Long overdue Haul post - My combined China Glaze, Drugstore, Orly, MAC and Sephora by OPI hauls

Hello my very dear and loyal readers!

Sorry for being absent for so long (again, unfortunately)
I was really tied up at work, my brother came to visit, tons of birthdays to attend and to make things worse, I got injured and I am currently sick. Nevertheless I wanted to give you guys a quick update and a few (though pretty crappy as the weather is bad) haul pics. So you will at least know which are the gems to come swatchwise *winkwink*
We are also moving really close towards 100 followers, that just screams free giveaway, doesn't it?

So please enjoy these pics until I am back all healed and happily swatching!



China Glaze Vintage Vixen Collection















Orly Plastix







Sally Hansen Insta Dry's







Milani Flash Collection







Milani Liquid Metal Collection







Milani Haute Value Collection










MAC Discon Polishes








Sephora by OPI Rocker Chic Collection







So I do hope to be back blogging sometime soon, I hope these pics make the waiting for you guys a bit easier!
Hang in there! :-)

Hey Sailor! - Orly Royal Navy

Hello my dears!

Again, I am being a very busy little bee, but I just couldn't resist to show you this precious little new addition to my polish collection. Usually, I am not the biggest fan of Orly polishes, since I personally think the formulation is a bit too runny, I just find it easier for me to apply thicker polishes. Overall that is just a question of personal taste =)
So for 4th of July Orly came out with this Navy themed mini Collection including Star Spangeled, a red glitter (basically a China Glaze Ruby Pumps Clone), White Tips, a basic french Manicure White and Royal Navy, the best and I repeat the best blue polish I have ever seen!
In the bottle, Royal Navy does look like a navy blue creme polish, which would be quite gorgeous already, but if you take a closer look, you will notice tons of subtle iceblue/turquoise microglitter which looks AMAZING! Two coats get this all bright and opaque on your nail, the blue is so intense, one could think this must be a neon polish. I definitely don't own anything like this and this is by no means a blue version of China Glazes Ruby Pumps, this is much, much better!

So on to my favorite part, the picture evidence =)


Orly Royal Navy
sunlight












flash



natural light, indoors






indoors, artificial light









bottle pic & nail closeup







so what do you guys think of this beauty?
have a wonderful remaining sunday and read you soon again!

Getting all shiny for the weekend - Orly Foil FX Shine

Hello my dear readers!

Things are finally sort of back on track, being stuck and not be able to travel back left things here back home in real chaos, but all is well now :-)
I hope I will be able to do A LOT OF swatching this weekend, as the weather frog announced SUNSHINE for the weekend. Can you believe it? Mr. Weathergod finally realized he has forgotten to send some nice spring weather to the place where I live. But sunshine all weekend long and temperatures around 20C are NICE!!! That totally makes up for waiting so darn long...
Unfortunately, I have to take off again on Sunday evening and I will be staying away for another week, although this is planned *grin*
So, I finally got the hang of doing some scheduled posting, so you poor things don't have to wait another week for me to post, hehehe :-)
I will just not be able to respond to your comments, but I guess that's okay, right?
So where was I? Right, I was talking about getting shiny nails for the weekend, yay!
Unfortunately the Orly Foil FX Collection only featured 3 polishes (how cool would have been a lime green or sky blue Foil????). The featured colors are gold, rose gold and silver. So I got only the silver, as the other colors don't work with my skintone (Hello corpse fingers is all I say to that)
You will need at least 2 coats with this polish, as it is packed with a gazillion silver particles and you will need a 2nd layer to even them out, otherwise the polish looks grainy and bumpy. The drying time is *yawn* not the fastest, but hey I guess that's pretty typical for Orly polishes or do you guys thing otherwise?
The color itself is supershiny and really clean silver, no green reflects or anything, just pure, shiny silver. Love that :-)
But, enough talking, where is this shiny darling? Follow me please....




Orly Foil FX Shine, sunlight






indoors



with flash




artificial light



Hope you guys liked this :-)