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Saturday, September 28, 2013

Ninja Polish - Glamorous

As promissed last time this blogpost is about Ninja Polish Glamorous.
Glamorous is said to be a dupe for the big time lemming OPI ds Glamour. I don't own the OPI so I can not do a comparison. I just can tell you Glamorous is a gorgeous, deep cornflower blue with a strong linear holografic effect.  I used NYX Grand Central Station as a top coat: it does not dry as quickly as Poshé and is not as shiny but I have the feeling that the tipwear is less and there are way less chips...... The downside is that when you polish late in the evening and you go to bed too soon after......you get sheet marks...and I did....
So ignore the sheets and just look at that gorgeous blue with that dazzeling holo effect!
Ninja Polish Glamorous
Ninja Polish - Glamorous

Ninja Polish Glamorous
In sun light


Ninja Polish Glamorous
In halogen light
This was two easy layers and I wore it for a good three days!
Love this polish....it's a must have in my humble opinion :-)

You can buy it at Ninja Polish

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Dance Legend - 48 Multi shifting Shining Rainbow and Kiko Quick Dry 817

A few weeks ago (I was just back from the holiday) I was just cruising the Ninja Polish website and found this stunning duo chrome with holografic effect polish by Dance Legend...I just needed to try it (I also bought the Ninja Polish Glamorous which will be my next post in a few days time).
The Dance Legend nr. 48 is very cool. It is this taupe/braunish colour which shifts from pink to gold and some times turquoise and the added bonus is are the holografic particles: stunning, mesmerizing, dreamy...soo cool!
On it's own it is quite translucent so I used 1 layer of Kiko Quick Dry 817 as base colour and added just 1 layer of Dance Legend to get an opaque result.

I tried to capture it's beauty and failed.
This is what I got on camera:
Dance Legend 48 and Kiko Quick Dry 817
Dance Legend 48 and Kiko Quick Dry 817

Dance Legend 48 and Kiko Quick Dry 817

Dance Legend 48 and Kiko Quick Dry 817
Diffused light

Dance Legend 48 and Kiko Quick Dry 817

Dance Legend 48 and Kiko Quick Dry 817
In sun light

Dance Legend 48 and Kiko Quick Dry 817
Holo goodness

Dance Legend 48 and Kiko Quick Dry 817
Gold shimmer under halogen light

Dance Legend 48 and Kiko Quick Dry 817
YES: finally in the evening I got some pink shimmer!
The pink shimmer was playing hide and seek and the hint of blue proved even more difficult to capture.
In real life this is a even more gorgeous polish and very work appropriate if that is something to be careful about.
I wore this for four whole days and I had no chips, no extreme tipwear whatsoever (I used NYC Grand Central Station as topcoat) so absolutely perfect for a holo polish.

The big conclusion: love it a lot and I can recommand it wholeheartedly, it is a gorgeous, mesmerizing polish :-)

Friday, September 13, 2013

Holiday Haul !!! (warning: long and pic heavy)

Oh dear....it has been a while!
Our holiday ruined my nails and cuticles so I need some recovery time...
We went away to France and Spain for the summer holidays and we had the most wonderful time (no antibiotics necessary this time!).
First we went to Orleans, on a camping with a little stream running trough it:
 Next we went "en route" to Béziers in the south of France:
Then we made the jump to Spain:

We had loads of fun at the beach as well:
After happy and sunny Spain we went to France again.....Montpellier! Old grandeur and nonchalant chique at the mediterranean sea....or so we thought....
We went to this camping called "Montpellier Plage" which sounds OK, right? Well the big fat security guards at the gate and the cameras hanging all over the camping should have told us otherwise!

It was hell and then some... First thing was that everybody on the camping looked at us like we were a bunch of aliens (yes, we are not French....but definately human!), next up were our charming, somewhat stoned looking neighbours with the bottle of vodka next to their tent, (I do not mention the dirty medieval toilets and showers). The first night was OK, I did not dare go to the toilets and there was some noise but it was manageable. The next day we went to Montpellier (as long as possible so we had to spend as little time as possible on the camping):

We came home late.....and then it began: music, drinking, drugs, peeing and pooping on our tent (!), screaming, car lights full on, telephone calls of angry girlfriends/wifes, cooking (at 3 o'clock at night?!) etc. it went on the whole night long. We did not sleep for a minute and we were constantly scared that these lunatics would come trashing our tent. Those big security guards came by twice but were too scared to say or do anything to these guys.....

At six in the morning (it finally was quiet, I think they were comatose) we had had enough and this is how we found our neighbouring plot a "situation exceptionelle" as they like to describe it on their website:
It seemed like a hurricane had hit it or something: clothes, food, booze bottles everywhere!
At half past seven we escaped and went to look for more peaceful surroundings:

We found our spot in Ronnet near Montluçon!
Heaven :-)
Then it was almost over but we had still two days of beautiful Orleans as dessert:
It was a lovely, lovely holiday (forget about Camping Montpellier Plage) and I loved every bit of it!
I did some polish shopping as well....>naturally<
Here it goes:
Kiko Nailpolish
 Kiko Sugar Mat nr.: 632 (bright red), 633 (fuchsia), 638, 637 and 644
Kiko Nailpolish

Kiko Nailpolish
 Kiko Laser nr.: 434 (bright blue with pink flash ) and 435 (dark grey with turquoise and fuchsia flash)
Kiko Nailpolish

Kiko Nailpolish
 Kiki Sun Pearl nr.: 427 (chartreuse with golden pearl) and 429 (blue with silver pearl)
Kiko Nailpolish
 Kiko Quick Dry nr.: 817 (taupe) and 818 (grey)
Kiko Nailpolish
 Kiko nr.: 381 (dark grey creme)
Revlon Royal Nailpolish

Revlon Royal Nailpolish
 Oh YES there it is...Revlon Royal: finally obtained!
Flomar polish
 Flomar: Matte M09, 394, Glitter GL04, Supershine 50, Glitter GL10 and 399 (grey/black microshimmer)
Flomar polish

Flomar polish

Reserve Naturelle Polish

Reserve Naturelle Polish
 Reserve Naturelle: L3112 (like OPI Germanicure) and L1913 (grey blue with blue shimmer)
Maybelline Forever Strong Polish

Maybelline Forever Strong Polish
 Maybelline Forever Strong: 735 Gold All Night and 645 Viva Blue Violet (dusty blue with violet shimmer)
Ess Trendy Colours Polish

Ess Trendy Colours Polish
Ess Trendy Colours: Midnight Blue and Stars In The Eyes.

That's it! >pfwwww<
I do not know where to start swatching so if you want to see a particular polish: just let me know.
My swatching nails are almost recovered so in the next days I will post some new mani's again!

Hope I didn't bore you with my holiday adventures :-)






Monday, August 26, 2013

Butter London - Blagger

I got this polish on sale, it was the last one and it needed to come home with me!
It is a perfect shade of blue: it's a little dusty, a little bright, a little dark and a bit teal; not cobalt at all: just right in fact <3

Have a look (isn't it chic?!):




Perhaps I should wear this on my toes when going on holiday?

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Deborah Lippmann - It's Raining Men and Essie - Silken Cord and Helena Rubinstein - Rouge Glorious

In my never ending search to find a good replacement for my all time favorite red, Rouge Glorious by Helena Rubinstein (very old bottle...almost 20 years or so....), I bumbed into Deborah Lippmann's It's Raining Men. The colour is pretty much dead on!
The formula of Helena is better but I would not be surprised when it would contain toluene and all those other lovely and not so people friendly substances.....

Deborah Lippmann It's Raining Men
Deborah Lippmann - It's Raining Men

Deborah Lippmann It's Raining Men

Deborah Lippmann It's Raining Men

Deborah Lippmann It's Raining Men
It's Raining Men is a lovely crip red, with a little orange and a little blue...just right!
I needed to compare it on the nail with the Helena Rubinstein and Essie's Silken Cord (which is a bit more dusty).
Deborah Lippmann It's Raining Men

Deborah Lippmann It's Raining Men
Pointer Essie, middle Lippmann, ring Rubinstein
Pointer finger is Essie, middle is Lippmann and the ring is Rubinstein.......it's hard to see, really.
The one difference between Lippmann and Rubinstein was that Rubinstein bled into the Seche Vite I used and the Lippmann didn't (was it the toluene stuff???).

I think my search has ended....I do not think there is going to be a better match to my Rouge Glorious then the Lippmann!