Hump Day Nail Art with Glam Polish

Hi guys! Am I the only one who's counting day and can't wait until Friday comes?? It's the new season of Orange Is The New Black! I binge watched season 1&2 last week to get ready for the new season. 
Anyway, today I did a sort of tribal-ish nail art look, they're basically just lines. Thick lines, thin lines, squiggly lines. I just don't know what to call it. So let's just take a look.

The thick lines are the sparkly Glam Polish Boing!, Pop!, and Yeah3x. The squiggly lines are Glam Polish Whoosh!, and the black and white used here are Cirque Carpe Diem and Memento Mori. All painted with my Winstonia detail brush #0000 and top coated with HK Girl top coat.

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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

Glam Polish Bling It On! Trio - Swatches & Review

Hi guys! I have awesome news for Glam Polish fans out there! If you're a micro glitter whore like me, you're gonna love these new shades I'm about to show you.

Rachel, the creative genius behind the brand, will be releasing the new Bling It On! trio on May 6th, 2015. This small collection consists of 3 super blinged out holographic shades packed with holographic micro glitter. 

For more pics and details, click below..

Glam Polish Knockout Collection Part 2 - Swatches & Review (partial)

Hi guys! Do you remember earlier this year Glam Polish released the Knockout Collection, a collection of 6 with super sparkly micro glitter and ultra holo finish? Of course you do. I was drooling super hard over them, and they made it onto my wish list after this no-buy ended. Well, if the first one was good, the Knockout Collection part 2 is even better! This collection consists of four ultra holo shades and five ultra holo glitter.

Below I have a brief description of all 9 shades, and swatches of 3 of them after the jump.

SMASH! - Red Ultra Holo.

ZOOM! - Bright Blue Ultra Holo.

WOOSH! Lavender Ultra Holo.

THWAAK! - Black Ultra Holo.

WHAM! - Sterling Silver Holo with Ultra Holo Glitter.

BOING! - Lilac Holo with Ultra Holo Glitter.

POP! - Peach Holo with Ultra Holo Glitter.

KRUNCH! Purple Holo with Ultra Holo Glitter.

Zonk! Teal Holo with Ultra Holo Glitter.

Don't you just love the names in this collection?! Other than just a one-word name, the nerd in me fantasize that I'm a superhero fighting villains in style with my uber sparkly nails. Lol!

Pop!

Peach Holo with Ultra Holo Glitter
This bright peach is perfect in two coats. It leans a bit of orange on me, and looks brighter on nails than in the bottle. Shown with 1 coat of top coat.

Boing!

Lilac Holo with Ultra Holo Glitter
This ultra sparkly brightlilac shade with a touch of pink also covers perfectly in two coats. Love this!! Shown with 1 coat of top coat.

Whoosh!

Lavender Ultra Holo.
This one has more holo effect than these pics are showing you, very pretty even in indoor lighting. Shown 3 thin coats and top coat.

I have no issues at all with all three shades, formula and application were perfect, these are something that you can always rely on from Glam Polish. The glitter shades only needed 1 coat of top coat for smooth finish.

All 9 shades will be available from www.glampolish.com.au on May 6th, 2015, 6pm EST. Shipping will be available to Australia and USA. Shipping rate to USA is USD 3.50 for the first polish and USD 1.00 for each additional bottle.

For the rest of the world, list of Glam Polish international stockists can be found in this link. Stay tuned to your favorite stockist's social media for restock/launch info.

Which one are you planning to get? Don't forget to follow Glam Polish on their social media (Facebook & Instagram) for restock and new collection release info.

**products were provided for my honest review

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Novi

Triangle Tape Mani

Hi guys! For once I'm writing a post in advance, how did that happen? Lol. This is the mani I was wearing on Sunday. This mani features the cremes from Cirque Metropolis and 2 of Glam Polish Masters of Illusions. 

My nails were so sparkly! I layered Glam Polish Now You See Me over Cirque Midnight Cowboy, and Cirque Vigo for the base. The triangles near the cuticles were done with the help of striping tape and a detail brush. 
For the accent nail, the base is Cirque Lady Libery, layered with Cirque Vigo and Glam Polish Death Defying Acts. 

Just look at the sparkles! <3 <3

XO
Novi

Peacock Feathers w/ Born Pretty BP-L007 & Glam Polish

Hi guys! Today I have a stamping decal featuring a plate from Born Pretty Store and Glam Polish shades I reviewed on the last post. It's a rather vampy, yet sparkly, manicure. Not sure yet if I'll be keeping this for my weekend mani, but at this moment, I just can't stop staring at them!

For my base, I used a thin layer of Glam Polish Death Defying Acts over OPI First Class Desires. I made my decals on a ziploc bag, using Mundo de Unas black and peacock feathers design from plate BP-L007 (you can find it in this link). Then I filled in the feathers with 2 Glam Polish shades, Now You See Me, Deceptive Practice, and Death Defying Acts. For the accent nails (pinkie and index), I used mini chevron vinyls and use the same Glam Polish shades. I sealed off the design with HK Girl top coat.

Happy weekend guys!! :)

**products used on this post were provided for my honest review.

XO
Novi

Glam Polish Masters of Illusions Collection Swatches & Review (Partial)

Hi guys! If you're a fan of Australian indie brands, then you probably heard of this recent collection released by Glam Polish, Master of Illusions collection. Rachel, the creative brain behind the brand, created 9 amazing special effect shades (6 colour-shifting shades and 3 sparkling shades), filled with flakies, holo, micro flakies, and colour-shifting flecks. All the goodies packed in one bottle! And today I have the pleasure of sharing 3 of them here. 

Although these are called 'special effect' shades, you can also wear them on their own, without undies (base colour), like what I'm showing you here. I will show these over a base colour another time, maybe on a nail art post :)
The formula, although packed with sparkles-flakey-flecks, still amazingly easy to work with. My only suggestion is to apply carefully and minimize any need of clean up, tiny flakes and flecks are just as painful as micro glitter when it comes to clean up.

I have a ton of pictures for your viewing pleasure, just click below..

Scaled Gradient - Fonteyn & Fotheringhay Castle

Hi guys! After several super bright and colorful mani I did recently, I find myself steered toward a more neutral shades when picking the polishes to use for my mani today. 
My first pick was A England Fonteyn, then I chose Glam Polish Comet Storm to layer over it , and A England Fotheringhay Castle to use in the scaled gradient. This was a quick mani, done in about 30-40 mins. I consider it quick for a nail art look. I quite love the result too! 

I just love looking at the flakie up close, so pretty! 

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Novi

Glam Polish In Summer

Happy hump day! Today I decided to knock out another untried from my list. It's a good thing to have a long list of untried when you're in a long no-buy like me, I can still shop around in my own stash and find something that I forgot I had. 

In Summer is a super cute white crelly with a mix of glitter colours that's perfect for spring. I used 3 thin coats, but you'd get full coverage in just 2 coats. I really love this, I don't even want to cover it up with any nail art! For now..

Looking at my nails. I imagine Olaf singing and dancing in a field of flowers..in summer :-D now I'm gonna go and watch Frozen again, for the umpteenth time..

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Novi

St. Patrick's Day Nails

After taking a long weekend break from my blog, which was unplanned.. I had a nail art post planned out, that I've been wanted to do. Like a series type of post. But just as I sat down and about to start painting, I realized that I'm running really really low on thinner. I use thinner to clean my brush during and after painting. It keeps my brush in a good condition than when using acetone. 

And today I'm back with a St. Patrick's Day mani! I didn't do anything too fancy, just a skitlelette and a mix of stamping, gradient, and some quick free hand.

I did a vertical gradient on 2 nails with OPI Christmas Gone Plaid, Zoya Josie, and Picture Polish Tiffany, then painted stack of gold on the tips with OPI Goldeneye and L.A.M.B. 

On my ring finger, I wear Girly Bits Selfie Bomb, stamped with a four leaf clover image from BM-H05 (Thanks Nail Polish Canada!). Free hand vertical rainbow stripes on my pinkie with gold frame. 

My favorite I think is my thumb. I use Glam Polish Elixir, and painted four leaf clover design using Winstonia Kolinsky brush #0000 and OPI Christmas Gone Plaid. 

What's your favorite greens to wear on St. Patrick'd Day? I posted mine on instagram :)

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Novi

Born Pretty Store Stamping Plate Review - BP-L 004

Hi guys! Today I have another stamping plate review from Born Pretty Store. I created a stamping decal using one of the designs from plate BP-L 004, which you can find in this link, and you can use my code NVG10 to take 10% off your purchase.

I cannot say this for every single design on this plate, since I haven't tried them all. But the one I used picked up really easy. I used Mundo de Unas Black and Konad stamper. 
The plate has 21 designs, on a rectangular plate with a pink plastic backing and paper sleeve. 
The plate measurement is 12cmx6cm. The plastic backing add 1cm to the total measurement, 13cmx7cm. The design size is 1,5cmx1,7cm. The width is more than enough to fit my nails, even the thumb. The height is just enough for my current length, and a bit short to fit my thumb. 

I used the design on the top row, far right. 

I used more than a dozen polishes for this decals, I started with 7 polishes and find myself going back and forth to my melmer for more polish. I added half moon design after I put on the decals, wanted to use glitter instead of dots around the moon but couldn't find anything I like for it. 
Here's a list of polishes I used, by brands:
A England: Encore Margot, GLoriana, Fotheringhay Castle
Glam Polish: Fantasies Come True, Whirlwind, Polar Lights, Below Zero
Girly Bits: Our Lips are Sealed, Selfie Bomb, Mint-al Precision.
OPI: My Signature is DC
Picture Polish: Monroe, Tail Feather, Whimsy, Cyan, Kryptonite, Forget Me Not

I'm really loving this mani. So colorful and sparkly! My kind of nails :)

**Stamping plate was sent for my honest review

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Novi

Pueen 82: Strawberry Nails

Hi everyone! I'm back this week with another stamping mani using a plate from Pueen Buffet Leisure. I've been meaning to do this all weekend, but I was enjoying my knitting project too much to do anything else. 

I think this ribbon'd strawberries image from plate Pueen 82 is so darn cute and perfect for making stamping decals, which what I did here. 
I use regular OPI top coat as the base of my decals, and stamped the design using Mundo de Unas black. The strawberries are OPI Fashion A Bow, and the ribbons are using Glam Polish Whirlwind, Below Zero, and Polar Lights. I use the smallest dotting tool I have to fill in the colours. The base for my mani is 2 coats of Cirque Carpe Diem (my new favorite white polish!). 

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I admit, it'd probably faster to just free-hand these, but stamping decals is another technique that I have began to enjoy. It reminds me when I was little and love to do coloring and tried to stay inside the lines. It's fun! 
Hope you enjoyed the post and see you on my next post!

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Novi