All my Skin Food polishes

Merry Christmas!

These are all my polishes from Skin Food.

17 in all!

Skin Food Nail Vita BL511 (Secret Blue)

I found this polish's name through Jellynat's super helpful blog. It's a great resource for the names of Skin Food polishes!

I don't get why this shimmery bright blue is called Secret Blue, though.

This two-coater certainly isn't as blue as the deodorant...

although it is quite close to another Skin Food polish.

L: Secret Blue; R: Blue Sapphire

Secret Blue is shimmery, Blue Sapphire is solid creme

Elianto Bisque + Rainbow Stripes

After wearing this psychedelic number all throughout last week (to a good amount of graciously-received compliments, might I add ;D)...

This has got to be the best picture I've ever taken in NPN history so far. I think the lighting is just perfect!

...for this week, I decided to take things down a little with this creamy neutral!

Whoops, forgot to watermark before turning the pic right-side-up!

Neutral colors have usually been difficult to apply in my experience. Not so with two-coater Bisque!

Please excuse the drying skin at the sides of my nails. X_X The weather is getting colder and drier by tropical standards here, and being a sun-loving Southeast Asian unused to lower temperatures, I probably need to hydrate and/or moisturize more!

The formula glides veeeery smoothly - almost like a Skin Food polish - and dries to a highly professional-looking, glossy shine.

Skin Food Milk Creamy Prism Nail: Black Prism

Yes, Skin Food has holos! They come in bottles similar to the Milk Creamy line, except with metallic silver caps.

The polish looks quite similar to OPI My Private Jet, although MPJ seems to have bigger particles.

Black Prism appears asphalt gray under fluorescent light,

but under sunlight is where it really shines!

Skin Food Juice Tox #7

I've been singing praises to Skin Food's polishes ever since I started posting about them. Until NOW, that is.

Do NOT, I repeat, DO NOT ever buy anything from their Juice Tox line.

#7 looks adorable enough in the bottle,

and sets in with a silky smooth satiny finish that looks more purple under bright light,

BUT IT NEVER COMPLETELY DRIES.

I first tested the infernal polish two weeks ago, Sunday morning. Take note, MORNING. I went about my day, then settled off to sleep. (At night, obviously. :P) I didn't have to go out in public anyway, so I didn't clean up the mani in the shower. The next day, I awake to this mess:

bed sheet marks EVERYWHERE. Ugh.

Yesterday I tried salvaging what I could from this difficult product. Top coats didn't work on it either, so I painted it over a layer of last week's similarly-colored French Kiss. Doing that seems to have fixed the not-drying problem. Here's what it looks like today:

Eh, I guess that's alright. I won't be buying any more Juice Toxes in the future, though.

Skin Food Nail Vita BL509 (Hami Melon Milk)

Thank you to Nathalie for tracking down this polish's name! Hami melons are a type of melon indigenous to China.

Three-coater BL509 looks like it could be Essie Mint Candy Apple's frosted cousin!

However, it does have more yellow in it than the Essie polish. Check out gildedangel's swatch to see the difference.

Skin Food Pedicure Vita: Mai Tai

This one-coater is named after the red version of the cocktail drink. I think it captures the color nicely.

I don't think it photographs very well on me, though. It's a cute fruity red in person but it looks absolutely lurid in these shots. :|

Skin Food Pedicure Vita: French Kiss

I fail to see why this blurple is called French Kiss, but it's a pretty color anyway.

One-coater!

Skin Food Pedicure Vita: Midori Shower

Yes, this Skin Food polish has a name! (I finally found a website listing most of SF's polish names! It does a much better job than the official site LOL)

Midori is Japanese for green, so I guess that would make this polish a "green shower"? Take note that Skin Food is a Korean brand and not a Japanese one, however.

As with most polishes from this brand, Midori Shower applies veeery smoothly in two coats - not at all like the lumpy disaster that was Elianto Lemon Green.

The polish also has some shimmers in it, but they're hardly noticeable. Can you see them below?

Calm before the Storm

There isn't anything really stormy about this manicure, but it was the last thing I did at home before getting stranded at school last Saturday thanks to typhoon Ondoy (aka Ketsana).

The school event I went to had red, blue, yellow, white and black as the color scheme, so I painted my nails to match.

I topped the polish off with TFS BK902, then added some tiny stars I got from the local Japanese dollar store.

(Don't worry, I cleaned up the messy spots before I went to school. XD)

I'm safely home now, but there are many others who are still stuck in the flood waters. I'll try to post swatches for this week if I can, but as of now, scheduled posting for Nail Polish Ninja is indefinitely suspended.

Color Theory in Flowers

The Color Wheel was the main inspiration for today's experiment. I used blue and violet as the base colors then added flower stickers in orange and yellow, their respective color complements.

The blue polish is an unnamed, unnumbered Skin Food polish that I nicknamed Electric Blue, while the purple polish is Nail Fantasy No. 40.

While I was doing this, I noticed that most of my nail stickers were flower-themed. I need to get more variety!

Turquoise Melon

I'm a little late today because I've run out of scheduled posts.

(LOL forget I said that, I totally forgot it was just Thursday today!)

But really, I have run out of buffer posts. Blame schoolwork for the past few days. I'm happily free now, though. Usually, I swatch polishes every weekend, then schedule them to autopost during the week (mostly Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays if you've noticed). Because I was busy, however, I wasn't able to make new swatches and take pictures. So today, I'm posting a fresh manicure, one that I just did a couple hours ago:

(Yes, the dot on my ring finger is deliberately done.)

I call it Turquoise Melon because of the polishes I used for it:

That's Elianto Turquoise to the left, and Skin Food Melon Milk to the right. I also used TFS' French Tip liners to make the color divisions.

The Nail Polish Ninja will be on hiatus next week so I can swatch more polishes for the future, including the second half of the Vintage Face Shop series.

The Primaries

Red, yellow, blue: the building blocks of all other colors.

Without them, there would be nothing - only black.

Polishes used were:

(FROM LEFT) Orly Spark, Orly Haute Red, Skin Food Pedicure Vita, Wet n Wild Black Creme

Skin Food Pedicure Sparkle: #09 Sparkle Red

This polish is more sparkly PINK than it is sparkly red, actually, BUT...

so far, it's the blingiest, sparkliest polish I've ever had the pleasure of owning! Look at that SHINE! And it's a one-coater too. (Besides, I think I'd go blind if I put on another coat!)

I can even see my blurred reflection on these when I wiggle my fingers around! (Sadly, I couldn't capture that on camera properly, so you'll have to take my word for it. Dun worreh, ninjas never lie! XD)

BLING BLING BABY!

Skin Food's Pedicure Sparkle line retails for PHP375.00, which is close to USD8.00.

Skin Food Milk Creamy Nail: OR004

Meet the fourth member of the Pastel Rainbow: OR004, also known as Corn Soup Milk. Pretty strange name for nail polish, huh? I think something like Banana Milk would've been better, but that's just me. :P

You guessed it - this is a corn-colored pastel yellow. Honestly, it reminds me of bananas, not corn. And yes, it's also a three-coater like its brother and sister.

Skin Food Milk Creamy Nail: BL002

I like this polish's other alias: Melon Milk. Sounds delicious, doesn't it?

This green - third in the Pastel Rainbow- reminds me of the LGMs from Toy Story. Oooooh...

As with Ice, 3 coats were needed for bottle color.

In other Asian polish news, I recently emailed Etude House regarding the opening of branches in my country. They replied that they were already planning for a Manila store later this year. Hopefully they set up shop very soon! <3

Skin Food Milk Creamy Nail: BL001

Today we have the second polish in the Pastel Rainbow series: a very pale blue called Ice from Skin Food. (Yes, it actually has an official name!) It comes from the brand's Milk Creamy Nail line, which offers pastel shades and comes in very adorable packaging:

Isn't the bottle cute? :D Of course, with a different formula and container, polish from the Milk Creamy Nail line is more expensive than the regular Nail/Pedicure Vita lines. One bottle costs PHP325.00, which is about $7.00.

Polishes from this line also take longer to apply than their plain-bottled cousins. It took me three coats to reach bottle color.

Sneak Peek: Pastel Rainbow

A preview of the polishes to come:

Skin Food Nail Vita: BR611

Here we have another one-coat wonder, this time in chocolate brown:

I used two coats for this swatch, though, because I wanted to make the brown look richer. Mmm, chocolate...

Skin Food Nail Vita: OR308

Hello yellow!

This yellow is slightly more on the orange side than it is on the green, unlike the Pinacolada I swatched in the past. Two coats gets it to bottle color, although application is rather goopy. Bleh. I need to buy polish thinner for this.