-33 Pacific Blue (old formula)
  • Lucky 13 Lacquer - Elemental Ward

And I used stamping plate VL014 by Vivid Lacquer.



Base: 2 coats of Snow Me White. On my zigzag nails I added a coat of top coat and let it dry before adding You Polish vinyls (These are the large chevrons). Next I added the gradient with a make up sponge and removed the vinyls when I felt they were done. After drying I added top coat. After a day I added the tiny stamped stars onto my basic gradient nails (and added more top coat).



Love, Brethil

Other mani's below!


Saturday 19 September 2015

The Nail Challenge Collaborative presents: Pets - Graffiti Cats


Hi all!

Another pets inspired mani, it's cats again. Might do cats the entire month *winks*. This time I did a distressed mani with graffiti on top. Everyone knows the best design for graffiti is cats.


Polishes:
  • I Love Nail Polish - Bottle Service
  • Catrice - 17 Caught On The Red Carpet
  • Essence - 22 I ♥ my blue jeans
  • Essence - 48 my love diary
  • NYC - 325 Raindrop
  • Sinful Colors - 101 Snow Me White
  • Lucky 13 Lacquer - Elemental Ward


Base: 2 coats of Bottle Service, a lovely beigy nude holo, not that you can see much of it today. Using the other 4 colours I added random swipes to make it look grungy and graffiti like. With a nail art brush and Snow Me White I added cat faces. Last but not least my top coat, Elemental Ward.


You can see a tiny sparkle underneath from the holo base.


Love, Brethil

Check out the other mani's down here!

Thursday 17 September 2015

Lucky 13 Lacquer Swatches - Cookie Cat, Poof & Bubble, I Want to Inspire You, You Can't Rave in A Raincoat

Hi all!

Recently Kyoti from Lucky 13 Lacquer released a new collection called We Are The Crystal Gems. This collection is inspired by a cartoon called Steven Universe. I personally never heard of this cartoon before, but then again, I barely watch tv. Being part of the Lucky 13 Lacqueristas Facebook group I could pre-order this collection, I bought 4. Be prepared for lots of photos!


Cookie Cat: White crelly base with fine light pink holo hex, fine and medium chocolate brown hex, and large chocolate brown kitty cat face glitters.

Inspired by the Cookie Cat ice cream sandwiches from Steven Universe.

What you see is 3 coats of Cookie Cat topped with Elemental Ward. The cat glitter is rather thick and heavy, so you do need to fish for them. This is not a bad thing because you can avoid them easily for your first and second coat.





I have a thing for white crellies, and this one is so lovely, that pink makes it look so fresh!



Poof & Bubble: Medium pink jelly base with fine light pink and light purple holo hex and a ton of silver holo, light purple holo, and light pink holo dots in all sizes.

Inspired by the Crystal Gems "poof and bubble"ing gem shards in Steven Universe.

What you see is 3 coats of Poof & Bubble topped with Elemental Ward. You all know I don't wear pink polish a lot. I do make an exception for bright pinks. When I saw this polish with all those circle glitters I knew I had to have it. Those circle glitters and the squishyness did the trick.



The splash of purple glitters make this an interesting polish. And of course those huge circles.



I Want to Inspire You: Minty-leaning teal base with green shimmer, turquoise holo squares, a hint of fine baby pink hex, fine and medium yellow hex, large pearly white dots, and mini yellow stars.

Inspired by Pearl from Steven Universe.

What you see is 3 coats of I Want to Inspire You topped with Elemental Ward. I absolutely love this colour, it's a mermaid green and that shimmer is lovely. Plus tiny stars that barely stick out because they are so tiny cute. After top coat I couldn't feel any stars sticking out at all.



All the great glitter shapes in one polish! Hexes, Stars, Circles and Squares!



You Can't Rave in A Raincoat: Stormy-skies blue crelly base with a mess of neon glitters. These glitters are blacklight reactive!

Inspired by Sour Cream from Steven Universe from the episode "Joy Ride".

What you see is 2 coats of You Can't Rave in A Raincoat topped with Elemental Ward. As a note: this is a limited edition polish, only available in September! So grab it while it's there!




Love this greyish blue with neon and red. I think the red makes this stand out more than all those neon glitters out there.


So, those were my picks from the We Are The Crystal Gems collection. This is a huge collection, but my wallet is limited, so I had to choose. I'm happy with my selection, what do you think of these? Will you be adding some Lucky 13's to your stash?

Love, Brethil

Saturday 12 September 2015

The Nail Challenge Collaborative presents: Pets - Kawaii Cat


Hi all!

For the month of September the theme of the month is Pets. Since I am a cat lady, I had to do cats. A while ago I saw this gorgeous mani from Jessie over at Delight In Nails. Mine's obviously inspired by hers.


Polishes:
  • Polish Alcoholic - Zinnia
  • Catrice - 17 Caught On The Red Carpet
  • Sinful Colors - 101 Snow Me White
  • Ünt - Ready For Takeoff (peelable base coat)
  • Lucky 13 Lacquer - Elemental Ward


Base: 3 coats of Zinnia (from a 2013 collection, so no longer available). Using a nail art brush and a dotting tool I added the cat. Caught on the Red Carpet is a bit jelly, so I did a thicker coat. You can still see some of Zinnia shining through, but that's fine with me. Using Snow Me White and Zinnia I added the details. Lastly top coat of course.


And my thumb got some simple paw prints.


Love, Brethil

More pets down here!

Wednesday 9 September 2015

The Nail Challenge Collaborative presents: Jewelry - Leaves


Hi all!

So this post is terribly late.... I had planned to do this mani and yet never got round to it. So better late than never, right? And again I have some Mate Amargo Joyería inspired nails to show you. Today's inspiration is my "basic" set that I wear almost every day really.


Polishes:
  • Gosh - 541 Gasoline
  • W7 - 92 Mirror Mirror
  • Lucky 13 Lacquer - Elemental Ward


Base: 3 coats of Gasoline. This polish was a gift from a coworker who was cleaning out her nail stash, and it's gorgeous but not that opaque. Painted on the leaves with Mirror Mirror and a nail art brush. Top coat last.



And of course my inspiration. I have a matching necklace to go with these earrings. They're very "me" and I love them.


Soon, I'll post my first real September NCC mani... this month is all about pets!

Love, Brethil

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