Caronia: Touch of Ivory

What is with Caronia and "Touch of ____" names? Weird.

Third in the Workplace Wearable series, Touch of Ivory is the love child of Apricot Beige and an off-white polish who does not wish to be named.

Like its stepfather who refuses to acknowledge its existence, it starts off thick and streaky but smoothens out on the third coat.

Why am I channeling soap opera plots? Maybe I'm OD-ing on nail polish fumes? XD

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Thanks for this award, Olivia!

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Caronia: Apricot Beige

Apricots are rarely sold in the Philippines, but from what I know, they're more orange-y than beige. Google Image Search says so too (unless my monitor is colorblind :P).

The second Workplace Wearable isn't orangey, but it's a pretty skintone creme with orange-yellow undertones.

Application is veeeeery smooth on this one, as if you were spreading three coats of butter on your nails - caramel-colored butter, that is.

Apricot Beige and Touch of Beige look very similar in the bottle, but as you can see below, AB is much darker than ToB.

Caronia: Touch of Beige

Welcome to Nail Polish Ninja's second polish series! Workplace Wearables will feature... workplace wearables! These are all neutral colors perfect for the working environment, and they're all local polishes too.

To start off, we have Touch of Beige from Caronia, a lovely skintone creme that reminds me of concealer, foundation, and trips to the dermatologist. (Here we go again with my strange analogies! XD)

The polish goes on slightly thickly. It also goes on streakily on the first layer, but smoothens out on the third.

Sneak Peek: Workplace Wearables

Elianto: Dark Purple

This really is a DARK purple!

It's so dark that in just one coat, it looks almost black!

The "purpleness" only shows up in super bright lighting, like so:

but even then I still think it's too dark!

So to fix that, I covered Dark Purple with a layer of Nail Fantasy in No. 40:

I got this sheer warm purple during a family trip to Macau in 2006. At that time, it retailed for 7.00 patacas, which was around PHP45.00. This applies very smoothly, and the only complaint I have is its really strong smell.

There we go, all fixed:

No. 40 made it exactly the kind of dark purple I wanted!

Much, much better. Mmm, eggplant-y. :)

This was also the polish I was wearing in one of my older posts on Stockpiled!

The Face Shop Nail Pleasure: YL702

The Face Shop has recently released a new nail polish line called Nail Pleasure. Polishes in this line retail for almost double the price of their regular polishes (P185.00 = around $4.00) and come in different bottles:

I suppose the price increase comes from the new packaging. Personally, I like the regular bottles better. They're much sleeker looking.

YL702 is a yellow glittery polish that can probably turn opaque after several coats, but for this swatching, I chose to layer it over a really old Covergirl polish I've had since high school:

It's a frosted red called Cabernet. For a 6 year-old polish, it still applies really well.

I was trying to do something like this stock photo I found on deviantART,

but it didn't turn out quite the way I expected. I do like the amount of glitter YL702 has in just one coat, though.

Maybe I'll try this experiment again some other time.