Hovering Holo Leopard Print Nails ft FUN Lacquer & Sally Hansen

I've always loved the way leopard print nail designs look on top of a glitter top coat and I finally gave it a try.

I got out my fun Lacquer Winter Wonderland and thoroughly coated my nails over Sally Hansen's Celeb City to provide a glitter base for the black acrylic paint leopard design using a simple dotting tool. 

For the accent nails I switched out the colours and used Zoya Lola & Winter Wonderland for the spots and on the ring finger and Sally Hansen Black Out with the silver acrylic paint for the details there.

Enjoy!

Video Tutorial


Video Demo

Products Used

Base coat

OPI Nail Envy Base Coat

Essie Grow Stronger Base Coat

First layer

Sally Hansen Xtreme Nails Celeb City (2 coats)

Glitter layer

F.U.N Lacquer Winter Wonderland

Leopard Details

Black Acrylic paint

Accent nail (ring finger)

Zoya Lola (2 coats)

F.U.N Lacquer Winter Wonderland for dots

Accent nail (thumb)

Sally Hansen Xtreme Nails Black Out (2 coats)

Silver Acrylic paint

Tools

Dotting Tool

Top coat

Seche Vite dry fast top coat

F.U.N Lacquer Haul & Review

Here's my haul and collection from the independent company F.U.N Lacquer and I also review the polishes too. I split the video into 2 parts so it wouldn't be too long, and there's a giveaway at the end of the second video so make sure you check out both.

I got some items from the 2013 Christmas & Princess Collections as well as the latest 2014 Love Collection which has some lovely thermal colour changing polishes. I demo the polishes so you can see what they look like on the nail included some macro footage for all the cool details in these lovely nail polishes from F.U.N Lacquer.

The videos of Part 1 and Part 2 are on YouTube or you can view them below and check out the more in-depth written review under them in this post.

The giveaway will close on April 2nd and I will announce the winner shortly after.

Disclaimer: This is not a paid advertisement and I bought all the items with my own money and I am not affiliated with F.U.N Lacquer in any way.

Enjoy!

Video Review

Part 1


Part 2



Giveaway Rules

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Giveaway Polishes
Mulan
Tiana
Cinderella
Icy Snow (thermal polish)


The giveaway will close on April 2nd and I will announce the winner shortly after.

List of F.U.N Lacquer polishes I've bought so far...

2013 Christmas Collection
Gold Mark
Winter Wonderland
Icy Snow (thermal polish)

Princess Collection
Aurora
Belle

2014 Love Collection
Secret Admirer (thermal polish)
Purfect for Me (thermal polish)

Diamond Duo Set
Glow Diamond Top Coat
Diamond Holo Top Coat

Review

I heard about F.U.N Lacquer on YouTube from the Crafty Ninja and then found the account on Instagram run by the created Yuin Ying, who is a lovely lady and very attentive when it comes to questions via Instagram. The swatches on Instagram is what made me actually purchase these polishes. The Crafty Ninja's photos and the ones on the F.U.N Lacquer IG page definitely helped make my decision when it cames to nail polish purchases. I always like to see swatches, so I can get a better idea of what the polish looks like and their IG page definitely shows a lot of people's good swatches and videos.

I have bought from F.U.N Lacquer 3 times so far and will do so again because the colours are so unique, especially when it comes to the thermal polishes. The Parcels are packages with love and care and I have never received a damaged or spilled bottle. The sweet bows are a nice touch too. The shipping time is quick and some of the packages have even been shipped the same day I ordered them, so that's the great thing about a small personal indie company.

The Christmas glitter polishes are beautiful colours and have plenty of glitter in the clear base, which is great. I hate when a glitter polish is too sparse and can't be worn alone easily. I do have to "fish" for some of the larger glitter pieces a bit, but that is to be expected and it is much easier to get the bigger pieces on your nail than with most other glitter polishes, so that's very satisfying. And these glitter polishes can be worn alone with just a few coats or careful dabbing of the glitter on the nail.

I love Winter Wonderland and Gold Mark especially and I bought quite a few of the princess collection greens and blues for a giveaway and they are lovely colours too.

I will say that I wish the holographic polishes had more holographic effect in them. Aurora is a very pretty colour but I would like it more with a stronger holographic effect. It is great that there are the holographic top coats so that can help in that respect.

I am a HUGE fan of glow in the dark polishes and a collection of colourful glow in the dark polishes would be amazing. The glow diamond top coat is a nice start but I'd love to see F.U.N Lacquer go further with that effect.

I would also love to see more bright coloured glitter polishes like Winter Wonderland and Gold Mark. I would be very excited about a red holographic chunky glitter polish, a pink one and a purple one! Yep, I love bright colours!

I like how there are sets for the polishes. The whole collection is a bit much to commit to but the recent addition of the duo set of diamond polishes was a great idea. Thanks Instagram I grabbed that set when it was going out of stock, and it's been replenished now. I recommend following their Instagram page for updates and swatches so you can see what's coming out and what looks good.

My previous negative criticism I have of F.U.N Lacquer store was the shipping price in the situation of buying just one polish. With several polishes I am fine with the shipping cost and it's very fair, however if I just want to buy one or two polishes I am discouraged by the shipping being a large percentage of the price of the polishes. And I voiced this concern to the Yuin Ying, the owner, when she asked for feedback and after that she reduced the shipping charge and the only thing that discouraged me from ordering a couple of polishes was removed!

I have nothing but great things to say about the customer service through Instagram and email. Any little question I have asked has been answered in a timely fashion and curiously, plus if I had any special requirements to do with packaging items like separate containers, gift wrapping or combining shipping it has been attended to quickly and thoroughly.

There are new formulas being created from the old 3-Free formula to a new 5-Free formula so you get less nasty chemicals and even improvements to thin out the formula have occurred recently. You will be able to find the polishes listed clearly with "old formula" and new formula when the change has been finished.

I find the prices of each polish quite fair and I love that they offer the option of mini polishes and the low prices mean that I can try out more different polishes and I must say that this definitely makes me order more at the F.U.N lacquer online store.

So basically the bright colours, beautiful glitter polishes, interesting effects and fair prices are what makes me love F.U.N lacquer and I'd love to see strong glow in the dark polishes and stronger holographic polishes and I will be purchasing more items in the future.

Winter's First Snow Nail Tutorial ft F.U.N Lacquer

I've got a special manicure to show you that may look simple and it is easy to create but has a intriguing twist that is pretty darn fascinating.

For the main shimmery blue colour I used a thermal polish form F.U.N Lacquer called Icy Snow that changes from light blue to bright medium blue. It's quite gorgeous either way and is fun to play with the changing shades. And you get a neat surprise depending on the room temperature and a varying manicure all throughout the day!

The glitter action comes from Winter Wonderland which is an amazing silver holographic glitter. I like to use it over a silver base coat so you can get a full on glitter party but not have to go too thick with the glitter polish if it doesn't cover every nanometer of your nail.

You can find F.U.N aka Fabulously Unique Nail Lacquer polishes on storenvy here and also there are many swatches and behind the scenes shots on Instagram.

Check out the tutorial video below or on YouTube where you can find more makeup, fashion and nail adventures with Michty Maxx!

Enjoy!

Video Tutorial

This is Icy Snow warm! The violet duo chrome is so lovely and comes through when the polish is under warm conditions mainly around the edges of the nail. It adds an adorable sweetness to the paler colour.

And this is Icy Snow cold and the almost royal blue is quite fetching. I'm not normally a blue person, but I really fancy this shade.

I have some awesome macro pictures and footage of Winter Wonderland showing the large hex pieces and smaller square and tiny hex pieces bits in there. You can apply it in a thin layer and get a demure spattering of glitter, or dab it on to get a solid coverage of glorious sparkle!

Products Used

Base coat

OPI Nail Envy Nail Strengthener

Essie Grow Stronger

First layer

F.U.N Lacquer Icy Snow (thermal) (3 coats)

Accent nails

Sally Hansen Celeb City (1 coat)

F.U.N Lacquer Winter Wonderland (dabbed on)

Top coat

Seche Vite dry fast top coat

Holo Rainbow Chip Nails!

I wanted a quick manicure and looked to my amazing GOSH Holographic nail polish for an awesome result that's quick and easy to get and I paired it with the delicious Rainbow Chip glitter top coat from Painted Polish.

I had to share the fabulous linear holographic effect that can only be fully realised in video so here's a quick tutorial showing off the rainbow magnificence that is this polish.

Also, I do speed tutorials on my Instagram page, so you can get a preview, extra makeup looks & every day shenanigans or find out when my videos or blog posts come out. I'm Michty Maxx on Instagram or you can click here and follow me there.

And if you like what you see, feel free to visit my YouTube Channel, tickle the like/subscribe button, and leave a comment. It would make me smii-iile! ;-D

Enjoy!

Video Tutorial

And if you want to go all out with
Painted Polish Rainbow Chip!

Tutorial

1. Apply Base coat and growth stimulater to protect your nails and keep them healthy.
2. Apply 1 coat of Silver polish.
3. Apply 3 coats of Silver Holographic polish.
4. On the Accent Nail, dab on 1 coat of colourful glitter.
5. Apply a fast drying top coat to the Accent Nail only, as the top coat diminishes the holographic effect of the silver polish.
6. Done!

Products Used

Base coat

OPI Nail Envy Nail Strengthener

Essie Grow Stronger

First layer

Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Celeb City (1 coat)

Second Layer

GOSH Holographic 549 (3 coats) 

Accent nail (Ring Finger)

Painted Polish Rainbow Chip (1 coat)

Top coat (Only on Accent Nail)

Seche Vite dry fast top coat

Lip Art Tutorial: Abbey Dawn WTH heel Inspired

I'm here to share with you the tutorial for this lip art that is inspired by my Abbey Dawn WTH heels. I love the spikes and the hot pink colour, so I decided to honour them with some lip art that is as crazy as the pumps themselves.

I used some of my favourite pink products, such as Coloured Raine Intimidate lipstick that I topped with Sugarpill Birthday Girl Chromalust and Eye Kandy Cotton Candy Sprinkles for some extra twinkle.

And the pièce de rèsistance is the 6mm spikes from Born Pretty Store and you can get more nail art and makeup supplies here! And for a special present from me and Born Pretty, use the code "MIHW10" at checkout for 10% off your whole order at Born Pretty!

And if you love sparkly pigments, check out Sugarpill here, along with many other matte shadows & false eyelashes!

Enjoy the video tutorial on my YouTube Channel here or below!

Video Tutorial

Tutorial

1. Apply Lip balm to prep your lips beforehand to provide a soft and supple canvas.
2. Apply M.A.C Prep & Prime Lip primer to smooth out your lips.
3. Line and fill in your lips with a hot pink lip pencil.
4. Apply a matching hot pink lipstick over your lips.
5. Pat a light pink sparkly pigment over lips with a clean finger.
6. Pat a pink duo chromatic glitter over the centre area of your lips.
7. Apply Duo Lash glue with the butt end of a tooth pick in evenly spaced dots over your lips.
8. Wait a little while until the glue is tacky so the spikes can stick.
9. Apply the 6mm Spikes from Born Pretty and hold them on for a few seconds until they stay.
10. Done!

Products Used

M.A.C Lip conditioner
M.A.C Prep + Prime Lip
NYX Slim Lip Liner Pencil in Hot Pink
Coloured Raine Uncensored lips Intimidate lipstick
Sugarpill Chromalust loose eyeshadow Birthday Girl over lips
Eye Kandy Cotton Candy (Sugar) in the centre
Silver spikes from Born Pretty

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Fine French Crystal Nails

A Sparkly twist on a Classic French Manicure!

If you are bored of your standard french tip manicure and want something to jazz it up a bit, then try using these colourful crystals to add some pizazz and pep!

Get all the embellishments and decorations I used here from the Born Pretty store and use the code MIHW10 for 10% off your whole order!

Enjoy!

Tutorial

1. Apply Base coat and growth stimulater to protect your nails and keep them healthy.
2. Apply 3 coats of pink iridescent polish over all your nails.
3. Apply 1 coat of white polish freehand along the tip of the nail in a french tip shape. (Don't worry about being perfectly neat.)
4. Apply 1 coat of pink holographic glitter tips of nails and all over ring accent nail.
5. Apply 1 coat of fine holographic glitter tips of nails and all over ring accent nail.
6. Apply a fast drying top coat to ring accent nail and add 2mm crystals from Born Pretty Store all over nail.
7. Apply a fast drying top coat to all nails and add 2mm crystals from Born Pretty Store along French tip separation line.
8. Done!

Products Used

Base coat

OPI Nail Envy

Zoya Anchor base coat

First layer

OM SHE Nail Colour Illusion (3 coats)

Second layer (French Tip)

Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme wear White On (1 coat)

OPI Teenage dream (1 coat)

Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme wear Disco ball (1 coat)

Bornpretty Colorful Crystal 2mm Rhinestones SS10 from the Born Pretty Store along French tip separation line

Accent nail (Ring finger)

OM SHE Nail Colour Illusion (3 coats)

Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme wear Disco ball (1 coat)

OPI Teenage dream (1 coat)

Bornpretty Colorful Crystal Rhinestones SS10 from the Born Pretty Store all over nail

Top coat

Seche Vite dry fast top coat

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Night Lights posted on Polishpedia!

I have another manicure to share with you that I created and was published on Polishpedia!

I wanted something simple and fun this weekend with glitter and sparkle, so I grabbed a royal purple polish, Buffy the Violet Slayer from Wet n' Wild, and layered it under a fabulous silver holographic hex glitter from China Glaze called Techno. Man, I've used a lot of this stuff and it's gorgeous, but takes a bit of patience to dab on the glitter instead of whip it on like a normal polish. However, it's totally worth it for the galaxyeque feel to this manicure and the silver next to the purple really makes it stand out.

Click the picture below for the full post on Polishpedia with more photos, product details and macro shots!

Click here for my other posts on Polishpedia.

I will say that Buffy the Violet Slayer drys really dark and turns into more of a blue than a purple after top coat. It could be the Seche Vite or it could be just the formula of this particular Wet n' Wild polish. I was disappointed cause the colour in the bottle and when it first goes on the nail is really pretty. It's really hard to find a purple nail polish that doesn't have too much red in it and is more cool toned but without going totally blue. But I have the same problem with eyeshdaows and lipsticks too. I guess I'm just very particular about my purple shades and am will always be on the never ending search for the perfect purple shades.

Fuchsia Glitter Splatter Nails on Polishpedia!

I have another manicure to share with you that I created and was published on Polishpedia!

This simple layered manicure was inspired by the Different Dimension glitter toppers that I got from Missi Barry’s Indie Nail Polish Etsy store which you can find here.

Click the picture below for the full post on Polishpedia!

Click here for my other posts on Polishpedia.

Neon Night Lip Art for Crown Brush blog

An amazing makeup artist Karla Powell, whom I respect and admire greatly, featured my Golden Royalty Lip Art on Instagram recently. I was absolutely flattered and honoured to be featured on her IG page and another perk was that her attention caught the eye of CrownBrushUK. Karla asked me on behalf of Crown to create a lip art tutorial for their blog and I gladly said yes. 

So I set about designing a dramatic nighttime neon lip creation and even asked my boyfriend to help me choose some bright colours and I even used some glitter for extra impact.


Click the picture below or here if you want to see the step by step pictorial on the Crown Brush UK blog.

Thanks again Crown Brush UK for letting me have fun with the Crownbrush takeover blog post.

The liquid lipsticks I used from Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics can be purchased here or at Sephora in US.

And the glitter can be bought at the Eye Kandy website here.

I have many more lip art designs for your viewing pleasure if you care to click here.

Luminous Marshmallow Wedding Nails

Here's another of my posts on Polishpedia for my nail art addiction section of their blog.

This fanciful manicure with simple elegance and boisterous bling is called Luminous Marshmallow Wedding Nails. I made a custom polish out of Sugarpill Lumi and Eye Kandy Marshmallow sprinkles to go over Sally Hansen White on to make glitzy, holographic nails that complement the mega awesome Swarovski crystals.

The delicious sparkly Swarovski Crystals I used are from Born Pretty Store and if you want that much bling in your life click here and use the discount code MIHW10 at checkout for 10% off your whole order.

Click the picture below for the full post on Polishpedia!

Click here for my other posts on Polishpedia.



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Midnight Sky Nails on Polishpedia

My latest manicure on Polishpedia as one of their guest nail artists to publish posts in the "the nail art for polish addicts" section of the blog. 

The design is called Midnight Sky Nails which I wore to the Black Sabbath gig and match with my gig makeup.

Click the picture below to go to the full post on Polishpedia!

Click here for my other posts on Polishpedia.


You can find the original Makeup and OOTD here.

Teaming up with Polishpedia!

I've been teaming up with polishpedia as one of their new nail artists to publish posts on "the nail art for polish addicts" blog. Here is the first publish article by yours truly and I hope to have many more.

Another Guest Post

I am thrilled to be featured on LadycrowX's blog the Crow and the Powderpuff with a NOTD guest post. I love her blog and her makeup style and you can imagine I am over the moon that she likes my work.


Please visit her blog and enjoy my post on NOTD Holographic Twinkle.

Holographic Twinkle

I can't get enough of this Gosh Holographic nail polish and decided to whip it out again with a magenta accent nail and holographic glitter. I must say that Modnails and Cutepolish of Instagram and youtube have given me leopard fever and so here's another leopard print manicure.

Also, I find that adding a top coat to Gosh Holographic 549 nail polish really decreases the linear holographic effect, so I only used top coat on the accent nail.

Enjoy!

Products Used

Base coat

Qtica Natural Nail Growth Stimulator

Zoya Anchor base coat

First layer

Gosh 549 Holographic (2 coats)

Leopard print Pattern

-using a bobby pink and a toothpick

Color club Wink, wink, twinkle for dots

Glitter Gal Serpent black for details

Ring Accent nail

Color club Wink, wink, twinkle (1 coat)

China glaze Techno (1 coat)

Top coat 

-only on accent nail

Seche Vite dry fast top coat

New Years Eve Makeup

My New Years Eve FOTD. I must admit this photo was taken after some time of wearing the makeup but it held up ok after activity and fun. For the look, I couldn't resist my MAC 3D Silver and a purple smokey eye behind it for some massive party sparkle!

Enjoy!

Products Used

Eyelid primer

Two faced shadow insurance

Lid
M.A.C Paint pot in Blackground

Sugarpill pressed eyeshadow in Bulletproof

M.A.C Reflects glitter Brilliant in 3D Silver

Glitter adhesive

Fyrinnae Pixy Epoxy

Crease

Inglot eyeshadow #441 crease

Inglot eyeshadow #439 pearl to deepen crease

Urban Decay Deluxe eye shadow in Fishnet to blend out

Brow highlight
NYX Jumbo eye pencil in Milk

M.A.C Eye shadow in Vellum

Lower lid

Urban Decay 24/7 eye pencil in Perversion along lashline, waterline and tight line

Sugarpill pressed eyeshadow in Bulletproof along lashline

Inglot eyeshadow #439 pearl to blend out outer edge of lashline

Tear duct

M.A.C Eye shadow in Vellum

Eyeliner 

Urban Decay 24/7 Liquid eyeliner in Perversion

Lashes

M.A.C Opulash mascara in Optimum Black

Brows

Revlon Colorstay Eyebrow liner in Blonde

Lips

Benefit Lip gloss in Life on the A List

Face

Garnier BB cream Miracle Skin Perfecter for Combination to Oily skin in Light

M.A.C Prep+Prime Transparent finishing powder

Cheeks 

Inglot AMC Pressed powder #59 for cheek highlight

Benefit powder blush in thrrrob

Brushes

Sigma brushes: PE=Performance Eyes kit. 

Eyes

M.A.C 242 for lid

Japonesque Concealer brush for glitter
Sigma E70 MrB Medium Angled Shading for crease and brow highlight

Sigma E36 PE Blending for blending out crease and outer lower lid

Sigma E30 Pencil Non-bunny for tear duct

Sigma E17 PE Waterliner for lower lid

Face

M.A.C 224 setting powder for concealer under eyes

Sigma F82 MrB Round kabuki for foundation

Crown IB120 Jumbo fan brush for setting

M.A.C 116 for cheek highlight

Napoleon Perdis 20b Reflective contour brush for blush