Put on my green suede shoes... - OPI Here Today, Aragon Tomorrow Suede

Hello my lovelies!

I hope you all had a fantastic weekend. Mine was quite nice, lots of sunshine and BBQ, how good can it get? Downside of it all, the weather here changed to grey and scattered showers, so boo hoo no sunshine for swatching, but I'll manage ;-)
Today I picked a new little treasure I just got for you. OPI Here Today, Aragon Tomorrow Suede. I really like the Suede formula, I like it a whole lot better than the Matte formula OPI did. The polish is nice and smooth, quick to apply and dries in a snap, as matte polishes usually do. The finish is not completely matte, it's like matte with a tiny bit of shine to it. Add some topcoat to this and you'll get a real stunner, so basically the Suede polishes can be used as a 2 in 1 polish kinda thing. The color is a nice deep, rich green and reminds a lot of Zoya's Veruschka, so if you have that I guess you don't really need HTAG Suede. But decide for yourself because here comes the picture parade...


OPI Here Today, Aragon Tomorrow Suede
sunlight, natural light






natural light, indoors









artificial light indoors







now to double the fun, some topcoat added:
sunlight






indoors, natural light












indoors artificial light







Hope you liked this, see you again soon!

Another gem from OPI's HongKong Collection - OPI Meet me on the Star Ferry

Hello my dears!

I know I am seriously backlogged with my swatching activities, but I was thinking, if I am swatching my newest polishes now, the backlog will be even worse. So I am catching up bit by bit and hey, there is nothing wrong with some "retro" polishes, right?
So today I am staying within OPI's HongKong Collection, presenting you the second polish I got. To be honest, I knew this polish would be too warm for my skintone, but I really had to have it just because of the name. Gosh I am weird sometimes *crazy*
So, Meet me on the Star Ferry is a dusty mauve shimmer packed with tons of gold micro glitter. It really doesn't look like that much just judging by the bottle, but once it's on the nails and the sunlight hits it, wow, love!!! So, for anybody who can wear warmer colors I seriously recommend this! The Formula was no fuss, first coat a bit streaky but it evened out nicely after the second.
Anything else?
Yup, pictures! :-)


OPI Meet me on the Star Ferry
sunlight


artificial light, flash


indoors, artificial light






So, for tomorrow I prepared something wham! bam! in your face!
All I say is: It's neon time!
So take care and have a wonderful day!

Woohoo I am back - Getting back on bloggin track with OPI's Jade is the new black

Hello my fiends, I am finally back on track...

So it has been quite a while since my last post. I have been dealing with some major changes in my life and figuring out how to fit another Helmer in my bedroom was not one of them :-)
Now things have gotten a whee bit calmer and I would love to get back to bloggin' and painting my nails. I can't promise that I will be posting on a regular basis now, but I swear I will try to do so at least once a week. Baby steps to start off again so to speak *winkwink*

So here I have a beauty I intended to post about ages ago, I am sure you have seen about a trillion swatches of it by now, but nevertheless here are mine, hehe

I am refering to OPI's Hong Kong Collection (which is still readily available I think). I picked out 2 colors, Meet me on Star Ferry (a beautiful dusty mauve color with golden micro sparkles) and Jade is the new black (muted jade with cool/blue undertone)


So, if there still are any of you out there reading this, here we go, my swatches of Jade is the new black, pictures please!



OPI Jade is the new black
sunlight





artificial light with flash


natural light, indoors


artificial light, inddors



I can't rave enough about this color. I am sure you have read plenty of reviews about Jade is the new black already, but what does it make really stand out is the fact, that there is no polish out there, that is even close in color, so this is definitely unique. I can't wait for fall, as I think this beautiful green jade jewel will be worn plenty of times then!

Quick NOTD - OPI "Sheer" your toys

Hello fiends!

Sorry I don't have a lot of time for you guys these days, work is a bit crazy at the moment, but I do hope that things will calm down in the next few weeks.
So for today, I have OPI's beautiful "Sheer" your toys polish from the Holiday in Toyland 2008 Collection. It is a sophisticated looking cool grey with silver shimmer and tiny, I mean really tiny, copper sparkle flecks that do shine up in direct sunlight but are impossible to capture in a pic :-(

So here we go:

OPI "Sheer" your toys



Despite the name, this is not a sheer beauty, instead, I used two coats and that's opaque enough for me



The formula was okay, nothing to ramble about



with Flash



Inddor Lighting




If you can't find this polish, I found that Zoya Harley and OPI's Give me the Moon
are fairly good Dupes. Hope you guys enjoyed this!

Still not enough Glitter??? - G.I.A. Rainbow Sticks

Welcome my lovely fiends!

Hope you all had a great weekend!
It's getting more and more sunny here and I think I might just smell a bit of spring, which I am longing for desperately, I've sooooooo had it with the snow *ack*
Today I got another Glitter polish for you. I hope I am not overdosing you with my glitter stuff, hehehe :-)
The Glitter I used today I from G.I.A. which again seems to not have a name, or maybe I am just too stupid to make it out on the bottle, who knows. The Glitter consists of a clear base with a ton of rainbow colored glittery sticks. I used OPI Sahara Sapphire as a base, to show off the glitter a bit more, though I left the Pinkie blank, so you guys can get an idea what the glitter looks like "naked"

Oh, another thing:
My Giveaway ends tonight, so you can go ahead and get signed up for it until midnight, tomorrow I will announce the happy winner!


G.I.A. Rainbow Sticks Glitter








Picture with flash




I just love the effects you get with this polish, since the little glitter sticks are definitiely unusual, they do brake the light in a different way than simple glitter chunks


Here is a big pic to show you exactly what I mean:



Doesn't this look like bursting fireworks? Like a rainbow glitter rain? I just loooove the effects of this, I will definitely play more with this polish, hehehe


So that's it for today, have a lovely Sunday and are you as excited as I am when the Giveawy winner will be announced tomorrow? See you then!

Opal Flakies! - P2 Private Color Party Polishes

Helloooooooo readers!

Today I got something really special for you! 3 new polishes from P2's limited edition called Private Color Party. The color range is light raspberry pink, grape purple and a dark sky blue. All of them feature a huge load of medium sized opal flakies, yay!
The polishes are okay to apply, a bit too runny for my taste but still okay. I would have loved them to have a more jelly like base, the base is extremely sheer unfortunaltely. But again, this flaw turns into a big advantage when you use these babies for layering.
So please enjoy today's flakie goodness!

P2 Color Party Polishes



From Left to Right: P2 Gorgeous!, P2 So Cool!, P2 Attraction!




P2 Attraction!



I just had the idea of showing you the different levels of coverage from this polish, so starting from top to bottom I applied 1, 2 and 3 layers of polish





P2 So Cool!



This one was the sheerest out of the bunch, again I did 1,2 and 3 coats starting top to bottom




P2 Gorgeous!



With just one coat, the color appears almost more pink than purple




P2 Gorgeous! Layered over 2 different purples



Index + Middle: P2 Glamorous
Ring + Pinkie: OPI A Grape Fit!




P2 So Cool! Layered over 2 different blue polishes



Index + Middle: Essie Aruba Blue
Ring + Pinkie: China Glaze Secret Peri-Wink-Le




P2 Attraction layered over different reds



Index + Middle: OPI Manicurist of Seville
Ring + Pinkie: China Glaze Skate Night




All three layered over a blackened blue polish, Milani Midnight Satin



I really like how the blue suddenly pops out




All 3 layered over a blackened red, OPI Midnight in Moscow



again, the blue one turns out to be the dominant color




Last but not least, I matted out all three polishes with Essie's Matte about you



Now you can really notice the opal flakes!




So that's it for today, hope you liked the flakies!
The P2 LE unfortunately is only available in german drugstores :-(