KIKO Quick Dry - Pearly Jeans 856

Allo, allo!
Dark polish again...it's getting later in the year and the need for deep and dark colours is on the rise with me. This KIKO Quick Dry I bought in Italy this summer and it looks very sparkly in the bottle. On the nail there is less sparkle and more of a silver metallic flake effect. Next time I should mattify it, that will be stunning with this polish I think! In the sun the metallic is dominant and in the shade 856 is more of a dark jeans blue with silver linings (I get the jeans part in the name, the pearly bit is a mystery to me: to me it is more a Metallic Jeans, a Studded Jeans or a Sparkly Skinny).

KIKO Quick Dry - Pearly Jeans 856

This was two layers, the first one being very uneven (this polish dries fast...>duh<....and I was surprised!) the second one, more liberal, did the trick and evened everything out. Because of the shine of this type of polish, you get to see all the weird dents and ridges in your nails....... and I used ridge filler!

Kiko Quick Dry - 818 topped with Cirque - Au

What to wear to a formal event?
Well, something neutral with a festive touch...I choose Kiko Quick Dry nr. 818 topped off with Cirque Au.
The 818 looks a little lighter in the bottle then on the nail, which was a pitty because the complete look was a bit sombre this way. But all in all I liked the result good enough :-)

This was two easy coats of the 818 and one thin coat of Au (and that even gave almost too much gold leaf...it's loaded with the stuff!).

Kiko Quick Dry - 818 and Cirque - Au

Gold leaf top coat is always a nice conversation starter, so the combo worked like a charm ;-)

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 :-)

Holiday Haul !!! (warning: long and pic heavy)

Oh dear....it has been a while!
Our holiday ruined my nails and cuticles so I need some recovery time...
We went away to France and Spain for the summer holidays and we had the most wonderful time (no antibiotics necessary this time!).
First we went to Orleans, on a camping with a little stream running trough it:

 Next we went "en route" to Béziers in the south of France:

Then we made the jump to Spain:

We had loads of fun at the beach as well:

After happy and sunny Spain we went to France again.....Montpellier! Old grandeur and nonchalant chique at the mediterranean sea....or so we thought....

We went to this camping called "Montpellier Plage" which sounds OK, right? Well the big fat security guards at the gate and the cameras hanging all over the camping should have told us otherwise!

It was hell and then some... First thing was that everybody on the camping looked at us like we were a bunch of aliens (yes, we are not French....but definately human!), next up were our charming, somewhat stoned looking neighbours with the bottle of vodka next to their tent, (I do not mention the dirty medieval toilets and showers). The first night was OK, I did not dare go to the toilets and there was some noise but it was manageable. The next day we went to Montpellier (as long as possible so we had to spend as little time as possible on the camping):

We came home late.....and then it began: music, drinking, drugs, peeing and pooping on our tent (!), screaming, car lights full on, telephone calls of angry girlfriends/wifes, cooking (at 3 o'clock at night?!) etc. it went on the whole night long. We did not sleep for a minute and we were constantly scared that these lunatics would come trashing our tent. Those big security guards came by twice but were too scared to say or do anything to these guys.....

At six in the morning (it finally was quiet, I think they were comatose) we had had enough and this is how we found our neighbouring plot a "situation exceptionelle" as they like to describe it on their website:

It seemed like a hurricane had hit it or something: clothes, food, booze bottles everywhere!
At half past seven we escaped and went to look for more peaceful surroundings:

We found our spot in Ronnet near Montluçon!
Heaven :-)
Then it was almost over but we had still two days of beautiful Orleans as dessert:

It was a lovely, lovely holiday (forget about Camping Montpellier Plage) and I loved every bit of it!
I did some polish shopping as well....>naturally<
Here it goes:

 Kiko Sugar Mat nr.: 632 (bright red), 633 (fuchsia), 638, 637 and 644

 Kiko Laser nr.: 434 (bright blue with pink flash ) and 435 (dark grey with turquoise and fuchsia flash)

 Kiki Sun Pearl nr.: 427 (chartreuse with golden pearl) and 429 (blue with silver pearl)

 Kiko Quick Dry nr.: 817 (taupe) and 818 (grey)

 Kiko nr.: 381 (dark grey creme)

 Oh YES there it is...Revlon Royal: finally obtained!

 Flomar: Matte M09, 394, Glitter GL04, Supershine 50, Glitter GL10 and 399 (grey/black microshimmer)

 Reserve Naturelle: L3112 (like OPI Germanicure) and L1913 (grey blue with blue shimmer)

 Maybelline Forever Strong: 735 Gold All Night and 645 Viva Blue Violet (dusty blue with violet shimmer)

Ess Trendy Colours: Midnight Blue and Stars In The Eyes.

That's it! >pfwwww<
I do not know where to start swatching so if you want to see a particular polish: just let me know.
My swatching nails are almost recovered so in the next days I will post some new mani's again!

Hope I didn't bore you with my holiday adventures :-)