Cult Nails nail mail!!!!

Today must be my lucky day as I found the following package in my mailbox... Can you recognize the pretty lady on the envelop? Yes! You are right! It's Cult Nails mail nail! My first order with Cult Nails had finally arrived. 

This was ordered during their $5 sale earlier this month. I remembered I was so excited when Maria finally announced the sales date. I spent few days choosing the colors as the sales was limited to 3 bottles and I literally camped at their website half an hour before the sales started afraid that the items I wanted would be sold out before I order. =p

Inside the package are all polishes nicely wrapped in the polish burritos. I think we can put these polish burritos in other usage but I have no idea what.. anyone could enlighten me? :D

These are the 3 colors I have ordered. From left to right: Power Thief, Cruisin' Nude and In A Trance. I have already fell in love with these by just looking at the bottles... woohoo...

To make my day better, the nail file I ordered from Ebay also arrived today! Yeah!

Now I officially call myself a Cult Nails addict as I plan to order more colors from them. I regret not ordering from them earlier as I have missed 2 great colors (clairvoyant and toxic seaweed) which are no longer available :( 


Are you interested in their colors? You can order from the Cult Nails shop here and they do ship internationally *duh*. Each bottle is retailed at USD10. I have already made my 2nd Cult Nails order from Mei Mei's Signatures and building my 3rd order list. Now you know why polish addict is so broke, lol!


Til next time... Esther

A-England Princess Tears Swatch

This post was scheduled to be up during the weekends but I was busy lazing at home and totally forgot about it. :p Well, I guess it's better late than never.. :)


I got this color (together with Bridal Veil) during their recent Tristam 1 year old sale. As some of you may know, this was not the color that I ordered, guessed they had received overwhelming response and had sent me this instead of the Princess Sabra which I had ordered. 

But I keep this color instead since it looks amazingly good, you would know what I mean after the photos. It's a greyed/silvered lilac with holographic finish. 

A-England Princess Tears - sunlight

Drool.. 

A-England Princess Tears - Sunlight with flash

A-England Princess Tears - Sunlight with flash

Drool more... 

I have captured insanely lots of picture of this color, I just couldn't help but to keep snapping as the holographic finish is so pretty and interesting... Love this color!


I initially thought this color would be streaky as it as the metallic finish which I tend to avoid. I was wrong, the  formula was smooth and leveled itself well at each layer. But it's a little bit thin, so you need at least 2 coats for opacity. The only drawback about this color is the drying time, I feel that it's much longer than the normal creme or shimmer polish, so you need to be super patient while applying this color. Maybe it's the nature of holographic polish?


I really love this color and will definitely order more from A-England. If you are interested in getting A-England polishes, they are available in the following webstores A-England, Llarowe, Ninja Polish and Mei Mei's Signatures. All of them offer international shipment.


Til next time... Esther

Yeah... My first A-England nail mail arrived! But...

I was so happy to see my first A-England order at my doorstep when I returned from shopping this afternoon. Excitedly, I ripped open the package and saw the 2 polishes I ordered during the Tristam 1-year old sale!

Bridal Veil & Princess Tear 

Here they are: Bridal Veil & Princess Tear from The Legend collection!  Below is my order description enclosed in the package... 

Oh wait.. did you notice something in the invoice? It was Princess Sabra that I had ordered, but they had shipped my Princess Tear. No wonder, I did not see the yellow shade that I was expecting before I ripped the bubble wrap away. 


Should I email and feedback? Should I ask them to send the correct one? Should I purchase another Princess Sabra immediately? These thoughts ran through my mind right after I discovered the wrong item... Then I went up to The PolishAholic to check the swatch of Princess Tear and decided I would keep it without making any noise as it looked pretty too. Since there are more that I want from A-England, I would definitely include Princess Sabra in my next order and hopefully they won't send me the wrong item again. :)


Til next time... Esther 

My Birthday Mani - OPI Fly

So, It's my birthday today! Okay, it's officially over in Malaysia. But who cares, it's still my birthday else where! :)


Since this is my special day, I have decided to put on a color which I do not usually wear and it's OPI Fly from Nicki Minaj collection. It's a pretty bright teal leaning towards green. It's the first color I have got from this collection and I love this color at the instant I put it on my nails. The application is effortless and can be opaque in just 2 coats. It looks a bit jelly-ish on the first coat, but after the 2nd coat, it looks creme.

OPI Fly

OPI Fly

Do you think this color is lovely? I do think this color is superb, but I feel that it's a bit plain just having 2 coats of polishes on my nails. It's my special day after all, I should have more special nail than my normal day right? So I rummaged my storage box for nail art tools and decided to paint some stripping lines on my nails inspired by the gift boxes below. I knew I wouldn't be receiving any present, so I decided to turn my nails into a gift.. lol

Gift box, picture copyright belongs to respective owner

Here is the end results.. I used stripping pen with OPI Alpine snow to draw the straight line and added a little rhinestone to spice things up a little. Do my nails look like a gift boxes? :):)  

OPI Fly with OPI Alpine Snow stripping line

I definitely need more practice on drawing straight and even lines.. lol


Til next time... Esther

OPI Warm & Frozie Swatches and Review

Ohh, I have been neglecting my blog for quite some times. I have been really busy lately, busy wrapping up old projects and preparing the new projects at work. Phew, finally can take a break even though there are still more work to be done.


So... I am going to do a quick post today. A polish from the OPI Muppets collections in last Christmas - Warm & Frozie. It's a very interesting color with red, pink and gold shimmer (or glitter?) in copper brown metallic base. I know I sound crappy in my description, so let the picture do the talking.. :)

OPI Warm & Frozie

OPI Warm & Frozie

I really love this color and how it looks on my skin tone. The formula is great too with no application issue.


What do you think about this colour?


Til next time... Esther

OPI Pink Friday Swatch & Review

Have you ever have a nail polish which you look so much but it just doesn't work well with your skin tone? Well, today I am going to show you a typical case which I love the color so much but have ended up not liking it on my nails. It is the OPI Pink Friday fron Nicki Minaj Collection. 

It was a love at first sight when I saw the first swatch online in last December. I told myself I would get this during my US trip in last Jan. But when I saw the color wheel display in Ulta, I decided to get Fly from the same collection, which I like, instead as I afraid I couldn't carry Pink Friday well with my skin tone. I didn't know it was a serious crush, I kept checking on this color after I had returned to Malaysia, so I decided to contact the local seller to bring 1 for me.

I was so excited when I received it and about to try it on my nails... But I ended up so disappointed as the color really doesn't work well on my warm skin tone. The pastel pink makes my already warm skin tone look dark which gives a big contrast between the hand and nails. When my bf saw this color on my hand, he said that I looked like I was having some serious illness. I ended up removing this color after a few hours, the quickest in my history.

Even it doesn't look good on me. The color really does look superb, it's the lovely bubblegum pink which every girl would fall in love with. It also reminds me of the childhood fairy tales princess. *grin* But I am really sad that I couldn't carry it well.

I am not sure if I get a bad bottle or it is the formula issue. It was really streaky and really hard to work with. I need to use 3 thick coat to get the color even. I also notice that the brush is a little different than the normal one. I really hope that I get a bad bottle so the rest of you who have this color doesn't have the problem like me. By the way, I did add a few drops of polish thinner and it did help. If any of you facing similar prob like me, you may also want to try adding polish thinner.

I really love this color so much that I must put it on somewhere, so I have painted it on my toes. Still doesn't work so well with my skin tone but at least it looks better on my hands.


Til next time... Esther

China Glaze Grape Pop Swatch & Review

For those who had been reading my blog would know that I accidentally 'burnt' my fingers while preparing dinner about 3 weeks ago. I'm not going to tell you the whole story again, you can find how could all that happen here if you are curious. *wink* Because of the incident, the skin around my finger tips are peeling off as you can see in the first photo. My bf says that my fingers now look like the experienced guitarist's. *laugh*

Hmm.. Are you looking at the lovely color on my finger nails instead of noticing the dry skin around my finger? That's what I am going to show you next...... *Drum Roll*  The China Glaze Grape Pop from Up & Away collections! It had been a while since I had last painted my nails with China Glaze color as I was overwhelmed by the new collections by other brands. I don't really like the recent China Glaze Spring collections and therefore I have been focusing on OPI and Zoya lately. But I do look forward to the Hunger Games and Prismatic collections though *grin* Okay, enough of all the old story.. I know you are anxious to see the color. 

China Glaze Grape Pop

Grape Pop is a blue based purple creme which is very similar to OPI Funky Dunkey (did I get spell it correctly?). I am not sure how similar both are as I don't own the OPI FD, but there are some comparisons photos on web where you could look for. I wanted to get FD but ended up getting this as I wasn't able to find FD. I got this color from my last trip to US on last Jan but had totally forgotten about it for the last 2 months. 

China Glaze Grape Pop - Natural light

Grape Pop is definitely gorgeous and I like how it makes my skin look fairer. The above two photos give a better idea on how the actual color looks like. I wasn't putting much hope before I put on this color but I did end up liking it so much.

China Glaze Grape Pop - Camera Flash

The formula is great but on the thick side which is the usual standard of China Glaze polish. You wouldn't have any major application issue and the color leveled itself out so easily. I definitely will use this color again in the future. What do you think?


Til next time... Esther