I am Naeema Ibrahim aka Nemo-The Artist, The owner of Nia Arts, I luv all artistic and creative stuff like photography, makeup, knitting, sewing, crafting, scrapbooking and all glittery sparkly things and i love playing with colors and u can expect anything on this blog J

Friday, April 22, 2011

UD - Naked Palette

I finally own this palette!! (ya ya i know i'm late infact tooooo late hehe)
Absolutely love this palette. I gave into the hype and bought it for myself.  I'd been looking for month. I purchased the palette that has the primer and eye shadow brush.
For under $50, you get quite a bit for your money. This is the 1st palette that I've owned by UD and by far is my favorite. I used this and it worked out wonderfully.

Some of the colours had some fallout however I expected that being that a good majority of the colors are shimmery & soft. They are all richly pigmented as I expect from Urban Decay. The brush is quite nice, I didn't use it yet but I tried it out and it packs on color very well. Primer is just what it is. I don’t think there's any other eye shadow base I want to use although I have used too faced eye shadow primer that works same as UD PP !


Now a lil about the shades:
  • VIRGIN eyeshadow is a very soft creamy colour with a slight sheen,you can apply it  on the lid and also use as a brow highlighter.
  • SIN looks very light in the pan but when swatched it comes out slightly darker. It’s a pinkie colour with a satin finish.
  • NAKED is a matte light brown colour which is especially smooth and satiny in texture. 
  • SIDECAR is a shimmery  brown+ bronzy colour with a  slight bit of glitter.
  • BUCK is the only matte colour in this palette. It’s very similar to NAKED in both texture and colour but lil darker than NAKED.
  • HALFBAKED is a  bronzy shimmery colour.
  • SMOG compliments HALFBAKED very well. It is very pigmented and a gorgeous dark brown with a satin finish.
  • DARKHORSE is  really a dark brown colour, it has a lil amount of tiny glitter in it but it's hardly noticeable.
  • TOASTED  is a lovely browny pinky  colour which compliments SIN beautifully.
  • HUSTEL is very  close to DARKHORSE its got a beautiful purply undertone.
  • CREEP is  a beautiful black colour actually dark grey – almost black, with silver sparkles. GORGEOUS!
  • GUNMETAL is a  grey color and  this shadow has also silver glitter in it .


My only qualm is that it’s so hard to find (whose gonna buy again when somebody already owns it lol stupid me ) however I think it lives up to its hype as being a great neutral palette. Its travel friendly and you can create so many different looks with it.


Versatility= value in my book. :)

Here's the pix of the swatches* and naked palette and brush and primer 




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* i googled the pix of sawtches ,ONLY THE SWATCHES PIX, these are not mine actually i swatched each shade myself but mistakenly deleted those pix, Sorry, but my swatches were just like these swatches infact these are more organized than mine
 


Disclaimer: I am NOT being paid to make this post. All opinions are my own and 100% honest, as always.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Turbo Color Nail Polish

This is Nivea's nail polish in color "Turbo Metal".
This is such a pretty pinkish purple color i guess, OK fine i accept it is a mauve color. It dries quickly,long lasting and it does not chip easily.It can stay last on your nails for a long time( 3 to 4 days,they are enough in my opinion) I got the end result with two coats of  it.It gives a super slick and smooth finish and a hi shine result as u can see in the pix below.You can wear it at night or in day whenever you like. :)



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Disclaimer: I am NOT being paid to make this post. All opinions are my own and 100% honest, as always.

Friday, April 15, 2011

Red Nails !

This is DMGM's Metal shine polish in color " Red Metal"

OMG i just love this color !! by the way who wouldn't?? it's such a pretty red color.It makes u feel like  "The Lady in Red" (i think this is now too much lol). Anyways , let's come to the point, it doesn't chip and it lasts quite a long time(as i mentioned above i dont wear any color more than one day because ummm umm dont know y but it is like that :D), I personally like DMGM's polishes very much, it applies easily and dry fast as compared to other polishes.I got the end result with two coats.Like the name says METAL shine it does give that shine and one more thing i would like to add is that it does make your hands look pretty so wherever u see it just grab it, after all girls it is a Freaking awesome RED color. 
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Disclaimer: I am NOT being paid to make this post. All opinions are my own and 100% honest, as always.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Silver Foil Nail Polish


This is Avon's mirror shine polish in color "Silver Foil"
It's a gorgeous color (obviously in my opinion), u can wear it whenever u want :D  this color will definitely going to attract other
s  attention as this is not a common color . It has a metallic shine to it. I got the end result with two coats, like the Gold Foil color I think it will also chip easily although I havent experienced that yet but I think its not going to stay without chipping more than 3 days and that is pretty good ! because i don't wear any color for more than one day :D anyways I  think it's quite a pretty and wearable color. I am completely satisfied with this Polish. 




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Disclaimer: I am NOT being paid to make this post. All opinions are my own and 100% honest, as always.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Avon-Gold Foil

This is Avon's mirror shine polish in color "Gold Foil"
It's an awesome color for night or when you want yo have some extra attention on you nails the color speaks for it self, its golden, its bright and it goes with almost everything. I got the end result with two coats, the only downside is that it does chip pretty fast but if your out partying or just a night out with friends even a light candlelite dinner this color will definatly spice things up.


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Disclaimer: I am NOT being paid to make this post. All opinions are my own and 100% honest, as always.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Metal Shine Nail polish

This is DMGM's Metal Shine Nail Polish in color " Pink Metal"
after 2 coats ,result is this 
                       
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Disclaimer: I am NOT being paid to make this post. All opinions are my own and 100% honest, as always.

Monday, April 4, 2011

My First Nail Art Stamping Experience

i just say it is WOW !! m in luv with Konad stamping nail art =)



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