WEAR GREEN FOR DEPRESSION AWARENESS MONTH

Hi girls..

I’m sorry for being MIA for quite sometime now. Im in my hometown and this place doesn’t have a liable internet connection hence the reason for this long delayed post. However, I do hope you girls are enjoying the giveaway Nail Galore is having till mid of Nov.

Anyway, I’m not really sure how many of you know but besides being Breast Cancer Awareness month, this month is also Depression Awareness month. Shocking? Well it’s absolutely is for me! I mean I work in a mental institution and I didn’t even know about that! That’s how much this ‘awareness’ program is spread in Malaysia!

I can’t say much about other countries but I’m really upset with how Depression becomes something that no one cares about down here. Its like no one wants to acknowledge it although its there. The reason? The whole stigma against mental illnesses. Its not that bad you know?  You will be surprised to find out that 1 in 10 people have depression in Malaysia (Although of course this ratio could be higher in real since so many of them don’t seek for treatment.) Seriously girls, learn the signs and symptoms and get treated, or help your loved ones to acknowledge it if you think they have it. The faster they get treated; the probability to get symptoms free is longer than those who take years before seeking for treatment. To know the signs and symptoms of depression, click here or for a simply-fied version, here

Nonetheless, I’m not here to give a long lecture on it. Those who wants’ to know more about it please don’t hesitate to email me. Ill try to help you out as much as I can. While then, the colour for this month; the Depression awareness month is green, and these are the colours I’m gonna be wearing throughout the month. I hope I’m not the only one wearing it:-)

 OPI Cuckoo For this color

Orly's Its Not Rocket Science

 Bloop's Green 

 Bloop's Glitter

 Bloop's Metallic Green

Haru Sakura's Metallic Green

 Misa's Like It Like That

 Essie's Mint Candy Apple

 Nubar's Conserve

 Nubar's Forest

 Nubar's Greener

 Nubar's Reclaim

 Essie's Sew Psyched

 Skin Food's Green

 Skin Food's Pedicure Sparkle's Blue Green

 Essie's Turquoise & Caicos

Zoya's Tangy

And of course, not forgetting my Chanel Khaki Vert:-)

Hope you girls like this and acknowledge the fact that depression is a disease just like diabetes, asthma, high blood pressure etc. If those diseases does not have any stigma towards it, why should depression have? 
The majority of people at some point of life will have a psychological problem; marital problem, childhood, work stress etc, so seriously, there is nothing unique happening with depression here, in truth it is as common as cold and flu. So i suggest all of you to stop treating it as something unique and start changing the way you look at this problem. Only then this awareness program can be brought to the next level:-)

Take care girls, and don't forget to try your luck with Nail Galore's Give Away:-)

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NAIL GALORE'S GIVE AWAY- MAC'S VENOMOUS VILLAIN'S COLLECTION NAIL POLISH

Happy 100^th Follower To me!!
Yeay! I have 100 followers! I never thought this day would ever come! I started out with only 3 followers and that too for months and now! Wow!! Having so many followers is really a great thing! It feels great and I really wish to do something for you girls who have been following me. So here is a giveaway- I’m giving away MAC’s Venomous Villain’s Collection’s nail polish to a lucky winner. All three colours! And they are brand new!

All you have to do is:

Compulsory:

1. You have to be a follower (New/old) (1 point)
2. You have to leave your email in the comment box below.

Optional- In order to get a better chance of winning this, you can either:

1. Blog about it or post it up in your side bar (1 point)
2. Tweet about it and provide me the link to it (1 point)
3. Write an individual FB shout out for it  (1 point)
4. Be one of the top 40 commentator in this blog (1 points)

Or you can always do all four:-D for 4 points!

This giveaway is open to everyone in the world. Ya this time its International!

Entry should be submitted before 15^th Nov 2010. So hurry and grab this awesome colours!!

P/S: I called up every Mac counter in Malaysia and these are one of the last 3 they have so hurry up and grab this!  

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ORLY GODDESS SWATCHES & REVIEW

Seen Orly Goddess before? It’s one of the Orly’s colors that came out sometime last year; Orly Holiday Femme Fatale Holiday 2009 collection. The colour is a plum/ berry like crème colour that is opaque with only 2 layers. Here’s how it looks like:

 Under sunlight

 Under sunlight

Under sunlight

So what was my first impression when I saw it? It was more like how I squealed when I saw it.  Well initially I wasn’t all that into it because it looked really ‘normal’ in the bottle. I mean purplish berry? Come on im sure you can get one of those in almost every brand! But when I put it on, I was like “WOW”. Like seriously! Hardly any colour like this suits me. With my medium skin tone, a darker shade or nude will look great, not a medium-ly loud colour like this, but this really ‘fit’! It seems so right! And the best was the application. So smooth and it wasn’t at all thick! Drying time was admirable; even without a top coat. And this swatches, obviously didn’t have any. Yah that’s how it shines! I love this colour. I know it might sound like these days I’m beginning to love every color but ya that’s true. I’m beginning to ‘appreciate’ the colours and I think every polish has its uniqueness, or else why would I buy it isn’t itJ

So what do you think? Am I going nuts or nail polish colors are just getting gorgeous and amazing day after day?

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OPI BANANA BANDANA SWATCHES & REVIEW

Today’s post is about one of the few beautiful yellow OPI has ever produced; OPI Banana Bandana. I totally love this colour. It isn’t the awful yellow yellow, it’s the sweet, soft creamy yellow that doesn’t look all that loud when its on your nails.

 Under Artificial Lightings

Under Artificial Lightings

With Flash

This was 2 coats. In real it’s much softer in colour. If you are not sure about how it looks like, go see banana. Not the skin, but the banana itself. It’s very similar. I just love this colour!

Thanks for reading and hope you have a great Monday :-)

P/S: OPI Swiss’s swatches will have to wait. I accidently deleted the swatches and I've got to do it again:-(

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BLOOP DE PARIS NAIL POLISH SWATCHES, REVIEW & COMPARISON

Here are some random colours from Bloop: the greens. You know how I like green and all that so here it is.

The first colour is a shimmery, sheer silver-ish green (H563). These pics are a bit blur as I had taken them indoor but to describe it properly, I would say it has dirty green as the base, with mini silver-ish and slight gold to give it a shimmery, micro-glitter finish. Application was easy with its wide brush; however, this required 4 layers for a good opaque finish. Drying time was a little bit long, but that was easily ‘modified’ with my absolutely fast drying Nubar Diamont topcoat.

 Under artificial lightings

with flash

The second colour is a peacock green that has metallic finishing. The code is H107. 

under artificial lightings

 with flash

If you ask me, I would say this colour is very much alike to all the other fall colours this year and last. I could easily say this looks so similar to Misa’s, Opi’s, and Nubar’s. So I did a comparison and this is what I got:

Yap.. Misa Like It That Way (From Misa What I Like About You Collection 2010) and Nubar Conserve (from Nubar Going Green Collection) looks very similar to this. If I recall properly there is another colour similar to this from Skin Food but unfortunately I cant find it :-(

Anyway, these are the only colours I have at the moment. I’m sorry for the bad picture quality. Took it indoor and am still learning how to adjust the lightings. Hope to get it right soon :-)

Thanks for reading..

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MERDEKA SPECIAL GIVEAWAY!

And The Winners are:

Christine & Anne!!

Congratulations! Christine gets CG & Zoya, While Anne gets OPI & Face Shop. Congrats again!

Hi girls, yes you read this right! The very first Nail Galore's Give Away! I’m enjoying my polishes so much that I just need to share these remarkable things with you! So, in conjunction to Merdeka, I’ve decided to give away my some of my nail polishes;

To be honest, the reason I’m doing this is because you guys have been really supportive ever since this site started earlier this year. Nail Galore wouldn’t be the position it is right now without your support; and so this is a small gesture of my thanks to you.

Unfortunately I can’t afford to purchase these polishes for everyone so I’ve decided to give this four Malaysian Flag coloured nail polishes;

1.    OPI; Girls Just Want To Play

2.    Zoya; Angella

3.    China Glaze; Happy Go Lucky

4.    The Face Shop; Dark Blue

to two lucky winner who will be randomly selected by random.org. 

The rules? Very simple;

• You have to be a follower of my site (I will check so no cheating:-))
• Leave me a comment with your email address on the comment box below
• You are currently living in South East Asia (I don’t want the bottles to break therefore only to these country)
• Not necessary: You get a higher chance (one point each) if you could include this link to your blog, facebook or tweet (comment below if you have done that), and have also followed us in Twitter and Face book.
• Dateline: 30/9/2010

So if you wish to enter, do it now! Good Luck:-)

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NAIL POLISH PRICE HIKING SKY HIGH

OMG!!! This is crazy!

Ok kids this is how my day started; after updating my long forgotten blog this morning, I decided to give myself a treat so I browsed through head2toe’s website to purchase some nail polishes for myself. I wanted to get ORLY Tis is The Season Collection. Little did I know that the price had increased to two folds!

OMG! It’s now USD 6 instead of 3! Damn that’s like double the amount I usually pay! And being an International buyer, this doesn’t help at all! I mean usually after purchasing about 20 bottles, the shipping cost itself could easily come up to USD 30 and so (USPS), so after converting to Malaysian Ringgit and such, it is priced between Rm 20-Rm25 per bottle. However now its going to be about Rm50 each! No way I’m gonna pay that amount for ORLY! I might as well add another RM 20 and get a Chanel polish instead. This is madness!

This is a bad year for nail polish fanatic like me. Seriously! First Essie’s price goes up to USD 8 from USD 4, and then transdesign doesn’t ship to Malaysia using USPS anymore, then ESSIE is not shipped internationally, and now ORLY’s price went up. I’m not sure how long it gonna take before the same happens to China Glaze and Misa. Prices are hiking up like crazy. From earlier this year:

OPI has increased by USD 1.19, CG: 0.65, Essie: USD 4, and now Orly 2.10. ARGH! And what happens to international buyers like us who these few dollars increment might mean an increase of hundreds of dollars (since we have got to buy lots). Oh man! This is a bad news. I hope someone could stop this..

Thanks for listening girls..  

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OPI SWISS COLLECTION-GLITZERLAND SWATCHES & REVIEW

Good morning girls.

Here’s another colour from OPI Swiss Collection; OPI Glitzerland. It’s a soft gold glittery polish that looks absolutely glamorous on nails. The glitter isn’t too chunky and wasn’t at all hard to apply. Even the removal was easy unlike other glitters. This was 2 layers:

It looks really nice in the bottle, however upon applying it I realized it didn’t look all tht good with my skin tone. I think it would look better on fairer person. What you think?

Thanks for stopping by 

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KONAD BUNDLE MONSTER 01 SWATCHES

Good morning girls.

This is just a quick post on the BM01 konad plate. Forgive me for the poor quality pic. I'm not getting much sunlight and i just don't know how to take pics indoor:-(

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NAIL ART OF THE DAY: MIX & MATCH

Hey girls.. Ok i dont know if u remember the post i had previously on "What Vanessa Hudgen's wearing"? The one where she colored the ring finger differently then the rest of the fingers? Well today just to spice things up, i decided to wear something similar to that to work, only i like this more:-D

Im wearing Nubar's Forest from the Nubar Green Collection, and on my ring finger Orly's Its Not Rocket Science. :-D Cant wait to hear what my staffs gonna say about this:-)

Thanks for reading..

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