Essie - Funky Limelight (summer 2009 Neon Collection)

My white nails needed some punch, as I already declared in my previous post....
I choose Essie Funky Limelight to do the job and it does the job very, very well!
Funky Limelight is a extremely bright highlighter neon yellow, just the kind of neon yellow I am kind of obsessed about. When I was a child I found this tiny mini bottle of highlighter yellow nail polish in a even more tiny drugstore. It was watery and rubbery and lumpy stuff, but that colour....oh, I was in love! And I still am in love and on a never ending quest to find the best neon yellow polish there is :-)

The result I got with the colour blocking of Blanc and Funky Limelight was perfection.

Essie - Funky Limelight

I think the result is near perfection (saying so myself) and I came the the conclusion that I LOVE colour blocking like this.

Essie - Luscious Lips (Cute As a Button Collection, Summer 2009)

Day 5: Essie Luscious Lips, a sheer but buildable milky pink (on the warm side of pink).
This was three not too streaky coats of Luscious Lips.

Essie - Luscious Lips

There are those days that you are simply in need for a squishy light pink: then give Luscious Lips a try, it is very cute and wearable.

OPI Sand In My Suit (OPI South Beach Collection - Spring/Summer 2009) and OPI The Living Daylights (OPI Holiday 2012 Skyfall Collection)

Well....it has been a while.....
I totally wrecked my hands/nails/cuticles and I needed some time to heal!
How did I do that (the wrecking, that is)? I restored an antique mirror that we bought in an auction.
The end result is beyond what I imagined it would be, everything I did worked out very, very well >happy happy, joy joy<

The end result of the restauration project

I had to remove layers of brown stain off the goldleaf ornaments and I had to make stems with clay for a lot of the leafs, those were gone missing in action over the years.

The top end during restauration

The top end fully restaured

To get all this terrible, terrible staining off I had to use more then 1 bottle of aceton! I very much enjoyed the whole proces but my hands were hating it all the way.... The were cracked and completely dried out within hours!
So no nailpolish or any blogging for me for a while, was the conclusion.
I still have one thumb that is less than happy, but he is not an actor in de blog pics so I can start polishing again >YEAH!<

I will start on a conservative note with OPI Sand In My Suit.
SIMS is a very soft sandy peach nude with subtle silver pearly shimmer. It is opaque in two coats!
The shimmer really lifts this polish out of the boring zone.

OPI - Sand In My Suit

While loving the colour I thought it would be a good base for my OPI The Living Daylights. TLD is a glitter that is lovely in the bottle but I just have the hardest time to find a canvas for it that works. Perhaps SIMS is The One???

OPI - The Living Daylights

Yes, I do like the end result: I topped it off with Essie Matte About you and I guess that did the trick. Mattified glitters are so much more sophisticated!

OPI - Who Needs A Prince

I am into the neutrals these days....bear with me it'll pass ;-)

Today it is OPI - Who Needs A Prince? (OPI Princess Charming Collection 2009). I find this name the coolest ever!
The colour is whitish jelly with a pink/red pearl shimmer: The red shimmer makes it look light pink...which it is not! I did two layers but I should have used three, to make it more opaque and squishy and less streaky.

Here it is:

OPI - Who Needs A Prince?

The conclusion: I like this shade. It's a bit streaky but at three coats it will be OK. The pearly shimmer in these transparent shades (like also OPI At First Sight) makes them a bit more interesting. Perhaps I should try these for a nice glitter sandwich......

OPI - At First Sight dotted french

Wow, I have been a busy mum at school....we organised an Easter breakfast for 220 kids! That is 380 boiled eggs, 720 chocolate eggs, 200 croissants, 240 petits pains etc. etc. Thankfully everything went well, even the Easterbunny showed up :-)

I don't know if OPI At First Sight qualifies for a Easter mani, but it'll have to do! OPI At First Sight is an old one, it's from the Fairytale Bride: Soft Shades 2009 Collection.
I love this polish: it's non streaking, not completly white yet still very fresh looking, it has golden shimmer and it is semi transparent. Love it.
To jazz it up I made some french dots with OPI Goldeneye, it matches the shimmer beautifully and gives the colour a little kick.

Well, see for yourself:

OPI - At Fist Sight and OPI - Goldeneye

I hope you can see the delicate shimmer of At First Sight, it was hard to capture with my compact.
I used 2 layers of AFS then made the dots and finished off with a layer of fast drying topcoat.