Category: Shimmer

Black for Halloween! OPI – Baby It’s “Coal” Outside!

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I’ll continue with the same theme and now it’s charcoal black for the Halloween week manicure. OPI Baby It’s “Coal” Outside! is from the Holiday In Toyland 2008 collection.

Baby It’s “Coal” Outside! is black, shiny polish with silver micro-glitter. This applies pretty well and needs at least two coats for an opaque result. With Poshe this dried quickly too and the result is SHINY! Perfect shade for the time of the year and Halloween parties :D

In this mani I used OPI NNS x1, Baby It’s “Coal” Outside! x2 and Poshe Super Fast Drying TopCoat.

 

Borghese – Espresso Brown

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Then more shopping from my trip to States. Borghese Espresso Brown is coffee brown polish with lighter brown shimmer. This is a spicy shade that is perfect for fall time. This was my first experience with Borghese nail polish and I’m happy with the quality.

Espresso Brown is a bit on the thick side and the first coat applied unevenly. The second coat fixed all that and it looked perfect. Two coats was also enough for opaque result and this dried fast.

In this mani I used: OPI NNS x1, Espresso Brown x2 and Poshe Super Fast Drying Topcoat.

 

Color Club – Wild And Willing and On The Wild Side

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I’ve been pretty busy and I haven’t been able to blog for a few days, but now I’m back and here’s the next two polishes from the new Color Club Wild At Heart collection :)

Wild And Willing is truly awesome polish. This one is hard to descripe, it’s sort of copper-y/gold/pink-ish duochrome. This one looks amazing on nails and the shade is truly unique. Two coats was enough. The photo doesn’t do justice to the shade and you can only experience how amazing this polish is by trying it out yourself!

On The Wild Side is smokey grey metallic polish. The shade is beautiful and the polish is well pigmented but I just don’t get along with metallic finish polishes. I can’t apply them without seeing the brushstrokes on the nails :/

Again both pics only have two coats of polish and no base or topcoat.

 

Color Club – Rule Breaker and With Abandon

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Here’s the first two pics from the new Color Club Wild At Heart collection. I can’t really say anything about how long these stay without chipping or how long they take to dry since I only swatched them quickly and took the photos. I’ll get back at that later on.

Rule Breaker is a gorgeous green with a hint of blue in it and this is a good candidate for my first test with Essie’s Matte About You (if the mail man ever delivers that to my mailbox). Rule Breaker is well pigmented and applies smooth as butter. I’m still a sucker for green and this is a true winner for me!

With Abandon is a dark black/brown-ish polish with gold micro-glitter. In this one the glitter stays clearly visible on the nails and this is a truly beautiful shade. I used this to do my mom’s mani and this looked awesome on very short nails too. With Abandon takes two coats to be opaque and applies pretty smoothly too.

Both pics are taken with only two coats of polish and no base or top coat.

 

Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear – Plum Power

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Here’s the next polish I got from my trip, Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear shade Plum Power. Not a very unique color but still very beautiful. This was good for my collection cos I didn’t have a similar polish yet. This purple shade is another great color for fall and it really does look plum-y.

Plum Power’s application wasn’t the best possible but it’s well pigmented. Two coats was quite enough. The negative thing I have to say is that this took forever to dry, even with Poshe. On the positive side, this seems to be well lasting. Three days and no chipping and the shine stays on. Average polish with a very reasonable price tag and it really is a pretty shade.

In this mani I used: OPI NNS x2, Plum Power x2 and Poshe on top.

 

Sephora by OPI – Never Enough Shoes

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As a total shoe-freak I just had to get this nail polish just because of it’s name. Even got a laugh out of my husband showing him the name. Apparently it’s perfect for me ;)

Never Enough Shoes is a nice, average nail polish. Many bloggers describe it as black but to me it looks more like very dark brown. It also has very fine, multi-colored micro-glitter in it. In a dimmer light you can’t really see the glitter and it just looks like a very dark creme polish

It’s quite thick in the bottle but not impossible to apply. I didn’t feel a need to use thinner yet. Two coats was enough for opaque result and this dried quickly.

In this mani I used: OPI NNS x2, Never Enough Shoes x2 and Poshe on top.

 

Dior Vernis – 663 Indian Saffron

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I found this beautiful looking Dior Vernis from a local beauty store sale and I just had to have it. In the bottle it’s coral-y glittery goodness and I had high expectations for it. On the nail it was a total bummer. First coat brought just a tiny bit of glitter on my nails and even the base color looked different than in the bottle, not fresh and bright at all. The result you see in the photo took five(!!) coats and i still have visible nail line even on my short nails. This was a most disappointing nail polish I’ve tried in a long while.

Indian Saffron did apply excellent and even the five coats dried quite quickly with Seche vite. I’m going to try layering this with other polishes sometime to see if it works any better that way.

Even with all the glitter and five coats this was quite easy to remove and it stayed on my nails for a couple of days without chipping.

In this mani I used: OPI NNS x2, Indian Saffron x5 and Seche Vite. It’s quite a pretty shade in the photo but five coats is just a bit too much for me :/

 

Sally Hansen Lacquer Shine Nail Color – Glow

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Once again, green :D Sally Hansen Lacquer Shine shade Glow lives up to it’s name. This one truly glows! Amazingly beautiful light green polish with a lot of gold shimmer. Pretty, pretty, pretty!! This also stayed on my nails without chipping.

Glow is thin and quite well pigmented. Two coats was enough for my nails. SH Lacquer Shine polishes have a thin and long brush but even with that this polish was easy to apply.

In this mani I used: OPI Nail Envy Soft & Thin x1, Glow x2 and Seche Vite.

 

China Glaze – Entourage

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his weekend we are having a Midnight Sun Festival here in Finland and this is my manicure for that.

During summer it doesn’t really get dark at all here. I love the so called nightless time of the year. The sun is still shining at 11 pm and it feels like you have all the time in the world to do things. Days are so long and nights are light. I love it! and my american husband doesn’t ;D I think after almost 5 years of living in Finland he still hasn’t gotten used to the light nights.

Then to the manicure :) China Glaze entourage is a fresh limegreen shimmer polish. The shimmer in this one is so fine you have to look closely to see it. Entourage applied well and two coats was enough for an opaque result. It took a little longer than usual to dry but I think I might have applied it a tiny bit too thickly. In this mani I used: OPI Nail Envy Soft & Thin x2, Entourage x2 and Seche Vite on top.

I got so excited about Konading that I decided to try it on this mani too. I used the same small pattern with black and white Konad polishes. After getting the pattern on my nail I added small rhinestones to the flowers. The other white flower didn’t look as good as I wanted it to so I covered it with a bigger stone ;) I’m still not all that happy with the result but I guess I’ll get better if I keep practicing a lot :)

 

Color Club – Flair

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Today I’m wearing Color Club Flair. I love this intensive orange-y red shade. It is so bright and eye catching without being neon. I gotta test this one on a pedicure next. I’ll definitely will re-photograph this when my nails are longer.

Flair was well pigmented and applied perfectly. For some reason I imagined this one being sheer but it’s quite the opposite. One coat of this is enough for short nails. Longer nails might need more than one coat. I used two cos I needed more protection for my nails.

This is a day old manicure and I used: OPI NNS x2, Flair x2 and Seche Vite.