Pahlish Nine [Studded] Ladies Dancing

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Ahoy hoy polish phenoms,

I have a cool square stud look for y'all today!

If you're wondering why my watermark is all over the place font and colour wise, it is because Photobucket have gone and changed their whole website and their new photo editor sucks arse!!!!!!!!!! Literally. Might have to go back to using Picassa or something else :(

Pahlish Nine Ladies Dancing with 2mm square gold studs

 I actually found it easier to achieve this look than I'd imagined. I applied 2 coats of my Pahlish base, then 1 thin stripe of a slow drying clear along the middle of 1 nail. I had plenty of time to place each stud in as straight a line as possible (some are a bit wonky!!!) before I sealed the studs with 1 coat of SV.

The only issue I had was having to shift around the studs if they went over the tip or too close to the cuticle of each nail. In that case I'd just sort of smooch them all up or down until they look centered and removed the studs which didn't fit.

I'm really happy with how they turned out, and when it was time to remove them, I just rubbed each stud with nail polish remover to get all the SV off and put them back into the bag for next time.

I got my studs from Born Pretty towards the end of last year with a whole bunch of other supplies that I need to use! For US$5.73 you get a really good sized amount of studs compared to other places I've seen. I paid $2 or 3 for exactly 20 pieces from Cult Nails once. Will never do that again!!!

I also have a 10% Discount Coupon for Born Pretty on the left side toolbar, use it!!!!

And here's Nine Ladies Dancing by itself.

Pahlish Nine Ladies Dancing

Nine Ladies Dancing is a beautiful pink berry burgundy shimmer with pink and green/teal glass fleck. One of the 12 Days of Christmas LE releases. Perfect for a night out with the girls! The formula was thick but easily thinned with some Seche Restore and was opaque in 2 coats.


xxx
NPA

Illamasqua Theatre of The Nameless Collection - Swatches & Review

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Happy Hump Day,

I never did know why Wednesday was hump day; initially I figured it had something to do with bumping uglies, why on a Wednesday in particular I wasn't sure...

I had a massive bail at uni today; all alone, in front of lots of people I spread-eagled on some lino (facing in the doorway), scraping my knee, then I got up and said aloud (because for some reason I thought it'd make me seem less spastic), "That was embarrassing" and walked out the door without looking back. Maybe I should have laughed? No one teaches you how to behave in seriously embarrassing situations!

It was really funny and I could see that, but because I was all alone I just felt really shamed!!!!!!! Now every time anyone looks at me funny for the next couple of weeks I'm going to be paranoid that they saw me bail!!!!

Anything like that happen to you lately? Maybe you can regale me with your story so I feel less idiotic?!

I got the 4 Theatre of the Nameless 'rubber finish' polishes from My Nail Graffiti's blog sale in May and managed to get them swatched while I was on holiday. I apologise for the lack of clean up around my cuticles. I didn't have any acetone with me and my nail polish remover had too much glycerine in it to be good at clean up. It was just easier in the end to forgo pretty cuticles!

Faux Pas

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Faux Pas is a medium grape purple with a semi-matte finish. The 'rubber' finish made my nails look like the polish was wet still. I really dig the look. It applied really easily and was pretty even and opaque after just 2 coats. There are a couple of bubble like bumps you can see, but I don't think that was the fault of Faux Pas. I applied the 2nd coat really thickly (the brush was a bit munted so I tried to compensate), so that probably caused the slight bubbling.

 Kink

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Kink is the most perfect slightly too blue-toned to be forest green shade of green. I think it's kind of an Illamasqua Rampage in the rubber finish. This had the best application of the bunch. In the first picture you can really see the 'wet polish' look these rubbers have!! This is 2 coats.

Vice

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 Vice is the perfect berry pink with a semi-matte finish. I had the most trouble applying this one. Whether it was me or the polish, I found it a little uneven at 2 coats. The first time I applied it, I had to use 3 coats, but it got too dark, so I reapplied with a thicker 2nd coat (causing a few bumps) and got it to look ok.

Taint

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Taint has a GREAT name (makes me think that it was supposed to look like a poo brown!) and is a yellow toned medium brown. It's smooth as chocolate baby! This applied just fine with 2 coats like all the rest. Looked great next to my skin too. I love these unconventional browns!

I'm so impressed with this collection. The colours are simple but they are executed flawlessly, so even if you don't like the semi-matte/rubber finish, they make great staple cremes with a layer of top coat! These came out last year and I drooled over them but could never afford them full price, so I'm beyond happy that I got them cheap!!

How do you feel about this collection?

xxx
NPA