Golden Rose Diamonds 09

Hallo ladies,

Sorry I have not been posting much now that it's finally warm I've been busy Spring cleaning the house, working in my garden and pretty much doing everything else in between. Last night I had planned on doing my mani for Pink Wednesdays but my nails had other plans for me!! I was washing all the windows yesterday and my nails decided to break on both freaking hands :( both thumbs on each hand my index finger on the right hand and my middle finger on the left GRRRRRRRRRRRR.

So no pink mani for today BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO maybe my nails will have grown back enough next Wednesday to show you a pink mani. I did take pictures of the mani's I did on Sunday and Tuesday.

Here's the mani from Sunday Golden Rose Diamonds 09 it's a beautiful dark gray holographic base polish with every color of the rainbow in it, everytime I turned my nails in the light I was seeing a new color. I used 2 coats to get full coverage.












So what do you think about this polish? Do you have any Golden Rose Holographic polishes and if yes how do you like them?

Thanks for looking,
Kesha

My first Golden Rose

Awhile ago, my mum went back to Hong Kong and came back with a few polishes for me :). One of the polishes she bought was Gold Rose #39. As soon as I applied it, I thought the shade was really similar to Zoya Crystal's base colour. I love it all the same though, I really do think blue is beginning to grow on me too :). First photo is taken indoors with natural light and the following two under the sun.

Thanks for dropping by~
Sharon

Golden Rose 119 & Plate XL A

Good morning, Dear Reader!

I tried out a new to me brand for today's manicure, Golden Rose.  Golden Rose 119 is an almost black holo (I've seen it called black,but next to black it looks dark charcoal).

The bottle for this one is super small at 6 ml ( as opposed to the standard 15 ml), but the price is proportionately lower so it's just like buying a tiny amount at a time.  As for using the tiny bottle and brush for application, it was a little weird due to bottle size, but along the lines of the old Laura Mercier bottles rather than a mini.  I wish the brush were better because the polish itself is very nice, with the brush being the only drawback for me.  The application was unusually smooth and even for a holo (no "bald spots" like with Nfu Ohs, China Glaze OMG's, or Sally Hansen Magicals), it only took two coats to be even and opaque with a better than average drying time, and when dry the surface of the nail is mirror smooth.

After I applied Golden Rose 119 and was surveying my work, I thought that the polish wasn't as holographic as I'd like it to be, which prompted the memory of an entire post from a while back where I told you what a difference Nfu Oh Aqua Base makes under holos.  Then I remembered my lengthy holo kick last summer, during which I consistently used Aqua Base and found it livened up every holo polish I used over it, which leads me to believe that Golden Rose 119 needs another run over Aqua Base.

To perk it up in the meantime, I stamped my tips with a pattern from tip plate XL A using Nfu Oh 61 for the stamping, and here's what I came up with.

Golden Rose 119 Nail Polish, Two Coats, with Plate XL A

It's not bad, but I'm still kicking myself for using the wrong base.

That's about it for today, Dear Reader.  Until next time, love and nail polish to you!

December haul

December was a quiet month for me, I needed to recuperate from my splurging spree in November haha. My mum came back from her trip to Hong Kong, so I also got my hands on some lovely international polishes ^^. The first two photos are taken indoors under natural light and the Sally Hansen Nail Prisms are taken indoors with flash.

Firstly, the polishes from Hong Kong :). I didn't specify which polishes to buy - just the brand and colour suggestions - so these were my mum's choices. I'm loving the Golden Rose polishes, the mini bottles look so cute next to the Alessandro. She also bought what she thought was a grey polish, but it turned out to be a matte top coat lol. I love my mum ♥

Golden Rose 36, 40, 28 and Alessandro International 348

And some lovelies from Paddy's market :D.
Sally Hansen Ruby Diamond, Pink Rose Diamond

Sally Hansen Golden Cinnabar, Diamond

Ooh, I also bought Claires Mood Polish in Calm/Wild which I forgot to take a photo of.

Now with new collections coming out, I won't feel as guilty spending money on them! :P I'm especially eyeing China Glaze's Anchors Away collection, what about you?

Don't forget to check out my New Year Giveaway!

Thanks for dropping by~
Sharon

Shades Sweet Addiction With Golden Rose Flakie

I love these Golden Rose flakie polishes. Why oh why did I wait so long to try you baby's out?????

I used Shades Sweet Addiction 1 coat and Golden Rose #04 1 coat.








This is my first Shades polish beautiful color but was not to happy with it, I had chipping within the first day :( Has this happen to anyone else?

And here are the 4 Golden Rose flakie's that I own. Have not tried out the other 3 yet!!

From left to right #15,#06,#04 & #05




Thanks for looking.

Swap from Santia

Ladies if you are a Golden Rose fan then you must look at these polishes that I got in the mail today :)

These are my first Golden Rose flakie polishes WOO-HOO




* Golden Rose Diamonds number 09 (Holo)
* Golden Rose Scale Effect number 15
* Golden Rose Scale Effect number 06
* Golden Rose Scale Effect number 04
* Golden Rose Scale Effect number 05
* Nubar Blue/Sliver Glitter

I am such a lucky girl to get my hands on these babys :)

A Wild Wicked Vixen Weekend

I'm sure you've read about our fun on Stiletto and Scandalous Ange's blogsBut I'm going to post it too so :oP
Our sweet friend Stiletto and her doll of a hubby drove to our side of the mountains for a visit.There was lots of girly jabbering and polish shopping and more girl talk and more shopping and frozen coffee.. and more shopping.How beautiful are my girls!!!! Yeah in case you didn't know...

Golden Rose Haul swatches

I put the number of each color by each nail and put the Golden Rose Line as well.101 is a bit more purple/lilac than the picture shows.I wish the holo showed better but the sun was playing games with me.
109 is a pale lilac and 117 is as holo as 109.
51 is light purple metallic, 57 is metallic as well.39 is very sheer which I expected, but you can see the blue flash and the glitter. The glitter

Golden Rose USA haulage!

Yay, I got my Golden Rose USA order today!Happy slam dance...come on jump in people!I ordered some new pretties on Saturday after asking poor Mary a bazillion questions while she was getting ready to take the weekend off. Yes I am a pain, but you love me so deal with it!I got my pretties today and thought I'd share some bottle pics since I've had no time to swatch yet.I put their numbers on the

How to not be selected for Jury duty 101

My mission to not get picked for jury duty was a total success!So I thought I would lend my tips to my other civic duty shirkers!
First consider where you live and what "type" of community it is.Mine is Super conservative, rich, republican, stick up the but hard core Southern Christian extreemists.So yes this was not too hard for me. :)
First I consulted the top minds in the Nail world...MUA Nail

It's a happy holo day! Picture heavy

I am holographic crazy since we have sunshine.This is Golden Rose #113 and #119 on the pinky.
I love the scattered holo in these!
I seriously took about 100 pictures.

I can't wait for more sunny days!
I think I might have an addiction
Do you hear the fallen angel's singing? Oh, that was just Dark Throne playing on the stereo.  :o)

Juicy tips and a bad pun fauxnad!

I was in a green juicy mood so I pulled out Golden Rose Fashion color #52Jellyish nearly neon, juicy green yum!
Even the 90+ year old Neighbor lady (I sit with so her daughter can get out of the house for a few hours), loved this color and kept having to touch it. She was wearing Neon pink tips.


This color makes me happy!
And now a bad pun fauxnad....
Can you figure out my fauxnad pun?Lisa the

Golden Rose #119 Black holographic and comparison

I know how cruel of me to leave you hanging.Well here you are more pictures of #119 and it's dark holo sexiness!Oh yes the base is black, not charcoal or brown.


Pardon my super dry gucky hands, these were at the end of the swatchfest and the acetone had taken it's toll
I left the last to giant so you can click and see the holo
Now the comparison.I thought it would be helpful to compare #119 to

Golden Rose Swatches

As promised here are my Golden Rose SwatchesGet a snack this is a looong one!
First I want to do the colors that Mary sent extra. These are Golden Rose USA's top sellers.

#40 from the Paris line.A golden base with gold glitter. It is sheer so I layered 2 thin coats over a taupe, 20 coats and you can't see the taupe at all. I believe that you could make this opaque in 4 coats.

Direct light

Golden Rose USA review

I have been on a hunt to find e-tailers here in the US that carry overseas brands.SCORE! I tracked down Golden Rose USA who carries Golden Rose a Turkish Nail polish brand.I roamed around the site (drooling) looking for the down side. Good prices, Free shipping on orders over $20.00, huge selection. OK so I did a search via google for complaints or bad reviews etc....Not a thing.So I decided to