aEngland Lady of the Lake

Good Morning Babes! This week I'm going to post all international brands for my weekly brand posting. Today I'm sharing my first aEngland polish with you. Lady of the Lake is a dark purple scattered holo polish that is absolutely stunning! This beauty has been floating around the blogosphere like crazy so I wont bore you to tears. I used 2 thin coats for the swatches below, and it dried very quickly with a nice shine.

What do you think of LOTL? I absolutely love it and it definitely wont be my last aEngland purchase! Thanks for stopping by to let me share this beauty with you :o)


Thanks
Marketta

Bettina Flip Flops

Hello Babes! I'm sharing Bettina Flip Flops with you today. Flip Flops is from the Resort Collection, and is the prettiest shade of light purple like ever! The only polish that I have that's close is Planks A Lot by OPI only there is absolutely no dustiness to FF, and that's what sets them world apart!  This lovely creme was opaque in 2 thin coats and dried super fast. I stamped with Konad ip M57, special white polish, and a coat of SV.

Here's a swatch of the lovely Flip Flops on its own with no tc.





What do you think of Flip Flops, isn't it just gorgeous?! Thanks for stopping by :o)

Kisses

Marketta

Revlon Royal Cloak

Good Morning Babes! What I'm sharing with you today is Revlon's Royal Cloak. Royal Cloak is a dark purple with pearl white flakies and purple, blue, and silver fine micro glitter. I can't tell you how much I love this polish, I love every single thing about it. Formula was amazing and very easy to manage. It took 2 thin coats to reach opacity, and dry time was very fast. In the pictures below I didn't use a tc.

With flash



Close up no flash



Close up with flash


The second picture is how it really looks. Can you believe what those flakies do to this purple polish? This is officially my favorite purple! What do you think of Royal Cloak? Thanks for stopping by :o)

Kisses
Marketta

Bettina Haze with a side of Lynnderella

Good Morning Babes! Today I have Bettina Haze and Lynnderella's Mercurial. Haze is a lovely lavender cream polish with an amazing formula that's opaque at 2 coats. Dry time is fast as are most Bettina's, and it dries to a nice glossy finish. Mercurial has multiple sizes and shapes of gunmetal, black, silver and lavender hexagons and squares in a metallic dark grey base. I used Mercurial only on my accent/ring finger and it took 3 coats to reach opacity. Dry time was a little on the slow side but I sped that up with some SV which also gave it a smooth surface.



With flash



I accented with Mercurial because I thought the purple in it would add a little edge to Haze which is a delicate color. I got a lot of compliments on this mani, and I really love it. What do you think of Haze and Mercurial? Thanks for stopping by.

Kisses
Marketta

Color Club Alter Ego

Good Morning and Happy Sunday babes! Today I have Color Club's Alter Ego for you. Alter Ego is a silvery metallic gunmetal purple :-/ (you get what I mean right, its tough to explain lol) with gold, purple and blue glitter in it. I was shocked when I was painting because this isn't exactly what it looked like in the bottle, but I do like it. For the pictures below I used 3 thin coats, CC Vivid Intensifying TC and then SV. Dry time was only ok before adding SV.



Flash


What do you think of Alter Ego? Thanks for stopping by.

Kisses
Marketta

My First Gradient

Good Morning Babes! Today I'm showing you my first gradient mani. I used Bettina Art Deco Purple as my base and sponged with Bettina #28. Art Deco Purple is a medium toned purple cream polish. It's very watery/runny and the brush holds a lot of polish, but its easy to work with and is perfection at two coats. ADP is very pigmented, almost fully opaque in one coat, and dries to a super glossy finish. The swatches below are all done with no TC except for the stamping which I used SV as my top coat. The gradient has NO top coat, can you believe that shine?! 



With flash

  And here's a swatch of  my base Bettina Art Deco Purple. I bumped my ring finger :(

What do you think of my first gradient? Thanks for stopping by :)




Kisses

Marketta

H&M Notoriously Beautiful

Good Morning Babes! Notoriously Beautiful by H&M is a deep purple cream polish that looks like it has just a hint of blue. The formula is good but the brush holds a lot of polish so you will want to clear some off. Its very pigmented and almost opaque in one coat, but needs 2 to be fully opaque. The dry time is really good and is very glossy. In these swatches I didn't use a top coat.

And just to make it pop a little I added INM Northern Lights which is a holo top coat. It looks absolutely beautiful with NL but I just couldn't capture it on camera :(

What do you think about Notoriously Beautiful? I'm starting to get just a tad obsessed with the H&M polishes! Thanks for stopping by.


Kisses
Marketta

Purple Passion: A mani for Brittany

One of my best friends Brittany was the biggest supporter of me starting a blog, and even though she doesn't blog she was one of my first followers. Her favorite color is purple and she loves shopping and shoes, so I thought I would do a few purple manicures for her :) . I used OPI's Funky Dunkey as my base color, BM plates 213 and 221, and Konad special polish in black. Here's what I came up with:

Animal print and heels <3 ! I was going to do all leopard print but I had another plate sitting out from doing a failed Halloween stamping and there were shoes on that plate also! VOILA! Funky Dunkey is actually just a tiny bit darker than how it photographed, it was a little hard to capture inside and out today, but its close enough :)

Just to try out my new topcoat I put on INM Northern Lights which is a holo, after Seche Vite of course.



Outside with flash

Here's Funky Dunkey with a top coat of INM Out the Door (a thinner version of Seche Vite thats perfect for just wearing colors plain, SUPER FAST dry time). The first coat of Funky Dunkey was really streaky but cleared up and evened out perfectly on the second coat. The brush holds a ton of polish so you will want to remove some first. So what do you think of Brittany's Purple Passion mani? I love how it came out!

Kisses
Marketta

OPI Rumple's Wiggin'

OK so this is my real Tuesday post! I was very busy all day yesterday and by the time I was able to post I missed the Monday mark by just a few minutes. Rumple's Wiggin' by OPI is from the Shrek collection that came out last Spring. It is my first polish that I have bought in years, and I purchased in because Khloe Kardashian went on and on and on about how much she loved this polish, so I thought I would give it a try.

Rumple's Wiggin' is a lilac cream polish. The brush holds A LOT of polish, so you will have to be careful about that. This is 2 coats with a very easy application. I love this polish and its a very easy paint with. This color is pretty hard to capture the true shade of, but the picture above is pretty spot on (or the closest that I could get).




Kiss Kiss
Marketta