Cirque Colors - Josephine (fall 2014 Burlesque collection)

Dark green is what I need these days! So naturally when I spotted Cirque Colors Josephine I totally caved and had te have it. It is a retired shade so if you need it, you have to do some web searching; I found my bottle at thenailistashop.com
Josephine is a dark forest green with a strong linear holo. In low light it looks a bit muted somehow...like moss. Lovely formula, just two easy coats of evergreen yumminess.

Cirque Colors - Josephine

China Glaze - S'more Fun (The Great Outdoors Collection, fall 2015) stamped with Mundo de Uñas

I just needed S'more Fun in my life: it's a dirty greenish yellow and I am a fool for those kind of colours (and I have a perfect yellow obsession...). This time I wanted to do some stamping (still learning though), I used MoYou plate nr 07 from the Mother Nature Collection, I stamped with Mundo de Uñas Pastel Blue and Taupe. I was very happy with the result although I still have not figured out how to get rid of the air bubbles in my stamping.......as I said: it's a learning proces :-)
Sorry for the bad pictures: it was such an awful, rainy and dark day that it dulled the colours considerably.

China Glaze - S'more Fun

Essie - Color Binge (Leggy Legend, fall 2015)

Essie Color Binge is a fruity orange red: it is definitely a red with a large helping of orange.
The formula was OK, but not splendid. It was kind of opaque in two coats, but not very convincingly...
The color is lovely and I really wanted to love the polish but the formula just lets it down too much to make it a favorite.

Essie - Color Binge

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

Pahlish - Olea Europaea (fall 2013)

Day 2: Pahlish Olea Europaea.
Love this polish, I was sold on the name alone! Love the colour as well: a perfect mossy olive green with a holographic flash. The formula was OK but I needed an aqua basecoat, I had some issues with the wear when I used Sticky base and Poshé topcoat. Using my Fnug aqua basecoat and Fnug topcoat making an enormous improvement in wear.

Pahlish - Olea Europaea

This was two gorgeous layers of Olea Europaea.

Hare Polish - Peepshow Magique (The Coin Operation Collection, fall 2013)

Ahhhh, PINK again!
I have been eyeing this polish for a while and everytime I wanted to purchase it....it was sold out.
But I managed the get my hands on it at the end and here it is: Peepshow Magique.
It's a pale pink jelly with rounded gold and opalescent flakes mixed in. The formula is a bit syrupy but very manageble: this is 3 coats.
I am very much loving the indie polishes lately, I love the out of the box glitter mixes, some of them do great shimmers and holo's as well....it's all a bit more out there or something. Where as the big mainstream brands play it safe most of the time, with hidden shimmers, faint holo's and bland colours, the indie world is a big party of colours, holo's, shimmers, glitters, glow in the dark etc. etc. Some are hit and miss but there are loads of very interesting concoctions: I like!

Hare Polish - Peepshow Magique

 Very wearable, very cute and even work appropriate! Love it :-)

Zoya - Carter (Fall 2013 PixieDust Collection)

It was in my drawer for a while now: Zoya Carter. And it is one of the best liquid sands/pixie dusts I have ever tried! The base colour is this wonderful dark purple and it has tiny fuschia glitters in it to give it sparkle and colour. I love it when they add different colour glitters to a dark base: spectacular!
The first layer was a bit weird: it was uneven and streaky and very translucent, but the second layer gave it all its colour and evenness.

Zoya - Carter

As usual my camera doesn't pick up the blue very good: the colour is much more intense and deep then my pictures suggest.
If you like these texture polishes you absolutely should try and get your hands on this one: it is stunning!

Crowstoes - Storms Never Last and Kiko - Laser 435 Venom Teal (Dark Heroin Fall Collection 2013)

 Bye bye 2013, wow a year flies by so quickly, HELLO 2014!

Some details:
I had more than 10000 viewers this year.
Most of those came from the US (2: Russia, 3: The Netherlands, 4: France, 5: Canada).
I have 17 followers....and I love them dearly <3 Thanks guys for following me!!!
Most popular post was China Glaze Queen B with Essie No More Film.

Second place was China Glaze Sun Of A Peach.

Third place was Shell-O glitter sandwich.

Fourth place........China Glaze Bottoms Up.

And on the fifth place.....again....China Glaze in Red-Y &Willing.

That's My little blog in a 2013 nutshell!

So...........let's start 2014:

What is better then to start the New Year with a glorious indie polish, from Crowstoes no less: Storms Never Last! It is a teal jelly with tons of hot pink micro glitter and slightly bigger turquoise glitter (in the bottle is some shift to orange noticable but this does not transfer to the nails).
It is a jelly so it does not get totally opaque....and I was not up for that (nor multiple layers) so I surged in my stash and found Kiko Venom Teal, which is, like the name already suggests, a teal polish with duo chromy possesions. It goes from green/ turquoise to purple/pink: THE perfect undies for my Crowtoes baby :-)

Crowtoes - Storms never Last & Kiko - 435, Venom Teal

In halogen light.

In diffused, natural light

This is one layer of each and a double helping of top coat (OPI RapiDry). I am wearing this for 3 days now and there is no tipp wear what so ever >yeah<!