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You don't know Jaques matte

CCee — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:21:41 -0800

Hi everyone,

I just found out that these matte nailpolishes don't stay matte all that long, at least not around the edges. The colour I'm wearing here is by OPI called You Don't Know Jacques Matte. This is a matte version of the You Don't Know Jacques from the French Collection. There is also a Suede version of this polish which is very cute.

On these pictures I'm wearing 2 coats of You Don't Know Jacques Matte and a white feauxnad apple (with a white Konad polish).

Using a flash:

Using a lamp:

We'll Always Have Paris (Suede)

CCee — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:51:52 -0800

Hi everyone,

I recently imported the OPI Matte and the OPI Suede Collections and I had to try this We'll Always Have Paris colour immediately. These collections both contain famous OPI colours only now in matte and suede finishes. The Suede finish has a silver matte foil like texture in the formulation which makes it look very pretty and not as flat as the mattes.

We'll Always have Paris is originally from La Collection de France (fall/winter 2008) even though the colour is NOTHING like the original. It's not a dark burgendy colour, it's more of a soft rose purple pinkish colour with a matte silver foil shimmer in it.

I made a glossy "French Tip" (with Nail Tek - Foundation II (intensive therapy) ) to make you see how it looks if you do wear this polish with a topcoat (that kills the Suede finish, but leaves an extremely pretty glossy polish).

Using a flash:

Lamp light:

Shade: (this picture shows the Suede finish best)

Sunlight:

Bermuda Breakaway with 2NITE

CCee — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 05:44:38 -0700

Hi everyone,

This is a manicure I had on about a week ago, I did take a picture but never had time to upload it. So here it is now.

It's three coats of China Glaze - Bernuda Breakaway and for the Konad top I used China Glaze 2NITE which is a light blue holographic polish.
I did use 2 coats of NailTek Foundation under it to prevent it from staining like the Calypso Blue did, but it didn't help. When I took off the nailpolish my nails were (and are) stained yellow :( (not a pretty look).
The manicure did get a lot of compliments though....

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Flash:

I'm still here

CCee — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:06:59 -0700

Hi everyone,

I've been extremely busy at my internship, many collegues have been ill so I've actually been taking over peoples hours for 4 weeks now, which is why I haven't been here at all. Today is Sunday, coming week hopefully will be more rest and sleep for me.

Here's a quick review on the Illamasqua products I ordered recently. The loose pigment is SUPER. I'll try and do a look with it later today and post it. The pencil however was a huge disappointment. It's a pretty hard pencil and the payoff is a lot less then I expected. Also it's not easy to smudge or blend so I wouldn't get more of those, my favourite pencils are and remain today the Urban Decay 24/7 pencils. The brushes I got however are SUPER, I have no other way to describe them. I'll show them to you when I do the look (if I have time). They're the best brushes I have so that's saying a lot!

I've found an AMAZING Halloween Tutorial on YouTube and I can't embed it but I will give you the link to it (part 1 and part 2). I wouldn't use ordinairy glue on my skin though, so get kids glue or use surgical adhesive or actual face glue.

I had these nails a while back, the polishes an Essence green and a GOSH glittery blue which I layerd (like I did with the Thills in Beverly Hills nails)
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Sun:
They're not super awesome, but I wanted some pictures to go with this post. ;)

I hope you're all okay!

Big :hug:

The looks I originally blogged about in August 2009

CCee — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:43:23 -0700

Click on the picture to go to the original blog explaining the look. Use Ctrl + click to open the link in a new tab or Shift + click to open the link in a new window.

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