Revlon Royal Makes a Summer Appearance

Are there any darker coloured polishes that you would wear in the Summer and pretty much all year round? Well, for me, one of those polishes is Revlon Royal! Predominantly what would be considered a Fall colour, for me it's just one of those colours that I would even wear to the beach (if I lived anywhere the beach)! That may be because it's a polish that we can't get in the UK but even if we could, I think I'd love it all the same!

I love Revlon Royal on it's own but how fantastic does it look with a coat of Max Factor Fantasy Fire? It's a match made in polish heaven!

Apologies for the quality of these pictures. I took them late at night and although I used my lamp as I usually do, for some reason they came out quite dark and full of shadows!

This was also the perfect opportunity for me to wear my Revlon Royal/ Max Factor FF ring that my friend Cassie (IG: cassgooner) made for me. Isn't it gorgeous?

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Facets of Fishtail

It's only now that I'm writing this post that I remember I really wanted to mattify this manicure! I think the purple glitter would look phenomenal with a matte top coat. I've had matte on my mind for a long time now but it always skips my mind when I'm actually in a position to use it, doh! I think I need to put my matte top coat in prime position on my desk so I don't forget it next time I wear a pretty glitter.

The beaut of a glitter is Revlon Facets of Fuschia and I applied that over a coat of PVA glue to make removal nice and easy.

I created the gradients using Sally Hansen No Hard Feelings as the base with Sally Hansen Gray by Gray. Finally, for the fishtail nail I used a nail art brush to apply those two Sally Hansen shades with Born Pretty's Matt White polish.

It's all topped off with a coat of Sally Hansen Dries Instantly.

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Over An Orange Base

Today's Adventures in Stamping Challenge was over an orange base...this is what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of OPI Bride's Bouquet and Revlon Alluring Amber; topped with SV.

Stamped using Apipila P. 02 using Konad black special polish.

I had made a stamper decal using plate 12-56S for the thumb so added it.  This time, I tried it using acrylic paints and it worked well except I found the paints a little slower to dry than stamping or regular polishes.  But they did work! 

I smudged the stamper decal when I was applying it so it kinda smudged there at Fred's arm.  So I added a few random dots using black Konad special polish and CND orange.  Fixed up Fred's arm a bit with  bit of paint and a brush.  Topped everything off with SV.

I only did one stamper decal so this was my right hand...I used the same image of Fred but with plate 12-56 for the hand below.  The images are larger as you can see; Fred doesn't fit all the way on the nail.  I posted some differences in the plates here if you want to read further.

I'll be interrupting blue mani's for Autism Awareness for the Digital Dozen challenges over the next five days starting tomorrow....and don't forget to enter my impromptu giveaway here if you're interested!

Hope you're having a good weekend....thanks for looking!

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Sweater Nails + Oopsie Daisies Discontining Some Polishes

At the beginning of December, I had seen a few posts of 'sweater nails'....I thought they were pretty awesome so I decided to do one myself.  Here's the sweater nails mani that I was wearing almost six weeks ago.....and just getting around to posting now!



Started with a base of two coats of Duri Taming of the Shrew; this pix has no topcoat.



Added one coat of Oopsie Daisies With A Cherry On Top, then topped with SV. (I think this combo would be a great stamping base for some upcoming Valentine's Day mani's too!)



Stamped using Konad white special polish using image plate QA15 (didn't do too good of a job on lining these up or stamping unfortunately - the index finger looks more like a frayed sweater!)



Topped with SV.



I seen a update recently that Oopsie Daisies is discontinuing a few of shades to make room for new ones in upcoming months; one of them is Oopsie Daisies Festivus For The Rest of Us**.  This is a mani I did on January 19th; Oopsie Daisies Festivus for the Rest of Us on top of Revlon Colorstay Bold Sangria that I had picked up that week when Revlon's were on sale at Shoppers Drug Mart.



Started with a base of two coats of Revlon Colorstay Bold Sangria. 



Added a coat of Oopsie Daisies and topped with SV.



For information about the polishes Oopsie Daisies is discontinuing; please go here....you can check out Oopsie Daisies Etsy shop here.  A few polishes are on sale including Festivus for the Rest of Us, Carols by Candlelight and Keepin' it Kosher; mani's I've done with the last two are here.  I've also done a mani with Soldier Of Fashion which is also being discontinued....and here's another mani I did using With A Cherry On Top too...it too is on the discontinued list.

Thanks for looking!


**Edited 15 mins after posting to add that Oopsie Daisies polishes were sent for review (forgot to mention!).  Please refer to disclosure policy for further information.

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BONUS! Inspired by a Flag Take 2!

I had a brain meltdown when I was painting my Flag inspired nails and ended up doing two manicures so you get a bonus 31 Day Challenge post today! I'd had this idea written down for ages and was really looking forward to doing it. I got so excited that I kind of forgot it was part of the challenge since the challenge has started becoming more of a chore than a pleasure at this point. So anyway, I decided on the Jamaican Flag nail art and then remembered that I actually wanted to do this so I did it anyway! By the way, it's inspired by a pirate flag!

I didn't want to go for the traditional black background so I took out one of my many 'near black' shades, Deborah Lippmann Dark Side of the Moon* and used two coats as my base. I painted on the skull and crossbones and sword detail with white and black acrylic paint using a small nail art brush. 

I added one coat of Revlon Facets of Fuschia to my thumb and pinky which I picked up for £1 in Discount UK and I'm pretty sure it's exactly, EXACTLY the same polish as Scandalous which is part of the current range and is retailing for £6.49! That is scandalous! 

Finally, I used two coats of NYC Top Coat to finish it all off.

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Smokin Laces! : Lacey Nail Art

Whaddup Gals!

Me good as usual! I won a couple of nail art contest past few weeks.

One of them was from Inglot (India) and other one was Revlon (India). Yay!!

I won a Nail Art Pen from Inglot and I am yet to receive my Revlon gift. Will keep y'all updated.

In the meanwhile the weather here has turned slightly pleasant in the mornings and evenings. Not cold, no..but I am still eager to pull out my woolies and start wearing them. So maybe this is what I would call the "Fall Season" for Mumbai. Hehe!

Anywho coming back to the subject..I had got some of these gorgeous smokey shades from Revlon when they launched their new shades sometime back. You can see the other one here (Muse). This is the second one. I still have an untried from this buy, hopefully will put up soon.

Base: Revlon's Mischievous (455)

Its a creme smokey grey-purple. Nice creme finish, slightly streaky..but 2 coats made it fine and opaque. Took more than 5-8 mins to dry.

Stamping plate: Konad M71

Stamping Colour: Konad Pastel Pink

Love this dainty lacey stamp from Konad.

Goin off to enjoy the weather! Ciao!

*All products bought by me unless otherwise mentioned.

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Ahhh my Muse!!

I just couldnt get over the (meh) mani from yesterday.

Gave me sleepless night! :D

So here I am today with something much better.

The base is Revlon's Muse!

Adorable shade isnt it?

Smooth creme, perfect opaque in 2 coats, not streaky either. Pale Olive greeeeen!

I am totally loving these new range of polishes from Revlon!!! and mind you I am not a fan of green, but this one is SUPER!

I got another couple more to show you too..but another day.

Stamping Plate: Konad M85 (available from violetbag.com)

Stamping Polish: Kleancolor Mango (awesome stamping polish I tell ya!)

Topped with SV 

Now this mani me Likey! :D

Chao! till I see ya next!

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Yet Another Halloween Mani

Are you tired of Halloween mani's yet?  Hopefully not because here's yet another one I did not too long ago!

Started with a base of two coats of Revlon Alluring Amber and FingerPaints Black Expressionism.  Alluring Amber seems to be my go to orange polish the last couple years for Halloween mani's...I seem to think I picked it up at a bargain bin someplace but need to find a backup before I run out!

For some interest, added a coat of Lacquistry Pickin' Punkins' in the Patch to accent.

Another pix to see the Lacquistry at a different angle.

The mandatory bottle shot!

I really wasn't too keen on stamping the mani at this point because I was kinda digging my nails without any stamping...but then I remembered I had done some trial stamping of some images that I've never used before, so I decided to add them for fun. Used black Konad special polish using plates W234 (skull on ring, witch on middle, frankenstein on pinky), W215 (boo on index), OB26 (house on thumb and flying witch), T23 (bat above boo on index as well as small bats on thumb, middle and index, spider on ring and pinky and pumpkins placed on middle and thumb).  The green polish is Sally Hansen Insta-dri Lickety-Split Lime.

Added green dots in eyes of frankenstein, the witch and the pumpkins using Lickety-Split Lime and touched up the base of the house on thumb using a small brush with the Konad polish.  The witch was too freaky with green eyes so dotted black on top of the green so I wasn't all freaked out!

Topped with SV to finish.

Another pix to see the pumpkin at the base of the house.  It was suppose to mimic putting a carved pumpkin outside your door like on Halloween night...and then most of the pix, I cut it out of the frame!

Have a fantastic weekend...and thanks for looking!

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