Debby ~ #27

Debby ~ #27

Ox blood red crelly

Today’s polish is really special! My boyfriend gave it to me as an advent calendar gift for the first Sunday in advent. Isn’t that just something!

The formula is good and the polish is really easy to apply. I applied two coats and the drying time was really good.

The heart design is from Moyra’s stamping plate “56 Celebration-2” and I stamped with Color Club’s “Halo-Graphic”.

This is what it all ended up looking like, including a layer of topcoat. The photo is taken in ordinary daylight.

Here’s a photo taken in my lightbox. I really like the look of this.

Look how shiny #27 is on its own. This is two coats and no topcoat yet.

This is the polishes and the stamping plate I used.

I think my boyfriend is a keeper, don’t you think? :D

Number of coats: 2
Drying time: Really good

Finish: Crelly
Overall impression: Deep and shiny colour, very impressive and vampy

Buy again: Yes

Debby ~ 74

Debby ~ 74

- with friends in an experiment

Today I start out with another polish my boyfriend bought for me for Christmas: Debby. It has no name but it’s number 74 and it’s a shimmery green. I guess I might keep him after all ;)

The formula is good and the polish is easy to apply. It’s a little bit sheer so I did use three coats for full opacity. The drying time is good, so I forgive the three coats, haha.

Here’s how pretty it is:

I added glitter: China Glaze’s Pine-ing for Glitter from the Twinkle Holiday collection from Christmas 2014. I think it’s meant to be a topper. I applied two coats over the green Debby. Pine-ing for Glitter has a teal side, so it’s doesn’t quite fit the green Debby. I thought it was easy to apply but I can see on the pictures that I applied more glitter on some nails than I did on others, which implies that the polish isn’t as cooperative as I thought it was. Anyway – on this next picture I’m wearing seven layers of polish: Basecoat, 3 layers of Debby, 2 layers of China Glaze and one layer of topcoat:

Then I moved on to OPI’s My Voice is a little Norse. It’s from the Nordic collection from Autumn 2014, and it’s a light grey base with silver/holo glitter. This is the only polish I bought from that collection and I only bought it because it was on special. I think the entire collection has been ridiculously named and I am quite disappointed in the colour choices too. Seriously: Does OPI really think that Brown is the main visible/fashion colour in the Nordic countries? A little more research or indeed imagination would have been nice, thank you!

Anyway – I applied a layer of the glitter over the rest of it, and now we’re on eight layers!

The glitter made it all come more together, I think it’s because of the light grey base.

Then it was time to fold laundry and that didn’t correspond very well with not entirely dry nails. *sigh*

Anyway – I’m happy with all these three polishes, but I like Debby the best!

deBBY ~ 80 and Finger Paints ~ Art you Wondering?

deBBY ~ 80

Ocean blue/grean/teal, almost metallic

I received this pretty polish in a swap with sweet Elsa from Like a Candy Shop. I’m fond of colours that remind me of the ocean. I don’t know why, that’s just the way it is. That means that I have quite a few polishes that look pretty much like this one. That’s one of the beautiful things about swapping: I wouldn’t have picked this myself, because I have quite a few in this colour range. But little did I know that this polish is very different to the others in my collection. It’s way more vibrant and pretty!!

The formula is ok. The coats go on fine, but leave a few brush strokes. It’s totally opaque in two coats. And man, it’s vibrant! Let me say it again. Vibrant. That *is* the word for this :)

Here it is; two coats, no top coat:

I didn’t mind the brush strokes very much. I knew I was going to use this as underwear for a glitter I bought in a blog sale: Finger Paints’ “Art You Wondering”, which is fine teal and green glitter in a clear base. The application felt fine, but I can see on the pictures that the brush pulls a bit on the glitter, leaving more glitter on the tips than on the rest of the nail. It wasn’t really visible in real life, so I guess it doesn’t really matter :)

One coat of “Art you Wondering?” over the deBBY 80.

I really like this, but I wanted more! You should know me by now :D

I had stamping in mind, but since I was working on something (from home), I couldn’t be bothered pulling out the stamping gear. So I found some stickers I bought a long time ago, and applied a star on each nail. Then I topped it all with a layer of Poshé top coat, and here’s what it ended up looking like:

I like this!! It probably won’t last very long, because I can feel the stars poking out from underneath the top coat, and I am a picker!
This is the first time I wear stickers on my nails, btw. It probably won’t be the last.

Opacity: 8/10
Colour, prettiness: 7/10
Durability: 7/10
Value for money: 8/10
Overall: 7.5/10
Buy again: No

Nail Mail from Elsa

Another nail mail post! I just love these posts!!

I did a swap with Elsa from "Like a Candy Shop", who lives in Italy. I must admit that I had been looking very much forward to this swap, because I didn't really know what to expect. I don't know which polishes they sell in Italy, but I was sure she would send something pretty, because I had seen all the beauties on her blog. 

But when the mail man finally arrived, I got very disappointed. Not because of what she sent - but because this is what the envelope looked like: 

Someone had cut the envelope open! And I knew that there was 6 polishes on the way to me, so I was very disappointed to find that there were only 4 polishes in the envelope! I wish no good for people who steal nail polishes!!

But anyway. Here's what the remaining four looked like, all wrapped up nicely:

I unwrapped them eagerly, and I was thrilled to see what it was: 

Catrice: Dirty Berry, debbY: Color Play 80, Kiko: 277 and 341.

I love them all! And Elsa has been so kind to promise me to re-send the two missing polishes, which I obvioulsy don't know what is, but I'm sure they're just as gorgeous!

So thanks, Elsa, for doing this swap with me! <3