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.

Caronia: Pink Passion

I now stand corrected when I said Caronia had only ONE funky color, because here's another one!

It's a one-coater people! The color actually reminds me of Shimmer Pink without the shimmer.

I decided to play around with it and brought out good old YL702 for a bit of bling.

Now it's frosted AND sparkly. XD

The Face Shop: PK103

Pink isn't my favorite color, but for some reason I'm drawn to pink nail polish.

Here we have a bubblegummy, pearly pink with very slight shimmers:

This is a three coater.

I thought of painting it with little black dots and modded French tips, but then it didn't seem like such a good idea anymore after I finished my pinky.

Heh, it seemed like a good idea at the time.

The Face Shop: Pure Green

I used to wear this turquoise blue-green a lot two years ago. Like yesterday's Hot Pink, it's also very similar to an Elianto polish I previously posted about.

The years have not been kind to this polish. Application was terribly lumpy, which is sad because Fluorescent Orange and Hot Pink weren't.

Still, it looked pretty okay in the end. Hard to put on, though.

In the current line, the closest color to this would be GR502, although that one is shimmery.

Part II of Vintage Face Shop will be posted the week after next. I think I need to grow my nails out a bit more for those colors!

The Face Shop: Hot Pink

Like Elianto, The Face Shop also has a Hot Pink. (Or should that be the other way around, since The Face Shop is much older? XD)

Unlike Elianto's blue-toned creme version, however, theirs is a warm-toned jelly:

Like Fluorescent Orange (and most other TFS polishes), this one reaches "Pretty!" in 3 coats.

In their current line, I suppose this polish's equivalent would be PK106.

The Face Shop: Fluorescent Orange

Welcome to the first half of the Nail Polish Ninja's third polish series! Vintage Face Shop will feature discontinued polishes from The Face Shop's line. These TFS veterans actually have names unlike their newer counterparts!

You know how they say warm colors increase your appetite? Well, this pretty orange jelly makes me want to eat my nails.

Yum. Shiny (and totally edible looking) in three coats.

OR203 is this polish's closest approximate in the current line.

Sneak Peek: Vintage Face Shop I

This two-part series focuses on my very first Face Shop polishes, which I bought at their pioneer branch at Bonifacio High Street way back in 2006.

Their old packaging is very similar to Elianto's, isn't it?