Cirque Kabocha & Neko

Hi!!

It's been wayyyy too long! Uni is so close to being finished I can almost taste it!

Today I've got the two polishes from Cirque's All Hallows Eve collection. I think she's sold out on her website, but definitely try to find somewhere where you can pick them up. I think the best bet would be to go and try and win a giveaway, you can keep up to date with giveaways through Cirque's Facebook.

Kabocha & Neko in front of a few other Cirque polishes

They are such gorgeous colours! Kabocha (Japanese for pumpkin), looks exactly like what it's name says. An amazing pumpkin orange that glows in the dark! I didn't manage to get any pictures of it glowing in the dark because I think all the glowing sediment sunk down to the bottom and I forgot to rest it upside down :(

Indoors

With flash

Neko is a black glitter that's made to be worn with Kabocha or with another polish. I am completely in love with this glitter! They look like little shards of paper or something haha. The amazing thing about Neko and Kabocha together is that you can see the glitter when Kabocha glows in the dark! For this formula, even though it's pretty dense, a dabbing technique would be best to distribute the glitter the way you want it. On my index finger I've dabbed Neko and the rest are just normal.

Indoors

With flash

I highly recommend these polishes to everyone! The formula was amazing for both, Kabocha is a jelly so it's quite sheer (the pictures have three coats and you can still see my nail line a little bit) and the glow sediment makes it dry matte so it dries quite quickly. I've heard that Cirque polishes are supposed to smell like lavender while they're drying? I didn't really notice any different smells, although I wasn't looking out for it that much.

The rest of the Cirque polishes I got will have to be reswatched when I get my good camera I think. My camera at the moment couldn't handle their glitteryness! I've got some pictures of the Australian indie polish lady Gloss 'n Sparkle banked that I will show you this weekend before my exam on Monday!

See you next time!

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NOTD: Neon Skittle Leopard

Hi guys!

It's been so long since I've posted! Unfortunately uni has been kicking my ass, soooo many assignments! I hate how they have them all due in the same week! Although today I handed in my last assignment FOREVER! Feeling a little nostalgic, but probably not for long because now I've got my exams haha

So to cheer myself up I decided to do a neon leopard skittle! This was using the famous Konad m57 plate, the problem with these is that my nails are too wide! Luckily you can't really tell here that I had to use a small paintbrush and paint the sides. I ordered some Llarowe XL plates which are so much bigger than the Konad plates, so hopefully I'll have more luck with those.

For this I used:
- OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls
- Kleancolor Neon Aqua
- China Glaze Hang Ten Toes
- China Glaze Orange You Hot?
- China Glaze I'm With The Lifeguard
- China Glaze Sun-kissed

I just love how fun this look is! The only problem is that in the stamping, the neons came out looking like pastels. At least both neon and pastel are in at the moment, so either are on trend haha

I'm in the process of cropping my massive amount of indie swatches, unfortunately until I get my good camera (yay for a graduation present!), I'm using the camera on my phone. It's oddly better quality then my normal digital camera, but for some of these indies I can't capture how truly awesome they are. So I think I'll either hold off on posting them, or re-swatching them once I get my camera.

See you next time!

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80s Night! Neon skittle

Hi again!


It's been so long since I've posted! Last year uni subjects take up so much time!


The other day at work we had an awesome 80s night where all the bar staff got to dress up! So I decided to pretty up my nails with some neon.

(Revlon - Royal)

You can see that this nail had massive shrinkage, so next time I'll have to not use a quick dry top coat. Revlon Royal is a gorgeous electric blue jelly! The best part about this polish is that it dries super quickly, I probably didn't need to use a top coat, but I hate using a top coat on all my nails except one haha. The application is also great, it goes on really evenly and there's no streaks. This is two coats.

(China Glaze - Hang-Ten Toes, Orange You Hot?, Sun Kissed, & I'm With The Lifeguard)

All four of these are from the China Glaze Summer Neon Collection so they've all got the same formula and finish. Each of the colours have a gorgeous shimmer to them, which you can see in the flash photos and direct sunlight (you couldn't see it in the photos outside though).

Application! Seriously, it's good that these colours are pretty, because the application stinks! It went on a little streaky and the drying time was horrible, with two coats I left it to dry for 2 hours and it still wasn't completely dry, which is why Orange You Hot in these pictures is only one coat, it completely smudged and I had to take it off and try again.

During the week I went to the hairdresser and found these super cool products: Colour Bug! Last summer I really wanted to try hair chalking, but for some reason I couldn't work out how to do it. Colour Bug makes hair chalking super easy! You just need to spray hairspray on your hair and then rub it on your hair then spray hairspray again to set it and you're done! I used it on 80s night and it was sooo cool. I'll take a photo of it in my hair next week.

I'll post again tomorrow. Yesterday I got some nail mail from Llarowe, my first indie polishes!!

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