Little 80ies Flashback - Milani HD Neons in Pink Rocks and Fresh Teal

Hello and Welcome!

Today I am taking you guys on a little time warp trip with 2 beautiful neon polishes from Milani. I know, the 80ies are definitely over by now, but hey, neons are definitely a must have for me when we are talking summer, so it is sun, sand and neons for me :-)
I got those two polishes way back in march, when they were released together with the Milani Holographic polishes, but youcan still find them at drugstores, Milani's website or cherrycouture. Back in march the weather was still meh and I wasn't really too motived to try those polishes. But now with some nice weather, hey, I needed to get these babies out and swatched asap. So here we go :-)

Both polishes, Pink Rocks and Fresh Teal, appy really easily, but the first coat is waaaaaay sheer. I needed three coats until I got them opaque enough for me, which works without problems as the formula is on the thin side, so no gloopy thick coats here. The polish dries like most neons really quick (which is a nice plus) and has a semi matte finish, meaning matte but with a subdued shine. Like it! So you can either play up the shine with a topcoat, or go totally matte with a matting topcoat, like Essie's Matte about you, your choice ladies ;-)
All the polishes come in a colored bottle, so you can't actually see the polish until you open it. Weird. Fortunately, the polish turned out to be pretty color true to the bottle color, but still weird.
Overall, these babies are not quite as bright and in your face as for example China Glazes Poolside Collection, they are (if you could even say that about a neon) a little subdued. Still bright and fresh, but not jumping in your face.

So on to the picture evidence!


Milani HD Neon in Pink Rocks
sunlight


artificial light, flash


indoors


indoors, artificial light




Milani HD Neon in Fresh Teal
sunlight


artificial light, flash


indoors


indoors, artificial light




I definitely need to get some more beauties from this collection, I am thinking of Totally 80ies, a smiley bright yellow and Rad Purple, name says it all....
Hope you guys liked this!

Soft, softer, Essie - Essie Main Squeeze and Lilacism

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Hello everybody!
That's about how I feel today...I don't know why, but everything I start today ends in chaos *yikes* I should have just stayed in bed and wait till Tuesday *grin*
Still, I actually intended to swatch 2 soft lovely beauties for you, but swatching didn't work out very well today, I managed to dip right into the fresh polish before taking the pictures. Oh, and no, not did I manage to do so once, but about 5!!! times in row, so I just decided "oh, what the heck..." and took pics of the messed up swatch, I do apologize for that, but I am just severly lefthanded on both hands today.
So, since it's Monday I wanted to show you some soft shades, to have a soft start into the new week ;-)
I picked two Essie colors, Essie Lilacism from the Spring Collection and Essie Main Squeeze from the Wedding Collection, which just came out recently.
The formula of both is okay I guess, a bit too runny for my taste.
Lilacism is a soft lilac cream, leaning towards the blue side of lilac. I needed the standart 2 coats for it to be opaque.
Main Squeeze is very sheer, a sheer pearl base, shimmering in different shades of lilac with a sort of pearl like effect, I needed 4 coats for it to really show on my nails.




Essie Main Squeeze, sunlight




The beautiful shimmer is really hard to capture and my pics don't do this polish justice



indoors



indoors + flash



artificial light




Essie Lilacism, sunlight




indoors




indoors + flash



artificial light



So, I hope that tomorrow I will be back to my old self and my goofyness will stop. Do you guys have btw a favorite soft/wedding shade for your nails? I would love to hear from you!

Happy Easter Everybody! Easter Stamping using Essie Lilacism

Hello my very dear fiends!

I know I have been quite absent these days, I do apologize. But I do have a master plan to make it all up to you, my dear readers. I hoarded some new lovelies from Nubar, Essie, Barielle and BB Couture. As far as the weather goes, they actually predicted some sunshine for tomorrow, so I am getting my camera ready for some serious swatching action, hehe.
For easter, I couldn't really make up my mind on which polish I should choose. At first, I wanted some bright yellow or even orange, but then looking outside the window into the grey rainy sky, I had to think of something different, as bright yellow and grey skies don't go very well together. So after contemplating for a while, I settled on Essie Lilacism, which is a lovely pastel lilac color, it just came out as part of Essie's Wedding Collection. Just by itself it just wasn't enough, so I plaed it up a bit by adding some Konad stamping, using a no name white polish and Sephora by OPI's Queen of everything. I really liked the result, I mean, I am wearing this the 2nd day already LOL
But here we go, some pics my friends!


Essie Lilacism with Konadicure













So that's it for now, hope you all had a wonderful weekend and a happy easter holiday!
See you tomorrow, stay tuned!

Got the Monday Blues? Oh yes!! - Gosh Blue Monday

Welcome back fiends!

Another week, another monday...
What would be better to get up and going into the week than a fabulous nail polish?
So I am starting off with Gosh Blue Monday, a wonderful deep blue glitter that spreads out enough energy to get going into a new week of nail polish fun!


Gosh Blue Monday





This is an ocean blue jelly based glitter, for my taste, it could have been a bit more jelly-ish, I guess I get that impression because the polish is quite runny and really sheer with just one coat. To achieve an opque coat, I needed 3 thick coats of polish. But who cares, if the result is so beautiful?



As I mentioned, Blue Monday is veeeeeery sheer, so to achieve an opaque look without slathering on 3 coats, I used Essie Aruba Blue as a base and applied 1 coat Blue Monday over it. I am very pleased with the result :-)







well, I wouldn't be me if I wouldn't experiment a bit more with a new polish hehehe
so here goes:

Index: Essie Aruba Blue + Gosh Blue Monday
Middle: Essie Aruba Blue + Gosh Blue Monday + Essie matte about you
Ring: Essie Aruba Blue + Gosh Blue Monday + P2 So Cool Flakie
Pinkie:Essie Aruba Blue+ Gosh Blue Monday + P2 So Cool Flakie + Essie matte about you






Hope this helped you guys out with your monday blues! Take care my dear fiends and read you here again tomorrow!

Helloooooooo spring! Helloooooooo hot neon pink! - Essie Short Shorts

Good evening ,my dear fiends!

I will be gone on onther trip from Monday to Thursday, so I will try to be a busy bee and get some posts up this weekend for you guys.
Today, second day we actually had some sun here, I was feeling quite wild and needed some nail polish that was in your face and screaming "Hellooooo sunshine, look at me!" So I went ahead and chose Essie's Short Shorts and a good choice it was :-)
Short Shorts is part of the Essie Neon Collection that got released in summer 2008. I believe there were 3 more colors, but only the hot pink really fascinated me. The formula is okay, a bit on the runny side so you do have to work kinda fast otherwise you get uneven results. The polish does dry down matte (I guess that's due to the neon formula), but nothing a little topcoat can chance, hehe
So on to the neon goodness!


Essie Short Shorts



Love it. I mean, is there a better way to kick winter's butt?





Indoors, still beautiful



with flash




The first and the last picture are the ones that are the most color true. I never thought a color could light up my mood so much. YAY! So I think I will skip all the pastell colors for spring and move straight on to the Neons...hehehe
Read you back here soon!

Winter Blues? Try Winter Greys instead! - Essie Chinchilly

Welcome back my dear fiends!

For today, I got a little something to fight the winter blues. I am already sick of all the snow and dark weather. So, to fight the blues, why not try a little sophisticated grey? So I picked Essie Chinchilly for you today.
Just like Angora Cardi, which came out in the same Collection, the formula is fantastic and really easy to apply. 2 Coats and you got a wonderful, shiny creme opaque look.



I know there are quite some taupy grey polishes out there, since it seemed to be sort of an "it" color this year. Somehow, this is my favorite one, don't know why :-)





This pic I took with Flash to show you guys how the grey/taupe hues have a quite cool undertone, so it's perfect for summer/winter types!





Simple and sophisticated...it's not a "hey look at me!" hue, this polish gets noticed because of it's cool chic.



To turn this beauty even more sophisticated, I did a Konadicure with Konad m70 and Sephora by OPI "Queen of Everything" the outcome was a somewhat Louis Vuitton inspired glam chic




That's it for today gals, see you back soon!

Can nail polish be comforting?! - Essie Angora Cardi

Hello, hello my dear fiends!

Again just a quick post for you :-(
I am quite busy at the moment, living basically out of my suitcase which is kinda meh.
Today I picked a color which for me is a "comforting color". When I wear it on my nails, I think of putting on a cozy, fluffy white sweater, sitting on the sofa, snuggling into a comfy blanket with a good book and a cup of green tea. I can be quite scary, huh? :-)
Do you have a "comforting" nail polish? I would love to hear from you!



Essie Angora Cardi






The color could be a one coater, but my tips were still kinda shining through, so I applied a second one. Wonderful full on creme mauve finish. Love it.



Of course Auntie Charis did do a bit of layering on this polish as well, hehe
on index: Essie Angora Cardi
on middle: Essie Angora Cardi + China Glaze Cleopatra
on ring: Essie Angora Cardi + Essie Nude Beach
on pinkie: Essie Angora Cardi + Scherer Chameleon Dream








They did all turn out quite interesting, but I guess I like the version with Essie Nude Beach on it best. It turns the creme finish into a milky sheer, I think that looks quite lovely, don't you think?

So that's it for now, I will be back on monday and I got some interesting stuff for you, so have a great weekend and see you next week!

Romantic Valentine's Pink Swatchapalooza Part I

Good evening my dear fiends!

Todays post was quite a piece of work, but it was well worth it. I rummaged through my drawers picking up every single romantic pink polish I own :-) So I thought it was just the time of the year to get some swatches done with these babies, Valentine's day is just around the corner and what would be more fitting for such an occaison than some pale pink nail polish?

So here we go!

First one up is Color Club "Russian Lilac"


The name implies some kind of lilac tint in there. Well, I couldn't find it, instead in my honest opinion, the color is a pale white with just a dust of light pink on it.



The formula is okay, the first coat was pretty streaky and the polish is fairly thick. It took 3 coats in total to be opaque enough for me



Overall, this is a perfect light base polish to do some fun and colorful Konadicures, since the white is not as harsh as OPI's Alpine Snow for instance


Next up is Essie "Nude Beach"


This is the palest pink enriched with a beautiful opalescent pearl shimmer



I absolutely hate this polish when I am wearing it as a single polish, the formula is a bit goopy and it took me 4 coats the get the slightest hint of color on my nails. BUT I looooooove this polish for layering, especially if you use this over darker colors it really shines!


Up next we have Zoya "Bailey"


Wow, this one is definitely the most beautiful, wearable sheer pink that I own. A barley there color, enriched with some microglitter and fine shimmer. Perfect for the "I have barley anything on my nails" look. Took me 3 coats in total, the formula is perfect as always, a little bit thick, but not streaky at all, glides on smooth.



So this one would be the winner, when I had to pick the most romantic barley there pink out of the bunch :-)


Next up is OPI "Privacy Please"


Beautiful. Pale pink sheer creme polish. Love it. If you look for something without glitter, shimmer or any other gadgets, this is your winner



Regular OPI formula, no flaws. Took three coats to be nice and opaque.


Next up is China Glaze "Innocence"


Name says it all. Perfect for "model hands" very similar to OPI's Privacy Please, but with just a wee tiny bit of shimmer in the finish.



Took 3 coats to be opaque. I like the formula better than OPI's since this one is a bit thicker, the OPI seems to be a little bit more on the runny side, but I guess that is personal preference



In my opinion, if you have either the OPI or the China Glaze, you don't need the other. YAY saved some cash :-)


Next up we have China Glaze "Temptation Carnation"


Tempting indeed. So we're back to the sheers, but this one comes packed with a whole lot of beautiful shimmer. Love it. The color isn't "in your face" but the shimmer makes it get noticed.



Again, like the last polishes, 3 coats to be opaque. Applied nice and smooth, no complaints.



I guess I do still prefer Zoya Bailey when it comes to sheer pinks with shimmer. But nevertheless, this ones a beauty. So if you have a hard time finding Zoya nail polish, go for the China Glaze one.


Up next is OPI "Pink of hearts 2009"


Hmm this one is difficult. I would say it's a sheer, since it took 3 coats to be opaque, but after 3 coats it looks like a perfect creme to me. Hmmm. I guess I'll call it a semi-creme then. Lovely light pink hue, more on the warm side though



One BIG complaint: Why do all the charity brushes from OPI have this hideous huge mop brush? It's a pain, there is no way on earth to manage a correct and fine application with this monster of a brush. YIKES!



Other than that, it the usual OPI quality polish you know, nice color, nothing exciting, just nice solid pink. Still big rant for the brush though.


And the last one up for today: Scherer Chameleon "Dreams"


beautiful pale pink duochrome polish, makes me think of a pearl necklace in the sunlight. Very romantic *sigh*



Like Essies Nude Beach, this polish was meant for layering, since you need at least 3 coats to get this anywhere near opaque. Still absolutely amazing on it's own.



So that's it for today, look forward for part II and even more pretty pink goodness!