Daily Charme Inspired Mani;

hi~


I came across this design by @daily_charme & totally fell in LOVE with it! I love everything about the mani … the simplicity, the colors, just errrrythaaang 8)


I used OPI Don’t Burst My Bubble as base, China Glaze First Mate (navy blue), Essie In The Cab-ana (aqua), OPI Elephantastic Pink (bright pink) & Zoya Richelle (gold).

Have a great day!
<3KATRINA

Tissue Box Inspired Mani;

hi~


I did this mani based off of this tissue box. I used Zoya's Wednesday and Revlon's Elegant. Instead of going with a purple flower, I went with a black one instead.



Have a good one!,
<3KATRINA

Triangle Mani;

hello~


This mani was inspired by Chelsea Queen, looooove her manis! :D I used Zoya's Blu, Wednesday, Neely, & Kristen for this mani, in addition to black and white polish.

Have a good one!,
<3KATRINA

BPS Nail Foil #27 Mani + Review;

Hi~

Apologies on the lack of updates, my computer is being all weird lately & it keeps dying and -- yea, it's just very troublesome. Moving on, I want to share with you a mani I did using nail foil #27 from Born Pretty Store. The foil comes in a roll (as pictured below); there's a lotttt to the roll as well.


The base is 2 coats of Zoya's Trixie. I applied Trixie, once that dried, I applied a coat of clear nail polish - I let that get a bit tacky, then cut a few pieces of the foil and dabbed those pieces (of the foil) on my nails ... which with left me with this result. I like it, it was a quick & easy mani.



The foils are very easy to use; I read a few reviews saying there's nail foil glue which helps transfer the foil better .. but I don't have the foil glue so I just used my clear nail polish with worked decently.

Born Pretty Store has wide variety of nail foils so be sure to check those out~ As always, a big thank you to Nicole of Born Pretty Store. Don't forget, you are always more than welcomed to use my coupon code & save 10% off your order when you order from Born Pretty Store!~ Here's the code is 'KL5X31' :)

Have a good one!,
<3KATRINA

Matte Leopard Print Mani;

hey :)

I've been sooooo busy trying to post reviews & swatches lately that I haven't had time to post much nail art ... /sad. Here is a mani that I did 9 weeks ago (according to instagram). Btw, you can tell it's an old mani because my nail shape is different. hahaha


I used two coats of Zoya's Jacqueline and 2 coats of Rimmel's Black Satin, free-handed the leopard prints, dabbed a bit of Studio M's Gold Glitter into the leopard prints, and topped the mani off with 2 coats of NYC's Matte Me Crazy.


Jacqueline applied like a dream! 8) It was perfect!


I also did a very similar mani for my friend, except we added gold tips. I love it! I think that the gold tips look really good with the mani~

Have a good one!,
<3KATRINA

BPS Nail Art Stud Rhinestone Box Review;

hey :)

I have two manis to share today~ A few weeks ago, Nicole of Born Pretty Store sent me the stud rhinestone nail art set to review.


This is the first mani that I came up with -- it was inspired by Marie of Pretty Project's mani. Ugh -- I love this color combo! I used Orly's Frisky as base, Charlotte Russe's Mint for the tips, and Zoya's Richelle for the half moons (which are covered up by the studs). Then I used a few studs from the stud set and a few of the rhinestones that I got from BPS, which I reviewed those rhinestones here.


Here is the next mani I came up with, which was inspired by Susie of glamsusie's mani. I used OPI's My Vampire is Buff and drew the florals with black acrylic paint. My florals aren't as pretty as Susie's :( but it's ok~ Ooh, and again, I used some studs and rhinestones that I received from BPS.

A big thanks to Nicole of Born Pretty Store for the studs. Don't forget, you are always more than welcomed to use my coupon code & save 10% off your order when you order from Born Pretty Store!~ Here's the code is 'KL5X31' :)

Have a great day!,
<3KATRINA

Born Pretty Store White Matte Polish Review + Phone Cover Inspired Mani;

Wow, that was a long title. haha hi :)

I was recently sent a bottle of White Matte Polish from Born Pretty Store.

I've always thought that white matte nails look so sophisticated and it's so easy to accomplish yet I didn't own a white matte polish ... until now .. :)


Here is 1 coat of Born Pretty Store's BK White Matte Polish (#16). Yes, one coat ... so awesome~ :D




Here are two pictures with flash.

I ended up doing some nail art ...

I based this design off of the phone case that I just ordered. I'm still (im)patiently waiting for the phonecase to come in. haha






The burnt gold is Zoya's Richelle and then I just used my paint brush for the design.

A big thanks to Nicole of Born Pretty Store for the polish. Don't forget, you are always more than welcomed to use my coupon code & save 10% off your order when you order from BPS!~ Here's the code is 'KL5X31' :)

Have a great day!,
<3KATRINA

rose mani + mickey mouse wheel;

hello, hello :) as promised, im back with a nail post :D

here is the mani that i am currently sporting:

2 coats of Zoya's Nidhi~ there are beautifulllllll gold glitter flecks in the polish that my camera didnt pick up.

here is a nail wheel i painted the other day:

its [obviously] Mickey Mouse + Minnie Mouse inspired~ im painting a nail set for someone & this was her requested theme.

im currently in the works of painting nails sets to sell :) so if anyone is interested in purchasing nail sets, let me know so i can work a bit faster . haha i'll have an etsy shop up soon :)

thats it for now~
have a good one!,
<3KATRINA

Hauls & Polish Hunting with Rachel

hi!

so i spent my Tuesday morning & early-afternoon on a polish hunt with Rachel of Rachel's Marie's Nails :) we stopped by 3 different stores, bought lots of polishes, chatted about ourselves & polishes [of course!], and got bubble teas to drink. :)

here's my haul from Tuesday;

omg. i went a LITTLE bit overboard, right?! haha sorry for a sucky picture. i edited this picture for tumblr & i went a little wonky with the editing. haha T______T

from l-r: CND Asphalt, China Glaze Virtual Violet, Zoya Roxy, [at the top] Essie Mesmerized & Topless & Barefoot, OPI Russian Navy Suede & Black Shatter, [at the bottom] China Glaze Custom Kicks, Fly, Laced Up, Oh How Street It Is, Techno Teal, CND Toughen Up basecoat, Silver Sparkling, Gold Sparkling, & China Glaze Sea Spray. not to mention, i got a Nail Tek glass file.

oh, and thats not it. Rachel even gave me a little present! how sweet right?! :)

Lemony Flutter cuticle creme, Sally Hansen Nail Prisms in Diamond & Purple Diamond, Revlon Banana Blaze, & Cover Girl's Nail Slicks in Mystic Peacock.

*sigh. Tuesday was so fun. :)

now here's my haul from last week...

OPI Yogo-Ta Get This Blue! & I Vant To Be A-Lone Star, Studio M Vintage Couture & Tru Passion, Orly Country Club Khaki, Essie California Coral, & Milani Totally Cool.

and finally, here's my haul from Saturday..

the new Sinful Colors polishes!! :)

from l-r: Why Not, Hazard, Unicorn, Nirvana, & Savage. Savage is supposed to be a teal-ish color but my picture sucks :X

WHEPH! i seriously need to go on a No Buy.

i have to go study now..so i'll leave it at this. i'll be back with a mani post soon.
p.s. do you prefer this bigger size of pictures? hmm...

have a good one!,
<3KATRINA

HoMin inspired mani

hi~ i've been a little m.i.a. this past week. not much happened for me...but i just never got around to posting.

here's the mani i did some time earlier this week...



this is another kpop inspired mani. this one was inspired by HoMin's outfits from their 110116 performance. HoMin isnt really their name... their real group name is DBSK but long story short, i call them HoMin.

i think this was 2 coats of Zoya's Harley for my thumb & 2 coats of Rimmel's Black Satin. lets not talk about how long it took me to do the design for my ring & pointer fingers. omg. and look at how sloppy my "always keep the faith" is!! T_________T

here's the performance video;



just a reminder, i hope you all had a chance to read my Younique Nails review and check out the 10% coupon code!~

hope your weekend is going well!,
<3KATRINA

Mani Catch Up

hello, hello! its time to play catch up on manis again! :P

alright, first, from 2 weeks ago, i bring you...

3 coats of Color Club's Wild And Willing. the polish looks so much prettier in the bottle. its a copper/pink/burnt orange duochrome.


here's a picture in the shade; the duochrome-ness is more visible. the stamps are from Born Pretty Store's m14 & Konad's m69. on the middle finger, i layered one coat of Sinful Colors' Pearl Harbor. its barely noticeable though.


3 coats of Orly's famous Space Cadet. is there anyone else who doesnt love Space Cadet? cause really, i DO NOT like it. *shrugs.


shade picture; more visible duochrome-ness again. stamps are used from the same plates as i mentioned before. and the middle finger is, also, layered in one coat of SC Pearl Harbor.

*side note; eww. i hate my nails that long T__T


here is my first Ruffian mani from some time last week..

2 coats of Zoya's Trixie & 2 coats of Sally Hansen's Black Out & one coat of China Glaze's Matte Magic. - - - this picture was taken after 2 days of work..so you can see all the scratches & fuglies on my nails =/


another mani from some time last week,

3 coats of China Glaze's Mrs. Claus. omg, so cute! i loooove this one~!


and today, i am wearing some fake nails;






i found these Broadway Fashion Diva fake nails at Walgreens for $3.19 so i bought em. i love the chrome / metallic / mirror look but i HATE it on my nails. they make my nails look so wide :( well, after this post, im probably gunna take em off anyway :P

dont forget, my Woo Hoo Giveaway ends this upcoming Sunday! so feel free to enter if you havent yet!

hmm - i think this is it for now. hope you had a great weekend & have a great start to your week!

<3KATRINA

Zoya Swatches

Wednesdays & Sundays are my only days off of work. i dont really find time to go online during the weekends...so thank goodness i have Wednesdays. and also, thank goodness the sun is out today! because, as promised, today i have swatches of my Zoya's from the Zoya Exchange. its almost been 2 weeks since my package came in and im finally swatching them for ya. so behind! =/

i dont know why...but it took me 5.5 hours to swatch 11 polishes. im not sure why it took FOREVERRRRR but..it did. drove me nuts..but its ok. ;) anyway right to the swatches!.. each swatch has one coat of Poshe super-fast drying topcoat.


3 coats of Harley. such a beautiful concrete gray color. there are very tiny silver/copper flecks of glitter that my camera wasnt able to capture =/ you can kind of see a bit of the glitter in the bottle though...barely.


3 coats of Jo. an adorable periwinkle polish with a silver shimmer.


2 coats of Ali. bright, neon pink. dries kinda matte but topcoat shines it right up!


2 coats of Charity. purple-mauve with a bronze shimmer. this isnt my typical color but i love it!


2 coats of Gwin. bright orange-tangerine with a gold shimmer. so pretty! thank goodness my camera was able to pick up some of the shimmer! =)


2 coats of Trixie. super awesome silver! love it!


3 coats of Richelle. its more bronze that i though..but its ok! its still pretty!


3 coats of Mimi. deep purple with awesome purple, goldish-silver glitter. my camera didnt really pick it up. =/


2 coats of Nidhi. beauuuutiful tomato red with gold glitters. looove this one! ;) my camera didnt pick up the glitters in this one either.. =/


3 coats of Ivanka. it came out lighter than i expected, but its still a beauty! kelly green? with gold glitter..that my camera couldnt pick up..


3 coats of Charla. the famous Charla.. =P its really worth all the rave its getting. dont rely on this picture...its no good. =/

my pictures dont do ANY justice for Mimi, Nidhi, Ivanka, and Charla. those are the kind of polishes that are just much better in person! that way, you can see all the awesome glitters & all!

there ya go! those are all my Zoya's! and im soooo glad i ended up doing the Zoya Exchange! im gunna be waiting for it for next year too :)

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ok, theres a new polish blog in the blog world. i got an email from Sabrina & here's a link to her blog: Positively Polished. please check out her blog.

any other new bloggers out there? feel free to send me an email & i will be glad to post about you on my next blog.

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oh, i got a disclosure policy that i posted at the bottom of my page...

lastly, i havent made a tutorial in FOREVERRR. is there anything specific that you want me to make a tutorial on? although i spend most of my time at work...i'll be sure to get around to making a tutorial ;)

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thanks for your time! im gunna go relax now... =)
<3KATRINA

Simple Mani + Award

hello~

sorry i've been MIA this week. i've been lazy [yet again] and i've been in a bad mood all week.. so i didnt have much to post. i will say that i was going to swatch my Zoya's on Wednesday, since i had the day off..but Wednesday was not a good day to swatch. the weather was not on my good side & the sun kept trying to play hide-and-seek with me; not fun.

anyway, yesterday morning [Thursday morning] i wore Zoya's Charla. such a beautiful polish~ the sun wasnt out in the morning so i didnt get to take a picture of it. but last night..i took Charla off, since "she"? was chipping...and decided to repaint my nails. for some odd reason, i felt like doing a french mani..and then i added a little bit of a flower on my middle finger.


this picture was taken half an hour ago..with the sun. you cant really see the flower so..


..here's a picture i took last night, right after i finished my mani. i didnt even clean up yet.. -__- but at least you can see the flower more. this picture is with the flash on.


i also want to post an award i got.. ;)



Rules of this award are:
1. Thank the person who gave this award to you.
-- Enamel Girl, thanks sooo much :)

2. Copy the award and put it on your blog.
-- done*

3. List 3 things which you love about your self.
-- honestly, i've been thinking about this for 15 minutes. i guess theres not much about myself that i love. haha so instead, i'll post 3 random things about me.

--1: i wouldnt say im a perfectionist, but i like things in one certain way, in one certain order.
--2: i hate, hate, HATE it when people cough, yawn, or sneeze without covering up. its the most disgusting thing & it pisses me off...SO much.
--3: i love k-pop [korean music]. even though im not korean, i am more updated on current k-pop than i am with current music in the States.

4. Post a picture you love.


mint chocolate chip ice cream; my favorite <3

5. Tag 5 people you wish to pass this award on to.

-- Kathy
-- Li Lian
-- Jan
-- yokeMun
-- Jackie S.

=)

to end this post, i have a question; am i supposed to have a disclosure policy on my page? even if everything i post is purchased by me?

alrighty, i have to head off to work soon. i hope today is a good day; this past week has really been bad. =/ and tonight, my sisters, friends & i might go eat at the same Korean restaurant that we went to last week..in hopes that the cute waiter is there tonight. *crosses fingers. please cross your fingers with me too. haha

hope your weekend starts out great!
<3KATRINA