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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Bornprettystore.com review item#15085

Tonight, I have my first bornprettystore.com review up! This neon loose glitter is #15085 on the website in case you're interested on this item!

This item is so absolutely adorable! I live how bright and colorful these are. Especially, with two sizes of the glitters which made it look so adorable! I found it easy to pick when I was applying it on my nails. It wasn't too thin nor too thick (i.e.: show bumps of thickness of the glitter cuts after it dried) when I applied them to my nails. It also didn't bleed out the neon colors onto my nails after I had applied a generous amount of Seche Vite too seal three nail art.

If you're interested on getting this item: #15085 from http://bornprettystore.com, be sure to use my 10% of code: (RAQE10) at your checkout! I love how bornprettystore has free worldwide shopping! Go check it out right now!

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Monday, September 8, 2014

Dupes? (OPI, WetNWild & Pure Ice)

Dupes? What do I think? 😊

I thought I found 2 dupes that looked like OPI 'Last Friday Night'. Here's the crazy thing, from the looks of it from the bottle, they look pretty similar. So, I took macros of the three bottles for an closer look. What do I think now??

Photos: (OPI 'Last Friday Night', WetNWild Mega Last 'Up In The Air' & Pure Ice 'Sparkling Seas')

OPI 'Last Friday Night' has much more bigger flakes of hex glitters but in a more pink-er & sparkly-er shade, while WetNWild 'Up In The Air' has smaller hex glitters while both bottles also contained a great amount of mixture size glitters. Pure Ice 'Sparkling Seas' has a blue-r crelly base as I had applied 2 coats but with the same amount of smaller + mixture of hex glitters just like WetNWild has. 
The three bottles are pretty obvious to the eyes as to when you look at the bottles until I used my macro lens to take a closer look of it to get a closer view of the polishes. For the sampling of each polish on my nails, they turned out pretty similar in comparison for OPI & WetNWild. Only difference is that for the WetNWild, I had to apply three coats to get the same opaque coat for OPI. Nonetheless, I think they're pretty close, I think!

Other than for the Pure Ice, I already knew that it would be very different in comparison to the first two. I thought it would be nice to just compare it bc of the similar glitters. I know that there is another polish that is also a dupe for 'Last Friday Night' but made by Sinful Colors Professional called 'Hottie' but I do not own that one. But I will have to agree with @pleasedtopleaseyou that that one is also a great dupe to compare with OPI!!

Let me know what you think of these!! I had fun playing with them. I must say.... I found another couple that are dupes for each other too! That one will come shortly after! Eek! I'm excited to share that one with you guys too!!! 😊😜

Thanks for reading guys!
Mai

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Sunday, April 20, 2014

》Swatch & Review: Aurora Lacquer


I was so excited to win Aurora Lacquer's giveaway on the month of my birthday! I feel I got lucky bc it was the week of my birthday and I used my mom's birth year to guess s number out of 2000. Now, here is my swatch and review for her 5 polishes that she generously gave me!
》Aurora Lacquer is a hand made, 5 free indie polish! 《


Mai Swatch & Review:

First swatch is called 'Shimmering Orchids', 2 coats with top coat. It dries in a soft texture bc of the multi colored micro glitters. Honestly, I thought this one could've been a bit more thinner so it would be easier to apply. I found it hard to put back the brush in the bottle bc it would get gooey. The pro about this one was that the drying time was wonderful by first and second coat! Removing the lacquer on my nails was the best I had ever taken off! I loved it! The glitters never separated though the base could be thinner for an easier apply and during the removal of the polish, there was no need to scrape off my nails, which I personally loved about this one!

Secondly, here is 'Daffodil Sorbet' one of my favorite cream lacquers!! 2 coats plus top coat! Drying time took no more than five minutes! I absolutely adore this soft, creamy yellow polish so much bc it only needed two coats to get a good coverage! Application was creamy, dreamy and silky smooth! I absolutely loved this one! MY FAVORITE!!

Third swatch is called 'My Fair Lily' is a creamy, off white/pinkish color and in this swatch, I used 2 coats plus top coat. Application was a dream to apply as well as for drying time was wonderful! Absolutely another one of favorites from the five!

Fourth swatch is called 'The Dusty Fairy' 2 coats for a good coverage plus top coat. This one was absolutely stunning! It has a ton of shine and holo glitters galore jam packed in this bottle. Application was a bit on the thicker side, though the drying time on this one was amazingly fast!

Last but not least, 'Poppy Parade' a pink & purple glitter in multiple sizes that add a nice shimmery finish was done in two coats over a deep purple polish that doesn't have a name by The Face Shop. I didn't need to fish out the glitters nor for the flower glitters. Was an easy application and drying time as well was great!

Though these two (Shimmering Orchids & The Dusty Fairy) had a thick base, they were very pretty. I favorite the cream polishes (Daffodil Sorbet & My Fair Lily) bc can I say it again? OMG, they applied so dreamy and the colors were so subtle and creamy! I love them SO much! ♥♡♥ The moment I saw these two, I just knew I would love these!
Thank you for this opportunity to win your giveaway and to swatch and review on your indie polishes @auroralacquers! I enjoyed it!!

♥Mai♥

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

▶ My AURORA LACQUER GIVEAWAY Prizes!!

My prizes from @auroralacquers #Spring4Aurora giveaway that I had won on the week of my birthday last week! These are amazingly beautiful and I can't wait to swatch these beauties! ♥

from left to right, 'Shimmering Orchids', 'Dandelion Sorbet' (The Floral Chic Collection), 'My Fair Lily' (The Floral Chic Collection), 'The Dusty Fairy', & 'Poppy Parade' (The Floral Chic Collection).

♡Mai

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