Strawberry Scented Nail Polish Remover?

My birthday was on January 27th, and for my birthday a friend of mine gave me L.A Colors Nail Polish Remover Pads.

  The container says that one pad can clean 10 nails, and that a darker polish may take more than 1 pad. I was a little skeptical of how well they would work. This is what my nails looked like before I took the polish off (nubbins! I know, they're terrible.)

 

 And this is what my nails look like after using the Nail Polish remover pads. 

 

They worked really well! I was pleasantly surprised. I'm curious to see how they will fare with a dark polish. I think I'll be giving my barely there nails a break for a while though. 

xx J

Sparkly French Tip

^ Creative title, eh? Pretty straight forward though!

The first thing I did was free hand the white tip using L.A Colours Art Deco in White. I applied a second coat so that it didn't look streaky.

Next, I added a coat of L.A Colours Art Deco in Ice Breaker.
(flash used to show sparklyness :3 )

 

And then another coat of Ice Breaker! 

And to finish, a clear coat on top. I've lost my top coat, some how.

xx

Forever 21 Love & Beauty

         When I saw that Forever 21 sold nail polish, I decided that I would try it out. I wasn’t expecting much from the polish, considering that it is $3.80 and from a clothing store, but I decided to check it out anyway!  I got the polish in a very pretty blue, appropriately named Baby Blue.

 One Coat

 Two Coats

 Three Coats

         It could have used maybe one more coat, but I wanted to go to bed and didn’t feel like waiting for it to dry! The formula of the polish is better than expected, it’s pretty creamy. The brush is wide enough and doesn’t shed (like so many other cheap polish’ brushes do!).  All in all, I was quite impressed with the quality of it.

As for how chip resistant it was….

 Day one of full day wear

Day two (my polish OCD kicked in and I peeled the rest off because they all had huge chips out of them….)

         I need to get a better top coat. I’m currently using just a clear coat that I found in the bathroom after I lost my good top coat. I alternated between nails for top coat so that I could ~experiment~. I noticed that the polish with my crappy top coat on them peeled easier than the ones without! Hmm…
 

         Some people say that the F21 polishes are a rip-off of L.A Colors (*echem* colours) in a different bottle. What do you think? Do you own and Love & Beauty polishes?