Enter the Dragon - Gosh Golden Dragon

Hello my dear fiends!

Welcome back! Hope you all enjoyed your weekend!
For today, I picked my favorite polish out of my Gosh haul from Manchester. Gosh Golden Dragon is absolutely stunning, a beautiful emerald green with gold veining that changes to an ocean colored blue green in the sun. Heavenly! Indoors, when the green stands more out, the color totally reminds me of MAC's Golden Olive Pigment. The finish of the polish is an in betweener of a metallic and a foil polish, love it! It's an almost metallic finish minus the streakiness they usually have. It does not get any better than this! Application was two coats, the polish is a bit thick, but I like that.
So here we go!


Gosh Golden Dragon

sunlight






bottle pic of the beautiful gold shimmer veining




indoors






flash





Hope you liked my polish pick of the day! Have a wonderful start into the new week!

Starting a dark romance - Gosh Black Passion

Welcome back my dear fiends!

Sorry for my lack of posting, I do feel quite ashamed *blush*
March is quite a crazy month for me, 3 birthdays within my family, my best friend had her baby boy and on top of that work, work, work...
Besides, spring still decides to not show up, hence my choice of color today...BLACK!
But, don't make up your mind too fast, we are not talking about the "yes I have seen this a million times goth pitch black color", nope this is something else. This is the softest black hue I have ever seen, I would even go as far and call this beauty a "romantic" black. Gosh Black Passion is a beautiful black jelly, charcoal tinted, leaning towards a dark grey (without being grey!) and it's got beautiful silver veining. Usually veined polishes tend to be streaky, but not this baby! The polish applies quick and smooth without being to watery. 2 coats give you perfect coverage. I love this polish! So who says black is not a spring color? *winkwink* :-)



Gosh Black Passion







Indoors artificial light




with Flash




I would be insane to not use this polish as a base for a beautiful glitter. I chose China Glaze Cleopatra, a slightly gold/coppery base with gold glitter. Perfect combination, or what do you think?











So that's it for today, I hope this weekend will be more quiet and I get some more time to post lovely polish for you guys. Tomorrow I am leaving for Chicago, so hope to see you friday my dear fiends!

Water Worlds - Gosh Ocean

Hello my dear fiends!

TGIF and I can't really enjoy the weekend...taking off for New York on Saturday for another business trip. *yawn* If I do get the luxury of some spare time there, I will try to hunt down some of those Claire's Mood nail polishes that I have been lusting after ever I saw some swatches. Other than that, today's schedule includes house cleaning and laundry. Lucky me! So I thought I could use some holiday feeling on my nails. Gosh Ocean, now where did I just hide that swimsuit??



Gosh Ocean



Gosh Ocean is a beautiful teal-blue-greenish shimmer metallic. Wow, that's a lot of good things in just one bottle *grin* seriously, in the shade you get more of a teal-blue metallic, in direct sunlight it does look like a bluish-green shimmer. Love those effects!



crappy pic, I apologize!



I used 2 coats, three would have been fine as well. I did have some issues with streaking on the first coat, but that's metallics for you, gotta live with it. It did even out a bit with the next coat though.



Another one of my favourite teal ocean like polishes is mermaid to order, I included a little comparison for you guys



SOPI's mermaid to order is also a blue/green metallic/shimmer but with some yellow undertones in the base and more blue than green as compared to ocean. The metallic effect is also not as strong, but still pretty similar. Another polish along those lines would be China Glaze Adore, but that one is way more blue and lacks the green


Hope you guys like this! I will post my P2 Haul pics sometime next week, so my apologies!

Who is Blue Monday's sister? Wicked Wednesday of course! - Gosh Gasoline

Hello my dearest fiends!

Today I wasn't very creative and just grabbed one of my new Gosh pretties, Gosh Gasoline. As the post header says, Gosh Gasoline is basically Gosh Blue Mondays twin sister, but instead of being blue, this one features some wicked blue/purple shimmer embedded in a purple jelly. Jackpot! Love it!
The only differenc eis maybe that Gasoline is not as extremely sheer as Blue Monday. But the difference is marginal, so instead of 3 thick coats I only needed like 2 3/4 coats hehehe ;-) Kidding


So here goes!


Gosh Gasoline





As you can see, the jelly base is very sheer, so the polish leans towards being more pink than purple to the eye, but you can also see that the shimmer is not only purple, but with bluish reflects






To be honest, I was a bit bummed out that I didn't get that beautiful dark purple glitter that I see in the bottle. But hey, I wouldn't be Lady Layering if I wouldn#t try to fix this with a second polish. So I picked up a gorgeous dark dirty purple from P2's LE What a girl wants and used it as a base. Here comes the result:





Much better, huh?






I also put two pics together with photoshop, to show you how much darker the polish gets when using the dark purple base, sorry for my amateur work...






So that's it for today! For tomorrow, I picked out something exciting in green, so 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!

Fight the snow with some fresh mint green - Barry M Mint Green and my little haul from Manchester

Hello my very dear fiends!

What a week! I was terribly busy this week with work and last friday my nephew had his confirmation, so this weekend was packed with family get togethers. Now I am finally back home and I can do what I enjoy most...paint my nails hehehe :-)
I have had a severe Lemming for MAC's Peppermint Patty, since it is such a beautiful spring mint color, but the catch is, it was a LE from last spring, so all you can do is jump into the piranha pool which is called ebay. So I have been on the lookout for a dupe and Barry M's Mint Green comes really close, it's not a spot on dupe, but I would say at least a 95% one. Good enough for me :-)
Of course, when I am on the lookout for one polish, others are bound to follow, so I grabbed a few other beauties from Barry M, Gosh and Sue Moxley. I will go ahead and swatch those lovelies for you in my next posts. Promised!


My little Haul from Manchester:



3 new Barry M's



#14 Famous Polish by Sue Moxley



and 5 new beautiful Gosh lovelies *swoon*





And here we will take a closer look at Barry M Mint Green:



isn't this just about perfect for spring?



I think this is pretty darn close to MAC's Peppermint Patty, at least what I can tell from pics on the net



The polish is definitely on the runny side and the brush is a bit small, but I could manage perfectly well. The first coat looked streaky as hell, but after applying a thick second coat, everything got opaque and even. Weird.



I also noticed that the polish dried REALLY quick, we are talking drying time like the OPI Suedes, other matt polishes or CG Holo's. I don't know if it is just this one, I will check with the other two Barry M's...





So that's it for today...boy I got a lot to catch up to, posting swatches of my haul, I also got two new maybelline colorama glitters I wanted to show you guys and a new Konad plate...Darn, I need and extra day of the week, preferably between saturday and sunday *winkwink*
See you back tomorrow!

Congrats to the winner and a Duochrome that should have been more than it was - Gosh Purple Heart

Welcome back my dear beloved fiends!

What a day! Temperatures are finally rising here which is good, I mean helloooo spring, come on this way I've so had it with winter...
Those are the only good news so far. Yikes. Work is all crazy, wonder how I am going to survive that week, I might just go ahead and reward myself with a new bottle of polish for being so good. I like that idea, hehe :-)

But enough of me and my average life, we have a winner! Random.org picked lucky number 7 from the post list which is ALISA! Congrats! I will email you for your adress so the polishes can travel your way asap!

So for today I have an incredible beautiful Gosh polish for you, Gosh Purple Heart. The thing that brakes my heart about this polish is, it only looks completely droolworthy in the bottle, what ends up on my nails is a completely different story, so a big "Oh no!" for that. The formula was so-so, a bit too runny for my taste. Still can't get over the fact that the bottle color cannot be achieved *sigh*

Gosh Purple Heart



Doesn't this pic get your heart racing??? What a beauty of a purple-greenish duochrome!




...and this is the sad result on my nails :-(




I really tried a whole different light settings, I think on this pic you can make out a slight purple effect, but that's about it. Boo Hoo




One last flash pic. Don't get me wrong, the polish is actually nice and I will keep it for sure, I was just extremely bummed out that I couldn't achieve the color from the bottle. But nevertheless, it is a beautiful black/dark grey base with a purple shimmer. No real duochrome though, sniff


That's it for tonight, I hope Alisa wil enjoy her new polishes and see you all back here soon!