OPI - Baby Please Come Home (Mariah Carey Holiday Collection 2013)

Before the New Year I posted a mani with OPI I Pulled Out a Plum, todays mani is an extention of that one. I added a layer of OPI Baby PLease Come Home Liquid Sand and used some chevron stickers from the Born Pretty Shop. The colours go very nicely together and the design worked very well to cover up my slight tip wear!
I just recently bought BPCH, initially I had the feeling it would be too cool toned for me. But ever since they decided to stop producing the Liquid Sands, I am on the hunt for all that are not yet in my possession....
BPCH is such a lovely shade, I am so happy to have bought it and I don't find that it is too cool for my skin tone at all.

OPI - Pulled Out a Plum & OPI - Baby Please Come Home

Baby Please Come Home covers very, very well in one coat: I am impressed.
The chevrons are nice but I would have liked them more when the points would have been sharp instead of rounded.

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

OPI - Visions Of Love (Mariah Carey Holiday Collection 2013)

These are the last weeks before the big summer break and I can tell: we are swamped with parties (kinda fun, but not 4 a day...), last minute get togethers and presentations. As I am cramped for time as it is, I will keep things short and sweet: OPI Visions Of Love is a dark red crelly, that leaves your nails looking vampy and chic in two fairly easy coats.
It is extremely shiny and it was hard wearing as well >bonus<

OPI - Visions Of Love

Visions Of Love is a colour you can wear anytime, anyplace, anywhere it looks always chic and fashionable. I love that it has a red and not a brown base.....that makes it just that tiny bit more sassy!

OPI - Warm Me Up and Wonderous Star (Holiday 2013 Mariah Carey Collection)

To stay with the December feeling I have two Christmas polishes for you today.
OPI Warm Me Up and OPI Wonderous Star; the first is a cold leaning brown with a foggy appearance (it is almost a neutral really), the second is a clear base polish with gold glitter and with a hint of black glitter (a bit like ground pepper). I thought the WMU needed something extra and the WS on it's own was too much contrast between the gold and the black...so a combination was born!

OPI - Warm Me Up & Wonderous Star

It works, I think: the brown underneath makes the black glitters blend in better and the gold gives the brown a bit more sparkle and warmth.
I'm still not over the moon with this Holiday Collection (a bit too boring and bland for me) but it is growing on me ;-)

OPI - Make Him Mine (Mariah Carey Christmas Collection 2013) Liquid Sand

It's time for a Liquid Sand again, I love these texture polishes! They are very easy to apply, pretty easy to remove, they dry fast and look and feel gorgeous!
I choose Make Him Mine from the Christmas Collection: it is a rosy silver/beige very neutral yet very festive. After wearing this one for a couple of days my conclusion was that this would be a great polish to wear in between Christmas and New Year.

OPI - Make Him Mine, Liquid Sand

OPI - A Butterfly Moment with OPI - Make Him Mine, Liquid Sand

The colour reminded me of an other Mariah polish from the previous collection: A Butterfly Moment. I put them next to each other....well it is the same tone perhaps ABM is a tiny bit lighter in the base colour then MHM but the glitter in MHM is very, very close to ABM!

Love this colour, it is only too bad that there are so many similar and bland colours in this Mariah Carey Collection!

OPI - Underneath The Mistletoe, Holiday 2013 Mariah Carey Collection

Since it is nearly Christmas (.....) I'll be showing you Underneath The Mistletoe from the OPI Holiday Collection featuring >again< Mariah Carey.
Why Mariah again, I wonder? She's not the only celeb with nails....and I do not find her that interesting to be excited about two collections with her face on the displays....>sorry<
And thus, the Holiday Collection is not very exciting nor spectacular in my eyes. There are loads of reds of which I find Underneath The Mistletoe the most interesting.
It is a cranberry jam coloured jelly with silver micro glitter, which most of the time colours red and magenta due to the base colour.

The formula is good yet a bit on the gluey side (but very workable), this was two coats:

OPI - Underneath The Mistletoe

My camera had a "slight" difficulty to focus on this baby......so the pics are not too clear....
It's a very Holiday season appropriate polish, sparkley but not in your face! And happy to know it does not stain when being removed.

OPI - Liquid Sand - The Impossible

My hands were so very dry from the persisting cold and my diy-ing that my skin resembled sandpaper more than anything else ...so I took a small break to get back my hands and cuticles to a somewhat normal state again.

I am not completely there yet but I needed some nailpolish again!!!
My eye was cought by OPI The Impossible, one of the first 4 Liquid Sand polishes of the Mariah Carey Collection by OPI (spring 2013). First off I was not convinced and I still am not..really.... Scrangie (here) made me buy it. Usually I totally get her and love her advice but with these Liquid Sands she was a bit off in my humble opinion.

The Impossible is a lovely coral red with silver hexagon glitter and holografic stars. The stars are notoriously difficult to get hold of and the polish itself is a bit on the transparent side.

It looks like this:

OPI - Liquid Sand - The Impossible

As you can see some stars stick out (very annoying) and when they are in the first layer of polish they do not shine trough the following layers... The colour itself is lovely, it just could be a bit more opaque and matte to my taste.
Next time I am going to skip the stars and try to put some nice red polish as a base under The Impossible....just to see how that will work!

OPI Liquid Sand - Can't let go (Mariah Carey Collection)

Today I have for you OPI Can't let go, one of the four liquid sand polishes from the Mariah Carey Collection.
I already showed you Stay the Night which was a black jelly with red/pink glitters, Can't let go is less jelly more matte cream with micro glitter and some medium size hexes. The effect is more sparkly matte and the bigger hexes seem to be jewels partially hidden in the sand.
The color is blue purple, not blurple, and the base-glitter-hexes are all ton-sur-ton.

Here it is:

OPI - Can't let go

I really like the overall effect; the matte sparkly, ton-sur-ton color makes it interesting enough to marvel at and yet not too much in your face. It's sort of fresh and clean looking, it's hard to discribe..... And I especially LOVE the texture of the liquid sand polish: YUMMIE!

OPI - A Butterfly Moment loves OPI - Sprung

Hello!

Today I have a new mani for you guys....keeping it in the Mariah family....OPI A butterfly moment with OPI Sprung on the accent ringfinger.
Those two colours love each other: Sprung has pinkish flecks among all it's copper glory and ABM has this golden hue wich matches the shine in Sprung.

Have a look:

OPI Sprung and OPI A butterfly moment

In the sunlight (yes we have sunlight: finally!)

all in a row

lovely colors together

ABM is a beautiful nude color, wich has a little golden-frosty finish. I got it opaque in 2 average coats.
Sprung is in the line of OPI Pros and bronze and OPI golden eye, it has the pink flecks of PAB and the golden flecks of GE but has a nice helping of copper flecks added to the mix. This one was opaque with 2 not too thin coats.