WIC by Herome Marseille + A-England bottle spam

Hello ladies!

Hope you are enjoying your weekend. I know I am. Finally a weekend I´m not working, yay!!

Today I´m showing you a new (at least, I guess it´s new since I never saw it before) shade of the WIC collection by Herome. It´s called Marseille and I saw a few more shades with city names of France.

Marseille is a soft gold base with green, blue and gold glitter in it. Pretty awesome!! I must admit I was mostly impressed when it was still wet and I´m so happy I took a picture of that. It also looks pretty awesome when the sun hits it directly, but other than that it wasn´t what I hoped it would be when I brought it home with me.

Apllication on this one was good. I had never tried WIC before but I really like the brush. Opacity... hmm, I used 3 coats, but it would have been better with 4. The quality was really good! It´s been on my nails for 4 days now and no chips at all. Yes, I have tipwear, but I type a lot, so there´s no polish that would last.

Ok, on to the bottle spam of A England. Eventhough there was sun today I just was to busy with other things so I haven´t swatched them yet. I might just put one on tonight and make some pics under artificial light.

From left to right: Lady Of The Lake, Tristam, St George, Dragon.

Man, they look awesome!! You see the bronze flash in Dragon? And how cool is it that there´s finally a real nice green holo, actually 2 at the same time! Ok, there´s Nubar Reclaim (which is pretty!) and there´s one from Glitter Gal (which is really dark...) bot other than that there aren´t any good green holos. Way to go A-England!!

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.

Thanks for watching!

Requests + some great stuff on the way

Hi!

In the past few months I´ve promised to make some comparisons. Also I got some requests in the comment box for comparisons and swatches. The thing is, I totally forgot what they were. I used to write it down somewhere, but lately it´s been so busy I totally forgot about lots of things.

So please leave a comment telling me if there´s a swatch or comparison you´d like to see and I will soon show all the requests.

Thank you!

And I really have to tell you I got some great stuff on the way. Some of the new Zoya´s to begin with, but I´m most excited about my A-England polishes that are coming. From their new collection The Legend I ordered St George and Dragon. Yes, that´s right, those are the 2 green holos. Can´t wait to get them and in the meantime let´s hope I´ll get some sun to show the best of the them. Of course I also ordered Tristam and Lady Of The Lake, which I have been wanting for quite some time now. So lots of great stuff is coming my way and of course I´ll show them to you as soon as I can.

Enjoy your day!

Orly Out Of This World

Hi there!

For today I´m showing you Orly Out Of This World. When I saw this in the bottle I had to have it, although I was never really attracted to it when I saw swatches of it. But it really is a beauty! Although I do wish the gold would be a lot more visible.

This was perfect in 2 coats. And the application was good, like expected with Orly.

I´m really happy I captured the gold on camera a bit in the first picture, that makes it look a lot more awesome.

Sorry for such a short post, but there´s just not a lot to tell about this.

Thanks for watching!

Icing Irish Gold

Hello ladies!

Yes, that´s right, another Icing polish today. Also bought on my trip to Miami. I was actually searching for an Icing store the whole time I was there. And guess what, I finally found it on my last hours in Miami. Since I had some (a lot) time to fill before I was flying home, I decided to go to the mall closest to the mall. Dolphin Mall it´s called if anyone is wondering. Very nice mall! I bought lots of clothes and nail polish that day.

Anyway, back to the actual polish. Irish Gold is a green and gold glitter in a clear base. Pretty cool! I actually thought it was something more like a green base with gold and maybe even some holo glitter, but ok, like this too.

I used 3 coats, although a 4th coat would have been better.

Let´s have a look.

What do you think? Pretty nice right?

Have a great day!

Icing Starlight

Hi ladies!

First of all: sorry I haven´t been posting much lately. But last week was really really really busy! I´ve been running around from one place to another and I just didn´t have time to blog. Didn´t even have time to paint my nails. But today I finally found some time to do a bit of swatching.

The first one I´m showing you is Icing Starlight. It´s a sky blue jelly with holographic glitter. Because it´s a jelly it is really sheer. What you see here is 3 coats.

Application was ok, although the brush is a bit strange.

I do like the color, but I´m not sure it´s really my type of color.

Thanks for visiting my blog today!

My 2011 Top 20

Hello!

I know, I know, I´m a little late with this. But today I´ll show you my top 0 favorites from 2011. At first it was supposed to be a top 10, but going through my swatches I found many more very gorgeous polishes that really needed to be in this top 20. I can´t decide which one I love best, so it´s just in random order.

Here we go.

Icing Epic Winning

Chanel Peridot

BB Couture Trim And Tassled

Ozotic 531

Orly Oui

OPI Grape...Set...Match

BeYu Brilliant Shiraz

China Glaze Lorelei´s Tiara

Teeez Outta Control

China Glaze Glittering Garland

Orly Fowl Play

China Glaze Skyscraper

Ozotic 528 & 529 (I don´t have a swatch of them on their own)

Ozotic 532

Zoya Valerie (was this from 2011??)

Zoya Faye

Wet n Wild Back Alley Deals

Spa Ritual Earth Matters

Sephora by OPI Hell To The No (also not completely sure this was from 2011...)

Sephora Blue Sapphire

And a bonus pic of my franken. Of course not widely available, but I did make it in 2011.

Enjoy your day and thank you for visiting me today!

One of the BEST shades of 2011: PERIDOT

Hello

Yes, it´s true, this really was one of the best shades of 2011. Well, at least that´s what I think and I know many of you agree.

But why is it so awesome? Well, it´s duochrome and I looooovvvee duochromes! But that´s not all. At the same time it´s not over the top, so you can easily wear it to work. On top of that it has the most gorgeous gold color. Most golds look a bit funny on me, but not this one, this is great with my skintone. And it´s metallic, another big plus. The only real downside is the price though. But ok, for such an awesome color it´s ok for once.

Let´s look at some pictures.

Do you agree with me? Is this the one of the best (or maybe even THE BEST) shade of 2011?

Thanks for stopping by!!

And The Winner Is.....

Hi ladies!

As promised, here I am with the results of the piCture pOlish giveaway.

And the winner is: ANUTKA

I already emailed her. Congratulations Anutka!

Also I asked all of the contestents to tell me their 2 favorite piCture pOlish shades. It was just for fun, just out of curiosity. But I made a top 5. Totally not surprised about the outcome, hahaha, especially not number one, which is my favorite too.

So here is the top 5 favorite PP shades of my followers:
1. Festival 24x
2. Denim 16x
3. Razzle Dazzle 12x
4. Jealousy 10x
4. Hypnotic 10x
5. Jade 9x

Have a nice day ladies!

piCture pOlish giveaway is now CLOSED

Hi ladies!

Just a short message to let you know that my giveaway is closed now.

And I´d like to take the opportunity to thank all of you, my followers.
I started my blog a year and a half ago. I was hoping to ever get 100 followers. Still can´t believe I´ve got 600 followers now. And an average of around 5000 pageviews a month! OMG!
That´s so awesome considering I just have average skills in painting my nails and taking pictures.

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!

And also a special thanks to the ladies from piCture pOlish for giving away 3 polishes.

I will be back to pronounce the winner asap.

Have a great day!

Hits Specialita

Goodmorning/afternoon/evening!

Hope you are all doing well.
Today I need some help from you guys. I really fell in love with a few Hits Specialita polishes. Of course I could order them from Llarowe, but it's quite expensive to get them here. Now I was wondering if any of my nice followers happens to be Brazillian and would like to do a swap with me. Of course I can buy stuff for you like Essence, Catrice, Teeez and more or I can just dive into my collection and find you some pretties.


Here are a few pics of the polishes I love from Hits. I borrowed the pics from Jen the Polishaholic and The Trace Face. Please have a look at their blogs for more lovely pics.

And here's a link to swatches of the gorgeous duochromes.

So if you are or know a brazillian lady that would love to do a swap with me, please let me know.

Thanks for visiting me today!

And remember, just one day left for the piCture pOlish giveaway

BB Couture Bonnie

Hi ladies!

I´m a little (a lot) behind on my swatching. I just don´t have time and when I do have a bit of time, the weather is horrible, so making decent pics is impossible. Well, today I´m showing you my latest NOTD, although it was more like Nail Of The Week. I wore this for quite a few days. And only on day 3 it wasn´t too dark to shoot pics. So that´s why there´s quite some tipwear. I should wrap my tips, but I´m lazy, sorry.

Ok, on to this gorgeous polish. I love it! It´s a medium green jelly with green glitter. Sort of a lighter version of the well known China Glaze Emerald Sparkled. The formula is great, the color is stunning and it´s opaque in 2 coats and no staining. Ok, of course I did use a basecoat, but it´s not like some other greens that you get stained nails eventhough you´ve used bc.

Let´s have a look.

As you can see I had a little accident with a knife while slicing some vegitables. Oooops.

Anyway, what do you think? Isn´t Bonnie a beauty?

Thanks for stopping by!

Just as few more days for my giveaway

China Glaze Tinsel Town

Hi ladies!

I´m kind of in hurry while I write this, so a short post today.

What I´ve got to show to you today is China Glaze Tinsel Town. Charcoal base with silver glitter in different sizes and shapes. Perfect for NYE! That´s when I wore it :D

I used 2 coats and the application was good.

Sorry for my bad pictures. I thought I made lots of them, but I only made 5 and these were the best 2...

I really like it! Awesome holiday shade.

Thanks for stopping by! And don´t forget my giveaway