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Autumnal Stamping with F.U.N Lacquer ‘Burning Up’

Hey guys,

I uploaded this design on my instagram account a week ago and then my internet connection went down 🙁 so this post is a week late. This is the first of a couple of designs I did for autumn this year. I used Fun Lacquer’s Burning Up as my base as it’s the perfect colour. It’s a multichrome that shifts through copper,orange, gold,pink and I daresay green at a certain angle! It’s basically autumn in a bottle and I reached for it instantly.

Swatches of Burning Up :

Looks like a gorgeous wine coloured satiny beauty in the shade!

Some of that shift is visible in this one:

Sunlight swatch spam, slightly pink with orange highlights in the corners:

Looking more brownish orange in this one :

This last one was taken inside and captures the crazy orange shift I was talking about:

As usual, I wanted to stamp an autumn appropriate design on this beautiful base, but I didn’t want the base to be completely obscured by the print , so I went with a simple double stamped leaf.

Here’s what I used:

Basecoat – Orly Bonder

F.U.N Lacquer – Burning Up

Liquid Latex for easy cleanup with stamping

Konad Black Stamping polish

Maybelline Color Show – No. 008 Bold Gold

Glisten & Glow – HK Girl Top Coat

XL Gold stamper from FabUrNails (Not Pictured)

Plate used:

HeHe 52 from the HeHe brand

The process is pretty simple, I chose a leaf and stamped it in black. Then I picked up the same image in gold and stamped over the black with a partial overlap so the black leaf sort of looks like a shadow.

Here’s the finished look:

In sunlight:

I leave you with this :

So what do you think?

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December 4, 2015
A England Sleeping Palace Swatch & Review

Hey everyone 🙂

This post has been a long time coming, I swatched A England Sleeping Palace a while back and am only now blogging about it.I got my first A England’s in April this year and am totally in love with them! The formula is flawless and almost all of them are one coaters! So, if you want a 5 minute manicure, A England is your best bet!

Sleeping Palace is no exception. It is completely opaque in a single coat. I used 2 cause I found it weird to stop with one coat, and I wanted to even out the nail surface 😀 The only different thing I found in this polish is that the consistency is a little thick and sort of like syrup.I initially thought that the polish was going bad or was from a bad batch. However, I have since read on a couple other blogs where this same thing was mentioned and that it was normal for this particular polish. None of my other A England’s have this peculiarity. Also, it’s been a while since I bought my polish and it’s as good as the day I first got it.

The colour on this one is fantastic! It is a deep aubergine and has a steely finish because of the holographic pigment. It looks lovely in the shade!

It’s flattering on pretty much any skin tone and instantly transforms your nails into a thing of beauty !

In the sun, the holographic dimension shows itself and that’s when you fall in love even more! The holographic particles are subtle and lend an almost orange like glow, almost like there’s a fire glowing from within.

Just to make it more evident, here are a couple of macros:

A little history on the polish now. As you may or may not know, A England collections are usually conceptualized around a piece of history close to the founder, Adina Bodana’s heart. This polish is from the “Burne-Jones Dream” collection – a set of polishes that narrate the story of sleeping beauty as conceived by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, a British artist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement. “Sleeping Palace” represents the slumbering palace that awaits the prince as he journeys to wake sleeping beauty. “An unnatural twilight has fallen upon the land” says the blurb for this polish on the official A England site and I couldn’t agree more!

I was so in love with this, that I was a little too camera happy and clicked away :

I leave you with these last few pics taken both in the shade as well as in the sun:

I bought my polish from www.color4nails.com cause A England’s official site doesn’t ship outside the UK anymore.

So what do you think?

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September 7, 2015
Inglot 367 & Inglot 302 Swatch & Review

Hi guys,

I have a quick post today! I indulged in some random impulse shopping over the weekend and ended up buying two polishes from Inglot. I’ve been in love with their makeup for a while and needless to say, their polish bar is drool worthy 😀

I picked out a pinkish tinged taupe (no. 367) and another seemingly ordinary pink ( no. 302) which is actually a duochrome with a strong green flash.Here are some bottle shots :

Just look at the green! Magical right!

It’s really strong even in the shade!

I must say, it’s really awkward trying to click pictures of the brush with the bottle in one hand the camera in the other! I was trying to catch the last few rays of sunlight and had to hold the bottle at all angles 😀

The other taupe colour (no. 367)has a pink flash which is evident on the nail at a certain angle and was difficult to photograph. Here it is in the sun :

I have swatches of these on a single nail as I wanted to do a comparison. I really love taupe and pink and have a lot of polishes . the distinction being that these are all “similar” and not the same. As for the pink/green duochrome, I don’t have any in my stash that compares, so I’m really pleased with that one.

Here’s a macro swatch of no. 367 :

See how beautiful that pink flash is! It’s perfect for the office or a “grown up” brunch 🙂

The formula was really easy to work with! Opaque and creamy in two coats.Dried pretty fast too. No streaks or patches. The photo above is without topcoat, so as you can see, it’s really shiny!

Here’s a macro swatch of no. 302 on it’s own:

I seriously don’t think this polish is meant to be worn on it’s own. For one, it needs 4 coats to become as opaque as shown in this picture and there’s still some nail line that’s visible. I’m not a fan of those sheer polishes where you can see the nail line, I like using them as a base for some stamping to cover up the VNL ( Visible Nail Line).

One thing I need to mention is that even with 4 coats, it dried very fast and to a very shiny finish. The duochrome is not very apparent when you layer this polish like this. So I tried layering it over the taupe. Here are the results:

It’s lovely! It’s transformed my pinky taupe into a magical pixieland taupe! I really love how these polishes look together. Also, no topcoat here either. The polish is naturally this shiny!

Here’s a look at the two versions side by side:

As I mentioned earlier, I was afraid that I may have gone and bought myself a dupe, so I decided to compare this to all the possible taupe/taupe-ish colours I already have. Here’s a comparison in the sun :

While I was in the store, I was really convinced that this was a dupe for “Commander in Chic” from the Salon Manicure range by Sally Hansen. Later on I thought it also looked similar to “Plum’s the word” from the same Sally Hansen range. However, as you can see, there are no dupes here! Yay for me 🙂

Here’s what they look like in the shade:

These polishes retail for INR 750 at Inglot stores across the country. The products were not provided for review, I paid for these myself. Inglot is a 5 free brand. This means their polish is free of 5 of the most harmful chemicals that may typically be found in polish – Camphor , Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP), Formaldehyde, Formaldehyde Resin and Toluene.

That’s it from me! Lemme know what you think below…

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August 4, 2015