Three Polish Changes… In A Day!

It’s a rainy day in Singapore again and I’m glad I stayed home to enjoy the chilly weather indoors! I was doing my revision in my room but despite me wanting to concentrate and focus on Business Law, my eyes wandered to my Helmer next to me instead. Soon, I was trying on polishes and removing them almost instantly.

So anyway, here are some swatches of polishes that I have for you today, thanks to my impromptu swatch fest!

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OPI The One That Got Away is from last year’s Katy Perry collection, where the hyped is all about Black Shatter, Teenage Dream and Last Friday Night. I might have neglected this polish but look at it!! It may be a common fuchsia shade to most but I love how this really looks good on my skin tone. It doesn’t make my skin tone stand out. It’s incredibly stunning to look at, and I’m confused on whether the shimmers are golden or silver; but there’s definitely berry-pink shimmer in that too.

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OPI Lucky Lucky Lavender is a creamy blue-toned pink with a tinge of lilac. I wouldn’t group this colour under purples though, it have too much pink in it to be it. My pictures does not do this polish justice, its too blue!! (the sun is setting when I took the photo, hence the great colour difference!) I find the formula really thick and I should have done a 2 thin coats with another thick coat instead of 2 medium coats. I think this would look good on fairer skin tones :)

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Because I’ve not used my Nubar 2010 in awhile, I layered it over OPI Lucky Lucky Lavender! I love how the orange flakies seem to be dominant now instead of the other colours!

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Another polish from Tennekka; The Polish Parade, Claire’s Wild/Calm is a purple with crazy silver shimmer going on. I applied this under room temperature (I didn’t dip my fingers into cold water or anything) and look how immediate the change is! It changes into a magenta-pink when warm and purple when cool. I love how gradual the change from one colour to another is, it looks like I did a french mani, doesn’t it? It dried like a matte/satin finish so a topcoat is needed for luscious shine!

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I love it so much better with a topcoat!!!! <3

Can you make a guess on which polish managed to stay on my nails? ;)

Claire’s Cosmetics Blue Skies

Good morning!! I’m going to showcase another Claire’s that Tennekka from The Polish Parade sent me :)

She DMed me a pic of her twin boys and they are so adorable!!!! I wanna have twins when I’m married too :>

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Claire’s Blue Skies is a sky blue with silver microglitter and big silver hexagon glitter. Most of the big silver hexagon glitter gets covered by the polish and they look out of place :(

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I did have lots of streaks and bald spots in the first coat but the second covers up almost everything. I still have a slight cuticle drag at my middle finger. But I still love the microglitter in this one!

Thank you, Tennekka! ;)

I’m having my Financial Accounting test today so wish me luck! :)

Claire’s Nail Mail!

It’s Friday, Friday, Gotta get down on Friday. Everybody’s lookin’ forward to the weekend, weekend
Partyin’, partyin’ (Yeah), Partyin’, partyin’ (Yeah), Fun, fun, fun, fun, Lookin’ forward to the weekend

So my lovely friend Tennekka at The Polish Parade sent me a couple of polishes just because she requested a swatch and I did it for her. Isn’t she sweet? I can’t believe it that there are people out there that are so generous! She didn’t tell me what she sent so she kept me in suspense all this time until last night when I received this beautiful package!

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I did mention to her that I wanted to try Claire’s Mood Polishes (because they are so fun and wasn’t available in Singapore) and she remembered and got me 4 of those! :) This is a great opportunity for me to try Claire’s polishes :)

Thank you, Tennekka ;) You’re too kind! :D

Anyway, I got soooo excited that I had to try these out! I chose Claire’s Flirty/Shy for today’s NOTD! I’ve tried mood rings before and NOTHING is as exciting as these! But unfortunately, I can’t seem to make my polish change colour! :( I’ve tried taking a cold shower but my nails didn’t change colour at all. It stays the same… I wonder if it’s because of the weather in Singapore? :( Does anyone have any better ideas for me to try?

I did 2 coats and I find that these dry matte (kinda like a mix between satin and matte!).  The formula was a bit thick, but still manageable to work with! I guess it will take me a couple of days to try all the polishes, so do stay put!

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Without topcoat

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Next up is Claire’s Excited/Bored!

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In the meantime, do drop over to The Polish Parade to search for OPI swatches or join her in the quest to search for more OPI swatches!