OPI Ce-less-tial Is More & OPI Cosmo With a Twist (Holiday Starlight Collection 2015)

OPI Ce-less-tial Is More, is a rose gold foil heavy with holo glitter.
2 lumpy coats gives a opaque finish (no top coat here): it is very, very gritty (like a rough liquid sand).
It is OK, but I am not a fan of the glitter in foil look.......

OPI Ce-less-tial is More

OPI Cosmo With a Twist, is a dark raisin purple-blue, with colour shifting glass flecks.
The flecks shift from turquoise to blue to bright violet, depending on the light.
The polish is watery (watch out for flooding) and prone to make bald spots (I needed three coats to make it completely opaque). For me the base colour is just too dark and too brown......love the shifting glass flecks though!

OPI Cosmo With a Twist

OPI - Pulled Out a Plum (aka OPI - Congeniality is My Middle Name, Miss Universe Collection 2011)

OPI Pulled Out a Plum is a relabeled OPI polish and most probably it is Congeniality is My Middle Name from the 2011 Miss Universe collection. You can describe it as a deep fuschia wine/purple with loads of blue/purple and pink micro glitter and a slight golden flash in the bottle. Usually I'm not one for berry tones but this time I'm in love!! I wore this polish two times already in the last weeks (which is remarkable for me, perhaps even a first).

OPI - Pulled Out a Plum

The polish is quite thin, so I used three layers to reach full opacity. The polish is a bit topcoat hungry so an extra layer if top coat would improve the smoothness and shine. It wears beautifully, makes my hands look tanned and went with almost everything that I wore.
The jewel tone makes it especially festive and Christmas appropriate!

Nicole by OPI - I'm a Pool For Love (Shopper’s Drugmart (Canada) and Target (US) exclusives, 2011)

Big Bazar had a promotion again: 3 Nicole by OPI polishes for €12....you just can't pass that up, now can you?!
One of the three polishes I scored was Nicole I'm a Pool For Love, a deep grape blue/purple with blue and violet shimmer and some golden duo chrome to top it off. The duo chrome does not transfer to the nails, so that is just candy for the bottle. But the shimmer makes up for that loss: it really comes to live in the sun and it brightens the whole look. The polish was lovely and pigmented, two coats did the job.

Nicole by OPI - I'm a Pool For Love

Sorry for the hazy pictures...the weather is soooo gloomy, I just can't get the colours come to life....

OPI - Do You Have This Color In Stock-holm? (Nordic Collection, autumn 2014) and OPI - Comet in the Sky (Gwen Stefani Collection, Christmas 2014)

I had some serious doubts about posting Do You Have This Color in Stock-holm? My camera just does not like blues and purples, no matter what I do with the settings, all blues and purples look alike and completely washed out!?
But that being what it is and I hope it will still show, in a way, the lovely combination between DYHTCIS and Comet in the Sky.

First up is DYHTCIS au naturel.
Naturally it reminded me of OPI Eurso Euro and I had the same problem with it as well. The colour looks sort of really intense and saturated when you see swatches on the internet, but then in real life it is way darker and less intense. It's weird, or maybe it's just me.....

OPI - Do You Have This Color In Stock-holm?

Then I received OPI Comet in the Sky in the mail....and I just could not resist....I had the slab it on immediately. Comet is such a lovely topper; it has ultra large black hexes and smaller ones in three sizes AND there are these large transparent iridescent hexes (love those) with friends in two smaller sizes all in a clear base.

Then I tried to persuade my camera to show the familiarity between Eurso Euro and DYHTCIS.....
They are sisters alright,  DYHTCIS is the purple sister and Eurso Euro the blue one.
I also took out Orly Saturated, Sation Miss Emo Shun All and L'Oreal nr 829 but they all had more red in them then DYHTCIS. Orly the least red (and this one was most saturated and intense) and the L'Oreal had the most (and was the least saturated and intense, it needed 4 coats to reach this intensity)

left: Eurso Euro & right: Do You Have This Color In Stock-holm?

Catrice - 800 Heavy Metallilac

And, again.., I have a Catrice polish on show today!
It is Heavy Metallilac(number 800), a purple almost duochrome polish wonder.
There is some pink and golden shift in there and it adds to the inner glow of the purple.

Catrice - 800 Heavy Metallilac

It wears wonderfully in two easy coats that level perfectly and are brushstroke free!

Am I going to be a fan??!

OPI - Next Stop...The Bikini Zone (OPI Brazil Collection spring/summer 2014)

Day 6: (still going strong here..!!) This is the last polish I have from the Brazil Collection at the moment. It is the duochrome indescribable colour Next Stop...The Bikini Zone. It is sort of silverish brown/grey with lilac and olive sheen I guess. The same sort of colour is in the latest Muppets Most Wanted Collection (Kermit Me To Speak) but then without the tiny flecks and this one has a little less colour shift.

OPI - Next Stop...The Bikini Zone

I did three coats here but that was just for good measure, you can get by with two. I like it a lot but I think I like Kermit Me To Speak just a tiny bit better because it is a fraction more outspoken than this one.

Cirque - Coronation (Special Edition 2013) and comparison with Max Factor Fantasy Fire

Last day of 2013...last chance to post...and then there was Cirque, a festive end of the year 2013!
I fell in love at first sight with Cirque's Coronation, what a lovely polish and a lovely crown ring as a bonus, together in a cute little satchel and box. The price I won't talk about, it's ridiculous (I bought it with a discount, but still...>auch<).

The polish is a purple jelly with red shimmer and that colour shifting stuff that you all know too well as unicorn pee (Fantasy Fire, Clarins 320, Nfu Oh 51 etc.). It works well with 2 coats, although 3 might be better. It EATS top coat, so prepare and add an extra layer!

Cirque - Coronation

Love it! The little catch is...I had major chipping within a day! I used China Glaze Fast Forward top coat, next time I will use something different and pray that will work better.

Next up I needed to compare this with Max Factor's Fantasy Fire, naturally.
To achieve the same result with two coats of Coronation, I needed 5 coats of FF.

Cirque - Coronation and Max Factor - Fantasy Fire

left: Fantasy Fire... right: Coronation

You can see that Coronation has also some micro glitters in there next to the shimmer.
Colour wise it is very much the same.
5 Coats is, well how shall I put this, a bit exorbitant; so I thought of a solution: 1 coat of Sation Miss Emo Shun All and two FF.

Sation - Miss Emo Shun All and Max Factor - Fantasy Fire

top: Coronation...bottom: Sation & FF combo

A very lucrative alternative to the pricey Coronation and less visible nail line as well!
But then you do NOT own the rose gold plated crown ring by Jeannie Vianney.....

I wish you all a very happy, healthy and colourful 2014!!!