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.