Nicole by OPI One Big Happy Fame-ily

Hello!

I`ve got a new Nicole by OPI shade. It`s lilac with a silver shimmer. I know I hardly ever show you soft or light colors. I`m just not really into that. But when I saw a swatch of this one I knew I had to have it.

The color is much less blue than my pictures show, but you can imagine how beautiful it is.

At the first coat I thought it would never be opaque. And let me tell you, if you need a nice lilac sheer shimmer, just use 1 coat of One Big Happy Fame-ily. But with 3 coats it was opaque and beautiful.

Perfect for spring!

Thanks for watching and enjoy your day!

Orly Cashmere Cardigan + Color Club Jingle Jangle

Hi ladies!

I did this mani a while ago and I totally forgot about it. Why? I mean, it really is an awesome combo!

The base is Orly Cashmere Cardigan. One of the few cremes that I actually love. I used 1 coat and that was enough, except in sunlight... So if I´ll ever use this combo again I should definitely use 2 coats.
On top I used 1 coat of Color Club Jingle Jangle, which is a lilac, blue, teal and silver glitter. Very nice!

You see, there are some bold spots in direct sunlight unfortunately. Well, I do still love the combo. What do you think?

Enjoy your day!

Catrice Dirty Berry

Goodmorning!

Today I´m showing you a Catrice polish. Catrice is a brand that is widely available here in the Netherlands. And still I´ve only got 2 of them. No you wonder why of course. Well... let´s see... a lot of you will probably not agree with me on this one, but I don´t find their colors very special. Every once in a while I take a look in stores to see all the colors. The ones that do appeal to me, are colors that are very similar to stuff I already own.

The one I picked up recently and I´m showing you today is a color I actually bought for a friend. While buying it I decided it was actually pretty awesome. In the bottle Dirty Berry looked like a dusty lilac/purple, but on my nails it looks more like lavender. I think that has to do with skin tone. It´s probably more lilac when you have a darker skin tone.
The special surprise in this one is that the silver shimmer turns out to be a very very very subtle holo. Unfortunately it wasn´t sunny enough the day I wore this to show up in the pictures.

Application was ok. Not bad, not extremely good either. The brush is a little short, but nothing unmanagable. Opacity was good, just 2 coats needed.

Do you own a lot of Catrice? And did you just buy them because they are cheap? Or did you buy them because you adore the colors?

Thanks for watching and enjoy your day!

Zoya Faye

Goodmorning!

So last night I didn't have a lot to do at work so I decided I was going to change my blogtheme. Well, as you can see, I miserably failed!! At first it was even worse than how it is right now, so I decided to put back the classic theme and start over again. But then I just didn't have time again. And since I'm really not good with all this stuff, I'm afraid it will never be back the way it was. I'm a little freaked out right now and I hope I'll figure it out somehow, but I'm afraid it's just all gone *cries a little*.

Well, on to the polish. Another one from Zoya´s new collection. Faye is just amazing! It´s some sort of lilac, pink, mauve shade with lots of gold glitter. And I don´t think I´ve ever seen anything like it before.

This was also a bit sheer, just like Apple from the same collection, but with 3 coats opaque enough to wear. Application was good as always.

Sorry for the tipwear, but I had to do a lot of typing before I was shooting pictures.

So much glitter, but of course my camera freaked out. Well, you will just have to trust me on that one :-)

The lilac undertones you can mostly see in other angles, but I forgot to photograph that part, ooopss...

Thanks for watching!

Nubar Lavender

Hi ladies!


Todays polish is my NOTD from last monday. Nubar Lavender is a light lilac creme. Can you believe that I actually wore a pastel creme for a whole day without adding glitter, flakies or any other sort of shimmer on top? Well, it is true. I was actually in the mood for something soft. And this totally screams spring too.




Application was great! 1 thick coat and a topcoat and that´s it. The brush is also perfect, I didn´t need any clean up. Love Nubar!

Somehow you do see quite some flaws in the pictures. I hadn´t noticed them irl at all. Well, you just have to believe me on that one :-)

All my purple/lilac holos

Goodmorning!

Last week I showed you Teeez Outta Control and promised you a comparison of all my purple holos. The problem is that I just don´t have 12 fingers and I do have 12 purple and lilac holos. So I decided it was best to just use a wheel.

Left to right: OPI ds Diamond, Nfu Oh 64, OPI ds Divine JP, OPI Sand-erella, China Glaze IDK, OPI ds Original, Teeez Outta Control, China Glaze LOL, Ozotic 624, Color Club Wild at Heart, Ozotic 513, OPI ds Extravagance

I would definitely recommend to enlarge all the pictures because they are just awesome!

As you can see they are all different shades and different kind of holos. Some are prismatic and some are linear and Ozotic 624 is more of a holo glitter. I can´t really decide which one I like most, but my 4 favorites are Outta Control, Wild At Heart, DS Original and Ozotic 513.

What´s your favorite purple holo? And should I try to get China Glaze Octa-gone Wild and Nubar Treasure? I´ve been doubting about these 2 for ages... And are there any more purple holos I should definitely try to get?

Hope enjoyed this comparison/wheel swatch thing-y. Till tomorrow!

OPI ds Diamond

Hi girls!

I know I´ve showed you DS Diamond before, but it´s just such a beautiful color! After Orly Rage from yesterday, I was pretty lazy. I didn´t feel like removing it first, but did want something else. Since there has been quite some sun recently, I wanted a holo polish. So I applied one coat of DS Diamond over Rage. And it turns out Rage is good underwear. Nice!

Here are the pictures.

I love colors like this, holos that are different colored from the standard holo polishes. This is no acception. It´s not grey/silver and it´s not lilac/purple either. And you can easily wear it to any occasion.

What´s your favorite holo polish? Next to this I also love DS Glamour, Nubar Gem, ChG Let´s Do It In 3D and of course all purple holos :P

Enjoy your day!

Lippmann Wicked Game

Hi guys!

My very first time showing you a Lippmann, yay!! I finally got my hands on some of them thanks to a very nice MUA lady. She got me the Layer Cake set. It consists of 3 mini Lippmann polishes and Wicked Game was one of them. I´m also waiting for the All That Jazz Trio which another MUA lady sent me but hasn´t arrived yet. That one does have the big bottles which I really like.
But for people who would like to try Lippmann first before they buy their expensive bottles, the Layer Cake set is perfect! Three very different shades.

Ok, so today I´m showing you Wicked Game. It is quite sheer. I used 3 coats, but maybe a 4th would have been better. It reminded me of Koh Glamourous Purple, but with a lot better application. Remember when I showed you that? It was horrible. Although I still have the idea it was me to blame, since I know many ladies that love Koh and their application.

Wicked Game is lavender/lilac purple with a green and silver/grey duochrome. Very nice and not too edgy for work.

It is some sort of frost, that´s why it´s a bit streaky, but really hardly visible. I like this shade! But hey, how could I not like it, since I´m a duochrome lover.

Just a few days ago I found out there is a dupe for this pretty, it´s Wet ´n Wild Gray´s Anatomy. I see a lot of bank accounts smiling now. For the price of a full size Lippmann you can buy 8 bottles of the Wet ´n Wild. Unfortunately Wet ´n Wild is not available overhere, but for the US ladies this is good news.

Have a great day!

My China Glaze OMG-collection swatches

Hello ladies!

The first monday of a new year. And I promissed some swatches from the OMG collection since China Glaze is releasing the Tronica collection in about 2 months (although they have been seen already) and the promo pics reminded me a lot of the OMG collection. I only have 4 polishes from this collection. I used to have DV8 and FYI too, but the first one was teal and I don´t really like teal and the other one is just really boring in my opinion. Didn´t like the gold ones much. The pink ones didn´t interest me at all of course, so I only have OMG, IDK, LOL and 2NITE.

First up is LOL

Next is OMG

Third is IDK

And the last one is 2NITE



All of these swatches are 2 coats. A lack of sunlight forced me to make pictures in artificial light.

So, what do you think? You like the OMG collection? The silver one (OMG) was my very first lemming, but now I think it is pretty boring, hahaha. I do like the other 3 a lot. And you can use these for konad as well.

Last saturday I found swatches of the Tronica collection and looking at them it was like looking at the Kaleidsocope collection in OMG collection colors. I´m not really sure if I need to get them...

Thanks for watching!

Nfu Oh 64

Goodmorning!


Today I've got one of the most holographic polishes ever. Nfu Oh does a great job with flakies, but is also very good at holo polishes! It does need a special basecoat (which I don't have yet and should buy) like Nfu Oh aquabase or Gosh base fix (or something like that, always forget the name). The problem is that you get bald spots quite easily. I used it without basecoat this time (which I never do) and applied 2 thick coats.


This is the result with topcoat.

In real life it is more lilac than pink. Nice, don´t you think?!

With the ChG Tronica collection coming up, I thought it would be nice to show you a nice holo. I am planning to do some swatching of the polishes I´ve got from the ChG OMG and Kaleidoscope collection because of Tronica too, hope I´ll have time soon.
Do you have a favorite holographic polish? Mine is definitely OPI ds Glamour and my second favorite is probably Color Club Wild At Heart. Very different from today´s Nfu Oh, different kind of holo.

Thanks for stopping by ladies!

Sally Hansen Lapis Amethyst

Hi ladies!

Wow, over 200 followers! Awesome! Thanks ladies!
Last week I made a comparison post with almost all my Sally Hansen Prisms (http://miranniesnails.blogspot.com/2010/11/warning-pic-heavy-comparison-between.html). But there´s one I had nothing to compare with, so I´m showing you this one now on its own.

When I was applying it I wasn´t all that impressed by it. It was kind of streaky and boring metallic ice blue. After I finished it I found out it is a duochrome. It shifts from ice blue to lilac and light green. Still streaky though, but that always happens with metallics, not much I can do about that.

Here´s 1 coat of Sally Hansen Lapis Amethyst 1 coat of Nubar Noir

I still don´t like how streaky it is, but the color shifts are pretty awesome!

Thanks for watching!

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Pastel Skittles

Hello!

Last week I did my first skittle manicure. In spring we saw a lot of these manicures in pastel colors, but since the sun was shining I was in the mood for something happy, colorful and just like spring, so I made pastel skittles in autumn, haha.

Here´s the picture

Thumb: Models Own Peach Sherbet (3 coats)
Index: Models Own Lemon Meringue (3 coats)
Middle: OPI Hey! Get in Lime! (3 coats)
Ring: Orly Snowcone (2 coats)
Pinkie: Nubar Lavender (1 coat)

I actually bought the Peach Sherbet only to do a skittle mani, there´s no way I could ever wear a color like this on its own, and still in the skittle I don´t really like, haha. Actually, I don´t think I´m a pastel girl at all! Although I do like the colors, but they are just not me or something.

Well, it did turn out lovely! Very sweet! But probably more a combination that I will use on my daughter. But it was definitely nice to have some spring in autumn.

Bye ladies!

The many faces of Sally Hansen Emerald Amethyst

Hi ladies!

Today I´ve got one of the Sally Hansen nail prisms for you, Emerald Amethyst. I recently got this in a swap. Great!!

This is one coat over an old mani (I was lazy), but if you are going to use it on its own you´ll need 3 coats. Not much to say, besides I like it very much, so just let the pictures speak for themself. And because I´m doing that, I made lots of pics, haha. Here we go.

 

Please excuse the horrible cuticles.

You see all the pretty colors? Purple, green, ice-blue, lilac. Yes, it´s kind of amazing, although it does remind me quite a lot of Nubar Purple Beach and one of my Chelsea duochromes.

Thanks for watching!

Day 2: purple glitters

Goodmorning!

This is day 2. I have a lot of purple glitters and had not used a lot of them yet.

First up is Nina Ultra Pro Purple X-ing. A very nice medium blue-based purple. It has quite a lot of holographic glitter. This went on pretty smooth, no complaints. And needed 2 coats for full opacity.

1st in daylight, 2nd in artificial light. Its true color is between the first and second picture.

Next up is China Glaze Electric Lilac. It´s like the name says, Electric Lilac :P, lilac jelly with holographic glitter. This one is really chunky and application wasn´t smooth at all. I did want to show you this without any base color, but I think this would be better as a layer polish over a lilac cream polish like Nubar Lavender. I do like the color though.
3 coats for full coverage.

1st in artificial light, 2nd in daylight. This is a lot less blue actually.

The third one I´m showing you is H&M Hello Kitty Cool Summer. More of a red-based purple with pink, blue and silver microglitter. Application was a lot better than I expected, not bad at all! 2 coats for opacity.

both taken in daylight, pretty color accurate.

The fourth one is one that doesn´t really belong in this theme week. Its name is Sally Hansen Purple Fiesta, that´s why I took it out of the helmer, but in my opinion it´s more brownish or something than purple. Maybe you can call it eggplant purple. Application was ok, but not more than that. The glitter does seem to disappear in the polish. A bit chunky too. Do like it though. I used 2 coats.

1st in daylight, 2nd in artificial light.

I think I like the first one the most. What´s your favorite of these 4?

Tomorrow day 3. Hope you´ll be back to see that as well.

Take care,

Miranda

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