Jasmine - Disney Princess Nail Art Challenge - Day 1

Hey guys! I'm really excited about today's post! Bec from LacquerDreams created a Disney Princess Nail Art Challenge and when I saw it, I was like HECK YEAH. I'm a big Disney fan :D Most of my friends definitely know this about me! My mum even gave me a Tinkerbell card for my 20th birthday this year. ;)

(Jasmine PSD Source)
Let me just say - I hate the Urban Outfitters bottles. They are SO awkward for photos...
So today's theme is Jasmine, from Aladdin! I have to admit I don't remember being a big fan of Aladdin when I was little. I actually don't remember watching it more than once...

As soon as I saw that today's theme was Jasmine, I remembered I had seen this mani by Yvonne / Lafemmelulu on Instagram, a few months ago and it TOTALLY reminds me of Jasmine! So I decided to do something similar to this :)

For this nail art I used Urban Outfitters Sea Dust and China Glaze Passion, with a coat of Essence Sweet As Candy as my base. I started off using striping tape to try and get cleaner lines but gave up because I couldn't be bothered waiting for the layers to dry, honestly. :P

I hope you're looking forward to the rest of this challenge - I sure am! :D It also makes me want to re-watch all of these Disney movies! I might need to for inspiration for some of them! Hehe.

Also - don't forget to follow me on BlogLovin' if you haven't already! Check out yesterday's post on Google Reader getting the boot and other ways you can follow me. :)
Hope you're having a fantastic weekend! ♥

Please check out the other awesome ladies participating in this challenge ♥

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Urban Outfitters - Sea Dust

Hey there!

Today I'll be showing you a polish I wore at the start of last week. :) This one was sent to me by the lovely Felice! Thank you again Felice!

This is one of the polishes I've wanted most recently and I'm very happy to add it to my collection! Felice sent me a few Urban Outfitters polishes and so far I'm loving them!

This polish, Sea Dust, is not an EXACT dupe, but is pretty close to Deborah Lippmann's Mermaid's Dream! :) I'd say it'd be close enough to squash that lemming for a lot of people. This polish isn't typically my "style" and when I first put it on at night, I wasn't crazily in love with it but the next morning when I saw it outside in the sun, I loved it! So gorgeous! I don't know if I love this enough to splurge on the Deborah Lippmann version though.
Sea Dust is a foil-y metallic green base with lots of small blue glitters throughout it. I don't typically like to wear metallics (or foils really) - the ones I own I only use for stamping or nail art. I don't think I'll ever wear a metallic on its own/without something over the top of it like glitter! ;)
This polish was a little gloopy but not hard to work with. It was patchy on the first coat but a thick second coat made it perfect. :)

Removal for this was sadly, not pretty. I used the foil method with non-acetone remover but I will definitely be using acetone next time because this was really difficult to remove.

Hope you're having a great day/night. :)
Do you own any Urban Outfitters or Deborah Lippmann polishes? If so, which ones do you own? (Or maybe, which are your favourites, if you own too many to name. ;))

Elissa

Urban Outfitters - Lollipop

Hey hey! :)

I have a NOTD to show you that I wore a week or so ago. I 'm a little behind on showing NOTDs  so I'm gonna show you them while I have super nubbins while they grow out a little. ;)

This is another Urban Outfitters polish I got from Felice in our swap! :) Thank you again Felice!
This is Lollipop! A pink jelly base with LOADS of glitter. It's mostly primary coloured glitter (red, blue and gold/yellow) and some green too. I wish it had some pink mixed in there too!
A lot of people thought this may be a dupe for Deborah Lippmann's Candy Shop, but it's definitely not. The glitter in Lollipop is MUCH more dense than in Candy Shop and Candy Shop also has more colours of glitter in the mix.

These Urban Outfitters polishes are really awkward to hold in photos! Haha.

I enjoyed wearing this polish BUT the removal was not so fun. I used the foil method with pure acetone and it was still hard to remove! :/

This polish was pretty thick but not as thick as I'd expected from reading other people's reviews. I used two coats.

This is a nice polish but not something I see myself wearing all the time just because of how hard it was to remove! Being so glittery, it also chipped pretty quickly and I only wore it for about 24 hours!

There is a polish by Claire's in the US that I believe is a better dupe if you're looking for something close to Deborah Lippmann Candy Shop. And I think it's about the same price as UO polishes! So if you want a dupe for Candy Shop, I'd suggest looking at Claire's. Or if you're not from the US, try eBay. :)

Oh, you probably have also noticed that I changed my blog layout! I think this one will be only temporary. I'm working on creating my own layout from scratch! :) It may take me a while though so look out for that!

Elissa