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Saturday, September 11, 2010
paloma ; 4:31 PM

So, I went to collect my babies yesterday from Estella and here are some pictures!! I'm so excited to use them and I can't wait for my presentation to be over so I can paint my nails! All pictures were taken in natural sunlight!



L: OPI You Don't Know Jacques, R: OPI Ski Teal we Drop

You Don't Know Jacques appeared more greyish online but when I tried it on, it was more brown and it reminded me of chocolate! Ski Teal We Drop is a dark blue-teal and I would regard it was OPI's Suzy Says Feng Shui's darker sister! Both were a dream to apply and turned opaque in 2 coats!



China Glaze Four Leaf Clover
This is honestly not an accurate depiction of the colour AT ALL. In fact, all the swatches I've seen online doesn't do it justice. I'd say ALU's swatch was probably the most accurate ironically because most of her other swatches normally do not agree with all the other swatches from other blogs! I'd describe it as a kelly green, really bright yet it isn't neon! It's really a St Patty's Day kind of green. Something like the colour of a leprechaun! It isn't my cup of tea because I expected it to be a little more teal but I hope it'll grow on me!



OPI Jade Is The New Black

This was all the rage from the Hong Kong collection. Everyone was raving about it so I had to get me some of that Jade action! Sadly, I don't LOVE it. I think it's okay. It looks more of a moss green to me though. It does photograph really nicely but in real life it's much deeper. This is one of those colours I'll have to slowly grow into! That being said, I wouldn't write it off or anything! This was 2 coats!



China Glaze For Audrey


This is the prettiest blue polish I've EVER seen. It's as close to Tiffany's robin egg blue as they could make it (because Tiffany holds some special patent/copyright to their signature colour)! The moment I took it out of the box, I fell in love with it. If this bottle was a guy, I'd make it my husband. I kept staring at my finger all day because it's so beyond pretty! Application was good, this was 2 coats!



Essie Turquoise and Caicos


Very similar to For Audrey but this has a slightly green tinge to it! It's my second favourite colour of this haul! It's from Essie's Resort Collection and I do think it reminds me of some tropical clear waters! It's very dreamy and intense! Application for this one was a bit disappointing though because Lapis of Luxury (a very dreamy cornflower blue polish from the same collection) was such a dream to apply! This one took 4 coats to be nice, opaque and not so streaky! But the colour is totally worth it!



The other 2 polishes I got were Poshe's top and base coat! The base coat applies really smoothly but the top coat for me was not so good! I reckon there's a method of applying it properly (much like Seche Vite has its own method). I tried the SV method of draging a bead of top coat down, not a good idea at all. It became really think and jelly like and I panicked cuz it streaked. I think maybe the trick is to do a thin layer!

I hope I've satisfied your curiosity as to what colours I got from this haul! I don't think I'll be hauling any time soon because I'm going to be broke at the rate I'm going! I do expect another haul maybe next month? That said, I already ordered 2 Orly colours quite a while back but they'll only reach me in 5 weeks thereabout. So you can definitely expect more swatches when they arrive!



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