Mismatched Nails

Over the last few months I've gotten a little obsessed with Korean beauty products and one of these products were the Etude House Etoinette Versailles Rose/Versailles Dress (now discontinued) nail polish sets.

They were a set of 3 nail polishes that go well together along with some matching water decals to mix and match a manicure.  I did manage to hunt down the 2 sets but the bottles are little and I'm a dope and don't want to waste them so what I did was go through my nail polishes to see if I could come up with my own mismatched nails combinations!

They were nowhere near as cute as the Versailles Rose set but here's what I did:

The first set had:
Thumb: Etude House Mint Chocolate with Daily Lacquer Helios on top
Index: Etude House Strawberry Stars Candy
Middle: China Glaze Aquadelic with Etude House PPK005 Cocktail Dress on top
Ring: Etude House Mint Chocolate
Pinky: some ancient-ass Avon pink I've had for 10 years with Daily Lacquer Helios on top

And I got a bunch of new shades in the mail to play with and instead of deciding which to wear, I wore 'em all for another mismatched manicure :)

This set included mostly A England polishes:
Thumb: Beauty Never Fails with Holy Grail (original) dotted on top
Index: I botched this one up but it was Holy Grail (original) with Opi Black Spotted, but I didn't thin it out enough so it didn't separate as good as I wanted it, so I just went over with another coat of Holy Grail and pretended I meant to do that...for texture...sure...
Middle: Beauty Never Fails with She Walks in Beauty on top the bottom half (kinda botched that one too)
Ring: She Walks in Beauty
Pinky: Holy Grail (updated) with a stripe of Beauty Never Fails.

Fuck that accent nail noise, ACCENT ALL DA NAILS!! :D

Manicure Recycle #1

So I got bored already of the nails I painted yesterday and went over them with Rainbow Honey's 20% Cooler.
Tadaaaaa

Models Own Hayley's Comet Swatch

Just 1 picture on my stubby nails.  Seche Vite destroyed them so I had to cut them all short. >:(
This is Hayley's Comet from the Models Own Beetlejuice collection. 
Head on it's a brownish red with a green/blueish shine.  Towards the light the green turns pink.
A few places bubbled up but I don't know if that's the polish of if I'm painting them wrong. I didn't use a base or top coat so I don't know if that would have helped or made it worse.
Meh!
Cool colour anyways.  It reminds me of all my favourite eyeshadows that look like this, like Aromaleigh's Cookie Party, Mac Club, the one shade in Wet n Wilds Night Elf palette, all those sweet red-ish brown shades with the greeny-blue flash.  LOVE
I believe I bought this from Ninja Polish.

Shades of Meow Volume 1 Swatches

NEAT IDEA ALERT!

Meow Cosmetics came up with a pretty cool limited edition release idea.  10 shades will be released every 60 days and the previous collection will become unavailable.  This will happen 5 times (50 Shades of Meow) and then after the 60 days are up for the last group, all 50 will be available for 60 days and the 10 best sellers will become permanent for Valentines 2014.
I hope I explained that right.
And the reason for the names?  Well I just assume everyone knows what these names are based on but just incase you live under a rock, it's based on the 50 Shades of Grey series.  Since I realized the story was originally a Twilight fanfic all I see is Mopey Stewart and Sparkle Boy whenever I think of the book, I'm just gonna pretend these are based on the other super smutty BDSM themed books instead :D

GOOD DEAL


So I have for you swatches of Shades of Meow Volume 1!

 Top row L-R: Handcuffs, Kink, Pleasure, Red Means Stop, Dominatrix
Bottom row L-R: Pain, Submission, Hardcore, Spank, Bondage

 Top row L-R: Handcuffs, Kink, Pleasure, Red Means Stop, Dominatrix
Bottom row L-R: Pain, Submission, Hardcore, Spank, Bondage

Top row L-R: Handcuffs, Kink, Pleasure, Red Means Stop, Dominatrix
Bottom row L-R: Pain, Submission, Hardcore, Spank, Bondage

My attempt at closeups!

 Handcuffs

 Bondage

 Dominatrix

 Hardcore

 Pleasure

 Pain

 Kink

 Red Means Stop

 Spank

Submission

My favourites and the ones I grabbed without even sampling first are: Submission, Pain, Kink and Handcuffs.

I can't wait to see what the next group looks like!

Meow St. Pattys & Rainbow's End Swatches

It's March folks!  This year seems to be flying by, less than 10 months 'til Christmas :D
I've had my face glued to my Kindle so time seems to be speeding up.  So many books, so little time!
Right now I'm hooked to the Dresden Files.  My boss's boss's boss mentioned the series to me about a year ago and right after Christmas I thought I'd give it a go.

SO AWESOME.

Can't go wrong with wizards.
and zombies
and dinosaurs
and wizards riding zombie dinosaurs.


But back to makeup happy time!

It's less dreary out so I had a bit of energy and dug out Meow's St Patty's day collection and Rainbow's End.  I don't have all the St Patty's day ones which is really bugging me.  I have this thing about posting full collections. This collection won't look complete :/
GAHHHH
Stupid brain.
As I type this, they aren't available yet, but March just started, they'll probably come out soon.

2 colour families Meow is really good for are Golds and Greens.  I lost count of how many of these I have. If you like the greens in the St Pattys Day collection, look out for the Christmas Trees next winter.  And if you love gold, check out the Egyptian Treasures collection.

Aaaaaanyway, enough jabbering, here are some swatches.

Top row L-R: Lunulae, Or, Green Beer, Get Lucky

Bottom row L-R: Claddagh, Sundisc, Kiss Me I'm..., Blarney Stone

Far right: Shamrock 

Top row L-R: Lunulae, Or, Green Beer, Get Lucky

Bottom row L-R: Claddagh, Sundisc, Kiss Me I'm..., Blarney Stone

Far right: Shamrock 

Top row L-R: Lunulae, Or, Green Beer, Get Lucky

Bottom row L-R: Claddagh, Sundisc, Kiss Me I'm..., Blarney Stone

Far right: Shamrock 

Top row L-R: Lunulae, Or, Green Beer, Get Lucky

Bottom row L-R: Claddagh, Sundisc, Kiss Me I'm..., Blarney Stone

Far right: Shamrock

 Clockwise from top left: Lunulae, Or, Sundisc, Claddagh

  Clockwise from top left: Lunulae, Or, Sundisc, Claddagh

 Clockwise top left: Green Beer, Get Lucky, Shamrock, Blarney Stone, Kiss Me I'm...

Clockwise top left: Green Beer, Get Lucky, Shamrock, Blarney Stone, Kiss Me I'm...

 

 Clockwise top left: Green Beer, Get Lucky, Shamrock, Blarney Stone, Kiss Me I'm...

 Clockwise top left: Green Beer, Get Lucky, Shamrock, Blarney Stone, Kiss Me I'm...

BEST MATTE GREEN EVAR

SO PRETTEH

Pinky Neutral EOTD

Is winter over yet?

MAKE IT STOP.

I want to be able to drink my morning can of awful energy drink each morning, outside, waiting for the bus, without my fingers getting ready to fall off.

That would be lovely.

Anyways.

Here's a neutral look I did on Sunday. 

I used:
TFSI Lemon Drop primer
Lid: Aromaleigh Mallow with Terpsichore on top
Crease: Tarte True Blood palette Dusk
To deepen crease: Tarte True Blood Stake
Browbone: Tarte True Blood The Light
Lower lashline: Stake on outer half, Shiro Moon Prism Power on top of UD Midnight Cowboy eyeliner.