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Nail Polish From Japan – Beauty World Dot Artist Set

Hi! Today I have another nail polish from Japan to show you 🙂

This is a Dot Artist set From Beauty World It has three 5ml polishes A bright pink cream, a pale pink almost nude shade and a black cream. The set also contains a small and large dotting tool.

Beauty World - Dot Artist Set

Beauty World – Dot Artist Set

How cute is that packaging! 😀 Because I don’t think I’ll be able to get another one of these sets I decided on a Skittle mani rather than swatching each of the polishes.

Beauty World - Dot Artist Set

Beauty World – Dot Artist Set

The black polish is very nice! it is opaque in one coat, it applied really easily and dotted over both the pink shades really well!

I found that the pale pink is nowhere near as well pigmented, it took four coats to be opaque, it looks nice over the bright pink but it didn’t do so well over the black, it looks grey and washed out which is a shame.

The bright pink is opaque in two coats and dotted really well over both of the other colours.

I found that these polishes have a quite a strong chemical smell but they dried really quickly! I think this is a really fun little set 🙂

I was originally going to post this on the 14th but I have just not had the time :/ and when I have had a little time I’ve been far to tired to do anything.

I have been really busy sorting out my allotment! I am so glad that we have finally got the paperwork! My lovely OH took some time off from work and has spent the last two weeks weeding and digging, (in between playing computer games) I have been weeding, starting seeds, and planting stuff, mostly flowers and early crops so far, The down side of it is my flat is filled with soil and seed trays… So much mess! Ugh! And my hands are really dry… It seems that no amount of hand cream/cuticle balm is helping :/ I have had two horrid nail breaks on my right hand (index and middle fingers) but luckily my left hand nails are still happy!

I like to make sure I have had a couple of evenings during the week where I can sit down, paint my nails and write my posts, over the past couple of weeks there’s been “stuff” happening on there days one of these was my upstairs neighbor (top floor) accidentally dropped a brick from their balcony. They where using it as a door stop, it made a lot of noise and a fair amount of damage on my patio when it landed!  Damaged palm tree, broken pots and a broken bracket on my fence oO I’m so glad that I wasn’t outside at the time!

The other thing that happened was much nicer! We had a little kitty visitor for the night! very cute black and dark brown stripy cat with bright yellow eyes, He was a lost house cat who was crying outside our front door! The poor little guy was very scared of the outside world so we decided to let him in until we found his family. Gave him some food, water and a box and he seemed to be quite happy! My OH managed to find out where the cat lives and left a message (the cat hadn’t come from to far away) His owner came to collect him really early in the morning! In the afternoon the cats owner came back with a bottle of wine and thanked us again for finding and looking after the kitty.  🙂


Nail Polish From Japan – Canmake Colorful Nails, Denim!

Hi, Today I have another one of my lovely Japanese nail polishes to show you! This polish is from Canmake Colorful Nails, it’s shade 57 Denim!

Here is the English language version of the Canmake website.

Can Make Colorful Nails Denim

Can Make Colorful Nails Denim

It’s a lovely dark blue with silver micro glitter and silver shimmer, Denim has a satin finish which is really pretty!

Can Make Colorful Nails Denim Bottle

Can Make Colorful Nails Denim Bottle

The bottle is so cute! I did find the brush was a little shorter than I’m used to but it didn’t effect the application at all.

The formula for this polish is amazing! it’s definitely wearable with one coat, I applied two because I have drunk way to much coffee and the first coat didn’t turn out to well lol!

Can Make Colorful Nails Denim Bottle

Can Make Colorful Nails Denim Bottle

This polish is so pretty! I would love to find something like it easily available in the UK!


Swirly Clouds! With Moyou Suki 08

I decided that the Ducato polish from my last post would make a nice base colour for some stamping, and I finally get to use one of my new Moyou plates! 😀

I used plate 08 from the Suki collection.

Moyou Suki 08 over Ducato Polish

Suki Collection 08

I’m so glad that the cloud pattern on the plate is big enough for my whole nail, even my thumb! I find that on a lot of the large image/picture plates most of the individual patterns are just too small.

For stamping the clouds I used Lumin-Iceant from Color Club. The range of foil polishes from Color Club are amazing for stamping! 😀

The butterflies (I think they look more like bows) are also from the same Suki plate, I used Konad special polish in Black. it was a bit fiddly to clean the stamp up quickly enough before applying them to my nails.

Moyou Suki 08 over Ducato Polish

Moyou Suki 08 over Ducato Polish

I really like the grey/silver combination even tho my camera decided to show more of the blue tones in this polish.

I think that if i redo this mani I’ll use a couple of larger butterflies rather than lots of small ones!

Moyou Suki 08 over Ducato Polish

Moyou Suki 08 over Ducato Polish


Ducato 04 – Nail Polish From Japan

Today I have another lovely Japanese nail polish to show you 🙂

Ducato Nail Polish 04

Ducato Nail Polish 04

I have no idea what the shade is called other than Color 04!

It is a pretty pale grey cream with a slight purple tint. the bottle holds 10ml.

Ducato Nail Polish 04

Ducato Nail Polish 04

The brush is flat and quite a bit wider than the brushes in the other Japanese polishes I have tried so far.

I found that the formula was a little bit on the thin side, but it has a nice amount of pigment and it flowed very nicely from the brush so the application was very smooth.

This is three coats with no top coat, it dried really quickly and it’s very glossy!

Ducato Nail Polish 04

Ducato Nail Polish 04

I really like the colour of this polish! I think that the purple tint makes the grey seem so much warmer!


Canmake – Nail Polish From Japan!

Here is the fourth bottle of my Japanese nail polish stash that my wonderful friend brought back for me! :D

Canmake Nail Color Pink Glitter

Canmake Nail Color Pink Glitter

How adorable is the little bottle!?! It holds 8ml of polish, this is shade number 34 and it’s called Pink Jelly!

Here is the English language version of the Canmake website.

Canmake Japanese Nail Polish Pink Glitter

Canmake Japanese Nail Polish Pink Glitter with flash

The formula for this polish is really nice, it has a huge amount of glitter that flowed from the brush really nicely. The glitter is a mixture of silver micro and circular silver holographic.

I applied two coats over base coat. The drying time was a bit longer than I would have liked, it was still a bit squishy after 15 minutes and the finish was a little bit grainy when it was dry, but a good fastdry topcoat would fix that!

with Flash

with Flash

The base colour looks so much darker with the flash… Luckily we had about 5 minutes of actual sunlight today!

Canmake Colorful Nails

Canmake Colorful Nails

This polish is definitely much prettier in ‘real’ light lol!

Canmake Colorful Nails

Canmake Pink Jelly In sunlight

This is a really cute polish! I really love the glitter combination with the pink base colour 😀


Real Nail Color – Nail polish from Japan!

This is the Third bottle of my Japanese nail polish stash that my wonderful friend brought back for me! 😀

This polish brand is called Real Color Nail and it’s an amazingly glossy pinky red creme!

Real Nail Color

Real Nail Color

This is two coats over base coat, I think that this has to be one of the most shiny polishes I have used! You can even see the reflections of the buildings opposite oO

Real Nail Color Bottle

Real Nail Color Bottle

My camera decided that it was going to show more of the blue tones in this polish. It is quite a bit darker in real life!

The application of this polish was wonderful! The standard round brush has very fine and quite long bristles which is perfect for the formula. But I did find the the drying time was a little on the slow side.

The bottle holds 9ml and seems huge compared to the other tiny Japanese Nail Polish bottles!

Real Nail Color Bottle

Real Nail Color Bottle

I really like this polish, I think it;s going to make a wonderful base colour for all sorts of nail art! 😀