Essie - Master Plan

Essie Master Plan

My mom knows how to spoil me. She picks up random polishes that she gets for a good price. Some are great finds, others are fails. She managed to get this Essie for $0.30! A discount grocery store near our home buys overstock items from pharmacies and this is what happens!

Pictured is 2 coats. A light putty/taupe creme.

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Precision Oasis Collection

Hi guys! Today I'm bringing you a new brand to the blog! Not necessarily a new brand (they've been in business for 30 years) but they are new to ME, as I have never had access to this brand before.

They have sent me their Oasis Collection in order to review, so here we go. Overall it's quite subdued and hints at fall or autumn in my opinion. In general, I find their bottle design to be appealing and the brush is of standard quality making it easy to get an even application.

Precision's Website

Free of Toluene, Formaldehyde, & DBP

The Oasis Collection can be purchased for $5.95 each.

Sandstorm

4 thin coats pictured. A pale beige with yellow undertones. I feel like this is one that can be worn when you need a quiet palate cleanser. Fewer than 4 coats however was slightly streaky. I would recommend allowing for a minute of dry time between coats, this seems to help combat streaks.

Sahara Deserted Me

3 coats pictured. A warm nude with pink undertones. Creme finish.

Been There Dune That

3 coats pictured. Nude/ light taupe color with brown undertones. Creme finish.

Comparing these three side by side,  you can see the difference in the undertones. It seems like it could offer a perfect nude for any skin tone.

Sage

2 coats pictured. Light and muted army green. It also has silver shimmer. No problems with application here. I love this color for the fall.

   You're in De-Nile River

3 coats. It reminds me of chocolate. :)

This one immediately reminded me of OPI You Don't Know Jacques, so a comparison is below.

Comparison with Wet N Wild Wet Cement & You Don't Know Jacques

Scorpion King

2 coats pictured. Perfectly easy application. Charcoal/black with loads of shimmer.

What do you think? Do you have any Precision Lacquers in your stash?

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Flower - Go With The Flow-er & Cosmos-politan

"FLOWER Nail Lacquer - From the new cosmetics range by Drew Barrymore, the Nail Lacquer is ultra-shiny, long-lasting and non-chipping. The colors are vibrant and on trend, and 3-FREE 

(free of DBP, toluene and camphor).

Shades: Go With The Flow-er, That’s Just Dan-De-Lion, Fanatical Botanical, Gorgeous Gerbera, May Flowers, I Lavendare You!, Thistle or That?, Good Bud-dy, Eye of the Tiger Lily, What’s the Daffodily-O?, Cosmos-politan, Precious Poppy, First Bloom, Budding Romance, Venus Fly Trap, April Showers. 

Price: $4.98, Available at Walmart and Walmart.com"

 

Go With The Flow-er is a nude/putty/khaki shade. Pictured is 2 coats. Creme finish. Formula is fantastic! I was not expecting such great results, but it applied easily and leveled out without any difficulty. It was also very shiny on it's own.

Cosmos-politan is a medium pink with slight coral undertones. Slight shimmer visible. Also great experience with a wonderful formula. These polishes are definitely worth $4.98. That's such a great price, it's hard to pass up. I will be sure to take a closer look at what other shades are available.

 *These products were provided for review*

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Floral Skittles

I wanted to do another floral design, but this time I mixed it up with a skittle variation. 

 

I used a lot of different polishes:

Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure Cafe Au Lait

Lime Crime Milky Ways

Orly Gumdrop

Rimmel I Lilac You

China Glaze Spontaneous & Sunday Funday

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Vintage Floral

 I was inspired by this design from Aquaayame on Tumblr. Her flowers definitely look more like roses! I'm jealous. This look was created using the 8 piece nail art dotting tool & paintbrush set from Winstonia.

 The nail art set can be found here for $8.95. It's really a great kit for any new nail artist that needs a basic set of tools. Everything comes in the black satin zipper pouch. The kit includes five dual ended dotting tools, a variety of sizes. Also 3 detailing paint brushes of slightly different sizes. The kit also includes "one random color high quality nail file," as you can see, I got the light pink 100-180 grit.
(You can use the coupon code "POLISHARTADDICTION" at checkout to receive 10% off - valid until May 31, 2013)

The paintbrushes are a nice quality and weight to them. The website labels them as "sable detailing brushes" but I was informed by the company that this is not in reference to the actual hairs... but instead just the brown color. I was excited because I had heard that sable brush hairs made for the best paintbrushes.... but I think it's disappointing that they've labeled them in a misleading way.

 Another thing I was excited about was that it said the brush handles were acetone proof! That would be amazing because I'm constantly ruining my brushes by spilling acetone and it eats away at the paint..... One quick dip in my dappen dish of acetone with the back end of the brush....and the paint came right off.! Ugh! I guess they are just referring to the metal ferrule that holds the bristles?

 

The dotting tools are pretty standard, it's got a nice variety of sizes to cover all of your needs.

This again is the nail look I created all with these paint brushes and dotting tools.

I used a gazillion polishes for this design, I'll just list them.

Base of Zoya Farah. 

Wet N Wild Undercover & Haze of Love 

China Glaze Passion for Petals

Barielle Coco Bar & Lemondrops

OPI Jade is the New Black

& Sinful Colors Exotic Green

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Nude Houndstooth

This look might be subtle enough that you can get away with wearing it even if you have restrictions on what is "work-appropriate."

 I started with Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure Cafe Au Lait and then stamped with China Glaze 2030 & BM-322

 

Here are some pics of Cafe Au Lait before I added the stamping. 

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Pressed Flowers

Today I have some dried flowers from Born Pretty that can be incorporated into nail art. Take a look at what I managed to come up with.

I painted my nails with 2 coats of Essie Sand Tropez. Then I applied topcoat. While the topcoat was still wet I used tweezers to pick up the flower and lightly place it on my nail. Then I used the slanted end of the tweezers to gently poke down all of the places that were sticking up. If my topcoat dried too fast, I just dabbed a little more under the flower where I needed it. Once the flower was stuck down good, I applied 2 thick coats of Seche Vite to really lock it in.

I found these pretty easy to work with. I think they would look even better under clear gel polish. I think that would make them look even more like pressed under glass...

These can be found here at Born Pretty for $6.08. It comes as a pack of 12 which is really a good deal in my opinion. The only problem is that each cannister only hold a few flowers. So you need to plan your design around that. There were only 3 of these teal bundle flowers available.... Some of the smaller single flowers had only 2 or 3 in the cannister. So 10 finger nails and only 3 flowers might make for a random combination. But feel free to mix it up and use multiple colors. 

Don't forget about my 10% off coupon code if you decide to purchase these for yourself.



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Fall Dots

This is another as seen on Pinterest type design... This is the original link. I adapted it to work for nails though.

It makes me think of tribal, or maybe Native American......

 These are the polishes I used.

For tools I just used a medium striper brush and 2 different sized dotting tools.

 Kiss Nail Art Striper in black, Sinful Colors Snow Me White, Essie Very Structured, China Glaze Life Preserver, Orly Decades of Dysfunction, & Orly Ancient Jade.

The base polish is not pictured, but it was Color Club Incognito.



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Color Club Alter Ego Collection

Here is the other Color Club Collection I picked up for $6.99 this weekend. Enjoy!

Get A Clue

3 thin coats. A dusty light pink.

 This is the perfect in between shade of my two favorite pinks!

China Glaze Something Sweet & Second-hand Silk

Revealed

3 thin coats. Light peachy shade with faint pink shimmer.

I've seen other swatches like Rebecca's that have a lot more visible shimmer than mine...

Maybe I have a dud bottle?

Incognito

3 thin coats. This is a great sheer-ish nude for "mannequin hands."

Secret Rendezvous

A very pale purple creme. This is 3 thin coats. At first I thought my bottle must have been switched out and changed with something else.... This does not look like Rebecca's swatch. Her's is clearly a lot more purple than mine! I've decided I must just have a dud bottle that's a bad mix.

Sheer Disguise

3 thin coats. Beautiful light blue/gray cream.

It's a perfect dupe for Zoya Kristen!

Give Me A Hint

3 thin coats. This has sooo many dupes.

 

Dupe for Sally Hansen Commander in Chic, China Glaze Below Deck, OPI You Don't Know Jacques....



If you can pinpoint what my Secret Rendezvous might be if it's just a swapped bottle.... please let me know!

Otherwise we will just rename is "Super Secret Rendezvous" ;)

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