Week 9- Vintage manicure

I don't really know any vintage manicure designs, so I decided to use my oldest nail polish. This nail polish is Estée Lauder Pure Color #59 Ruby Red. I received this polish in 2003 from my mother. I tried to search on info about this polish, but I couldn't find anything so it might be even older. I think it maybe the same color that was also sold as High Gloss #42 Ruby Red, but I'm not certain.



Either way, this polish is almost 10 years old, or it already is 10 years old. It is still perfect. I love the gold shows in the bottle, but they get smoothed out when the polish is applied. The polish still applies easily, it isn't clumpy and it is my favorite red.



The bubbling you see is from my top coat and not from the Estée Lauder polish. I cannot give the polish enough compliments the formula is just great. Hopefully I'll be able to find the color again before I run out.

This product was given to me by my mother.

China Glaze: Snow Globe and Confetti: 083 Party Palace Blue swatch

First up is China Glaze: Snow Globe



Snow Globe has small silver glitters, small hexagonal opalescent glitters and larger hexagonal opalescent glitters.

Indoor picture, one coat:


Outdoor picture, one coat:


Snow Globe is lovely. Even with all the glitters in the polish it dries smooth and there isn't a need for a top coat.

*****



Party Palace Blue is in a blue base with hologram glitters (I think they are both gold and silver, it is hard to tell), with small hexagonal opalescent glitters.

Indoor picture, one coat:


Outdoor picture, one coat:


Party Palace Blue dries rough and should probably have at least one coat of a top coat on it. It does give a very slight blue tinge, so given enough layers the blue might have more of an impact if you use it as a top coat.

These products were bought with my own money for review by myself.

Finger Paints: Curator's Crimson swatch

FingerPaints: Curator's Crimson is a nice smooth creme polish in red.


From left to right: four coats of Curator's Crimson and one coat of top coat; four coats of Curator's Crimson; three coats of Curator's Crimson; two coats of Curator's Crimson; one coat of Curator's Crimson.

Closer view:


I probably could have skipped the fourth coat, but you can't tell in these pictures, but indoors I could see through on the tip part with only three coats. I really like the color of this polish, it kind of reminds me of either a villainous character's polish or a dramatic 1940s actress's polish. I didn't use a basecoat and the polish did stain my nails slightly.

Do you like seeing the layers individually?

I received this as a prize in a giveaway from Polished & Not Quite Put Together. Go see her blog it.

Finger Paints: Vintage Violet swatch

Finger Paints: Vintage Violet is a shimmer nail polish with slight red and gold tones added to the purple.


From left to right: three coats of Vintage Violet, one top coat, and one coat of Sally Girl mini polish #812029 Way 2 Disco; three coats of Vintage Violet and one coat of top coat; three coats of Vintage Violet; two coats of Vintage Violet; one coat of Vintage Violet on the thumb.

A closer view:


This is a color that I probably wouldn't have picked out myself, but I like it. It was easy to apply, very smooth formula and became opaque quickly.

Do you like seeing the layers individually?

I received this as a prize in a giveaway from Polished & Not Quite Put Together. Go see it.

Finger Paints: Art You Wondering? swatch

FingerPaints: Art You Wondering is a teal/green micro glitter in a clear base.

So I started off with clean nails:


One coat:


Two coats:


Three coats:


Four coats, at this point my camera started having problems with the glitter even though I was taking pictures indoors:


My first attempt trying to capture Art You Wondering? outside in the sunshine:


There were many pictures like that, this one is a little better:


This one is the best out of all the outdoor pictures I took. Four coats and two layers of top coat:


It's hard to tell from the pictures but there are two different colored glitters, one is teal and it is the majority of the glitter, the other is a bright green. This polish does dry very rough, so you need a top coat, unless you don't mind the roughness. I used two coats of Sally Hansen Super Shine to smooth out the glitter.

I really liked the color and used it in the upcoming Week 3- Colorblock manicure challenge.

This product was bought with my own money for review by myself.

Finger Paints: Tiffany Imposter swatch

I'm not exactly sure what color this is supposed to be. Depending on the light FingerPaints: Tiffany Imposter it is blue or green.


Tiffany Imposter is a creme/cream polish and very smooth.


It kind of looks streaky in this picture, but it isn't.

I'm not too keen on the color, but the polish applied evenly and smoothly.

This product was bought with my own money for review by myself.

Finger Paints: Cerulean Seascape swatch

Oops. I almost forgot to post these pictures. The first few pictures I had to take indoors with a flash, so the colors aren't completely true, but I did get to take pictures of the final polish outdoors in the sunshine.

Here is my clean nail:


One coat:


Two coats:


Third coat with two layers of top coat indoors:

Third coat with two layers of top coat cleaned up and outside:

I love this color. If you are looking for a blue foil polish this is one to get. It goes on smooth and doesn't bubble as it dries.

You can buy FingerPaints:Cerulean Seascape at Sally Beauty Supply stores. This product was bought with my own money for review by myself.

Weekend purchase - Finger Paints: Cerulean Seascape swatch

I figured I'd start this new little corner for my blog.  I was going to call this my Friday purchase, and post on Friday, but then I figured if I call it weekend purchase I'm not committed to posting on any one day.

Here is a hint as to what I bought this weekend.


See more after the jump.

Glittering top coats

I've finally been able to take a picture of my nails in the sunlight, it really does make a difference.





I think the sunlight helps my camera capture the true color of the nail polishes that the flash on the camera cannot do.

So, since my nails already have some wear on them I decided to try out different top coats on them just to check out the looks. Here are China Glaze: Ruby Pumps and Finger Paints: Sketch N Etch with two coats of Northern Lights Hologram Gold Top Coat.


And here is from left to right: Confetti: Party Palace Blue (blue in the bottle with hexagonal glitters and smaller fine glitter), Pure Ice: Don't You Wish (clear/white gloss with opalescent glitter), and an unknown Sally Girl mini nail polish (it has no name or number on it, and I couldn't find it on the Sally Hansen website either, it is has a bluish tinge withe opalescent glitter.)


Here's a picture of the unknown Sally Girl.


Then on my other hand, this one is a little hard to see, I have Finger Paints: Sparkle top coat.


And here I have the Finger Paints: Sparkle top coat over the Sketch N Etch, but on the right is the China Glaze: Ruby Pumps that has Pure Ice: Busted over it, I think they look awfully alike in this photo, but the Sparkle is opalescent in the bottle and the Busted is a light purple.


These products were bought with my own money for review by myself.



EDIT: I found out that the unknown Sally Girl is #812029. They don't have names on the bottles or at the store, but the website lists this as "Way 2 Disco." 12/22/11

Finger Paints: Sketch N Etch swatch

I love this color. I don't know why I love the Finger Paints line... maybe its because of the cute names, but the colors are brilliant.



This nail polish perfectly compliments China Glaze: Ruby Pumpsthe only thing is that Ruby Pumps is a glitter polish and this is a foil polish. They do go together well if you wanted to do some Christmasy designs on your nails.

Here is the nail.


This is three coats of Finger Paints: Sketch N Etch and two coats of Sally Hansen Super Shine .

I would definitely recommend this polish if you want to have some fun with green nails.

This product was bought with my own money for review by myself.

China Glaze: Ruby Pumps swatch

I don't know why I love this color so much. Maybe because of the sparkle? the shine? the red? I can't decide, but it is an awesome color.



Here is the bottle of awesomeness.

And here is a picture of the nail.


This is three coats of China Glaze: Ruby Pumps and two coats of Sally Hansen Super Shine .

If you are looking for a fun red color I would definitely recommend this color.

You can see my swatch of Dorothy Who? here

This product was bought with my own money for review by myself.

Finger Paints: Where Art Renoir? swatch

I promise that this is FingerPaints: Where Art Renoir? It is just hard to read the label since it is printed in black and the nail polish is black.


And here is my swatch example:


This is two coats of FingerPaints: Where Art Renoir? and two top coats of Sally Hansen Super Shine . This color from Finger Paints dries really rough, so if you want your nail to feel glossy you have to use a top coat. One coat of the top coat smoothed out most of the roughness, but it took a second coat to make it completely smooth. Otherwise the color is great. It is really opaque. I love the color and it would probably work great if you were doing galaxy style nails.

EDIT: You can see a better picture swatch here

These products were bought with my own money for review by myself.

China Glaze: Ruby Pumps swatch

This is for my friend Jessica, who just stared a make-up video blog on Youtube that you can view here.

So, I don't know, but if you are like me I don't normally have the time or money to afford a manicure, plus I really had having someone jab an orange into my cuticles. I find it extremely painful and I did get an infection once, but that was from a pedicure.

Anyway, I started out by cleaning my hands thoroughly. I had been using acrylic paints earlier in the day and tried to make sure that I scrubbed off all the excess paint. I also put lotion on my hands since they were all nasty and dry. And, as you can see in all the pictures, I took off my wedding ring.


Then I put on a coat of Sally Hansen Super Shine I don't think this step is completely necessary, but I saw it on a Korean nail art blog, and the lady's nails were gorgeous, so I thought I'd give it a try.


Then I started painting my nails with the China Glaze: Ruby Pumps. I need my nails to dry quickly, because you never know what kind of mischief a five-year old can get up to, I only painted thin coats.


As you can see there isn't much difference between three or four coats, but I do think there is more of a shine with a top coat on the pinky finger that is needed.

One thing I have read on other blogs, and I think is true, is that the glitter is very hard to get off. That is true for most nail polishes that contain glitter, but especially true for this nail polish.


This is my thumb, which only had one coat of polish, and I scrubbed with nail polish remover.

If I do more of these it is going to have to wait until after I can get the rest of the polish off.

This product was bought with my own money for review by myself.