Nail Polish Edition! #4

Etude House

How can we talk about Korean make up brand's nail polishes without Etude House?? lol

Currently promoted by Shinee and 2NE1's Sandara Park, I believe they were the most well known brand around. Even you could spot an Etude House's stand almost, EVERYWHERE here. Mostly because of their pinky stores *and strong sweet fragrance* and the store that actually looked like a house they're really easy to spot on.

Nail polish-wise, they are the cheapest, colorful, and cute packaged Korean polishes. The variety of the colors always are unique and added periodically. They also have the dupe of magnet polishes and crack polishes also with budget friendly prices!

The greater thing is, they often held nailpolish event, like buy one get one (which mean you could get the cheapest by only 500 KRW) or 30% all products discount (which mean you could get the cheapest polish by 700 KRW). Even when it was not on sale, they are already cheap.

Anyway this is my go to polishes, if I like a color i would just buy it because the quality is above average I know it will be a good polishes (except my neon yellow one. Totally disappointed)

The sad thing is, even though Etude's product is the easiest product to reach to, especially in Asia region, most of the stuff is overpriced! Almost 3 times more expensive than the original price (especially when it is on sale. CRAZY!)

My favorite polish line from Etude's is..... The MATTE REAL top coat!! Magically turns every color into matte finishes!! So you don't have to buy another polish in matte, because you could turn anything you had to matte with this top coat!
So far my favorite product

Every matte finishes i had in my nail is because of this bad ass lol
I bought this on buy one get one promo, so I get this package!

sorry, amateur stuff

Another one is Jelly pop top coat, said that it is make your nail shinier, long lasting, and contain some vitamins, but i haven't tried this one. But matte real had been my BFF these time so I'm totally looking forward for it!

OH! I also had the black crack dupe! It's actually worked really really well! <3

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Nail Polish Edition #3!

Oh SH#T I've been procrastinating so much this Summer Holiday!

3. Tony Moly

At first, I was completely attracted by the visual packaging of the polishes. I mean how cool if I had polish collection with those chic black cap!! So I tried bought one, but ofcourse. big disappointment. 

Aside from cool black cap design, the polish itself is the worst. The liquid is too fluid and the applier brush is too wide and coarse. Dries not really great and it chipped on me so bad!! I don't really like the finish either

The 'Happy Holiday Nails' is a limited edition for last year's Christmas. Even though the packaging was indeed smaller, but if you divide the package price, one bottle costs pretty much the same as a normal size. (I don't actually like the color combination too..Anyway I got it on a discounted price..)

Aside from the nail polishes...

Tony Moly's product is a good alternative for someone on budget. Most known by their eyeliner though. I was once tony moly's eyeliner user (mostly because of their simple chic packaging. Yes I judge by their cover lol) because they're freakin' CHEAP!! And most of the products I got it on sale.. so    really easy on the money here.

Tony Moly is right now promoted by T-Ara's Eunjung and Song Joongki. Once also promoted by Kim Hyun-joong (this guy is everywhere :S) and Ga-in from BEG too

Good news for you guys in Jakarta, Indonesia!! 

I've recently found out Tony Moly stores opened in Mal Taman Anggrek and PIM! Go check it out (..AND the price is SO MUCH reasonable than Et*de Ho*se's!!) 

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Nail Polish EDITION! #1

This is been a long long review posts I've made since weeks ago. But because of all the busy student life (and procrastinating), I decided to make a review out of Korean brands, focusing on their nail polishes!! My collection might not be overwhelming but I just stating my opinion about each brand, and  give a more information for each of them, since I know it's not easy to get Korean brand outside of, you know, Korea. 

I've been making this post as a whole big review post, but I found them really long and tiring, so I decided to divided them by brands! 

So, here is the first post! I will try to update daily for other brands, as they were already on my drafts.. Beware of updates! 

Innisfree

Innisfree is one of Korea's make up brand that promotes green life style. Recently they are promoted by Girls' Generation, Yoona. Somewhat like Korean version of 'The Body Shop', with more green products originated from Korea.

Now introducing my Innisfree nail polish collections :

Innisfree's Eco Nail Color, from left to right 

봉숭아 꽃 살구 (Apricot's Flower Balsam?) No. 9

가울 여행 (Autumn Trip) No. 64

젤리 핑크 (Jelly Pink) No, 49

익은 감귤 (Ripe Tangerine) No. 8

허브 요거트 (Herb Yogurt) No. 83

허니 골드 (Honey Gold) No. 53

꿈의 눈꽃 ( Dream's Snow Flower) No. 74

Eco Top Coat 

I could say this is my favorite one. The packaging is nice, and the polishes are not that bad! They had quite a large selection from pastels to vivid, from shimmers to glitters, and they have this nice consistency. Even though applying nail polishes with the brush could be tricky (since the bottle cap is round, kinda difficult to have a steady hand when applying). 

The price is quite in the higher range, starting from 2.000 KRW and higher for glitters or non-basic color, even if you could get more discount I think you need a VIP membership card ...... which is difficult to get, almost impossible, if you're not Korean or not currently residing in South Korea.

Basically Innisfree is focusing on organic make ups and skin cares. Recently they were famous  for their eco science products with marine plants from Jeju ocean's eye cream which have been stock outed for weeks!  

Favorite one <3 Apricot Flower Balsam, Herb Yogurt, Ripe Tangerine

One more thing! Try to go to Innisfree website, not only they have the colors collection there, they also had some nail tutorials there! (In Korean though. But pictures tells 1000 words that should enough)

 inside their website! check them out! 

My instagram pictures of nailart. Made by Ripe Tangerine and Apricot Fruit Balsam, topped with Etude's Matte Real <3 chipping a lot because I'm lazy to wait it until it really dries <3

That's all folks for the first review! Wait for the next one, if they're upped already I'll post the link below! :) 

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