China Glaze New Bohemian collection

OMG OMG OMG! Look at this!

Oh, hi there ladies! :-) I'm just so excited I forgot to say hi first, oops...

Can someone please tell me when this will be released? Anyone? I really need to know. They look so awesome! Or maybe anyone has seen swatches of this already? I would love to know where you saw them.

Ok, just look and drool. China Glaze is going duochrome!!!



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Unpredictable



Rare and Radiant



Swanky Silk

No Plain Jane



Want My Bawdy




Deviantly Daring





Ok, I know, there are some possible dupes in there, but still it looks amazing.

Rare And Radiant = Peridot?

Swanky Silk = Nubar Stardust?

Unpredictable = Sephora Moody Woman?

Looking forward to this collection as much as I do?

Ok, got some bonus pics of my daughter, just because I'm so freaking proud of her.

Individually she ended 3rd, which is pretty good considering she has been injured for the past 2 months and didn't have a lot of practice. And together with her partner they won the competition for pairs. Very soon I'll have some short movies which I will show on here.

Oh, and yes, she is tall, but she still is one of the youngest in her category, haha.

Have a great day! And thanks for stopping by!

Jelly sandwich with BB Couture Dragon´s Breath

OMG! 2 weeks!?! I can´t believe it has been that long.

How are all of you doing?? Hope you are all doing well.

After lots and lots of stress everything seems to fall back in place. That doesn´t mean I won´t be busy anymore, because I will for at least another 10 months, but it´s a lot less stressfull.

Well, for today I have a nice jelly sandwich. I started with 2 coats of BB Couture Dragon´s Breath, then 1 coat of Kleancolor Chunky Holo Bluebell, 1 coat of China Glaze Snow Globe and another coat of Dragon´t Breath. I really think the combination is beautiful! I really love jelly sandwiches!

Look at all the colors that match so well together! Gorgeous!

I actually had another 2 swatches on my camera, but as soon as put them on my computer I saw they dramatically failed. So I have no idea when I will be back with another post again. Sorry.

Hope you all enjoyed looking at my pics today and thanks for stopping by!

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

China Glaze Millennium + Party Hearty

Hi ladies!

Today my Christmas mani. A little late, but why not, right? I think this mani can also be worn on New Years Eve.

I´ve never had as many compliments on any mani as I got on this one. Wow!

And it was an easy one as well. 1 coat of China Glaze Millennium and 1 coat of China Glaze Party Hearty. Of course I did use topcoat, but I didn´t use basecoat. I never use basecoat on lighter colors, they don´t stain.
Application was good on both. My pictures on the other hand... not as sparkly as the mani actually was. And my hands look horrible, old lady like.

Thanks for watching!

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My first Christmas mani: Elle´s Spell over Branding Iron

Hello ladies!

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. As I explained the other day, for us here in the Netherlands it´s the second Christmas day today. I did have to work (I work in the airport), so nothing special for me.

I know I´m a little late, but today I´m showing you my first Christmas mani. Since I´m not a red polish kinda girl, but I do love some of the darker ones, I decided to layer Barielle Elle´s Spell over China Glaze Branding Iron. Nice and vampy!! Love the combo!

I used 1 coat of each and it was good to go. Application on both was good.

Here are my pics.

I keep loving flakies! I´m sorry for the overload in the last week.

Have you seen the new Finger Paints flakies yet? They are awesome! I wish I could get them here.

What is you favorite flakie?

Have a great day!

China Glaze Lorelei´s Tiara

Hello ladies!

Don´t you just love all the collections that came out recently? I really had to take it easy and not order every one of them. But when my sister ordered from Beautyjoint recently, I couldn´t recist and had to have Lorelei´s Tiara from China Glaze. It´s so awesome!

It´s a silver glitter with blue hex glitter. Nice combo! I was still wearing Icing Navy Chrome and since I wasn´t sure how opaque this would be, I decided to layer Lorelei´s Tiara over it. I think this wasn´t necessary at all. In my pictures I only used 1 coat of Lorelei´s Tiara over Navy Chrome. So it would probably opaque in 2 coats when used alone.

Application was fine. The polish was a bit thick though, but that´s normal for a glitter. It dried fast.

So here we go, pretty Lorelei´s Tiara

First 3 pictures were taken in the shade, so you could see the blue glitter better. The last one is in direct light, so you can see how bling bling it is.

What do you think? Beautiful polish, right? I really love it!

Thanks for visiting!

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China Glaze Glittering Garland + Confetti Ice Ice Baby accent nail

Good day!

Oh man, I think I've got a dark green for you now that I actually love more than Emerald Sparkle. It's a very nice forest green with gold and green shimmer. It's so gorgeous!! Its name is China Glaze Glittering Garland.

I don't know why (well, I do know, but I shouldn't have done it) I layered something over this beauty, it doesn't need anything extra. But ok, I did, trying to get through my untrieds. Confetti Ice Ice Baby is a blue/green duochrome glitter in a clear base. Actually pretty cool! But it just doesn't give the wow effect to this manicure. Oh well, next time I'll use it over something else. It does remind me of NYX Aqua Glitter. Not at all in the bottle, but on the nail.
I only layered it over my ring finger and thumb, so just as an accent nail.

For me Glittering Garland is the winner of the season. What's your favorite holiday shade from this year?

Thanks for visiting!

Bloom Bianca + stamping

Hi there!

Today a quick one. 2 weeks ago I showed you Bloom Bianca and today it´s back with a konad on top. I used China Glaze Cherish and plate BM-201.

I like how these colors combine. And I love this pattern! You will be seeing this again on my blog, I´m sure.

Thanks for stopping by!

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!

Stamping with Peridot

Hi there!

I must admit that I kind of stole this idea from AmyGrace. Thanks for posting that awesome post!

Since I don´t own a dark green creme and I also don´t own the polish she used for stamping, I decided to use China Glaze Jolly Holly as my base color and Chanel Peridot for the stamping.

In some angles you could see the duochrome of Peridot, but it was hard to capture on camera.

I used 2 thin coats of Jolly Holly, although you could get away with 1 thick coat too.

Since there was no sun that day I also made 1 picture under lamp light.

Of course this isn´t anywhere near as beautiful as AmyGrace´s creation. But I think no one could beat her :D. I just don´t have a great skin like hers, great nail like hers and most important I don´t have her skills in nail painting/clean-up/photography. She´s the best!! Amy Grace, thanks for the inspiration!!

Thanks for watching!

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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China Glaze Skyscraper

Goodmorning!

A new collection for fall from China Glaze. Since you all know I´m not a huge fan of cremes, you won´t be surprised to read that I wasn´t all that excited about this collection at first. I thought it was going to be only cremes. But lucky me, it has some very nice other polishes too.

From the moment I saw todays polish on a swatch, I was in love! What a gorgeous blue shade! It´s a blue and silver glitter. In some lights it seems to have some purple as well and because of that it reminded me a bit of Chi Chi Moondust.

Application wasn´t that easy. The polish is a bit thick. I think I will use some thinner next time. For now I just shook it after 5 nails. With 2 coats it was quite alright, but I used a third coat and that made it even more beautiful.

I really like it when polishes don´t look boring in the shade. This one almost looks like a foil in the shade as you can see in the last pic, awesome!

The wear was actually pretty good, after 3 full days I still only had very little tipwear on just 2 nails. It would probably last longer, but hey, I´ve got a huge stash, so after 3 days I wanted something else :P

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Glitter Gal Dark Green Sparkle + accent nail

Hi ladies!

For today I´ve got a Glitter Gal polish for you. I have to say that I love their colors, but honestly, they are way too expensive. You pay $15 for 9ml, which is a very small bottle. I know, there are more brands that are too expensive for the amount of polish you get, but still...

The color I´m showing you today is Dark Green Sparkle. Unfortunately it´s not the kind of green I was hoping for and expecting, but it still is really beautiful! It leans more to a dark teal than an actual dark green.

The coverage on this one is good, 2 coats for full opacity. Application wasn´t that easy, because of the small brush and small cap. Not my kind of thing. But the wear was really good! The pics were taken after 2 full days, and hardly any tip wear.

For the accent nail I used China Glaze He´s Going In Circles, this was rather sheer, I had to use 3 thick coats. And I used one of the bundlemonster plates for the leaves and stamped with China Glaze Jolly Holly, which is a green I love.

As you can see, it is not really an in your face holo unfortunately. I was really hoping for that. I still find the color pretty though.

I think this combination looks pretty! The contrasting green holos are nice. First I was thinking of using Nubar Reclaim for the accent nail, but it is a linear holo, so it didn´t really match in my opinion.
Any of you have a nice recommendation for a green holo which is like Jolly Holly colorwise??

Thanks for stopping by!

China Glaze Octa Gone Wild

Goodmorning!

Todays polish is just totally awesome. It really is gorgeous! Unfortunately I did not capture the holo very well, but trust me, this is crazy holo.

Application and opacity are good. 2 coats is enough.

Have a great day! Thanks for looking!