Colour blocking with China Gaze - Riveting (Hunger Games Collection, spring 2012)

As I told you the day before yesterday, my Flashbulb Fuchsia was chipping at day 1,5........
My quick and easy solution to this problem was: colour blocking. And I used China Glaze Riveting for this task. The orange and the fuchsia/cyclamen sort of clash but I like that kind of juicy clash :-)
The end result sparkled like crazy and was very hard wearing! >yeah<

China Glaze - Riveting & OPI - Flashbulb Fuchsia

OPI - My Paprika is Hotter than Yours! (OPI Euro Centrale Spring/Summer Collection 2013)

Wow, I can not believe I did not buy and wear this polish any sooner...it took me a whole year!
OPI My Paprika is Hotter than Yours! is a fab colour: it is a reddish orange or and orange toned red creme.....with slight pearl shimmer (in a good way). It is a very hot and happy colour, yet it stays very classy and chique as well. As mentioned there is some pearl visible in the bottle but on the nail it gives a sort of inner glow almost, no Frosty the Snowman or anything creepy here!!

OPI - My Paprika is Hotter than Yours

This was an easy two coats.
>love it<

Revlon - Siren (Fire and Ice Collection, holiday 2010)

Since the Soccer World Championship is being held at the moment and our teams national colour is orange (our whole country is painted orange, hell: even the family name of the King is Orange)....I though it fitting to do a little tribute to the boys in Brazil! Hence orange nails today with help from Revlon's Siren.

Revlon - Siren

It is a lovely orange creme, it is not too blue and yet not too yellow...just right. I needed three coats to get it nice and opaque. Oranges are difficult colours I my experience so far; they tend to be streaky and watery, I don't know why that is (perhaps it has something to do with the pigments?). Revlon's Siren was on the good side of the spectrum though.

Nubar - Orange Slice Crush (Crushed Candy Collection, spring 2014)

Let's see if I can make it the second time around ;-)
Day 1: Nubar Orange Slice Crush on Essie Luscious Lips.
I really like this colour combo, the orange glitter is happy and sunny and the pink ones POP and give the polish some umph.

Nubar - Orange Slice Crush

This was one coat of Orange Slice Crush: the glitter payoff was perfect...I do not think you can get it to be opaque though...it definitely is a topper.

OPI - Tangerine Scene (OPI Psychedelic summer Collection 2007) with OPI - Muppets World Tour (OPI Muppets Most Wanted, Soft Shades 2014)

Orange Peel, that is what Tangerine Scene reminds me of when I see it in the bottle. Nice and juicy orange without any fuss.
But TS is an oldie, with an old formula...and it is streaky, watery and transparent of sorts. I used three layers here and I was still not totally opaque >sigh< . Hence the addition Muppets World Tour after one day of irritation!
It did the job on the unevenness but couldn't stop the tipp wear that TS gets within a day.

OPI- Tangerine Scene

Notice the new watermark: I just had Photoshop installed and I am fiddling around a bit to get to know the program better!

OPI- Muppets World Tour

Conclusion is that I love the colour but not the formula....perhaps I should use an other base/topcoat?
Muppets World Tour is a lovely kind of rough polish (I wore it without any topcoat) there are some tiny silver particles in the base together with some slightly larger white and pale gold ones, then you have the even bigger coloured glitters in blue, pink and light pink. This one will look lovely over a more neutral colour as well!

Rescue Beauty Lounge - NailsandNoms (The Bloggers' Collection 2.0)

I have been dancing around the RBL polishes for a year now I guess! And after seeing swatches of Fire Queen and the orange sherbet NailsandNoms I took the plunge.
Expectations were very high.
In this year of dancing around the tree I read a lot about mythical RBL; how fabulous and creative Ji is, the fenomenal consistency of the polishes, the intellectual inspirations behind her collections, the inaccessible vlounge, the price etc. So, yes, expectations were very high indeed!
When my package arrived, I couldn't wait to see the little bottles in person, they were way smaller then they were in my minds eye, but beautiful in shape and the colours were jummy.

NailsandNoms was the one I picked to try on first. It is a lovely sherbet orange, it has the same translucency as sherbet ice. The shimmer is electric blue and hot pink and it is not shy, you can see it in every light. This overload of shimmer is very top coat hungry as well! I did my normal one coat of Poshé and it did not get to the glossiness it normally gets. BUT this RBL does NOT love Poshé: it pulled back from the edges almost 1mm, it was bizarre, I have never seen a polish react this heavily on a top coat!

Then the consistency of N&N, I can say nothing more then that it was horrible >sorry<
It was very thick and it did not level out at all. Within one streak it got all sherbet like (very appropriate..) going in again with the brush meant lumbs, streaks and bold spots. I tried thin coats, thick coats and thinner to no avail!

This is what three coats of struggle look like:

Rescue Beauty Lounge - NailsandNoms

My camera does not like shimmer....and the sun was on holiday as well!
I love the colour, I love the shimmer, I hate the formula. It was a bit of a tough introduction to RBL.
Next week I am going to try Fire Queen and I hope with all of my being that she will love me better!

Skittle manicure with OPI Holland Collection

Today I am wearing a happy "Oilily" manicure in three colors of the OPI Holland Collection: OPI kiss me on the tulips (pink), OPI a roll in the Hague (orange) and OPI red lights ahead....where? (red). I just could not choose so I put them all on my claws :-)

All colors are two layers and the polish had a nice consistency. The orange was a bit thick but workable.

This is what it looks like:

Opi red lights ahead ... where? OPI a roll in the Hague, OPI kiss me on the tulips

index and middle: OPI red lights ahead ... where?

ring: OPI a roll in the Hague

Pinkie and thumb: OPI kiss me on the tulips

I am sorry for the poor lighting: the weather is awful here in The Netherlands....everything is grey.

Hope you enjoy my blogging efforts!

Thanks to Oilily