China Glaze - Ruby Pumps

This is the polish to wear during Christmas! It is so Christmassy. 

Recently I bought the infamous Ruby Pumps. I had been eyeing it for two years probably. A really long time in any case. I finally decided to buy it and I regret not buying it sooner! It was the last one in the store, so that might have had something to do with it. Who knows...

I applied this on Friday, and took the pictures on Monday. One coat would have been enough, but I added two to make my nails more red. 

I used Rimmel's base and top coats.

Aww just look at that!!!

It is just really difficult to get good pictures of these kinds of polishes! It can be very irritating sometimes.

Do You own Ruby Pumps?! If not, you should!

Essie and China Glaze

All the bloggers at the blog meet were given 6 Essie polishes. I was excited about those because I did not own any before. The versions we got are not the same as in the US. The brush is wider and the formula is different. I think. I heard that this brush is now like the ones in OPI polishes, and that did not sound too good to me. I have two OPI polishes and I hate hate hate the brushes. After trying this one Essie polish, I think that the brush isn't bad. Essie polishes will be sold here in stores in the beginning of next year. Before you could only get them online.

The first Essie polish I will show you is Big Spender. HeidiB from Mustaa kajalia got two of Big Spender accidentally, and I had two very similar dark reds, so we traded them. I don't remember the name of the polish I traded for Big Spender.

It's pretty!

I used three coats. It would have been good with one coat too. I just did two coats because I normally do two coats. But then I was in a hurry to class, and didn't put on a top coat. In the evening I decided to put a third coat and Seche Vite. 

I heard Essie polishes were 15 ml before, but now these are 13,5 ml. 

On my ring finger I put Icicle by China Glaze. This was also given to me at the blog meet. I'm assuming people got different polishes by China Glaze, as I've seen some blogposts about the goodie bags already and I have seen different colors. 

I put three coats of this, but just because I messed up the first coat... Had to cover it up somehow...

These are my boyfriend's hands in the picture below. I was taking these pictures this morning after drinking quite a bit of coffee, and I just couldn't keep the camera still with one hand to take a picture. So he held the polish, and I took a picture. Teamwork! 

The items in this blogpost were provided to me. My opinion is my opinion, not anyone elses.

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A little haulin'

Items I got are:

China Glaze First Mate that I also have on my nails.

China Glaze Papaya Punch

Garnier Skin Naturals Caffeine Anti-dark Circles, 2-in-1 Tinted Eye Roll-On in 02 Fair. The other shade options was Very Fair. 

I considered about getting the one for very fair skin, as I am ridiculously pale normally. My foundations are a little darker though, they match my body, not the skin on my face so I thought I'd take the Fair one. I'm sure there isn't much of a difference between the two anyways... 

Then I got Seche Vite top coat, as I dropped my previous bottle on the floor...

Then I bought a brush cleaner from Kicks. I'm satisfied with this brush cleaner. I like that it has a spraythingy. Make Up Store doesn't have that. And they only had one bottle in Kicks so I couldn't buy that. 

 

I have ordered some stuff from UK and USA and they've already shipped the items for me so I'll write more about those some other time..

Stay tuned! 

China Glaze - Towel Boy Toy

This nailpolish is a new addition to my collection.

China Glaze - Towel Boy Toy

 

This is 3 layers. (With flash)

Turns out matte. Not what I expected.

 (no flash)

 

 Shiny only when a clear top coat added on top, like so.

Nail update

A week has passed since I put on press on nails. Link to that post.

I really did like them. But they were too long for me. I kept hitting my fingers to car doors and wherever. It is not a pleasant feeling when the fake nail and your own nails is pulled backwards because you hit things. I had trouble zipping up my jeans, buttoning my coat, I could not take off my contacts without fearing that I'll poke my eye and go blind. I wore contacts only once during the time I had the nails. These nails were medium length.


They were so pretty! I loved having long nails because they looked so, so nice, but they just weren't practical for me. My youngest nephew is now 10 weeks old and you can probably imagine how it was to change his diapers and dress him. I was afraid I'll poke his eye out with my nails. I didn't, so no need to worry! :D

But they were so pretty.

I had nailpolish remover that was just acetone + some oil. Nothing else. It took a couple Friends episodes for the nails to melt off. Yeah, I had my fingers of one hand in a cup full of acetone for the duration of one episode. It took about 5 minutes to get the molten fake nail off of my nail. Then I watched another Friends episode and had my other hand in the cup. It was a lengthy process but I got them off. I got most of the glue off, I could've gotten it all but I didn't feel like soaking my fingers in acetone anymore. There's a little left. It's messy business.

Some nailpolish removers have dried my fingers so badly, but this didn't. And this was only acetone and some oil that I can't remember name of anymore cause I threw the bottle out (DO NOT pour acetone to the drains! It's a hazardous substance so be sure to get rid of it the right way. I put the acetone I used back to the nail polish remover bottle that was almost empty anyway and I am taking the bottle to the hazardous substance trash place whatever it's called.)

I haven't used any kinds of lotion on my hands at all. I haven't even put body lotion on my body since then so I haven't gotten any kind of lotion and look at the skin of my fingers now., didn't get a irritating reaction.. Pretty awesome huh? Not dry at all.

I cut all my nails quite short now. The nails on my thumbs', index fingers' an middle fingers ' nails hardly ever grow much longer because I guess I do a lot of work with my hands so they don't get a chance to grow, but my ring fingers' and pinkys' nails grow longer. Long nails look so, so nice but they really are not practical for me.

no flash

I painted my nails with China Glaze's Grape Pop. This is my first China Glaze nailpolish. I believe I'm going to get more of them from somewhere. Why? Because I realized that in the end they're cheaper. The usual nailpolish brand that I buy is like 5-7 euros a bottle. It has 6 ml of stuff in it. CG was 9€ or so, but it has 14ml of product. Over double the amount of product for not double the price. And if I get them from an online store or abroad they'll most likely be cheaper.

with flash

Do you know of any good online stores for nailpolish?