Essie - Frock 'n Roll (Leggy Legend Collection autumn 2015)

Essie Frock 'n Roll from the Leggy Legend autumn Collection.
Two easy coats this was; formula is perfection, wear time not so good. I had major tip wear after just one day (I used Essie Protein base coat and Essie Good to Go top coat).
The colour is a deep and dark greyed out aubergine with silver micro glitter, in some lights the microglitter seems reddish in colour.

Essie - Frock 'n Roll

China Glaze - Cabin Fever (The Great Outdoors Collection, autumn 2015)

Cabin Fever from the Great Outdoors Collection by China Glaze, is a special colour: it is a duo chrome and shifts from greenish golden to a rusty reddish colour..... But when you take it off there is turquoise on your cotton pad......>weird<.
This is two coats; the formula covers well but is very liquid so you have to be careful not to flood your nails with polish. I had some bald spots in the first layer, but the second layer fixed all that. My camera did not want to pick up the reddish hue, so I had to resort to standing on my head to try and capture it.......

China Glaze - Cabin Fever

Essie - Take it Outside (Dress to Kilt Collection, autumn 2014)

Long time no see.....
But I'm back again with yet another beauty from the Dress to Kilt collection: Take it Outside.
TIO is a Pantone warm grey, or greige, or beige with strong grey undertones or grey with a hint of beige (or a lighter version of Chinchilly). The formula was lovely, two easy coats and you're done!

Essie - Take it Outside

It's a very lovely neutral without being stark and washed out or giving you mannequin nails.
I'm loving the neutrals these days, there are these periods when you just needs specific colours and the last few weeks it is neutrals for me: I'll show you some more in the coming days!

Formula: 4/5

Durability: 3/5

Shine:4/5

Colour: 5/5

Overall: 4/5

Essie - Style Cartel (Dress To Kilt Collection, autumn 2014)

Man, I needed a deep blue in my life! And I had my eye on Essie Style Cartel for a while already. Once I ordered it I received a mail that the last bottle the seller had was leaking and that they couldn't send it to me.
So back to Ebay and reorder somewhere else, weeks later I finally was the proud owner of this fabulous blue polish called Style Cartel.
It is a very deep blue, but not so dark that it becomes black, it stays blue (on the teal side of blue).
I used two easy coats here and it shines like crazy!

Essie - Style Cartel

It did not stain my nails BUT I got smurf fingers when I removed it! Oh well, never mind I love this blue anyway!!!

Zoya - Oswin (Ultra PixieDust Collection autumn 2014)

It's been a while that I showed (and wore) a PixieDust/liquid sand type of polish. So it was time to wear Oswin by Zoya, a deep red dust with big crimson (that how "they" call them and I guess that they are just that) hexes (hence the Ultra PixieDust). This is the only one I bought from this collection, because the other two (Noir and Arianna) seemed to be more translucent and less matte and that are just the two qualities I do not like in a PixieDust. Oswin is opaque and matte and thus a friend of mine!

Zoya Ultra PixieDust - Oswin

This could be a splendid polish for Christmas as well as for autumn!
I used two easy coats of Oswin; there was some colour loss (especially the big hexes) after just one day of wearing it: the edges of the glitters became silver. For the pictures I dry brushed them a bit to give them back their crimson red colour.

OPI - Flashbulb Fuchsia (Brights Collection, autumn 2006)

Ahhhh, a nice and bright sparkling fuchsia that was what I was craving for!
Enter OPI Flashbulb Fuchsia.
The formula was like butter and I used two coats here.
It was not as hard wearing as I would have hoped: I had chips after just one day!

OPI - Flashbulb Fuchsia

The colour is perfect though: perhaps more of a cyclamen colour then a fuchsia but the fuchsia sparkle is gorgeous as is the purple flash!
And I found a perfect solution for my tipp wear: colour blocking!
I show you the day after tomorrow............

China Glaze - Choo-Choo Choose You (second chance)

OK, we had Choo-Choo Choose You already yesterday: I know, I know......
But......as I said it might be better to throw it over a base colour....
And I did just that: I painted two liberal coats of Choo-Choo Choose You over two coats of Release (The Giver Collection). The result was much better then the previous one was. There was less pulling away from the tips and the shimmer was more prominent without the Sally Hansen top coat. >yeah<
It *might* even be better to use a darker base coat (or even black), I'll try that next time I wear Choo-Choo Choose You!

China Glaze Choo-Choo Choose You & Release

China Glaze - Choo Choo Choose You (All Aboard Collection, autumn 2014) with Sally Hanssen - Pink-Grape Fruit (430)

The must have of the China Glaze All Aboard autumn collection: Choo-Choo Choose You!
The hardest part is to describe the colour: it is sort of greyed out lilac blue with a healthy dose of bronze coloured shimmer that shifts to green and in extreme angles to pink.
To emphasize the pink (that really is very elusive) I added one coat of Sally Hansen Pink-Grape Fruit.

China Glaze - Choo-Choo Choose You & Sally Hansen - Pink-Grape Fruit

Choo-Choo Choose You is quite sheer: you need a good two coats (preferably three) to get it opaque and it has the tendency to pull a bit away from the nail edge (so tippwear comes quick and easy, as you can see). I think this has something to do with the base being fairly transparent and the shimmer floating around in it: disliking the edge of the nail.......
I am going to try this one out with a creme base underneath and see how that translates (without the Sally Hansen, because that does not do it any favours I think)!
I like Choo-Choo Choose you very much, it's murky and strange, autumn like and interesting; it deserves being the must have of the collection (of the entire year perhaps?!).

Color Club - Indulge Me (Seven Deadly Sins Collection, autumn/halloween 2014) and colour comparison

This was the polish I wore at Halloween.

Color Club Indulge Me is a liquid sand type of polish in a brandy/toffee/fallen autumn leaves/pumpkin spice kind of colour. The toffee coloured glitter is spiced up with pink/rose gold and yellow gold and all are the same micro size.
It dries to a nice matte, fine textured finish and is very easy to remove!

Color Club - Indulge Me

I did a little colour comparison with two normal polishes: OPI Pros & Bronze and OPI Warm & Fozzie and with one liquid sand polish: NOPI Cinna-man Of My Dreams.

From left to right: Pros&Bronze, Cinna-man Of My Dreams, Indulge Me, Warm&Fozzie

Colour wise is Indulge Me in between Pros & Bronze and Warm & Fozzie but the mix of colours is along the same lines. Cinna-man Of My Dreams has more of a cranberry base and there are some blue sparkles to be seen in there that Indulge Me does not have.
To be honest I love them all.............!