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.

Cirque - Ophelia (The Dark Horse Collection) & Cirque - Au (Objet d'Art Collection)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

That to start with. I hope you all had a very happy and safe New Years Eve and I wish you loads of happiness, health and all you need in 2015!

On to the nail polish. What to wear on New Years Eve?
It needed to be blue (why does it need to be blue? I honestly don't know!), but not just any kind of blue...it needed to be some sort of light metallic blue and I needed glitter. After looking through my drawers of polish I finally decided that it was going to be Cirque Ophelia, a light hyacinth blue glitter in various sizes. Two coats of this gave me the blue metallic hue I envisioned but I missed the little extra, the champagne of the evening so to say. Then I remembered Cirque Au, the 23K topper, and that did the trick!

Cirque - Ophelia & Cirque - Au

I like the result: it's fresh, airy and it reminds me of bubbles in champagne and bursts of firework!
This was 2 thin layers of Essence Peal Off base coat, 2 layers of Ophelia, 1 layer Au and two layers of top coat.

As a last note: thank you all for your support, interest and kind words the last year! It is so nice to see that people from all over the world read my tiny little blog: I hope you keep liking it the coming year :-) 

>2015 x thanks!<

KIKO Quick Dry - Pearly Jeans 856

Allo, allo!
Dark polish again...it's getting later in the year and the need for deep and dark colours is on the rise with me. This KIKO Quick Dry I bought in Italy this summer and it looks very sparkly in the bottle. On the nail there is less sparkle and more of a silver metallic flake effect. Next time I should mattify it, that will be stunning with this polish I think! In the sun the metallic is dominant and in the shade 856 is more of a dark jeans blue with silver linings (I get the jeans part in the name, the pearly bit is a mystery to me: to me it is more a Metallic Jeans, a Studded Jeans or a Sparkly Skinny).

KIKO Quick Dry - Pearly Jeans 856

This was two layers, the first one being very uneven (this polish dries fast...>duh<....and I was surprised!) the second one, more liberal, did the trick and evened everything out. Because of the shine of this type of polish, you get to see all the weird dents and ridges in your nails....... and I used ridge filler!

OPI - Miss Piggy's Big Number (Muppets Most Wanted, Soft Shades Collection 2014)

Man, do I like this polish!!!
Miss Piggy's Big Number is blue on fire, smoldering skies, glowing sapphires, Gonzo gone electric, or, or, or....
It is perfect, really!
It borders on metallic, it has some duo chrome qualities (shifting from turquoise to purple) and it shimmers.
The formula was perfect as well, very easy to handle and you get electric nails in two easy coats of blueeee.

OPI - Miss Piggy's Big Number

The only weird thing about this polish is the name; when I think about Miss Piggy I do not envision this heavenly blue!

China Glaze - Strike Up A Cosmo topped with OPI - Movin Out and OPI - Glitter Bit Of Music

A few days ago I was fiddling around with China Glaze Strike Up A Cosmo, just to get it a bit less grainy and harsh. The colour is very nice, the structure is a bit too flaky and rough for me (perhaps, in hind side I should add a bit of thinner as well). The solution I came up with was to put OPI Movin Out on top of two layers of SUAC. And to top it all off I used OPI Glitter Bit Of Music to get back a bit of the golden sparkle SUAC has. The result is a much smoother polish with loads of sparkle (red in low light en golden in day light) and a bit of the duochrome goodness of Movin Out!

This is what the cocktail looks like:

China Glaze - Strike Up A Cosmo, OPI - Movin Out, OPI - Glitter Bit Of Music

Photo taken outside.

Halogen light.

A bit of a blurry pic to get out the red sparkle!

The combination is delicate but good, I think. SUAC looks a bit more warm (good thing with my skintone) and much smoother then without Movin Out.

Last three China Glaze - Autumn Nights 2013 polishes with comparison!

This post has been waiting and waiting.....my nails looked like sh*t after the holidays, then the light was bad, then the polish did not speak to me: it just was not going to happen, until now.
I have three foils from the China Glaze Autumn Nights Collection; Gossip Over Gimlets, Strike Up A Cosmo and Rendezvous With You.
First up is Gossip Over Gimlets, a dens silver foil with gold flecks:

I compared Gossip Over Gimlets with Annie Never Can Say Goodbye and OPI Designer De Better. GOG was the most foil like of the three polishes and the most harsh looking.
NCSG has pink metallic flecks and has much finer silver metallic flecks. DDB is less dens, finer and has these bronze coloured flecks which gives a much warmer feel to the colour. I like the OPI best!

Next up is the rosy metallic, Strike Up A Cosmo:

Stike Up A Cosmo is also a grainy metallic foil with gold and silver flecks in there. I compared it with Zoya Faye. You can see it is in the same colour family but Faye is lighter (more pink) and has more golden flecks and no silver. SUAC covers almost in 1 coat and with Faye you need at least 2! Perhaps Faye is more spring and SUAC is more autumn.......

The last one of the Autumn Nights series that I have is Rendezvous With You:

Rendezvous with you has a little finer in structure then the other two and it also lacks the gold flecks (only silver here). It is a nice, very saturated, brownish purple colour; very autumn appropriate.
I compared it with Zoya Daul but as you can see there are no similarities between the two.

Over all I find these three metallics a bit too grainy and to harsh looking for my taste. I missed the little extra umpfh, like a nice colour shift or tiny extra colour twinkle (like some tiny little red micro glitters in RWY).