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!

Feelin' Springy? - Barry M Spring Green

Hello my dear readers!

Winter has come back to Germany with all it's unpleasant snow and ice. I am so sick of it! If it doesn't stop snowing soon, I will have to grow all my tulips in the livingroom...
Still, I do try to keep my hopes up for spring and dress up my nails accordingly, so dive into some fresh spring green with me :-)


Barry M Spring Green





This is a gorgeous pastel light green with a tiny hint of blue to it. It is pretty similar to Barry M Mint Green, but it has more oooooommmph to it, so if Mint Green is a tad bit to pale for you, Spring green will be your new favorite!



The formula of these is perfect and smooth, no streaking at all. two coats, perfectly opaque and dries in a snap! Sounds like a winner!





Just in case you guys wonder how similar Barry M's Mint Green and Spring Green are, I included a comparison swatch:

Left: Mint Green
Right: Spring Green




That's it for today, tomorrow I might just have some pretties from my P2 Haul for you, so stay tuned!

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!

Leave the snow behind and follow me on the island - China Glaze Light my Tiki

Good morning fiends!

I know, I sound like a broken record with my constant complaints about the snow. Seriously, it's almost the middle of march now and there is still snow outside. Continuing at that rate, I will be allergic to white at least until november, I swear.
So I am defiant of what I see outside and move on to hot summery nail colors...oh the comfort I find in these! Heaven!
So to get you in the groove of tropical islands, warm sand, beaches and ocean breezes, I got some China Glaze Light my Tiki polish for you, so please enjoy and tune in "Summer feeling...laa dee da dee da dee..."


China Glaze Light my Tiki





Sorry for the crappy lighting, the sun was not cooperating :-(
Anyways, what we have here is a beautiful red/pink shimmer color, base color being a berry red and the shimmer a hot pink. You have to love that combination!



The formula was fine, two coats no hassle. Gooooooood :-)



On the next pic, you can really see the hot pink shimmer in the bottle, gorgeous isn't it?







So which polishes do you guys pick to get into a summery mood despite the snow? Yup, I am curious ;-)
So can't wait to hear from you guys, read you tomorrow!

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!

Some more yummieness - China Glaze Strawberry Fields

Hello my fellow fiends!

Another quick, quick post on the run, as I will be out of town until probably Saturday now. Since I really loved China Glaze's Cherry Pie I thought, why not share another beautiful and yummie polish from the Summer days Collection? So here goes, China Glaze Strawberry Fields! Enjoy!


China Glaze Strawberry Fields



Strawberry Fields doesn't look anything like its namesake, the strawberry. Instead of a red, you get what I call a "grown up pink" it's a pink that is not extremely bright, but more on the magenta side. Plus, this beauty has a ton of golden glass flecks, how wonderful is that?





On the next pic, you can see the golden glass flecks



Beautiful,huh?
Although I do have to say, my skintone likes Cherry Pie a wee bit better. It's probably the gold that makes Strawberry Fields look a bit off on me, but hey, still love the polish so it will stay put in my Helmer, hehehe
So see you all back here this weekend, take care!