China Glaze - Sea Spray with accent scotch tape and CND effect

Wow, very unooriginal title. Yay me. It's still a bit early for me, I guess. You know, I study by night, sleep until not very decent hours ... guys, you can probably tell, my time for blogging is getting more limited than I thought. If I all of the sudden don't write anymore, don't think I've stopped blogging, I just got so busy with my exams, I cut the blog completely, as it does take time. I'm thinking Ivana*, our pink lady, did the right thing about it, taking a break for studies, I feel I should do the same. And maybe I'll just have to. I love blogging, but I have to pass my exams too. :S Anyway! Just to let you know. :)

Today I have the already famous and seen a gazillion times China Glaze - Sea Spray. I feel like Ahoy! has stolen his moment of fame, but still it's a gorgeous colour. My Anchors Away order got very streched due to the always sold out Crackle Glaze, but at least I'm showing them now, when all the hype is over. ;)

The first step, and how very wrong I was to hope any of the Anchors Away will be dupes for my beloveth Depend 170. :)

Later on I put CND Effect Sapphire Sparkle on, one coat.

I'm doing all this in old Blogger, so if there are any unexpected changes, it's due to that. I'm really starting to hate blogger, you know. Picasa is so effing weird, it's supposed to make another album when the older is full, but mine has like 40 pictures in it and it still won't post pictures, and of course nobody in blogger department is doing a damn thing about it, as far as I can see from all the other bloggers, trying to solve it and being pissed off about it. Google really sucks with this ignorance of problems. It's taking even more time from me for blogging when I can least afford it. Stupid program.

Anyway, as you can see, I played with Sea Spray a bit. The tip wear is getting bigger by the picture, since I did wear it alone for a day or two. Then I put the accent finger on, scotch tape try, with Depend 170 and Catrice London's Weather Forecast and then I put CND Sapphire Sparke effect on, although I think it looks better over darker shades.

Two coats of Sea Spray, it doesn't need TC, as it dries really fast, one coat of everything else. I loved this mani, although I think London's Weather Forecast and Depend have too little contrast, you see the difference only if you really look at it. I'm still on the hunt for a dupe of Depend 170 as it's an illegally small bottle of this gorgeous discontinued polish, so if you have any suggestions, let me know! I went through Tevta's helmer with no luck. The closest one was MAC Blue India and that doesn't help me one effing bit, being even more HTF and expensive as hell. :) Besides, Blue India is a tad bit more blue. I have another one in mind, but I'll wait until I get it and compare it.

Ok, now let's hope blogger at least publishes this correctly. Hope you guys liked the mani!

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Depend blue crackle (5002) over Brucci&CND

Hey people. How are you doing? I'm sorry, darlings, but my study schedule doesn't allow me to post every day anymore, as you probably noticed. It will be more like three times a week, probably, unless I'll find time, and if I don't, then even less. Right now I am concentrating on my studies, trying to pass as many exames as I can and blogging does take some time, if you do it every day, especially if you then read half of nail blogsphere with it. ;) So bear with me for this couple of monts, it's going to be a hard period of time for me. But anyway! It doesn't mean I've stopped polishing my nails, hah! I have tons of stuff to show you already, because it's a really nice break for me to do my mani and, you know, just to take my mind of books, it's very relaxing for me, that's why sometimes happens that I change my mani more often in study time. Go figure.

Today I have for you the blue Depend crackle. I put it over Gianna's Rocking Blue with CND Emerald Shimmer, and I think it's one of the best combinations I could do with this one. I loved it, wore it for a couple of days too. Depend really nailed it with this shade of crackle, it's fantastic. As you'll see, even if the instructions say add TC, I haven't, I loved the matte over shimmery base. Well, it's not 100% matte, as it has the sparkle in it. Sparkly blue! I added TC later on on one finger, and the sparkles really come alive then. But I liked this look too, so I let it be.

I think Depend crackles the best out of all the crackles out there. The cracks are big and the patterns awesome. I love it, absolutely fantastic crackle, and this colour is my by far favourite of the crackle colours. I've mostly gotten over the whole crackle phase, to tell you the truth, I don't even feel like getting the mint Crackle Glaze anymore. I mean, I wouldn't mind having it, but even if I don't, no biggie. But this combination, now that's beyond awesome. I also love the red crackle done by Depend, I just dont' have time to do the combination I had in mind to show you. I will, eventually. :) 

But yes, like I said, I loved this one. Even my mother liked it, and she doesn't like 85% of polish I wear, and this really isn't something she'd usually like (she hated Gianna's Rockin' Blue alone too ;)). 

Loved the combination. What about you? Still love the crackling or are you already cooling off? :)

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Brucci - Gianna's Rockin' Blue (with CND Emerald Shimmer)

A quick one on this beautiful day, I'm having a quick coffee with my friends and then I'm back to the books. Blah. This Brucci is not the one I'm most excited about, but even with a green brother next to it, this blue called to me from the box. The moment I put it on I knew it's going to be my perfect blue for warmer, sunnier days. Mind you, this one is one of those blues that are impossible to photograph. You'll see on my picture taken outside, how it turns just blue, the green is gone. The pictures in the lightbox show colour more accurately, yet bear in mind that IRL this baby is far far more vivid. Not neon, but so bright it's just under neon. I hate neon colours so I wouldn't wear them, but this is as bright as blue gets without being neon, I'd say. Oh, another two with CND effects Emerald Shimmer. Tevta brought me hers so I'd play with them a bit, and I loved this combination. 

This one is the one I was talking about. See how the green is gone from the polish? Not colour accurate!

Appearantly Brucci has some kind of collections, but since it's an American drugstore brand,  I have no effing idea how it works. :) Either way, I love the colour. And I love the CND effect! I think they make a wonderful combination.

Gianna is a two coater, very nice application. I was curious about their brush, since I've never tried Brucci before and I was nicely suprised. It gave me no trouble. So a very nice first impression of the brand and I've started with the blue one, not the greens. ;) This one was a part of my swap with Kris from My Lucid Bubble and also in the surprise part of the swap. Very nice one, Kris, I love it! :)

I put SV on top, because it dried rather slow, or too slow for me anyway. But other than that this one is a keeper! 

CND Emerald Shimmer - only one coat, it dries fast, so no TC added. And it's beautiful, don't you think?

Do you own any Brucci? It's a low-price brand in USA, what do you think about it, it's comparable to our Essence and such or is it better/worse? Do you like Gianna's Rockin' Blue? :)

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