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Showing posts with label charcoal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label charcoal. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

From The Vault: Snakeskin

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Life has been hectic lately. I can't believe this post has been sitting among my posts as a draft for four days now.
As I told you before, I had a nail polish meeting with 4 other nail polish ladies from Turkey, namely Basak, Nemo, Tansu and Dilek. The picture below is courtesy of Basak, she took wonderful pictures of our nails =) Visit her blog for more pictures!

Clockwise from top: Dilek, me, Basak, Nemo and Tansu.

Basak was wearing OPI Guy Meets Gal Veston, with Zoya Tanzy sponged on tips. All others were wearing local brands, only Dilek had China Glaze OMG on her ring finger. I did a neutral leopard manicure to match my bag. By the way, I adore that ring! It's from Pieces and I looked so hard to find my size =)
Basak delivered the new Bundle Monster plates Oyku got for me, and also half of the OPI On Strange Tides Collection.
I wanted to try out the snakeskin design first, so I applied Zoya Edyta and stamped it with the sknakeskin pattern from BM215 using Flor Mar #64. Zoya Edyta is bronze and olive green sparkles sitting in a dirty teal base. I think it's an absolutely amazing polish, but sadly there is a downside of it. It stains so horribly that my nails looked like a freshly summoned zombie when I removed the polish from my nails. I think it requires several coats of base coat before application.
Here is the manicure:

Zoya Edyta with BM215 Snakeskin Pattern

Zoya Edyta with BM215 Snakeskin Pattern

Zoya Edyta with BM215 Snakeskin Pattern

Not summery at all, but I still like it =)
Have a great day!

Hayat biraz karışık ve yoğun geçti son zamanlarda. Hatta bu yazıyı yazmaya 4 gün önce başlamışım, ama bitirememişim bir türlü.
Daha önce de söylediğim gibi, 2 hafta kadar önce 4 tane oje blogger'ıyla buluştum, yani Başak, Nemo, Tansu ve Dilek'le. Bu resmi Başak çekti, daha fazlası için onun bloguna bakabilirsiniz =)
Yukarıdan itibaren saat yönünde: Dilek, ben, Basak, Nemo ve Tansu.
Başak'ın tırnaklarında OPI Guy Meets Gal Veston üzerine süngerlenmiş Zoya Tanzy vardı. Dilek'in yüzük parmağında China Glaze OMG, bende Alix Avien'in 2 ojesiyle ve konad siyah ile yapılmış leopar deseni, Tansu'da Flor Mar Supershine #41, Nemo'da ise Golden Rose Nail Art fuşya var. Yüzüğümü ise Pieces'den aldım, ama çok aradım gerçekten, çok =)
Bu arada Başak bana Öykü'nün aldığı diskleri ve OPI Stranger Tides koleksiyonunun yarısını teslim etti =)
İlk olarak yılan derisi desenini denemek istedim, bunun için Zoya Edyta sürdüm ve BM215 diskindeki deseni Flor Mar #64 kullanarak damgaladım. Zoya Edyta, zeytin yeşili ve bronz ışıltılar içeren, kirli yeşil-mavi arası bir oje. Ben inanılmaz seviyorum bu ojemi, ancak kötü bir yönü de var. Tırnakları o kadar feci boyuyor ki, yeni dirilmiş bir zombi gibi hissediyor insan kendini ojeyi sildikten sonra. Bir dahaki sefere alta birkaç kat base coat süreceğim.
Pek yaz manikürü olmadı, ama bugünlük de böyle olsun =)

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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

NOTD: Monochrome Nails

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Hello my lovely friends =) Since mom and dad went on a trip, and that dad took his precious camera with him, I have to stick with my Nikon =) It's a nice cam for bright sunlight & outdoor shoots, but the pictures come out too grainy and warm toned when I'm inside. I don't like it very much for macro shots, but no other option till Saturday! =)
Today I applied a charcoal polish I got a while ago, which is a shimmer. It was pretty sheer on the first coat, but then the color built up and I was done in 3 coats. Then I stamped using plate m63 and a the silver chrome polish I use for stamping. Both polishes are by local brands, hence I don't feel the need to give names or numbers =) (Not that they have names, anyway!)



By the way, I'm trying out this new topcoat. It's a local find and thus far I'm impressed. It's only $2, compared to Sally Hansen Insta-Dri, which is sold for about $16 in my country. I hate the stupid high price policy. A bottle of quick-dry topcoat only lasts about 3 weeks for me, and I can't even use the half of the bottle! I thought of ordering 10 bottles of Seche from Trans Design, but the shipping prices are high and I'd rather use that money to get colors I can't get here. But this topcoat is really great. It's thin, but not runny, it completely dries in about a minute, doesn't get thick or gloopy, I don't have to be careful not to get too much product on a nail, and best of all, doesn't squish the underlying polish when I stamp! The bristles are synthetic, but if I'm careful, it doesn't even smear the konad! Yay! But I'm thinking about using it with a clean natural brush, because synthetic leaves some traces & has risk of smearing designs.
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