Showing posts with label Hits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hits. Show all posts

28 August 2013

Purple Professional Sapphire with a skittle. Or sort of...

Hi, hi!
How's everyone doing? ^^ I've been doing fine, a bit busy, trying to get in the routine of going to work everyday, doing house chores, and still try to find time to play and do my nails. All this without compromising my sleep time too much, which I end up doing anyway... -.-' Of course, the blog gets a bit left behind, but I'm still trying to post here and there. The worst part of all of this, is that I have a ton of things to review, and I also want to wear what I keep buying, so...HELP!!? xD

On other news, monday, I bought my first helmer, finally!! It's red and all pretty. *-* Can you tell how excited I am about this? :p I used to store all my nail polish in the drawers of my bedside table, but it got so full that I was having a hard time organizing my stash. It took me about 2-3h getting it together and moving all my nail polish into it. I reckon it wasn't so bad, was it?

But let's move onto the nails!
I got this Purple Professional for review the other day, and it looked okay on the bottle, I wasn't too excited about it, until I put it on my nails, and then I was amazed. It is gorgeous, I tell you! Photos don't do it justice, and I tried my best to make it look as good on the pics as what I saw on my nails, but I just couldn't...You'll have to take my word for it. Anyway, here are the photos:

Olá, olá!
Como estão todas? ^^ Eu tenho andado bem, um bocadinho ocupada a tentar entrar na rotina de ter de ir trabalhar todos os dias, fazer as coisas normais de uma casa, e ainda arranjar tempo para jogar e pintar as unhas. Isto tudo sem comprometer muito as minhas horas de sono, o que acabo por fazer na mesma...-.-' Claro que quem acaba por sofrer com isto é o blog, mas ainda estou a tentar postar aqui e ali. A pior parte disto tudo, é que tenho uma catrefada de coisas para revisão e, claro, que também quero usar as coisinhas que continuo a comprar, por isso...SOCORRO!!? xD

Outra novidade, é que na segunda, finalmente comprei o meu primeiro helmer!! É vermelhinho e todo bonito! *-* Acho que conseguem perceber o quão excitada eu estou com isto, não? :P Tinha os meus vernizes todos guardados nas gavetas de uma mesa de cabeceira, mas já estava a ficar tão cheia que eu andava com sérias dificuldades em organizá-los todos lá. Levei umas 2-3h a montar o helmer e a mudar a colecção de vernizes toda. Acho que não foi assim tão mau, pois não?

Mas seguindo para o que interessa, as unhas!
Eu recebi este Purple Professional para revisão, no outro dia, e pareceu-me bonitinho no frasco, mas nada assim de muito excitante, isto é, até pô-lo nas unhas, porque quando o fiz, fiquei deveras maravilhada. Ele é lindíssimo! As fotos não lhe fazem qualquer justiça, e acreditem que eu tentei o meu melhor para captá-lo convenientemente, mas não consegui...Vão ter de acreditar na minha palavra. De qualquer maneira, aqui ficam as fotos:










I used 3 coats of Sapphire on my middle and ring finger, 2 coats of Hits Apollo on my index and thumb, and 3 coats of Jade Psicodélica on my pinky. These are all very holographic polishes, but the sun decided to be bitchy and hid behind some clouds for the days I was wearing this manicure.

As you can see from the photos, Sapphire is a glitter nail polish with a clear base, and it's composed by 2 different types of glitter, holographic silver microglitter and blue hexagonal glitter. You can get it to full coverage with 3 coats, but you can layer it if you choose to, in one coat, over any colour of your choice. This was really easy to apply. The glitter spreads nicely on the nail, it won't flood your cuticules and it is, relatively, easy to clean up (for a glitter polish). It dries a bit matte and gritty, but with the sand, sugar and texture trend going around, you can just leave it like that if you like it, or you can apply top coat to make it look shiny, like I did. I needed 2 coats of it to make it look smooth and shiny.

Purple Professional is sold in lots of different stores throughout the country, if you want to know more about it, or check if you have a seller near you, just visit their Facebook page.

Have a great day! 

Usei 3 camadas do Sapphire no meu anelar e médio, 2 camadas do Hits Apollo no indicador e polegar e 3 camadas do Jade Psicodélica no mindinho. Estes vernizes são todos bastante holográficos, mas o sol decidiu que havia de ser mauzinho, e escondeu-se atrás das nuvens durante o tempo que usei esta manicure.

Como podem ver pelas fotos, o Sapphire é um verniz de glitter, com base transparente e composto por 2 tipos de glitter diferentes, microglitter holográfico em prateado e glitter hexagonal azul. Podem atingir uma cobertura total com 3 camadas, ou se preferirem, podem usá-lo, em 1 camada, por cima de qualquer outra cor. Foi muito fácil de aplicar. O glitter espalha-se bem pela unha, não vai para as cuticulas se aplicado com cuidado, e é, relativamente, fácil de limpar (para um glitter). Ele seca um bocado matte e rugoso, mas com a moda dos sands, sugars e texturados por aí, podem deixá-lo assim se gostarem, ou então podem aplicar 2 camadas de top coat, como eu fiz, para deixá-lo lisinho e brilhante.

A Purple Professional é vendida em várias lojas, por todo o país, se quiserem saber mais sobre a marca, ou encontrar um revendedor perto de si, visitem a página de Facebook da marca.


Tenham um óptimo dia!


(Product provided for review) 


12 January 2013

Saturday Spam

Hi!
I'm still here! I've been a very bad blogger lately, so thanks to all of you who stuck with me.

Today I won't be showing you one polish or some nail art I did, I'm going t be showing you lots! One of the reasons I don't post as much is that I've become overwhelmed with the amount of old swatches and manicures I've done, that never saw the light of day this in the blog, I find it hard to not post the new stuff I do, but then I end up not posting at all because I know that I have lots of old photos that still need some editing and posting...So, today, I finally decided that I should just post them all (or almost all, saved some reviews and manis I thought deserved more than just one photo).

Here they are:

Olá!
Ainda ando por aqui! Tenho sido uma péssima blogger ultimamente, por isso agradeço a todas as que continuam deste lado a ler-me.

Hoje não vos vou mostrar apenas um verniz ou nail art, mas sim vários! Uma das razões por que não tenho postado ultimamente, é precisamente por ter muita coisa atrasada e por isso fico sem saber para onde me virar. Fica dificil postar as manicures mais recentes sabendo que tenho tantas fotos por editar e que nunca viram a luz do dia neste blog...Assim, hoje decidi postar tudo (salvo algumas reviews e manicures que achei merecerem mais de uma foto) de uma vez só.


Aqui estão elas:


2 coats of Ozotic 532 over black (lightbox)

2 coats of Ozotic 532 over black (shade)

2 coats of Revlon Royal Cloak 

2 coats of Claire's no number 

3 coats of H&M Take Me Tangerine

3 coats Flormar 444 (notice how the colour looks 
completely different from the bottle)

2 coats of Hits Powerful

4 coats of Up Colors Cromoterapia
(didn't layer it over black)

2 coats of Yes Love K034 stamped with Kiko 399
(DRK-B plate)

1 coat of Cliché Madona over black
The red glitter is from Marylins 117 nail polish

2 coats of Essence Hazelnut Cream Pie,
stamped with Kiss nail art striper in black (DRK-B plate)

New Year's Eve/my birthday mani
2 coat's of Claire's matte black
1 coat of Essence Julia on the middle finger
Kiss nail art striper in white
Risqué Arábia on the cupcake base
Stamped with Essence Stampy Silver and plates DRK-B and CK-04

Ok, now I'm more up to date and I think I can manage the blogging better from now on. :P

Let me know what's your favourite look/nail polish on me. ^^

Ok, agora isto já fica mais actualizado e fica mais fácil para mim escolher o que postar a seguir. :P

Digam-me qual o vosso "look" preferido em mim! ^^



17 November 2012

My best stamping yet! (and possibly photos too :P)

Hi everyone!

I got a new camera!! How exciting is that? :P Well, maybe not for everyone, but to me it definitely is! The one I was using belongs to my brother and he wants it back by Christmas, so my boyfriend told me he would get me a new one for Christmas. But, I guess xmas came earlier to me, because we found the camera I wanted for sale and a lot cheaper than everywhere else and he bought it for me!! Isn't he sweet? :3

I wasn't going to post this mani now, as I have a TON of late posts to do, but I really had to share these new photos with you guys, so sorry if you'll see different kind of photos after this post.

Now onto the manicure!

For this, I used 2 coats of Andreia #19 and then stamped it with Hits Cutie Pie and Konad m57.






I am loving the duochrome stamp over the black, it looks so cool and I keep waving my hands around to see all the pretty colours. *-*


What do you think of it? And how about the new photos? Improvement or not so much?



02 October 2012

No buy...yeah, right!

I was supposed to spend the summer on a "no buy", I thought it would be easy since I was going to my parents house and there are ALMOST no places where I could buy nail polishes around here...but I failed!

I figured this would be my last buy before restricting myself on buying polishes, until october...

Ozotic 532 and Hits Air Glow

A couple of weeks after, I went with a friend to a huge chinese store, as she wanted to buy some cheap stuff for her new house, and what I found there left me stunned...rows and rows filled with all kinds of nail polish that I could never get a hold of in my city! She was buying some for herself and I just couldn't leave empty handed, could I? So I bought 3 magnetic nail polishes for 1,50€ each and 3 glitters for 1€ each.

Love Me 203, 201, 401

Marylins 117, 119, 121


A couple of days later, Kiko releases a new LE collection...HOLOS!! So I asked Ana, from O Meu Maior Vicio to get me the gold/taupe one and the blue/green/whatever one. I sold the blue/green/whatever one as soon as I got it, because it was just like Up Colors Verde 360º (that I had on my nails the day I got the Kiko's package), but kept the other one and fell in love with it. Around the same time, I went with my boyfriend to another chinese store, here near my parent's house and bought a gold nail polish for stamping, and several nail art polishes for stamping too (all for 1€ each).

Kiko 399, Marylins 109

Marylins 23, 17, 14, 20, 18

I shared some of my buys with Cristina, from The Clockwise Nail Polish, and she asked me if I could get her the black glitter like mine, and so I did...And the chinese store had lots of new polishes and I don't even know how I didn't buy more! xD My boyfriend was with me and I kept repeating "Please get me out of here before I buy everyone of these!". He didn't pay much attention to my pleas and I ended up leaving with 4 new polishes for myself and 1 for Cristina... -.-' (again, 1€ each]
Yes Love L006 (already reviewed here), K032, K034, K011

And finally...I was searching for Revlon Royal Cloak for a while now, but whenever I found it online, shipping was always too expensive for my liking, so when I saw that Claudia, from Holographic Hussy, had 1 up for sale, I grabbed it, MINE! It just got here today...Oh, and on my last trip to the chinese store, I picked up another goodie from a portuguese brand...

Revlon Royal Cloak and Cliché Siamês

I think I might have a problem...but then again, it's not like I have too much nail polish, I only have 179 in my stash, that's not too much, right? RIGHT?? So why should I restrict myself from buying what I like and makes me happy? I don't get it...

Well, enough with the "no buy" thing, it clearly doesn't work for me... 




08 August 2012

31 Days Challenge #8 - Metallic

I don't own many metallic polishes, but I do own quite a few duochrome nail polishes and they look metallic to me, so that's what you'll get today! xD

Here's 1 coat of Hits Dreamer, from the Marimoon collection, over 1 coat of black, I couldn't do anything on top of it, some nail polishes are just awesome and don't need any nail art to make them look better.







There's really not much to say about it, I love duochromes and this one is really perfect, but I still layer it over black because I don't want to waste it all in a couple of manicures, the bottle only has 6ml...:S


25 July 2012

My nail polish is Grumpy with all the flakies


Hello everyone! I'm back with another manicure to show you, this time I'll show you a nail polish from the coveted Snow White collection by Essence. I only wanted 3 from the entire collection and I was able to order mine online on the spanish site http://www.maquillalia.com/. Today, I'll show you Grumpy.

Grumpy is the most beautiful royal blue, seriously, it's just so pretty! On top of that, its formula is truly amazing. You can get a perfect coverage with just one coat (I still used two), it was really easy to clean up and it didn't stain my nails or skin when I removed it, which is something hard to find in this kind of blue.

I felt like doing some layering and so, I applied Hits Valsa on top of it.

My photos are kind of crappy this time, I like to take them at sunset or before 4pm, between 4pm and 7pm it is hard for me to take the photos and not have weird shadows, but these were taken at 5pm that day, as I had to go out and I was only coming back at night...oh well, this is the best I could do.






Did all of you get your favourite dwarves, or are you still searching for it? If you still don't have yours try the website I linked above, I know they ship worldwide!

17 July 2012

Disco ball anyone?

It finally feels like summer here, a little bit too much in my opinion. Last week it was cloudy and windy all the time and we even had some rain, but things took a turn during the weekend and now we have a full force sun with temperatures over 30C! Even the wind is hot as hell! I'm not a fan of this heat, I feel better with temperatures between 22-27C. All this to say that this was the perfect time to take another holographic polish out of the drawer, and it was Hits Antena moment to shine.

Like I've said so many times before, I'm not a fan of pink, but occasionally a pink nail polish wons me over. It was the case with Atena. It has a beautiful colour, the formula was pretty good and I had a perfect coverage with 2 coats. I may be weird, but I really like Hits brushes. xD

On my ring finger I placed some holographic silver glitter that I bought at some local chinese store. Once again, these were placed one by one and it took me about 45min to get the full nail. It reminds me of a disco ball and it sparkles so much! It gets everyone's attention and it's kind of blinding under the sun.

Here's the end result, I'm a bit sad that I couldn't get more of the holography on my photos, but I always struggle with this.







I think it's time to file down my nails again, after they reach a certain lenght I start disliking what I see on my photos...What do you think, do I look better with shorter nails or you prefer them like this?