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: 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.

I give Melodious Utopia 5 brains.

Beauty Tips for Women: Orly – Miss Conduct

Posted on February 27, 2013 by admin

If by chance you still haven’t laid eyes upon Orly’s Holiday 2012 Naughty Or Nice Collection, you should and pronto before they disappear. They are all lovely, but the one that knocked my socks off is Miss Conduct.

Miss Conduct is unlike any holographic polish I’ve seen or own; it truly is unique. It is a magenta/pink/raspberry color with scattered holo effect. The formula was great, very easy to apply. I had no issues at all. I did two coats but with one coat it would have been fine. I tried my best to capture just how wonderful this shade-shifter is, but pictures don’t do it justice. I tried to capture a picture with and without flash. I couldn’t stop starring at my nails and showing off the holographic effect to anyone who came my way.