Happy New Year with Essie - Starry Starry Night (Retro Revival Collection 2016)

Happy New Year to all of you nail enthusiasts!!

For New Years Eve I wore Essie Starry Starry Night!
How could I not really: it is blue, there is glitter, it's an old polish that is re-introduced (so it is new)....very symbolic and all, plus it was the perfect colour to go with my outfit ;-)
This is two layers of starry happiness, two gluelike layers that is. The formula was not topnotch: I ended up thinning it with at least 5 drops in the tiny mini bottle. But the colour is wonderful and the glitters swimming in the navy blue jelly are to die for! I was very fortunate with my buy: I usually buy my Essie polishes on Ebay and the day after I bought my mini "cube" (that is no cube anymore) they more than doubled it in price. I paid €11,00 and now you have to pay €23,00...ridiculous, not to mention the prices you (still) have to pay for a normal size bottle!

Essie - Starry Starry Night

Merry Christmas with China Glaze - Tongue and Chic and stamping

Merry Christmas!

For the occasion I have embellished China Glaze Tongue and Chic with a bronze christmas wrapping paper stamping!

China Glaze - Tongue and Chic and stamping

I used Born Pretty plate 50 and Mundo de Uñas 19 bronze.

OPI - Got the Blues for Red & Fashion a Bow & I Sing in Color gradient

Even though it is 14 Celsius over here...I made a effort to get into the holiday spirit and made this red gradient with stardust! Base colour is OPI Fashion a Bow (one of the greatest reds e v e r), the gradient was made with OPI Got the Blues for Red and I Sing in Color and I finished it all of with China Glaze Fairy Dust. It's all kind of Christmassy right?!

OPI - Got the Blues for Red & Fashion a Bow & I Sing in Color gradient

A-England - Captive Goddess (Rossetti's Goddess 2015)

Wow, this is a complicated shade of ...what exactly? A-England describes it as a complex holographic blend of cerulean blue, aquamarine green and muted purple veiled by a silver grey shadow. The base is a grey with a hint of petrol/steel blue, there is a hard flash of cerulean blue, a soft shimmer of lilac and some faint green shimmer at the edges and to top it of there is the soft holo dusting. The colour reminds me of a labradorite stone, I have earrings with that stone so I made a picture with it for comparison.
The formula is lovely, this a two buttery coats.

A-England - Captive Goddess

Cirque Colors - Josephine (fall 2014 Burlesque collection)

Dark green is what I need these days! So naturally when I spotted Cirque Colors Josephine I totally caved and had te have it. It is a retired shade so if you need it, you have to do some web searching; I found my bottle at thenailistashop.com
Josephine is a dark forest green with a strong linear holo. In low light it looks a bit muted somehow...like moss. Lovely formula, just two easy coats of evergreen yumminess.

Cirque Colors - Josephine

Essie - East Hampton Cottage

It is still dark and rainy over here....so the pictures are murky again.....
I was in need of a neutral polish this time and I reached for Essie's East Hampton Cottage. EHC is described as a pale pearly warm pink....but my bottle is a pale pearly beige. Thank god it is not an in your face pearly pearl but a more subtle non streaking kind (more of a soft shimmer..?).
I needed three coats to get it even and opaque. It is a very nice neutral but nothing really special, the formula is OK but not fabulous, the colour we all have seen before and the finish is very neutral as well.
Take a look for yourself:

Essie - East Hampton Cottage

China Glaze - S'more Fun (The Great Outdoors Collection, fall 2015) stamped with Mundo de Uñas

I just needed S'more Fun in my life: it's a dirty greenish yellow and I am a fool for those kind of colours (and I have a perfect yellow obsession...). This time I wanted to do some stamping (still learning though), I used MoYou plate nr 07 from the Mother Nature Collection, I stamped with Mundo de Uñas Pastel Blue and Taupe. I was very happy with the result although I still have not figured out how to get rid of the air bubbles in my stamping.......as I said: it's a learning proces :-)
Sorry for the bad pictures: it was such an awful, rainy and dark day that it dulled the colours considerably.

China Glaze - S'more Fun