Essie Sable Collar - swatches and review.

Hello there!

Today I have a treat for you - a real stunner. I do say it about a lot of polishes but this one is definitely going to my favorite polishes of 2014 pile. Have a look at Sable Collar by Essie:

Wow. I didnt think much about this one when I saw it in the stores - I guess the lighting wasnt good but when the sale came and Sable Collar was a part of it I took this beauty home. I passed great light in the store while looking at it and I literally ran to pay for it just in case someone would snap it from my hands and run away with it. I was like "MY PRECIOUS!!!!!!!" hahaha crazy nail polish lady!

Anyways, the formula is amazing and the color... Mmm yummy! Looks like dusty cocoa with lovely, lovely shimmer through it. I still can not decide what color is the shimmer, sometimes its red, sometimes is copper and sometimes semi pink.

Sable Collar is just sooo lovely, Im really happy I took it home. And I have a bonus picture just cause I really, really, really, like this one! :)

Thank you for stopping by! :) xx

*All of the nail polish I own I bought with my own money or received as a gift from friends, I don't get paid for any reviews, it's just my own thoughts.

Zoya Carter - swatches and review.

Hello my lovely readers!

Todays post will be a quick one. Im going to show you Carter by Zoya. 

Wow... Amazing shade, ever since I saw it I wanted it, Carter has been on my wish list and then I finally chipped in and bought it. Im not disappointed at all. Here it comes:

Look at this one. This is definitely one of my favorites of all time - together with Zoya Chyna which Ill be posting about soon. I love this base color and the particle color. Vibrant, colorful and simply amazing. The one thing I liked less about Carter is drying time, its slower than the liquid sands of OPI or the sugar lacquers by IsaDora but nothing really bad. The clean up isnt bad either so yay for it!

If you like purple and texture polishes this is definitely the one you HAVE TO get. Its that simple.

Another thing I like about textures is that they are also beautiful with top coat or well... they should be at least! And Carter is beautiful:

Am I right ladies? This one is stunning and Ill be getting a back up of this. Just in case :)

Thank you for stopping by! :) xx

*All of the nail polish I own I bought with my own money or received as a gift from friends, I don't get paid for any reviews, it's just my own thoughts.

 

OPI Tiffany Case - swatches and review.

Hey there!

Today I have for a a quick swatch of OPI Tiffany Case for you. I know its rather old news but its a new addition to my stash that I got on a Christmas sale in my local drug store. The reason I didnt get it earlier was that it reminded me a lot of OPI Get Your Number. Dont get me wrong they are definitely different but I figured why get 2 rather similar shades?

Then I got it and swatched it. I love it. Its different than GYM but formula wisely those 2 are similar. I dont even mind that I got Tiffany Case, its a very nice shade and Im happy I got it in my stash :)

Formula was amazing, drying time was also great - no surprises there.

What do you think about this one?

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*All of the nail polish I own I bought with my own money or received as a gift from friends, I don't get paid for any reviews, it's just my own thoughts.

H&M newest gems - my picks.

Hey there!

How have you been? Today is Monday but thanks God Im free, had time to play some with my new Moyou plate and do some more nail art :)

Anyways, lately in the H&M stores appeared new nail polish shades from their own line and I have swatches for you:

First we have my personal favorite: H&M Black/White Glitter.

The name is not very fancy but hell, who cares :) As you can see Black/White Glitter is a glitter topper with black micro glitter, small and medium hexes in black and white + white bar glitter. Normally Im not a fan of a bar glitter but the amounts of it here its really not that bad. I actually think this polish would be boring without them. The shade is rather dense, you can see only one coat in my swatches. I love it over bright, summery colors. 

The second and last of my picks is H&M 3D Glitter.

3D Glitter is a flake topper in a clear (it looks milky but it is clear) base. I was very excited when I saw it in the store but couldnt be more disappointed when I came home and swatched it. The flakes are really big and stubborn. They are also hard so they stick out on your nail. The name 3D Glitter suits this one well. It was also hard to fish out any glitter pieces so yeah... Very disappointed.

I guess I cant complain. H&M has tendency to hit & miss their shades so I was prepared for those shades to be miss. I definitely recommend the black and white glitter, its very pretty.

Thank you for stopping by! :) xx

*All of the nail polish I own I bought with my own money or received as a gift from friends, I don't get paid for any reviews, it's just my own thoughts.

H&M Did I Tell You? - Swatches and review.

Hey there!

Today I have for you a little gem that made its way into my stash a while ago. Its exactly what I was looking for :) Recently H&M came up with a gorgeous idea of changing brushes in their line of nail polishes into much wider ones. Score! Their brushes were terrible! Onto the swatch then:

As you can see Did I Tell You? is a glitter topper. Clear base packed with small and medium sized hexes in rather dark blue shade (the swatches show the glitter a bit too bright) but believe me, its absolutely stunning!

I was afraid that the glitters wont come out of the bottle easily but I was wrong. Application is amazing! This is rather thicker coat of Did I Tell You? over a simple white to light blue gradient.

I also couldnt help myself and added a coat of a matte top coat.. Yummy!

I can really recommend this shade to anybody, its stunning and rather inexpensive.

Thank you for stopping by! :) xx

*All of the nail polish I own I bought with my own money or received as a gift from friends, I don't get paid for any reviews, it's just my own thoughts. 

Black Diamond by KICKS Make Up - swatches and review.

Hello there!

Its been a while since I showed you any swatches and a good shade to come back to it is one of my top 10 favorite nail polishes ever. You may wonder why is this particular shade so special? Let me show you:

This beauty is a texture shade and its called Black Diamond, how fitting :) Its a dark plum purple base with golden and pink particulates. Absolutely stunning! When left to dry to its texture finish its looks like there is even dark purple or maybe even black particulates in there as well. 

The formula is amazing, not too thin so it doesnt ruin your cuticles. This is 2 coats + one very thin coat for give the depth I like. Drying time is rather fast for a texture polish.

I couldnt help myself and I put top coat on it and OH MY this is gorgeous! Look at that:

I had to alter with the pictures a bit to show you the true shade this polish has with top coat (every time I tried to take a picture, the polish came off way too dark). If you dont think its a stunner I dont know what is.

Now you see why Black Diamond by KICKS is one of my top 10 polishes ever. But what about you? Do you like it?

Thank you for stopping by! :) xx

*All of the nail polish I own I bought with my own money or received as a gift from friends, I don't get paid for any reviews, it's just my own thoughts.

Maybelline PolkaDots Collection, are there 2 of the same collection? My picks - swatches and review.

Hello lovelies!

As the title says, today I have for you swatches of the polishes I picked from Polka Dots Collection: the green and the pink. Now, as I googled around a while back, I noticed that Maybelline must have had 2 different "kinds" of the same collection or there is something that I dont understand. You see, all over the beauty blogs the 2 colors that I bought, have totally different names. Ill explain as I show you the swatches.

First is the pink one. My bottle says "201 Speckled Pink" but Maybelline's website clearly shows that the color name is really "85 Pretty in Polka". I have no idea why is that but here are the swatches:

I also noticed that Speckled Pink is a tad darker and more fuchsia like than Pretty in Polka (I compared swatches). As to my own bottle, this polish gave me no trouble while applying but I did apply the second coat dabbing the polish rather than just simply painting, to get some of that gorgeous glitter onto my nails. 3 coats shown here.

Next is the green one. Again, my bottle is "200 Rain Forest Canopy" and on Maybelline's website its called "55 Drops of Jade". Here are the swatches:

I compared my swatch to those on the web and Rain Forest Canopy is a bit darker than Drops of Jade. Formula was the same with this polish, no trouble, dabbing motion while applying it. 3 coats here as well.

In my opinion those are pretty amazing, I like that a brand like Maybelline got into the "indie" trend and decided to create those shades. What I dont understand is why there seems to be 2 different types of the same collection. Why one of those are darker than the others. Does any of you know? If so, please let me know!

Overall I was pleased, the formula was great as for this kind of polish. You know, big particles = big trouble but this time it wasnt the case, a bit of dabbing and everything went nice and easy. I did 3 coats of each for my swatches but only cause my first and last one were really thin. I also wanted to pick up the one with glitter in a clear base but as the luck wanted, there wasnt any left! Literally nowhere in the town I live there has been any, I know cause I stalked poor people working at the drug stores. I only saw the blue one at one of the stores but a lady snatched it before I could run up and take it. As I said, please let me know whats the deal with this collection/s?

@EDIT:

As the lovely, truly lovely, ladies from a facebook group Im in, helped me and explained that Maybelline has two different distributors: one for Europe and one for America. As they are saying, its not the first time that same polishes from those 2 different distributors have different names. Gah, this is all so confusing but thanks to them now I know, and maybe you know now too. Thank you again Laura and Anna! Love <3. 

Thank you for stopping by! :) xx

*All of the nail polish I own I bought with my own money or received as a gift from friends, I don't get paid for any reviews, it's just my own thoughts.

IsaDora Hot Hibiscus - Swatches & review!

Hey there!

Today I have for you a swatch of a polish that has been released last year but its re-released this year! Im talking about Hot Hibiscus by IsaDora. Sit back and check out this neon-ish gorgeous polish!

Hot Hibiscus is a red neon with pink undertones. Its absolutely stunning and kind of hard to capture on a picture. The formula is a bit on a thin side but nothing that bad, careful application will prevent from any patches. Two easy coats in the pictures + good drying time.

Now I expected Hot Hibiscus to stain my nails like crazy but nothing like that happened! Just be careful with removing this polish cause it may stain your cuticles (like it happened to me)!

Overall Im pleased with this shade. IsaDora improved on the formulas of their nail polishes (newer shades only) but this one is not that bad considering that this is the older shade :)

Thank you for stopping by! :) xx

*All of the nail polish I own I bought with my own money or received as a gift from friends, I don't get paid for any reviews, it's just my own thoughts

Kleancolor Blue-Eyed Girl - Swatches and review!

Hello there!

Today I have for you a mani that is really a swatch! Confusing huh? Yeah, well I want to show you Kleancolor shade - Blue-Eyed Girl. 

As you can see from the bottle on the picture above, Blue-Eyed Girl is a blue yelly packed with metallic blue medium-sized hexes and blue fine glitter. I did not try to build up this polish to wear it alone but instead I layered it over a back base. This picture doesnt do its justice (yeah, bad focus) but in real life is truly stunning!

Drying time of Blue-Eyed Girl is quite ok. Ive worn this mani in almost a week and believe it or not, I had just some tip wear - no chipping! 

Kleancolor polishes have that specific smell to them and I recommend you to get over it cause they got many shades worth having, including some holos :) I hope you liked it!

Thank you for stopping by! :) xx

*All of the nail polish I own I bought with my own money or received as a gift from friends, I don't get paid for any reviews, it's just my own thoughts

Gina Tricot Marina - swatches and review!

Hello ladies!

Woah, its been a while I know but I had to figure out where was my blog going and I just needed a break. Well now Im back and today I have a swatch of Marina by Gina Tricot.

I do believe that this shade is from last year, maybe a summer shade? Im not sure but I recently purchased it and felt I gotta show you this pretty polish :)

Marina is a beautiful, pure cobalt blue.

The formula is amazing, 2 easy coats in the swatch. I was worried that after applying Marina onto my nails the color will be somehow washed out and not as rich. But it is! Love it.

Do you like it? Do you like to wear such rich colors?

Thank you for stopping by! :) xx

*All of the nail polish I own I bought with my own money or received as a gift from friends, I don't get paid for any reviews, it's just my own thoughts

OPI Get Your Number - swatches and review!

Hello ladies!

I know you all have probably seen this polish already but I decided to post pictures of Get Your Number by OPI with the top coat on. Many of you couldnt get to like the liquid sand texture and I myself like the look with top coat just a bit more.

Dont get me wrong this polish is exactly what Im looking for when it comes to blue but I find it "more delicate" in the liquid sand form. Blah, blah, how about some pictures? :)

So extremely pretty, every time I have this polish on, I start with the liquid sand look then a day or two after that I add top coat (a few coats actually) and I cant stop staring at this polish. Even my boyfriend was drooling over Get Your Number, he said the color of it is really rich and, I quote, "cool-looking" :)

Get Your Number is a blue jelly base packed with different sizes of glitter. Top coat or not, its absolutely stunning either way you look at it! As you can see on the pictures, on the ring finger you can slightly see the free nail edge but believe me, it was not visible in real life. Formula of GYN is super easy to work with, drying time is slightly longer than normal polishes but nowhere to way-too-long if you know what I mean :)

I hope you enjoyed the swatches :)

Thank you for stopping by! :) xx

*All of the nail polish I own I bought with my own money or received as a gift from friends, I don't get paid for any reviews, it's just my own thoughts

Depend nr 347, 353 and 354 - swatches and review!

Hello lovelies!

Like I said in my last post, I would show you swatches of Depend polishes for Spring I used for the gradient (you can see the mani here). So todays post will be exactly that: swatches! Lets start!

First of the bunch is Depend #347 a light peachy pink. It comes off more pink on those pictures that it really is, just imagine the shade with a bit more of peach in it :)

The formula on this one was very thin and runny, I had trouble to get it somehow even, this is 4 thin coats and its still patchy. I did try to paint my nails using thin or thick coats etc nothing helped this polish. Such a shame cause #347 is really pretty. Drying time was nor here nor there but it may be caused by my 4 coats.

Next in the line is Depend #353, a very beautiful electric indigo blurple. Yes, its somehow in between indigo blue and purple but leans more towards purple. Again those pictures shows #353 a bit too blue. 

This was very opaque, completely different from #347. I even tried to stamp with this polish and it stamps, SCORE! 2 easy coats in this swatch. Formula was amazing, like I said, very opaque and vivid - thats how I like my blurples! 

Last shade is Depend #354. Delicate lilac, just perfect for the Spring time :)

I know my cuticles are very red here, I have no clue what happened but it may be caused by lots of swatching I did that day so excuse me. This lilac has green shimmer in it! I was so excited to try this shade and when I finally did I was so disappointed. The shimmer is very strong in the bottle but doesnt transfer onto the nail. I mean not AT ALL :( Dont get me wrong here #354 is still a pretty color on its own its just such a shame there is not shimmer in it!

Formula of #354 was like in case of #347 runny. Somewhat more workable but still patchy. 3 coats in this swatch and you can still see the flaws of the polish. I know people can say it was my being sloppy but I really wasnt!

Overall Im pleasantly surprised with the range of the colors. I cant say about the whole collection but the shades I got are well.. at most acceptable. I got one more shade from this collection but the one deserves its own post. The formula on these was, like I wrote, different with each shade. 

Thank you for stopping by! :) xx

*All of the nail polish I own I bought with my own money or received as a gift from friends, I don't get paid for any reviews, it's just my own thoughts.

A Butterfly Moment by OPI - swatches & review

Hey ladies!

Its been a while, I know and I apologize! As usual my school got in the way and I barely have time for anything else. I wont get into more details but I will show you one of my 2 picks from OPI Mariah Carey inspired collection.

A Butterfly Moment. This color stole my heart from the first swatches I ever saw. Let me tell you this, with my peachy skin tone (I just call it yellow cause that is exactly what it is) its amazingly difficult to pick a good nude. Not just any plain, boring nude but one that actually has something to it and looks good with my skin tone. A Butterfly Moment is just perfect, and let me show you why:

The pink base in TBM is just perfect for my skin tone and the golden shimmer in the polish gives that "it", that Im looking for in every polish. I know my skin is pale and would use some tan but this polish makes my hands look less yellow so thats a miracle!

The formula of A Butterfly Moment was a suprise for me. I expected the usual great formula that OPI used to gives us but this one was pretty thin and I was very afraid that it wont cover and will create streaks on my nails. Fear not ladies! The second coat was all I needed to get perfect coverage. Im amazed and satisfied. Found my perfect nude, if I may call it that. Yaaaay!

A tip for you that havent tried A Butterfly Moment yet: either do 3 very, very thin coats or 2 rather thick ones. Max 2-3 brush strokes for each nail no more. It will prevent the "frost" finish to be so obvious and you will get that soft pink shade with golden shimmer as in the bottle. I know that was an issue for some of the ladies that tried it. Thats it, I hope you find the post useful :)

Thank you for stopping by! :) xx

*All of the nail polish I own I bought with my own money or received as a gift from friends, I don't get paid for any reviews, it's just my own thoughts.

Live And Let Die by OPI - swatches + nail art!

Hey ladies!

Today is one of those lazy Sundays but I do have something nice for you :) Live And Let Die was one of 2 picks from the OPI Skyfall collection. I did want to buy The Living Daylights but they were out and I havent seen this polish since then! :( Lets get to the swatches shall we?

Live And Let Die is a dark forest green with gold shimmer. Great formula - its an one coater!!!!! Awesome! Although I didnt need to I did use two coats cause I wanted the deep shade that you can see when you look at the bottle.

I do wear this shade a lot and this was even my Christmas-mani polish! Ill show you what I did for the holidays:

I used Live And Let Die as a base and did a reverse gradient with Disco by GinaTricot. It was very Christmas appropriate.

Thank you for stopping by! :) xx

*All of the nail polish I own I bought with my own money or received as a gift from friends, I don't get paid for any reviews, it's just my own thoughts.