Beauty Tips for Women: Reptile Scales Manicure

Season 4 of Game of Thrones is about to start and to celebrate I tried my hand at doing a reptile scales style manicure.  My goal was to try and make it look dragonish.

I started off with one coat of Daphine Polish – Blue Spruce.  I did a gradient using Daphine Polish – The Hessian.  The Hessian is a holographic black polish but it is not thick so it required a couple of passes before I got it dark.  It certainly wasn’t the best choice to get the effect I wanted but I was committed to the look.  I used Mash plate Mash-39 that has a nice scale image and stamped it with Konad black.

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I’m on the fence about this manicure.  I don’t hate it but I think my polish choice didn’t work for what I wanted.

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Beauty Tips for Women: Color Club – Cosmic Fate

Cosmic Fate is part of the Color Club Halo Hues Holographic Nail Polish Collection Spring 2013.

I did two coats of Cosmic Fate but could have easily gotten away with just one coat.  I had no issues with application.  The formula is very nice.

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I decided to stamp using Cheeky plate CH16.

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The holographic goodness really came out in the outdoor pictures but that doesn’t take away that it looks lovely in indoor lighting as well.

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I love how this quick manicure came out.

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I give Color Club Cosmic Fate five brains! BRAINrate5

Beauty Tips for Women: Retro Cat Manicure

For this manicure I was inspired by Jior Couture Cat’s Corn-er polish from their Halloween 2013 collection.  Warning this post is picture intensive. Nail Art Polish Beauty tips for Women 333

Cat’s Corn-er polish is a holographic thermal chocolate brown polish that is also candy corn scented. Application was smooth and the smell made me crave candy.  I tried my best to capture the shift in thermal and the holorraphic effect in pictures. Nail Art Polish Beauty tips for Women 334 Nail Art Polish Beauty tips for Women 335 Nail Art Polish Beauty tips for Women 336 Nail Art Polish Beauty tips for Women 337 Nail Art Polish Beauty tips for Women 339 Nail Art Polish Beauty tips for Women 339 Nail Art Polish Beauty tips for Women 340

I decided to stamp a cat to play on the title Cat’s Corn-er.  I choose a lovely retro cat from Pueen Cosmetics plate Pueen40.  I stamped with Maybelline Bold Gold. Nail Art Polish Beauty tips for Women 341

The cat came across better when Cat’s Corn-er is dark brown rather than the light caramel color.

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This polish packs a punch. I love how it changes colors and the different looks you can get. I’m glad that I just did a simple stamp cause I didn’t want to cover up the color. Nail Art Polish Beauty tips for Women 349

I give Cat’s Corn-er 5 brains.

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If you are interested in picking up your own set of polishes, check out their page www.jiorcouture.com and on facebook https://www.facebook.com/JiorCouture.