Max Factor Dazzling Blue Layering Swatches

Hello all! Forgive me for my absence between posts. I honestly dont know how this keeps happening. Everytime I come back to write a post I realize its been like 4 days since my last. Shame...Shame! Hopefully you'll forgive me once you see these swatches. This nail polish was given to me as a gift from my sister-in-law along with alot of other polishes, some of which I've already posted about. Anyway I kept bugging her about finding Fantasy Fire for me and so she came with the next best thing. Well almost! Oh yeah and before I forget...I officially made my first nfu-oh purchase. And yeah, you guessed im sure, it was nfu-oh's famous 51. If your interested in getting one I found mine on fabuloustreet for 11.25$. Now I just have to wait, patiently mind you, until I get it. Anyway, so back to the swatches.

Max Factor Dazzling Blue over Sally Hansen Black Out (Sun)

Max Factor Dazzling Blue over Black (shade)

So these swatches are 2 coats Max Factor Dazzling Blue above 2 coats black. I gotta say as much as I like this color I didn't particularly enjoy it too great. I think its because its in that blue/green range which I'm generally not too fond of but somehow have so many polishes in the same range. I do appreciate its shiny-ness and its subtle shimmer. I liked it much better over white.

Sorry for the crappy-ness of this picture but it still gives you an idea.. Pretty, eh!
Anyway, thats all for now. Peace!
xo Nail Diva

Essie Resort Collection 2012

Hey everyone! So today I will be showing you some swatches of 4 colors from the Essie Resort Collection 2012 that came out in Spring earlier this year. I really wish I had gotten a Crewed Interest because that was the one that sparked my attention the most but I couldn't find it...Oh well! So shall we begin?

First up is Essie Sure Shot, a medium pink fucshia color with slight blue reflective microshimmer. Is it me, or does Essie come out with one of these for most of their collections? Three thin coats were used here but it really had great formula Not my favorite color in the world, but very flattering on my skintone.



Essie She's Picture Perfect, a light lavender blue creme with pink reflective microshimmer. As you can see the microshimmer is much more pronounced in the bottle, but it still shows up on the nail. I however, with my severely lacking picture taking skills couldn't quite get that to show up. These pictures are at 3 coats, even though the formula was kind of on the thicker side.  This color is definitely one of my faves of the collection because it is quite unique and I dont think I've seen someone do this take on the reflective microshimmer before. Good job Essie!

Essie No More Film. Boy oh Boy! This color is definitely a special one. A dark navy blue creme that isn't blackened yet retains its darkness quite well. I gotta say if your looking for a navy to add to your collection, definitely give this one a chance. This applied relatively well and took three coats to reach a good level of coverage. I think this color is shiny which gives it an upper hand, but if your looking for easier application you might want Color Club's Naughtycal Navy instead.

Essie Pink-a-boo! Must I say anymore? The pictures speak for themselves. A light creamy pink with tons of pink, blue, and violet microshimmer spread throughout. Heaven! Quite hard to reach heaven though...but when you get there its totally worth it. This took 4 coats and although it can get quite streaky if your patient, and wait out between coats you should be good to go. A definite Must-Have!

So thats all for this review, I hope you liked it. And I'll talk to you guys soon.

xo Nail Diva

Some Polka Dot Lovin On My Nails!

Hey girlies...hows it going? Today's gonna be a short post, I've been getting really busy with summer activities and work so I'm going to show you real quick some nail art I did.

For this design I used Essie No More Film, Essie Ole Caliente, Flormar 424, Inglot 721, Barielle Blossom, and Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Green With Envy (In order from Navy Blue at top of nail to Green at bottom corner). For the base I used Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in White On. Obviously this design is super easy to do, it just requires some patience. Great for summer wear. Anyway, thats all for now.
xo Nail Diva

Blue Comparison: Seventeen vs. Flormar

Hey girlies! Whats going on? I've had this comparison on my to-do list ever since I bought these two colors and believe it or not today was the first time I used the Flormar one. I got these two at the same time but as I'll explain later they dont seem to be as old as each other when it comes to formula. You all know I have a little bias against Seventeen formula but sometimes the color is worth the pain. Anyway in the bottles these two colors look soooo much alike that you feel your getting the same thing. But I had a gut feeling they were different and so you'll see now. I put the letter S (for seventeen) or F (for Flormar) right under the nail I painted with that color.

Flormar Nail Enamel 423 on index and ring finger
Seventeen Supershine 279 on middle finger and pinky

As you can see Flormar is lighter than the Seventeen blue. Now I will describe the differences in these two polishes to make the decision of who the Blue Winner is.

Formula:

Flormar polish had a smooth and creamy formula and application was simple. It required 3 thin coats.
Seventeen polish had a clumpy and think formula and application was ok. It required 2 thick coats.

Because I've had these polishes for the same time I appreciate the Flormar formula alot more.

Round one goes to Flormar!!

Color:

I personally think the Flormar color is a funner and richer color because it has a light and summery feel to it. The Seventeen blue almost gives off a dirtier blue color.

Round two goes to Flormar!!

Brush:

I know brushes aren't a big thing to everybody but to me it is. I like bigger brushes it makes the streaks of polish look more complete and smoother. The Seventeen brushes are superrr tiny and the Flormar brush isn't the biggest but its a convenient size.

And round three goes to Flormar!!

A Flormar polish is sold for 1JD while a Seventeen polish is sold for 3.5JD's. I think we all know who the winner of this comparison is. So if your out shopping one day and find these two options definitely go with Flormar...it'll make your polishing life much better! Until next time.
xo Nail Diva

OPI Go On Green

Hey everybody! Whats goin on? So today I want to show you another color I've used in some of my posts without ever properly swatching it. It's Go On Green by OPI. I'm really trying to go through my polish stash before my massive shipment of polishes comes in. So this is just another one I found today and thought I needed to go through. This color is technically not green so I dont know why they named it that but anyway here it is...



OPI Go On Green



I really dont know what to think of this color. On the one hand its very summery and fun and on the other hand I dont think its flattering on my nail shape. The last time I tried it on I thought it really complimented my skintone and nail shape and now I dont really like it. Plus I've gained alot of ridges in my nails recently (joy!) and so because this color is super sheer you must use a ridge filler before or else every single ridge in your nail will be defined, just like my nails in these pics.

Go On Green is a sheer blue base with green glitter all throughout which gives it a duochrome appearance in lights although I couldn't get the green shimmer to show up in these pics but its very visible in life. This color required three coats to become like this but I would even go in for another coat because its actually very sheer, I have some VNL in my pics. Application was good and easy so thats a plus.

As for skin tone appropriatness if your skin is like me and looks super tan and nasty with sheer light colors dont go for this. I really didn't think it was flattering on me right now but it still is a very beautiful color. Thats all for now. Peace and Love!
xo Nail Diva

Jordana Supernatural

Hey girlies! Today I will be showing you a color from Jordana Nail Polish. I dont have many colors from this brand...actually I think this is the only one, I dont know exactly. But I do like the one I have. It is more of a winter and fall kind of color but I realized I've put this color is some of my posts without ever actually showing a swatch of it bare. So here is Jordana Supernatural by itself...

Jordana Supernatural

I think Jordana has a couple more colors probably based on the Twilight Series...I think one of them is actually called Twilight or Breaking Dawn or something and its exactly this kind of polish but in red instead. This was the only one I thought was worth getting.

Jordana Supernatural is a kind of sheer dark blue base with medium blue glitter packed inside. This needs two coats to become opaque but I add a third to show off the sparkle. I know that with some polishes (like Revlon facets of fucshia) the more coats you add the more the glitter disappears, but this isn't like that. In the end I added top coat to really make it shine and as you can tell from the first photo that it really gives off a sparkly shine.

Also what I like about this polish is that although its inexpensive (1.5 JD or 3$) its application is good, the brush is good, and the formula although sheer is extremely manageable. Therefore, I definitely recommend giving this company a try. Thats all for today!
xo Nail Diva

Essence Blue Addicted

Hey everyone! Today I have a beautiful swatch to share with you. It is Blue Addicted from Essence's Colour & Go collection. I honestly think Essence is an adorable company...cheap and good quality. It really puts some of the more expensive brands to shame. If you haven't heard Blue Addicted is supposed to be a dupe for Deborah Lippmann's Across the Universe. I couldn't tell you for sure as I dont own any DL's...although I am going to be a proud owner of one very soon. Woot! So here it is

Essence Blue Addicted

Blue Addicted is a blue jelly polish with loads and loads of glitter (not all show up in the picture). There is along with small silver glitter, green hexagon glitter shapes, and blue hexagon glitters. How awesome is that. This really reminds of me of Revlon's Facets of Fuchsia (another DL dupe) in regards to the jelly base and glitter sizes. I love love love the whole jelly glitter look. Infatuating, no!?
xo Nail Diva

Simple Rose Nail Art

Hello my lovelies! I am really excited to show you todays manicure because it has it has a rose design on it...Fun, right? So I chose a blue base color and then used a white drawing pen to draw in the rose petals. I really like the look and I'm going to experiment more on it in the future. I contemplated doing it on my entire nail or just the edge and thought maybe the edge would make it look simple and cute.

Rose Nail Art

The rose design is very easy to draw. All you need to do is a circle in the center and draw random half circles (more like squoval shapes) around it. I must say that the blue I used was disgusting. I love pastel blue but not exactly this shade. Also, I bought this color a long time ago but this was the first time I used it and it was gloopy and clumpy. I removed my polish so many times I wanted to start kicking and screaming. My roses usually look neater but I was running out of time and I had to go to school. Anyway, the end look is great and yells spring which I cant wait for! Ever had one of those bad polish days?
xo Nail Diva

Sailor Themed Manicure using Color Club Navy

Hey guys! Hows your day going? I am so glad I'm off today because I need some R and R. Today I have a design that I did yesterday but couldn't show you because the weather was awful and pictures weren't clear. Anyway so here they are...

Nautical Nail Art

For this I used Color Club's Naughtycal Navy as a base color on all my nails. Naughtycal Navy is a deep navy blue creme and it applies super duper well. It does tend to get a bit runny so make sure the brush has only a minimal amount on it when you come to apply. But overall, really cool color that I've been wanting for a long time and have finally found! Yaay...as for removal; really rather good for such a dark color. It didn't stain my skin or my nails and only used up the usual amount of remover. Score! I then used KleanColors striping brush in White (which sucks btw). I used a regular red color to draw in the anchor design. And I finished with Sally Hansen Acrylic Top coat. I think this is a good time to thank goingtotheshowing for giving me a Butterfly award. It means so much to me and I'm so happy! So thank you, deary!

    
Have a great day!
xo Nail Diva

Spring Nail Art

Hey everyone! How's it going? Today I have a design that I did a week ago but never posted because I took pictures of it when the weather was pretty bad and they didnt come out as clear as I wish. Originally, this morning I was going to do a nautical themed manicure but with my luck the weather was completely and absurdly awful. Kinda funny, tho! Anyway so the nail polish I used for this is...OPI! Yes, I found OPI in Jordan. You'll notice in my 11 questions tag that thats the nail polish I wish I had access to here in Jordan. The very next day from posting that I thought I would take a trip to my favorite beauty store and I walk in and WAAM. Right in front of my face is a section of OPI nailpolishes and a poster for one of their collections (I do think it's an old one though). Anyway, long story short I got a cool OPI which I tried out last Thursday and here are the pictures today.



spring Nail Art

                                       

And this is Go On Green by OPI by itself


OPI Go On Green

Go On Green is beautiful blue with duochrome green shimmer. It's opaque at three coats and gives the most amazing softness to your hands when it's on. It looks so fresh and girly and thats probably because it's an iridescent sheer polish. Anyway, really great polish...not great pictures.. at all. Thats why it took me so long to post them, but when I saw how bad the weather was today I realized I'm not getting good pics today either so I might as well post something. So, thats all for today...Have a great one!
xo Nail Diva



Glitter Mani-fest

Hey everyone! How's your Thursday going? Mine is great cuz it's the end of the school week, I do have a lot of homework piling up (and it's only been the first week) but I'm looking forward to relaxing. Yesterday night I did a weirdly beautiful. It wasn't intended to end up sooo...glittery! But glitter has a way of overcoming the design...so what can I do. Anyway, I didn't love it at the beginning but then it grew on me, mainly because I love dark colors on my skin. FYI: these pictures were taken last night and this morning at like 6 so the lighting isn't tres perfect, but you'll get the idea.

I started out with a two coats of Jordana Nail Polish in Supernatural which is a deep blue with amazing little blue sparkles in a slightly lighter shade. It's definitely great for winter designs (snowflakes, christmas...etc). I was contemplating just snowflaking it and calling it, but it feels like winter is done even though it's freezing cold. Then I sponged on a little at the bottom L.A. Colors Art Deco Nail art lacquer in silver glitter. On my nail tips I sponged in Essence Colour & Go in blue addicted which is completely beautiful. Its a deep blue glitter in a blue gel base with some green random hexagonal glitters in there to. You can see it in life, but it didn't really wanna show in the pictures. I'm gonna swatch it soon anway, so stay tuned. I also here it's a dupe for Deborah Lippmann's Out of this world but I cant be sure. Finally, I dotted on some random shaped and sized dots in a diagonal slant with some regular black nail polish.
So this is the look! I hope you like it.
xo Nail Diva