Well, mini order for me, but not so mini for my mum who then went “Oh my, how much did you spend on them?!”… Er, about $60-$70… But but but, buying it from here would’ve been worse!
But it made me happy seeing them together 
Absolutely awesome colour! I loved the colour on the website and I loved it in the bottle… time to put it to the test!
With the bottle came a label that says that with the suede range, (a) it won’t last as long as the normal range of polishes, and (b) not to put top coat, drying products, hand lotion, and (c) to do an all suede.
I don’t know why but I decided to put base coat on (since it’s not technically a top coat…) and then painted my left hand (I’m right handed)… Turned out to be the hardest thing I’ve ever painted on my nails!!! First stroke (middle of the finger) comes out perfectly, next one practically scraped off the first stroke, and so on… it was practically too slippery… But I finished the left hand with two coats. Looks lovely, but I got it all over my fingers (eek!).
Time for the right hand, the one I dread doing… it turned out tremendously monstrously horrid that I had to remove everything (with great difficulty trying not to touch the left fingernails!).
Deciding against a base coat and painted… Much easier but still tough!!! I only had to remove my pinky nail with this. So definitely no base coat!
The left hand (with base coat) looks a tad shinier than the right… but not paying so much attention to it, they look pretty much the same! And because of the texture of my finished nails (a little bit rough – I’m scared it will rub onto my clothes, etc), I’m really tempted to put top coat on to smooth it out a bit… but because it said not to, I’ll probably hold out this time and test it next time to see what’s different.
So yeah, difficult, otherwise lovely!!! <3
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Not wanting to have to pay $20 a bottle of OPI, I resorted to eBay and placed an order for 2 bottles of OPI polishes and the OPI Nail Polish Lacquer Thinner (I asked some SA for some thinner and they said they haven’t heard of them before…). And because I couldn’t find any Seche Vite fast drying top coat, I ordered that too.
Couple days ago, we got a call from the Australian Post informing us that we had a package that smelt very strong and there were leakages. Knowingly, we told them what it was. How disappointing!
Yesterday, we received the package and it was wrapped with a plastic bag. To my relief, the 3 bottles of nail polishes were fine… It was the thinner that leaked in the post through the bag/envelope and all! That was weird because I initially thought the thinner would be the only thing what hadn’t leaked because of the plastic bottle! But I was pleased as it was the least important to me at this stage!
The I checked out why it leaked. The poster actually wrapped it nicely, so it wasn’t their fault. What I think is the bottle itself induced this leakage. So sigh of relief that I’ll be able to keep buying polishes overseas… but don’t think I’ll buy the thinner! Plus, even thought half of it leaked (full bottle is 60 ml), I reckon it’s plenty of the stuff cos I only need a few drops at a time, and won’t be needing it any time soon!
So big smiles there after expecting the worst! Now to try the colours on me… =]
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