• Nail Care & Manicure

    6 Halloween-themed Manicure Ideas

    Halloween is really near, can you feel its devilish presence? If you like this celebration and you dress everything up, let me show you my selection of 6 Halloween themed manicures.  Halloween manicures can be creepy, bloodcurdling or simply funny with all those orange stuff and pumpkins here and there. These 6 nail arts aren’t too difficult nor too extreme, let’s go! Easy level: ghosts! Over a white base, topped with a glow in the dark polish if desired as the one shown in the picture, the China Glaze Ghoulish Glow, paint two dots with a dotting tool and a mouth. These details shouldn’t be really precise. Tiny eyes in the dark: over…

  • Nail Care & Manicure,  Tested by me (reviews & swatches)

    essence the Gel Nail Polish #17 Juicy Love – review & swatches

    #17 Juicy Love: is there a better name for this “the gel nail polish” from essence? Read on and tell me if you won’t deeply fall in love with this shade… Juicy Love is one of essence’s gel effect nail lacquer, contained in tiny 8 ml bottle. The cap has a colour similar to that of the nail polish, while the brush is flat, wide enough and with a rounded tip. Its formula is dense but not too thick, and it can reach an optimal opacity with just one coat. However I still prefer 2 thin coats over 1 fuller. I used it without a base coat and without a…