Showing posts with label IsaDora. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IsaDora. Show all posts

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Find the differences

I was shopping for prom shoes at Helsinki, and I also bought new crackle -polishes (and found perfect shoes, too!). I'd heard that Depend has now it's own crackle-collection, and I wanted to try that out. Here's what I bought:


Depend pink Crackle Effect and IsaDora black Graffiti -polishes. I haven't tried the pink one yet, but that black is gorgeus! Here's a manicure I did with that:


I used the green Claire's polish as the base.

But.... Guess what? I suppose that IsaDora has run out with their original crackle polish bottles, or how can you explain this:


They almost look like the same with the paper-sealing on, but when you take it away...

How many differences can you find?

Oh noooo! I want my collection to be coherent! D: Well, I could accept the differences between the bottles to that point, but look at this:



Even the brushes are different!!! That ordinary, wide brush is so handy when putting on the crackle polish, because you need only one stroke and there it is, you're ready. But with that ordinary, non-wide brush you need several strokes, and that's very troublesome especially when you have long nails, like I do. The polish starts to crack very quickly, and you can't really fix it after it starts to dry. It has to be pretty much perfect with one stroke... Agh, I'm so frustrated. Luckily the quality of the polish itself is flawless.

Normal, beautiful IsaDora bottle.
The weird, sturdy bottle I dislike. :(
They have just glued on the stickers with the right inci and other information...

Oh, how disappointed I am. :P But there are some good things, I have to say. Though it says on the bottle that it has as much polish as the ordinary bottle, I'm pretty convinced that there's more polish in that bigger bottle. And it's still the same price... ;) And yeah, the crackles still look great on nails, no matter what the bottle looks like! :)


Oh, I almost forgot! I polished my friends' nails too!

I used the pink Sinful Colors -polish as the base and black crackle on the top. I did these for Lena.

Pink gradient and konad on top.
And hey, remember to vote, everyone! You have only 4 days left.... ;)

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Light gradient crackle

I finally got new nail design to show you! ;) I was quite frustrated because nothing seemed to work out, first I did simple gradient french manicure by sponging, but I didn't like it. I decided to add some green flower-stickers, but I didn't like that neither. Then I thought that some glitter would make it better, and added a layer of OPI - Dazzle Me. And I still disliked it! I added couple of layers more, but when the whole manicure still looked crappy, I just put a layer of white crackle polish on top of everything. Now I actually like it! :'D


Here you can see the gradient...
And polishes I used:
 Rimmel - London Clouds, H&M - Pink Mist, OPI - Dazzle Me and IsaDora white graffiti -polish.


In the end, I think they're pretty. I didn't mean to do anything like that, but well, it worked, eventally. :)

edit: There's a new opinion poll at my blog's sidebar! I'm going to do a "celebration-post" because I have over 100 followers (!), and you get to decide what it's going to be about.  Here's a little extra-information of some of the topics:
My old nail designs: This is going to be about my nail designs from the time before I started blogging. I've done nails for years, so there're lots of designs you haven't seen yet... ;)
All my nail polishes: As it says, all my polishes with swatches.
And I think that the other three don't need any extra-info... ;)

Remember to vote, everyone! ^^


Thursday, November 18, 2010

Checkered nails (+SNOW!)

For a change, a nail post! ( More tutorials are coming though, I´m not finished yet!) This is actually quite old design, but I had time to post it now.


I think they´re cute ^^
Polishes I used: Rimmel London clouds, Diffi and IsaDora matte top.

I really like how they turned out, but I don´t think that the IsaDora matte top is matte enough, at least my nails were still shiny though I added it. Or does that look matte to you, look at the second picture! :< But can´t help it, I haven´t found other one. I´ll just  have to keep looking.
Anyway, inspiration for these nails is from HERE, my friend Katys blog. She has recently started blogging, and has some very cool nails and fashion related things in her blog. Check it out! :)
I also went to see the newest Harry Potter with Katy and my sister. It was so good!!! I´ve kinda grown up with Harry Potter, I mean the books and movies! So it was a bit nostalgic to see the first part of the last movie... I can´t wait for the second part! OwO
Wednesday was the premiere, and we went to see it then. It was very scary to sit there and save seats for my friends, when the angry and seatless Harry Potter-fans were surrounding me and giving me veeery angry stares... :< That sure was the last time I´ll ever queue alone! :'D
And guess what! It was snowing! It looks so beautiful outside now! *w*

Yes we have christmas lights already... ^^'
Poor Sippe, her foots are so short and there was lots of snow!
Niilo was so funny, she was so thrilled with all that snow!
Jumping around...
She´s looking cunning :3
See you soon! :)