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Essence: Pointbreak + Konad

lyra — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:51:27 +0000

Hello!

This is a manicure which I’m wearing at the moment. The base is Essence Pointbreak, and the roses are stamped with Essence Romeo. I used Konad image plate m65.

Have a nice time!
~Lyra~

Essence, Konad

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Essence: Surfer Babe Trend Edition

lyra — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 06:35:52 +0000

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*

Konad

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Comparison Taupe Polishes

lyra — Fri, 28 May 2010 05:57:30 +0000

Mancina asked me to make a comparison between Essence Zulu and China Glaze Channelesque so I made it. I also added Essence Desert Fox and Catrice from Dusk to Dawn for compare.

I can say for sure that none of them are dupes. Zulu is the lightest and in comparisson to the others looks the grayest. Channelesque is the one with the strongest purple undertone. Desert Fox and FDTD have brown base, but Desert Fox is more grayish.

I hope you find this comparison useful.
-Lyra**

Catrice, China Glaze, Essence

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Essence: Into The Wild Trend Edition

lyra — Thu, 20 May 2010 22:53:57 +0000

Hi!!

Yaaaay!! I have a new Essence Trend Edition collection. It’s called Into The Wild. You can find polishes, lip-glosses, eye-shadows, bronzing powder and jumbo eye-pencils in it. Look at all this stuff:

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POLISHES: in collection are four polishes.

Desert Fox is warm brown shade with gray undertone. The application was OK, and I applied two coats. If I was more careful, one would be enough.

Zulu is my favorite. It’s gray color with a hint of lavender. This one should be matte, but the matte effect is not so strong. It’s more plastic like looking. Anyway I like glossy look more than matte so it doesn’t bother me. I applied two coats.

Heart Chakra is my second favorite. It is nice mixture between coral and rose shade, so under some lights is more rosy and on the other is more coral looking. It needs two coats for full coverage.

Bongo Drums is neutral milky shade. This one is not well pigmented. After the first layer it looks like it’s almost clear. On the pictures are three layers, but the white tips are still visible. It’s also quite streaky.

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LIP-GLOSSES: the collection has three different shades of lip-glosses. Essence usually disappoints me with their glosses, because they are not well pigmented, but this time I was pleasantly surprised. They are good pigmented and the colors are also nice. One is jelly looking and the other two have shimmer in them.
Here I made swatches on my arm:

Heart Chakra is nice jelly rose shade, with coral undertones. This is my favorite.

Beat the Heat is shimmering golden color. Nice, but it doesn’t suit me at all.

40 Degree is golden brown shade with silver and red shimmer mixed in it.

How do you like this collection?

Have a nice day! -Lyra

Essence

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China glaze Awaken in Millennium

lyra — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:09:20 +0000

Moja najnovejša manikura
Za osnovo sem uporabila lakec China glaze – Awaken.
Prekrasen sivko, ki pod določeno svetlobo rahlo potegne na lila ampak ne preveč.
Ima pa bolj chrome finish. Nanaša se prekrasno, tako kot vsi China glaze lakci,
ki sem jih do zdaj sprobala. Prekrivnost dosežena z enim slojem

Za Konad sem uporabila Konad plato m57, uporabljen lakec pa je China glaze-Millennium,
ki prav tako spada pod chrome kategorijo Chine glaze chrom lakci se super obnesejo
za Konad.
Nisem si mislila, da bom kdaj na svojih nohtkih ugledala živalski vzorec, ker mi niso
preveč všeč, ampak sem si zgleda danes premislila

China Glaze, Konad

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