Cult Nails Seduction

Hi there!

After missing out on Clairvoyant, I knew I had to have the pretty Cult Nails Seduction. And it´s awesome! Get it while you can!

It has a purple jelly base with multicolor flakes. Nice!!

I used 1 coat of OPI Funky Dunkey and 2 coats of Seduction.

If you are a flakie lover like me you must admit you love this too.
This is really beautiful!

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your day!

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!

BeYu Brilliant Shiraz over OPI Yoga-ta Get This Blue

Hi there!

Oh man, Brilliant Shiraz is really awesome!! I´ve shown it before over a dark purple, but today I used Yoga-ta Get This Blue by OPI as my base. Perfect dark blue 1 coat shimmer. Brilliant Shiraz looks really gorgeous on top of a dark blue, even better than with a dark purple base. It really glows. So pretty!

So this is one coat of each plus topcoat. Perfect application on both of them.

I still have no idea how close this is to Clarins 230, but I´m pretty sure this is a lot less duochrome. Oh well, I still love it. I´ve read about a new Max Factor polish though which is supposed to be really close to Clarins 230. Of course I ran to each and every single store I know that sells Max Factor, but so far no sign of it yet. I will be checking the stores on a regular base from now on, because I really need to get my hands on that Unicorn Pee dupe.

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OPI It`s My Year

Hello ladies!

Today an OPI polish from the Miss Universe collection. Since I love Zoya Faye and Orly Oui and thought It´s My Year was a similar polish but colorwise just right between these two, I really thought I needed this polish. After applying it, it looked kind of the same as Zoya Faye. Bummer! I mean, what´s the use of buying dupes? I didn´t do a comparison yet, so I´m not sure yet, but I will make one soon.

This doesn´t mean I don´t like this one. I really adore these kind of shades. I do prefer Orly Oui though.

Application wise it was good. Dried fast too. I used 2 coats for opacity.

And here we go!

Thank you for watching! Enjoy your day!

Holiday shopping, BIG TIME!

Hi ladies!

I´ve been home now for a few days and what an amazing holiday it was! I loved Miami, I loved the Bahamas and I loved the cruise ship. And of course I did "some" shopping. I´ve read about all these stores in the US that lots of you ladies visit frequently. For me it was awesome! Walking right into Ulta while up till then I had only read about it. And Walgreens, Forever21, CVS, Ross, Icing, Del Sol and more. Just seeing all these great brands that I love displayed right in front of me. Some stores I haven´t found unfortunately (like Sally´s, Target, Walmart, Rite Aid) but I did some big time hauling. I tried only picking the ones that I had on my wishlist but I failed miserably. Bought a total of 31 polishes and 2 of the newest Konad plates, ooooppsss!

So here we go, this is what I got.

 Butter London No More Waity Kaitie + remover

 Color Club Back To Boho set (yes, the cheap 8 dollar sets are really sold at Ross)

Boho Mojo, Nouveau Vintage, Voodoo You Do, Artsy Crafty, Blue-topia, Rebel Spirit

Icing: Chrome Navy Blue, Irish Gold, Epic Winning, Vampire Blood, Witches Brew, Starlight

Orly Fowl Play, Orly Nite Owl, Orly Out Of This World, Zoya Neeka, Zoya Yara, OPI It´s My Year, OPI ds Top Coat

Sinful Colors Let Me Go, Wet ´n Wild Back Alley Deals, Wet ´n Wild Teal Of Fortune, Piggy Polish The Right To Bare Feet, Milani Blue Lightening

Nicole Me + Blue, Sally Hansen Icequeen, L`oreal Owl´s Night, Confetti Ice Ice Baby, Love & Beauty Shimmering Grey

M84 and M85

Besides all these brands I´ve seen many more and mostly at places I didn´t expect them. 

The Piggy Polish is unlabled, so I´m not sure it´s the right name... I actually found another one that looks a lot like it.

So what do you think ladies? Ready to see swatches? I´ve already used No More Waity Kaitie while I was on holiday. And OMG, the worst application ever!! Did I get a bad bottle or did you guys experience it too? I can´t even describe all the problems I had. I really hope some thinner would do the trick. I haven´t even made pictures of it.

I also used Blue Lightening, which I think is pretty close to OPI ds Magic. Will make a comparison some day. I did take pictures of this, so you´ll see that one soon.

Thanks for visiting!

OPI ds Temptation

Hi ladies!

OPI has released 2 new shades for the Designer Series, Bold and Temptation. Bold wasn´t all that interesting in my opinion and also turned out to be a dupe for the much cheaper China Glaze Mrs Claus. So I didn´t get it. Of course as a purple addict I did get Temptation. Gorgeous color! But why is it in the Designer Series? I don´t get it. Just like the last releases like DS Magic.

Anyway, I love this polish! Finished it looks like purple. But guess what, the base is sheer navy blue. You can see that very well when you apply the first coat. It just has lots of purple glitter which makes it look purple. And it also has quite some multicolored glitter. Unique? I don´t know, but definitely unique in my stash.

3 coats in the pictures. Application was good.

Drool!!! Or maybe that´s just me :P

It´s much more beautiful and looks a lot less blue in real life. I tried my best by showing you more pics than usual, but still it doesn´t really look like the real thing.

What do you think? Worth spending the extras money?

Thanks for watching!!

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.

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OPI ds Glamour vs Glitter Gal Marine Blue

Hi dear readers!

Today a comparison of 2 very beautiful polishes. I know many girls buy Glitter Gal Marine Blue because it´s very difficult finding OPI ds Glamour. I´m very lucky to own both.

Glamour in my opinion is more of a jeans blue, while Marine Blue is a lot brighter. They are both very pretty, but for me, nothing can beat Glamour.

index and ring = 2 coats of Glitter Gal Marine Blue
middle and pinkie = 2 coats of OPI ds Glamour

As you can see Glamour is more holo than Marine Blue. Another win for Glamour.

Which one do you prefer?

I still think the Glitter Gal polishes way overpriced. But then again, they do make great holos in a huge variety of shades.

Enjoy your day and thanks for watching!

OPI ds Glamour

Hello!

Yes, it´s time again for my favorite blue nail polish!! This is just stunning! I love it!

OPI ds Glamour is a very hard to find polish which I know lots of ladies would love to own. Prices on eBay are crazy. I was lucky enough to find this on eBay a year and a half for only $10 including shipping. The color is just such a beautiful blue and the holo is gorgeous. Unfortunately topcoat dulls the holo a bit, so I should get the DS topcoat soon. Maybe other recs for a good topcoat that doesn´t dull holos?

I used only 2 coats. And application was flawless. I didn´t need any clean up.

Maybe you should enlarge the pics to get an even better look at this awesome polish.

Soon I´ll show you a comparison with Glitter Gal Marine Blue, which is brighter.

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OPI You Don´t Know Jacques Suede

Hello!

Ok, first let me start by saying that I will name this polish YDKJ from now on. I mean, come on, who comes up with these way too long names. It´s ridiculous!

I really actually like this one, although I didn´t care much for the regular YDKJ. It was too dark for my skintone I guess. I´m still on the hunt for the perfect taupe for my skintone and I´m guessing Orly Country Club Khaki might be it. But ok, back to this suede beauty.

Easy to apply, but you really have to work fast, because of the quickdry formula. Perfect polish when you´re in a rush. I don´t like the suede finish, but I love how it looks with a coat of topcoat.
I used two coats.

And wow, I can´t believe it, I actually reached 500 followers!! So awesome! Thank you all so much!
For lots of other bloggers 500 seems like a small amount of followers. But I never expected to reach this amount. I can see I´m not nearly as good as other bloggers in taking pics and having flawless skin and cuticles, so that´s why I´m super happy with all the ladies that are interested in what I have to show here. Thanks again!
Have a great day and thanks for visiting!

What collections are you looking forward to the most?? Here are some of mine

Goodmorning ladies!

Today I decided to show you what collections I´m looking forward to the most. And of course I´m really curious what you are all looking forward to.

Here´s my list:

Orly Holiday Soiree

Orly Mineral FX

OPI new Designer Series

OPI Holiday Muppets

Color Club Backstage Pass

Color Club Beyond The Mistletoe

Essie Luxeffects

China Glaze Let It Snow

Well, that´s a whole lot of glitters :-) I´m not sure yet which ones are the lucky polishes that get a new home in my Helmer, but I´m sure it´s going to be quite a lot.

Unfortunately it seems Orly has made quite some dupes... Here´s a list of what I THINK might be dupes:

Orly Fowl Play (Birds of a Feather collection) = OPI Merry Midnight
Orly Rococo A-Go-Go (Mineral FX collection) = Zoya Valerie
Orly Igenue (Holiday Soiree collection) = Orly Rock The World (Mineral FX collection) = Zoya Faye = OPI Rally Pretty Pink
Orly Oui (Holiday Soiree collection) = OPI It´s My Year

So what´s your favorite collection that´s coming up?

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NYX Aqua Glitter over OPI Yoga-ta Get This Blue

Hello!

A very nice layering combo is what I have for you today. I totally adore both polishes! Yoga-ta Get This blue was one of my first polishes. And still the most pretty dark blue shimmer I own. What I like most is that eventhough it´s dark, it never looks black.
NYX Aqua Glitter is a polish I didn´t buy with my first purchase at Beautyjoint. But now I´ve got it, I really don´t get why I hesitated. Damn, this is pretty!! It has an aqua very sheer base with a blue/green duochrome glitter. It shifts from a very bright blue (almost violet) to teal green. It´s so sparkly and gives so much extra dept to Yoga-ta Get This Blue.

I used 2 thin coats of the OPI and 1 thick coat of the NYX. Both had great application. And totally not gritty or anything. Drying time was fast too.

I was so excited to show you this from the moment I applied it, but unfortunately it was hard to capture the glitter and its duochrome and the dept.... *sigh*... But still, I really love this combo! It´s so pretty! I can´t wait to try this over a nice dark purple, that might give an awesome effect as well I think.

Hope you enjoyed my post and thanks for visiting!