Monday, August 18, 2014

Review: Ellagee Mean Girls Collection polishes

I was provided with these samples in exchange for an honest review.

I'm so excited because today I get to share with you two polishes from Ellagee's new Mean Girls collection! I'm not familiar with Mean Girls whatsoever but that's OK, I can appreciate the polishes :)


This is how my samples were packaged, and Laura threw in one of her magnets. Thanks for the extra! I received two pretties to review:


When I first opened this package, my first thoughts turned to Above The Curve's Guardian Angel, upon seeing I'm a Mouse, DUH! No, this color does NOT look anything at all like Guardian Angel, woohoo! It is a very subtle lavender grey scattered holo with a subtle linear holo. The color itself is quite unique, I have to say. It's rather quite lovely and I am very happy with it.



Now honestly, as I was taking these shots I was getting kind of frustrated because I couldn't see the holo effect that much. Then I came inside and looked at the pictures and OH! There it is! :)


I'm a Mouse, DUH! was just a tiny bit difficult to work with. It almost has a bit of a frost finish so getting a perfect coat was just the tiniest bit tricky but no big deal. It looks lovely with just one coat but I did use 2. Here's one last look at I'm a Mouse, DUH! this time with the flash on.



I did a second manicure using You Can't Sit With Us as a topper but unfortunately I didn't notice until now, I had massive amounts of cat fur all over my fingers in almost all of the pictures. Thank you, Winslow. >-<


For this manicure I started with a base of Kleancolor Black. Then I sponged on Black, jane Warpaint (a vintage polish) and Sation Queenie in a Bottle. Lastly of course I topped the whole works with You Can't Sit With Us. I really like this glitter but it is a little bit difficult to remove, and it also seemed to take quite awhile to dry.

So fortunately I have one more manicure to share with you! I did some nail art with the first manicure :) I started by using You Can't Sit With Us on every other nail. Then in between those I did some paisley inspired designs. Originally I was going to do leopard spots but then I thought it looked more like paisley so I went with it. I used Queenie in a Bottle, and Kleancolor Neon Aqua.


I thought this might be a bit too much craziness on my nails, but nope it wasn't. I had to stop myself from adding more to it.


Here's a close up of this combo:


I think these two polishes go lovely together, how about you?

You can purchase these and Ellagee's many other beautiful polishes on their Web site here. I'm a Mouse, DUH! is $10.75, and You Can't Sit With Us is $9.50 for a 15 mL bottle. Thanks again to Laura for providing me with these samples :)

Saturday, August 9, 2014

More nail foil! review

I received these products in exchange for an honest review.

In case you hadn't noticed already, I kind of really love nail foil. So today I have not one but two foils to share with you.

For review: N.Nail Red Light Blue Stripe Laser Nail Foil Transfer [NNAIL-E35]
and N.Nail Black White Leopard Pattern Nail Foil Transfer [NNAIL-E40]

I'll start with the Black White Leopard pattern nail foil, E40. I applied this over Chrome Girl When In Chrome, a gorgeous silver foil. Immediately I could tell this foil would not be for everyone. It kind of comes across as a black shatter/crackle design which of course means I LOVED it but then I love crackle :P Only after doing this manicure did I realize it matches my bed sheets.



Unfortunately this one didn't photograph very nicely, all of that chrome effect reflecting light back at my camera. This looked a lot nicer in real life. The foil itself only lasted about a day before chipping but that seems to be pretty standard. I really wish the pattern weren't so large because you can end up getting a lot of nails which are just black. In general, you can't even tell this is supposed to be a leopard design. Some of the "spots" are about an inch long, so I mean I guess you could do a great accent nail with it but for the work wouldn't you rather just paint your nail? I know I would.

For the Red and Blue Stripe Laser foil, I once again started with a base of When In Chrome but this time I topped it with one coat of Sinful Colors Tokyo Pearl. Since it was July when I got these, I thought it would be a fun 4th of July themed manicure. Well.. not exactly.

Here's a side by side comparison, one shot in natural light, the other with my flash.



 I showed this manicure to my boyfriend, and he just had one perfect word to describe it:


Of course, he's absolutely right and of course after he said that, every time I looked at my nails all I could see was Aquafresh in my mind. The colors ended up being too much for me so I covered it over with Tip Top Iceberg, and wahlah! my nails were happy again. :) 



Yes, I love my crackle. So anyway, back to this foil. 1st, I tried a lot of different top coats with both of these foils. Ulta's seemed to work the best but even so it killed the holo effect of E35 but worse, it picked up a lot of the red ink. The striped foil did seem to last longer, but probably because I had so many additional layers of polish with it. I think this foil has tons of potential. You could do an all red manicure, all blue manicure, for example. Or like my pointer finger turned out, I think it looks great doing half of each color. If you do almost blue with just a hint of the red gradient, you almost get a fake chrome effect which looks really neat. If you have more patience than I, I'm sure you could use either of these foils as a great base for some nail art as well. There's definitely a ton of potential with these foils :)



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