Essence & Models own.

Recently I bought Essence - Glisten up. I saw some swatches online of it on its own, but I didn't like it much, but after I saw it layered over some more darker colors, and I was sold. It's a polish that's pretty sheer on its own, a sheer blue with blue-ish green flakes, shimmers and glitter. = Succes for pure awesomeness.

I layered it over Models own - Pure Purple. Love. Love love love. Close-ups next to the text!

Essie - Lapis of Luxury

Hello again. Today was my first day of school. I really didn't want to go. Meh. But my polish made me a lot happier and excited.

It's Lapis of Luxury by Essie. I wanted this polish, but with my last order, they didn't have this one. Sad panda. And then I saw it in store, with a little discount, and I had to get it. Money well spent.

The color is a lavenderish blue. It's a little more purple than it is on the photo, I tried to capture the color but my camera hates purples (I have to get a better camera). I don't think I have something excactly like this one. Application was great, this was 2 or 3 coats, not sure.

Great one. Again. <3

OPI - Color to Watch

Here's another color from the Swiss collection from OPI.

Great color in the bottle, duochrome, I think. But the color is pretty sheer, even for my taste. It's a bit more purple than it is on the picture. Gorgeous color, but I think it's better for layering.

Application was great again. But this color is not a favorite of mine.

Hm, love the name-connection with Swiss, with the Watch, thing.

OPI - Give me the moon

Ha. I finally got my hands on this beauty, thanks to an online nailpal.

I saw it in real life and I had to put it on my nails, so gorgeous. In the bottle it looks gray, maybe a little bluetint in it. And when you hold it in the right light, you get a lavender lilac-ish shimmer. It's gorgeous.
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It is a sheer polish, not a big deal for me, could be for you. This is 4 or 5 layers, could have used another one, you could see my nailline. Ahwell! Love it anyways. It applies on really smooth and nicely.

OPI Ink

So, I got my new polishes the other day, and I was so excited! Yay for OPI, my favorite brand.

I was most interested in 3 colors, OPI Ink was one of them. It looked so interesting in the bottle, purple fading out to blue, really dark but really shiny. Not really a summer-y color, but I never think about that. Or matching, as you can see in the pic (Haha, bright dress).

Anywho! The color was really, really interesting. In the shade, the color was purple with shimmer, and in the sunlight it really looked like ink, deep blue. But in the sun, the purple was completely gone, that really surprised me. Is this what blurple is?

You can see the purple vs blue really well on the left picture. The top two nails are more purple, and the bottom two are more blue. A very interesting color, I'll try it out more when it gets colder.

Zoya Adina

Hello everyone.

A few days ago I wore Zoya - Adina. I got it from my most recent internetorder, and I love it. On the pictures I thought it was gorgeous already, but as it seems, the color online isn't that accurate. Not that I do it any better, it's really a hard color to capture.



This gorgeous color seems to have a lilac/purple base (At least, I think so, it looks like that on the back of my nails, I just see lilac there). And in the shade, it's really duochrome. When you look at it, you just see green, and when you turn your nails you see purple/copper. Beautiful.




In the sun it kind of transforms, it really is purple/lilac in the sun, with light green shimmer. No duochrome, really just shimmer. This was a nice surprise.

Herea re some pictures where I've tried to capture the duochrome, but that is reaaally hard to do.







Overall I love this polish. It's really pretty and not a very bright color. It's a little sheer, but I think it's good enough at three coats, though some people might want a fourth. It's not nearly as sheer as ORLY - Fantasea. And I really do think you have to see this polish in real life to see its full potential, it's more gorgeous than all pictures I've seen online.

The polish stays on my nails for a rather long time, it doesn't peel of that easily. Which is a great thing. Love it.

C-c-courage

Hello everyone!

As I told before, I found this cute store with China Glaze polishes nearby.
I wanted this polish from the Wizard of Oh Ahz from China Glaze for a long time. And they had it, it made me so happy.

I decided to wear it a few days ago. I loved it, it's not the warmest or deepest purple ever, it seems to lean a little more to blue than it does to red, but that doesn't matter. It has really small glitters in it, I couldn't stop looking! Mind you, the polish is more the color my skirt is on the top right, next to my nail. My camera flips out about purple.




And I had a matching skirt. Ha. Which is rare. I'm known for not matching. Ever. At all.

China Glaze - QT

This is China Glaze - QT. It's a holo polish. In the shade, to me, it looks a little bit purpleish pink, and in the sun it's just a holo pink. I love it. I seem to be more into the bright holo's. The ones that stand out. This one is no exception.

In the picture, it does not look thát holo, but trust me, it is.


Me and our soontobe-housemate, Frodo. With the QT polish.

Collistar - Viola Glitter

Hey everyone!

For my entry today, I'm showing you Viola Glitter from Collistar. You might have seen the name around. I saw the polish on Lacquerized.com and I fell in love immediatly. Thing was, the polish was really expensive. But yesterday I decided I could spoil myself for once, and just bought the polish.




Viola Glitter is a beautiful purple polish with very tiny glitter. It seems duochrome to me, in the bottle I see gold, red and lighter purple glows on the glitter.



I absolutely love everything on the polish. It dries up so fast and it covers my nail almost entirely on the second coat. I did a third one anyways. It makes me want to look at my nails all the time. Gorgeous.

Another good point, it doesn't peel of my nails. All mani's I've done the last few months just peeled off my nails, and this one doesn't. Great plus. 5/5. To me.

It did make my camera flip out. Hah.
I really need to do a workshop in photography. Gees, my pictures are bad.