OPI - Oy Another Polish Joke! (Euro Centrale Collection, Spring 2013)

Polish on holiday number 8:

This baby was waiting in my drawer for ever, so that was not fair to Oy-Just Another Polish Joke because she is just gorgeous! If my nails were not so stained I would love to wear this on it's own. But as it is I slapped it on Sorry I'm Fizzy Today and loved the result really.
It made the pink more of a soft orange and gave it the most beautiful golden twinkle.

OPI - Oy Another Polish Joke!

This is just one layer over SIFT and it issn't patchy at all, the golden twinkles spread out very evenly.
Very festive: it's like sunshine on your nails :-)

OPI - My Paprika is Hotter than Yours! (OPI Euro Centrale Spring/Summer Collection 2013)

Wow, I can not believe I did not buy and wear this polish any sooner...it took me a whole year!
OPI My Paprika is Hotter than Yours! is a fab colour: it is a reddish orange or and orange toned red creme.....with slight pearl shimmer (in a good way). It is a very hot and happy colour, yet it stays very classy and chique as well. As mentioned there is some pearl visible in the bottle but on the nail it gives a sort of inner glow almost, no Frosty the Snowman or anything creepy here!!

OPI - My Paprika is Hotter than Yours

This was an easy two coats.
>love it<

OPI Eurso Euro with a festive touch

From the OPI Spring 2013 Euro Centrale Collection we have Eurso Euro today.
It is a intense cobalt blue but it is definately on the dark side of cobalt. It was a lot darker then I anticipated it to be. So I added a accent nail with Cirque XX from the Object d'Art Collection as a topper over the Eurso Euro. I liked it a lot but it does not give you the feeling that spring is in the air.....it's more wintertime for me.....

Lookie look:

OPI - Eurso Euro and Cirque - XX

This was two easy coats of Eurso Euro and one of Cirque's XX on the ringfinger.
This one will rest in the drawer till autumn I guess...perhaps that it will grace my toes at the beach this summer...just to see if it has any mediterranean quality at all?!

OPI - Suzi's Hungary Again glitter gradient

OPI Suzi's Hungary Again is such a yummy colour! It is a warm leaning medium pink with a touch of silvery hidden shimmer. SHA is part of the OPI spring 2013 Euro Centrale Collection. To make it even more festive I added Lush Lacquer Summer Lovin as a gradient glitter at the base of the nail. Summer Lovin is a fun matte glitter polish in a slightly yellow-orange tinged base.

The result:

OPI Suzi's Hungary Again and Lush Lacquer Summer Lovin

The coloured base gave the gradient an extra dimension....it was juicy :-)
Loved that the glitter was on the sparse side, it worked nicely with the tinted base and Suzi's Hungary Again.

OPI - Euro Centrale Collection - You're Such A Budapest and Can't Find My Czechbook

Moving on to the new OPI Euro Centrale Collection! Today I did DOTS: yeah. I love dots and I should do them more often.
OPI You're Such A Budapest (YSAB) and OPI Can't Find My Czechbook (CFMC) are colors that are bestest ;-) friends in my book. Both are bright but a bit faded and both are soft without being extreme pastels.

I opted to use YSAB as a base colour and use CFMC for the dots. I saw swatches of CFMC alone and that made it look more bright and blue then in my case when used as dots on the lilac. The lilac made it look more of a petrol or greenish blue....which is lovely as well :-)
*note to self* next time I should use CFMC on its own and compare the colour with the dots.

Well, have a look and see for yourself:

OPI You're Such A Budapest and OPI Can't Find My Czechbook

The formula of YSAB was a bit watery but very workable and not at all streaky: this was 2 thin layers, perhaps when worn without the dots you need 2 thicker layers or three thin ones. There is some ultra fine purple and silver shimmer in there somewhere but it does not transfer to the nail. Perhaps that it makes the colour a bit more glowing but you don't notice shimmer just a this very slight glow.