Weaved Mani with Cirque Colors

A quick post to share my weekend mani, a basket weave look using 3 shades from Cirque Colors The Metropolitan collection, Doyers, Hudson, and Sunset Park. I used INM Northern Lights for the finish look, to add a bit sparkles. 

Hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend!

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Novi

Glam Polish Pop! Nail Art

Ok, so I enjoyed doing comic-type graffiti nail art yesterday, which also happen to be the name of the polish. Today I'm back with another polish from the same collection by Glam Polish, Knockout part 2, with similar nail art as I did yesterday. 

I swear I think I'm starting to need a magnifier glass while doing my nail art. I always caught something that needed to be fixed while editing the photos, even then sometimes I need to look twice to find what I see on the screen, on my nails!

Oh well. I hope you're okay with some imperfection. Here goes, Pop!

If only I'm not on a long no buy (5 months and going strong, go me!), I would totally get the rest of the polishes from this collection and do this nail art for every single one of them!

Oh, and just in case you're not familiar with the brand (gasp!) or the collection, this one is called Pop! from Knockout collection part 2 released early this month (swatches & review for 3 of them can be found here)

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Novi

Glam Polish Boing! Nail Art

Hi! I'm back with a rather simple idea for a nail art. The idea comes from the names of Glam Polish Knockout Collection recently released. I have the swatches of 3 of them right here. 
I painted the name of the polish in a cartoon style, with the polish itself as the background, Glam Polish Boing!. The polishes I used are OPI Good Grief!, OPI Romantically Involved, Cirque Carpe Diem, and KBShimmer Eclipse.

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Novi

Neon Leopard Half-Moon Stripes

Heeyyyyy! Remember me? It's been a week! No reason whatsoever, I just suddenly didn't feel like painting my nails, at all. Not even a base coat for a whole week. Yeah.. I've been bad.
Anyway, I've had the idea to do this mani since last week, and finally did it today. I use the shades from last year's OPI Neon for this mani. It's super bright in person and kind of remind me of clowns for some reason....

My hand was so shaky painting these lines.. I couldn't believe one week off has so much impact on me. I guess I better keep on painting!

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Novi

Cirque Metropolis Collection - May Release: Hustle

Hi guys! I'm back with a monthly release from Cirque Colors. The Metropolis Collection is a monthly series of creme finish nail lacquers highlighting the great city of New York. For May, we have a bold chartreuse creme called Hustle.

The formula on Hustle is on the thick side, but it self-leveled pretty amazingly. I had doubts while applying it, cause it looked so uneven. But I looked away for a minute and voila! it totally smoothed out by itself. I used 2 coats with Cirque Holdfast base coat and Liquid Laminate top coat.
Now onto the colour, I feel that I need to mention that for some reason this leans a lot more yellow on me. I can only see hints of green on it in certain angle/lighting, most of the time I see this more like a bright mustard yellow. I took so many pics of this and they all look pretty much this way. I could've colour-corrected this to look like a chartreuse green, but I'd rather for you to see what I see. 
Also note that I have a warm skin tone with yellow undertone, that could have affected how certain colours look on me.

The first two pics were taken in my usual light box setup with daylight bulbs. 

Below pic was taken under direct sunlight (second day mani).

In the shade..

This is available from Cirque Colors starting May 1st, 2015, and from their stockists some time after that. You can find the complete list of their stockists in this link. 

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**Products were provided for my honest review

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Novi

Green Dotticure

I'm starting a new month with last month's manicure, haha. If you're following me on Instagram, maybe you remember I posted a beach mani a few days ago? Well, this is the one. It's so simple and yet I loved it so much I wore it for 4 full days! That's definitely a record. And when I removed them, they hadn't chipped at all and there's only very little tip wear. I was amazed, and then I remembered why I love OPI in the first place. They are so good on me.

My base is Damone Roberts 1968, the prettiest OPI green! Every time I wear this I regret not buying 2 bottles when they were on sale. I love this so much I want to wear it all the time! But at the same time I don't want to bottle to have noticeable fill line... You get that, right? Lol! I used OPI Christmas Gone Plaid for the dots and topped with HK Girl top coat. 

What is your favorite color that you have backups for your backup? :)

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Novi