Mish-Mash - Orly Bubbly Bombshell, Coco Allure Cleopinktra, Clio S424

Once in awhile, I've got to post the occasional fail mani, and this is an example.

[Base: Orly Bubbly Bombshell
Topcoat: Coco Allure Cleopinktra
Clio S424]

The base coat is Orly's Bubbly Bombshell which is always gorgeous. Then I added Coco Allure's Cleopinktra which is a glitter topper with pink and gold hex and square glitters. It wasn't a great choice because the pink glitter blended in a little too well into Bubbly Bombshell which is a purple-pink shade. Now I needed another glitter coat for variety so I chose Clio's S424 which is just a party of glitter. Here's a link to a better example of S424 done right over a better base.

Overall, what a mess of colour choices! And the glitter looks sparse due to the similarity in colours to the base coat. What was I thinking? Haha, oh well, not the best manis I've tried so far.

Hopefully the next post will feature a superhero mani of some kind! :D

Confetti Party - Coco Allure Cleopinktra, Coco Allure Bootiful, Barielle Falling Star

Ev and I don't often coordinate what we're posting each week, and once in a long while, we end up posting about the same nail polishes. This week turned out to be one such example, but I've decided to carry on!

[Top: Coco Allure Cleopinktra
Middle: Coco Allure Bootiful
Base: Barielle Falling Star]

This is Coco Allure Cleopinktra over Coco Allure Bootiful over Barielle Falling Star!

[Left: Coco Allure Cleopinktra
Right: Coco Allure Bootiful]

Barielle Falling Star is this gorgeous blue polish with orange/bronze glitter. I love it, and it makes a gorgeous base for these glitter toppers. Here's a swatch of Falling Star.

Ev has described these two polishes already on Monday. I'll be lazy and quote her spot on description from here: Bootiful is a mix of black, orange and purple glitter in two sizes each of hexes and squares. - Cleopinktra is a mix of gold and magenta hex and square glitter in different sizes.

To be honest, I've found Bootiful doesn't make for a great topper. The consistency is fine and there's glitter aplenty. I think the problem is there's too much big black glitter in the polish and the glitter are all too similar in size. It could just be my personal taste.

But I love Cleopinktra. The variety of square and hex glitter is perfect, and the pink/magenta and gold combo is gorgeous. Layering Cleopinktra over Bootiful is magnificent, in my opinion. The combination just really works together! That both Ev and I did it without consulting each other shows that we individually thought it was a winning combo. :)

[Top: Coco Allure Cleopinktra
Middle: Coco Allure Bootiful
Base: Barielle Falling Star]

The last photo was taken in natural light, with my nails falling in the shadow a little. The glitter look almost like they're glowing here.

Lucky Dip - Aphrodite Lacquer, Coco Allure, LA Girl, Nabi

Oh dear, this edition of glitter skittles is going to test my memory... let's see what we've got!

On either side, we have two sheer coats of Aphrodite Lacquer Don't Copy Me. I previously posted about this, so check out the post to see what it looks like as a full mani!
In the middle is a happy glitter mix of two Coco Allure polishes - Bootiful and Cleopinktra. Bootiful is a mix of black, orange and purple glitter in two sizes each of hexes and squares. I showed a skittle of Cleopinktra last week, a mix of gold and magenta hex and square glitter in different sizes. 

Aaaand here's a close up of Cleopinktra over a black creme, then topped of with LA Girl Flamboyant, a mix of small and large orange hexes.

[Left] Hmmmm.... evidently a duochrome over black, topped off with...? I have no idea!!
[Right] Not sure what the base is, possibly the same duochrome over black, topped off with LA Girl Incognito and Nabi Party Mania Glitter. Incognito is a mix of small blue hexes with scattered large silver hexes. Party Mania Glitter is a deep blue jelly base with blue, gold, silver, yellow, magenta and green hex glitter. I previously did a skittle with it, but it looks so different depending on which colours you manage to pick up on the brush!

Phew! This should be the last skittle post for now, back to regular full manis next week!

Snow and Shine - Femme Fatale, Coco Allure, Candeo Colors

I have my usual computer back (yay!) but I prepared a couple of glitter skittle posts so I thought I'll just get through them before going back to posting full manis.

[Left] Femme Fatale Sinister Calling, a beautiful glitter mix in predominantly purple and blue hues. Wonderfully complex and the bar glitter doesn't stick up too much. The base is a purple jelly so you can reach full opacity in 2-3 coats.
[Right] This is Coco Allure Cleopinktra, over a base of Coco Allure Like, Totally Pink. The base is a bright pink jelly with a strong purple/fuchsia sheen which you can see quite clearly in the photo. The glitter topcoat is a clear base packed full of purple, pink/magenta and gold glitter in various shapes and sizes. They go perfectly together!

From left to right:
[1] Femme Fatale A Tisket, A Tasket - beautiful combination of mint, green and aqua with some pink highlights, all in a pale green jelly/creme base.
[2] Femme Fatale Shimmering Snowcap - White and gold-leaning iridescent glitter, a delicate combination!
[3, 4] Candeo Colors Dolce - A sheer nude/pink jelly base with scattered glitter in shades of white, purple and pink. This is a really sweet polish and I think the more... sedate amount of glitter really works well here!

I've been really lazy about painting my nails recently, especially since it's the middle of winter and my fingers feel like they're freezing off while I'm waiting for the polish to dry! Oh, the trials and tribulations of a polish enthusiast...

A Purple Flair - Coco Allure Succulent Lustre, Orly Bubbly Bombshell

I was travelling on Wednesday and forgot my usual Thursday post last week! >_<  I'll try harder to keep to my schedule in the future!

Onwards to shiny stuff now!

[Base: Coco Allure Succulent Lustre
To the tips: Orly Bubbly Bombshell

This gradient glitter starts off with a base using Coco Allure Succulent Lustre (which I have swatched on its own here). Towards the tips, I used Orly Bubbly Bombshell. The result is just a combo of so much lovely shininess!

[Base: Coco Allure Succulent Lustre
To the tips: Orly Bubbly Bombshell]

A blurry shot just so you can see all the different glitter colours in there.

That's enough glitter for this post! :)

Delicious Purple - Coco Allure Succulent Lustre

I'm trying to catch up by posting some old photos! I got Coco Allure Succulent Lustre awhile back, but I'm finally posting it here!

[Three coats of Coco Allure Succulent Lustre]

The polish is very hard to describe, so I'm going to use some of Coco Allure's description: "Succulent Lustre is fine multiple colored color shifting glitters in a semi-sheer purple base - The polish has purple, blue, violet, and green color shifts."

There is fine purple glitter, there's fine green-blue-purple colour-shifting glitter, and medium hex purple-blue-green colour-shifting glitter. There's a little spark of pink-red in there too! The consistency is a little bit gloopy, but nothing a little thinner won't solve. It's wonderfully opaque at three coats, and the different sized colour-shifting glitter makes everything soooo pretty.

The next photos were taken indoors:

[Three coats of Coco Allure Succulent Lustre]

The last is the usual blurry photo to show you the shininess! How shiny is this??

The fine blue-green glitter is hard to see without blurry photos, but this not-very-good photo manages to capture some of it:

[Three coats of Coco Allure Succulent Lustre]

Interesting, isn't it?

This is one complex, colour-shifting glitter polish! I have to admit, out of the all the Coco Allure polishes I bought, this is my favourite, and objectively, it's the best in quality. The others with hex glitter aren't very good (a bit curly). If I have the time, I'll review those too.

Ev's Birthday #3 - Jme presents... Color Club, Orly, China Glaze, Coco Allure

Sorry, it's been a very Ev-centric few days here at Plisherrific... =p But I just had to show my amazing loot from Jme for my birthday (which I opened just past midnight after scheduling that last post, hehe)...

[Bling bling!]

I just had to put a pic of these shinies first!! EHMAHHGERRRRDDDDDD, SOO AWESUMS. But! More on those later....

[Meow meow meow meow...]

Anyway, we were chatting online and I asked what order I should open the presents in! So the first one was this adorable set of false nails. KITTIES!! Cats are my favouritest, can't wait to try these on! As I told Jme, a bonus is that these nails are fairly narrow so they'll fit my skinny nails well without having to chop off much of the kitty image. WIN!

[I-I-It's not what you think it is!!]

I was also having a whinge a few weeks ago that no matter what perfume I use, it seems to dissipate super fast. High-end, EDP, a billion spritzes, NUP NADA. So Jme got me a bunch of these handy atomisers, yayyyy!! Now a new spritz will freshen my fragrance right up~ =)

AND NOW THE POLISHES, YESSSSS~

[Duochrome, glitter and opalescence, oh my!]

Look at these beauties! These are Color Club Port-folio, Orly Angel Eyes and China Glaze Rare & Radiant!

I was unable to capture the color of the Color Club polish well because these are hurried shots before I run off to work. =( It's actually a gorgeous purple with shimmer that shifts from purple-bronze to a stunning electric green. Super sci-fi!
Orly Angel Eyes is a clear base full of blue microglitter, and scattered opaque silver opalescent glitter (hope that makes sense...).
Finally, China Glaze Rare & Radiant is that lovely green-gold duochrome that's super popular these days! These all photograph so well, ahhh~

[MORE LIKE, TOTALLY AWESUMS]

Jme also got me three indie polishes from Coco Allure! They look so gorgeous and the glitter is sooo dense in all three of them. I was complaining that I just prepped my birthday mani and I already wannna try on all these new shinies!

The Coco Allure polish on the left is Like, Totally Pink. Super awesome name, and it's actually a pink jelly with fine gold/orange microglitter, and super dense blue opalescent glitter.
The middle one is Bootiful which is jam-packed fulled of black, orange and purple glitter in two sizes each of hexes and squares. I'm loving square glitter lately so these are awesome!!
The last one on the right is Cleopinktra, hehe. It's a mix of gold and magenta hex and square glitter in at least 3 sizes, gosh! 

Feeling so spoilt, I am!! These aren't even all of the gifts from Jme!
Thank you so much, my super duper best pal blogging buddy!! MUAKS!