opi top coat VS seche vite

Its official that Seche Vite is the most popular

freakin top coat out there at the moment.

Either you own it or want to own it. 

If you are into nail art that is...

But what about OPI ? 

The Start to Finish was my favorite for the longest time.

We dont have Seche Vite here but we do have OPI.

But, as soon as I bought some in NYC , I 

quickly abandoned my old OPI.

Why ?

Well, Seche Vite is a thinner formula - it dries the

polish thoroughly.It seals in the polish giving it a

glossy protected covering.

It does not dry polish as fast as people exaggerate

on youtube but it surely does set the polish 

amazingly well. 

Now, OPI top coats do not take that long to dry itself.

Much better than those cheap drug store ones.

Those take FOREVER to dry. I hate most of them ! 

But, OPI's do not really aid in the setting of the polish.

Mind you - Im talking about polishes other than OPI.

If you are using OPI Nail Polish and then a

OPI Top Coat there will be no problem

as OPI Nail Polish dries relatively fast anyway.

OPI Start to Finish is thicker than the Seche & actually

kind of 'reconstitutes' the polish in a way

(for lack of a better word) 

what the heck is the opposite of 'set'  ?   >.< 

Basically if your polish is dry to the touch and you

place OPI top coat over it it will become kind of wet again. 

If you touch something you may get smudges. 

But - this is also a plus. 

If you are doing nail art with rhinestones usually

you paint your nails, put on a top coat and then place

the stones on the wet tacky top coat.

But, seche vite is so thin and sets the polish so well 

that you dont have the time to carefully place your stones

one by one. It dries up - does not get tacky and doesnt allow

you to push the stone right down into the polish 

like you can when using an OPI top coat.

Side Note: 

I lovvve Sally Hansen Diamond Strength for a base coat

But I havent used a drug store top coat for years. 

Thats why Im comparing these 2 pricier 

ones if you were

wondering. 

I hope you get what I mean...haha.

Basically both are good for different reasons.

Overall I prefer Seche Vite but its crap for

applying rhinestones.

So, in the end I still need my OPI ! 

: ) 

Section 2

Hearty Heaven
















Lace of Beauty







































(this set of simple nails is really very simple and ultimate neat designs with suits all occasion or any dress u wear *have done this set of nails for more than 5 times during CNY)
*popular Pointed Glamour














Metallic Glam














Cherry Flower














Turquoise Bliss














Goldi'love














Cutesy Love














Moulin Rouge














Reddish beauty

Funky London Nails

NEW BLOGS ON THE BLOCK

A DAY IN THE LIFE . . .

KEERTHAMINA PRETTY BALLERINA

THE NAIL POLISH M.D.

CONFESSIONS OF A POLISHOLIC

SAWAN

THE LACQUERISTA

PLAYING CATCH UP - NOT A FUN GAME!!

I'm still doing a little catching up here at work. I hope to be able to start back posting tomorrow - I will do a NBOTB post this week - so if I promised your blog a mention for yesterday - I will get it done this week!

Hope to get back with you all real soon :)

Nails of the Week: Gold Fade

I absolutely love this color by Etude House

Its in the color of BR003 in the Dear Darling 

Collection. Its so cute and delicately glittery.

There are lots of other brands that look similar

though.

Using your gold shimmery polish

paint the tip of your nail. 

Get a sponge and place a line of polish on it.

If you dont have a nail art sponge simply mix

your polish with a bit of basecoat and apply.

We are just trying to create a more sheer layer

of gold.

In stippling motions apply sponge up to

1/2 the nail. 

Seche Vite brings out and captures the shine

of glitter polishes beautifully. I highly recommend

this as your top coat. 

& we're done : ) 

Simple and Sparkly !

Section 1

Sorry for be late to post up this wonderful nails.

Some part of nail pics during CNY!

Marine Wonders

Ribbons Seekers

Droplet Bliss

Gold Classico *very special gold flakes used to enhance the background as well as the shininess

Pink Glimmer

White Diamonds

Classic Checkered

Nail Questions ? Ask Away !

So, many people have been sending me inbox messages

to my youtube.  I answer all of them but I was thinking

sometimes other people might have the same questions. 

I used to have really horrible nails / cuticles and if you have

any questions I can offer some tips that helped me.

On Form Spring others can see the questions / answers

and it may also help them.  So feel free to ask me .. well..

anything : )  Give requests there if you wish as well. 

http://www.formspring.me/kawaiinails

ST PATTY'S DAY MANI

HAPPY ST PATTY'S DAY!! Here is my mani I did. I'm hoping this will last through a couple days of our trip. I almost didn't do a St Patrick's themed mani, I was kind of at a loss of what I should do. I just didn't want to do what every one else has done.

As I sat down and looked at my nail stuff this just kind of came to me and I loved it!! I used New York Summer - Hot Green for the base and used two different colored green glitters. I placed the glitters one by one - which sounds more time consuming that it really was. It only took me about 20 or so minutes to place the glitters. My nails are super sparkly in person and no matter how many times I took pics of it I just couldn't capture it at all.

APPLE OF MY EYE - NOTD

Doesn't this look so boring compared to the Poolside collection I just posted....

I used Loreal - Apple of my Eye, a bright - almost orange red jelly polish. I used a base coat of a flesh colored polish and used 2 coats of Apple of my Eye. The stickers I believe are from Color Club but I am not positive.

NAIL POLISH CELL PHONE CHARMS

How cute is this??? Fellow nail polish blogger Viki (A DAY IN THE LIFE OF DOLLFACE) made this for me at my request - and it couldn't have turned out any cuter!


Everything came so neatly and cutely packaged!




I can't WAIT to whip out my phone - nail polish bottles just a swanggin'!! Viki has opened up her own Etsy shop to sell these - so head on over and take a look. Thanks Viki - I LOVE IT!!

ps - Kae - do the stickers look familiar?? eheheheheh