Oooooh Purple-ish Glitter from MODI Glam

Monday evening, after staying up for 18 hours, writing my last exam of this session, and having watched 42 the movie with my friend Jav, I came home to this…

My lovely friend DA/Y-unni had sent me a package!
I love that it arrived on a day I was feeling really down (was worried about the exam I had written earlier that day), and just put a huge smile on my face.

You notice that there is BUTTER LONDON IN THE PACKAGE XD

They will be my first ones, and I am so glad that they came from someone meaningful~

I was so excited about this package I had to try the polish…
I went with MODI Glam Nails in Devil Tears #17 (found at Aritaum I believe).

On the left we have Tweed Jacket…which I will share later
On the right we have Devil Tears

The “undies” (apparently nail bloggers use that word as the base used before applying glitters lol) of this polish is a brand most will be able to figure out from the picture. So I will leave it at that.

This was a bit of a weird polish, like a slightly shiny matte formula. I didn’t realize it was supposed to be matte, and had to Google swatches as I thought I got a faulty bottle.

Anyway, I got this from Jill who was able to CP me a few bottles of polish she was able to snag for $1 each.

And I am thankful that I only paid a dollar for this, as this was so not to my liking at all. Can you believe that this is actually four coats of this stuff? It still is patchy! Plus it isn’t really a true matte. However it did dry down very quickly, but it was just so remniscent of dollar store no name polish that I wasn’t too impressed. Plus the pigment is a powder or something, as it separated and settled in the bottle…just overall wasn’t impressed. I hope the other bottles are not this big of a disaster :T I think I will be safe as they are metallics.

Seeing as I wasn’t a fan, adding the Modi Glitter was perfect. I also liked the extra contrast in shine it provided. On top of the Fuschia Fever, it dried pretty well as well. Hexagon and tiny circular glitter in a purple black base. Just so pretty.

I think it looks similiar to Facets of Fuschia at first glance, but I cannot find my bottle at the moment. Well all of my Revlon polishes. I moved them to a box…and can’t find the box -__-

Check out a Korean Bloggers post on Devil Tears HERE. You can see that it is in a Purple Black base. Mine isn’t as black, but still pretty.

If my friend HJ wasn’t constricted to one luggage check in, I would have totally asked her to bring back a few more of these, as they just look absolutely lovely. You can check out Aritaum Korean site HERE.

You can’t find these in Canada, unless maybe Pacific Mall in Markham, Ontario…but you could try Gmarket, or Ebay.

Thanks again Unni :) I can’t wait to try out the rest of the stuff xD

If you don’t have it, made do with what you’ve got!

Now I’ve been fully regretting not getting my hands on the China Glaze It’s A Trap-eze polish…

The thing is, I really don’t need more… (though you will see that I didn’t do very well in upholding that idea for others…) but this polish really great on me.

So what is a girl to do, when it is sold out?

Try and recreate her own. I should really stress the try, as it turned out nothing like it! lol but you can read about that more down at the end…

(On a side note, I couldn’t figure out why my pictures would turn out this weird hazy/blurry on the Hybrid. Then it clicked. Maybe I should clean the lens. Yeah…it was a very “Duh!”moment for me. I should now have things under control…)

I used:
American Apparel Supernova
Sally Hansen Secrets
China Glaze Innocence

(that is what I meant by weird hazy blur…ah…I should have thought of that sooner…)

Anyway, here is what I learned from this.

First off, get rid of the holo glitter. I LOVE holo glitter, but this wasn’t the place for it.
Second, do a double decker sandwich. Meaning, Innocence, 2 coats of Supernova, and then 2 coats of Innocence to finish it off. Now that I think about it, I probably could forgo the initial Innocence application.

THAT should give me a closer look to Its a Trap-eze, though not so in colouring.

EDIT:
Okay it was bugging me so much I redid it on a nail chip. THIS is what I had in mind. But you really do need like three coats of Supernova.


I might consider just mixing up a small batch of a franken. Maybe that will decrease the number of layers I would need? Another experiment for another day :)

Well to move on to something else…
I have the nail chip swatches, bottle shots, and mini info on the Hard Candy polishes. I just need actual manicures of them and I will be set.

If you are a nail junkie, you NEED a polish thinner…

I didn’t realize how important it actually was!

I had purchased Seche Restore from Winner’s for $3 when they were on clearance, and have used Missha’s Polish Solvent for about $2-3 as well.

Well I’ve long since finished both, so I was in the market for a new one.

I went to Sally’s and stood checking out reviews for both the Orly thinner and the Beauty Secrets thinner. In the end, I took home Beauty Secrets Polish Thinner.

Why?
Cause it was bigger and cheaper lol

With my current stash of polish filling up more drawers in a Helmer than I would like, I encounter a few polishes that need a little reviving.

I have Claire’s Hollywood, and Sally Hansen Strobe Light.
Both polishes I love using, but they have gotten a little clumpy.

With Hollywood, I turn it upside down, and the polish remains. I would have to give it a few good shakes to initiate flow.

BEFORE: You can see how the polish sticks to the brush, thick, gloopy

AFTER: Thinner has been mixed into the bottle, and the polish looks thinner on the brush

AFTER 2: I added more thinner to it

This bottle is huge, especially since you only need maybe 5-10 drops of it.

Any time a polish gives me application issues, I try adding a few drops to see if that will help. In some cases (like a lot of my Revlon ones) it has helped. So give that a try whenever you feel that a polish just isn’t working for you, even though it is a new bottle.

The only con to this bottle, is the dispensing mechanism. It is just a flip spout, which does not really drip the thinner as well as I would like. If you have an extra dropper/pipette somewhere, I would suggest you use that instead.

Happy bottles of polish~

Holiday Nails: American Apparel Supernova

For the final day of my holiday nail colours/attempted artwork journey, I have a crap load of glitter. The centre of this look is the American Apparel Supernova glitter. Love it. Not as dense as one would like, but it …