Category: Shimmer

Delush Polish Glam Squad goes Holiday

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Today I have a brand new Delush Polish pretty for you. This is Glam Squad from the Nue Collection. My newest order of Delushies arrived yesterday and I just had to wear this one right away and naturally I wanted to you guys too :D

A stunning metallic red. I love this! Excellent application and almost a one coater for me. Dry time was also quick. This didn’t stain my cuticles on clean up. Other than that the jury is still out cos I’m still wearing this manicure :D I’ll update the wear time and other information here in a few days.

For this manicure I used a coat of Sally Hansen Nail Rehab, a coat of Glisten & Glow Stuck On Blu!, two coats of Glam Squad and HK Girl top coat.

The icy details were made using a fine nail art brush and Dance Legend Mountain Snow white texture polish.

 

***Glam Squad and Mountain Snow were purchased by me.  I don’t benefit from clicking any of the links on this post.

Jindie Nails – Coral-ing All The Jindie Junkies (Fan group custom polish)

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I gotta take a break from organizing my new nail and makeup room aka woman cave :D to show you this new Jindie Nails beauty. This is Coral-ing All The Jindie Junkies and it was created as a custom polish for Jindie Nails fan group in FB.

“This one is is a coral  shimmer polish loaded with blue, purple, pink, rose, green, gold and real silver flakies.  It’s also got micro glitters in holographic gold and holographic silver.  The polish is opaque in 2-3 coats.”

Quality of this polish was very good. It applied nice and smooth, dried fast enough and didn’t chip during the three days I wore this manicure. Just beautiful!

For this manicure I used a coat of Essie Fill The Gap and a coat of Glisten & Glow Stuck On Blu! base coats, two coats of Coral-ing All The Jindie Junkies and HK Girl top coat. For the ring finger I used a coat of Essie Fill The Gap and two coats of OPI Love.Angel.Music.Baby velvet matte, no top coat.

You can buy Jindie Nails polishes from JindieNails.com or from authorized distributors. You can find the latest news, releases and restock info from their FB and IG.

 

***All the products on this post were sent for review.  I don’t benefit from clicking any of the links on this post.

Some Mavala Techni-Color’s collection swatches

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This summer I got an opportunity to try some Mavala polishes. It’s been forever since I had a bottle of Mavala polish and I have to say my experiences with them have been more or less average. So I wanted to test this summer collection just of curiosity and I was so pleasantly surprised! The polishes had a good, highly pigmented formula. Application was smooth and easy and drying didn’t take forever. Some of these were almost one coaters. I also LOVED the colors! Not amazingly unique but bright and vibrant colors that go well with any time of the year.

Some of these are also so pigmented that they work for stamping. I haven’t tried stamping with them but I’ve seen it done by other bloggers.

This was a summer collection but at least where I live I’ve still seen it been sold a few days ago. So if you never paid attention to these I suggest you check them out while you can.

Today I have swatches of three colors out of the six on this collection. Again these photos were taken during summer when I still had gel on my nails. I think that this is it though and next photos are gonna be all natural nubbins swatches ;)

 

 

102 Cyber Yellow – Two coats with Glisten & Glow Stuck On Blu! base coat and HK Girl top coat 
 Bright yellow with green-ish shimmer and glow. Amazing application for a yellow polish. This one has a tiny bit of visible brush strokes in it but it’s really not too noticeable in real life.
106 Orange Fusion – Two coats with Glisten & Glow Stuck On Blu! base coat and HK Girl top coat 
Really fierce orange shade that looks like it’s on fire. Amazing application and this is a one coater even if I applied two. Yes, this came out in a summer collection but how perfect is this color for fall too!
103 Cobalt Blue – Two coats with Glisten & Glow Stuck On Blu! base coat and HK Girl top coat 
Very vibrant blue creme that is a borderline crelly if you ask me. Very glossy and bright! Again, amazing application and very well pigmented formula. This instantly became my favorite blue and I think I need to get a backup bottle while I can still find one. Love, love, love it!!

***These polishes were sent for review.

CND Vinylux swatches

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Today I have more older swatch photos to show you. Again these were taken during summer when my nails still had some gel layover left on them. So the nail shape is a little weird and you can see the gel growth line on some of the photos.

Now all the gel is grown out so that won’t be a problem anymore on the newer photos. Though now my problem is that my nails are nubbins. I’m never totally happy :P

So today I have some random CND Vinylux swatches for you.

“VINYLUX™ is a breakthrough polish system that endures a week of fashion perfection…without a base coat! Exposure to natural light secures the patent-pending technology, creating an enduring, long-lasting polish. While ordinary polishes become brittle and deteriorate over time, VINYLUX dries naturally to a flawless finish and strengthens its resistance to chips over time. VINYLUX is available in 71 fashion-forward polish colors and 60 colors that match popular CND Shellac™ shades.”


All of the swatch photos are taken without a base coat and using Vinylux Weekly top coat. All the polishes applied well and were opaque in 2-3 coats.

 

 

Studio White (3 coats and Vinylux Weekly Top Coat)
Grapefruit Sparkle (3 coats and Vinylux Weekly Top Coat)
 
 
Limeade (3 coats and Vinylux Weekly Top Coat)
 
 
Locket Love (2 coats and Vinylux Weekly Top Coat)
Pink Bikini (2 coats and Vinylux Weekly Top Coat)
 
 
Pretty Poison (2 coats and Vinylux Weekly Top Coat)

***These polishes were sent for review. I don’t benefit from clicking any of the links on this post. 

Jindie Nails – Just Say Glow

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Hello lovelies! It’s already Tuesday again. Time just goes way too fast! I meant to get this post up a couple of days ago but it was such lovely weather during the weekend I just had to work on the yard as much as I could :) I have so much going on right now and things that need to get done asap. Without going to details I won’t be doing much yard work later this summer so I gotta get a lot of things done now :)

So I might be a couple of days behind on my schedule but here we go. This is another polish from the upcoming Jindie Nails Recover Me collection, Just Say Glow. I have previously shown you K.I.S.S. and the swatches of the rest of the collection can be found from Jindie Nails FB and IG (links at the end of the post).

Just Say Glow is “a semi-sheer gold toned rose pink polish with gold and copper shimmer and hexagons.  This one is pretty on its own and can be opaque in about 3 coats.  For a more subtle look, you can layer this over many colors for a pretty, golden shimmer and gold glitter/shimmer topper.”


I applied three coats of Just Say Glow alone. This looks amazing starting from the first coat. If you’d like to just have gorgeous shimmer and some glitters on your nails and don’t mind clearly visible nail line then one coat could be great for you. I think I’ll be wearing this with just one coat this summer. The look was so fresh and delicate that way. Three coats give you more opaque and glowing result. Again I like the glow and depth that comes with applying multiple coats of polish like this so I chose not to layer this over a creme. However I did test it that way too and it looked amazing over OPI Don’t Bossa Nova Me Around (from the Brazil collection).

Formula and application were flawless. For this manicure I used three coats of Just Say Glow and a coat of HK Girl top coat.

This is available right now at jindienails.com. International customers can find an authorized distributor here. You can also check out Jindie Nails social media sites on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter for more swatches and latest news of amazing upcoming polishes and restocks!

 

***This polish was sent for review. I don’t benefit from clicking any of the links on this post.

Lynnderella – Snow Moon

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It’s been a while since I had a Lynn to show you so here we go. This is Snow Moon and it was the first polish released from the Light Year collection. Lynnderella has come up with another way to release a collection. Light Year collection polishes will be released one at a time along the year 2014. I like this idea a lot! You can pick them polishes one at a time and collect the whole collection.

So Snow Moon was the first one to be released and it’s absolutely gorgeous.

“Snow Moon has white microglitter, translucent white moons and hexagons in a clear white-sparked base”.

Formula on this was excellent and it applies thin and smooth. I decided to layer it on a white shimmer cos I love white on white combinations but you can use this with any color you want. This polish is like fresh powder snow and it’s also sheer enough to allow the base color to show through beautifully if you use other color than white.

On this manicure I used two coats of Wet n Wild Break The Ice (white shimmer), two coats of Lynnnderella Snow Moon and HK Girl top coat.

Lynnderella polishes are available to European customers at Norway Nails. You can use the code “POLISHAHOLIC” to get -10% off of any purchase. Norway Nails offers a wide range of gorgeous indies and other polish brands. You can also follow them on Facebook and Twitter.

 

 

***Snow Moon was received for free. I don’t benefit from clicking any of the links on this post or use of the discount code.

Jindie Nails K.I.S.S. review and restock info

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Jindienails.com has been restocked with sold out colors. New colors launching today (Monday) at noon US central time zone! International shipping available!
Colors that have already been restocked on Sunday include: 
my collaboration shade Pink Stilettos
K.I.S.S.
New colors launching today are:
Seahawks duo – You Mad, Bro? and Everyday I’m Russell’n.
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And then to the swatch of the day, K.I.S.S. (Keep it Simple, Stupid), which was also restocked yesterday. This is part of the upcoming Recover Me collection and later this week I’m going to show you another gorgeous polish I got to swatch from this collection. You can read the idea and inspiration behind this collection from Jindie Nails website.

“K.I.S.S. is a barbie pink cream/jelly loaded with copper and bronze shimmer, copper flecks, sparks of small scarlett hexagons and pink/gold shimmer.”

K.I.S.S. applies smooth as butter and was opaque with two coats. This dries nice and smooth and the top coat brings out the beautiful shine. I love how subtle the glitter is in this and the shimmer gives it a beautiful glow in real life. Very pretty and girly looking polish!

On the photos I have two coats of K.I.S.S. with HK Girl top coat.

Jindie Nails polishes are sold on their webstore at jindienails.com. International customers can find an authorized distributor here. You can also check out Jindie Nails social media sites on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter for more swatches and latest news of amazing upcoming polishes and restocks!

 

 

***This polish was sent for review. I don’t benefit from clicking any of the links on this post.

Welcome to Finland Dollish Polish! and revisiting Penny…Penny…Penny…

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Dollish Polish pretties have just arrived to their new Finland stockist CesarsShop. To celebrate that I’m revisiting one of my favorites Penny…Penny…Penny…

I have the old bottle since (if I remember correctly) I got this from the first restock when this became available. After over a year my bottle is still in perfect condition and applied smoothly as ever. Great quality!

Penny…Penny…Penny… is a beautiful peachy nude with lovely copper glitter and shimmer. So very pretty! This is two coats with HK Girl top coat.

 

 

 

***This polish was purchased by me. I don’t benefit from clicking any of the links on this post.

Delush Polish Head Over Heels collection

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Happy Saturday lovelies! Delush Polish recently arrived to a Finnish webstore and I got some polishes to swatch and review too. Previously I’ve shown you the Mad Top Hatter Duo and today I have the whole Head Over Heels collection for you. All the swatches are two coats with one or two coats of HK Girl top coat.

I had no issues with the application. All of these were well behaving and applied smoothly. Moves Like Jagger needed to be turned upside down before application to help get the biggest hex glitters out of the bottle. Heart Shaped Box and Moves Like Jagger could also be layered on top of a creme polish for better coverage.

Honey Pie, Sugar Bunch is definitely my favorite of the collection. Such a pretty, girly shade!

 

 

Bare To Be Bold
 Careless Whisper
Rebellious Ruby

 

Heart Shaped Box
Moves Like Jagger

 

 Lucky In Love
 Honey Pie, Sugar Bunch

 

 

 

 

***All of the products mentioned on this post were received for free. I don’t benefit from clicking any of the links on this post.

Arcane Lacquer – Complicated Nothings

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Today I have a new to me indie brand from Australia for you. Arcane Lacquer is created by Nail Gun XS and if you like Aussie indie brands I bet you’ve seen some of her amazing swatches around the internet.

So Complicated Nothings is my first Arcane Lacquer polish and I’m quite impressed with the quality. This rosy pink shimmery crelly applies very smoothly and evenly. I applied two coats and there was somewhat visible nail line but it didn’t look bad at all. I actually wanted to leave it that way cos this is a very feminine and delicate looking polish that has certain lightness to it cos it’s a bit sheer. I didn’t want to even try to achieve a fully opaque result since I wanted to keep that light look. I bet this is fully opaque with three coats though and and you can apply this pretty thinly so three coats is not a problem at all. This has such beautiful sparkle! I’m in love!

On the photos I have two coats of Complicated Nothings with HK Girl top coat.

Arcane Lacquer polishes are also available at Norway Nails. You can use the code “POLISHAHOLIC” to get -10% off of any purchase. Norway Nails offers a wide range of gorgeous indies and other polish brands. You can also follow them on Facebook and Twitter.

 

 

***Complicated Nothings was sent for review, HK Girl was gifted to me me. I don’t benefit from clicking any of the links on this post or use of the discount code in any way.