Comparison Essie No More Film, Style Cartel & After School Boy Blazer and a Cirque gradient

To stay a bit with my last post and Essie Style Cartel.....I did a comparison between Essie No More Film, Style Cartel and After School Boy Blazer.

Essie After School Boy Blazer, Style Cartel & No More Film

As you can see ASBB is the darkest of the three, this one appears black in most cases. No More Film has more of a grey-purple thing going on, it is still dark but definately more blue than ASBB. And Style Cartel is most blue of the trio and it stays blue in most lights! They are all beautiful and no dupes for sure (I need them all!).

Then I had some tipp wear...
So I did a gradient with Cirque Fascination Street and Ophelia!

Gradient Essie Style Cartel, Cirque Fascination Street & Ophelia

The holo in Fascination Street really lifts up the whole colour, it adds light and sparkle. Ophelia drifts happily along in the holoness of Fascination Street and melts into the colour at times and in some lights it pops up and gives it a nice hydrangea twist!
In hindsight I might have added a microglitter to this gradient, like China Glaze All Wrapped Up or Feeling Twinkly, just to give it a bit more sparkle in low light.

Essie - Style Cartel (Dress To Kilt Collection, autumn 2014)

Man, I needed a deep blue in my life! And I had my eye on Essie Style Cartel for a while already. Once I ordered it I received a mail that the last bottle the seller had was leaking and that they couldn't send it to me.
So back to Ebay and reorder somewhere else, weeks later I finally was the proud owner of this fabulous blue polish called Style Cartel.
It is a very deep blue, but not so dark that it becomes black, it stays blue (on the teal side of blue).
I used two easy coats here and it shines like crazy!

Essie - Style Cartel

It did not stain my nails BUT I got smurf fingers when I removed it! Oh well, never mind I love this blue anyway!!!

OPI - Baby Please Come Home (Mariah Carey Holiday Collection 2013)

Before the New Year I posted a mani with OPI I Pulled Out a Plum, todays mani is an extention of that one. I added a layer of OPI Baby PLease Come Home Liquid Sand and used some chevron stickers from the Born Pretty Shop. The colours go very nicely together and the design worked very well to cover up my slight tip wear!
I just recently bought BPCH, initially I had the feeling it would be too cool toned for me. But ever since they decided to stop producing the Liquid Sands, I am on the hunt for all that are not yet in my possession....
BPCH is such a lovely shade, I am so happy to have bought it and I don't find that it is too cool for my skin tone at all.

OPI - Pulled Out a Plum & OPI - Baby Please Come Home

Baby Please Come Home covers very, very well in one coat: I am impressed.
The chevrons are nice but I would have liked them more when the points would have been sharp instead of rounded.

Cirque - Ophelia (The Dark Horse Collection) & Cirque - Au (Objet d'Art Collection)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

That to start with. I hope you all had a very happy and safe New Years Eve and I wish you loads of happiness, health and all you need in 2015!

On to the nail polish. What to wear on New Years Eve?
It needed to be blue (why does it need to be blue? I honestly don't know!), but not just any kind of blue...it needed to be some sort of light metallic blue and I needed glitter. After looking through my drawers of polish I finally decided that it was going to be Cirque Ophelia, a light hyacinth blue glitter in various sizes. Two coats of this gave me the blue metallic hue I envisioned but I missed the little extra, the champagne of the evening so to say. Then I remembered Cirque Au, the 23K topper, and that did the trick!

Cirque - Ophelia & Cirque - Au

I like the result: it's fresh, airy and it reminds me of bubbles in champagne and bursts of firework!
This was 2 thin layers of Essence Peal Off base coat, 2 layers of Ophelia, 1 layer Au and two layers of top coat.

As a last note: thank you all for your support, interest and kind words the last year! It is so nice to see that people from all over the world read my tiny little blog: I hope you keep liking it the coming year :-) 

>2015 x thanks!<

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!

Snowfairy Nails with OPI - Snow Globetrotter (Gwen Stefani Holiday Collection 2014)

Today I have some Snow Fairy/Winter Wonderland nails for you: I used Snow Globetrotter over OPI My Vampire is Buff and OPI Pearl Diver. The result was kind of mesmerizing, I just had to imagine the low temps and the loads of snow to be in a winter wonderland!

OPI - My Vampire is Buff & OPI - Pearl Diver & OPI - Snow Globetrotter

I love the result, although it is not really "me", I'm more of a bold/solid colour kind of girl.
Snow Globetrotter (and its black counterpart Comet in the Sky) are lovely glitters with a great glitter payoff: this is just one easy coat.
I would love to see this one over a metallic base like OPI Love Angel Music Baby (Rolling in Cashmere officially didn't make it to my stash, too frosty for my taste). Maybe I will wear that combination for Christmas this year?!

And I did wear it over OPI Love Angel Music Baby for Christmas:

OPI - Snow Globetrotter over OPI - Love Angel Music Baby

Then I have a little experiment.....I was inspired by the spring runway nails by OPI in the variation "Messy Touches" as can be seen here and even better here.
I used colours that were a bit more autumn (I shouldn't have though). It was fun to do but the result is a bit...I don't know...messy?!

OPI - My Dogsled is a Hybrid & OPI - Suzi Says Feng Shui

OPI - Kiss me on my Tulips & OPI - Coca Cola Red

Essie - I Pink I Can ( Breast Cancer Awareness Collection 2014)

The breast Cancer Awareness Collection consists of three polishes; the dark pink one, Pink Happy, I showed you already. Today I have I Pink I Can for you and there also is a very cute pale pink glitter (Pinking About You) to complete the trio.
I Pink I Can is a lovely light and bright pink creme, it applies very opaque and non-streaky *yeah* so you're done in two easy layers!

Essie - I Pink I Can

Love it: it is very fresh and clean!
It did chip fairly easy though (those two layers remain kind of thick on the nails and that usually is a sign that the polish might chip soon in my experience).

When it chipped I used the opportunity to practice my stamping: I used Pink Happy and added Pinking About You as topper.

Pinking About You is a lovely pale pink glitter topper with various sizes of hex glitter. It was very thick though: awful! I needed to thin it drastically to get it flowing and distributing evenly! After thinning it was fine and I got nice and even glitter payoff after that.
The stamping needs...well....more practice I'm afraid :-)