Ciaté - Snatch

Hello readers! How are you doing today? I hope everyone is well! :-) Today I want to show you Snatch by Ciaté. Ciaté is one of my favourite nail polish brands. Every single polish I've tried so far, from creme to glitter, rocks my socks off. I was very pleased when I received this pretty in the mail!


Snatch is a very bright tomato red creme, and when I say very bright I mean very bright. This is the kind of red that I call 'porn red' - though this one doesn't feel tacky on me.

Application was good, the formula had the perfect thickness. Not too thick and certainly not too thin. Snatch dried fast and super glossy so there's no need for a top coat (f.e. when you're in a hurry). I needed two coats for Snatch to be opaque.

I get bored easily. I wanted to do a wear test and after two days I started to get the itches and I changed the manicure.


Told you it was a red that screams for a fishnet pattern. ;-) I used Konad Imageplate M57 and OPI Suzi Skis in the Pyrenees as my stamping polish. I topped it with a top coat. First I wanted to use a regular black creme for this but it looks wayyyy better when sparkly.

And that wasn't where the fun stopped!


I added China Glaze Matte Magic. The suede stays glittery and Snatch is matte. It looks absolutely awesome and the design seems so well fit for the colour. I will wear this again.

Ciaté is available on their website. They ship internationally so it's definitely worth of having a peek. A bottle of Ciaté contains 13.5ml polish and costs £9.00.

Have you tried polishes from Ciaté and what is your experience with them?
Thanks for stopping by!
Michelle

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Leafs

Hi everyone! I had a nail break couple of days ago and decided to file them all down. I was pretty sad about it but then I remembered I had the Bundle Monster plates lying around and apparently the design are super small. So why not test it with my super short nails?!

Well, they are small. Really small. I don't think they would have fit on my long nails. The Bundle Monster plates have really cute designs and they are a nice addition for the ones who love to play around with Konad and Fauxnad. I started with the leafs pattern on BM plate 19.

My base colour is OPI Here Today, Aragon Tomorrow Suede and I've stamped with China Glaze Cherish. Stamping with the Khromes and Romantiques is great. I like them better than the Konad stamping polishes. After that I put on some flowers from the Essence nail art glitter mix. These are sooo cute! They're blue but they change to lavender when you wiggle your fingers - and of course when you're moving your hand.

I've played a lot with the Bundle Monsters plates today, so you'll be seeing a crapload of these designs flying by, probably so much that I'll still post designs over two weeks from now. Sorry! :o)

OPI - Here Today, Aragon Tomorrow Suede

Hi everyone! Last year OPI brought out six amazing suedes and today I'm showing you their latest addition! Here Today,  Aragon Tomorrow is originally from the Coleccion de Espana that was brought out in fall 2009. I got this from Margot after I sent her some polishes.

Here Today, Aragon Tomorrow in daylight, three coats

Here Today, Aragon Tomorrow is a gorgeous darker green suede. This feels like another formula than the previous suedes. It's less pigmented - first coat was really watery, the shimmer is much more dense and this looks kind of dusty to me. I did prefer applying this suede, it was much easier. Drying time was the same as the other suedes. This suede version is less darker than the original.

Here Today, Aragon Tomorrow Suede with top coat

I applied one coat of Nubar Diamont and this makes the polish amazingly beautiful. It so shiny and shimmery, I love it!

Comparing with Zoya Veruschka

I've did a comparison of Here Today, Aragon Tomorrow Suede and Zoya's Veruschka (left on the wheel). Here Today, Aragon Tomorrow is much dustier: Veruschka is a deeper green. Other than that they are not that different from each other. Which one do you prefer?

Have a nice day!

Grey Ruffian

Hi all! Yesterday I was thinking of doing a ruffian again. I've done a couple in the past but that was quite a long time ago so I had to do one again.

First I painted my nails with China Glaze Awaken. Awaken is a darker grey metallic from the Romantique collection and it's also great for Konad. I used OPI's Suzi Skies in the Pyrenees suede as my second colour. After that I used the silver striper from Essence.

Not much to say really except I like ruffians. :)

Have a good saturday!

Stamping with Suedes

Good afternoon dear reader!

How are you all doing on this sunny friday? I'm feeling kind of blah, having a headache but luckily I've had all my appointments for today so I can relax now. A couple of days ago I stamped with a suede polish for the first time and I really liked the result. I never thought of stamping with suedes because of the drying time but yes, it is possible!

Suede Stamping in sunlight

As my base colour I chose China Glaze - Secret Peri-Wink-Le from the Operation Colour Collection (fall 2008). It's a dusty periwinkle blue creme that applied fine. I'm wearing three coats in the picture. For stamping I pulled out one of OPI's suedes: Russian Navy, a gorgeous shimmery navy blue. Suedes dry very fast so you have to be quick while working with these. I'm really liking the effect of stamping with a suede, it definitely brings a twist to the normal Konad designs. I used plate M70, I love the full plate flower design.

Have a good start of your weekend!

Michelle

Zoya - Veruschka

Hi dear reader!

Today I'm showing you another polish I received from a very sweet person, Kris from My Lucid Bubble! She offered to do the Zoya exchange for me and of course I wanted that - so we swapped. One of the Zoya's I wanted and received was Veruschka.

Veruschka is a deep matte green packed with loads of shimmer. This isn't a matte like the mattes from OPI, this has the finish of a suede polish. It is gorgeous!

Veruschka in daylight

I'm wearing two coats in the picture. Application was good, the texture of the polish is very smooth so you don't have to worry about uneven lines. The drying time wasn't as fast as a matte or suede from OPI but since this is a matte polish, it still dries very quick.

Veruschka with topcoat, in daylight

Okay. Wow. This totally rocked me off my socks. Look at the friggin' shimmer! It's everywhere! In the picture you see two coats of Veruschka topped with Nubar Diamont.

I definitely think Veruschka is a must have. Even if you hate matte polishes you must have it: with top coat you can make it gorgeous. This has to be one of the prettiest greens I own, it just stunned me.

Have a great day!

Michelle

OPI - You Don't Know Jacques! Suede

Hello dear reader!

I hope you are all doing fine and enjoying today. My laptop cable broke today and I had to replace it. That little joke costed me €70, so that was a bummer! Good thing it was available though, or else I wouldn't be able to use my lappy. I did bought three GOSH polishes because I felt a little bad. ;)

I'd like to share OPI's You Don't Know Jacques! Suede with you today. I know this polish has been a huge blog hit, but it's too nice not to post about it. I was late on the matte/suede trend but I'm very happy I bought myself a matte top coat, now I'm really appreciating this awesome trend!

YDKJ! Suede is a lovely brown shade and it contains very pretty silver shimmer. This is what I like about suedes: they're not as flat as mattes, they are more 'alive'. The silver shimmer in it is really dense and you all know how much I love shimmer!

These pictures were taking under artificial light because the sun doesn't show, but the colour is almost the same in the pictures as it is on my nails. Applying this polish was easy-peasy; it just dries a little quicker so you might have to watch out for that. I applied two coats.



I also put top coat over YDKJ! Suede and that also looks stunning!



You see how the shimmer really comes forward? It's really really sparkly!

Thanks for stopping by, happy lacquering!
Michelle