Orly ~ Rococo a-go-go

Orly ~ Rococo a-go-go
Plum/purple base with multichromatic glass fleck particles

and

NYX ~ Pink Avenue
Clear base with multicoloured confetti


Rococo a-go-go is from Orly’s Mineral FX collection from Autumn 2011. It looks so beautiful in the bottle – and the big question is as always: Will all that beauty transfer onto my nails?

The answer is yes. And in one coat only. I was amazed about just how fantastically smooth the formula was – the polish covered perfectly and glided straight on without leaving brush strokes or bald spots. Sweet!

Here’s one coat, with one coat of Poshé top coat:

I think it’s beautiful! I was really thrilled over the fact that the beauty didn’t just stay in the bottle – because as you know, there are plenty of times it just doesn’t work like that

I couldn’t leave it as it was, though. I had stamping in mind, but went for what I thought was a flakie top coat from NYX instead. It turned out to be little flecks of multicoloured “confetti”– not at all what I expected. Here is two coats over the Orly:

It quite liked it, but it was very lumpy, and not even an extra thick layer of Poshé top coat could fix that.



Orly ~ Rococo a-go-go
Opacity: 10/10
Colour, prettiness: 10/10
Durability: 8/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 9.5/10
Buy again: Yes


NYX ~ Pink Avenue
Opacity: -/10
Colour, prettiness: 6/10
Durability: 6/10
Value for money: 6/10
Overall: 6/10
Buy again: No

Nfu Oh ~ GS14

Nfu Oh ~ GS14
Holographic Black

I think that “holographic black” sounds intriguing. I’ve seen a couple, but haven’t been tempted to buy them until recently. When I saw Nfu Oh’s GS14 I knew that if there was ever a black holographic for me, this would be the one.

The formula was a bit on the thick side, but it was very easy to apply. Drying time between the coats was somewhat on the slow side, but I managed to sit still long enough not to dent it. :D

The holographic content definitely works for me. Tiny little stars twinkling on my nails – I can’t wait to see this in the sunshine!! She’s a total b*tch to photograph though. I didn’t manage to get any pics where the holo shows for real, so these will have to do:

The holo shows more in the bottle than on the nails, but it *did* show in real life. Anyway – these are two coats, no top coat.

This polish dries up pretty gritty, surface-wise - so it really does need a top coat. I wanted to stamp on this first though. I went for a design of moon and stars, since I thought it would fit my little starry night sky so well. I had such a design on a plate with no name on it other than B22.

Here’s a close up of the thumb, where the holo actually shows itself.

I stamped with Essence’s stampy polish: “Stamp me! Silver”



Opacity: 10/10
Colour, prettiness: 7/10
Durability: 6/10
Value for money: 7/10
Overall: 7.5/10
Buy again: No

Essence ~ Where’s the party

Essence ~ Where’s the party

Duochrome that shifts between green and purple

and

Essence Nail Art Twins ~ 06 Edward
Clear base packed with green and teal glitter in various sizes


I haven’t had the best of luck with duochromes, but I decided to give this Essence a go anyway. It looked so pretty in the bottle, and I so wished that to transfer onto my nails.

The first coat went on smoothly – no streaks whatsoever. It looked pretty cool already, but I added another coat. This is a fantastic formula, so easy to work with and it leaves no streaks at all.

And the duochrome actually works. Here it is, from the green angle. No top coat yet:

And here it is from the purple angle. Looks good, eh?

But hey – there was supposed to be a party on my nails, according to the name. But it’s a well known fact that there can be no party without glitter. So I went for Edward, which is a beautiful green glitter, also from Essence. The greens in these duochromes tend to be a bit on the dull side, so I thought I’d spice it up with some real bling.

Here is the purple angle with glitter:

And here is the green angle with glitter:

It totally works for me! And I love the combo!



Essence ~ Where’s the party
Opacity: 9/10
Colour, prettiness: 7/10
Durability: 8/10
Value for money: 8/10
Overall: 8/10
Buy again: Yes


Essence Nail Art Twins ~ 06 Edward
Opacity: -/10
Colour, prettiness: 10/10
Durability: 8/10
Value for money: 9/10
Overall: 9/10
Buy again: Yes

Max Factor ~ Blue Energy + MAC

Max Factor ~ Blue Energy
Dark, shimmery, almost foil-ish blue

and

MAC ~ Unconditionally Fabulous
Clear base packed with holographic glitter


I really like the things that Max Factor does. Make-up and nail polish – it just works for me. And so did this fabulous blue nail polish from the Nailfinity series. The formula was perfect – the polish went on smoothly. It was almost a one coater, but I gave it two, just because I wanted to see the full potential of it.

No streaks, no brush strokes, no bald spots, no problems. Just perfection.
Here it is, two coats, no top coat:

 

I wanted to add a little extra to it though. I chose the glitter "Unconditionally Fabulous" from MAC – a brand that I’m usually too tight fisted to buy myself, but that Alice Snow decided was the perfect gift for me. I’m such a lucky girl! <blows kisses to Alice>.

Here it is, with a layer of Seche Vite top coat.

 

The glitter reflects the polish underneath it so sweetly, it shows up in all shades of blue, from baby blue over turquoise to dark blue.

I love it! That MAC is worth every cent!!

I think it’s gorgeous!


Max Factor ~ Blue Energy
Opacity: 8/10
Colour, prettiness: 8/10
Durability: 8/10
Value for money: 8/10
Overall: 8/10
Buy again: Yes


MAC ~ Unconditionally Fabulous
Opacity: -/10
Colour, prettiness: 8/10
Durability: 8/10
Value for money: 8/10
Overall: 8/10
Buy again: Don't think so, even though it's fabulous!

Be-Yu ~ 329

Be-Yu ~ 329
A dark, shimmery purple with a tint of red in it

This polish is very beautiful in real life, but frustratingly hard to capture on photos. It’s a dark, vampy purple with shimmer, and if you look closely you can see there’s some red in it too

The application was quite difficult. If I didn’t work fast enough, it would pull on the polish I had already applied. So I had to be absolutely sure that there was enough polish on the brush before starting to apply. I am so glad that the second coat smoothed out the irregularities.

Two coats, no top coat:

It didn’t look streaky or have bald spots in real life at all.

I decided to stamp on it with my new silver polish from Essence: “Stamp me! Silver”. I chose plate BM203 from Bundlemonster. I’ve got a coat of Seche Vite top coat over it here, and no smudges!

This is the most beautiful silver stamping polish I’ve seen so far. It shows up just perfectly on darker colours too! I definitely need to get myself a backup bottle of this next time I’m on vacation!!

Be-Yu ~ 329

Opacity: 7/10
Colour, prettiness: 7/10
Durability: 6/10
Value for money: 6/10
Overall: 6.5/10
Buy again: No

s-he ~ 290

s-he ~ 290

Metallic blue

and

NYC Color ~ Lights-Camera-Glitter

Clear base packed with silver glitter, and larger silver and light blue hexagons

This is my first s-he nail polish, and I can’t believe I had to go all the way to Hungary to lay my hands on it. :D It’s a metallic blue, and the formula was very good and smooth to work with. It pulled a little bit on the polish if I worked to slowly on a nail, but working faster solved that perfectly.

Here’s two coats – no top coat:

I never understood the concept of giving the polishes numbers instead of names. Who would ever guess that number 290 is a blue? <shakes head>

Anyway! I had glitter in mind with this polish. I went for NYC Color’s Lights-Camera-Glitter, which is a clear base full of silver glitter bits, along with larger pale pink and light blue bits in it. This is also my first NYC nailpolish, and I also bought it in Hungary.

It went on very smoothly – no need to push the glitters around with the brush to make it cover the entire nail! 

Here’s one coat plus one coat of Seche Vite top coat:

It’s even prettier than I imagined! What do you think?

s-he ~ 290

Opacity: 8/10
Colour, prettiness: 8/10
Durability: 8/10
Value for money: 8/10
Overall: 8/10
Buy again: Yes

NYC Color ~ Lights-Camera-Glitter

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

Misty Rain

Hi girls,

Here’s the third of the Frankenpolishes that Alice Snow put under the Christmas tree for me. It’s a dusty green colour, that’s very difficult to describe. The polish also contains glitters in various colours – silver, blue and green.Its name is Misty Rain!

The formula was very thick, but the brush was good so it was easy to apply it evenly onto the nails. It covered perfectly in one coat only. Here it is with one layer of Seche Vite top coat:

The glitter effect is not very prominent in this polish, in fact you have to look very closely to even see it. It’s not because it’s not there, it just doesn’t pop for some reason. The “invisible” glitter makes the mani bumpy – I applied two layers of Seche Vite top coat, and it still wasn’t smooth. I don’t mind that actually, it adds a bit of a 3D-effect to it. :D

I love the colour. It looks pretty ordinary in the bottle, but it looks so much better on the nails. It’s cool when polishes are like that, and so much better than if it was the other way around.

♥

Essence ~ Time for romance (#72)

Essence ~ Time for romance (#72)

A mauve-ish jelly base with small and large pink glitters and hexagons

The hardest thing about this polish is actually to describe the colour. It’s brownish/mauve-ish and even pink-ish with lots of small and large glitters. It looks so pretty in the bottle. I don’t think it’s quite as pretty on my nails though. I don’t know what’s wrong with it – it’s just “meh!”  Thinking of it, it might be the fact that I though it was Bordeaux – and then it turned out brown. Not really my colour, to be honest.

Here’s three coats, no top coat:

It grew a bit on me over the next day or so, but I think I need to try it over a more powerful colour, to make it stand out more. Drying time between the coats was pretty good.

Oh – I did try a new top coat after taking this picture – also from Essence. It’s called “Gel look-top coat”. There’s a label on the bottle, saying "XXXL shine" – which sounded promising.

And yes – it did make the mani very shiny. But man – it just took forever to dry. It was as if it wouldn’t stop being tacky. :/ I probably won’t bother buying that again.

Essence ~ Time for Romance

Opacity: 5/10
Colour, prettiness: 4/10
Durability: 4/10
Value for money: 5/10
Overall: 4.5/10
Buy again: No 

Essence ~ Gel look top coat

Opacity: -/10
Colour, prettiness: -/10
Durability: 6/10
Value for money: 6/10
Overall: 6/10
Buy again: No 

Sephora in Denmark

Yay! Sephora is finally opening a store in Denmark! This is great news, because a lot of us love Sephora - but they don't ship to Denmark.

Now it happens. On May 9th 2012 the dream should come true!

The first thing I'll be buying is one of these:

They are sooo cute! 

Sephora i Danmark!

Det er ganske vist! Sephora åbner nu endelig sin første butik i Danmark. Det sker den 9. maj 2012 i Illum på Strøget i København. Og jeg skal nok være der og tjekke det hele ud - så jeg håber, at de har gjort sig umage. Jeg håber også, at de ikke har skruet priserne for meget i vejret, for så er det ærligt talt lige meget!

Ses vi? Det tror jeg nok, vi gør! :D

Amour ~ Silver Glitter

Amour ~ Silver Glitter
Polish packed with silver glitter

This is the third time I use a polish from Amour, and each time it’s just getting better.
This silver is so dense that it’s like recycled Pepsi cans. As with the others the formula is excellent, with no streaking or bald spots, and I received full opacity with only two coats.

Here it is, two coats, no top coat: 

Silver can be a bit bland on its own, and I wanted some extra colour. I chose B. O. number 63 – it’s a glitter from BornPrettyStore.com. It’s a clear base with pink holographic glitters in various sizes. I wanted some of the biggest glitters on each of my nails, and that was a bit of a challenge. I had to make sure there was at least one on the brush and then push it around to arrange it on the nail.

Here’s one coat: 

I decided that that wasn’t enough, so I went fishing in the bottle once more and found some more big glitters, and then I was satisfied.
Here’s two coats: 

I think this mani is very festive and extremely beautiful, and I did receive compliments for it. :)

Amour ~ Silver Glitter
Opacity: 8/10
Colour, prettiness: 10/10
Durability: 6/10
Value for money: 8/10
Overall: 8/10
Buy again: Yes