71: Gel nails sample

Hi Everybody!


I'm so sorry but I think something is weird with my Blogger. I've been trying to reply to comments but when I click submit somehow just it logs me out of the site :( I'll keep trying though. Sorry girls I'm not ignoring you on purpose!


Anyways when I was in China my cousin and I went to a Beauty Wholesale building. Basically it had everything you needed from nail supplies to facial tables to hair dye. We went around to all the nail stores and bargained our butts off!


I'm going to be working more with gel nails now because the acrylic smell is really getting to me. I even bought myself a 9w UV light for $35RMB which equals to about $6AUD muahahah. I also bought Swarovski rhinestones (not the cheap acrylic ones) and glitter flaky coloured gels. The only reason I wanted to get Swarovski crystals is because it's reusable (most of them are anyways) and they look so much nicer. A lot of the times when I use the acrylic rhinestones the backing melts off when they come in contact with top coats or even the polishes themselves. This will be a good investment :)


I've been playing around with my new equipment tonight and I managed to come up with 2 different sets using the glitter coloured gels. What do you guys think?





This is taken with flash. This gel has a baby blue hint to it and contains blue-purple-pink hexagon glitters with silver microglitter. Maybe a second layer would've brought out more colour. I'll try it next time!






This is taken without flash.




This is taken with flash. I used a Copper glitter gel and a Silver glitter gel for this sample. The silver just blends into the copper and makes it look more on the golden side. This was fun to make because I got to try creating a smile line with gel.



This is taken without flash.



PS. I removed my gel nails and I'm back to natural short nails.. for now. Here's my NOTD. This is 3 coats of China Glaze's Blue Sparrow. This colour dries matte but I think it looks better with a top coat. More shiney :)





This is taken without the top coat.




This is taken with a coat of Seche Vite.

The next post will be just about a few of the nail art deco stickers I got from Hong Kong and a few more swatches of polishes I bought in Canada. See you guys then :D


xx
Joyce

70: UPDATE!

Hello Lovelies :)

I know I promised to update in China but to my surprise the Chinese goverenment had blocked all websites relating to BLOGS! I couldn't read your great blogs for 3 weeks but now I'm in Hong Kong for a couple of days and I'm taking this chance to catch up on my nail blogs. I haven't bought any special nail polishes in China because there are too many fakes out there. Buyers Beware! I did manage to pick up a UV light and a Gel Nails kit but I'm going shopping with my baby sister tomorrow here in HK so hopefully we'll find something good :)

In the meantime I just wanted to share this with you guys. Getting your nails done in China is uber cheap! My cousin and I got Gel Nail extentions for $180RMB which is about $30AUD. WOW! And it looked pretty decent too. What do you guys think?




My cousin's nails look more natural than mine.



My nail tech gave me Swarovski crystals for free. Yay :)


PS. Please excuse my super dry and rough hands. China is cold and I haven't been moisturizing enough :(

xx
Joyce

69: Colour swatches

Hellooo

It's been a week since I arrived in Toronto and I'm loving every minute of it! I missed my friends so much :) Another thing I'm super excited about is to see all the up to date collections from OPI and China Glaze.. woohoo! I haven't had much time to swatch all the polishes but here are some pictures of the ones I have been wearing.




I found these KO polishes while I was shopping at Aritzia!



This is 3 coats of Calamine. This colour was a bit hard to work with because it was quite thick.



This is 3 coats of Liberty. This colour was more manageable because it wasn't as thick as Calamine.



This is 3 coats of OPI's Merry Midnight. I love the flakies! I got this one from Trade Secrets.

This is OPI's Merry Midnight with 1 coat of Essie's Matte About You. Soo cool :)

This is 2 coats of Orly's Dazzle. I love the foil look. It's so shiny!

I'll be sure to swatch the rest of the polishes when I arrive in China next week. Talk to you girls soon :D

xx

Joyce

68: Greetings from Toronto!

Hi Girls!

I just wanted to say a quick HI from Toronto :D I spent my first day shopping (duh :)) and I found Trade Secrets. They had a special on OPI nail polishes which was buy 1 and get the 2nd one for half the price. One of my girlfriends told me that there's a Sally Beauty Supply shop here in Toronto now so I think I'll go check that out too before I make any puchases :DDD

I hope you're all doing well. If any of you girls know where I can get China Glaze and OPI polishes for a good price here in Toronto or even Buffalo (US) please let me know!

xx
Joyce

67: Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween Everybody!

I just have a few things to share quickly with you guys. I have been working on a few nail art samples for Halloween and unfortunately my nails broke this week so I didn't get a chance to do a lot of swatching but I will post my NOTD for all to see :)




China Glaze's Watermelon Rind

I hope you guys all have a safe and fun filled Halloween!

xx
Joyce