Layla Coffee Love

Hello!

Today is my birthday! And since we actually have been having quite a lot of sun lately, what would be more appropriate than a nice holo? Of course I chose one of my new Layla polishes. Coffee Love is great!!! It´s a nice brown holo. I think I haven´t seen anything like it before, gorgeous!

Pictures!

Isn´t it just beautiful? I can just say Wow!!

Have a wonderful day!

Layla Misty Blush

Hello ladies!

I wanted to order Layla polishes for a while now. Of course I waited until the new holo shades would be available. Last friday night I placed my order at the italian site and on monday morning it arrived. That´s really fast!! So happy!

Since I know you guys are dying to see some swatches, I did a quick one of Misty Blush. I don´t really know how to describe this color, it´s purple with some brown tones I guess.
Application was fine once I applied Gosh Aqua Base as my basecoat. I used to coats for full coverage.

And now just drool :-P

Hope to get some more Layla swatches up soon. They are awesome!

Thanks for stopping by!

Misa Say My Name

Hi everyone!

I´d like to start by telling you that a giveaway is coming up very very soon. And it´s a nice one! This time you can choose the colors yourself, so that´s extra special.

Ok, I know, I have shown you todays polish before, but since I think it´s the perfect fall shade, it gets a second chance.

Misa Say My Name is such a vibrant brown shade with a copper shimmer. Perfect brown for sure. Misa´s application is flawless! And very opaque, just 1 coat needed. Well, ok, I only own 2 Misa polishes, but still. You might wonder why I don´t own more Misa´s since I love their application and all. Well, that´s easy, I think their shades are a little boring. Most of them that is. Pretty, but not special.

What´s your favorite brown polish?

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!

Color Club Rebel Spirit

Good day!

Todays polish... what can I say. I feel exactly like I felt with Voodoo You Do. Don´t love, don´t hate, but it´s just not special.
Rebel Spirit is a dark brown creme, which covers very well with 2 coats. Not much to say about it. Maybe you love it, maybe you share my opinion or maybe you just totally hate it.

This is almost it for the Back To Boho Collection. Only Nouveau Vintage is left. I know, one is missing, Boho Mojo. But after the first coat, I decided no one was really waiting to see this color on screen. Yuk, it´s ugly! Strange color, horrible finish, brrr. So I´m not showing you that.

Thanks for watching!

L´Oreal Owl´s Night

Hello!

Today a L´Oreal polish, my first and only one. When I saw this one at Walgreens I was like Ooooh and Aaaah. On the nail it does look different than the bottle.

Owl´s Night is a dark brown color with gold glitter. There was a lot more glitter visible in the bottle than on my nails unfortunately, but still a great fall color.

I used 2 coats and application was fine.

As you can see the look of this polish is different in different angles.

What do you guys think? And what´s you overall opinion about L´Oreal?

Enjoy your day!

China Glaze Midtown Magic

Hi ladies!

Today I´ve got one of the new China Glaze polishes from their fall collection. This is a perfect brown polish, I can tell you that. It applies very easily and covered completely in just one coat.
This perfect shade for fall has some very nice glitter in it. In the bottle it looks like gold, but on the nail it seems more pink or red. Anyway, whatever color it is, it really glows.

So, here is the beautiful Midtown Magic. Let´s start with a close up

What do you think? Pretty right? I know there isn´t much love for brown polishes, but I like them very much.

What´s your favorite from the Metro collection? Mine is Skyscraper, eventhough this is a good second.

Thanks for visiting my little space on the internet today!

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!

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!

Art De Lautrec 46

Goodmorning!

Another Art de Lautrec for you today. Remember the last one I showed you? And how much I hated it. Well, this one is different! It´s a brown color with multichrome flakies, awesome! I´m definitely going to check out if Art de Lautrec has more of these flakie goodness :-)

If you are planning on buying these, please be aware that the application is horrible!! Really thin, floods into the cuticles if you aren´t carefull. Imagine how surprised I was when it did turn out to be opaque in 2 coats, I never expected that.

Unfortunately it was not the best weather when I was taking pics of this, so just pretend that it looks better than it does here :P The flakies do shift to yellow and green.

I really like this! Just like I always love flakie polishes, hahaha.

Have a great day and thanks for reading my post today!

BB Couture Adam

Hi ladies!

How are you all doing?
Today I've got a polish for you that is pretty nice. But I must admit I was expecting a little more from this. BB Couture in my opinion makes the shimmers just a little less visible than how I like it. That's the exact reason why I was a little disappointed.

This is a nice brown shade with a red shimmer. In the sun you can definitely see it's there, but only in direct sunlight. Application was good as always with BB Couture! And totally opaque with 2 coats. Very nice!

Let's take a look at the pictures.

You see, it's not spactacular. Some might say it is, but not me.

No idea why the first picture got turned around :S I tried to fix it many times, but it did not want to cooperate with me.

Thanks for watching!

piCture pOlish blog fest: Cowboy

Goodmorning on this kind of special day!

Two months ago the ladies from Picture Polish sent out an email asking who wanted to enter their Blog Fest. Meaning: lots of blogs posting Picture Polish shades on the same day. The polishes were provided by them for free. Which is extremely kind!! I decided it would be fun to participate. Of course they got lots of emails, but I was lucky to be chosen to represent the Netherlands :-)

The shade I received was Cowboy. It's a very nice taupe creme. Maybe you can even call it almost milk chocolate. Very work appropriate, which is a good thing, because I don't have a lot I can wear to work, haha.

I totally liked the brush and the application. Flawless and smooth. And it was opaque in just one coat. How great is that?! Always a good thing! What usually happens with me and 1 coat cremes, is that it somehow starts to crackle (yes, almost like shatter polish) when I apply topcoat, but no such thing happened. Another plus!!

There was a downside though. The polish chipped within a few hours. That's not something I'm used to. Since I received this polish for free and didn't want to be impolite, but at the same time I really want to be honest to my readers. So I contacted the ladies from Picture Polish and explained them my dilemma. They totally understood that I didn't want to lie and told me to write whatever I want to write about it. And they also explained that Picture Polish is supposed to be a 2 coat system. I was supposed to try that before this Blog Fest, but I just didn't have time. So eventhough it's opaque in just 1 coat, you should just use 2 to avoid chipping.

And if you are wondering if this shade is pretty on other skin tones too, I can tell you it definitely is. I tried it on 2 nails of my daughter, her skin is a few tones darker than mine, and it looked even more beautiful. Since she really hated the color, she wouldn't even let me take a picture of it, hahaha. But I can imagine that. She's a kid, she just wants bright colors.

Enjoy the pics and enjoy your day! Thanks for stopping by!

one more thing: if you know any other blogs that participate in this blog fest, please leave me a comment :-)

OPI Holiday Glow

Goodmorning!
Ok, ok, ok, I know, it's not even close to holiday season. But hey, I was in the mood for brown. And Holiday Glow is a gorgeous chocolate brown with silver glitter. Why wait until december?

Although I really really really like this color, application was bad! Especiallt opacity. Well, in the end it turnef out great, but after the first coat I was sure I wasn't going to finish this manicure and would take it all off again. But I'm happy I did not do that, it turned out to be exactly what I wanted :-)

Have I great and thanks for stopping by!

Misa When U Say My Name

Hi ladies!

Today I´m showing you my very first Misa. I was actually never really interested in this brand for some reason. But when I did a transdesign order recently, I had 2 places open in my small flat rate box, so I decided to give it a try. The first one I´m showing you today and is called When U Say My Name. It´s a dark brown shimmer which looks like it´s lit from within. Gorgeous!

Application was good and coverage was great! I only needed one coat.

Since it was almost dark when I applied this, I had to take pictures in lamp light, which I hadn´t done in a long time and hadn´t tried with my new cell phone camera at all. But I think the pics turned out ok. The color is a bit more leaning to red in real life.

Do you like it? I think it´s a very warm and deep shade of brown and it might be my new favorite brown.

Thanks for watching!

OPI You Don´t Know Jacques suede

Goodmorning ladies!

Todays polish is You Don´t Know Jacques suede by OPI. I just love the suede line because of the quick dry one coat formula. I always grap a suede when I´m in a hurry, although I really don´t like the suede finish, just like I don´t like matte finish. But a coat of topcoat and I´m good to go :-) So that´s what you´ll see in the pictures too.

The original YDKJ is a taupe color, but I would really call this just brown.
The fun thing with suede polishes is that the finish changes so much when you apply topcoat, it´s almost foil like, which you will also notice when you remove it. You´ll see a silver layer underneath the brown polish.
So for me YDKJ suede + TC = brown foil

Here are my pics

Excuse the tipwear, these were taken on day 3. My other hand actually had a chip after 1 day already, which I never had with any other polish before.

Enjoy your day!

Chocolate Caramel

Goodmorning!

Today I've got some chocolate for you! Chocolate and caramel to be exact.

I already had Nubar Raspberry Truffle but I decided to buy 2 more from that collection, because I figured I needed more brown because it is more work appropriate. And why not get pretty browns then right? For today it is Nubar Chocolate Caramel. It is really glowy! Gold sparkles from within. I like it, true caramel color.

This is 2 coats

Pretty don't you agree? Will show you my other new Nubar soon as well.

Thanks for watching!