Essie - Fiji & LA Girl Glitter Addict - Uninhibited

In principle I like pale pinks, I just find them a bit too stark and girly on my nails most of the time. Then I thought of this simple black glitter topper by LA Girl: Uninhibited. I tried the combination and fell in love: it is perfection! The black glitter make the pale pink a bit less sweet and girly and adds just the perfect amount of funk to the colour. Uninhibited is a simple glitter topper: black hexes in two sizes (tiny and a bit less tiny) in a transparent base.

Essie - Fiji & LA Girl Glitter Addict - Uninhibited

Essie - Fiji & LA Girl Glitter Addict - Uninhibited

A fresh and new mani: I love pale pink but it really doesn't suit me >I think< but this lovely simple black gllitter topper makes Essie's famous pale pink Fiji very wearable for me!
This is the american version (with the skinny brush) of Fiji and it is a very light bubble gum pink.
The glitter by LA Girl is a simple black micro glitter with some bigger black glitter mixed in. On the nail it looks like a bunch of pixels stranded on there, or like sweet pink birds eggs!

This was two/three layers of Fiji and one layer Uninhibited.

Essie - Fiji & LA Girl Glitter Addict - Uninhibited

China Glaze - Boundary of Memory (The Giver Collection, autumn 2014) and comparison with China Glaze In The City (Metro Collection, autumn 2011)

China Glaze and micro glitters: WOW they do them so well!
There are two in The Giver collection: Boundary of Memory and The Outer Edge. The last one is probably more of a topper but you could get it semi opaque on the nail if you really wanted to (and I DO, but I'll reserve that for later).
Today it is Boundary of Memory: a splendid mix of black, silver and copper gold micro glitter. The formula was a bit thick, like I was putting a sandy syrup on my nails but it was workable and completely opaque in two coats.

China Glaze - Boundary of Memory

I used Essence Nial Art Peel Off base coat and added one extra layer of topcoat (Essence Gel-Look XXXL shine) underneath China Glaze Fast Forward to even everything out. This whole sandwich was VERY hard wearing! It didn't chip at all and after a week I needed to work very hard to "peel" (more like hack and peck) the whole thing off again.
This glitter mix does remind me a bit of China Glaze In the City (China Glaze Metro collection for Fall 2011) but that polish had more of a lilac undertone and was thus a bit colder in hue.
I will put a comparison swatch up when I have time this week.......

OPI - Today I Accomplished Zero (Coca Cola Collection summer 2014)

Opi's Today I Accomplished Zero is inspired by.....Coca Cola Zero....and I really do hate the taste of that one. It's like drinking liquid plastic or something >brrrrr< and the after taste is the worst >shivers<

And the polish? I wasn't too sure looking at the bottle, it looked murky and unattractive to my eye.
The first coat on the nail didn't change that perspective one little bit: it was streaky and transparent. But coat number two did the trick: there was depth and there was sparkle and glowing ambers in the dark. I love it and it is very wearable!

OPI - Today I Accompliced Zero

I won't start drinking Coke Zero, but I do love this colour and I am definitely going to wear this one very often this fall!
Naturally it reminds us of the Mariah Carey one Stay The Night (one of the first Liquid Sand polishes), but I think the reddish-pink glitter is a bit more red in TIAZ and there is more size variation in those glitters as well

left: Today I accomplished Zero & right: Stay The Night

Essie - Belugaria (Holiday 2013 Encrusted Treasures Collection)

Well, Essie Belugaria.....I couldn't make up my mind: to buy or not to buy....?!
Then I saw it in a sale and I caved, so here it is.
I must say I was pleasantly surprised! It is a bit edgy and not for every day but I like the overall effect of it.
I looks indeed a bit like caviar on your tips, or perhaps more like a big crust of tar with some glittery stuff mixed in. It is hard to apply unlike other liquid sand polishes, you sort of have to dab it on the nails in two coats. While wearing it you might lose a piece here and there but this is very easily refilled with a firm blob of polish where needed. And although it is not easy wearing, nor very practical I like the stuff!

Essie - Belugaria

So conclusion: this is not a polish for the faint of hart!
But if you want to wake the rock chick in you try this polish: you'll hit the groove fast :-)

OPI - Stay The Night

Yesterday I received my long expected OPI - Stay The Night! I am so excited :)
I find it is the most interesting one of the liquid sand colors of the Mariah Carey Collection. The matte black with the smoldering pink-red glitters it's just gorgeous!

Have a look:

The bottle OPI - Stay The Night

OPI - Stay The Night, 2 layers

Lighting with a 1000W buildinglamp!

I love that the black is a little jelly-like...it makes the tiny glitters peep through.
This was two layers of very easy workable polish. The first layer went on a bit patchy but with the second (a bit thicker coat) it evened out pretty well. In the first nail picture you can see the overall effect best, perhaps in real life it is just a ietsiepietsie (very tiny little bit) more twinkling.