Girly Bits Shift Happens

Hi there!

Today I have my new favorite polish for you. This is so awesome! I can´t even describe it. The name just says it all: Shift Happens. And it happens all the time in all sorts of colors. My pics of this are ok, but in real life this polish is even 100 times prettier.

This is 1 coat of Nubar Noir and 2 coats of Girly Bits Shit Happens.

Get it while you can!! It´s a perfect multichrome and just glows!

Love it!!

Have a great day and thanks for visiting!

A England Dragon

Hi there!

You all heard about A England right? Well, since a while I own 4 of their polishes too. And let me say, they are great! Application is sooo smooth and easy, I don´t think I´ve got anything like it in terms of application. And their colours are awesome too! I only bought some holos, but they are so unique. I mean, green holos that are not nearly black or very light? Anyone? Exactly, none (ok, 1 Nubar Reclaim, which is also awesome). But A England has 3, although one of those 3 is almost yellow, but still, 3 green holos in one collection!

Today I´m showing you one of those 3 green holos: Dragon. And it´s exactly like the colour I would think of with a dragon. Besides the murky green holo it also flashes bronze sometimes. Pretty!

Ok, let´s have a look at some pics. This is just one coat!

I think this might be my favorite A England. But not completely sure yet.

Thanks for stopping by! Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

OPI Warm & Fozzie

Hello ladies!

Already 5 days since my last post! I can´t believe how time flies when you are stressed and busy. But today I finally have a manicure to show you. My skin is in really bad shape. It has been insanely cold this past week here in the Netherlands. And I can moisturize as much as I want, but it just doesn´t really make it better. So please do not look at my horrible skin in the pictures.

The polish I´m showing you today is Warm & Fozzie by OPI. An awesome foil with gold, bronze, pink and even some green tones. It does need 3 coats for full opacity. But it wears like iron. I took the pictures on the third day wearing this. I used to change my mani every day, sometimes every other day, but I don´t have time for that either at the moment. I hope the time comes back that I can do that again.

Anyway, back to the polish.

Do you have any of the OPI Muppets? I only have this one but I think I would like to get Designer The Better too.

Enjoy your day and thanks for stopping by!

Color Club Nouveau Vintage

Hello!

Finally the last one from the Color Club fall collection. And if I may say so, the best one. It´s a sort of olive/burnt gold with bronze and green shimmer. Pretty cool! Well, in sunlight that is. In normal light it just looks like an olive green. Not really special. So if you decide to wear this, make sure it´s a sunny day.

Nice right? I think it´s a great fall shade!

Thanks for stopping by!

Ozotic 531 Duo/Holo awesome sauce

Hello!

OH MY GOD!! This is soooo awesome! I still can´t believe it!

I´m talking about the duochrome/holographic polishes from Ozotic. Today I´m showing you the first one. This is number 531. And guess what, it´s even work-appropriate. How is that possible for such an awesome polish? Well, easy! This one goes wild in the sun. In the shade you just see a duochrome of brown, bronze and gold. Still very pretty, but not too wild for work.

In the sun this really comes alive. Depending on the angle, you´ll see a brown holo, a bronze holo, sometimes nearly dark red holo and a gold holo (both soft and yellow gold). Yay!!

So, I guess you are dying to see pics right? Well, here they are.

GORGEOUS! And I don´t even think this is the best one of the duo/holo polishes.
And it might even look different when I apply it over black. This is just 2 coats on its own. Application was fine. Drying time is average.

What do you think?

Thank you for stopping by!

OPI Pros & Bronze

Hello!

Todays color is a bit weird. Well, it looks weird on me. When I saw this one on other blogs I just had to have it. So recently I used it and it just didn´t look good on me. No idea if it´s just my skintone or if it´s just me not liking the colors used in this polish, I really don´t know.

This polish is bronze (which looks orange), pink and in heavy sunlight you can see some other (very small) multicolored glitter too. The finish is sort of a foil. And it´s sheer. I used 3 coats and I could still see through my nails when I hold them up into the light.

Here it is: OPI Pros & Bronze

So what do you think about this color? You like it? I think it gives me lobster hands, yuk.

Thanks for stopping by!

Sally Hansen Earthen Opal

Hi ladies!

Some time ago I saw swatches of a lot of Sally Hansen Opals. Earthen Opal looked soooo awesome so I ordered it from eBay right away. It had the most amazing duochrome. But in real life it isn´t that duochrome-y. It´s not like you see more than 1 color at the same time. Maybe I got a bad bottle. Sure, it has more than one color, but never visible at the same time. In some lights its purple, in other lights it´s a bronze-y kind of brown. It´s nice, but not as great as I expected.

For my base I used one coat of Zoya Raven. And then I used one coat of Earthen Opal. As you can see I did a crappy job with the application, but that was only because it was almost dark when I was applying this. Sorry.

Do you have any Opals? And are they more duochrome than mine? I´m really wondering if I got a dud...

Have a great day!

Robotika with an Ozotic glitter

Hi ladies!

Today I've got something for you that is probably one of my ugliest manicures ever, LOL. Last monday when I had to work I just put something on my nails to cover them because they look kind of horrible naked at the moment. So I chose one of the ChG Khromes, which I usually only use for stamping, because that's actually why I have them in the first place. I chose Robotika. It's not totally ugly, but very simple and plain, so yes, work appropriate. After I got home monday night I went through my stash to find a nice topcoat. I don't know what I was thinking when I picked Ozotic 203. This is a clear base with red glitter and holo string glitter. Pretty cool when you would apply it on a dark color (dark red or black), but not a winner on top of Robotika.

First up some pictures of Robotika (only 1 coat, yay for that!)

And here is it topped with 2 coats of Ozotic 203.

See what I mean? It just doesn't match.

Enjoy your day!



BB Couture Eve

Hi ladies!


Another one coat wonder by BB Couture is what I´m showing you today. I just love it when a polish only needs one coat, especially when I´m tired or in a hurry. It also applies like butter and dries pretty quick.


BB Couture Eve is a very nice dark brown shade with bronze shimmer and green microglitter. Awesome!! Unfortunately it is hard to capture that on camera, but it is kind of visible when you click the pictures to enlarge.

You see how my cuticles finally start to look a little better now that it hasn´t been so cold in the last few weeks? Well, ok, not perfect, but they will probably never be, but at least not as horrible as a few weeks ago.

What do you think of this color? And don´t you just love a one coat wonder?

Almost weekend, enjoy it!

Nicole by OPI Leave Me Alone, no, it's not me

Goodmorning!

Today I have a polish for you that actually is quite disappointing. Just a few weeks ago I found some swatches of this one and in each picture it showed duochrome, so of course I had to have it, hahaha. When it arrived I was already getting less excited, hardly any duochrome visible in the bottle. This is a discontinued and very hard to find polish, so it wasn't the cheapest to get.
And then the day came that I wanted to try it out, like a week ago now. The duochrome just isn't there and to me it's sort of a plain bronze shimmer. Looks truly boring on me. Oh well, they can not all be winners, right?! It does look like leafs in autumn, maybe on some girls this looks better, but for me, no... straight into my swap drawer.

But then something strange happened. I decided I did need to take pictures and when I put them on my computer I saw duochrome. How´s that possible?? I mean, I take all my pictures with my cell phone and now it shows the duochrome I was looking for all day. It´s not huge, it´s just a slight duochrome, but it is visible on camera.

Well, this is Nicole by OPI Leave Me Alone 2 coats

Excuse the tipwear.

I like it better in the pictures than in real live.

Well, that´s all for today. Thanks for stopping by!!



Accessorize day 7: Bronze

Goodmorning!

Today I've got another polish from Accessorize for you which I thought I would have a dupe for. But no, luckily I don't. Of course I did do a comparrison to show you it is close to others I own.

This is Accessorize Bronze, 2 coats. Flawless apllication like with all the other Accessorizes I've tried so far.

Nice pink, orange, yellow, bronze duochrome.

And here's the comparison

Index = Ozotic 502 3 coats
Middle and pinkie = Accessorize Bronze 2 coats
Ring = Nubar Wild Life 2 coats

Ok, as said, no dupes. I do think there is a dupe for this one out there. Probably Nubar Iris Dust or Nubar Star Dust. But I'm not sure, because I don't have those.
The colors of Ozotic 502 are sort of the same, but a lot brighter. The Ozotic is quite sheer though.

Which of these 3 do you like the most? Or don't you like all of them?

Enjoy your weekend!

Accessorize day 4: Aztec

Goodmorning!

Another day, another Accessorize polish.

I just wish this would be available a lot easier. They ship to quite a lot of countries, but not to the Netherlands. What´s up with that? I mean, we are practically neighbours of the UK. Ok, there´s a sea in between, but that´s all. They do ship to countries like Germany, USA and Bulgaria, so why not the Netherlands? Well, of course I emailed this question to the customer service of Accessorize and the answer I got was that it is due to a number of business reasons... Ok, so I still don´t have a clear answer.

Luckily I found Alison on MUA to help me out.

Today I´ve got one for you which I thought was a dead on dupe for Orly Space Cadet, one of my all time favorites. But although they are close, they are not dupes.

Here are the pictures of Aztec on its own. This is 2 coats. And of course in rainy daylight.

And of course I did the comparison with Space Cadet.

Index and ring = Accessorize Aztec 2 coats
Middle and pinkie = Orly Space Cadet 2 coats

In real life the difference is more visible. The purple and green in Aztec are darker. And Space Cadet has some bronze in it which is not really in Aztec.

In this case Space Cadet is a winner for me, but I love Aztec as well, and Aztec has better application.

Do you like these kind of colors? Or aren´t you a fan of sparkly duochromes?

Thanks for watching!

Take care,
Miranda

Accessorize Illusion nail polish: they are coming!!

Hi you all!

It was about a week and a half ago that Lacquerized blogged about the pretty polishes from the Accessorize Illusion line. I just couldn't believe my eyes! These are awesome, great, gorgeous, beautiful. Well, that's what they look like in the bottle. So of course I started hunting them. But very soon I found out the webshop doesn't ship to the Netherlands and the Accessorize stores overhere don't sell them. But I needed to get them, no matter what. So the hunting continued. I emailed a few ladies on MUA and I was lucky to find someone that wanted to order them for me. Thank you so much Alison!

She's now waiting for the last one to arrive and then she will ship them to me. Hopefully I will get them next week and I promiss to swatch them as soon as I can.

But for now I wanted to give you a little preview of the pretties I asked for.

Top row from left to right: Aztec, Bronze, Electric Blue, Mermaid
Bottom row from left to right: Pink Spice, Purple Dream, Purple Passion, Ruby Sparkle

Some of them might be dupes for other polishes that have been released recently. Electric Blue seems a dupe for Orly Lunar Eclipse, OPI ds Magic and Sally Hansen Laser. Mermaid looks kind of like OPI Catch Me In Your Net, Orly Halleys Comet, Zoya Charla and Essence Choose Me. And Pink Spice looks like MAC Bad Fairy. But for now I can only guess since I don't have them yet.

These are actually not the only 8 in this collection, there's more. So check out their website www.accessorize.com . They do ship to quite a lot of countries: US, UK, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Republic of Ireland, Slovak Republic and Switzerland.

Are you as blown away by these pretty bottles as I am?? Or aren't you that impressed?

Update: I just got an email that they are shipped this afternoon. That means I might be able to swatch them for you tuesday.

Toma Meltdown on Mars

Goodmorning!

Another duochrome for today. It´s just so much fun to see different shades in one polish. This one is an eggplant purple with gold/bronze duochrome.
Toma is not really a well-known brand. I found swatches of them half a year ago and after that I found out they are discontinued. I still have quite a few on my wishlist, just hoping someone has them lying around and want to swap.

Here is Toma Meltdown on Mars, 1 coat with topcoat.

The last picture was taken inside and as you can see it´s mostly gold/bronze. So that´s the only downside to this polish, you hardly see the duochrome inside.

In the meantime I filed my nails down. They are really really really short now. They haven´t been this short since I stopped biting my nails about 11 years ago. My nails grow so fast and I don´t have the time to shape them once a week. Will show you pictures of my short nails soon.

Have a great day!!

Wild and Willing, autumn is here!

Hi ladies!

Today I´ve got my NOTD of last tuesday for you. This is a polish I actually sold because I thought it was boring. Just a few days after I sold it, I saw swatches of someone layering it over black and I was blown away. How could I have been so stupid to sell it? So I bought it again...

It actually looks like Orly Space Cadet! Probably layering it over purple would make it even more look like it. I had a hard time capturing it on camera unfortunately. But here are the pics. 1 coat Nubar Noir + 2 coats Color Club Wild and Willing.

This is definitely autumn! It´s brown, gold, bronze, green, orange, sometimes a bit dark pink. Gorgeous!

And yes, I know, I have a smudge, I was clumsy again.

Do you like Wild and Willing on its own? What do you think of this layering?

Have a great day!