Trailer Trash

No, I'm not referring to anyone in particular. That is the name of the shade of this polish:


Chi Chi Trailer Trash. Funny how the name of this shade is Trailer Trash, because my mum hates this on me. She says it looks cheap haha. (she is so so kind to me)

Two coats for opacity, and the colour stays true to the bottle. Although in the bottle there is a pretty pink/purple sheen, once applied on nails its more of a slightly shimmery coral red. This shade is runnier than other Chi Chi polishes, and dries faster too. Still easy to apply and not streaky at all.

NB. I thought Chi Chi nail polishes were THE perfect consistency. A friend has pointed out that they are actually thicker than other polishes, so maybe its a personal preference thing. For me Chi Chi polishes are perfect ><"


Random whinge:
I'm going CRAZY not being able to wear colour on my nails because of work! UGGHHHHH

I do, I do, I do

I do... HAVE A JOB NOW! I didn't paint my nails this colour for a job interview, it was because I was doing some unpaid work/work experience on Monday. As I was leaving to go home, I had missed calls on my phone so naturally I called back. It was for a job interview *woot* So I drove home hurriedly, got changed and went to the interview... and ta da, I have a job now xD

Enough about that, here is the shade that got me the job: Chi Chi- I do, I do, I do
N.B. Excuse my cuticles, both bottles of my cuticle oil seem to have grown some microorganisms. (Ewww cloudy looking stuff)

As I will say again and again for EVERY Chi Chi polish I own, perfect application. Maybe its personal preference, since my mum was whinging about this one being difficult to apply. I showed her real good. It is a gorgeous creamy light peach colour - similar to Revlon's famous Peach Petal lipgloss. Here I applied two coats with base and top coat. Doesn't apply streaky, but dries a little slow compared to other Chi Chi polishes.

The colour it applies is true to the bottle, as in the above picture. The colour in real life is pretty close to the picture also. I love how they name the shades. So adorable.

Grey skies, blue skies.

Long time no post! Went on a weekend getaway and uni is getting hectic. Gahhh... For my holiday, I had orange-ish fingernails and emerald-ish toenails but I forgot to take photos before they got chipped and ugry. Maybe next time xD

So here is what I bought this Monday: BYS Nail Enamel Shadow PuppetsI've always wanted a grey nail polish, but always got distracted by other pretty colours.. But this one I HAD to get, because it has a tinge of lavender! *drools* So loving the colour, creamy light grey with a tinge of lavender.
Hmm can you see the imprints on my index and middle fingernail..? It clearly required more time to dry before I went to bed. So not a quick drier. After the photo I applied another coat to hide the imprints. Since it is a runny, not-so-opaque colour, three coats were required for opacity. Though its runny, it isn't streaky which is great. At the end of three days there was tipwear, but I change my nail colour often so it doesn't matter too much. This was the first BYS nail polish I tried, and I am pleased with this formula overall (for the price of $4 AUD and because there is a HUGE selection of colours). I will need to try out more of these.
NB. Smells horrid though, worse than other nail polishes I own. I know nail polish generally is not pleasantly fragranced, but this one smells like death even on my nails after it has dried.


After having grey nails for three days, I felt a little gloomy. So I decided to go for a sky blue: Chi Chi Mermaid. Well not sky blue, this has a tinge of green but still a pretty blue. I always tend to crawl back to Chi Chi nail polishes for some reason or another, and they never let me down both in terms of colour and formula.
This is one of the first few polishes of Chi Chi I purchased, so the bottle is the old design with no ingredients written on the back...All it has on the back is "quick thick nail fix MERMAID".
The colour is quite well represented by the photos, though the photo doesn't capture the fine silver shimmery metallic side of the polish. Because it is metallic, Mermaid is a little streaky in comparison to other creamy Chi Chi polishes. Consistency is also a little more runny than creamy Chi Chi colours, but still great application - not too runny, not too thick. Two coats for opacity here, and dries faster than the BYS above. Also, no tipwear yet on second day of wear :)


For your lulz: Epic hair-band tan on my wrist.

Oooh, shiny!

Prorance Finish Water Glow M13 Highlighter is all round shiny from the packaging to the contents. Makes me squeal like a piglet. Look at it. Isn't it gorgeous?
Comes with a brush which is not a horrible quality but you'd probably be better off using another brush.

Swatched with my finger,

Swatched using the brush provided. Can't really see the shimmer, but there was specks of shimmer everywhere on my arm!

The shiny particles (shimmer?) are quite small, and not chunky. I think this would be a great every day highlighter, if I was to wear highlighter daily myself. I tend to stay away from shimmery products for daily wear because they always ends up ALL over my face.

Inglot Haul + Swatches

A little birdie told me the local Inglot store was having a 30% off closing down sale, so I couldn't resist but to go and make unnecessary purchases. But everything is oh so pretty.

Took a lot of willpower I must admit, but I only bought a Freedom System palette and one nail polish.

The palette has room for four shadows and one blush. Shadows (all shimmery): 473 (light blue green), 68 (dark blue), 471 (khaki), 27 (gold)

Blush: 52 (matte brown orange)

From left: 27, 471, 68, 473, 52. Swatched on my bare arm with my fingers.

As you can see in the above picture, the gold shadow has a different finish compared to the other three shadows. The others are more matte with shimmer whereas the gold is satin with shimmer? I have no idea how to describe shadows, so that is all I can say really. The colour swatched is true to the colour in the pan, which is great. The khaki is sooooo pretty, the picture doesn't do justice. I'm crap at applying eye shadow but it makes me so happy to just stare at them and swatch them XD

The blush has really high colour payoff, I had no idea and looked like I was going through menopause. Oops. On my cheeks it looks pinky for some reason.


Nail polish: 834 (metallic purple)
I only own one other Inglot polish, and from these two I came to the conclusion I don't like Inglot polishes very much. The other one I own is also a metallic finish, which may be why I don't like it since they show stroke marks. Or it could just be because I'm bad at applying it. I need to try a creamy finish then I'll be sure whether I like them or not.

The polish is quite thin, which also adds to the difficulty in application. Though it has a high shine metallic finish as in the picture above, which looks great. So-so opacity, had to apply three coats for this (also to even out patchy areas) and wait for it to dry... not a slow drier but not fast either. Overall love the colour, not so much the formula.

On The Prowl with an updated blog name

You might be thinking "WTF". I decided to change the url and name of my blog to better reflect myself and the content of the blog. Did you know crouching for an extended period is something that has to be learned growing up? SilhouetteScreams pointed it out to me. I crouch with ease for example to pick up something from the ground but my friends find it more difficult. By "crouching" I'm referring to this position -->That is me in the picture in my high school jersey. Oh yes we had a random reunion in our jerseys and stuffed our faces with food. Twas glorious. Now on to the nail polish...


On The Prowl by Chi Chi:
This would have to be shoulder-to-shoulder with my favourite nail polish Hollywood Heiress. As with all Chi Chi nail polishes I've tried, great application and opacity. In the picture below I applied two coats. with base and top coat. Unlike the Etude House polishes from the previous post, Chi Chi polishes come out to the exact colour of the bottle AND do not chip easily. Proudly Australian made and owned!
Now describing the colour is more of an issue. As much as I love this colour I have no idea how to describe it. Pinky-purple? Purple-pink? Orchid? Fuchsia? The colour in real life is in between the two pictures above. I couldn't capture the exact colour so I took one photo under direct natural light and one under shadowed natural light.


I saw a light khaki nail polish while window shopping yesterday. Should I get it or would it be horrendous?

Don't you dare start chipping on me on the first day of wear!

Oh yes. These two started chipping on the first day of wear. Even with a base coat and top coat. *twitchy eye*

Etude House nail polishes are super cheap, so I suppose I shouldn't have had such high expectations. BUT the GR601 Pop Green Slush was great and lasted three days without chipping or peeling. So Etude House nail polishes are kinda a hit-and-miss I suppose. The two here are PK004 Pink Salmon, and BR301 Red Tea Milk. I was confused with their colour-coding, because PK should be pink and BR should be brown...these two may need swapping around.


Etude House PK004 Pink Salmon:
I don't know where they got "salmon" out of this colour. I don't have any other colours like this one so I can't give a comparison. The photo is pretty close to what it looks like in real life. I think its a nice sophisticated pinky-brown, a little like a typical MLBB lipstick shade. Here I applied three coats, because I had missed some patches (Note to self: don't apply nail polish in the dark while watching TV). One coat was a sheer natural colour, but it was a little streaky. Applies pretty well, not too runny but not gluggy. Oh but the CHIPPING. The next morning I found a chip. How did I chip it while sleeping I am unsure, but it did.

Etude House BR301 Red Tea Milk:

The name of this shade is perfect. Red tea milk. I love this colour, in real life it is more a mute milky browny-pink. Applies brighter than the bottle and is a similar consistency to the PK004 above - not too runny, not too gluggy. Two coats in this picture, but one coat seemed pretty good too. Sheerer than this obviously but still a nice colour without streaks. This one peeled/chipped the next afternoon, I applied it at night so within 24 hours of application.

Do dry hands cause chipping?

Look at my nails, I'm responsible. You wanna gimme a job?

That was what I was going for with this:

Maybelline Express Finish 50 second nail color 35 Sheer Satin Slip (2 coats)
Maybelline Express Finish 50 second nail color 10 Base & Top Coat

This is after three days of wear, no chips or peeling! Happy about the wear, but Sheer Satin Slip is super runny and difficult to apply. Can you see the streaks on the index and middle fingernails? Oh how I hate streaks. The pinky fingernail is the same colour as the bottle, a nice sheer pink (as the shade name suggests). Also it stays true to the product name and dries quickly.

I felt so naked and strange with nude nail polish. Even my mum, who bought the nail polish (for herself, not me) commented on how weird it is to see my nails without colour.

Even with my nail polish efforts, no job yet. *cries*

Trying out new products

Woo, I couldn't help but want to use new products to do something new! This is the first time I've tried doing polka dots and using the mini french brush so it is rather atrocious.


Products used:

Maybelline Express Finish 50 second Nail Color 10 Base and Top Coat (for base coat) - Dries super fast so is really useful as a base coat.

Etude House Nail Polish PP903 Lilac milk - Two coats for opacity, so-so consistency. Applies better than PK010 but not as well as GR601.

Etude House Nail Art Pen 01 White - Thick enough so one application is opaque. Sets too fast but dries SUPER slowly. It's shaped like a Wite-Out pen so easy to handle for polka dotting purposes.

Etude House Mini French 06 French Silver Glitter - The brush looks like a ridiculously long liquid eyeliner brush. Difficult to handle because the brush is long and not stiff enough. Dries fast though, and is packed with glitter. Actually its pretty much glitter in a bottle with evaporant.

Etude House Quick Dry - Can't tell if it works or not, because I didn't touch my nails to check. But I can definitely feel it evaporating. The bottle is TINY though so it better work.

Jordana French Manicure 144 Barely Pink (as top coat) - Got this in a closing down sale a year ago, wish I bought all of their French Manicure colours. Dries fast and doesn't streak at all. It is thin enough to not disrupt whatever is already on the nail so I like to use it as a top coat sometimes :)


I swear I AM improving. I'm restricting myself from buying Konading materials until I master polka-dotting and drawing lines.

Etude House GR601 Pop Green Slush

SECOND REVIEW WOOT. I originally wanted to do all my Chi Chi nail polishes first, but I felt like wearing this colour last night.

For this swatch, it was close to midnight and I painted my nails while I was printing double sided lecture notes. So please excuse the poor application (empty patches AND polish on the skin)...

Thumb: one thick coat, Fingers: two thin coats

Etude House GR601 Product Page Picture

The camera doesn't seem to be able to pick up the green of the polish. I got a picture of the product page of Etude House, because the actual colour is closest to that but with a pop of green. It is a very bright teal which I absolutely love. This one is a lot thinner/watery than the PK010. Even though it is so watery, one coat can actually give an opaque payoff (for the thumb I only applied one coat). In saying that though, I prefer watery because its less likely to become streaky.

No top coat for this one too, because I didn't have time (wanted to sleep). I applied it last night and had uni all day 9am-5pm, and it hasn't chipped or peeled yet!

That's all for now, please comment on how to improve on my reviewing skills ^__^

Chi Chi Hollywood Heiress, Etude House PK010

Very first review/swatch post ever! My camera is rather crappy so sorry about the quality of the photos...But I think the photos are a pretty good match to the actual colours!

I love Chi Chi nail polishes since they were the first nail polishes other than $2 chemists nail polishes for me. They are not gluggy but not too thin, and apply smoothly to the colour in the bottle in two coats! They come in a range of colours, and I end up buying another one if they are on sale at Myer. Chi Chi cosmetics is an Australian brand and proudly Australian Made.

Etude House nail polishes are great since they're so cheap and come in small bottles so you can buy heaps of colours without worrying they'll dry up before you get to use them ^__^ They apply pretty well for the price (1000-2000 Korean won which equates to like $1.50-$3 AUD depending on exchange rates), with much better opacity than $2 chemists nail polishes.

Left: Chi Chi Hollywood Heiress, Right: Etude House PK010
(Note- Chi Chi nail polish bottle tops have 4 silver lines around the top, I accidentally wiped this one with nail polish remover)

Chi Chi Hollywood Heiress is my all time favourite nail polish. I'm on my second bottle because the first one got gluggy after a while so I put nail polish remover in it (idiotic I know) and the colour changed :S I don't think there are any swatches available for Hollywood Heiress (well I can't find it on Google anyway) even though it's so pretty! It is a very pinky coral, two coats for opacity with no streaks. I didn't apply a top coat to show how shiny it is! I absolutely love this colour, and I think it suits all skin tones. I have light yellowish hands (typical Asian) and my mum has darker browner hands - it suits us both.

Etude House PK010: Index and pinky finger, Chi Chi Hollywood Heiress: the other three >_>


As for the Etude House PK010, it is a Barbie pink. Not hot pink but the pink Barbie cars and houses are made of. I wouldn't call this shade a baby pink or strawberry milk pink because they have more white in them... I applied two coats, with no top coat again. I don't wear pink nail polish often, but this one is okay - as long as I don't JUST wear this one on its own. I had to file my nails short because I can't wear pink on long nails (frightens me a little).




There you have it, first review ever! Please comment on how I can improve *^_^*