Manicure Monday: Catrice 780 Welcome to Rosywood

Hello beautiful earthlings!
It has been such a long time since I last posted anything for Manicure Monday!

For today's ManiMon, I am using a very girly, rosy colour as we are now transitioning into spring.  I noticed that SoothingSista was wearing a rosy nail polish in her February favourites video and I told myself that it was such a pretty colour for spring. And I happen to have a similar colour but only darker,

I really enjoy using Catrice's nail polish. They dry quickly and they manage to stay on my nails for about 4 days without chipping which is good for me. Normally, nail polishes tend to chip on the second day.

I noticed with this nail polish is that the more coats you apply, the darker the colour gets. One sheer coat gives you that really pink rosy kind of colour.  I am still not sick of the matte nail trend so I applied a matte top coat on my index and middle finger,  The matte top coat I used was ELF's Wild Shine Matte Top Coat.  Click here to see my review of it.

I hope you all would have an amazing and blessed week ahead!

Peace & Love!

Manicure Monday: Wet N Wild's On A Trip

Hello beautiful people! My last Manicure Monday post was two weeks ago and I'm sorry about that. I was busy with my semester 2 exams. I actually found it irritating that I could not even find the time to change my nail polish! I'm the type that finds happiness in something small and simple like eating good food, or drinking a warm cup of green tea and/or painting my nails! Having fresh painted nails makes me happy and gives me a sense of femininity during exam weeks when I think I look like a caveman! Haha

Anyways for this weeks ManMon, I decided to go all lilac with Wet N Wild's On A Trip. It's a very lilac colour with blue undertone. I actually had troubles taking a photo of this nail polish since the camera I normally use for my blog is Nikon Coolpix P90 showed the polish in almost a bluey kinda purple and I wanted to show the polish close to its colour so I just used my phone's camera. (My phone is S3 by the way if you guys are curious).

This is what the nail brush looks like. I forgot to put this in my previous Wet N Wild review.

Here's the colour difference of the polish under a camera flash and natural light.

If you guys are interested about this nail polish's pros and con click here.

I wish everyone a good, amazing week!

Review: Elf Matte Finisher VS Wet N Wild Matte Top Coat

Hi beautiful people of the blogosphere~
In this blog post, I will be reviewing and comparing matte top coats from ELF and Wet N Wild. Both are afforable in price but which one stands out more than the other?

Wet N Wild Matte Top Coat

I applied one coat of the Wet N Wild Matte Top Coat just on my ring fingernail

Here's what the brush applicator looks like.
(Sorry for the bad photo. The camera could not detect the brush)

• PROs
• Price - I bought it for only € 1.99 at Penney's.  It is also available at Dunnes Stores
• Drying time - It dries instantly! So a big yay!
• Availability - The product can be found all over Dublin with its carriers
• CONs
• Can be streaky when applied improperly
• "Matte duration" - Keeps your nail polish matte on the first day of application however the polish would then have a bit of shine on the second day making it semi-matte

ELF Matte Finisher

I applied one coat of the ELF Matte Finisher on the middle finger nail as labelled above

The brush applicator of the ELF Matte Finisher

• PROs
• Price - I bought it for € 3.06 at ELF's UK website
• Drying time - It dries quickly the same as the Wet N Wild
• CONs
• Scent - This has a strong scent that gives me headaches and it stays for about a day or two in your nails. Also the scent lingers in your room for so long without proper ventilation
• Availability - Others might find it a disadvantage that you can only buy this product online (Well in Ireland we don't have stalls of ELF). Others are not too keen on buying products online
• "Matte duration" - The matte-ness of the nail polish fades as the days goes by. It is very matte on the first day of application but then on the second day and so on, the matte-ness tends to fade and turns your polish to its original texture

Here's a gif that I made of comparing the two polishes on Day 1 and 2 with a flash on my camera

Comparison:

• You can see that on Day 1, both matte top coats give the same matte texture
• On Day 2, you can see that WNW's matte top coat is still matte compared to ELF's which gives a shine
• Also the WNW is cheaper compared to ELF and it's more available to me. From this you can see that I would probably repurchase WNW instead of ELF

I hope that this is very helpful and informative enough for you guys. I also hope that you enjoyed this post. Please forgive my terrible gif. I got lazy to edit it further for it to look properly! Haha

Wishing everyone a happy and beautiful day!

Stay blessed!

Disclaimer: I am not paid for both brands to do this review. I purchased both products with my own money.

Manicure Monday: Wet N Wild's Disturbia

For this week's Manicure Monday, I've decided to wear Wet N Wild's Megalast nail polish in Disturbia. It's a deep purple nail polish (almost black at times) with tiny fuchsia specks.

The polish looks almost black in this photo

Yeah my manicure skills are not that good.  But here's my thoughts about the polish

• PRO
• Price - It's really affordable at the price of €2.99 for the bottle which is 13.5 ml
• Drying time - It dries really quick
• Does not streak - The polish does not streak at the second coating which some polishes do
• Lasting power - I am very impressed with the Megalast polish line.  I have tested this polish before and I had worn it for 5 days and there was no chipping whatsoever!
• CON
• I can't think of anything!

I hope you enjoyed reading this well I don't think people read my blog anyways but it's just my log of the beauty products I use and what not. Have a good week~

Manicure Monday: Wet n Wild Gray's Anatomy

This Wet N Wild Fast Dry in Gray's Anatomy captured my attention when I was just browsing through the Wet N Wild stall in Penney's.  The polish is a sheer, duo-chrome polish with green, silver and iridescent purple.  The photo above was taken with a flash and my nails got 2 coats of that baby.

Gray's Anatomy without flash. It looks more silvery in this lighting and angle

So here's a mini-review of the polish

• PRO
• Price - the polish was really cheap. It was € 1.99!
• Drying time - When I was testing this polish out, it seemed to dry really fast but there were instances that it didn't which I will discuss in the cons
• Colour
• CON
• Sheerness - this polish is very sheer to the point that there is visible nail lines even if two coats of this is applied
• Drying time  - Even though it does dry fast most of the time, there would be instances that I would have to be more patient. Like I said in the previous point that two coats of this polish would still show visible nail lines therefore it makes me want to apply another coat. The drying time seems to be longer when you put on the third coat

So yeah that's pretty much it. I just placed an order at Boots and I'm excited to get them. I'll be sharing them to you soon! What do you have on your nails right now? And have you tried Gray's Anatomy? What are your thought? Do you beg to differ from my opinion? Don't forgot to post them on the comment section!! Have a wonderful week ahead!

Manicure Monday: Green for St. Patrick's Day

Decided to go green for St. Patrick's Day since well, I am technically Irish.  Too bad my accent nail was blue.

For this week's Manicure Monday, I decided to test out the Seventeen Nail Stash that she received for Christmas. She allowed me to try them out so here I am swatching them for you :D

Seventeen's Quicker Slicker in Peacock

Seventeen's Quicker Slicker in Navy Glint as the accent nail

Here is a close-up of both nail polish colours.

Both nail polish really gives a very gorgeous colour! But I somehow expected Peacock to be darker when swatched in my nails but it's really not that big of a deal.

I hope everyone has a good St. Patrick's Day.  I did not go to the parade since it was so cold. We went over to our family friend's house and had dinner there instead.  Have a good week ahead!

Manicure Monday: Avon's Apricot Mystery and Freezing

For this week's Manicure Monday, I decided to go the peachy nail polish look since Spring has finally approached Ireland!

The two polishes that I am featuring this week

• Avon's Nailwear Pro in Apricot Mystery
• PRO
• Price - Price is between € 6-8. I only buy these nail polishes whenever Avon has them on sale.
• Colour - The colour is GORGEOUS! Perfect for spring and summer.
• CON
• Discontinued - I have a feeling that this colour has already been discontinued as I can't see it in their online brochures.
• Not available in Ireland - Another con to this it that Avon is no longer available in Ireland. I think it's already been a year?
• Streaky- It does streak A LOT! I recommend that you dry the first coat first before applying a second coat.
• Does not dry quick - It takes quite some time for this product to dry and for a girl like me who is impatient, it's a big NO-NO

• Avon's Color Trend Colour Me Pretty in Freezing 
• PRO
• Price - Very affordable. Costs around € 2.50
• Colour - I think it is pretty. It's a frosted pink that is leaning towards the brown shade.
• Dries quick
• Does not streak
• CON
• Not available in Ireland
• Discontinued

What do you guys on your nails? Comment the link to your blog so I can check it out. And please support my blog following me here :D

Have a good week y'all~

Manicure Monday: Catrice 905 Steel My Soul

I was inspired by Jen from frmheadtotoe's Manicure Mondays so here I am doing the same thing. For my first Manicure Monday, I'm here showing off Catrice's Steel My Soul. It is a lilac-greyish colour with tiny gold specks nail polish. It also dries matte.

Excuse the label of this polish. I've had this for a year.

It has a dome shaped brush.

This is what it looks like with just one coat.

I was so in love with this nail polish when I first got it last year.  I have featured this polish a lot in my Instagram. The only thing about this polish is that it is no longer available which is such a shame.