Posts Tagged ‘Blue’
I’ve been wearing different color combinations of ruffian manicure for the entire week. Here is a silver/blue combination. I used Essence Rock’n’Roll for the base and then go over with Deborah 03 Mat, which is dark navy blue matte shade.
Lyra*
Hey!
I bought this little cute OPI Shrek minis. Mini bottles are so small, but super cute. In the package are four shades.
OPI Shrek-Tacular Minis:
What’s With The Cattitude?: it is pastel light blue. I had a little trouble with applying this one. After two coats there were still visible streaks. So I had to put the third layer on top, beside that I love the color! It’s perfect for summer.
Fiercely Fiona: I really like the name of this one 
And the color is also unique. It’s pastel yellow with a touch of green. There are two coats, but I should put on another one.
Rumple’s Wiggin’: funny name, but the shade is nice. Very light creme purple on the warm side. It needs two coats for full coverage.
Who The Shrek Are You?: the best name in this collection It’s bright green, just like Shrek. I don’t like this color on my nails, so I will leave it to Shrek to wear it 
It’s opaque in two coats.
Bye! -Lyra
Finally I got all the polishes from Essence Surfer Babe collection. Maestra from Parokeets helped me out this time. She got me two polishes which I couldn’t find.
This is not the whole collection. I didn’t buy lip-glosses, because I have enough of them.
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POLISHES: in this collection are four polishes. The formula is ok and I don’t have any problems with application. All of them have creamy finish and they are all two coaters.
Hang Loose: light milky lavender color with a hint of pink in it.
Pointbreak : medium gray shade.
Surferama: I think that Essence is already boring with this shade. I think they already released like four polishes exactly the same shade? Medium berry shade – that one is great pigmented. Nice and safe color, you can’t go wrong with it.
The World’s Coolest is my favorite in this collection. But the color is really hard to describe. It’s definitely not minty, but it’s not light blue either. Anyway I love it!
I did some stamping on this 
I used Essence stamping plate, Konad special polish white for flowers and China Glaze DV8 for butterflies.
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BLUSH in Surfer Babe TE is called Big Wave Survivor. It’s a nice medium pink shade and matte. I don’t think I will use this a lot, because I’m more into shimmering blushes.
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EYELINERS and EYESHADOW PALETTE
There are three eyeliners. They all have metallic like finish. They come in purple, light blue and dark silver colors.
Eye shadow palette it’s called Surfer’s Kit. It has six shades in it. Two of them are matte the others are shimmering. The shimmering ones are more pigmented than the matte shades.
This is all for today. Have a nice day!
-Lyra*
I’m so busy lately + I’m also lazy 
Great combination!
I will show you my today manicure, and in the next posts there are going to be manicures that I already wore.
Today I’m wearing OPI Dating A Royal. I have to say that this is become my favorite blue. It’s gorgeous deep and rich blue color, with creamy finish. Finally I found dark blue polish that it’s not almost black.
OPI – Dating A Royal:
Here is the photo with my beautiful new ring. It goes great with my blue nails.
I know that I promised that my next post will be about my nail care + video how I paint my nails. I had prepared everything, but I need to learn how to work in the program for video.
Have a nice day! –Lyra
I already mentioned that I got the new collection of Ciate polishes, so yesterday I made some swatches. It’s called Festival Fever. It looks like my camera hates the colors from this collection. I had a lot of trouble with capturing the realistic colors. But the sun helped with some shades this time, so I didn’t have to adjust the colors in PS, because I really hate that. Here is a picture with all six new shades in bottles:
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Talent Scout: nice cold toned grape purple shade. Very pigmented, so one coat is enough. The first second I saw it, it reminded me of China Glaze Grape Pop so I made a comparison. As you can see on the photo, Grape Pop is one shade darker than The Talent Scout. They are not dupes, but they are very close.
Ditch The Heels: I truly don’t know how to describe this color. It’s definitely green. I will go with medium pastel green. This is two coats.
Fun Fair: nice pastel bubble gum pink. It’s opaque with two coats.
Main Stage: medium berry color. This one looks exactly the same like Essence Very Berry. This is just one coat!
Headliner: dirty medium blue with little green undertone, but the green can’t be seen under all lights. It needs two coats for full coverage.
Access All Areas: This is very tricky color. The first photo of this polish looks like neon orange. It’s actually bright medium peachy color with orange and pink undertone. This one is so unique. It also needs two coats for full coverage.
Half of this collection is nothing special. It doesn’t have any new colors that we haven’t already seen, but the other half is quite unique. Ditch The Heels, Headliner and Access All Areas are the shades that you must have. The formula is also great. I have to give credit to Ciate for improving their formula of polishes, because they are not thick and sticky anymore so the application of the new shades was great. Bravo!
This is all for today
See you soon, Lyra *
Hello everyone!!
Today I will show you a manicure which I have been wearing for the past few days and it still looks like the first day! I can’t believe it that the polish didn’t chip off yet.
I used Ciate 3am Girl as the base and then I stamped on the Konad with China Glaze DV8. I know that I’m already boring with this pattern, but I can’t get tired of it. The pattern is from m73 Konad image plate.
I like cherries very much, they are my favorite fruit. I have a carton of fresh ones in my fridge and I eat them almost every day. This is what my afternoon snack looks:
Have a nice time! ~Lyra~
Hi!
Sorry that I’m not posting more often, but this cold and rainy weather is so depressing that I’m not in the mood for anything. I promised you more swatches of Catrice polishes so here is another one.
BLUE’S BROTHER: is cold medium blue with turquoise shimmer. The finish is frosty, and I liked it that way. This color also reminds me of sea. I don’t know why all the blue shades remind me of sea, maybe because I can’t wait to go on a vacation, somewhere close to a beach. It’s opaque in two coats.
I put fishes from Konad image plate m27 on my ring finger with China Glaze Millennium.
In the next post I will show you two Catrice polishes
Have a nice time!
Lyra*
Hello!
I know it’s not summer yet, but I really miss the sun, sea and beach. So I made a sea manicure
NYX Girls Morocco is really beautiful blue color. It has frosty finish and it’s shimmery. For full coverage you need to apply two coats.
Morocco:
I made bubbles with China Glaze Millennium, and then I added some holographic glitter. I stamped a seahorse on the ring finger and added star shaped rhinestone. I used Konad image plates m16 and m27.
Do you like my ‘’sea’’ mani?
*Lyra*
Hi!
Here is another example of how you can do a different French manicure. I made this one a while ago. The pink polish on tips is Essence (SYF) Flashy pink. I used Konad image plates m6 and m9. White flowers were made with Konad special polish white, and the blue ones with Essence Deep Blue Sea.
I’m being little bit lazy for writing posts, but I’m taking pictures of my manicures anyway. I have to start writing every day again
See you soon!
Lyra*
Hi!
I turned 20 a few days ago. I can’t believe, that I’m that old so soon. I know that is not “old”, but anyway I feel like the number 30 is not so far anymore.
Leaving my age aside let’s move to the manicure that I wore that day. I didn’t have any inspiration so I browsed around some other nail blogs. I saw this gorgeous manicure from Deniz on Emerald Sparkled and I know, that this is perfect mani for my ˝big day˝, because it has glitter and it’s also holo.
I used Ciate 3am Girl, which is very dark blue – almost black. And then I layered one coat of China Glaze Atlantis and one coat Wet’n’wild Kaledioscope which gave my nails a more holo effect.
The only problem with this mani was, that the sun let me down and it wasn’t sparkly at all 
These are the pictures taken a day later on the sun:
As you can see I shortened my nails the next day. Do you want to know why? I told everyone around me that this year I don’t want any presents, but nobody listened. I got the most beautiful present from my boyfriend. He bought me a piano! A real piano! I can’t wait to start learning to play. So you can expect now that from now on my nails will be shorter than usual
Have a nice day!! Lyra :*