Showing posts with label Brand - Revlon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brand - Revlon. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

BOOM! Glitter explosion


this is 2 coats of Revlon Hazy, followed by 2 coats of Sinful Colors Aruba Rhythm. i used my new stripe polish to create the lines, then applied a blob of clear polish and added the larger magenta holographic hex glitters to the base of the lines, then swept more clear polish sort of following the lines and gently sprinkled on the smaller holographic magenta hex glitter.

I tried to place the large hex glitter on my nail individually, but it was taking too long, so I added a blob of clear to the base and scooped it up and sprinkled it on my nail. I used a fluffy brush to pick up the smaller glitters and tapped and waved it over the wet clear polish. Glitter is fun to use for mani's but very messy.

This is one of my favorite easy to do looks. It did eat up alot of top coat - next time I won't use so much glitter. If it is a holographic glitter a little goes a long way.  On my right hand I did not add the shimmery Sinful Colors polish and did not add a s much of the larger holo hex glitter, I liked it better then with the shimmery polish and if I repeat this look I will be sure to use a plain creme base for my lines & glitter.


stuff  I used; Revlon Hazy, Magenta stripe polish & two sizes of  Magenta holographic Hexagon glitter

drew lines, blobbed clear polish and added large glitter to base of lines

 added clear polish along lines and sprinkled on smaller glitter

added 2 coats of TC


Revlon Top Speed Hazy, 2 coats with Top Coat

2 coats of Revlon Hazy & 2 coats of Sinful Colors Aruba Rhythm with Top Coat

I'm doing all my glitter work over the sink and washing down any fallout - glitter is messy but beautiful


Friday, May 14, 2010

♥ Claire's 'Magic' vs. 'My Precious' franken ♥

Claire's 'Magic' on my middle finger; kicks bunz and cannot be eclipsed in any way, shape or form

....... Well, there are some gorgeous polish's as lovely as Claire's Magic but in regards to my franken, Claire's 'Magic' is way waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay prettier. It is more crisp and bright and the intense hottt pink micro-shimmer is very evident even in low lighting and makes this polish so special ( to me, anyways ). Claire's 'Magic' on my middle finger is 3 thin coats with 2 coats of Nailene Acrylic Strong Top Coat, while the rest of my nails are 3 thin coats of my recent franken 'My Precious' and 2 coats of Nailene Acrylic Strong Top Coat.

hmmmm, the base colour of Claire's 'Magic' is a bit more brighter than my franken. 'My Precious' when compared to 'Magic' seems more muted and without the intense pink micro-shimmer. The micro-shimmer in my franken is more on the rose/dusty rose side.  At first coat, my franken appears to have a bit of a more blue base, while 'Magic' is more of a vibrant Blurple. They are both very pretty.

I made this using an older Sally Hansen polish called 'Opal Truth' from the Maximum Growth line, and a few drops of an older Hard as Nail polish 'Radish'. I had no plans to make a sorta dupe, but I totally wowed myself with my franken skillz on this one!  I have alot of empty bottle's at the moment and am excited for the weekend so I can get to some frankening......


Have a great weekend Everyone!

L to R - franken 'My Precious' - Claire's Magic

L to R - 1 coat of 'My Precious'  - 1 coat of Claire's 'Magic'

FLASH! - Claire's 'Magic' middle nail......here you can really see the slight difference

Sun

Sun


Thursday, May 13, 2010

♥ 'My Prescious' - franken made with an old, old Sally Hansen ♥

Franken  My Precious 3 thin coats with 2 coats of Nailene Acrylic Strong Top Coat

Firstly - there is like 30 photos in this post - sorry, I had to post them all. I'm glad I have alot of previous manicure photos on my desktop, becuase I am enchanted with this franken I made and don't want to take it off. I made this franken polish with Sally Hansen Maximum Growth 'Opal Truth' and Claire's 'Matte Cobalt'. I fulled up an empty bottle of Revlon Color Stay 1/2 way with the Sally Hansen Opal Truth, then added approximately 10 drops of the 'Matte Cobalt'.

I imagined that these 3 frankens would be very sheer, and planned to use them as layering polish...... But they are holding their own and are great at three thin coats. All three maintained the intense shimmer from the S.H. 'Opal truth' The teal polish, in the middle was made with Chg 'Shower Together is really cool. It is a teal shimmer with a pink flash - how cool is that! I named it 'Shower For Three' = That I will definitely be wearing next.

I saw this very same Sally Hansen Polish on MUA for trade, remembered that I had it and decided to pull it out of my stash and make some frankens with it. No sense of it just sitting in a box when I could put it to good use ♥.

When I'm ready to take this mani off, I will do a comparison with Claire's Magic. I'm super duper happy that I used a pretty polish that I never wear, and made something beautiful out of it. Below is a photo of the three frankens I made using Sally Hansen 'Opal Truth'. I will do a skittlez eventually and wear these beauties as full mani's. I love opalescent polish's - they are usually easy to find in discount and clearance sections and they make great frankens.

L to R -  I filled up these old empty Revlon Color Stay bottles 1/2 way with Sally Hansen Maximum Growth 'Opal Truth' I used Sally Hansen 'Radish' ( dark vampy purple) China Glaze 'Shower Together'  and Claire's  'Matte Cobalt'. 

I named them L to R- 'Natural Radish', 'A Shower for Three' and 'My Precious'. I have already modeled 'Natural Radish HERE, and will be wearing 'A Shower for Three'  ( or 'Shower 4-3' what'ev's ) next!


Here's a million photo's.  It's a bit overkill, but i was just so happy to have natural sun that i literally took 99 photos outside and of course Blurples are ridiculously hard to photograph. Thankfully I had a little bit of sunshine here around supper-time, so I got some gorgeous outdoor photos. It's so bizarre that cameras cannot capture these kinds of weird blue/purples.

Sun

Indoor fluorescent

Cloudy

Flash

Sun

Shade

Sun

Sun

Sun

Sun

Sun

Sun

Overcast / Cloudy

Flash

Shade

Sun

Sun

Setting Sun

 Shade

Sun

Indoor fluorescent

Indoor fluorescent



Thank You sooooooo Much Sally Hansen Polish 'Opal Truth' I will never forget you and your memory will live on in these three gorgeous frankens I made.




Wednesday, April 7, 2010

♥ Franken - ' I Sorta Belong Here' ♥

Franken -'I sorta Belong Here' 2 coats w/ 1 coat clear & 1 coat Nailene T.C.
MIDDLE - No T.C.


So when I wear my frankens now - I apply a coat of CLEAR polish that I have reserved especially for frankens = before I apply my final T.C. This way I don't contaminate my Top Coat. This is 2 coats of my Franken, 'I sorta Belong Here' with 1 coat of clear polish and 1 coat Nailene Acrylic Strong Top Coat. I left my middle finger free of Top Coat. I made this franken with a bit of Nat Robbin's 'Greed' and some older Revlon eyeshadow, an awesome duo-chrome eggplant. I had hoped to retain some of the green color of the base polish I used, but I think I added way, waaaaaaay too much of the e/s. I like it, and will likely wear this again soon.

I love the finish of eye-shadow frankens..... I don't think I have made one yet that I did not like.





sun

@ 2 coats
Sunshine- No T.C. - pre clean-up



Thursday, November 26, 2009

♥ EMO Skittles ♥


~ Indoors Fluorescent Lighting ~









I have had this in my 'to post' file for a while ~ here is an 'EMO' skittles I did just for fun. I have seen a few people haul maybelline at D.T. in the states but have not seen these 2 ~ City Slick & Industrial Grey swatched... I did a Mani with 'City Slick' in summertime HERE, and have used 'Industrial Grey' for my T.O.T.D. I picked up the Street Wear polish in 'Gun Metal Chrome' at a thrift store as well as the 'Industrial Grey'. All my skittles are 2 coats, except my THUMB ~ Billie 'Black Glitter' which was 3. All my nails have 2 coats of Nailene Acrylic Strong Top Coat.



 ~ Indoors Fluorescent Lighting ~



~ Street Wear - 'Gun Metal Chrome'  { PINKY }
 


Sally Hansen - 'Raven' { RING }
 


Maybelline - 'City Slick' { MIDDLE }
 


Maybelline - 'Industrial Grey { RING }
 



Billie - 'Black Glitter' { THUMB }
 




~ Outdoors Shade with Flash ~



 ~ Outdoors Shade no Flash ~


~ Outdoors Shade with Flash ~



~ Outdoors Shade no Flash ~




~ Weird Sunshine Pic ~




~ Shade with Flash ~





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