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Ciate: Access All Areas + Konad

lyra — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:17:38 +0000

I love Access All Areas polish from latest Ciate collection. Here I stamped Konad pattern from m60 image plate with E.l.f. Coral.

-Lyra

Ciate, Konad, e.l.f.

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Ciate: Main Stage + Konad

lyra — Sat, 29 May 2010 07:07:47 +0000

Hi!

I will show you the manicure that I wore today. The berry base is polish called Main Stage from the latest Ciate collection. I stamped all-over pattern from m61 Konad image plate with China Glaze OMG which is silver holo shade. Lately I love to stamp with holo shades.

Some of you asked about my nail care routine and how I painted my nails so that the line looks clean. I will do a post about that, and maybe include a video showing the routine, because I really don’t know how to explain that

Until that, have a nice time! –Lyra*

China Glaze, Ciate, Konad

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Ciate Paint Pots: Festival Fever spring/summer 2010 Collection

lyra — Wed, 26 May 2010 07:02:18 +0000

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 *

Ciate

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Ciate: 3am Girl + Konad

lyra — Mon, 24 May 2010 04:42:31 +0000

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~

China Glaze, Ciate, Konad

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My Birthday Manicure

lyra — Mon, 03 May 2010 07:56:26 +0000

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 :*

China Glaze, Ciate, Wet'n'wild

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Ciate Paint Pots: Sharp Tailoring + Konad

lyra — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:16:29 +0000

Hy everyone!!

Today I will show you another Ciate polish.
Sharp Tailoring is just so unique and gorgeous. It’s cross between gray and beige,
and I just L-O-V-E that kind of color
It also has silver shimer in it, that makes it even more special.

Aplication is good. It’s little sheer, but it’s totaly opaque in two coats.

Ciate – Sharp Tailoring:

I was also playing with the Konad again, so I chose lace pattern from m71. I really love this design.
I think that this is one of the patterns which goes well with any color of polish.
For stamping I used OPI – You Don’t Konow Jacques SUEDE.

By-By!

Lyra*

Ciate, Konad, OPI

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Ciate: Refresher + Konad

lyra — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:04:08 +0000

Today I’m wearing Ciate Refresher, wich is creme light blue color. The application
was a bit tricky. The first layer was not the problem, but I had truble with the second one.
The brush kept sticking on the second coat application.

Ciate Refresher:

Today I fell more creative, so I did some Konad
I didn’t know wich pattern I shoul use, so I went trough all my image plates.
I saw this patern on m69 and I realized, thad I have never used it before. So I gave it a chance
I chose the white color for stamping, but it looked so empty, so I stamped over again with dark blue color.
The polishes I used for stamping: Konad special Polish-White and Essie-Midnight Cami.

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Today was the last day to entering the giveaway, so in the next post I will anounce the winner!
Good luck to everyone!!

¤*Lyra*¤

Ciate, Essie, Konad

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Comparisson: Blue and Pink polishes

lyra — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:06:00 +0000

I really don’t have any inspiration these days
So I made some comparisson photos of the different polishes.

I noticed that Agent Lavender and Refresher look almost the same in the bottles.

But when I put them on the nails together, they look completley different.

China Glaze Agent Laveder is light creme purple lavender color.
Refresher is creme light baby blue color. Verry nice
They are both beautifull, but if I must choose I will reather wear Refresher

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Here are some pink polishes:

Nubar-Hotel Baby Pink/China Glaze-Something Sweet/Essence-Not Just Cute

Hotel baby pink has more white in it, than Something Sweet. But if I compare them in
application SS is waaaay better. HBP is verry sticky and streaky, it needs 2-3 coats
for full coverage. SS neds only two thin coats and it’s not streaky at all.
Not Just Cute is more bubble gum pink and it’s more jelly looking. It’s opaque in two coats.

Something Sweet is my favourite, Noty Just Cute is second

~ Only two days until the end of the givaway I’m so exited!! ~

*Lyra*

China Glaze, Ciate, Essence, Nubar

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Ciate Paint Pots-Cookies & Cream + Konad

lyra — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:02:14 +0000

Cookies & Cream je prelep cream nude oddtenek, zelo nevtralne barve. V sebi ima
malenkost sive in rjave. Spominja me na belo kavo
Nanaša se zelo lepo, prekriven je v 2 slojih.

*Cookies & Cream is beautifull cream neutral nude polish, with hint of grey and
light brown. It reminds me of white coffee
It applies wonderfully and It’s opaque in two coats.

Ciate-Cookies&Cream:

In še dodatek Konad vzorčka iz plate m79, z S-he-466 lakom.
*I added the Konad pattern from image plate m79, with S-he-466 polish:

Ciate, Konad, S-he

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Ciate Paint Pots-3am Girl + Konad

lyra — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:27:10 +0000

Hey!!

Danes sem dobila kar nekaj paketkov + nakupovala sem
Kaj sem dobila ne morem povedat, lahko pa povem da gre za stvari, ki jih
pripravljam za moj prvi ”giweaway”
Gre za same super stvari, in nekatere bi kar sama obdržala
Tako da bodite pripravljene! =)

For my international readers:
I got some new shipments today, and I got some really nice stuff + I
also went Shopping
I can’t tell you what I got, but i can tell that all the stuff is
for my first giveaway which i am preaparing
So be ready! =)

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Danes nosim lak znamke Ciate, oddtenek 3am Girl. Gre za zelo temno moder
lak, ki je že skoraj popolnoma črn. Barva ni nekaj posebnega, ampak jaz imam rada
temne oddtenke

Presenetila me je njegova mazljivost, saj sem navajena da so Cate laki
zelo gosti, tale pa je ravno dovolj redek in omogoča perfekten nanos.
Prekriven je z dvema plastema.

Ciate-3am girl:

Nato sem z lakom China Glaze-2NITE oddtisnila vzorček iz Konad plate m81
in nastala je takšna manikura:

Z končnim videzom sem zelo zadovoljna in je pravo olajšanje po par dneh pavze
Inspiracija je spet tukaj!! yeeey

China Glaze, Ciate, Konad

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