Essie - Where's My Chauffeur? (Leading Lady Collection winter 2012) with Hits Hefesto

Today again, one from the archieves.....it's Essie Where's My Chauffeur? with Hits Hefesto to make it holotastic!
I like this kind of turquoise very much, it's not very unique as a colour but it is very flattering and happy.
I love it combined with gold (like OPI Man With The Golden Gun or Cirque Au), holo, and glitter (would China Glaze Golden Enchantment work with it as well...?).

I forgot how many layers this was or how it applied....and I didn't take any notes.

But the result is quite mesmerizing:

Essie - Where's My Chauffeur? and Hits - Hefesto

In diffused light.

In sun light.

In halogen light.

Does it say "winter" or "spring" to you? I think it says a little bit of both really.

OPI - Honey Rider Liquid Sand of The Bond Girls Collection, summer 2013

Somehow these pictures were forgotten along the way.....they were waiting to be posted for a long time already!
So today is the day for Honey Rider.
It is a neutral light golden Liquid Sand by OPI (a mix of golden and silvery particles), not too blingy and not too yellow. I usually do not like golden foils but the texture gives it that little umph it needs and makes it less in your face and more wearable.
The formula was very nice and it was perfectly even and opaque in one/two coats.

Here it is, finally....

OPI Liquid Sand - Honey Rider - The Bond Girls Collection

As you can see it is a very wearable colour, it would look lovely on the beach and it would even be Christmas appropriate I think! So: very good investment ;-)

Essie - Masquerade Belle from the Going Incognito 2010 winter collection

I needed something chic, classic and elegant.....Essie Masquerade Belle gave me just that!
It is a lovely dark wine red jelly that gives you a beautiful dark red nail in 2 coats.
It is perfect I think; the jelly give it that nice squishyness and shine. The colour is not too red, not too brown and definately not too blue based.

And then to think that it was kind of forgotten in the back of my Essie drawer (shame on me)!

Essie - Masquerade Belle

The wear time was excellent as well (I used Essie Good to Go as top coat), I wore it 5 days without any major chipping! These dark jellies are awesome but in the winter collections of this year there are none that I know of :-(
Perhaps I should check out the back of my polish drawers?!

Kiko Sugar Mat - nr 637 turqoise

The Kiko Sugar Mat 637 is a polish from my holiday haul. Unfortunately they do not sell Kiko in The Netherlands....
637 Is a lovely vibrant deep turquoise, very appropriate for spring and summer.
It is a completely matte polish, no sparkles and no glitters what so ever. These pics are taken on the second day of wearing this polish so there is slight tip wear but nothing serious.

Kiko Sugar Mat - 637

This is the first "liquid sand" I used which is completely matte....and I like it! I'm just wondering if the consistency of the Kiko Sugar Mat is the same as the China Glaze Texture ones....? They look all so irregular and lumpy on blog pics.
I should try out the other two I bought from this collection soon... >ugh< so many polishes so little time ;-)

China Glaze - Howl You Doin shiny and mattified, Monsters Ball 2013 Halloween Collection

I bought 2 polishes from the China Glaze Monsters Ball Halloween Collection: Fang Tastic (the glitter I showed you already) and Howl You Doin.
HYD is a hard to describe polish, its dark raisin coloured with dark purple microglitters and orange flackies (I sometimes think I see a hot fuschia glitter in there as well, it might be wishful thinking though). The consistency of this polish is HORRIBLE; it is thick, gluey and streaky it feels like smearing Tipp-Ex on your nails and the result is the same bumpy streaky mess!

I first did two layers with one coat of Essie Matte About You (it seemed to me this polish was meant to be matte).

China Glaze - Howl You Doin

With Essie - Matte About You.

In daylight it looks quite OK, last evening in low light it was ugleeeey! Next time I will try three coats and then the matte top coat.
Today I thinned HYD with 7 drops of thinner, slapped on one coat more and topped it off with Seche Vite.

In sun light.

In diffused light.

Three coats is much better and the thinner helped a lot! As you can see even with a thick coat of Seche it is still bumpy and I like it best mattefied.
I'm not too sure about this polish..it is a bit to dark to let the glitter and flackies shine (not jelly enough) and the formula is terrible (even with thinner it is still iffy). I kind of see what they were going for but the result is not perfect.

OPI - Embarca-dare Ya! teamed up with China Glaze Fang Tastic (Monsters Ball Halloween Collection)

Something went completly wrong here....I painted my nails with the lovely deep magenta with gold/silver shimmer from the OPI San Francisco Collection Ambarca-dare Ya! Next I slapped some NYX GCS on waited a few hours and went to bed. Next morning I had three BIG dents in my pointerfinger >buh<
My solution: China Glaze Fang Tastic from the most recent Monsters Ball Halloween Collection. Fang Tastic is a red, green and larger blue glitters in a clear base.

The result:

OPI - Embarca-dare Ya! & China Glaze - Fang Tastic

In diffused light.

In sun light.

I was a bit disappointed that I didn't get to enjoy Embarca-dare Ya on it's own BUT I really like the combination with Fang Tastic....it is festive, warm and fun!.
For the OPI I used two easy layers and the China Glaze went on with just one. The glitter pay off was great, with three coats you can wear this on it's own I guess. Perhaps it is me not living in the US or something but I do not get this glitter being in a Halloween collection? Shouldn't there be some pumpkin orange in there or candycorn yellow, spider black, slimy green, or blood red (oh there is)......?
Well, Halloween issues aside, I like Fang Tastic and I like Embarca-dare Ya and the combination is lovely as well!

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).