Beauty Tips for Women: China Glaze – Elephant Walk

Posted on March 23, 2013 by admin

I wanted to share a manicure I did using China Glaze Elephant Walk from their On Safari Collection.

Elephant Walk is a beautiful grey with silver shimmer. I tried to capture how nice this color is, so this is a picture intense post. The shimmers are more present under lights or the sun. Elephant Walk tends to lean towards the green side, depending on the lights. I had no problems with the formula; it was smooth and easy to apply. I used two coats for this manicure.

I could not resist adding some stamping to this manicure. I used Winstonia W115 to add cute elephants walking across my nails. I stamped with Pure Ice Silver Mercedes.

I give Elephant Walk 5 brains.

Beauty Tips for Women: Revlon – Rainforest / St. Patrick’s Day Manicure

Posted on March 8, 2013 by admin

I would like to share a review of Revlon – Rainforest and a simple St. Patrick’s Day Manicure.

Revlon Rainforest is a dark green base with light green and gold flecks or flaky. The color is stunning especially when it hits the light in the right angle. The formula was average. I used two coats because with one it was streaky and patchy. I did want to make a note about the brush; it is the wide paddle style and I guess the shape was supposed to be rounded but instead it seemed like it wasn’t cut right so it had a weird triangle semi rounded shape. This made application a bit difficult. Leave it up to me to pick a bottle with a defective brush.

Being that we are in February, I couldn’t pass up not giving this gorgeous green a St. Patrick’s Day flare. I opted for a simple shamrock stamp using Maybelline – Bold Gold, which picked up the golden flecks so beautifully in the polish. The shamrock image was from Winstonia W105.

I give Rainforest, 4 brains.

Beauty Tips for Women: Orly – Melodious Utopia Manicure

Posted on March 1, 2013 by admin

I wanted to share a manicure I did using Orly’s Spring 2013 Hope and Freedom Collection – Melodious Utopia. I’m still working my way through all polishes in this lovely collection.

I have a bit of a love hate relationship with yellow polishes. I like them but never like how they look on me. Plus formulas tend to be kind of wacky. So I was bit skeptical about how this yellow would fare on me.

Melodious Utopia is a creamy yellow shimmer polish. It was hard to capture a good picture that showed off the gold/orange/pink shimmers it has throughout. I used two coats. I had no issues with the formula at all.

I was pleasantly surprised by how Melodious Utopia looked on me. I was inspired to do some stamping and what came to mind was honeybees. To achieve this look I used Winstonia plate W113, which has a cool honeycomb like pattern. For the honeybee, I used Shany plate SH05. I stamped with Konad special black polish.