Hare Polish - Two Forty-Five am (LE: a late night lab accident)

Hare Polish Two Forty-Five am is a lavender blue/lilac indie polish with tiny pearly white square glitter, green-blue multi chrome flakies and a healthy dusting of fine copper flakies.
This is two very easy coats of Two Forty-Five am, which has a lovely buttery formula!
Ever since I use Zoya Anchor and Armor with Hare Polish my polish does not chip or get any tip wear what so ever for days on end: they are the perfect base and top coat for Hare Polish.
I love this flakie and glitter combination that is so typically Hare: it is interesting and special (and not too much bling).

Hare Polish - Two Forty-Five am

CrowsToes - Bifrost (Nine Realms Collection, spring/summer 2014)

Indie polish today!
The first time I saw swatches of the new Nine Realms Collection (based on the nine words in Norse mythology) by CrowsToes I just n e e d e d Bifrost (and Huginn & Muninn), so I tried my best and got my paws on it. Bifrost is the rainbow bridge that connects Midgard (home of the humans) and Asgard (home of the gods) with each other. And a rainbow bridge it is!
Wow, all colours of micro glitter are present in this lovely polish which has a clear base!

Midgard and Asgard

Midgard and Asgard

CrowsToes - Bifrost

This was two coats of Bifrost and there are still some less dense spots on the nail, but they are more visible in the pics then in real life. There is just so much sparkle and colour that it is just not that visible.
I still don't know if there is holo micro glitter in the mix as well or that all the colours together mimic the holo effect......but in the sun I would swear that there is holo glitter lurking around in Bifrost :-)

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.

Elevation Polish - Mount Augustus (Australia Sunrise & Sunset Collection 2013)

Pink, it was love at first sight, yeah
Pink, when I turn out the light
Yeah pink, it's like red but not quite
And I think everything is going to be alright
No matter what we do tonight

(lyrics: Pink by Aerosmith)

It's Mount Augustus today: the weather here in The Netherlands is so dreary that I needed something warm and light! I was hard taking pictures in this drab and grey weather >I'm sorry<

Mount Augustus is a peach pink with electric violet shimmer and little gold flecks. The formula was a bit thick but quite workable. I used three coats to get this result.
It was perhaps a bit too much spring/summer but hey, everything is better then the eternal autumn we are celebrating here!

Elevation Polish - Mount Augustus

I really like these colours: the oranges with blue/violet shimmer BUT the formula almost always seems to disappoint (like with RBL NailsandNoms) and the wear time is very short (?). It's weird these polishes seem to become very hard when dry and very brittle as well.....perhaps the amount of shimmer makes the formula less strong or something...? I don't know what causes it, perhaps it is just me and my weird nail chemistry???

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 :-)

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<!

Pretty & Polished - Blood Clot or my take on Halloween!

Here in The Netherlands, Halloween is not very big business...some children will go and try to "scare" some shop holders in the street, but it is nothing big.
I had the sudden urge to wear something bloody on my finger tips so I reached to a friend from last year: Pretty & Polished Blood Clot. I stalked it for weeks because it was sold out every time...and when I finaly purchased it..Halloween was over!
I love this polish, it sounds gruesome "Bloot Clot" but it looks quite charming I would say!
It is a syrupy cherry red (or blood red if you prefer) with two sizes of shiny hex glitters. There is some fishing acquired for the big hexes and with that you tend to add a blob of syrup on the nail as well. This gives it that extra clotted appearence.

This was three layers and some extra blobs:

Pretty&Polished - Blood Clot

I tried my hardest to get it photographed right...it just wouldn't. The polish is so shiny that it messed with the focus of the camera. The colour of the third and the fifth shot is the closest to the truth, it has just a hint more brown in it (more blood, less cherry). Do NOT look at my cuticles they are horrid...and it isn't even winter yet!

Happy Halloween!!!

China Glaze - Sunsational Summer Neons 2013 - Shell-o glitter sandwich

The third in the China Glaze Sunsational series is Shell-o, a hot coral pink jelly.
I have a love-hate relationship with jellies: I love the squishyness of them but I hate the transparency of them (especially when there is dirt >ieuw< under your nails....).
To make best of the translucency I decided to make a true jelly sandwich with matte white glitter: All That Glitters - Spotty Dottie Light. The white of the glitters makes the neon of Shell-o stand out perfectly!

See for yourself:

China Glaze - Shell-o and All That Glitters - Spotty Dottie Light

in sunlight

This was 3 layers of Shell-o with 2 layers of Spotty Dottie Light in between.
Shell-o was a bit streaky, it needed a bit of thinning (like Bottoms Up and Sun of a Peach), with 3 layers the result was juicy and nice! Spottie Dottie was glue like, so I put even more thinner in there and that made the application a million times better.

I love the result very summery and fresh! *happy*