A-England - Captive Goddess (Rossetti's Goddess 2015)

Wow, this is a complicated shade of ...what exactly? A-England describes it as a complex holographic blend of cerulean blue, aquamarine green and muted purple veiled by a silver grey shadow. The base is a grey with a hint of petrol/steel blue, there is a hard flash of cerulean blue, a soft shimmer of lilac and some faint green shimmer at the edges and to top it of there is the soft holo dusting. The colour reminds me of a labradorite stone, I have earrings with that stone so I made a picture with it for comparison.
The formula is lovely, this a two buttery coats.

A-England - Captive Goddess

Cirque Colors - Josephine (fall 2014 Burlesque collection)

Dark green is what I need these days! So naturally when I spotted Cirque Colors Josephine I totally caved and had te have it. It is a retired shade so if you need it, you have to do some web searching; I found my bottle at thenailistashop.com
Josephine is a dark forest green with a strong linear holo. In low light it looks a bit muted somehow...like moss. Lovely formula, just two easy coats of evergreen yumminess.

Cirque Colors - Josephine

Comparison Essie - Take it Outside, Chinchilly & Berlin There Done That + bonus mani

Essie Take it Outside is by no means a extremely unique colour (lovely but not unique), so I needed to compare it with the greige polishes I have in my possession: Essie Chinchilly and (a favourite) OPI Berlin There Done That. I thought I would have more close calls....but they were all too brown.
The two Essie's are definitely family: TIO is a lighter version of Chinchilly. BTDT is a touch more brown and is again a step darker then Chinchilly.

Essie Take it Outside, Chinchilly & OPI Berlin There Done That

In my search for family and friends of Take it Outside I found Elevation Polish Aguja St. Exupery to be a very handsome friend. It is a light holo topper with a dusting of old gold and steel grey flakes and it is from the Patagonia Collection 2014. The flakes make the polish interesting in the shade and the holo does it's trick in the sun! Because of the combination of old gold and steel gray flakes it matches the greige of Take it Outside perfectly.

Elevation Polish - Aguja St. Exupery

Still very work appropriate but with a nice twist. Formula was outstanding: just one coat with an even flake distribution.

Aguja St. Exupery (the name keeps reminding me of the writer of the famous book "Le Petit Prince", Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. That is not without reason as Wikipedia explanes: "The Aguja Saint Exupery is a mountain spear ('aguja') located near the Cerro Chaltén in the Los Glaciares National Park in Patagonia, Argentina. The mountain is named in memory of Antoine de Saint Exupéry, the French writer and aviator who was director of the Aeroposta Argentina airline and pioneered postal flights in the Patagonia region between 1929 and 1931.") is still available at Elevation Polish.

Formula: 5/5

Durability: 4/5

Shine:4/5

Colour: 5/5

Overall: 5/5

OPI - Blue Chips (overstock re-release of OPI - The Flowers are Blue-ming, the Ulta "Too Haute To Handle" collection 2012)

Before the holidays I bought a bunch of cheap OPI's at the Big Bazar, they had all names I had never ever heard of. But Google helped me out; most of these are overstock re-releases of special collections (collaborations mostly).
Today I am wearing Blue Chips (I found out this was The Flowers are Blue-ming of the Ulta "Too Haute To Handle" collection 2012) : a turquoise blue polish with a nice big helping of silver holo micro glitter in the mix. The blue was a bit harsh on my skin tone and the glitter makes tiny bumps on the blue surface so the polish looks bumpy even though it feels smooth due to two liberal layers of top coat.

OPI - Blue Chips / The Flowers are Blue-ming

I compared it to Suzi Says Feng Shui and Absolutely Alice, the first being a bit softer and more petrol blue, the second is deeper in tone and more turquoise.
The thing with Blue Chips is the pearl sensation; it eats the micro glitters and makes the polish look bumpy and flat in certain lights, in the sun and halogen light the micro glitters pop out. They are so shiny that the twinkle overwhelms the pearl completely and makes it look fabulous. So wear this one in the right light ;-)

This was two easy coats and I had chips within a day (hence the name Blue Chips?).

Pahlish - Olea Europaea (fall 2013)

Day 2: Pahlish Olea Europaea.
Love this polish, I was sold on the name alone! Love the colour as well: a perfect mossy olive green with a holographic flash. The formula was OK but I needed an aqua basecoat, I had some issues with the wear when I used Sticky base and Poshé topcoat. Using my Fnug aqua basecoat and Fnug topcoat making an enormous improvement in wear.

Pahlish - Olea Europaea

This was two gorgeous layers of Olea Europaea.

Ninja Polish - Glamorous

As promissed last time this blogpost is about Ninja Polish Glamorous.
Glamorous is said to be a dupe for the big time lemming OPI ds Glamour. I don't own the OPI so I can not do a comparison. I just can tell you Glamorous is a gorgeous, deep cornflower blue with a strong linear holografic effect.  I used NYX Grand Central Station as a top coat: it does not dry as quickly as Poshé and is not as shiny but I have the feeling that the tipwear is less and there are way less chips...... The downside is that when you polish late in the evening and you go to bed too soon after......you get sheet marks...and I did....
So ignore the sheets and just look at that gorgeous blue with that dazzeling holo effect!

Ninja Polish - Glamorous

In sun light

In halogen light

This was two easy layers and I wore it for a good three days!
Love this polish....it's a must have in my humble opinion :-)

You can buy it at Ninja Polish

Dance Legend - 48 Multi shifting Shining Rainbow and Kiko Quick Dry 817

A few weeks ago (I was just back from the holiday) I was just cruising the Ninja Polish website and found this stunning duo chrome with holografic effect polish by Dance Legend...I just needed to try it (I also bought the Ninja Polish Glamorous which will be my next post in a few days time).
The Dance Legend nr. 48 is very cool. It is this taupe/braunish colour which shifts from pink to gold and some times turquoise and the added bonus is are the holografic particles: stunning, mesmerizing, dreamy...soo cool!
On it's own it is quite translucent so I used 1 layer of Kiko Quick Dry 817 as base colour and added just 1 layer of Dance Legend to get an opaque result.

I tried to capture it's beauty and failed.
This is what I got on camera:

Dance Legend 48 and Kiko Quick Dry 817

Diffused light

In sun light

Holo goodness

Gold shimmer under halogen light

YES: finally in the evening I got some pink shimmer!

The pink shimmer was playing hide and seek and the hint of blue proved even more difficult to capture.
In real life this is a even more gorgeous polish and very work appropriate if that is something to be careful about.
I wore this for four whole days and I had no chips, no extreme tipwear whatsoever (I used NYC Grand Central Station as topcoat) so absolutely perfect for a holo polish.

The big conclusion: love it a lot and I can recommand it wholeheartedly, it is a gorgeous, mesmerizing polish :-)

China Glaze - Avant Garden Collection - Snap My Dragon

In trying to do a better job in the nailart department, I did a new zip lock mani. This time I used Color Club Eternal Beauty (Halo Hues II). I painted my zip lock in the morning and used it in the evening. It was nice and flexibel this way and it applied much easier then the dragonflies :-)
Snap My Dragon is a very rich and fruity red, it's not orange at all and not too blue either: it is like strawberries and raspberries mashed together....very spring appropriate really. The polish is very pigmented and has some lovely shimmer in there, which makes it almost glowing at times.

Take a look:

China Glaze - Snap My Dragon and Color Club - Eternal beauty

Holo flowers on a red shimmery background!

This is 2 layers of Snap My Dragon and the little flowers are 2 layers of Eternal Beauty, sealed with some topcoat. It was a lovely combi...the purple flowers seemed to float on my nails....especially in direct sunlight!

Color Club - Cherubic and Essie Luxeffects - Shine of the Times

I realy love holos but in some lights they are a bit dull and flat....so I thought a layer of flackies might do the trick! That is how I came up with the holo-flackie combo of Cherubic and Shine of the Times.
It worked well, but Cherubic is such a strong holo that it really does not need the flackies. A duller holo might benefit more of this layering (I'll keep that in mind!).
Cherubic is a lovely neutral colour, a cool leaning sand colour which is a tiny bit too cool for my skincolour but not so much that it is disturbing ;-)
Shine of the Times is a predominantly orange/green shifthing flackie BUT I have found that against the light there is a whole rainbow in the bottle! The purple and the blue were not visible on the nail, perhaps I need to use a different basecolour to get those colours to shine through.

Have a look and see for yourself (it was VERY hard to get the flackies to show themselves in the pics).

Color Club - Cherubic and Essie Luxeffects Shine of the Times

Look at that pretty rainbow!

YES: there they are...the flackies

This was 2 layers of Color Club Cherubic and 1 of Essie Luxeffects Shine of the Times and it was topped with a coat of Poché. It was not very long wearing: on day 2 there were large chips and I had to change polish again.