Sweet Nails!

I finally got my OPI Euro collection and OPI Oz The Great & Powerful collection two days ago so I decide to do a sweet nails with my new polishes!

I thought that the soft shades in Oz collection were just boring nude shades thus I was really pleasantly surprised when I noticed that they were jellies! I love OPI jellies so of course, I had to do a jelly sandwich!

For my first 3 fingers, I did a jelly sandwich using OPI I Theodora You and OPI Polka.com. The colorful glitters are just nicely muted by the light pink I Theodora You.. Isn't it just gorgeous?!

I had only wanted to do an accent nail on my ring finger but accidentally painted my pinkie as well.. So today I have a weird design of double accent nails. LOL

The design on my ring and pinkie finger is a design I saw from a Pinterest tutorial. It's supposed to be a triple heart design, but now when I look it.. I think it would have looked better if I painted it the other way round.. -.-"

That's all for today! What do you think of my sweet nails today?

Polishes Used:
Essie Fiji
OPI Can’t Find My Czechbook
OPI You’re Such A BudaPest
OPI I Theodora You
OPI Polka.com

Sonoma Nail Art - My Three Glitters

Today I have Sonoma Nail Art's 'My Three Glitters' over OPI 'Come To Poppy'!
'My Three Glitters' is an indie polish created by Sonoma Nail Art - which consist of black and white glitters in all shapes and sizes!  There's big and small hex glitters, bar glitters, square glitters and even parallelogram glitters! LOL


Seriously loving the contrast of this polish over 'Come To Poppy'!




I also tried layering OPI 'I'm All Ears' over the combo for a jelly sandwich. I do like the effect of the fuchsia shimmers, but the white glitters seems to have disappeared under the jelly. :(

So what do you think? Jelly yay or nay?

Polishes Used:
OPI Come To Poppy
Sonoma Nail Art My Three Glitters
OPI I'm All Ears

Orange Sandwich for Shinhwa!

I'm back! Back from the most awesome concert ever - Shinhwa's Concert in SG! :)

I have been a fan of Shinhwa for 10 years already! Time really flies! And this year they had a comeback after a 4 hiatus due to their army services and Singapore is one of their stops for their 14th Anniversary Asia Tour concert! So happy!

Did an Orange sandwich manicure for the day as Orange is Shinhwa Changjo's (Shinhwa fanclub) official color!

For this manicure, I used OPI 'In My Back Pocket' for the base as I dont want any VNL.. Milani 'Gems' in the middle, and then topped it with OPI 'Y'all Come Back Ya Hear?' for the jelly finish.

I'm not sure if Milani Gems is an exact dupe for OPI 'Rainbow connection', but it's very very close. If you didnt manage to get 'Rainbow connection', you can get this instead since it's not a limited edition or anything, and is easily available.

I actually like Milani Gems more under the jelly rather than on it's own.. It does seem as messy and the effect is pretty cool!

Here's a close up pic on one of my finger: *sorry for the messy cuticle*



Last but not least.. I'm ending this post with a picture I took during the concert - Shinhwa Fighting!




Polishes Used:
OPI In My Back Pocket
Milani Gems
OPI Y'all Come Back Ya Hear?

Comparison: OPI Pirouette My Whistle vs Nubar White Polka Dot

Today I'm going to do a comparison post on OPI Pirouette My Whistle from the OPI NYC Ballet collection and Nubar's White Polka Dot. I got these 2 polishes recently and thought they really look similar from the bottle so I decided to swatch them both! :)

WPD = White Polka Dot, PMW = Pirouette My Whistle

These are 2 coats of White Polka Dot & Pirouette My Whistle over 4 coats of OPI Don't Touch My Tutu.

I guess the most prominent difference between the 2 polishes are the micro glitters. Pirouette My Whistle have dense silver micro glitters while White Polka Dot have sparse pearly white micro glitters. The larger white hex glitters looks the same for both polish (atleast from what I can see).

Between these 2 polish, I actually prefer White Polka Dot over Pirouette My Whistle. OPI tends to overkill with their silver micro glitters sometimes and this is one of them. (OPI Save Me is another one).

Signing off with another coat of OPI Don't Touch My Tutu over all of them for a jelly sandwich!

Polishes Used:

OPI Don't Touch My Tutu

OPI Pirouette My Whistle

Nubar White Polka Dot

Jelly Sandwich

I just did my first Jelly Sandwich and I'm in love~! I need to get more jelly polishes to play around!

There are actually a total of 11 coats (including base & top) for this manicure but it doesn't feel thick at all! The key is to use really thin coats so they'll dry faster as well.

For this jelly sandwich today, I used 2 coats of OPI Cajun Shrimp, then 2 coats of OPI Save Me, then 2 coats of OPI Guy Meets Gal-veston, then 1 more coat of OPI Save Me, and 1 more coat of OPI Guy Meets Gal-veston.

Seems like a lot of work? It's actually not. The polishes used in this manicure are all really smooth and with the pro-wide brush, each layer only took 1 stroke so it's actually quite quick and easy to finish.

Simply love love love the result. Guy Meets Gal-veston actually managed to tone down the irritating silver glitter of Save Me but yet allow the bar glitters to shine. This is simply perfect! Much much better than I have imagined. Definitely going to try out more jelly combinations!

Polishes Used:
OPI Cajun Shrimp
OPI Save Me
OPI Guy Meets Gal-veston