Avon Gel Finish Clover Nail Polish Swatches & Review

Avon Gel Finish Clover Nail Polish Swatch Stamped with MdU High Green polish and XYZ26 stamping plate

So many new shades from Avon’s Gel Finish line.  This is Clover and the fourth of the new shades hitting the next Avon catalogue.   If you missed them, see my swatches of Terracotta, Rose Noir and Head In Clouds.  Still to come after today’s beautiful light green is Violuxe.   I did not expect it to be a […]

Avon Gel Finish Terracotta Nail Polish Swatches & Review

Avon Gel Finish Terracotta Nail Polish Stamped with Mdu Black and XY-Z01 stamping plate swatch

The third of the shades from Avon’s Gel Finish shade releases for July-August 2017 is Terracotta.  If you missed them, see my swatches of Rose Noir and Head In Clouds.  Still to come is Violuxe and Clover.  Terracotta is well named and the colour matches the name.  Like the others I have tried so far, […]

Avon Gel Finish Head In Clouds Swatches & Review

Avon Gel Finish Head In Clouds Nail Polish Swatch in Sunlight stamped with XYZ26 and BP Grey

The second of the new shades in the Avon Gel Finish release later this month is a beautiful medium grey, Head in Clouds.  Not too light or dark, grey doesn’t scream summer for me but this just works.  For a paler colour, the polish is surprisingly opaque.  Not quite a one coater but fully opaque […]

Avon Gel Finish Rose Noir Nail Polish Swatches & Review

Avon Gel Finish Rose Noir Nail Polish Swatch stamped with XYZ26 plate - Natural Sunlight

Avon’s Gel Finish line rarely disappoints me.  They are high shine, opaque polishes and come in a great variety of colours.  The Gel Finish formula is three free and includes a strengthener for long lasting vivid colour with a gel like shine – no curing lamp needed.  They are adding five new shades to the lineup […]

Moyra Sounds of Your World 108 Stamping Plate Swatches

Moyra Sounds of Your World 108 Stamping Plate Swatches - Full Plate Swatches - Beautometry

While at the press preview for Indie Expo Canada, the Beautometry team representing Hit The Bottle gave us a free Moyra stamping plate.  I got Moyra Sounds of Your World 108.  One of the mini series stamping plates with a bunch of full nail sized images along with two flower images.  It has a very […]

Just $15 In “Recommended” AliExpress Products: Real vs Advertised

AliExpress Real vs Advertised

So I saw this in various youtube videos so decided to give myself a $10-ish USD budget and see what the recommended products on AliExpress had to offer.  It knows me pretty well for cheap nail stamping plates so a few days before I went through and clicked on various things I would buy to […]

Colors by Llarowe Oh Canada & Hit The Bottle Holo There Beautiful Canada Day Mani

Colors by LLarowe Oh Canada - Stamped with Hit The Bottle Holo There Beautiful - Canada Day Nails - IECl

Another polish from Indie Expo Canada! The lovely Leah Ann gifted me a bottle of Colors by Llarowe Oh Canada.  This was their VIP shade but she had a few bottles left over and I am so glad I got one.  I usually stay away from reds but this gorgeous bottle of bright red holo […]

Hit The Bottle Hololulu Blue Stamping Polish Swatches & Review

Hit The Bottle Hololulu Blue over CbL Can We Have Trudeau BP-L050 Watermarble Stamping Holo Stamping - Full Swatch

As soon as I saw Hololulu Blue sparkling under the lights, I knew it had to be mine.  The Hit The Bottle/Beautometry table at Indie Expo Canada was high on my list to check out.  I knew I wanted some of the Holo The Rainbow polishes from Hit The Bottle as good holo stamping polishes […]

Born Pretty Store BP-L062 Stamping Plate Swatches and Review

Born Pretty BP-L062 Swatches - Swatches of all Stamping Images on Born Pretty BPL062 stamping plate

You may remember that I loved the comic book themed stamping plate from MoYou London that I reviewed a while back so I was excited when I saw that Born Pretty also had one in a recent large/rectangle plate release. The Born Pretty Store BP-L062 nail stamping plate is usually on sale for around $3US […]