Designer Thusday: Prabal Gurung Inspired Manicure

I absolutely love purple theme and prints of Prabal Gurung Sprint 2012 collection. I was inspired by the color contrast as well as the textures.

For Prabal Gurung inspired Manicure I used:
- Revlon Matte Powder Puff;
- Illamasqua Baptiste.

Kleancolor Week - Day 3. Chunky Holo Poppy

This is the third day of the Kleancolor week and I decided to have something different from my usual purples, blues and greens. Here we go…..Chunky Holo Poppy. This one has a jelly coral base with red glitter that also shines yellow in the sunlight.

As a base I applied 2 coats of Illamasqua Alarm as a base and it worked amazingly well with this holo top coat creating the effect of  poppy fieldsJ

French manicure with Illamasqua Toxic Nature - Purity and Bacterium

When the Illamasqua Toxic Nature collection was released, I checked Sephora, but they didn’t seem to carry anything…neither nail polishes nor makeup.  Ordering directly from Illamasqua site is quite expensive, even for my overspending habitsJ

Whoo hoo..Last week I received e-mail from Sephora about new products and Illamasqua was one of them. They have all the Toxic collection in stock now, including full nail polish line….so I instantly bought Purity and Bacterium. Although Radium (acid green-lime) is also a nice shade, I can’t wear it to work, so I decided not to buy it.

Today’s French mani is with Purity as the base color and Bacterium tips.

Purity is a pale peach cream, gorgeous color. The application is a pain though….this collection has much longer brushes and it’s hard to neatly apply nail polish, so I messed up cuticles. Other than that, formula seems to be the same as in all  Illamasqua polishes. It dries slowly, but durability is good (4- days on average without chipping).

Net French Manicure

For Net French manicure I used Butter London "Macbeth" and Illamasqua Baptist. I tried to experiment with this Konad  design couple of time till now, but it never worked out like I wanted.

I'm still looking for the best polishes to use with Konad, I would appreciate any advice:)