OPI Coca Cola trio: Coca Cola Red, Sorry I'm Fizzy Today and You're So Vain-illa (Coca Cola Collection summer 2014)

Polish on holiday number 1:

It is three polishes for the price of one >YEAH!<
I tried some colour blocking with the Coca Cola Collection and I love how these colours look together! The execution was a bit troublesome to say the least... The pink dried to fast and the beige wasn't dry enough and the OPI quick dry top coat was bubbling like C R A Z Y!
Next time I try something like this I need to be more patient and let the base dry fully.

OPI - Coca Cola Red, Sorry i'm Fizzy Today, You're So Vain-illa

OPI You're so Vain-illa was a surprise hit for me: I really like the colour a lot. It is a warm, soft beige that is very wearable for my skintone!

Essie - Going Incognito (Winter Collection 2010) in memory of those we have lost in the MH17 crash

This last post before my nails go on holiday, I felt I needed to do something in memory of all the people who died in the MH17 crash.

It has been a devastating two weeks here in The Netherlands: the caskets being brought back by those huge freight planes and the hours of unloading them were surreal to watch. As was the long procession of up to 71 hearses that had to bring the victims to the identification site. They went from Airport Eindhoven to Hilversum in a 1,5 hour drive, the last part of it is trough a densely forested area wich was beautiful and peaceful in a way: most of them finally came home...

Bron: nrc.nl

They came back home, incognito and through the green forest.

Thus Essie Going Incognito came to mind.

Essie - going incognito

This was two very easy coats of forest green creme.
It's more for autumn and winter but very fitting for the occasion.




My nails and I are going on a polish less holiday, I have 12 polishes I still haven't put up so I will show those to you in the following weeks!

Have a very nice and happy holiday!

Essie - Funky Limelight (summer 2009 Neon Collection)

My white nails needed some punch, as I already declared in my previous post....
I choose Essie Funky Limelight to do the job and it does the job very, very well!
Funky Limelight is a extremely bright highlighter neon yellow, just the kind of neon yellow I am kind of obsessed about. When I was a child I found this tiny mini bottle of highlighter yellow nail polish in a even more tiny drugstore. It was watery and rubbery and lumpy stuff, but that colour....oh, I was in love! And I still am in love and on a never ending quest to find the best neon yellow polish there is :-)

The result I got with the colour blocking of Blanc and Funky Limelight was perfection.

Essie - Funky Limelight

I think the result is near perfection (saying so myself) and I came the the conclusion that I LOVE colour blocking like this.

Essie - Blanc (Classic Collection)

The weather is getting warmer, the sun is shining more and more: time for a fresh and crisp white.
Essie Blanc was in my drawer for two years I think....and I hadn't used it yet. I was a bit afraid it would be like Tipp-Ex correction fluid: lumpy, stripy and horrible. Well it wasn't at all. Blanc is very non lumpy and non stripy in two careful coats! It is very wearable really..I should wear this more often!!

Essie - Blanc

After two days I added some extra umph.......you see that in a day or two ;-)

Essie - Peach Daiquiri (Classic Collection)

http://www.joyofkosher.com

Ahhhhh, nice and juicy peach pink you would say....well, more frumpy pink granny in my eyes....
In the bottle I like it (the glass gives it that squishy feel), on the nail Essie Peach Daiquiri is a bit of a deception. It is not juicy and it's not fresh; when it would have been a crelly and when they would have added a sniff more yellow then it would have been more what I was expecting of a peach daiquiri.
Now it is just a not so very hot pink......

Essie - Peach Daiquiri

Ah well, can't have it all now can you?
My husband will be pleased though: finally a polish I'm not happy and positive about ;-)

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??!

CrowsToes - Bifrost (Nine Realms Collection, spring/summer 2014)

Indie polish today!
The first time I saw swatches of the new Nine Realms Collection (based on the nine words in Norse mythology) by CrowsToes I just n e e d e d Bifrost (and Huginn & Muninn), so I tried my best and got my paws on it. Bifrost is the rainbow bridge that connects Midgard (home of the humans) and Asgard (home of the gods) with each other. And a rainbow bridge it is!
Wow, all colours of micro glitter are present in this lovely polish which has a clear base!

Midgard and Asgard

Midgard and Asgard

CrowsToes - Bifrost

This was two coats of Bifrost and there are still some less dense spots on the nail, but they are more visible in the pics then in real life. There is just so much sparkle and colour that it is just not that visible.
I still don't know if there is holo micro glitter in the mix as well or that all the colours together mimic the holo effect......but in the sun I would swear that there is holo glitter lurking around in Bifrost :-)